The Igbo Elders Council have accused security agencies of indiscriminately killing Igbo youths in the South-East, in the guise of fighting members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB and its security network, Eastern Security Network. Speaking at a news conference in Abuja today June 11, the chairman of the group and a former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, alleged that dozens of young people, mostly male, are being extrajudicially executed on a daily basis by security operatives …
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Canterbury Christ Church University has bowed to pressure from students and labour unions to sack Historian David Starkey, after the visiting professor claimed in an interview that ‘slavery was not genocide’ because ‘so many damn blacks live in Africa and Britain’. The 75-year-old academic who is a visiting professor at the university, made the comments during an online interview with Brexit campaigner Darren Grimes …
The Buhari-led government has rejected report of an alleged genocide against Christians in Nigeria. The United Kingdom All-Party Parliamentary Group on International Religious Freedom or Belief (a group made up of British parliamentarians) in its report, said that Christians are being targeted because of their faith in Nigeria. However President Buhari’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu in a statement released on behalf of the Presidency said Boko Haram are targeting Christians in their attacks because they know it drives forward religious and land tensions already existent …
Rwanda’s High Court on Thursday May 28th sentenced a former mayor to life in prison for his role in the country’s 1994 genocide, which resulted in the deaths of 800,000 people in the East African country. Ladislas Ntaganzwa, was one of the top fugitive suspects, accused of playing a key role in the massacre. He was arrested in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo in 2015 before he was brought back to Rwanda in 2016 where he has been on …
Banky W has commented on the incidents which has happened in the United States and Nigeria in the last few days. The singer stated that everyone is almost getting numb to news of people being killed every day in the country. Banky W also pointed out that while it is white cops killing unarmed black people in the United States, there is genocide and tribalism in Nigeria where we share the same colour. The singer averred that the killings …
Felicien Kabuga, the man accused of financing the Rwandan genocide in 1994 has denied playing a role in the massacres. He was arraigned for the first time at the Paris Court of Appeal on Wednesday, May 27, where it will be decided whether he will be transferred to an international court. After the presiding judge read out the offenses that Kabuga was accused of, including genocide, persecution, and extermination against Rwanda’s Tutsi minority, Kabuga denied the charges. “Those …