On February 18, 2026, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed amendments to the Electoral Act, making real-time electronic transmission of polling results optional rather than mandatory, just a day after the National Assembly passed it. Tinubu in a post on X wrote: “After every election cycle, we owe Nigerians an honest look at what worked and what must work better. That is how serious democracies behave, and our laws must grow with experience. “Today, I signed the final amendments to the 2022 Electoral Act into law. “These amendments are not about politics. They are about process. They are about closing gaps,...
Lawsuit Alleges Kansas City Chiefs Wide Receiver Rashee Rice Physically Assaulted Former Girlfriend
The former girlfriend of Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice alleges in a lawsuit filed this week that he physically assaulted her multiple times over a year-and-a-half, causing injuries that included bleeding and bruising. The lawsuit filed Monday in Dallas County by Dacoda Jones comes after she made domestic violence allegations in a series of social media posts last month. She is seeking more than $1 million in the lawsuit, which says the assaults happened at their homes in Dallas and suburban Kansas City. In the lawsuit, Jones accuses Rice of strangling her in December 2023 after an “escalation...
Ghana And Kenya Investigate Presumed Russian National For Secretly Recording Sexual Encounters
Ghana has launched an investigation into a man believed to be Russian who is accused of secretly recording sexual encounters with several women and publishing them online without their consent, authorities said Wednesday, in a case that sparked public outrage. Samuel Nartey George, Ghana’s minister for communications, told a news conference in Accra on Wednesday that the government has taken steps to trace and secure relevant digital and financial evidence linked to publication of the intimate footage. Kenyan media previously has reported on viral videos that allegedly show Kenyan victims as well. Kenya’s gender minister condemned the secret filming of...
D.C Resident Forleisia Cook Speech At Black History Month Reception Admonishes Democrats To Stop Calling Trump A Racist, Appreciate The President’s Effort In Making America Safe Again
D.C. resident Forlesia Cook, who lost her grandson to murder, thanks Trump for his work to Make America Safe Again in an incredible speech at the White House Black History Month Reception while she criticized the democrats for calling the president a racist, she adviced them to back off him and allow him do his job. Forlesia Cook: “Thank God for this President. “His people came to my house to interview me about the murder of my grandson. It felt like nobody cared. I’ve been out here advocating after a murder. “We marched and rallied, and nobody heard me. Democrats...
Brentford’s Italian Right-Back Michael Kayode And Partner Eleonora, Reveal Gender Of Baby With Stadium Throw In
21-year-old Brentford right-back Michael Kayode, who joined permanently from Fiorentina last summer, shared the creative gender reveal video on social media Wednesday evening. Dressed in white tracksuit bottoms alongside partner Eleonora, he dried the ball with his famous towel technique before hurling it deep, triggering pink clouds, fireworks, and joyful hugs under the stadium lights. Kayode called it a dream come true at the club he loves.
Vatican Says It Won’t Participate In Trump’s ‘Board Of Peace’
The Vatican will not participate in President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace“initiative, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s top diplomatic official, said on Tuesday while adding that efforts to handle crisis situations should be managed by the United Nations. Pope Leo, the first U.S. pope and a critic of some of Trump’s policies, was invited to join the board in January. Under Trump’s Gaza plan that led to a fragile ceasefire in October, the board was meant to supervise Gaza’s temporary governance. Trump thereafter said the board, with him as chair, would be expanded to tackle global conflicts. The board will...
North Korean Leader Deploys 50 New Rocket Launchers Ahead Of Major Party Congress
North Korea said Thursday leader Kim Jong Un held a ceremony to unveil the deployment of 50 new launch vehicles for nuclear-capable short-range missiles threatening rival South Korea as he flaunted his expanding military capabilities ahead of a major ruling party congress. In a separate statement, Kim’s sister, who is a key foreign policy official acknowledged a South Korean minister’s apology regarding alleged civilian drone incursions, but said the North is bolstering border security against the “enemy” South. North Korea has suspended nearly all talks and cooperation with the South since 2019, when Kim’s nuclear diplomacy with U.S. President Donald...
Men Once Wrongfully Accused Of Austin Yogurt Shop Murders Seek Formal Exoneration
A Texas judge on Thursday will consider a formal declaration of innocence for the four men who were wrongfully accused of the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders, including one man who was initially convicted and sent to death row in the killing of four teenagers in a crime that haunted the city for decades. An exoneration ruling would close a dark chapter for the men and their families, and for a city that was shaken by the brutality of the crime and investigators’ inability to solve it for decades. Cold case detectives announced last year they had connected the killings...