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 ...
Russia unleashed one of its largest drone and missile barrages of the war over the weekend, killing at least 12 people in Ukraine and injuring dozens. President Trump said that he was “not happy” with Russia, and that he was considering more sanctions in response.
“He’s killing a lot of people, and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin,” Trump told reporters. “We’re in the middle of talking, and he’s shooting rockets into Kyiv and other cities.”
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, cited the attacks as further proof that “Russia is dragging out this war and continues to kill every day.”
Details: This was Moscow’s second large-scale attack in two nights and the third in just a week, despite cease-fire talks. Russia appears to be targeting cities more intensively, and there has been a spike in civilian casualties.
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