Posts

Over 100 Civilians Killed after Nigerian Military Airstrike Hits Yobe Market

Image
Photo via: Yobo State Govt. – per  A Nigerian Air Force strike targeting jihadi rebels struck a local market in northeastern Nigeria, killing over 100 civilians and injuring many others. Officials confirmed it was a misfire, but did not provide further details. Survivors reported that at least 100 people were killed in the airstrike on Saturday in a village in Yobe state. Yobe borders Borno state, the epicenter of the escalating jihadi uprising. The jihadi are an armed terrorist group who uphold radical Salafi-Islamist agendas and have destroyed the area for over a decade. “We have their pictures and they include children,” Isa Sanusi, a Nigeria director of Amnesty International, a global non-governmental organization that focuses on human rights, said, referring to the incident. “We are in touch with people that are there, we spoke with the hospital,” he said. “We spoke with the person in charge of casualties, and we spoke with the victims.”   An employee at the Geidam Genera...

Fact Checked: IGBO UKWU WERE NRI SLAVE; Origin and History of Igbo Ukwu - Onyeji Nnaji

Image
Copied from the,  Accounts of Igbo Origins and History  from Beginning to Present by Onyeji Nnaji T.C. Shaw’s archaeological finds dominated historians’ writings about Igbo Ukwu in the manner that almost none gave attention to issues bothering on the history of Igbo Ukwu. The inhabitants also, overtaken by the conviviality that the finds brought, seized the opportunity to conceal their history. It was though a thing of surprise to historians and archaeologists, witnessing the finds that upturned the hierarchy already bestowed on the Ife and Benin over their Igbo neighbour. It did not only upturn the hierarchy, it forced history to resume a rewriting stage with Igbo at the top. It all begun with the stupefied discovery made by Isaiah Anozie within his compound. He was digging a well when he accidentally stumbled on some bronze ornaments. The ornaments looked strange to him, but little did he know that he was dwelling in a compound with bronze library underneath. Concentratin...

First deportees arrive in Costa Rica under third-country agreement with U.S.

Image
  Migrants deported from the United States get off an airliner at the runway of the Juan Santamaria International Airport in Alajuela, Costa Rica, on April 11, 2026. (Photo by Ezequiel BECERRA / AFP via Getty Images) Costa Rica received the first group of migrants deported from the U.S. under the newly signed-third country agreement. On Saturday, a plane carrying around 25 migrants touched down in the Latin American country, their home countries including Albania, Cameroon, China, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Kenya and Morocco, media outlets reported. The arrival is part of a deal between the U.S. and Costa Rica where the latter has agreed to accept up to 25 third-country deported migrants a week, meaning people whose nationality is neither American nor Costa Rican. “Upon entering the country, the migrants will receive primary care from the Professional Migration Police, with the cooperation of the International Organization for Migration (IOM),” said Costa Rica’s General Directorat...

Follow President Trump: ‘Massive numbers’ of empty oil tankers headed to U.S. to ‘load up

Image
’ (R) U.S. President Donald Trump waves to the media after walking off of Air Force One at Miami International Airport on April 11, 2026 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) / (Background) Singaporean oil tanker “Great Thita” is moored at the port of Los Angeles, on April 11, 2026. (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP via Getty Images) Large numbers of empty oil tankers from many nations are heading to the U.S. to load up, President Donald Trump said. “Massive numbers of completely empty oil tankers, some of the largest anywhere in the World, are heading, right now, to the United States to load up with the best and “sweetest” oil (and gas!) anywhere in the World!” Trump posted to Truth Social Saturday morning. “We have more oil than the next two largest oil economies combined,” he added. Massive numbers of completely empty oil tankers, some of the largest anywhere in the World, are heading, right now, to the United States to load up with the best and “sweetest” oil (an...

The Historical Origin of Abakaliki - Onyeji Nnaji

Image
Copied from the,  Accounts of Igbo Origins and History  from Beginning to Present   by  Onyeji Nnaji Details are in the book mentioned above. Not much has been discussed about the population that formed the Nodo of the later days. The reason for this may be blamed on two varying factors. One, it appeared as though the population went into extinct during the flood, thereby concealing their name from the reach of historians. But this was not true. They too survived the flood, but not in their very abode. The second reason is that the population showed themselves relatively unsearchable following the heavy restrictive features of their languages. I have discussed the negative effects of this condition in my other book when I noted that, “The reason why some important historical movements and local evolutions go unnoticed or remain doubtful is because the unit on which the transmission is calculated is geographically too restrictive.” The geographical location of Nodo is...

Trump posts photo of himself as Jesus Christ, labels Pope Leo ‘weak’ over call for peace

Image
  Share   Post   Email   Share   Share Stay connected via Google News US President Donald Trump has posted an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jesus Christ. In the image shared on Truth Social, Trump is robed and surrounded by radiant light, while seemingly performing a healing, with figures resembling angels or soldiers levitating around him. Fighter jets streak across the sky, fireworks explode overhead, and the Statue of Liberty looms in the background — elements that project a mix of religious symbolism and American military power. Trump’s post followed his criticisms of Pope Leo XIV. In a Truth Social post, Trump described the pope as “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy” after the pontiff called for an end to rising global conflicts. “Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” Trump wrote. “He talks about ‘fear’ of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the fear that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian o...