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ASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday cited the “fog of war” in defending a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea in early September. During a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Hegseth said he did not see any survivors in the water, saying the vessel “exploded in fire, smoke, you can’t see …

he Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire, and Immigration Services Board has released the official list of physical verification centres for the 2025 recruitment exercise. Following the completion of the computer-based tests last month, the board announced that shortlisted candidates for physical screening and document verification would be released from Monday, December 1, to Wednesday, December 3. According to the board, the …

Badaru Abubakar, 63, was a two-term governor of Jigawa state from 2015 to 2023. He was appointed as a minister on August 21, 2023, by President Tinubu. igeria’s defence minister, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has resigned his appointment, with immediate effect. In a letter dated December 1, sent to President Bola Tinubu, Abubakar said he was quitting on health grounds, …

he Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, has said that for decades, Nigeria’s national economic discourse has suffered from an overdose of optimism and an underdose of measurement. The Speaker disclosed this on Monday in Abuja during the Enterprise Nexus Summit themed: ‘Strengthening Local Enterprise Through Policy Support And Access.’ He said when they conceived the summit, …

The coalition of 85 countries, including Nigeria and China, rejected what they described as attempts to politicise human rights and interfere in the domestic affairs of sovereign states. he Nigerian government has rejected the United States’ accusation that China is committing human rights abuses against Muslims and other minority groups, calling it unwarranted interference in the internal affairs of a …

overnor Alex Otti of Abia State has said that the debate around the conviction and quest for the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, would be resolved administratively. Otti, who gave the assurance after visiting the IPoB leader at the Sokoto Correctional Centre over the weekend, said he had intensified engagements towards …

he immediate past governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has said that he would not appear before the Edo State House of Assembly Ad hoc Committee set up to investigate the funding and ownership of the Museum of West African Arts (MOWAA) and the Radisson Blu hotel. The two entities, it would be recalled, have become subjects of public debates …

“Nigeria exercised its lawful discretion to prevent further deterioration of tensions and to promote social cohesion in Guinea-Bissau.” he Nigerian government has granted special protection to the Guinea-Bissau presidential candidate, Fernando Costa, due to reports of imminent threats to his life. Mr Costa had been the main opposition candidate to incumbent President Umaro Embalo in the 2025 presidential election, held …

The directive also restricted enforcement to Compol x-squads and the IGPMU, while ordering strict monitoring and compliance across all commands. he Nigerian Police Force has issued a nationwide directive ordering the immediate arrest of any officer found providing personal security to VIPs, following instructions from the presidency. A confidential police wireless message obtained by SaharaReporters, dated November 30, 2025, and …

nside the Witkoff Group’s exclusive Shell Bay private members club in South Florida, the delegations from Washington and Kyiv faced each other for “tough but very constructive” negotiations over lashings of Ukrainian Borsch, a beetroot and cabbage soup which one attendee told me was “very rich with meat.” But its serving, along with Holubtsi, traditional meat and cabbage rolls, was …