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The Ghanaian government has temporarily suspended citizenship applications for people of African descent as the government moves to review and reform a process that has been widely criticised for being costly, complex and difficult to complete. The programme, introduced in 2016, allows individuals who can demonstrate ancestral ties to Africa to apply for Ghanaian citizenship.

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An anti-genocide activist, Franc Utoo, has alleged that those responsible for the June 2025 attack on the Yelwatta community in Benue State, in which hundreds of people were killed, are known to both locals and authorities, but that the Nigerian government lacks the sincerity to bring them to justice.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has rejected reports suggesting that markets in Onitsha and other parts of the South-East were open during Monday’s sit-at-home, describing such claims as “lies, propaganda, and the failure of deception.” In a press statement signed by its spokesperson and Media/Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, IPOB insisted there was “total

Proceedings at Southwark Crown Court turned to allegations of extravagant spending on Monday as prosecutors outlined evidence against former OPEC president and former Nigerian petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, who is standing trial alongside her brother, former bishop Doye Agama, and Duchess Oil executive Ayinde Olatimbo Bukola.

   

A 20-year-old student of the Federal College of Education, Okene, Rahama Suleiman, has been found dead in a bush at Eika-Adagu community along the Okene–Lokoja highway in Kogi State after she was earlier declared missing by her family. The body was discovered on Tuesday following search efforts by relatives, with support from local security operatives,