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Views: Visits 6 Tuesday’s virtual meeting of United States Secretary of State, Tony Blinken with President Muhammadu Buhari should have extensively reshaped the relationship between Nigeria and the United States. However, there are fears everywhere, that it may not. Cast against the dodgy, if not arrogant posture of the Barack Obama government towards Nigeria, the expectation from everywhere is that the new democratic government would have out of experience learnt how to deal with the Nigerian situation. The lessons to be learnt are, however, not only on the American side. N...

Government should take its responsibility of securing the nation seriously The worsening security situation in the country is a throwback to what happened in May last year when the First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari called for action to “rescue” Nigerians from the criminal cartels that are holding the country hostage. At that time, she shared a short clip from an indigenous Hausa musician’s single, “Arewa na kuka,” meaning “the north weeps.” The video displays images of the Security Service Chiefs in a meeting with her husband at the Presidential Villa. “Please in the name of God, p...

President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Defense Secretary Mark Esper watch as the flag for U.S. Space Command is unfurled as Trump announces the establishment of the U.S. Space Command in the Rose Garden of the White House on August 29, 2019. Photo by Carolyn Kaster / AP Photo What You Need to Know About the U.S. Space Command Controversy One of former President Donald Trump’s final acts as commander-in-chief was to announce that the headquarters for the military operation would be relocated from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama—a move that Colorado's congressional d...

The 36th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron has been called upon once again to deploy personnel to multiple locations in support of the fight against COVID-19. In 2020, the squadron saw nine volunteers out the door to various locations, and now, six more, News, features and commentaries about Air Force Reserve people, equipment and missions

Been -- had been before. not at that moment, but had been before to see what intelligence they could gather. we've been told explicitly they were not sent on a mission to kill or capture that isis leader. in part because he wasn't there, but also this is not the team that would do it. it was not a team either equipped to to or backed up with the resources to carry out such a mission. >> david, the head of african command is calling for more resources in the region? >> reporter: well, that's right. that happened six months ago, jake. the head of the africa command speaking to the senate armed s...