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Former US President and Republican Presidential Candidate in November election, Donald Trump has urged Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear sites in retaliation for Tuesday’s barrage of missile strike on Israel by the Arab country. Speaking on Friday at a campaign in North Carolina, Trump urged Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later”. Trump faulted President Joe Biden’s call on Israel to act with restraint and not hit Iran’s nuclear sites, saying, “I think he (Biden) got it wrong. Iran hit Israel with nearly 200 missiles, which the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei…

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israel Defence Force have kept Iran and other countries in the Middle East in suspense on its reprisal to the Tuesday’s missile rain on Tel Aviv and other parts of the country. There have been many speculations on what facilities that Israel would target in the Arab country. Various reports said the Netanyahu has refused to assure the United States of America, its biggest ally, that it would not attack oil installations or nuclear sites in the country. President Joe Biden told White House reporters on Friday that the Israel PM must remember…

The political face-off in Rivers State assumed a dangerous dimension on Saturday, as bomb explosions rocked the All Progressives Congress Office Secretariat on Aba Road, Port Harcourt, the state capital. The incident created panic in the area and further exacerbated the rising tension in the state over the conduct of today’s local government council elections. Eyewitnesses and firemen told NDN that doors and windows were shattered, damaging documents and other valuables in the secretariat. The APC is one of the parties challenging the conduct of today’s election, and it obtained an order restraining the Rivers Independent Electoral Commission and other…

Mixed reactions have trailed the decision of Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, to elevate his first daughter, Mrs. Helen Eno Obareki to the position of the First Lady of the state, after the death of his wife, Patience Eno. Mrs. Patience Ume Eno died after a brief illness on September 27, 2024. It has now been disclosed that the governor has chosen his daughter, Mrs Eno Obareki as the person to play to role of First Lady of the state. A report by Uyo-based newspaper, TheMail disclosed that Gov Eno announced this while introducing Mrs Obareki to the…

Loot and Face Consequences, Dep Gov Tells Commissioners, others Barely one month to the end of Governor Godwin Obaseki’s administration in Edo State Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu has warned heads of ministries, parastatals and MDAs to guide against looting of government property by the governor’s appointees. He warned that heads of departments who allow appointees to steal and cart away government property under their supervision would be held responsible. Shaibu, who fell out with Obaseki before the September 21 election, helped to defeat the governor’s chosen successor, Mr Asue Ighodalo and has unofficially taken over the leadership of the state…

Tragedy struck in Isolo, Lagos State, on Thursday night when a 25-year-old man, Chibunnma Chimelie, allegedly stabbed his 68-year-old father to death. The Lagos Police Command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident on Friday, October 4, 2024, said Chimelie attacked and killed his father at about 10.00 p.m. on Thursday, October 3. The suspect’s brother reported the incident to the Aswani Police Divisional Station after receiving a distressing phone call from a neighbour, who told him that his father was having a serious altercation with the suspect, who lived with their father. Upon arriving at his father’s residence,…

Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has backtracked on his previous teaching that those who do not pay tithes would not make heaven. The RCCG leader apologised, confessing that the teaching he delivered on the controversial topic was not motivated by the Bible. It would be recalled that Pst Adeboye said in a past sermon that those who do not pay tithe would not enter heaven, adding to similar preaching by other Pentecostal pastors who tie tithes to prosperity and long life for Christians However, during his message at the ongoing youth…

A yet unconfirmed report indicated that the Israeli military has killed Hashem Safieddine, the designated successor to Hezbollah leader, Hasan Nasrallah, who was also killed by Israel airstrike on Lebanon last week. News from Beirut and other parts of Lebanon speculated that Safieddine was killed in a much heavier and more intensive airstrike than the ones that took out Nasrallah last week. Photo: Beirut after an airstrike by Israel A StratNews report said, “Israel struck ten times on Thursday, targeting an underground bunker where Safieddine was attending a meeting.”  Neither Israel nor Hezbollah has, however, confirmed Safieddine’s death. Israel, though,…

Governor Fubara in a fiery, unscripted speech at the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission’s Secretariat in Port Harcourt, at about 2 AM on Friday, described the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun as ‘very wicked and fraudulent’ Fubara accuses IGP Egbetokun of working with Wike to destabilise state EXCERPT: We came here this morning we heard that what they called themselves the Nigerian Police are coming to take over the premises of RSIEC. I had to come myself to find out why such a thing would happen. What I heard was that one DCO Operation brought them (police) here to…

Gov Fubara speaking at RSIEC office on Friday By Deborah Sunday Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, said he foiled an attempt by ‘rogue elements of the Nigerian Police, led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations)’, to take control of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) early Friday morning. According to a statement from the Governor’s media aide, Nelson Chukwudi, the policemen reportedly attempted to breach the gates and the strong room of RSIEC in a bid to seize sensitive electoral materials intended for Saturday’s local government elections. The governor claimed that the operation was sanctioned by the…