🇳🇬 Nigeria: Zamfara Governor Lawal joins ruling APC ahead of 2027 election, Matawalle drops governorship bid

Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal has defected from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party to the ruling All Progressives Congress and is expected to secure the APC ticket for a second term in 2027. Defence Minister Bello Matawalle, Lawal's predecessor and political rival, has abandoned his own gubernatorial ambitions and is seeking to retain a federal position contingent on President Bola Tinubu winning reelection.

Matawalle and Lawal have been locked in a prolonged political feud since Lawal defeated him in the 2023 Zamfara governorship race.

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🗓Хамовнический суд Москвы назначил на 5 мая рассмотрение по существу антикоррупционного иска о передаче государству имущества основателя "Русагро" Вадима Мошковича и бывшего гендиректора холдинга Максима Басова, обвиняемых в мошенничестве.

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💔 Ukrainian defenders shared footage of the destroyed Kostyantynivka.

🇸🇰❗️🇺🇦 Slovakia will not participate in the next announced loans for Ukraine, — Fico

“It is well known throughout the world that I, as Prime Minister, refused to support the 90 billion military loan for Ukraine and also took additional legal steps to prevent Slovakia from participating in this loan.
Whoever claims that this is not so is deliberately misleading and looking for conflict.”

🇺🇸🇪🇺 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned European leaders that "Donald Trump is disappointed with their reluctance to help in the conflict with 🇮🇷Iran".

Overnight, Ukrainian UAVs circled Moscow, with one drone hitting a building located 6 km from the Kremlin and 3 km from the Russian Ministry of Defense. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin confirmed the drone strike on a building in the Mosfilmovskaya Street area. The parade is in 5 days.

🇺🇸 US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is “paranoid” over fears Trump will fire him. He is doing everything he can to appease the US president to prevent that from happening. – The Guardian.

Insiders described Hegseth as increasingly isolated in the Pentagon’s sprawling bureaucracy and surrounded by a small circle of close friends and family.

Some say he is expressing fear and paranoia that Trump could fire him from a position for which critics say his experience as an infantry major in the National Guard with combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan is insufficiently qualified.

Hegseth has focused on issues of personal interest to him. Among them is the reorganization of the Pentagon’s chaplaincy service, an occupation that aligns with his outspoken Christian beliefs.

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