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Following a clearance operation conducted by troops of 1 Division Nigerian Army and Operation Whirl Punch in the general area of Kampanin Doka village in Birnin Gwari LGA of Kaduna State, 4 bandits who have been terrorizing the locals finally met their waterloo on 1 November 2023.      Acting …

The EFCC is notorious for breaking into suspects’ homes in the dead of the night to carry out arrests, a modus operandi for which the commission has severally been criticised by many Nigerians. In its latest operation, men of the anti-graft body stormed an off-campus hostel of the Obafemi Awolowo …

The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Christopher Ubosi, made this known in a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday. Ubosi explained that the temporary closure was due to the prevailing economic conditions, which necessitated a decision to take a strategic pause in operations. He, however, said other stations in …

As China’s spy balloon drifted across the continental United States in February, American intelligence agencies learned that President Xi Jinping of China had become enraged with senior Chinese military generals. The spy agencies had been trying to understand what Mr. Xi knew and what actions he would take as the …

Civil unrest in Libya has seen ​​rival leaders forge alliances with rebel factions in neighbouring Chad and Sudan. Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) launched air strikes against “foreign armed groups” near its border with Chad. LNA spokesperson Ahmad Mismari said it carried out the attack on Friday after earlier …

Nigeria Air will reportedly commence flight operations from October this year.   Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive Officer, Mesfin Tasew, disclosed this in an interview with Bloomberg TV. He said;    “The airline will begin operation with two wide-bodied planes and six narrow-bodied aircraft. We are eager to see the airline …

The Biden administration is hunting for malicious computer code it believes China has hidden deep inside the networks controlling power grids, communications systems and water supplies that feed military bases in the United States and around the world, according to American military, intelligence and national security officials. The discovery of …

OceanGate, the company that owned and operated the submersible that imploded with five people on board, has suspended all exploration and commercial operations.   The company made the announcement Thursday, July 6 in a banner on its website. No further details were provided.    OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush was among …

The Bayelsa Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has appealed to the State Government to deploy more personnel to the board to ease its operations. The board’s Executive Secretary, Mrs Amirah Dokubo-Asari, who made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said there are just two people …

Bank has offered severance to the 500 IT professionals still on its payroll in the country, a Financial Times report says. Deutsche Bank is winding down its remaining software technology operations in Russia’s Moscow and St Petersburg as the German lender looks to end its two decades of reliance on …