Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has declared his willingness to personally lead a campaign for amnesty for Nnamdi Kanu, the jailed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on the condition that Kanu publicly renounces violence. Speaking on Channels Television’s morning programme, The Morning Brief, on Tuesday, Gumi said he would be “in the forefront” of calls for Kanu’s pardon, but only if the separatist leader shows “remorse” and “calls for peace.” “This Kanu...

The United Kingdom has rejected Nigeria’s request to transfer Ike Ekweremadu, the former Deputy Senate President, back to Nigeria to complete his prison sentence. Ekweremadu is serving a nine-year, eight-month sentence in a UK prison after being convicted in 2023 for conspiring to traffic a young man to London to harvest his kidney. Earlier this month, President Bola Tinubu sent a delegation to London in a bid to negotiate Ekweremadu’s return. The team included Yusuf...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, as the Renewed Hope Ambassador ahead of the national launch of the Federal Government’s ward development programme. The appointment was announced in a State House press statement issued on Tuesday by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. According to the statement, Governor Uzodimma will also serve as the Director-General for Party Outreach, Engagement and Mobilisation. The President said...

Nigeria has come under pressure to dismantle its blasphemy laws after the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice issued a writ of execution compelling the country to act. The move comes nearly eight months after the court ruled the provisions unlawful. In April 2025, the ECOWAS Court ruled in favour of the Incorporated Trustees of Expression Now Human Rights Initiative in a case against the Federal Republic of Nigeria, declaring...