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US aircraft carrier returns home after record deployment that included Iran war, Maduro capture.

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By Sean Lyngaas The USS Gerald R. Ford, America’s largest and newest aircraft carrier, is set to return to port in Virginia Saturday after nearly a year at sea that included participating in the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the Iran war, a shipboard fire, and repeated plumbing issues. It will go down in history as the longest operational deployment by a carrier since the end of the Vietnam War, a voyage that has seen the ship serve as a focal point for a string of President Donald Trump’s military objectives overseas. For families of the sailors, it’s a long-awaited end to what has been a nerve-wracking year when their service members were regularly participating in military operations that dominated the news. “Now I can actually relax and breath and go back to a normal sleeping pattern,” Amini Osias, whose daughter is an aviation electrician who served on the Ford, told CNN. He said he planned to go out to eat with his daughter, hear her account o...
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Tinubu’s Baffling Northern Exclusion Strategy- Farooq Kperogi

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May 16 2026 The late Muhammadu Buhari wrested power from Goodluck Jonathan in a never-before-seen political upset of an incumbent in Nigeria precisely because of the northern establishment’s strategic coalition with the Southwest political establishment led by Bola Ahmed Tinubu. And Tinubu is president today because of the North’s requital, sort of, for Tinubu’s gesture. I qualify the requital with “sort of” because Muhammadu Buhari, the chief beneficiary of the coalition, along with a significant number of the cabal that puppeteered him, didn’t want Tinubu to be president. That was the spark for Tinubu’s famously impassioned “Emi lo kan” speech in Abeokuta. However, northern governors’ collective, full-throated, unambiguous support for Tinubu and denunciation of Buhari and his cabal with the slogan “The North remembers” compensated for Buhari’s treachery. Plus, 63.6 percent of Tinubu’s 8,805,420 votes came from the North. That is now beside the point. Since becoming presid...
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MIKANG CONSTITUENTS REJECT PLATEAU ASSEMBLY SPEAKER's FOURTH TERM  BID-BACK TIMDI NKAT By Our Correspondent  A large gathering of constituents from Mikang Local Government Area have  rejected the fourth-term bid of the Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Naanlong Daniel. The constituents made their position known during a rally held on Thursday in Tunkus, the headquarters of Mikang LGA in southern Plateau State. Speaking at the gathering, former member of the House of Representatives for Mikang/Shendam/Quan Pan Federal Constituency, Rt. Hon. George Daika, described the Speaker’s renewed ambition as unacceptable. According to Daika, since the creation of Mikang Local Government Area and the state constituency, no individual had represented the constituency more than once until Naanlong Daniel emerged and secured two terms in office, thereby altering the earlier single-term arrangement. Also speaking, stakeholder and one of the founding fath...
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Alleged ₦36 Million Fraud: EFCC Arraigns Blessing CEO In Lagos

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By Our Correspondent  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned social media influencer and self-acclaimed relationship therapist, Blessing CEO, before the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, over an alleged N36 million fraud. Blessing CEO, whose real name is Okoro Blessing Nkiruka, was arraigned on Friday before Justice D.I. Dipeolu on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and stealing. Court proceedings During proceedings, counsel to the defendant, P.I. Nwafor, informed the court that his client had refunded N24 million out of the alleged N36 million involved in the case. “We have an application to make. The defendant approached the nominal complainant and refunded N24 million out of the N36 million. “We are asking for a short adjournment to resolve the outstanding balance. The nominal complainant agreed that if the balance is paid, they can prevail on the EFCC to drop the case,” he said. However, prosecution counsel, S.I. ...
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MIKANG CONSTITUENTS REJECT PLATEAU ASSEMBLY SPEAKER's FOURTH TERM  BID-BACK TIMDI NKAT By Our Correspondent  A large gathering of constituents from Mikang Local Government Area have  rejected the fourth-term bid of the Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Naanlong Daniel. The constituents made their position known during a rally held on Thursday in Tunkus, the headquarters of Mikang LGA in southern Plateau State. Speaking at the gathering, former member of the House of Representatives for Mikang/Shendam/Quan Pan Federal Constituency, Rt. Hon. George Daika, described the Speaker’s renewed ambition as unacceptable. According to Daika, since the creation of Mikang Local Government Area and the state constituency, no individual had represented the constituency more than once until Naanlong Daniel emerged and secured two terms in office, thereby altering the earlier single-term arrangement. Also speaking, stakeholder and one of the founding fathers of Mikan...
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