Opinion

Independence Newspaper Saturday April 4, 2026 There is a point where tragedy outpaces grief and settles into a cold, hollow amnesia. Nigeria has passed that point years ago. We are no longer a nation in mourning; we are a nation in a trance, watching a slow-motion demolition of the human soul. The slaughterings and displacements across our landscape have transcended madness, they have become a mundane backdrop to our daily existence. What is perhaps more heinous than the blade of the terrorist or the bullet of the “government-aided” bandit is the clinical, soulless way we now discuss the carnage. Open…

NDI-ABAT PRESS RELEASE: April 4th, 2026 The NDIGBO FOR TINUBU 2027 FORUM (NDI-ABAT), a prominent coalition of Igbo sociopolitical organisations, feels a profound urgency to inform His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) regarding critical developments with major implications for the 2027 Presidential elections. Credible sources indicate that former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, has secured a new political party platform, apparently as a contingency amid the ongoing leadership crisis within the African Democratic Congress (ADC). NDI-ABAT alerts that Mr Obi is expected to resign from the ADC by the…