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Air Force Announces Aptitude Test Dates and Recruitment Centres

File photo of Nigeria Air Force helicopter. The Nigerian Air Force has published the list of eligible applicants for the Zonal General Aptitude Test for...

Entertainment1 year ago

Jay-Z Accused Of Raping Teen With Diddy In Civil Suit — Court Filing

US-rapper-Jay-Z-arrives-for-the-Los-Angeles-Special-Screening-of-Netflixs-The-Harder-They-Fall-300×185 Musician and producer Jay-Z was accused in a lawsuit submitted Sunday of raping a 13-year-old with hip-hop star Sean Combs in the year 2000,...

International News1 year ago

Nations Call For Stability, Peace As Syria Rebels Oust Assad

Flags of participating countries are pictured inside the International media centre at the G20 venue, days ahead of its commencement in New Delhi on September 7,...

News1 year ago

Pressure Machines Converted to Drug Vaults as NDLEA Arrests Engineer in Enugu

NDLEA’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday, said the shipment, which arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja Lagos on 29 November,...

News1 year ago

Ekiti Court Grants Farotimi Bail Set at ₦50 Million

Lawyer and human rights advocate, Dele Farotimi The Federal High Court in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has granted a lawyer and human rights activist, Dele Farotimi a...

International News1 year ago

Paternity Fraud: UK Court Overturns Ruling, Orders Nigerian’s Deportation

Olutobi Ogunbawo A United Kingdom upper tribunal has reversed a previous ruling that stopped the deportation of 43-year-old Nigerian Olutobi Ogunbawo. The decision comes after...

International News1 year ago

West Ham Striker Antonio in Shocking Car Crash: First Words Revealed by Witness Dog Walker

DAZED Prem star Michail Antonio asked a witness who rushed to help after his horror crash: “Where am I? What’s going on? What car am I...

Featured1 year ago

2024 Ideas Day: LASPEMA General Manager Recognised for Transformative Leadership

The Office of Transformation, Creativity, and Innovation has once again honoured outstanding Ministries Departments, Agencies and officials of Government at the 2024 Ideas Day. With...

International News1 year ago

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets with Sergei Mironov (not pictured), A Just Russia party leader, at the Kremlin in Moscow on November 22, 2024. (Photo by Vyacheslav PROKOFYEV / POOL / AFP) Advertisement Syria’s ousted president Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, a Kremlin source told Russian news agencies, hours after he fled the country as Islamist-led rebels entered Damascus. The announcement comes as Russia, a key Assad ally, called for an emergency meeting of the UN security council on the fast-changing situation on the ground in the war-torn country. “Assad and members of his family have arrived in Moscow,” the source told the TASS and Ria Novosti news agencies. “Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds,” he added. Asked whether Assad was confirmed to be in Moscow, a Western official said they believed that was likely the case and had no reason to doubt Moscow’s claim. Advertisement The Kremlin source also said the rebels who ousted Assad in a lightning offensive “guaranteed the security of Russian army bases and diplomatic institutions on Syria’s territory”. Russia, Assad’s biggest backer along with Iran, holds a naval base in Tartus and a military airfield in Khmeimim. Moscow’s forces became militarily involved in the Syrian conflict in 2015, providing support for Assad’s forces to crush the opposition in the bloody civil war. “Russia has always been in favour of a political solution to the Syrian crisis. Our starting point is the need to resume negotiations under the auspices of the UN,” the Kremlin source added. Advertisement A Russian representative to the United Nations announced that Moscow had requested an emergency closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in Syria for Monday afternoon. “The consequences (of the events in Syria) for this country and the whole region have not yet been measured,” the official said on Telegram. AFP

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets with Sergei Mironov (not pictured), A Just Russia party leader,...

International News1 year ago

Biden To Meet With National Security Advisors On Syria

US President Joe Biden (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) US President Joe Biden will meet Sunday with his national security advisors over Syria, where...