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 ...
Israeli forces launched devastating aerial attacks across the Gaza Strip yesterday, ending a temporary cease-fire with Hamas that began in January and raising the prospect of a return to all-out war.
According to reports, No fewer than 400 people, including children, were killed in the strikes, Gaza’s health ministry said, one of the war’s deadliest single-day tolls.
The attacks came after weeks of fruitless talks aimed at extending the fragile cease-fire. The first phase of the truce expired in early March, but it had largely held as diplomats worked to broker an extension to free the surviving Israeli hostages and end the war. Of the 59 hostages still in Gaza, fewer than half are believed to be alive.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested yesterday that Israel would carry out more attacks in tandem with negotiations.
“This is just the beginning,” he said. “We will keep fighting to achieve all of the war’s objectives.” Hamas officials argued that Israel had brazenly overturned the truce, but it had no immediate military response.
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