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The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) has said that the military airstrike of January 24 in Nasarawa State only targeted and eliminated terrorists.   NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ayodele Famuyiwa disclosed this at the bi-weekly news briefing on the operations of the armed forces in Abuja …

A female officer of the Nigerian Air Force, simply identified as George, has reportedly committed suicide by hanging at her residence in Ikeja, Lagos State.   It was gathered that George, a Master Warrant Officer working at 651 Base Services Group Resident at Block T5 Flat 8 in Sam Ethnan …

A US attack drone controlled by artificial intelligence turned against its human operator during a flight simulation in an attempt to kill them because it did not like its new orders, a top Air Force official has revealed.     The military had reprogrammed the drone not to kill the …

Civil servants under the employment of the Federal Government will experience a delay in the payment of their May 2023 salaries.    Punch reports that the delay is due to the fact that Ministries, Departments and Agencies were yet to get debit approval from the Central Bank of Nigeria.   …

Ukraine has imposed new sanctions on Iran for a period of 50 years in response to what Kyiv sees as Tehran’s role in aiding Russia’s invasion by supplying weapons to Moscow. The move, announced by Ukraine’s parliament in a Telegram post on Tuesday, May 30, includes a ban on exports …

The Ukranian military has released a new video showing its newly trained soldiers and billion-dollar military equipments ahead of a much anticipated counter offensive to claim occupied land from Russia. In the video shared on Saturday, May 27 by Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian military …

Funding for the military has emerged as a key sticking point in reaching an agreement to raise the nation’s borrowing limit and prevent a catastrophic default, with Republicans pushing to spare the Defense Department from spending caps and make deeper cuts to domestic programs like education. President Biden has balked at …

Mohammed Bello El-Rufai, the son of Kaduna State Governor, Mal. Nasir El-Rufai, has married Aisha Habibu Shuaibu, the daughter of former Military Administrator for Plateau and Niger States, Col. Habibu Shuaibu.  The couple got married in a private Nikah held in Abuja on Friday, May 19, 2023. 

Air Force officials caught Airman Jack Teixeira taking notes and conducting deep-dive searches for classified material months before he was charged with leaking a vast trove of government secrets, but did not remove him from his job, according to a Justice Department filing on Wednesday. On two occasions in September …

Germany on Saturday sent the strongest signal yet of its commitment to backing Ukraine in its battle against Russian occupiers, promising more tanks, armored vehicles and substantial air defense systems in its largest weapons package for Kyiv. The arms package, totaling 2.7 billion euros, or about $2.95 billion, amounted to …