The Taliban has declared the war in Afghanistan over, but a bloodbath is on the cards in an isolated valley north of Kabul, after a defiant local warlord and ousted Afghan fighters who fled there rejected a Taliban ultimatum. The Read more…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the overnight collapse of the American-backed government in Afghanistan could pose a serious threat to countries surrounding the troubled Central Asian nation, including his own. Speaking on Sunday as part of a meeting Read more…
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, working with the Military and other security forces, have arrested one 22-year-old female suspect, Gloria Okolie, for her complicity in the series of deliberate and well-coordinated violent attacks on security formations, other critical national Read more…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a major drug dealer wanted for attempting to export 69.65 kilograms of cocaine, heroin and cannabis to the United Kingdom. Its Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a Read more…
Three herders are reported to have been killed in an attack by unidentified persons who stormed Ribok, Tsoriyang and Kankada general area of Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna state. This was contained in a statement issued by the Read more…
Police in Imo State yesterday said they had killed a notorious armed robbery gang leader known as Bugatti in Ehime Mbano local government area of the state.In a release made available to LEADERSHIP Sunday signed by the police spokesman Michael Read more…
THE chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu, Victor Nkemdirim, has explained how two lecturers of the university and others were robbed and kidnapped on Thursday by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen Read more…
Syria’s air defense forces have shot down 22 missiles launched by Israeli warplanes during an airstrike against targets in Syria, the Russian military said Friday. Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit, head of the Russian military’s Reconciliation Center in Syria, said six Read more…
The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned the killing of about 22 people of the Plateau State and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop paying lips service to the unending killings in the country. CAN Read more…
The World Health Organisation says people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus are at increased risk of severe COVID-19 infection. According to the WHO’s Director on HIV, Hepatitis, and STI programme, Dr. Meg Doherty, people living with HIV also have Read more…
Jeddo Community in Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State has been thrown into a state of pandemonium as the chairman of the community’s vigilante, Mr. Jude Akiru, was gruesomely murdered by yet-to-be-identified gunmen. The PUNCH gathered that the gory incident Read more…
Kaduna State government, on Friday, revealed that nemesis has caught up with two groups of bandits in Giwa local government area of the state, who in a fratricidal gun duel killed nine of their members. A statement issued by Commissioner, Read more…