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With a social contract in tatters, an indecisive political leadership and Nigeria bleeding out, the nation’s unending insecurity could only spell disaster, writes Louis Achi All the cases of insecurity in Nigeria beg the question: Do we have a functional federal government? Are our priorities set right as a country? Of what use is Trader-Moni and N-Power if the citizens that the government seeks to empower with N10,000 are not sure if they would see the light of the next day? These lucid pose...

In a concrete hangar in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, Katrina Mayes is working with precision and purpose. Wisps of smoke surround her, wafting off the dry ice she is using to jerry-rig a cardboard vaccine carrier. Her task: to create a vapor phase vent to moderate the temperature of the cooling container from around minus 80 degrees Celsius (for storing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vials) to minus 15 degrees Celsius (to accommodate supplies of the Moderna vaccine). At 29, the biochemist and virologist has s...

Follow RT on Israel went to great lengths to distance itself from the drone assassination of Qassem Soleimani last year. However, a new report on the planning and execution of the Iranian General hit claims that Israel was involved. Soleimani, who commanded the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force,  was wiped out by an American drone near Baghdad Airport last January. His killing brought the US and Iran closer to open war than at any time in recent years, and according to a...

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New details have emerged about the January 2020 strike in Iraq, revealing Mike Pompeo started discussions to take out the Iranian general when he became CIA director in January 2017.

Diving Emergency medical training Each class has about 150-170 candidates and the attrition rate hovers around 90-95 percent. Yet, those who do graduate gain access to the best weapons and equipment Russia can provide, along with the best training. One common Spetsnaz saying is, “You make the man a weapon.” Volunteers for Alpha or Vympel units must already be Spetsnaz-qualified and undergo further specialized training. While classified, this training is known to consist of daily nine-km mor...

Department of Defence January 2022. After an outstanding career in a variety of key strategic roles, Major General Fox is set to become Australia’s first female Deputy Chief of Army. Major General Fox joined the ADF in 1988, graduating from the Royal Military College in 1991. Throughout her career she has paved the way for many of her colleagues as she shared her wealth of experience and expertise in various domestic and international deployments. acknowledged her professionalism and thanked ...

SPECIAL OPERATIONS: Diagnosing Mozambique  May 7, 2021: The United States has sent nearly a hundred Special Forces, air force and military specialists to Mozambique in March 2021. Officially, some were there to train local special operations troops for two months. Most of the Americans were there assessing the situation for Africom (African Command), the American organization responsible to monitoring the military situation throughout Africa. Providing advice ...

The opening salvo of the Estonian component of a large-scale United States military exercise came in the form of Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) live-firing at an exercise involving personnel from both countries, along with the United Kingdom, Wednesday. Thursday evening saw a large scale United States airborne jump over central Estonia. The live firing took place at the Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) Central Polygon training area in Harju County, part of Exercise Swift Response, which in t...

Arrest of Wisconsin National Guardsmen marks fourth currently enlisted soldier charged in January 6 attack on Capitol On Monday, May 3, the US Justice Department arrested and charged Wisconsin National Guardsmen Abram Markofski with attacking the Capitol on January 6, making him the fourth active soldier to be charged for their role in the attempted coup. Previously arrested active soldiers who participated in the attack include neo-Nazi Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, one of two Army reservists arrest...