Ralph Fiennes has never been an actor who shies away from darkness. From the haunted complexities of Schindler’s List to the quietly terrifying Voldemort in the Harry Potter films, he has built a career on exploring the shadowy corners of human nature, power, and moral compromise. Now, at 63, he returns to one of the most politically charged roles of his generation: President Coriolanus Snow, the chilling authoritarian leader at the heart of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian universe. In the latest Hunger Games installment, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, Fiennes steps into the polished but poisonous shoes of a…

In a gathering that felt both urgent and reflective, Nigeria’s security chiefs and senior government officials met in Kaduna for the Second National Symposium on Crisis Communication, organized by the Centre for Crisis Communication, and delivered a stark warning: the 2027 general elections could be fought as much in the information space as at the ballot box. With deepfakes, disinformation, impersonation and manipulated narratives no longer theoretical threats but active weapons, the symposium’s theme—“Inter-Agency Collaboration, Public Trust and Cyber Threat Management in Crisis Communication”—set the tone for two days of honest, sometimes uncomfortable conversation. The sheer scale of Nigeria’s digital…