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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the Middle East is being “pushed to breaking point”, with shipping attacks, rising oil prices and widening humanitarian crisis. The UN chief, at a ceremony in Türkiye while accepting the Atatürk International Award for Peace, urged ceasefire and return to diplomacy to resolve the ongoing conflict in the region. Guterres urged all combatants …

Security chiefs on Thursday briefed President Bola Tinubu on the current security situation and ongoing military operations against terrorists and bandits across the country. The briefing followed a closed-door meeting between the President and service chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Chief of Defence Staff, Retired Gen. Christopher Musa, spoke with State House correspondents after the meeting. Musa said …

The Seyi Makinde Disciples, a political support group, has urged members of a factional caretaker committee backed by Minister Nyesom Wike to return to the party’s mainstream leadership. Convener of the group, Mr Laja Adeoye, made the appeal on Thursday in Lagos during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Adeoye said the party remained open to reconciliation …

Sen. Aminu Tambuwal (ADC–Sokoto South) said he left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) due to the lingering crisis within the party. He described the crisis as a calculated attempt to weaken opposition participation ahead of the 2027 presidential election. Tambuwal made the allegation on Thursday in Sokoto while addressing journalists on his recent defection from the PDP to the Africa …

A prosecution witness, ,James Igbakuleh, told an Abuja court that no Power of Attorney was presented on behalf of former Governor of Kogi, Yahaya Bello on the property under investigation. Bello is charged alongside Umar Oricha and Abdulsalam Hudu by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with 16 counts of breach of trust. Igbakuleh, who is the 11th witness …

BENIN CITY: The Edo State Government has appointed Hon. Peter Odibo as the substantive General Manager of Bendel Newspapers Corporation Limited, publishers of The Observer titles. Odibo, who hails from Uwesan Ward III in Esan Central Local Government Area of Edo State, has since assumed duty at the corporation’s headquarters on Airport Road in Benin City. Before his appointment, he …

LAGOS: The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is steadily sliding into political irrelevance across Nigeria. The APC said the opposition party appeared to be counting down to its “expiration” due to persistent internal crises and lack of ideological direction. The party’s spokesman in Lagos, Seye Oladejo, made the …

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military on Thursday said it was dropping charges against five soldiers accused of beating and sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in an alleged assault partially caught on camera. The decision, which came as much of the country’s attention was focused on the war with Iran, closed a flashpoint case that has bitterly divided Israel since the …

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei issued his first statement on the war, saying that the leverage of closing the Strait of Hormuz should be used, and that attacks on Iran’s Gulf Arab neighbors will continue. Khamenei did not appear on camera. Israeli intelligence assessed that he was likely wounded in the war’s opening salvo. See key quotes from Khamenei’s …

  According to an internal police wireless communication dated March 10, 2026 and obtained by SaharaReporters, the Force has assigned officers to key departments, namely the Force Intelligence Department (FID) and the Department of Logistics and Supply (DLS). The Nigeria Police Force has announced the posting of senior officers to different positions in the Force, following orders issued by the …