Torque is the quiet pivot that turns a straight push into a spin.
Only the component of force that stands perpendicular to the lever arm creates rotation. The rest of the force simply tries to stretch or compress the arm and contributes nothing to turning.
τ = r F sin θ. When the angle is 90°, every unit of force works fully and torque reaches its maximum. When the force points straight along the arm, torque drops to zero. The angle alone decides whether effort becomes motion or is wasted.
A right angle turns force into rotation; any other angle leaves some of that force behind.
First images from the ambush on traveler's and military escort by terrorists at dansadau - gusau highway Zamfara state yesterday..... Just look at how bad the road is... The videos were posted on a mali terrorist group link SM account
BREAKING: Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan Al-Fawzan, has called on Saudi troops to be prepared to sacrifice their lives in the fight against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.
The message carries an unmistakable sectarian dimension: Saudi Arabia’s highest Sunni religious authority rallying forces against the Shiite Houthi movement backed by Iran.
In the address, Al-Fawzan praised the soldiers as defenders of “monotheism and the Sunnah” and prayed for the downfall of Iran’s regime and those supporting it.
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Ahmed Abubakar is from Zakka, a small, quiet village in Safana LGA, Katsina State. He only just earned his Bachelor's degree in 2024. Before that certificate ever came, he was already hustling to build a life - teaching in his community, trading fairly in used cars and household appliances to put food on the table.
On September 28, 2019, he married the love of his life, Nafisa Musa. Their love story just reached its most beautiful chapter: on March 20th, 2026, God blessed them with a baby girl.
She is only 7 months old.
Right now, as you read this, Nafisa is still nursing that infant. She is still healing. Ahmed is still trying to figure out how to secure a future for a child who hasn't even learned to walk.
And then evil came knocking.
Armed terrorists stormed their home in Kaduna and dragged them away - a young father, a nursing mother, and a naked 7-month-old baby girl clutched to her mother's chest. No mercy. No clothes for the baby. They drove them like animals through thick bushes and unforgiving hills into captivity.
Now they are demanding N300 million. That's $225,394.
Let that sink in.
At Nigeria's current minimum wage of N70,000 a month, an honest Nigerian would have to work for 357 YEARS and 2 months - 4,286 months straight - saving every single kobo, not eating, not paying rent, not paying transport, just to make what these gunmen are demanding in one night.
A young family that has harmed no one, that was only trying to raise their baby in peace, now has an AK-47 pointed at them.
A father who spent his life teaching other people's children.
A mother whose arms have never known anything but love and care for her baby.
And a 7-month-old girl who has not even lived long enough to know what the world is, now facing a world at its cruelest.
How does a family like this raise N300 million in one night? Where are they supposed to find it?
How?
''I want to tell Aliko Dangote, please don’t rush to start the refinery because, when I’m sworn in as President of Kenya next year, you will be heading back to Nigeria. We Kenyans have business people who can start the refinery,'' EX-KDF Soldier Patrick Osoi says