The Israeli military announced a series of strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Friday, including weapons depots and a training complex.

“It’s Nigeria that provided the intelligence,” Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar told a local television network, Channels TV, saying he was on the phone with US State Secretary Marco Rubio.

The Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has described the recent joint air strikes by Nigerian and United States military forces against ISIS terrorist elements in North-West Nigeria as both timely and necessary.

Ojonugwa said that Sparrow’s nomination and appointment followed the suspension of the association’s erstwhile President, Mr Pretty Okafor.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that he would soon meet US leader Donald Trump, as part of efforts to end the Russian invasion.

A credible Army Headquarters source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the troops had sustained offensive operations with remarkable successes.

Former Governor of Kano State and leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has hailed education as the most enduring legacy a leader can leave, as beneficiaries of the Kwankwasiyya scholarship programme gathered for their maiden annual convention in Kano.

The frenetic mega-city, churning with some 20 million people on a normal day, swells each year as it absorbs the newcomers.

A Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Raymond Njoku, was shot and seriously injured by gunmen on Christmas Eve in Ogbaku, Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State.

“Sixty percent of Nigerians will be voting now. They are young people. They want new people. They want new faces. They want new energies”