Today’s Headlines: ‘I Could Say the Stupidest Things and You’d Clap’ — Trump; Nigeria’s Re-Engineering Under Tinubu is Unstoppable

United States President Donald Trump has joked that his supporters would applaud him even if he said “the stupidest things,” as concerns grow over Republican voter enthusiasm ahead of the November 3 midterm elections.

Trump made the remark on Saturday during a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, where he backed Republican Senator Bill Hagerty and gubernatorial candidate Marsha Blackburn.

Addressing the crowd, Trump boasted about his popularity within the Republican Party and dismissed suggestions that his political standing could hurt candidates seeking election in November.

“I’m very popular. I really am,” he told supporters.

October 11, (THEWILL) – The Economist claims Nigerians dislike their President, but it’s a claim that smells of opposition and is riddled with inconsistencies. It has become a tired, predictable ritual of external commentary—most notably from the comfortable, insulated drawing rooms of foreign publications—to look at the complex, dynamic, and pulsating canvas of the Federal Republic of Nigeria through a cracked, distorted lens.

In their rush to paint a picture of impending doom, structural paralysis, and widespread citizen despair, these overseas observers routinely traffic in sensationalist half-truths. They love to peddle the lazy, hollow fiction that “Nigerians hate President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” packaging localised administrative growing pains into neat, uniform narratives of national rejection.

𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 30 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺, 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗿𝘆

The Nigeria Police Force has trained 30 officers in Unmanned Aircraft Systems technology to strengthen its operations against terrorism, banditry and other criminal activities.

The officers, who are graduates of the Nigeria Police Academy, Kano, completed the Basic Unmanned Aircraft Systems Course One organised by Kaduna-based indigenous defence technology company, Nethawk Aviation Solutions.

Speaking at the graduation ceremony on Saturday, the company’s founder and Chief Executive Officer, Flight Lieutenant Adedoyin Akerele (retd.), said the training was part of efforts to develop local expertise in aviation technology and improve security operations.

𝗘𝗸𝗶𝘁𝗶 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 – 𝗘𝘅-𝗴𝗼𝘃 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲

Legal practitioner and former governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Tope Adebayo, has said that the task before the present generation in the state is to strive to create an economy capable of sustaining opportunities for future generations.

Adebayo, who said successive administrations in the state had trod the lines of the founding fathers and recorded landmarks, stressed the need to strengthen the foundations established in the last 30 years.

The member of the State Economic Management Team, inaugurated by Governor Biodun Oyebanji in 2023, spoke in a keynote address in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, on Saturday, at a programme organised by the Ekiti State House of Assembly to mark the state’s 30th anniversary.

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