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 ...
President Trump left the G7 summit in Canada a day earlier than scheduled, citing escalating tensions in the Middle East as the reason for his abrupt departure.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that Trump was returning to Washington “because of what is going on in the Middle East.” Initially, Trump declined to endorse a joint G7 communiqué urging de-escalation between Iran and Israel, but later signed on after the language was revised to his satisfaction.
The crisis has intensified as Israel presses the U.S. to intervene militarily, specifically by deploying massive 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs capable of targeting Iran’s heavily fortified Fordo nuclear facility. While Trump has long expressed opposition to U.S. involvement in foreign wars, he has also consistently warned against a nuclear-armed Iran.
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