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According to an American think tank following the evolution of the conflict on a daily basis, the Institute For the Study of War (ISW), the Russian president ordered Army Chief of Staff, Valéri Guerassimov to prepare a major offensive in Ukraine without delay. The instructions addressed to the general-in-chief of …

The New Edubiase Magistrate Court has remanded two persons into police custody for exhuming a corpse at the New Edubiase cemetery in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region, Ghana. The suspects were 56 and 39 years old, according to reports. The police was alerted by a fetish priest …

Guinness World Records announced on Friday that it had received evidence of the existence of a canine over 30 years old, Bobi, residing in Portugal. It is the oldest known dog in the world, according to a record recorded on January 9. Born on May 11, 1992, the dog was …

Qatar, a Gulf country with a Muslim majority, reaffirmed this Thursday evening the prohibition by religion to consume insects, after the addition in early January by the European Union to its list of authorized foods of new products containing them. The insect-based products do not meet “the requirements of the …

Some assailants have shot dead a member of the Anambra State Vigilante Service attached to the Central Security, Obosi, in the Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria. The men of the vigilante service were on a routine patrol when they ran into the hoodlums, who engaged them …

Six robbers have attacked a gold buying store and shot indiscriminately, killing three people at Wassa Ntwetwena in the Assa Amenfi East Municipality of Ghana’s Western Region, according to reports. “The victims included the gold dealer, his friend and a passerby,” according to witness. The Police have launched a manhunt …

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday he was “certain” that Jair Bolsonaro was the mastermind behind the attack on government buildings in Brasilia on January 8, and that he was thus seeking to carry out a “coup d’etat “. “Today I am aware and I say …

The police has arrested a 20-year-old apprentice for killing his master at Imafon community, in the Akure South Local Government Area of the state, Nigeria. “The deceased, an asbestos operator, smashed the phone of the suspect on the floor over a dispute and the suspect attacked his master in retaliation,” …

A Kenyan court has sentenced to death a former Kenyan policeman for the killing of a prominent human rights lawyer and two other people more than six years ago. Kenya does not carry out death sentences, even though the death verdict is allowed by law. Two other ex-policemen and a …

Emergency agencies say efforts are ongoing to rescue unidentified number of people trapped in a building which collapsed on Thursday in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. The three-storey building, which was under construction, is in Gwarinpa, a residential suburb. Nkechi Isa, spokesperson for the Federal Capital Territory Management Agency, said in …