Emir of Ilorin, Ibrahim Sulu Gambari has said the planned Isese festival was cancelled to prevent a crisis in Ilorin, Kwara State. This is in response to the criticism by Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka who took a swipe at Read more…
Category: Security
The conflict in Ukraine has drawn in thousands of foreign mercenaries, motivated by glory and, in the Kremlin’s words, the chance to “earn money by killing Slavs.” However, those lucky enough to come out alive have described life on the Read more…
The playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one military fiasco after another, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine, does not change. Freedom and democracy are threatened. Evil must be vanquished. Human rights must Read more…
Moscow is keeping an eye on the upcoming negotiations between Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. According to Zelensky’s office, Kiev plans to discuss the Ukraine conflict, Read more…
The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF) has asked governors of South-Eastern states to take measures to protect the lives and properties of Northerners living in South-Eastern communities as the IPOB Sit-at-home violence escalates. This was contained in a statement by Read more…
Russia has announced its withdrawal of consent to Finland’s operation of a consulate general in St Petersburg. The Russian foreign ministry also announced on Thursday that nine Finnish diplomats will be expelled from the country. Finland’s general consulate will cease its activities in Read more…
The Acting Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olukayode Adeolu Egbetokun has ordered the immediate disbandment of the team of Police officers from the Edo State Command responsible for running over a citizen at Ekpoma. The decisive action of disbanding the team Read more…
There was pandemonium yesterday at the Imo State Secretariat, Owerri, as civil servants scampered for safety, following gunshots between the police and the state government sponsored Ebubeagu militia. It was gathered that the sporadic shooting had resulted in a stampede Read more…
PRESIDENT-GENERAL of the Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr. Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, yesterday, appealed to the Federal Government to have Mazi Nnamdi Kanu released, saying his continuous detention is a deliberate attempt by some elements to destroy the economy of Read more…
The Vatican will study the modern-day killing of Christians and try to list “all those who have shed their blood” in the name of Christ since the turn of the century, Pope Francis said on Wednesday. In a letter released Read more…
Russia has found a way to interfere with GPS-guided artillery rounds, including munitions for US-made HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, Defense Minister of Ukraine Aleksey Reznikov has claimed. When those systems first arrived on Ukrainian battlefields last year they were “highly Read more…
Heavily Armed Men on Tuesday afternoon invaded the palace of the Emir of Minna, in Niger state, His Royal Highness, Dr. Umar Farouk Bahago and went away with undisclosed sums of money from the palace. Although there are no details Read more…