A civil society organization, Creek to Creek Movement, has thrown its support behind Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, urging the federal government to sustain its pipeline surveillance contract despite calls for its termination.

Manager Craig Bellamy told AFP on Friday that he “feels a responsibility” to take Wales to this summer’s World Cup, ahead of a crunch home play-off against Bosnia and Herzegovina this month.

Falana also stressed the importance of engaging Russia and China as diplomatic intermediaries, arguing that both powers carry significant influence over Tehran.

“He was shooting a skit under the Sango-Ota bridge when he sustained a gunshot injury. We don’t have details on how it happened yet, but his crew members who were present quickly rushed him to the hospital,” the source reportedly said, adding that medical personnel administered first aid on arrival.

An American KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq while a second plane involved in the incident landed safely, the US military said Thursday.

Oil prices held gains above $100 Friday and most equity markets dropped after Iran’s leader called for the blocking of the crucial Strait of Hormuz and the opening up of new fronts in the war against the United States and Israel.

The event served as a formal recognition of a leader whose visionary stewardship has fundamentally reshaped the continent’s financial and commercial landscape.

UK Defence Minister John Healey suggested on Thursday that Russia was influencing Iran’s use of drone attacks in its war with the United States and Israel.

Quite recently the world awoke to the grim reality of a new war in the Middle East, one that has drawn in the United States, Israel, Iran and several of their neighbours, including the wealthy United Arab Emirates.

Another headline features President Bola Tinubu describing himself as a “die-hard democrat” and urging politicians across Nigeria’s political parties to uphold democratic values and obey the rule of law regardless of personal or political consequences.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the Middle East is being “pushed to breaking point”, with shipping attacks, rising oil prices and widening humanitarian crisis.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, as a “puppet of the Revolutionary Guards,” referring to the elite force at the forefront of Tehran’s attacks.

President Donald Trump said that he thinks new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, whose father, the former supreme leader, was killed ​on the first day of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran, is alive but “damaged.” Khamenei has not been seen ⁠by Iranians since his selection on Sunday by a clerical ​assembly, and his […]

By Musa Ubandawaki, Sokoto SOKOTO:–A major political realignment has emerged in Sokoto State as the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) governorship candidate in the 2023 election, Alhaji Saidu Umar, popularly known as Ubandoman Sokoto, has formally defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Umar announced his decision in a statement […]

The Nigerian Naira maintained its resilience against the US Dollar as the trading week drew to a close on Friday, March 13, 2026.