News From Nigeria

The absence of prosecution witnesses on Thursday in Abuja at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) again stalled the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki. The senate president is standing trial over alleged false assets declaration while serving as governor ...

The Federal Operations Unit Zone “C” of Nigeria Customs Service in Owerri said it had seized 102,099 cartons of illegally imported frozen poultry products with duty paid value of N1.27 billion. Comptroller Mohammed Garba, the Area Controller of the zone, ...

The Syrian Republican Guard has repelled another ISIS offensive in Deir Ezzor. The fighting took place near the Deir Ezzor Airbase, the Tamin Brigade base and in the cemetery area. Earlier this month, ISIS allegedly transferred its self-proclaimed capital from ...

Voiceover by Harold Hoover On April 26, Chief of the Main Operational Directorate Gen. Sergei Rudskoi announced that Russia had withdrawn half of its warplanes from the Hmeymim Airbase in Syria. Rudskoi said that the number of Russian aircraft in ...

Israel launched missiles at a site near Damascus International Airport in Syria, causing material damage, Syrian media cited a military source as saying Thursday. “One of the military facilities located to the southwest of Damascus International Airport was subjected to missile fire from hostile Israel,” ...

According to OBK, (a social media critic and activist) he feels the Ooni of ife is not worth the throne he’s sitting on and has this to say about the recent fracas between the Oba of lagos and the personality ...

President Rodrigo Duterte visited the “Varyag” in Manila on 21 April, where he is reported to have said:”The Russians are with me. So I shall not be afraid.” The Varyag in Manila Having left South Korea, the “Varyag” is continuing on ...

by Pepe Escobar for the Asia Times Here’s the body count in the latest geopolitical earthquake afflicting the West: The Socialist Party in France is dead. The traditional Right is comatose. What used to be the Extreme Left is alive, and still kicking. ...