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World’s notorious killer’s house has chapel, clinic, sledge hammer
Sopuruchi Onwuka The power game in Russia which saw a chasm between President Vladimir Putin and his hitherto loyal Private Military Company, the Wagner mercenary group, unveiled a new scene in the week when the exiled mercenary leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin,…
Fulani bandits take annual N2.52 bn ransom from Abia communities
Sopuruchi Onwuka, Gangs of deadly bandits operating kidnap syndicates in the northern parts of Abia State have killed over 1000 indigenes and extort annual N2.52 billion from relatives of their hostages. And community youths call on the government to deploy…
Workers hospitalized in Russian gas field brawl
Sopuruchi Onwuka It appears everything about Russia is fighting its way into international stage where the country’s reputation as garrulous players is building from its invasion of Ukraine through a spark of militant insurrection that attempted a regime change. This…
Shell battles another oil spill mess
Sopuruchi Onwuka Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Nigeria Limited is back to arguments over its liability to environmental remediation related to massive oil spill affecting farm lands, fresh water and fishes in the operating environment. First hand reports hold that…
Crisis escalation feared in Africa after Wagner’s rift with Putin
Sopuruchi Onwuka Several governments in the Sahel region of Africa will now after struggle with control of the Russian Wagner mercenaries after its leader has severed ties with Russian government and would now fight for its own funds. The group…
Sudan’s military chief targets funding lines of rival RSF
Sopuruchi Onwuka Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan of Sudan’s military government has ordered the freezing of all bank accounts belonging to leaders and financiers of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), putting the ongoing effort at reaching truce between the two sides…
Iran seizes Chevron chartered oil tanker
Iranian Navy on Thursday arrested and detained an ocean going tanker chartered by Chevron Corporation and sailing from Kuwait to Houston, United States. According to a story broken by Reuters news service quoting the U.S. Navy, the Marshall Islands-flagged oil…
Epidemic, more deaths likely in Sudan as services collapse, fighters overrun disease lab
The World Health Organization (WHO) expects “many more” deaths in Sudan due to outbreaks of disease and a lack of essential services amid fighting, its director general said on Wednesday. Battles between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…
Police, CSOs, others to discuss journalists’ safety during 2023 general elections
Representatives of the Nigeria Police Force, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and journalists will appraise the safety of journalists during the 2023 general elections at the April edition of Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) Twitter Spaces billed for Thursday,…
California man rams car six times at black neighbor
Hate crime charges were announced yesterday (March 7) for a December 2021 disturbance. The incident involved two neighbors, where one was repeatedly run over by a car in California. Surveillance video captured the terrifying moments when 45-year-old Cory Brown, a…
