Felix Duru Mbah

Sneak previews into what the political battle for Rivers State may be like in 2027 continue to play out, this time by National Secretary of ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ajibola Basiru, and opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member and Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike. In the latest episode today, Senator Basiru said Wike lacks the right to interfere in the affairs of APC in Rivers State, insisting too that the Minister should “immediately resign” from the President Bola Tinubu administration if he cannot stop interfering in the party’s affairs. "He cannot be in the Federal…

*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…