Wednesday, 27 September, 2023

Category: Security


Russian Admiral Viktor Sokolov – who has been declared dead by Ukraine – participated in a high-profile online meeting on Tuesday, images released by the Russian Defense Ministry show. The Ukrainian military claims that it killed Sokolov, the commander of the Russian Read more…


Russia has upgraded its ‘Lancet’ kamikaze drones to reach targets more than 80km away, a source close to the manufacturer has revealed. Video footage shared last week confirms this upgrade, with a camera on the nose of a Lancet drone Read more…


President Emmanuel Macron announced Sunday that France will end its military presence in Niger and pull its ambassador out of the country as a result of the coup that removed the democratically elected president. Niger’s junta said in response that Read more…


The inauguration of the 609-member National Campaign Council for the November 11 off-season Imo governorship election recently must have sent warning signals to the other political party opponents in the state that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is battle-ready Read more…


Over the past 24 hours Russian forces have struck several Western-supplied artillery systems during battles with Ukraine, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has reported. A US-made Paladin self-propelled howitzer was eliminated by counter-battery fire in Zaporozhye Region, the ministry announced in a statement on Read more…


A swift military operation Azerbaijan conducted this week to establish full control over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh might trigger a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians living in the area, Reuters reported, citing the breakaway region’s leadership. As many as Read more…


Two years after the suspected rape and eventual death of Karen-Happuch Akpagher, student of Premiere Academy in Lugbe, Abuja, her family still has no explanation for what happened. The family however believes that the Nigeria Police Force was compromised very Read more…


Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to “set up a presidential panel of enquiry to promptly probe the grim allegations that over US$15 billion of oil revenues, and N200 billion budgeted to repair the refineries Read more…


The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Lagos State Council, on Saturday, said the individual reportedly arrested for injecting the late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad is not a registered nurse. The association disclosed this in a Read more…


Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called Ukrainian proposals for restoring its pre-invasion territory “unrealizable” and said that if Ukraine’s allies want war, they can have it. Lavrov’s comment jibes with a view taking hold among Ukraine’s allies that the war Read more…


Pope Francis suggested on Saturday that some countries were “playing games” with Ukraine by first providing weapons and then considering backing out of their commitments. Francis made his comments aboard the plane returning from a trip to the French port Read more…


Washington is expected to deliver a “small number” of long-range ATACMS surface-to-surface missiles to Ukraine, US media outlets reported on Friday, citing multiple officials familiar with the matter. The pledge was reportedly made by US President Joe Biden during a Read more…