Russia’s FSB security service on Tuesday accused Ukraine of organising an attack on a gas pipeline in Russian-annexed Crimea, an allegation rejected by Kyiv which said Moscow was trying to punish prominent Crimean Tatar figures. The FSB accused the Ukrainian Read more…
Col Mamady Doumbouya is seen as the new man in charge of Guinea after he led a unit of elite soldiers to seize power on Sunday. Announcing the military takeover, the 41-year-old former French legionary said the army had little Read more…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has intercepted and arrested a 22-year-old youth corps member, Arnold Maniru in Abuja for importing four kilograms of drugged candies from the United Kingdom The NDLEA also incepted cookies laced with drugs going Read more…
An apparent coup is underway in Guinea, with heavy military presence and gunfire reported in the country’s capital of Conakry. Guinean President Alpha Conde has seemingly been detained by the military. The ongoing unrest broke out in the capital city Read more…
A furious war of words between the US and UK over the chaotic troop withdrawal from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan has seen a British cabinet minister call President Joe Biden “doolally” and the US president ignore the prime minister’s calls. It exposes Read more…
There is tension in former president Goodluck Jonathan’s Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State as youths of Otuasega community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, are protesting over reported missing of three of their brothers who were Read more…
The Police in Edo State, on Saturday confirmed the killing of one Mr Olajide Sowore, the younger brother of social activist, Mr Omoyele Sowore. The police said the deceased was shot dead in Edo by gunmen in the early hours of Read more…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed telecommunications providers to shut down services in Zamfara State for two weeks. This was disclosed in a memo signed on Friday by the vice-chairman of the NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, and addressed to Read more…
By Glenn Diesen, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and an editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal. Follow him on Twitter @glenndiesen.The two-decades long US occupation of Afghanistan has ended in humiliating defeat, with President Joe Biden seemingly betraying Read more…
The Police Command in Benue on Thursday rescued Dr Godwin Kwanga of Geography Department, Benue State University, who was kidnapped on Tuesday in Makurdi. This is contained in a statement by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Sewuese Anene, and Read more…
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and its Directorate of State, DOS, said it totally agreed with Amnesty International reports concerning the incessant killing of Biafrans. “As we are talking now, the DSS and other security agencies in Nigeria are Read more…
President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett reaffirmed the strategic understandings between the U.S. and Israel regarding Israel’s alleged undeclared military nuclear program during Bennett’s White House visit, a senior Israeli official briefed on the meeting tells me. The Read more…