At this point, all he wanted was an opportunity to say a proper goodbye to his family. His eyes were filled with disappointment and regret 💔He pleaded for mercy with a heavy heart, but nobody listened. He cried out like a helpless father, saying: “My children, please have mercy on us. We are also victims of a failed system.” Imagine the fear, the pain, and the hopelessness he must have felt in those final moments. Maybe he is not your father, brother, or uncle. Maybe he is not even from your region. But if this can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. 2027 is coming, and the choice is in our hands. Choose wisely.

🚨 While the IRGC hangs innocent Iranian youth from cranes, Pope Leo XIV just awarded the Vatican's highest diplomatic honor to the regime's ambassador, praising their “peace” efforts. The Catholic Church is supposed to stand for the oppressed. Instead, the Pope is shaking hands with an occupying terror regime, rewarding them for their crimes against humanity. This is a historic betrayal of the Iranian people. The blood of native Iranians is on that medal. Shame on @Pontifex! You do not represent the voice of true Christians!

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei just handed his negotiating team 5 conditions that must be met before nuclear talks can even begin ▪️End the war on all fronts. Including Lebanon and Gaza ▪️Lift every sanction ▪️Return all frozen assets ▪️Recognize Iran's sovereign right over the Strait of Hormuz ▪️Pay reparations for damages caused by the war This is a list of things you demand after you've won. Khamenei isn't talking to Washington. He's talking to his own population; showing them he's tough and won't back down. The question is whether there's any version of this that ends at a table.

NEW:🇮🇷🇻🇦Pope Leo XIV presented Iran’s ambassador to the Vatican, Ayatollah Hossein Mokhtari, with the highest diplomatic honor of the Vatican, the ‘Order of Pius’ The medal was awarded for Iran’s extraordinary contributions to peace and interfaith cooperation between Christians and Muslims.

A Question for President Goodluck Jonathan Former President Goodluck Jonathan is a good man. That is how history remembers him. That is how he comes across in person. I have sat with him. I have looked him in the eye. He is gentle, thoughtful, prayerful — a rare combination at the top of African politics. In US interviews, I have called him an "accidental Christian president," because that is what he was. The token Southern Christian Vice President in the Yar'Adua administration. When the President died in May 2010 — a year before the next election — the constitution put Jonathan in the chair. The powers that be never intended for him to be the top man. That is not to diminish him. It is to explain why they unleashed hell to get him out. During his tenure, Nigeria was more peaceful and her people more prosperous than they are today. It was the only nation on earth where radical Islam was being pushed back. Boko Haram was on its heels. Christian villages and churches still stood. The Plateau still had farmers on it. There was real progress. Real hope. Then Buhari claimed victory in 2015 — with Obama's full backing, and election results that were very much open to challenge. Jonathan made a famous concession. He walked away. He said: "My political ambition is not worth the blood of one Nigerian." That line has burnished his stature as an elder statesman. It is the line every news anchor quotes when they introduce him. It is the line that has earned him standing ovations at every African Union summit since. It is also the line that gives me pause. Because here is the truth, said plainly and without disrespect: The fight was not about his political ambition. It was about life. It was about liberty. It was about whether a Christian Southerner could lead Nigeria out of the darkness that has smothered her people for generations. It was about standing in the gap when the gap was open. And by walking away — by treating the fight as if it were about him — Goodluck Jonathan did not save Nigerian blood. He let it spill. Since 2015: More than 185,000 Nigerians have been killed. 125,000 of them Christians. 60,000 of them peaceful Muslims slaughtered by the same machine. More than 19,000 churches destroyed. 10 to 12 million Nigerians displaced from their ancestral lands. Mass slavery. Mass starvation. Mass forgetting. That is the cost of one man's decision to call life-and-death a question of personal ambition. I do not say this to wound him. I say it because the same darkness that took the country in 2015 is more powerful today than it was then. It has had total control of Nigeria for going on twelve years. It has metastasized. It has bought generals. It has hired Washington lobbyists. It has filled the mass graves of the Middle Belt and the IDP camps of the Northeast. And now His Excellency has signaled he may run again in 2027. So here is my question for him. And I ask it with the deepest, most genuine respect. Mr. President — now more than perhaps any time in Nigerian history, your people need a fighter. A champion. A man who will stand in the gap and wage war on the darkness — the bloody foreign hands, the radical ideology of death, the corrupt and complicit leaders, the brutal system of submission and silence that is smothering the land. A man who will champion the displaced generation — 10 to 12 million innocent Nigerians traumatically driven from their ancestral lands — and get them back home. Safe. Restored. Where they belong. Are you that man? What did you learn from 2015? What will you do different? Or is this, once again, about your political ambition? Because, sir — with all the respect a man can give to a man — Nigerians can no longer afford a leader who lays down the fight in the name of peace. The blood is already on the ground. The peace has already been broken. The only question left is whether the next time they come for your people, you will stand. Or step aside. #EarthShaker

RUSSIA’S STRONG MESSAGE ON PALESTINE 🇷🇺🇵🇸 Vladimir Putin has reportedly said that Russia will help rebuild mosques and schools in Palestine that were destroyed. He made it clear: If any country destroys these buildings again, Russia will respond strongly. This is not just about politics. This is about people. Children need schools. People need places to pray. Palestine has suffered a lot. Innocent lives have been lost. Homes destroyed. Future damaged. The world cannot stay silent anymore. I stand with the people of Palestine. They deserve peace. They deserve safety. They deserve a future.

He did really better than the gen Z mothers.

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi: The Iran–U.S. Ceasefire terms are clear and explicit: the U.S. must choose, ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both. The world sees the massacres in Lebanon. The ball is in the U.S. court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments.

I’m heartbroken. After over 12 hours of search and rescue in Haifa, all four missing people were found dead from a direct ballistic missile hit launched from Iran on northern Israel. May their memory be a blessing.

As an Iranian watching this rescue mission unfold, I was praying the American pilot would make it out alive, not just for him, but so the Islamic Republic could not use him as a bargaining chip or claim some twisted “victory.” At the same time, I felt a deep envy. Your government sent elite special forces, million-dollar aircraft, and moved heaven and earth to bring one American home. No hesitation. No excuses. In Iran, the regime uses human shields and recruited child soldiers to clear minefields during the Iran-Iraq war. They treat their own people like disposable tools. They are now recruiting child soldiers as we speak. The Islamic Republic has zero regard for human life. That’s the brutal difference. One side risks everything to save their own. The other sacrifices their own to stay in power. This hits hard when you have lived under both realities.

JUST IN: 🇮🇷 Iran warns the United States and Israel that the entire region will become hell for them if escalation continues.

I was at the motor park on this same day last year when I saw a small boy of about 8 years old sitting on the ground. He was not begging. He was just holding a dirty, torn paper and a pencil, trying to write 1 1 = 2. A woman selling food shouted at him to leave her front and even threw dirty water near his feet. The boy did not cry. He just moved quietly to sit under a leaking roof to continue his writing. My heart pained me. I went to give him money for food, but his eyes stopped me. He looked so hungry. I asked him why he was not in school. He told me his mother died the previous year and his uncle brought him to the city to go to school. But since he arrived, he only washes cars and sweeps while his uncle’s children go to school. He showed me his back and I saw a big wound from a hot iron his uncle’s wife used on him because a plate broke while he was washing it. He ran away three days ago and was sleeping in the park, hoping to find a bus to his village even though he has nobody there. I looked at my fine clothes and felt ashamed. I work as a secretary. I was on my way to work but I did not continue the journey. I held his hand and told him not to cry. I told him that from that day, he was not going back to that house and he was not going to the village. I have decided to adopt him as my own son. Today makes exactly a year he has been with me. He has a new school bag and a clean uniform. He eats good food and nobody will ever burn him again. I remembered going through the same treatment many years ago, when my aunt brought me to Lagos to send me to school but instead she turned me into her house girl and treated me like trash before God sent a good Samaritan my way who helped sponsor my education. Today, I am the same person feeding and paying fees for her children ever since she and her husband passed away in an accident. NB: I am not posting this to show off. I am sharing this to tell everyone to be kind to other people’s children. You don’t know who will help you tomorrow. No one knows tomorrow. 🙏🏾

President Bola Tinubu has assured the people of Plateau State that the Federal Government will deploy an AI-enabled network of over 5,000 digital cameras to help law enforcement agencies combat insecurity in the state. The President gave the promise in his address during his visit to Jos today.