Germany is preventing fellow NATO member Estonia from providing Ukraine with military support by declining to offer export permits for weapons of German origin, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. “Germany, they have a lot of hesitation to deliver to us,” Read more…
A Ukrainian commander named “a date of concern” tied to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, after Bloomberg claimed Xi Jinping asked Putin to hold off his “invasion” In an interview with the Times newspaper, Alexander Pavlyuk, lieutenant-general in the Ukrainian Read more…
Two suspected armed robbers who have been said to be enforcing sit-at-home order as a form of disguise in Onitsha, Anambra State, were on Wednesday set on fire. The suspected armed robbers, whose identiies could not be ascertained, met their Read more…
The State Department has approved requests from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to transfer U.S.-made weaponry to Ukraine, reflecting a growing urgency on NATO’s eastern periphery to deter Russian aggression. Why it matters: As much as the Ukrainian military has improved since Read more…
The discovery of the decomposing body of five-year-old schoolgirl Hanifa Abubakar has triggered shock and outrage across Nigeria, where the hashtag #JusticeForHanifa is trending. The owner of her school, Abdulmalik Mohammed Tanko, has been arrested and the establishment closed. He Read more…
The Islamic extremist insurgency in northeast Nigeria is a “very, very dangerous (and) very threatening” crisis that needs more than $1 billion in aid in 2022 to assist those hit by the decade-long conflict, United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths Read more…
A chieftain of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Chidi Ibeh, has urged the Inspector General of Police(IGP) Usman Alkali Baba to make public the outcome of his investigation on the invasion of St Peters Anglican Church, Eziama Obaire in Nkwere Read more…
Irate youths numbering over 30 have razed the house of a man fingered in the death of a 20-year-old secondary school girl, Ogechi Aloh, who until her death, lived at Azuiyiokwu Enyimagu in Ebonyi State. LEADERSHIP gathered that the deceased Read more…
Russia called on the US and other Western governments to stop helping Ukraine’s military, describing the arms supplies as a threat to Russia. Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, said on Wednesday: “We emphasize the need to stop fueling the Read more…
The Rivers State Police Command has debunked media report that its operatives prevented the destruction of an illegal refinery operated by suspected illegal oil bunkerers in the state. A national daily (not LEADERSHIP) had reported that the Policemen prevented the Read more…
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday, pleaded not guilty to the fresh amended 15-count charge of treasonable felony filed against him by the Federal Government. Kanu, who was brought into the courtroom around Read more…
Fifteen months after being arrested and wrongly detained for taking part in the #EndSARS protest, Peter John, regained freedom. John, who hails from Borno State, told The PUNCH that he is 23 years old. According to John, he was arrested on October Read more…