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The founder of the Wagner military company and six other passengers were on a private jet that crashed Wednesday soon after taking off from Moscow with a crew of three, according to Russia’s civil aviation authority. Rescuers found 10 bodies, and Russian media cited anonymous sources in Wagner who said Prigozhin was dead. But there has been no official confirmation. A part of a …

In his first remarks since the plane crash that presumably killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Wagner founder “a man of difficult fate” but “talented.” “I knew Prigozhin for a very long time, since the early 90s,” said Putin, who referred to the Wagner chief in the past tense throughout his remarks at the Kremlin, where he was meeting with …

The Minister of Works, David Umahi, yesterday, reiterated that the federal government was determined to put all roads across the country  in good condition in order to ameliorate the suffering faced by citizens during rainy season. Umahi, made this known when inspecting the Abuja – Koton-Karfe – Lokoja road, Lokoja – Okene road and  Ganaja – Ajaokuta road that had become a …

No fewer than 41 terrorists including commanders lost their lives when the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) clashed in Borno state. A counter-insurgency expert and security analyst, Zagazola Makama who is based in the Lake Chad region disclosed this on Thursday after an infighting that broke out Wednesday in …

BRICS leaders announced on Thursday that six countries have agreed to join the organisation to expand areas of partnership. The six countries’ membership would take effect on January 1, 2024, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced at a press conference during the 15th BRICS Summit. “We value the interests of other countries in building the partnership of BRICS,” said Ramaphosa …

• Space programme gulps N101.744 billion in three years with little progress• NARSDA received N6.166bn in 2021 while 14 supporting mini agencies gulped N15bn same year• FG increased NASRDA budget by over 450 per cent in 2022 but over 70 per cent spent on salaries   Despite gulping N101.744 billion in three years (2021 to 2023), the country’s space programme has failed …

Former President Donald Trump will surrender on Thursday to be booked on more than a dozen charges stemming from his efforts to reverse Georgia’s 2020 election results, the fourth time this year the former president has faced criminal charges. Trump is expected to travel from his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club to Atlanta to turn himself in at the notorious …

Three of Donald Trump’s key election lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, surrendered Wednesday on charges in the Georgia election subversion case. According to the CNN, the scene of Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and a notable former federal prosecutor, walking into the Fulton County jail represented another remarkable moment in the ongoing investigation into Trump and his …

The founder of the Wagner private mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who Russian aviation authorities say was on board a plane that crashed with no survivors, was once close enough to Vladimir Putin to be called his “personal chef” before he led a mutiny that posed the greatest challenge to the president’s long rule. For years Prigozhin was an elusive figure, …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Edo, Nigeria – Gunmen suspected to be dare-devil robbers this afternoon attacked army patrol van killing a soldier carted away sack bag (Ghana-Most-Go bag) believed to have been loaded with cash, in Benin City. Three soldiers were in the military vehicle heading towards Ikpoba-hill axis when the fearless assailants ambushed them at the traffic lights …