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New York – UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said the capture of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro and his wife by U.S. special forces in the early hours of Saturday is “a dangerous precedent”. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Stéphane Dujarric, UN Spokesperson, on Saturday in New York Guterres said he is “deeply alarmed” over the standoff …

rump has just shared a new image on Truth Social that he says shows “Nicolas Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima” – this is the boat he earlier told Fox News was bringing the Venezuelan leader to the US. The image shows what appears to be Maduro, with an eye mask and headphones on and wearing a grey tracksuit. …

Port Harcourt – The Rivers Ijaw People’s Congress has announced its decision to abandon Gov. Siminilayi Fubara of Rivers and pledged allegiance to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike. Chairman of the congress, Sen. George Sekibo, announced the group’s decision during Wike’s “thank you” visit to Okrika Local Government Area of the state on Saturday. …

Trump Confirms US Strike In Venezuela, Says President Nicolas Maduro Has Been ‘Captured’ The U.S. military carried out a “large-scale strike” in Venezuela early Saturday morning and took Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife into custody, President Donald Trump confirmed. The president wrote on Truth Social that the operation was successful and Maduro and his wife were “captured and …

… urges public vigilance Maiduguri – The Nigerian Army under Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) has identified one Shariff Umar, also known as Yusuf, as the principal coordinator of a suicide bombing network responsible for recent attacks and attempted attacks in the North-East. The identification followed intelligence-led cordon-and-search operations conducted on Dec. 31, 2025, at the Kalmari area of Maiduguri, during …

He says in a post on X: “The president offered multiple off ramps, but was very clear throughout this process: the drug trafficking must stop, and the stolen oil must be returned to the United States. “Maduro is the newest person to find out that President Trump means what he says. Kudos to our brave special operators who pulled off …

Expressions of unbridled power don’t come blunter than abducting a sitting president from his capital in the dead of night. President Donald Trump has shown in a 74-word social media post that he can act decisively, suddenly and perhaps recklessly, in pursuit of his varied and varying foreign policy goals, with little regard for precedent, consequence or it seems, international …

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has alerted the newly sworn in Minister of Defence, General Christopher Gwabin Musa that soldiers did not respect his order withdrawing them from mounting roadblocks so as to be deployed purely for counterinsurgency and other internal security operations. In a statement, HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, regretted that whilst the enthusiastic minister …

Canada deported 366 Nigerians between January and October 2025, as it intensified its immigration enforcement drive at the fastest pace in over a decade, official data obtained by Saturday PUNCH has shown. The figure, obtained from the Canada Border Services Agency removals programme statistics, also revealed that 974 Nigerians are currently in the “removal in progress” inventory, awaiting deportation from …

Donald Trump’s warning that the US will intervene if peaceful protesters are killed was “reckless and dangerous”, Iran’s foreign minister has said. Abbas Araghchi’s comments came after the US president said Washington “will come to their rescue” of demonstrators taking part in protests over Iran’s economy, writing in a brief social media post: “We are locked and loaded and ready …