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 ...
Robert Fico, the prime minister of Slovakia, made a surprise visit to Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin on natural gas supplies and the conflict in Ukraine.
A fixture of Slovak politics for decades, Fico has drifted steadily to the populist right. He returned to power for a third stint as prime minister after narrowly winning a 2023 election.
The meeting was a blow to the E.U., which has struggled to keep a united front against Russia over the war in Ukraine. This year, Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, also visited Moscow to meet with Putin, breaking with E.U. policy.

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