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US Congress Sets Joint Briefing on Alleged Persecution of Christians in Nigeria
The United States House Appropriations Committee will on Tuesday convene a joint congressional briefing to examine rising allegations of persecution and targeted attacks against Christians in Nigeria.
The meeting, confirmed in a public notice shared by Congressman Riley Moore on X, will be led by House Appropriations Committee Vice Chair and National Security Subcommittee Chair, Mario Díaz-Balart. Lawmakers from the Appropriations Committee will participate alongside members of the House Foreign Affairs and Financial Services Committees.
According to the announcement, the closed-door session will also receive submissions from representatives of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and other experts tracking religious-freedom violations across the globe.
The briefing aims “to spotlight the escalating violence and targeted persecution of Christians in Nigeria,” the notice stated, adding that testimony gathered during the roundtable will contribute to a broader report ordered by President Donald Trump. The report is expected to outline the scale of violence against Christian communities in Nigeria and recommend legislative steps Congress can take to support ongoing White House initiatives on global religious-freedom protections.
The planned engagement comes amid renewed diplomatic activity between Abuja and Washington, following a spike in terrorist attacks across several Nigerian states. Last week, President Bola Tinubu approved the formation of Nigeria’s contingent to the Nigeria–US Joint Working Group on security cooperation, a commitment reaffirmed during a recent high-level visit to Washington led by National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu.
Ribadu is to lead Nigeria’s team, which includes senior officials drawn from defence, intelligence, and national-security institutions. The group is tasked with strengthening operational collaboration with Washington in areas including counterterrorism, intelligence sharing, and security-sector support.
International scrutiny intensified earlier this year after President Trump publicly warned of what he described as “Christian genocide” in Nigeria and threatened decisive US military intervention. Nigerian authorities dismissed the claim, insisting that ongoing operations were addressing the nation’s complex security challenges.
Edo North senator, Adams Oshiomhole, has playfully called out Senate President Godswill Akpabio for breaching truce over ‘massaging women’s legs’ comment.
At plenary on Thursday, Oshiomhole said he signed a truce of no more hostilities, stating that Akpabio breached the agreement by reverting to previous matters.
DAILY POST reports that Akpabio had mocked Oshiomhole over the viral video allegedly showing him massaging a woman’s leg aboard a private jet.
The Senate President stated that the Senate initially ignored the footage because it was suspected to have been generated using artificial intelligence, AI.
Recall that a video which surfaced on X on February 3, 2026, sparked widespread reactions after it allegedly showed the former Edo State governor massaging a woman’s leg inside a private jet, days later the lawmaker debunked the video stating that it was AI.
Joking over it at the plenary, Oshiomhole said, “I want to report to this house that the senate president and I we signed a truce of no more hostilities and senate president breach the truce by reverting to previous matter, the truce stands, you should not violate, I will not violate.”
Responding, Akpabio said, “Let me first of all apologize to Oshiomhole if whatever I said could in any way injure him or feel offended.”
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Members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, loyal to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, have taken over the secretariat of the party in Oyo State.
The secretariat, located in the Molete area of Ibadan, was in the custody of the faction loyal to Governor Seyi Makinde of the state until Thursday when the members loyal to Wike took over the premises.
DAILY POST gathered that the PDP members stormed the secretariat on Thursday and occupied the premises with hundreds of members of the party in attendance.
PDP chairman in the state, Professor Abdulrahman Akinoso, confirmed the development to DAILY POST.
Akinoso in a telephone conversation with DAILY POST on Thursday, insisted that the real owners have taken over the premises.
He said, “It is true. It is not faction. It is PDP. We have taken over the premises. It was in the morning. We were there in the morning. We just left the premises. We are now in control. We have taken over the premises.” .…For more, Complete your reading.
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