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*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.