Felix Duru Mbah

*As World Leaders React To Ouster Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro faces a sharply contrasting life following his forced fall from power after 13 years in office, arrest and subsequent detention in New York by the United States (US) authorities. He was handed sour New Year grapes after US forces violently ousted him from office in the early hours of Saturday on the orders of US President Donald Trump with whom the Venezuelan strongman has had a running battle over the latter's alleged involvement in narco-terrorism. CBS News reported Maduro arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), Brooklyn, New York,…

Venezuela’s main opposition leader, María Corina Machado, celebrated the capture of the dictator Nicolas Maduro by the US and said the opposition was “ready to assert our mandate and take power." She called on fellow exile, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, to prepare to take up office as President-elect and Commander-in-Chief of Venezuela's Armed Forces. The conservative Machado enjoys broad popular support in Venezuela and was barred by the Maduro regime from running in the 2024 election, instead she backed the retired diplomat Urrutia. The opposition later gathered voting records showing Urrutia had won the election, but Maduro refused to concede defeat…

*Fingers Jihadist Herdsmen, Bandits For Attacks *'Who Leaked Documented Statistics On Nigeria’s Forests To Jihadist Herdsmen, Bandits?' Prominent civil liberties group, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (InterSociety), has reviewed happenings around Christians in 2025 and strongly criticized many Christian political leaders for playing unpleasant passive roles while their brethren were being killed and religious freedom impacted negatively. In a new report signed by Head of InterSociety, Barrister Emeka Umeagbalasi, and made available to newsmen, the organisation poured scorn on Christian political leaders for what it described as their “silence and fear”, saying 2025 was “their worst…

In yet unclear circumstances, a military combat drone on Friday, 2 January, crashed in the Kontagora forest area of Niger State. A photograph which went viral on social media showed the unmanned aerial drone lying on the savannah grasslands of the location, though it did not explode, as of press time. The military authorities and Niger State government were yet to issue any statement on the crash. *PHOTO CAPTION: The crashed drone.

*Prediction Woefully Failed To Materialize *Seen Cruising Around In Luxury Mercedes Benz Allegedly From Ark Project Donations *How The Scam Collapsed *'I Was Merely Creating Social Media Content' *Conduct Psychiatric Test On Him, Court Orders For months he held the country spellbound, but it appears to be game over for Ghanaian Evans Eshun, commonly known on social media as Ebo Noah, who stirred high anxiety with claim of a vision involving a global flood on Christmas Day, as he has been arrested and arraigned in court after his revelations failed to come to pass. The self-proclaimed prophet and social media…

By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has called on all residents of the state to continue to cooperate with the state government, perform their civic duties and remain united so as to build the future that everyone desires for the Pacesetter State. He noted that the state government alone could not build the state, calling for continued support from residents in terms of making the state productive, lawful and peaceful in order to achieve the vision of a better and greater Oyo State. Governor Makinde, who stated this on Thursday, in his New Year broadcast, appreciated the…