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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has released the list of eligible candidates for the Direct Short Service Commission (DSSC) Course 34/2025. The announcement was made in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja by the NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Ehimen Ejodame. According to the statement, the list was released following the completion of the selection board interview …

Explosives of devastating power have been found near a pipeline supplying Russian gas to Hungary and Serbia, according to Serbia’s president. Aleksandar Vucic said two backpacks containing “large packages of explosives” were left several hundred meters from the Balkan Stream pipeline. This is an extension of the Turk Stream pipeline that carries gas Russia under the Black Sea to Türkiye. …

That IAEA was notified of the attack – which was the fourth such incident in recent weeks – by Iranian officials. Iran also told the agency that a physical protection staff member at the site was killed by projectile fragments and that a building at the site was hit by shock waves and fragments. Grossi emphasized that nuclear power plant …

David Alechenu Bonaventura Marco ● Says the Party remains focused and adamant The National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Senator David Mark, has called on Nigerians to embrace religious harmony, peace and national unity as Christians across the country mark the celebration of Easter. In a goodwill message released Sunday, Mark described Easter as a season that embodies …

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) faction, led by former Senate President, David Mark, has vowed to take the party’s internal crisis beyond Nigeria’s borders, announcing plans to engage foreign governments, international organizations and global human rights bodies over what it described as threats to democratic participation ahead of the 2027 general elections.. The faction said the move became necessary in …

“There’s no doubt I have mixed feelings today,” he said. “Bitterness, because I was on the front line for the last two years of extraordinary violations of international law, witnessing atrocities, attacks on the UN; sadness, because so many of our colleagues were killed – almost 400 people in two years – that has never been seen in the history …

Two Indonesian peacekeepers were killed on Monday, and two others were injured, in an explosion that hit a UNIFILE logistics convoy, destroying their vehicles. The incident occurred near Bani Hayyan in southern Lebanon a day after another Indonesian blue helmet was killed when a projectile hit the mission’s headquarters in Ett Taibe and exploded. One of his colleagues – who …

Three luxury buses belonging to the Silver Transport company have been destroyed in an early morning explosion at Mando Motor Park in Kaduna. The exploded vehicles are powered by methane. The accident occurred around 3 a.m., when the vehicles were parked ahead of interstate travel later in the day. A manager from one of the logistics companies operating within the …

In healthy democracies, such a statement would trigger immediate resignation or dismissal. In today’s Nigeria it is becoming frighteningly routine. Concrete guarantees for the safety and protection of journalists throughout Nigeria.

In a night of more terror for civilians, on March 28, a drone attack hit the Odesa No. 5 Maternity Hospital which had dozens of pregnant women and newborns inside. The patients survived because they were in underground shelters, and no one was injured in the attack, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO). 32 new mothers and 22 …