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From the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Bishop Mathew Kuka, religious figures have always been renown for being some of the most outspoken humans, defending the vulnerable and persistently speaking uncomfortable truth to power. The current Pope is not an exception. Our state Benue, sadly, has a sitting governor priest namely Rev Fr Hyacinth Iormem Alia who rather than stand out to be counted amongst his priestly peers and upheld by posterity, is frantically playing politics with human lives, bent on concealing the truths around the genocide happening right under his watch. Our Padre politician, who ought to be an empathetic clergy, appears more interested in pleasing his party warheads in Abuja. He is clueless and tiptoeing than declaring war against the renewed existential threat to the poor, farming state. Today, as killer herdsmen are encircling our state and our people are being killed on a daily basis across the land in both remote farming locations and even at the doorsteps of t...

In the quiet of Easter Monday morning, the world lost not just a Pope, but a father, a friend, and a fearless voice for the forgotten. Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, passed away peacefully at 88 in his Vatican residence. He was not a man of grand palaces or lofty words, but one who chose simplicity over splendor, and compassion over convention. From the moment he stepped onto the balcony in 2013, he was different — the first Latin American Pope, the first Jesuit, and the first to call himself simply, Francis. His journey was marked by courage — challenging injustice, embracing the outcast, and urging the Church to be less judgmental and more merciful. Even as illness weakened his body, his spirit remained unshaken. Pope Francis' final blessing came just days ago on Easter Sunday. Today, as the bells toll across St. Peter’s Square, the world bows in gratitude for a life lived in service, humility, and deep love. He is gone, but his foot...

Recently, in Abuja, our research publication mirroring the plights of domestic workers (DWs) in Nigeria was launched. Supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation West Africa, the research looked into the precarious states of domestic workers in the country. It carried out interviews with DWs in both Abuja and Lagos to put searchlights on  factors such as their working hours,  pay, issues of sexual abuse, the readiness for the formation of unions amongst the workers so as to be part of the mainstream labour (eg the Nigeria Labour Congress) in Nigeria amongst other burning issues. The authors include Ms Hauwa Mustapha, an eminent researcher, labour activist and board member of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Lekan Soneye, an activist,  lecturer and researcher on informal workforce. Prof. Etannibi E.O. Alemika, an eminent researcher and retired professor of Criminology and Sociology of Law from the University of Jos (UNIJOS), was the consultant on the p...