RECENTLY, Iran paratroopers of its elite Revolutionary Guard made a spectacular dash to a British flagged ship in the busy Strait of Hormuz, arresting and escorting the ship to its nearby port of Bander Abass, with an accusation that it obstructed Iranian fishing boats. But everyone knows Tehran has just made good its earlier threat of retaliation over the seizure of its oil tanker at Gibraltar earlier in July by the British Navy, at the prodding of the US, on the pretext that the ship was sailing with its cargo of oil to Syria, in breach of sanctions against Damascus.

Recently, the media space has been inundated with the story of some soldiers who were detailed on escort duty from Sokoto to Kaduna for a VIP whom they allegedly robbed.

For about four weeks, the Bauchi State House of Assembly went on a forced recess following the emergence of two speakers in the state legislative chambers. While Abubakar Suleiman was elected as speaker by 13 members inside the Assembly complex, his opponent, Kawuwa Damina claims he was elected as speaker by 18 other members outside the legislative chambers.

By Okanga Agila A Korean proverb says, “ You will hate a beautiful song if you sing it often.” And that’s why the bird, parrot has no existential value even among the family of birds. It is a meaninglessly talkative bird. The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), describes the parrot as a bird with excellent […]

THE grand finale of the 2019 Army Day Celebration and Combat Support Arms Training Week (ADC-CSATNW – my abbreviation) ended recently. Not being a soldier, I will not pretend that I understood/understand in toto what our Army did or did not do throughout the long week of the combat training and re-training of our soldiers who have done the little or the much they have done (and are still doing) for our country. We cannot say without qualms that the Nigerian Army has not done more than several good things for us and on behalf of us all.