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Duke and Harvard-Educated Veteran Now Serves on Fayetteville City Council
When Emmett Spurlock talks about city government, he does not begin with politics. He begins with planning.
A Duke University graduate with an executive management credential from Harvard Business School, Spurlock was sworn in earlier this year as a Fayetteville City Council member after unseating a longtime incumbent by a narrow margin. It is his first time holding elected office, but not his first time leading complex organizations or weighing decisions with long-term consequences.
“I’ve spent my career thinking about second- and third-order effects,” Spurlock said. “Just because something isn’t happening today doesn’t mean it won’t happen tomorrow.”A career built on strategySpurlock grew up in New Jersey and earned his undergraduate degree in computer science from Duke University. After graduating, he worked as a defense contractor and later held corporate roles with national organizations including McDonald’s Corporation...
You Will Collapse and Go – Wike Rains Curses on Politicians Backing Betrayal
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Saturday lashed out at politicians he accused of supporting those betraying him, raining curses on them.
Wike spoke in Port Harcourt while commissioning the Rivers State chapter of the Renewed Hope Ambassadors’ office.
He warned that senators and members of the House of Representatives backing acts of betrayal would, in turn, be betrayed.
According to the minister, when such politicians eventually face betrayal, they “will collapse and go”.
Wike said, “Whether you are a senator, House of Reps member, minister or governor, and you support betrayals, people will continue to betray you in life. Betrayal is your portion.
“The day you will be betrayed, you will not have mouth to say anything. There you will collapse and go and they will announce that so so person has died.
“That is the...
Electoral Act: This Is Just a Warning — Isaac Fayose Speaks During Protest at NASS
Businessman Isaac Fayose has described Monday’s protest at the National Assembly complex as only the beginning of a larger movement.
Politics Nigeria reports that a cross-section of Nigerians converged on the National Assembly on Monday morning to demand that electronic transmission of election results be made compulsory.
Despite several clarifications by the Senate following reports that it rejected electronic transmission of results, the protesters insist that lawmakers must be clear by explicitly inserting the phrase “real-time electronic transmission” in the proposed legislation.
Senate announced earlier that it would hold an emergency plenary session on Tuesday to address the concerns raised.
Speaking to journalists at the protest ground, Fayose said the decision reached at the emergency sitting would determine whether the protest would continue.
He said, “We all know what happens in a collation room. A collation room is a room...
Electronic transmission: Give them everything, they will still complain – Senate blasts protesters
Senate spokesman, Yemi Adaramodu has lashed out at Nigerians protesting real-time electronic transmission of election results.
Speaking during an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television on Tuesday, Adaramodu said the protesters have always been there even for good things.
DAILY POST reports that Nigerians, on Monday converged in Abuja for the “Occupy National Assembly” protest against the rejection of e-transmission of election results by the Senate.
Prominent politicians such as the former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as well as former Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, among others participated in the protest.
Reacting, the Senate spokesman said, “Those people you saw on the street are always there, even for good things.
“If you give them a road, they will say it is not wide enough. If you give them electricity, they will say the light is...
Cubana Chief Priest defends support for Tinubu amid backlash
Entertainment February 13, 2026 by Yewande Fasan ...
Berlinale Issues Statement Following Political Backlash at Festival, Says Artists Should Not Be ‘Expected to Speak on Every Political Issue’
The Berlin Film Festival has issued a lengthy statement from head Tricia Tuttle over what it describes as a “media storm” that has swept over the festival.
The note — sent out late on Saturday night — comes following criticism faced by multiple attendees over the comments about politics, most notably the jury in the opening day press conference. Faced with questions about the conflict in Gaza, jury head Wim Wenders said, “We have to stay out of politics because if we make movies that are dedicatedly political, we enter the field of politics,” prompting immediate backlash on social media. Indian author Arundhati Roy later pulled out of the festival in anger over the comments.
Both Michelle Yeoh and Neil Patrick Harris later faced online criticism for their reaction to questions about politics and the rise of facism, Harris...
Polling was never a neutral force in American politics
There may well be a malign element to Gallup’s decision to stop presidential polling, but it was never an uncomplicated good.US President Donald Trump (Image: Sipa USA)
Gallup, Inc., perhaps the world’s best-known polling firm, having achieved a kind of Band-Aid level association with the product it produces, last week announced that it will no longer track US presidential approval or the favourability of any political figure. It lands as a dark development, yet another example of institutions rewriting reality for the benefit of the increasingly authoritarian second administration of Donald Trump.
The notion of regular polling on the level of approval apparently enjoyed by politicians, their parties and policies is now so core to how we consume politics that it’s easy to forget that the art is less than 100 years old.
World leaders gather in Washington for Donald Trump’s first Board of Peace meeting
Trump says US has 'some work' to do with Iran, repeats call for country to end nuclear programOn Iran, Donald Trump praised Steve Witkoff’s diplomatic efforts with the Republic. “Iran is a hot spot right now,” Trump said, noting that both Witkoff and Jared Kushner – another envoy and the president’s son-in-law – have a good relationship with the representatives Iran. “Good talks are being had. It’s proven to be, over the years, not easy to make a meaningful deal with Iran. We have to make a meaningful deal, otherwise, bad things happen, but we have to make a meaningful deal,” Trump said.
He added: double quotation markWe do have some work to do with Iran....
Donald Trump says he has signed order imposing 10% global tariffs
Trump says he has signed an order imposing a 10% tariff on all importsDonald Trump has announced on his social media platform that he has signed an order to impose tariffs on every nation, although he made no reference to what legal authority he was relying on to do so.
“It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately,” the president posted.
Minutes later the White House released a fact sheet explaining that Trump had signed a proclamation “invoking his authority under section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974” to impose “a temporary import duty”.
Last year, the Congressional Research Service, which provides legislative research and analysis to lawmakers, explained that, temporary, legal authority: double...
Osun 2026: APC weighs gains, challenges amid low membership registration figures
Politics February 21, 2026 by Our Reporter ...
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US government issues travel warnings for citizens in Mexico amid widespread violenceThe Mexican government killed a cartel boss known as “El Mencho”, sparking a wave of retaliatory violence in western Mexico and stranding travelers on Sunday.
The US government urged US citizens in widespread areas of Mexico to shelter in place, saying that US government staff in those areas were also doing so on Sunday and would continue on Monday.
A travel alert from the US embassy in Mexico noted that no airports had been closed, but that roadblocks had affected airline operations, that most flights out of the cities of Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta were canceled, and that rideshares were suspended in Puerto Vallarta.
The alert advised people to “seek shelter” and “minimize unnecessary movements”.
“Americans should keep family and friends advised of your location & well-being,” the...
‘Melania’ producer spills on superstar soundtrack snubs
‘Melania’ producer spills on superstar soundtrack snubsMelania, the Amazon MGM documentary about the former First Lady, faced unexpected soundtrack hurdles when several music superstars refused to license their songs.
Producer Marc Beckman told Variety that politics played a major role in the rejections.
“There was music that we tried to get, but sadly, there were politics to it,” he said.
Beckman shed light on which artists refused to let their songs be used.
The team hoped to license a track from Guns N’ Roses.
But the band’s members were divided politically.
Because approval required unanimous consent, the split meant the song was off the table.
“So Guns N’ Roses was definitely...
