In what appears to be Nigeria’s most dramatic “return on investment” complaint yet, a man on Thursday stormed the All Progressives Congress (APC) national secretariat in Abuja with a message as blunt as it was unsettling: reward me or kill me. The protest, captured in a now-viral video, shows the visibly distressed man holding a placard and demanding recognition for what he described as his personal sacrifices during the party’s 2023 campaign. According to him, loyalty was not just emotional, it was financial, physical, and, ultimately, total. In a country where political support often comes with expectations, some spoken, many implied the man’s outcry reads like a tragic audit of misplaced trust. His claim that he sold his house to fund campaign efforts has not been independently verified, but the symbolism is hard to ignore: a citizen liquidating stability in exchange for promised political dividends. Observers at the scene watched as the protester oscillated between anger and ...
Russian forces fired on some two dozen towns and villages around the ruined eastern city of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian military said, as Moscow’s assaults intensified ahead of what Kyiv has warned could be the Kremlin’s largest offensive since the first weeks of the war.
Moscow is waging a campaign to seize all of the eastern area known as the Donbas. Ukrainian military officials said that the chaotic nature of the Russian effort, which included waves of inexperienced recruits and former convicts belonging to the Wagner paramilitary group, was limiting its effectiveness.
Russia is deploying hundreds of thousands of newly mobilized soldiers, in small groups, to probe for vulnerabilities in Ukrainian defensive lines. That has forced Ukraine to stretch its forces to meet the threat. But while the fighting has been brutal, neither side has achieved any significant territorial gains in months.
Ukraine’s defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, said that Moscow was determined to break through Ukrainian defensive lines before the anniversary of Russia’s invasion, on Feb. 24.

تعليقات
إرسال تعليق
Join the conversation!
Have insights, corrections, or questions about this news story? Drop your comment below. We value civil, fact-based discussion.