August 13, 2021

A former Chairman of Training and Operations at the Military Headquarters in Abuja, Brigadier Gen. John Sura (retd.), has advised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to deploy the over 1,000 Boko Haram terrorists who recently repented to the farm.

Speaking on Friday, he they should be used to cultivate agricultural products that they deprived the Internally Displaced Persons and other Nigerians to produce.

He disclosed this in a statement titled ‘Treat Boko Haram repentant terrorists as prisoners of war.’

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Sura, who described the repentant terrorists as prisoners of war, …

A helicopter that 16 tourists onboard and crew on a sightseeing trip in Russia’s far east crashed into a lake yesterday, leaving eight people including a child feared dead and two others in serious condition.

The Mi-8 helicopter crash-landed into the icy waters of Kuril Lake in the mountainous Kamchatka peninsula in poor visibility and sank, local authorities said.

Staff of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve dispatched boats to the crash site and saved eight people, two of whom are now in intensive care with various injuries. Survivors praised wildlife inspectors for coming to their rescue in a matter of minutes.…

The Nigerian Christian Pilgrims presently in Jordan have offered prayers for peace in Nigeria even as the security and economic challenges confronting the nation appear to have worsened.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that a group of the Pilgrims, who were led by a tour guide, Mueen Akvoush and the Executive Chairman, Kogi State Christian Pilgrims Commission, Ajinuhi Samuel Oluwafemi, visited Gedara where Jesus Christ casted demons out of a madman who was possessed of an unclean spirit.

This was even as pilgrims prayed fervently to God to cast out the spirit of the destruction of lives banditry, kidnappers …

The United States and Britain on Thursday concluded plans to send no fewer than 3,600 troops to Afghanistan as a means to help protect and help evacuate civilians, as the Taliban blitzkrieg continues.

In response to the militants’ lightning offensive, the Pentagon said it would temporarily send about 3,000 extra troops within 48 hours to help evacuate embassy staff.

Britain said it would deploy around 600 troops to help its nationals and local translators get out. read more

The U.S. reinforcements will fly in just weeks before the departure of the last of the U.S.-led international force that has had …

Nigeria’s Health Minister, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has disclosed why the federal government is not including another lockdown as part of its strategies for containing the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19.

According to the health minister, aside from the vaccines sourced free of charge, Nigeria has paid for about 30 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson specification.

The minister gave this assurance on Thursday at the weekly ministerial press briefing organized by the Presidential Communications Team at the State House, Abuja.

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He noted that the recorded cases of the Delta …