Beyond Benin Bronzes: Britain’s Looting Of Nigeria Today—Part 1
Conquest wasn’t governance. It was a business model. By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze Invasion for Profit If you want to understand Britain’s extraction from Nigeria, don’t begin with the museum label or the diplomatic communique. Begin where any forensic investigator begins: with means, motive, and opportunity—and with the first thing that makes everything else possible. Force. […]
SpaceX Wins FAA Clearance To Restart Rocket Missions
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on Friday that it has closed its investigation into a recent SpaceX Starlink launch anomaly, allowing the company’s Falcon 9 rocket to resume flight operations. The FAA said it had reviewed and accepted the findings of the internal SpaceX-led inquiry into the incident, which occurred during the Starlink […]
US Envoy Waltz Confirms Partial Settlement Of UN Arrears
The United States plans to make an initial payment toward the billions of dollars it owes the United Nations in the coming weeks, U.S. Ambassador to the organization Mike Waltz told Reuters on Friday, signaling a partial effort to address long-standing arrears while calling for continued reforms at the world body. Waltz spoke two weeks […]
Polish Aviation Resumes Following Alliance Ukraine Alert
Poland reopened its Lublin and Rzeszow airports on Saturday after temporarily suspending operations to accommodate military aviation activity triggered by Russian strikes in Ukraine, authorities said. The closures, which affected civilian and NATO flights, ended after Polish forces concluded preventive measures intended to protect airspace in regions near the Ukrainian border. The Polish army’s operational […]
Washington Alleges Beijing Conducting Covert Nuclear Tests
The United States on Friday accused China of carrying out a covert nuclear explosive test in 2020 and urged the launch of a broader arms control agreement that would include Beijing as well as Russia, as the last remaining U.S. Russian strategic arms treaty expired. The allegation was made at a global disarmament conference in […]
Suspect Indicted For Threatening US Vice President
A federal grand jury has charged a 33-year-old Ohio man with threatening to kill U.S. Vice President JD Vance during a January visit to the state, the Justice Department said on Friday. Shannon Mathre of Toledo was indicted on one count of making a threat against a protected federal official, the department said in a […]
Pentagon Severs Scholarly Links With Harvard University
The United States Department of Defense has announced it will cut all formal academic ties with Harvard University, ending decades of cooperation that sent senior military officers to the Ivy League institution for advanced education and fellowships. The decision, which will take effect from the 2026–27 academic year, represents one of the most significant ruptures […]
Beyond Benin Bronzes: Britain’s Looting Of Nigeria Today—Intro
How empire evolved into systems of extraction—and why Nigeria is still paying the price. By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze Introduction — Looting Was Never the Exception Start with the Benin Bronzes because they force honesty. Not “complexity.” Not “shared history.” Not “the past.” A British-led military expedition sacked Benin in 1897 and carried away a civilisation’s […]
Jesus And Muhammad Are Sacred—So Why Not Fela?
By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze Early February 2026 delivered one of those exquisitely Nigerian moments where the country accidentally tells the truth about itself. Seun Kuti—custodian-in-practice of an inheritance he didn’t ask for but has refused to dilute—and social media firebrand VeryDarkMan (VDM) visited Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s gravesite at the Kalakuta Museum in Ikeja, Lagos. Photos making […]
Bitcoin Drops Sharply After Week Of Heavy Selling
Bitcoin slid sharply on Friday, extending a bruising run that has unsettled investors and punctured the optimism that once surrounded the world’s largest cryptocurrency. By the early hours of the morning, the digital asset had dropped almost 14 percent, trading around $62,900 at about 01:00 GMT, a level not seen for months and far removed […]
Canada Moves To Establish Greenland Consulate, Sends Envoys
Canada is preparing to open its first-ever diplomatic outpost in Greenland, a move that carries symbolic, political, and strategic weight at a moment of heightened tension over the Arctic territory’s future. Senior Canadian officials are travelling to Nuuk on Friday to formally inaugurate the new consulate, signalling Ottawa’s support for Greenland’s right to self-determination following […]
Russian General Shot Multiple Times In Moscow
A senior figure in Russia’s military intelligence establishment has been seriously wounded in a shooting in Moscow, in the latest attack targeting high-ranking officials since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev was shot several times on Friday morning inside a residential building on Volokolamsk Highway, […]