At least 20 people were killed and more than 100 others were wounded in Ukraine on Thursday after missiles hit the city of Vinnytsia in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called an “open act of terrorism.” During a virtual Read more…
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A referendum on the Zaporozhye Region’s accession to Russia will be organized in early autumn this year, Yevgeny Balitsky, the head of the region’s military-civilian administration, told journalists on Thursday. “The referendum will be organized in early autumn,” he said. Read more…
Three persons, one of them a cop, were in the early hours of Thursday shot and wounded in Umuahia, the Abia State capital when police from the state command engaged armed robbers in gun duel. An eyewitness account has it Read more…
Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, has called for the release of the detained leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, for the peace process in the country to be taken seriously. Governor Ortom made the call Read more…
Human Rights groups known as Human Rights Liberty Access, and Peace, Defenders’ Foundation (HURIDE) and Campaign for Democracy (CD) have called on members of National Assembly to immediately commence impeachment process on President Muhammadu Buhari over the last week attack Read more…
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered a total ban on all use of Police SPY vehicle number plates by vehicle owners across the states of the federation without exceptions. This is irrespective of whether it is Read more…
No “sanctioned goods” are allowed to be transported by Russian operators through EU territory by roads, the EU Commission has said in its fresh “additional guidance” on the transit of Russian goods. The document published on Wednesday comes amid tensions Read more…
The United States successfully tested two Lockheed Martin Corp hypersonic missiles recently, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, amid growing concerns Russia and China have had more success developing their own hypersonic weapons. The U.S. Air Force confirmed it successfully tested Read more…
Nigerians are gradually inching towards the moment of anagnorisis as bank-backed reforms in the nation’s electricity distribution companies (DisCos) are revealing the true state and regulatory gaps among the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE), Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and Read more…
Poland is seeking to conceal its expansion to Western Ukraine and is taking nervously the leak of its plans of dismembering Ukraine, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin said on Tuesday. “Information coming to the Service indicates a Read more…
The Russian military has published the names of five people who it identified as British and American citizens on their way to join the Ukrainian forces. It warned that they could be captured and tried as mercenaries or even end Read more…
President Joe Biden is poised to sign two directives that would allow the U.S. Department of Defense to invest in its hypersonic weapons industrial base as adversaries demonstrate advanced capabilities. As China and Russia tout recent progress in developing hypersonic Read more…