Friends of a man are demanding justice after he was admitted in a hospital following an alleged attack by a man in military uniform. The victim, identified simply as Dr. Owen, was reportedly beaten, stabbed and shot multiples times by the uniformed man. The incident happened on Saturday evening, March 19. A friend who shared a photo of Dr Owen on his hospital bed said that if the injustice the victim suffered goes unpunished, then “it is …
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The U.S. and NATO believe that Belarus could “soon” join Russia in its war against Ukraine, U.S. and NATO officials tell CNN, and that the country is already taking steps to do so. It is increasingly “likely” that Belarus will enter the conflict, a NATO military official said on Monday. “(Russian President Vladimir) Putin needs support. Anything would help,” the official explained. A Belarusian opposition source said that Belarusian combat units are ready to go into Ukraine as soon …
Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin on Saturday, February 19 alongside his ally, Belarusian president Lukashenko watched the Russian military perform nuclear drills, while the U.S. announced that Russian forces were ‘poised to strike’ Ukraine. The nuclear bomb drills were carried out simultaneously from the sea, land and the air. The exercises involved the Crimea-based Black Sea Fleet. Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula after seizing it from Ukraine in 2014. . The nuclear drills follow manoeuvres by Russia’s armed forces …
The Department of State Services (DSS) has raised an alarm over plans by terrorists to attack military bases in border towns across the country. In a leaked memo dated November 25, 2021, the secret agency also put the Nigeria Customs Service on red alert to avert the pending attacks by the insurgents on Ogun border communities and other border towns across the country, noting that the warning is based on intelligence it gathered. The leaked memo titled, ‘Plans By …
The Indigenous People of Biafra has dissociated itself from the Biafra National Guard. This comes after the Nigerian Army said on Thursday night, October 28, that its troops conducting ‘Exercise Golden Dawn’ have neutralised one of the Biafran National Guard (BNG) gunmen (pictured below) who attacked troops’ location at Amaekpu, Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State on Thursday 28 October 2021. IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, has however said that its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, does not accept criminal acts, …
A soldier and one assailant have been killed in a gun duel when suspected sea pirates attacked a military Joint Task Force, JTF, checkpoint at Tuomo community in Burutu local government area of Delta state. A former CDC chairman of Tuomo community, Mr Akpoebiede Defence, who confirmed the incident to Vanguard, said the gunmen came in a speedboat at around 11 pm on Sunday, July 18. “We believe they are sea pirates who came in a speedboat at …