Anthony Ogbizi, commissioner of police in Abia state, says lethal weapons, including petrol bombs and one double-barrel gun, were recovered during last Sunday’s raid on the residence of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Ogbizi said this on Thursday during an interactive session with reporters in Umuahia, the state capital. He said […]
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U.S. and South Korean wartime operational plans, including a plan to wipe out the North Korean leadership, were stolen by North Korean hackers last year, a South Korean ruling party lawmaker said on Wednesday. Some 235 gigabytes of military documents were taken from South Korea’s Defense Integrated Data Center in September last year, Democratic Party […]
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Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, has expressed pleasure working with the Nigerian national team, following the three-time African champions qualification for Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup on Saturday. Nigeria became the first African country to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia after defeating Chipolopolo of Zambia on Saturday in Uyo. The current […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed doors with service chiefs, Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali; and the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the meeting, presided by President Buhari, was still ongoing as at the time of filing the report. It is also being attended by the […]
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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Nasarawa State, has said that two members of the service drowned in a river in Assakio community, Lafia Local Government Area of the state. Hajiya Zainab Isah, the NYSC Coordinator in the state made this disclosure to newsmen in Lafia on Tuesday. Isah said that Oguntola Babatunde and […]
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Tunisia’s navy rescued almost 100 migrants from a sinking boat off its Southeast Coast on Tuesday, authorities said, hours after eight people being smuggled to Europe drowned in the same stretch of water. The incidents coincided with the launch of joint patrols by the Tunisian and Italian navies to stem migrant flows and carry out […]
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Satellite TV service provider, TSTV says its TSTV Africa, will begin commercial operation on Nov. 1. Its Managing Director, Mr Bright Echefu, made this known while briefing newsmen on Saturday in Abuja. Echefu added that TSTV would launch its services with about one million decoders nationwide. He said that at least 5,000 decoders TSTV would […]
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Following the outbreak of monkeypox in Bayelsa state, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has called for calm, noting that the diseases looks and sounds a lot worse than it actually is. Chikwe Ihekweazu, the chief executive officer of NCDC, told NAN on Saturday that the centre was taking steps to manage the cases […]
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Ibe Kachikwu, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources is currently in a meeting with President Muhammdu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, over a leaked memo. The meeting which was earlier slated for Thursday had to be postponed till today due to President Buhari’s busy schedule. Dressed in a black suit, the minister […]
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday said Australians handed in 51,000 guns during a three-month amnesty, though he rejected calls to extend it following the weekend’s mass shooting in Las Vegas. “I am not suggesting we won’t have gun amnesties in the future, but this one has been very effective because it has, as I […]
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