Rapidly deteriorating ties between Moscow and Washington could return the world to a tense standoff between nuclear powers not seen for more than half a century, Russia has warned amid strained relations. Speaking on Thursday, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov Read more…
The Katsina State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Dr Rabe Nasir, has been killed by gunmen. It was gathered the deceased might have been killed at his residence on Wednesday night. According to a neighbour who craved anonymity, the commissioner’s Read more…
A Ukrainian navy vessel, named the Donbass, set course to pass through Russian territorial waters off the coast of Crimea, on Thursday, and ignored warnings to turn around, border officials have reported. The incident cames at a time of heightened Read more…
The governor of northeast Nigeria’s Borno state has banned food and aid distributions to tens of thousands of people who were displaced by conflict, a move condemned Thursday by humanitarian workers. The region, affected by a 12-year-old jihadist insurgency, has Read more…
Gunmen suspected to be bandits yesterday burnt scores of passengers traveling from Sabon Birni local government area to Sokoto town. The incident which occurred at about 9am in the morning happened around Gidan Bawa village where the terrorists always referred Read more…
Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Nsukka branch has sensitised secondary school students in the area against consuming Methamphetamine popularly called ‘Mkpuru Mmiri’ in South East and other illicit drugs. The association gave the advice in Nsukka on Wednesday during a sensitisation Read more…
A new United Nations (UN) report has revealed that the West African nations in the Gulf of Guinea including Nigeria have lost over $1.9 billion to surge in maritime piracy annually. The report indicated that the surge in maritime piracy in Africa’s Gulf of Guinea Read more…
The commander of one of the Navy‘s elite SEAL teams died Tuesday after a training accident in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the service announced Wednesday. Cmdr. Brian Bourgeois, 43, commanding officer of SEAL Team 8, was injured Dec. 4 in what appears to have Read more…
THE Imo State governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma yesterday lamented that the inmates that escaped from the Owerri Correctional Center some months ago as a result of jailbreak are on the rampage, compounding the security challenges in the state. Consequently, Governor Read more…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists, FCT Council, has cautioned the Department of State Security (DSS), to focus on issues of national security and stop the harassment of its officials. Four officials of the council; Chairman, Emmanuel Ogbeche, Vice Chairman, Osaretin Read more…
In a “frank and businesslike” conversation Russian President Vladimir Putin asked his US counterpart Joe Biden for guarantees that NATO won’t expand further east or deploy offensive weapons to countries like Ukraine. Moscow is “seriously interested” in obtaining “reliable and firm legal guarantees” excluding Read more…
Some gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have kidnapped a Catholic Priest, Reverend Father Joseph Ajayi, along Akure/Ikere -Ekiti road on Monday evening. The Reverend Father who was said to be returning to Ilara-Mokin from Ikere-Ekiti in his Toyota Corolla Sedan Read more…