The leaders of the world’s largest country and its most populous will hold talks on Wednesday, with Moscow and Beijing publicly committed to strengthening their ties amid increasingly strained relations between East and West. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Read more…
As police intensify investigation to unravel the controversy surrounding the death of late Timothy Adegoke, a student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, who died at the Hilton Hotels and Resorts, his brother, Olugbade, has said he escaped being abducted Read more…
Two petrol stations which were on Sunday night razed by fire in the commercial city of Onitsha in Anambra State have been seized by the state government. It was gathered that the fire which started at Silver Oil petrol station, Read more…
Russia said on Monday it may be forced to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe in response to what it sees as NATO’s plans to do the same. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russia’s RIA news agency in an Read more…
The National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has arrested a Ghanaian and two Nigerians at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Akanu Ibiam international Airport, Enugu respectively for trafficking a total of 9.953kilograms of Cocaine and Methamphetamine. According to Read more…
A 30-year-old widow, Hajiya Shafa’atu, has narrated how bandits attacked a vehicle she was travelling in on Monday at a location in Sabon Birni Local Government of Sokoto State and murdered her four children, mother and some relatives of hers. Read more…
The Pentagon has disclosed details of the shipment of anti-tank missile systems and projectiles supplied to Kiev, as Moscow grows increasingly concerned about the prospect of a full-blown conflict in Ukraine’s Donbass region. In a statement received by Russian news Read more…
The Coalition of Northern Groups, (CNG) has bemoaned the “escalation of attacks and killings across Northern Nigerian communities,” describing it as a sign of government failure at all levels. The group particularly condemned the escalation of attacks and killings by Read more…
President Muhammadu Buhari Friday dispatched a high-level delegation, made up of the heads of the nation’s intelligence and security services to Sokoto and Katsina States in response to the recent spike in banditry. According to a statement by presidential spokesman, Read more…
Nigeria has for the fifth time lost its bid to return to the Category ‘C’ of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in an election held on Friday in the United Kingdom. LEADERSHIP reports that Nigeria had lost consecutively in 2009, Read more…
Thirteen Chinese military aircraft were detected in Taiwan’s airspace on Friday, prompting the island’s authorities to deploy its air control planes and air defense systems. Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense said the island’s combat air patrol were deployed, “radio warnings issued Read more…
Gunmen attacked a rural village in northern Nigeria, killing 16 worshippers at a mosque and kidnapping others, said a local official. The assault on Ba’are village in the Mashegu area of Niger state lasted for hours on Thursday, local government Read more…