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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...
Tiffany Trump Explores Luxor’s Ancient Landmarks During Egypt Visit
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Luxor welcomed Tiffany Trump, daughter of US President Donald Trump, on Saturday, 7 February, as she toured some of Egypts most significant archaeological sites, accompanied by her husband, businessman Michael Boulos.
The couple arrived in Luxor on Friday, 6, February, and began their tour the following morning with a visit to Gazas West Bank, according to Dr. Mahmoud Moussa, Director of Qurna Antiquities, speaking to Nogoum FM.
The visit began on Luxors West Bank at the Valley of the Kings, where the couple toured a number of royal tombs, including that of Tutankhamun.They then headed to the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, followed by a stop at the tomb of Queen Nefertari, known for its well-preserved wall paintings.
The tour wrapped up on the East Bank with a visit to the Karnak Temple...
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
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Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather and climate research center
The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder in December.RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post/Getty ImagesA leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released Thursday by the National Science Foundation.The move is part of the Trump administration’s effort to disassemble the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, one of the world’s top weather and climate research centers, which the admin views as a source of climate change alarmism.The computing center, which is slated to be turned over to an unspecified third party, runs weather and climate research models and is used by about 1,500 researchers from over 500 universities around the country. The work done on this supercomputer benefits the American people by leading to more accurate forecasts of extreme weather and climate events, aircraft...
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.
Trump officials sued over effort to ‘erase history and science’ in national parks
Conservation and historical organizations sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and science from America’s national parks.
A lawsuit filed in Boston says orders by Donald Trump and the interior secretary, Doug Burgum, have forced park service staff to remove or censor exhibits that share factually accurate and relevant US history and scientific knowledge, including about slavery and climate change.
Separately, LGBTQ+ rights advocates and historic preservationists sued the park service on Tuesday for removing a rainbow Pride flag from the Stonewall national monument, the New York site that commemorates a foundational moment in the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
The changes at exhibits came in response to a Trump executive order “restoring truth and sanity to American history” at the nation’s museums, parks and landmarks. It directed the...
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...
