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 ...
Bourbon Street in New Orleans began operation yesterday, a day after a U.S. Army veteran plowed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers, killing at least 14 people.
People cautiously trickled back into the French Quarter, live bands resumed playing at their usual corners and mourners stopped by a makeshift memorial adorned with flowers and Mardi Gras beads.
Investigators said yesterday that the assailant, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, had acted alone. Jabbar, who died in a gunfight with the police, had said in a video he posted online that he had joined the Islamic State group. “He was 100 percent inspired by ISIS,” Christopher Raia, an official with the F.B.I.’s counterterrorism division, said at a news conference.
“We’re confident, at this point, that there are no accomplices,” Raia said. The authorities said that they had conducted hundreds of interviews and reviews of the attacker’s calls, social media accounts and electronic devices.
The F.B.I. has found no definitive link between the New Orleans attack and the explosion of a Tesla truck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas, but investigators are not ruling anything out.
The driver in Las Vegas shot himself in the head just before the explosion, which injured seven people.

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