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Protect Stonebwoy –Peter Psquare

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Stonebwoy and Peter Psquare

Peter Psquare, a member of the defunct Nigerian music group, has praised Stonebwoy’s humility, describing him as a superstar who deserves to be protected.

In an interview on TV3, he recounted how Stonebwoy quickly flew from Ghana to Nigeria the very same day he sent his verse, just to join the music video shoot without hesitation.

“The day Stonebwoy sent me his verse, I was on set shooting the video. My choreographer said to me, ‘Peter, don’t shoot this video, make a remix.’ I asked Stonebwoy where he was, and he said he was in Ghana. That same day, I told him we were on set filming the video, and Stonebwoy got a flight and flew to Nigeria to shoot it.”

Peter Psquare added that Stonebwoy’s actions travelling to Nigeria to record a song and taking time to engage with everyone on set prove just how genuinely humble he is.

“Stonebwoy took pictures with every single person on location. I was there watching. I used to think I was humble, but Stonebwoy is humble.”

He also emphasised that Stonebwoy stands out among Ghanaian superstars because of his humility, and called on Ghanaians to adore and protect him.

“Stonebwoy is so humble and he needs to be protected. Ghanaians, you have a superstar, and I respect everyone, but Stonebwoy reminds me of myself. He flew to Nigeria to record a song for me, and everyone behind the scenes loved him.”

“I’ll switch from NPP to NDC if Asiedu Nketia becomes flagbearer” -Pope Skinny

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Pope Skinny

Rapper Pope Skinny has revealed that despite being a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), he holds strong admiration for NDC General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia.

In an interview on Okay FM, he said Asiedu Nketia’s intelligence, calm demeanour and articulate responses have impressed him greatly.

Pope Skinny spoke about his respect for National Democratic Congress (NDC) General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia, suggesting he could reconsider his political allegiance if the veteran politician decides to contest the presidency.

“If he declares his intention to become President, I will switch to the NDC without hesitation,” he said. “I have already started learning from him. The way he responds to questions during interviews shows clearly that he is very knowledgeable.”

The musician went on to explain that his admiration is based purely on observation rather than any personal relationship. “I’ve never met him in person, but I admire him greatly. He doesn’t speak unnecessarily, and when he does, his points are always solid and meaningful. Just wait and see, unless he chooses not to contest,” he added.

Pope Skinny also expressed disappointment with the current state of the NPP, noting that internal conflicts and divisions within the party have left him deeply dissatisfied, despite his status as a loyal member.

Honour Yaw Sarpong’s legacy –Kumasi residents urge MUSIGA, Government

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Yaw Sarpong

Kumasi residents are calling on the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) and the government to join hands to honor the late legendary gospel musician, Yaw Sarpong.

The founder of the Asomafo gospel group passed away on January 20, 2026, at the age of 66, in Kumasi.

Yaw Sarpong and fellow musician Maame Tiwa, a key pillar of Asomafo music who died on December 7, 2025, had been receiving treatment at New Jerusalem Church at Sokoben Ampeyoo in the Atwima Kwanwoma District.

Adom News visited the community and the church to gather reactions after the news broke, since Yaw Sarpong had spent time with them.

Residents and church members close to Yaw Sarpong and Maame Tiwah broke down in tears during an interview.

They described it as “very sad” to lose two prominent musicians within months, recalling the duo’s contributions to their spiritual growth.

“It was Yaw Sarpong and Maame Tiwa who encouraged us to keep singing and praising God, even when we weren’t strong,” said a church member, fighting back tears. “It’s very sad to lose these two renowned musicians in a few months,” another church member said.

It was also confirmed that Yaw Sarpong’s family took him away from the church after Maame Tiwah’s passing and he was no longer with the church community.

Residents and traders around the church have expressed deep condolences to the family of the late gospel musician.

They are urging MUSIGA and the government to ensure Yaw Sarpong’s legacy lives on.

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Court affirms Abure’s sack, orders INEC to recognize Nenadi Usman’s LP

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Court affirms Abure sack

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has reportedly affirmed the removal of Julius Abure as the national chairman of the Labour Party, LP.

The Court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to recognize the Senator Nenadi Usman-led National Caretaker Committee as the party’s lawful leadership.

The development was disclosed by human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, in a post on X, where he said he was present at the Federal High Court when the judgment was delivered in a related case.

Effiong stated that Justice Lifu delivering judgment on Wednesday, upheld the Nenadi Usman-led committee as the only valid and lawful leadership of the Labour Party, reaffirming that Abure’s tenure had elapsed in line with an earlier Supreme Court judgment.

The court consequently directed INEC to immediately recognize Nenadi Usman as the party’s leader.

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Resign before defecting to APC –Gov Yusuf advised

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Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf

The Boniface Aniebonam-led faction of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, has urged Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, to formally resign from the party if he intends to defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The faction’s Kano State Chairman, Senator Masu’d el Jilbreen Doguwa, made the call on Tuesday while addressing journalists during a press conference in Kano.

Doguwa said Governor Yusuf remains a bonafide member of the NNPP, stressing that the party has not received any official letter indicating his resignation.

“Abba Kabir Yusuf is still a member of the NNPP, and as party members, we owe him respect. However, if he intends to defect to another party, he must follow due process,” Doguwa said.

“He should formally submit a resignation letter to the NNPP chairman at his ward level, which we are yet to receive.”

Doguwa also reiterated that former Kano State Governor and NNPP presidential candidate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, is not the national leader of the party.

He cited three court judgments delivered in their favour on the ownership and leadership of the NNPP, including rulings by Justice M.A. Hassan of the Abuja High Court, Justice Bello Kawu of the Abuja High Court, and Justice C.U. Okoroafor of the Abia High Court.

According to Doguwa, Kwankwaso ceased to be a major stakeholder in the party after the 2023 general elections, during which he contested as the NNPP’s presidential candidate.

He added that the NNPP in Kano State remains open to members who wish to retain their membership on an individual basis, but would not accept those seeking to operate within the party under the banner of the Kwankwasiyya Movement.

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Israeli PM Netanyahu agrees to join Trump’s Board of Peace

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted an invitation to join US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace.

A statement from his office said Netanyahu would become a member of the board “which is to be comprised of world leaders”.

The board was originally thought to be aimed at helping end the two-year war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and oversee reconstruction. But its proposed charter does not mention the Palestinian territory and appears to be designed to supplant functions of the UN.

Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have also agreed to join, as have Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Turkey and Vietnam.

It is not clear how many countries have been invited to join Trump’s new body -Canada, Russia, Turkey and the UK are among them, but have not yet publicly responded.

Norway has said it will not join because the current proposal “raises a number of questions”, while France and Sweden have indicated they will do the same.

According to a document leaked to the media, the Board of Peace’s charter enters into force “upon expression of consent to be bound by three states”.

Member states will be given a renewable three-year term, but they can secure a permanent place if they contribute $1bn (£740m) of funding to the board, it says.

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Japan restarts world’s largest nuclear plant

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The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant

Japan has restarted operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster forced the country to shut all of its reactors.

The decision to restart reactor number 6 at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa north-west of Tokyo was taken despite local residents’ safety concerns.

It was delayed by a day because of an alarm malfunction and is due to begin operating commercially next month.

Japan, which had always heavily relied on energy imports, was an early adopter of nuclear power. But in 2011 all 54 of its reactors had to be shut after a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown at Fukushima, causing one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.

This is the latest installment in Japan’s nuclear power reboot, which still has a long way to go.

The seventh reactor at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa is not expected to be brought back on until 2030, and the other five could be decommissioned. That leaves the plant with far less capacity than it once had when all seven reactors were operational: 8.2 gigawatts.

Triggered by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, the meltdown in the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi, 220km (135 miles) north-east of Tokyo on the coast, led to radioactive leakage. Local communities were evacuated, and many have not returned despite official assurances that it was safe to do so.

Critics say the plant’s owner Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, was not prepared, and the response from them and government was not well co-ordinated. An independent government report called it a “man-made disaster” and blamed Tepco, although a court later cleared three of their executives of negligence.

Still the fear and lack of trust fuelled public opposition to nuclear power and Japan suspended all of its 54 reactors shortly after the Fukushima disaster.

It has now spent the past decade trying to wake up those power plants, as it seeks to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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Troops clear terrorist camps, foil attack in Borno

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Troops clear terrorist camps

Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have cleared several terrorist camps and recovered equipment belonging to the insurgents in Borno State.

Disclosing this in a statement on Monday, spokesman of the Joint Task Force (North East) Operation Hadin Kai, Sani Uba, said the troops recorded further operational successes in the ongoing Operation Desert Sanity.

According to him, at about midday, the advancing troops came under armed drone attacks by the terrorists, adding that they, however, maintained momentum and continued the offensive.

A second attempt, according to him, was in the evening, when the troops also decisively repelled, forcing the terrorists to withdraw.

Uba, a lieutenant-colonel, said troops also repelled coordinated attacks by the insurgents in the Timbuktu Triangle.

“On Sunday, 18 January 2026, troops advanced from their harbour area and conducted deliberate, intelligence-led operations across several identified terrorist enclaves, including Chilaria, Garin Faruk and Abirma,” he said.

“The operation was supported by the Air Component of OPHK, which provided persistent Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) coverage over the axis. The air-to-ground synergy enabled real-time tracking of terrorist movement, deterred adversary reinforcement, and enhanced the precision and confidence of ground operations,” the statement reads in part.

During the operation, troops recovered several items of military significance, including Baofeng radios, phones, 5 x AK-47 magazines, several rounds of 7.62 × 39mm special ammunition, and 7.62mm NATO belted ammunition, the statement noted.

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S. Korea’s former PM found guilty of insurrection, given 23 years in prison

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Former South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, centre, arrives at the court

A South Korean court has sentenced former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo to 23 years in prison after finding him guilty on insurrection charges related to disgraced ex-President Yoon Suk-yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law.

Han was found guilty on Wednesday of abetting Yoon’s brief imposition of martial law and for failing to hold a lawful cabinet meeting, as required by South Korean law, after the decree to mobilise the military was ordered by the then-president in December 2024.

Han”disregarded his duty and responsibility as prime minister until the very end”, said Judge Lee Jin-gwan, of the Seoul Central District Court.

“As a result of the defendant’s actions, South Korea was in danger ​of returning to the dark past ‌when the basic rights and liberal democratic order of the people were violated, potentially preventing them from escaping from the quagmire of dictatorship for a long time,” the judge said.

The court ordered Han to be detained after sentencing, citing concerns about the possible destruction of evidence.

Han, 76, is the first member of Yoon’s cabinet to be found guilty and sentenced to jail in relation to the martial law declaration.

The former prime minister denied the charges against him, saying he had no prior knowledge of Yoon’s plan to impose military rule.

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Nigeria police confirm mass church abductions after previous denial

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This is one of the three churches attacked

Nigeria’s police have now confirmed that a group of worshippers was kidnapped from three churches in a remote part of the northern Kaduna state, after previously denying it.

More than two days after the raid on the Kurmin Wali village, police on Tuesday night said that an earlier statement denying the attack had been “widely misinterpreted”.

Local residents told the BBC that 177 worshippers had been abducted but that 11 later escaped.

Police spokesperson Benjamin Hundeyin did not give any numbers but said subsequent checks by operational units and intelligence sources had confirmed the abduction.

He said security forces had been fully deployed to the area, and that search-and-rescue operations and patrols were under way.

The police spokesperson added that the earlier statement was “not a denial of the incident but a measured response pending confirmation of details from the field, including the identities and number of those affected”.

One eyewitness said the attack happened at about 10:00 local time on Sunday.

“Some people tried to run, but they couldn’t because the armed men had surrounded the village,” he said. “They gathered people together and later forced them to march into the bush.”

Residents said the attack affected three churches – two which are part of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church, and one from the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA).

In a joint statement with local government officials on Monday, Kaduna state police commissioner Alhaji Muhammad Rabiu described the reports of a kidnapping as “mere falsehood which is being peddled by conflict entrepreneurs who want to cause chaos”.

He challenged “anyone to list the names of the kidnapped victims and other particulars.”

The chairman of Kajuru local government area, which includes Kurmin Wali, Dauda Madaki, said security forces had been sent to the area but found no sign of a kidnapping.

In November, more than 300 students and teachers were seized from a Catholic school in neighbouring Niger state. They were later released in two successive groups. This was among a spate of kidnappings that made international headlines.

Nigeria is facing numerous security challenges – including kidnappings for ransom by criminal gangs, an Islamist insurgency in the north-east, separatist violence in the south-east, and a battle between herders and farmers in the centre over access to land and water.

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