Thursday, 12 November, 2026

Category: Security


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…


A former member of the Saudi Royal Guard has been arrested in France on Tuesday on an Interpol warrant, over his suspected role in the high-profile murder in 2018 of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, France’s RTL Radio reported. The 33-year-old man, Read more…


Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, on Monday, described the alleged suspension of the National Youth Leader of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Engr Damian Okafor, as unconstitutional. Equally describing the alleged suspension as illegal, Governor Umahi, noted that it was uncalled Read more…


With President Vladimir Putin on a landmark visit in India, New Delhi has confirmed that deliveries of Russian S-400 missile defense systems, which caused a furious backlash from Washington, are going ahead as planned. Both countries signed a $5.4-billion deal Read more…


Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday said his armed forces were capable of fighting off any Russian attack, as the country marked its national army day with a display of U.S. armoured vehicles and patrol boats. U.S. President Joe Biden Read more…


A 26-year-old plumber, Sochima Ude, from Umuaka village in Nsude, Udi Local Government Area, has been reportedly hacked to death in the Timber Market area of Nike, Enugu North LGA of Enugu State.  Daily Sun gathered that the incident happened Read more…


U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday said Chinese military flights near Taiwan look like “rehearsals” though he did not indicate that he expected Beijing actually to carry out such operations. Cross-strait tensions have been rising in recent months, with Read more…


Russia and the US have arranged a conditional time and date for a fresh summit between President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Joe Biden, over the coming days, the Kremlin revealed on Friday afternoon. Moscow is now waiting for Read more…


The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company has announced that there would be a power outage on Alaoji-Owerri 132KV line 1, scheduled to hold on December 4, 2021. In a statement signed by Head, Corporate Communications, Emeka Ezeh, the outage will affect Read more…


AS the year hobbles to an end, horrible security statistics being rolled out by global watchdog, Amnesty International, shows that children in Nigeria have become the major target of attacks by bandits.  In a statement on Thursday, the organisation claimed Read more…


The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra has alerted traditional rulers, youths and leaders of some communities in the South-East geopolitical zone of a plot by some faceless hoodlums to attack them. The group, which alleged it has uncovered the plot, Read more…


Indigenes of Effium of Ezza Ezekuna extraction in Ebonyi State on Thursday protested against the alleged invasion of their communities by security agencies. According to them, the alleged invasion by security agencies was a sequel to the protracted inter-tribal war Read more…