President Bola Tinubu on Friday approved the posting of 65 ambassadors-designate to Nigeria’s foreign missions and the United Nations.
The envoys comprise 31 non-career and 34 career ambassadors whose nominations were confirmed by the Senate in December, 2025.
This is contained in a statement issued by the President’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, in Abuja.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Tuesday claimed significant American casualties during the first two days of what it described as retaliatory strikes, figures sharply disputed by U.S. officials.
An IRGC spokesperson said up to 650 U.S. service members were killed or wounded in operations targeting American military assets across the region.
The U.S. on Monday imposed sanctions on the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and top military officials over their role in
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Several U.S. warplanes crashed on Monday morning, and all crew members survived, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defence said in a statement posted on X.
“Several U.S. warplanes crashed this morning, and all crew members survived,” the ministry’s official military spokesperson said, adding that the incident occurred earlier in the day without specifying the location or the number of aircraft involved.
Auwal Rafsanjani, the Executive Director of CISLAC and Head, Transparency International, Nigeria, has cautioned Nigerians against the demarketing of the country abroad.
Rafsanjani, while featuring on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) monitored by The Liberator Online Personality Interview Series in Abuja on Sunday, urged Nigerians to distinguish between criticism of the country’s leadership and actions capable of undermining national interest.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday warned Iran against retaliating to wide-ranging strikes by the United States and Israel.
“Iran just stated that they are going to hit very hard today, harder than they have ever hit before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“THEY BETTER NOT DO THAT,” he wrote.
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The Iranian leadership has declared 40 days of national mourning, according to Iran’s state television following the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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A top Iranian security official on Sunday said the country will form an interim council later in the day to assume the leadership responsibilities until the selection of a new leader.
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani made the remarks in an interview with state-run IRIB TV hours after the country confirmed the death of its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in strikes launched by the United States and Israel on Saturday in Tehran.
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres and heads of UN agencies have condemned Saturday’s joint Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran and the Iranian retaliatory strikes on Israel and the Gulf Regions.
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Gov. Alex Otti of Abia has said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is investigating the alleged misappropriation of N10 billion purportedly spent for a non-existent Abia Airport by the previous administration.
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