Netanyahu Proclaims Dominance As Iran Gets Pummeled
Benjamin Netanyahu declared Thursday that Iran has been stripped of its ability to enrich uranium or build ballistic missiles, casting the three-week-old war as a campaign already approaching its objectives — while confirming that Donald Trump had asked Israel to stop striking Iranian energy infrastructure and that the order had been obeyed. Speaking at an […]
City Boy Politics: Stomach First, Nation Last
By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze “City Boy politics” has become one of the more memorable phrases in Nigeria’s public conversation, but its meaning is often left vague. Used carefully, it describes a style of politics built around image, access, elite familiarity, and performative confidence. It is a politics that prizes proximity to power, mastery of political theater, […]
The Judas Kiss: Kanu, Cowardice, And Nigeria’s Fraud
By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze There are betrayals so shameless that history does not merely record them; it brands them. They arrive smiling, clothed in access, perfumed by proximity to power, and speaking the language of pragmatism while selling out the very people from whom they draw their name. That is the sickness now poisoning the […]
Trump Pledges To Demolish Iran’s Premier Gas Field
Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to obliterate Iran’s South Pars gas field — one of the world’s largest energy reserves — if Tehran strikes Qatar again, as the war in the Middle East lurched toward a full-scale assault on the Persian Gulf’s energy infrastructure that sent oil prices surging past $110 a barrel. The threat came […]
Kwankwaso, Alleged Terror Financing & Implications For APC
By Christopher Uchenna Obasi Recently, US Congressman Riley Moore’s tweet on X (formerly Twitter) mentioned former Governor of Kano State and presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples’ Party (NNPP) in the 2023 elections Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as among those included in a US Congress’ Bill for possible sanctions over alleged terror financing in Nigeria. […]
Philippians 3:10 And The Crisis Of Faithful Living
By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze The modern world does not lack belief. It lacks ballast. We are surrounded by declarations, identities, moral performances, ideological uniforms, and public ceremonies of conviction, yet what is missing almost everywhere is interior weight. Our age is fluent in the rhetoric of seriousness but deeply uncomfortable with its demands. We say […]
White House Terror Chief Quits Over Iran War, Urges U-Turn
Donald Trump’s national counterterrorism chief resigned Tuesday and publicly accused the president of being manipulated into a war with Iran by Israel and its American allies — the most direct internal challenge yet to the administration’s decision to launch strikes on Tehran. Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, posted his resignation letter on […]
Philippines Dismisses China’s Sweeping Sea Sovereignty Bid
The Philippines on Monday flatly rejected China’s claim to sovereignty over the South China Sea, dismissing a Chinese embassy assertion that a Filipino diplomat had once acknowledged that the disputed Scarborough Shoal did not belong to Manila — and warning Beijing that territorial claims are settled through international law, not social media posts. Foreign ministry […]
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor Who Met Obama Dies At 88
Shigeaki Mori, who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as an eight-year-old boy and spent decades afterwards recovering the names of those the blast erased, has died at 88. He passed away in a Hiroshima hospital on March 14, the Japanese news agency Jiji Press reported Tuesday. Mori was knocked unconscious by the force of […]
Twin Explosions In Maiduguri Leave 23 Nigerians Dead
Three suicide bombers struck crowded locations across Maiduguri within minutes of each other on Monday night, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 in one of the deadliest attacks on the capital of Nigeria’s Borno State in years — and in a city that had come to be regarded as a rare […]
Cuban Govt Beckons Exiles With Investment ‘Open Door’ Pledge
Cuba has thrown open its economy to the exile community that has spent decades lobbying for its isolation, inviting Cuban Americans and other nationals living abroad to own and invest in businesses on the island in a policy shift that signals Havana’s desperation to arrest an economic collapse — and its willingness to make concessions […]
Iran’s Neighbors Prepare As War Looms, Refugee Wave Feared
Eighteen days into the US-Israeli war on Iran, the conflict’s next crisis is taking shape not on the battlefield but along the country’s borders, where aid agencies and neighbouring governments are bracing for a refugee emergency that analysts warn could dwarf anything the modern world has seen. More than 3.2 million people have already been […]