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 ...
No fewer than 80 children were Friday morning kidnapped by bandits in Tsafe
Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The children are between the ages of 12
and 17, BBC Hausa reported. Some parents of the abducted children who spoke to
the British broadcaster said the abductees were in the bush fetching firewood at
about 8:00 a.m. when the marksmen rounded them up and wisked them away into the
forest. Bandits’ activities have refused to abate in Zamfara despite several
government intervention to stem the criminal activity. Hundreds of
schoolchildren have been kidnapped and some later released upon payment of
ransom. The abductors are yet to reach the parents to make any demands as of the
time BBC reported the kidnap.
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