Four South African men lured into fighting for Russian forces in Ukraine returned home today, local media said. Their arrival comes days after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa held talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on the return of South Africans caught up in the Ukraine war, reports AFP. It was not immediately clear [...
•Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel’s defence minister threatened yesterday to resume fighting if Hamas does not honour the terms of a US-backed ceasefire that halted the war in Gaza. The statement from Defence Minister Israel Katz’s office came after Hamas handed over the corpses of two more deceased hostages, and said it would ...
•Aliko Dangote The President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, says he is still fighting for the survival of his $20bn refinery, stressing that the fight is not yet finished. Dangote expressed optimism that he would win the fight for the refinery, stating his determination to fight on. According to Semafor, an international news medium, ...
•An aerial view of black smoke rising above the Khartoum International Airport amid ongoing battles between the forces of two rival Army Generals Artillery shelling and air strikes killed at least 56 people across greater Khartoum yesterday, according to a medical source and Sudanese activists. Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid S...
•Tinubu The World Bank and other stakeholders have urged the government to fight institutional corruption as it is the only guarantee to sustainable growth and development. Speaking at a policy conversation on the State of Anti-corruption Policy and Practice in Nigeria jointly organised by Agora Policy and MacArthur, yesterday, stakeholders sa...
•Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says the Nigerian youths participating in the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests are fighting a legitimate course and deserve a listening ear. “What the youth (protesters) are demanding are very legitimate and should be listened to or why should they be denied what rightfully belongs to them? “Th...
•CP Waheed Ayilara and his team during the press briefing yesterday The Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State Command, CP Waheed Ayilara, has said that his command has adopted new strategies in fighting evolving crimes and criminalities in order to ensure that Akwa Ibom State is stable and remains one of the most peaceful States […]
•Israeli soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip The Israeli army today continued to pound Gaza, after the International Committee of the Red Cross said 22 people were killed in shelling that damaged its office in the besieged Palestinian territory. Exchanges of fire across the Lebanese border between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hez...
•CP Aderemi Adeoye Anambra Commissioner of Police, Aderemi Adeoye, has retired from the force after 35 years of service. He said it was time to move into full time business to challenge the richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote, reports The Nation. He bowed out of the Police Force yesterday at the Dr Alex Ekwueme […]
Anti-Corruption Civil Society Organisations have advised the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission not to desecrate the courts in the course of carrying out its constitutional role of fighting corruption. The CSOs and human rights crusaders cautioned the EFCC and other anti-graft agencies against trampling on the rights of supposed suspects...

