No fewer than 50 people including children were rescued from an underground apartment in a church in Ondo town, Ondo State, by the operatives of State Police Command. LEADERSHIP learnt that the people were said to be abducted and kept Read more…
Category: Security
The Pentagon on Friday announced $820 million in new Ukraine military aid that includes advanced mid- to long-range air defense systems and counter-artillery radars to respond to Russia’s heavy use of long-range strikes in the war. The announcement for the Read more…
Sporadic gunshots rented the air in Dutse-Baupuma area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday, as police officers engaged hoodlums, who were looting remnants of illegal structures being demolished by a Taskforce of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA). Read more…
Early in his war against Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin of Russia appeared tense, angry and even disoriented. He spent days out of the public eye, threatened the West with nuclear strikes, and lashed out at anti-war Russians as “scum.” But Read more…
Two policemen were feared dead on Thursday when unknown gunmen attacked a Police checkpoint in Enugu. It was gathered that the gunmen came down from their vehicle and opened fire on the policemen at about 10am. Sources said there was Read more…
A 27-year-old man, Kingsley Amaobi Egbujor, has reportedly renounced his membership in the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), over the killing of his father and elder brother who were also members. Making this disclosure to newsmen in Onitsha, Anambra State, Read more…
Nigerian soldiers have reportedly killed 10 people and displaced several others in a community in Cross River State, Nigeria’s South-south. The soldiers were said to be on a reprisal on June 26 in Nko community, Yakurr Local Government Area of Read more…
Family members of Chinonso Omeh from Umuogboagu community, Enugu- Ezike, Enugu state, have cried out for justice over the alleged killing of Chinonso while under police custody at the defunct Awkuzu SARS now renamed State CID Annex. Onyebuchi Omeh elder brother Read more…
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Wednesday that increases in military spending and rising numbers of troop deployments in Eastern Europe since 2014 were carried out in anticipation of a conflict with Russia. Speaking after a meeting of Read more…
Moscow has summoned, on Wednesday, Norway’s charge d’affaires Solveig Rossebo over the “unacceptable” ban on the delivery of supplies to a Russian Arctic mining operation in the Svalbard Islands, the Foreign Ministry has announced. Norwegian media outlets had previously cited Read more…
The Russian military on Monday targeted the Kredmash vehicle plant in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchug, the chairman of the factory’s supervisory board, Nikolay Danileyko, has confirmed. The plant is located right next to the shopping mall that was destroyed Read more…
French president Emmanuel Macron was caught revealing some bad news to President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the G7 summit Monday. Macron told Biden the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, informed him that OPEC’s Read more…