Bola Tinubu: “I Took Over Leadership from Myself; Late Buhari Is Me, He Was My Partner. “If they don’t want to see the hope in the roads we have built, in the children we have raised, or in the economy we are growing, we will give them eyeglasses.” Credit: Arise TV.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:  “We have an opportunity to forge a historic peace agreement with Lebanon. President Donald Trump intends to invite me and the President of Lebanon in order to try to advance this agreement. This opportunity exists because, since the ‘War of Redemption,’ we have fundamentally changed the balance of power in Lebanon. We activated the pagers; we eliminated the massive arsenal of 150,000 rockets and missiles that Nasrallah prepared to destroy Israel’s cities. “We eliminated Nasrallah. This balance has shifted to such an extent that over the past month, we began receiving calls from Lebanon to hold...

Late Wednesday evening, April 15, armed bandits ambushed the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination—UTME— students’ bus on the Makurdi-Otukpo road, abducting 14 of the 18 candidates heading to Thursday’s UTME in Otukpo. According to an unidentified source: “Two people, the driver and one passenger, managed to escape. Incidentally, the passengers were mainly young men and women who travelled to sit for the JAMB examination scheduled for today,” the source said. Confirming the incident, Ifeanyi Emenari, the Commissioner of Police in Benue State, said 14 passengers were abducted. “I am in Otukpo now with all my team and DPOs...

Dr. Akinwumi Adesina: “I am greatly honored to receive the prestigious African Lifetime Achievement Award in Accra. Thank you ⁦ The AfriHeritage for the great recognition. It’s an honor shared with my dearest wife Grace—my jewel, strength, anchor & partner of 42 years. TheAfriHeritage💕

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: “We are watching you. Our capabilities are not the same—our military and yours. Remember, this is NOT A FAIR FIGHT We know what military assets you are moving and where you are moving them. While you are digging out of bombed-out and devastated facilities—WE ARE ONLY GETTING STRONGER… We are LOCKED AND LOADED—on your critical dual-use infrastructure, on your remaining power generation, and on your energy industry. We would rather not have to do it, but we are ready to go at the command of our president and at the push of a button.”

Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax fatally shot his wife, Cerina Fairfax, before taking his own life early Thursday at the family’s home in Annandale, Fairfax County police said, in what authorities described as a sudden and tragic act of domestic violence amid a pending divorce. Officers responded to the home just after midnight after one of the couple’s teenage children called 911, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said during a morning news briefing. Both of the couple’s children, who are in high school, were inside the home at the time of the shooting. “One of the children was...

Myanmar’s former President Win Myint was freed Friday as part of a broad prisoner amnesty by newly inaugurated President Min Aung Hlaing to mark the traditional New Year, state-run media reported. The pardon order applied to more than 4,500 prisoners, but it was not immediately clear how many people imprisoned for opposing military rule were included and there was no sign that 80-year-old former leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be freed. Win Myint is Suu Kyi’s longtime loyalist and was elected as president in 2018. He was arrested on Feb. 1, 2021, the same day the military seized power...

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Thursday that while Cuba does not want military aggression from the United States, his country is prepared to fight should it happen. Díaz-Canel spoke during a rally that drew hundreds of people to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the declaration of the Cuban Revolution’s socialist essence. “The moment is extremely challenging and calls upon us once again, as on April 16, 1961, to be ready to confront serious threats, including military aggression. We do not want it, but it is our duty to prepare to avoid it and, if it becomes inevitable, to defeat it,”...