The Rivers State Police Command has described as ‘’false” news reports that some of its police officers opened fire on protesters and used tear gas to disperse them on Monday, April 7, 2025, around Abali Park and the Federal Secretariat Complex, Aba Road.  A statement from the command’s spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, says the…
Image by Paul Teysen. Donald Trump’s paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and targeted announced on ‘Liberation Day,’ April 2, are sustained, a full-blown economic catastrophe could result, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. Transactional Trump The worst danger: national elites in victim…
The command’s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to journalists on Monday in Lagos. He said officers on patrol responded to a distress call and intervened at Matana in the Suru-Alaba area. The suspect was reportedly rescued from mob action following the alert. Mr Hundeyin stated that the suspect and his gang had robbed a man…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed for the first time on Monday that Ukrainian troops have been active in Russia’s Belgorod region as they seek to protect Ukrainian towns near the border. Ukrainian troops remain in parts of the neighboring Russian region of Kursk eight months after a cross-border incursion, though Russian forces have recaptured much…
Suspected militias have k!lled three Benue fish traders in Alufu village, Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State.  The victims, from Logo local government area of Benue State, were k!lled on Saturday, April 5, 2025.  The Chairman Logo LGA, Hon Clement Kav, who confirmed the killings of the traders to newsmen on Monday,…
Image by Ash Hayes. Last Friday, following the screening of No Other Land in San Diego, I discussed the film with a Jewish attendee who drew a striking comparison between the actions of the Israeli settlers in Palestine and the pogroms once carried out against Jews in Europe. Hence, this op-ed. In 1938 Nazi Germany,…
