At least 11 Nigerian soldiers are currently being held by the military regime in Bobo-Dioulasso in the South West of Burkina Faso. They were captured after their aircraft conducted an emergency landing while “violating AES airspace.”. This was confirmed by Read more…
The revised National Security Strategy offers hope of resolving the Ukraine conflict, President Putin’s spokesman has said The newly revised US National Security Strategy (NSS) released by the administration of President Donald Trump in large part aligns with Russian views, Read more…
Over a dozen soldiers have been arrested in Benin Republic following a failed coup attempt, including the suspected ringleaders of the foiled operation, according to military and security sources who spoke to AFP on Sunday. A military source said 13 Read more…
United States, US lawmaker representing the Virginia’s Second District in the House of Congress is currently in Nigeria. The lawmaker, who made this known on Sunday via a post on his official X handle said he came into the country Read more…
“Today, the Nigerian armed forces stood gallantly as a defender and protector of constitutional order in the Republic of Benin …” President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has commended the gallantry of Nigeria’s military on Sunday for responding swiftly to the request by Read more…
The Federal Government has secured the release of 100 pupils abducted on November 21 from St. Mary’s Private Catholic Primary and Secondary School, Papiri, in the Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State. The successful rescue of the 100 children Read more…
Russia unleashed a major missile and drone barrage on Ukraine overnight into Saturday, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had a “substantive phone call” with American officials engaged in talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Florida, aimed at ending Read more…
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Major General Waidi Shaibu has commissioned a state-of-the-art wargaming centre located at the Department of Land Warfare, Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, Kaduna State. The centre, a brainchild of the COAS, is Read more…
Retired Inspector-General of Police Usman Alkali Baba has said why the withdrawal of police personnel from very important personalities (VIPs) failed previously was because it came from inspectors-general of police and not directly from the president. Baba, who spoke in Read more…
A jet belonging to the Nigerian Air Force has reportedly crashed near Karabonde, Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State. This was disclosed by a Niger State-based online digital television network, Lapai TV, in a post on its official Facebook Read more…
Donald Trump made an embarrassing admission about peace talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, after they ended yet again in failure. “I don’t know what the Kremlin is doing,” the 79-year-old president told reporters in the Oval Office, the day after Read more…
Operatives of the Kwara state Police command have arrested four suspected bandits’ arms couriers and recovered 100 rounds of live AK-47 ammunition.Speaking with journalists on Friday evening on review of notable cases between October to December, 2025, the state commissioner Read more…