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The Trump administration has terminated 639 employees at Voice of America and its parent organization in the latest round of sweeping cuts that have reduced the international broadcasting service to a fraction of its former size. The mass terminations announced Friday, June 20, round out the Trump-led elimination of 1,400 positions since March and represents the near-complete dismantling of an organization founded in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, whose first broadcast declared: “We bring you voices from America.” Just 250 employees now remain across the entire parent group, the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), who operated what was America’s…

By our reporter After countless all-night and day meetings, several press conferences and exclusive interviews, loads of behind-the-scene planning, arguments, counter-arguments, prayer vigils, and lots more, finally the coalition seeking to deprive President Bola Tinubu a second term has matched words with concrete action. The opposition titans have despatched to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) a letter and relevant documents applying for registration of a new political party to be known as All Democratic Alliance (ADA). ADA, with a slogan of Justice for All, will be the special purpose vehicle on which the coalition seeks to climb to power…

By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu Governor of Enugu State, Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, has approved the appointment of Colonel Dan Didiugwu (rtd) as Chairman of the Enugu State Forest Guard and Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Olamitisoji Akinbamilayo (rtd) as Commander of the State Forest Guard. The appointments of Chairman of the Forest Guard Board, which is subject to confirmation by the State House of Assembly, and that of the Commander of the Forest Guard, which takes effect immediately, are part of the State Government’s ongoing efforts to strengthen and professionalize forest and environmental security operations across the State, in alignment with…

In a presumed attack on dissenting opinion, a retired Nicaraguan army officer in exile-turned fierce critic of the country’s authoritarian president Daniel Ortega, has been shot dead in neighboring Costa Rica. Major Roberto Samcam, 66, was shot at his apartment building in San José on Thursday, reportedly by men pretending to deliver a package. “It was something we did not expect, we could not have imagined it,” said Samantha Jirón, Samcam’s adoptive daughter. Nicaraguan rights groups and exiled dissidents immediately blamed the government of Ortega and his co-president wife, Rosario Murillo. “Roberto was a powerful voice” who “directly denounced the…