Russia to Answer Asymmetrically to NATO Major Build–Up in Europe

Russia will not passively watch the US and NATO build-up in Europe and will provide an asymmetrical response, which will be highly efficient, not elaborately expensive and calibrated in accordance with Russia’s understanding of the extent of the military threat, Russian envoy to NATO Alexander Grushko said on Wednesday.

The comments come in response to the recent Pentagon announcement that it is readying a more robust US military presence in Eastern Europe.
On Wednesday, the Pentagon revealed its plans to position American troops, tanks and other armored vehicles full-time along NATO’s eastern borders to deter so-called "Russian aggression," in what would be the first such deployment since the end of the Cold War.

Assad's Moral Victory: How Palmyra Battle Exposed Washington's Hypocrisy

Those who repeated the "Assad must go" mantra and swore to eradicate Daesh, failed to expel the Islamist organization from Iraq and Syria in the course of a year-long operation. It is "evil" Assad who has dealt a lethal blow to the Islamic State and liberated Palmyra, Martin Berger writes.

The liberation of the historic site of Palmyra, an invaluable 'pearl of world civilizations' is the biggest victory in the fight of the Syrian government against Daesh, freelance journalist and geopolitical analyst Martin Berger writes in his recent article for New Eastern Outlook.

Berger emphasizes that the recapture of Palmyra by the Syrian Arab Army paves the way for an advance on Raqqa, the de facto capital of Daesh.

Alleged Killer of Russian Su-24 Pilot Detained in Turkey

According to Dogan News Agency, the alleged killer of the pilot of the downed Russian Su-24 flight has been detained in Turkey.  The man, who is believed to be responsible for the Russian pilot's death, is identified as Alparslan Chelik.

​According to Hurriyet newspaper, Chelik was detained Wednesday evening in Izmir. Alparslan Chelik has reportedly been fighting against the government forces in Syria.

Court orders Zuma to repay money spent on private residence

South Africa’s top court on Thursday delivered a damning verdict against President Jacob Zuma, saying he had ‘failed to uphold’ the constitution in a case over public funds spent upgrading his private residence.

Zuma “failed to uphold, defend and respect the constitution as the supreme law of the land,” said Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng in a ruling delivered by the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg.

The court also ordered President Jacob Zuma to pay back the public funds spent upgrading his private residence, to settle the corruption scandal that has rocked the government.

Workers shut down Bristow Helicopters

The National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers of Nigeria, an affiliate of the Trade Union Congress, on Thursday morning shut down all Bristow Helicopters’ offices in Port Harcourt to protest against what it described as the company’s discriminatory policies.

Led by NAAPEN’s Isaac Balami in company with national officials and the state Chairman of TUC, Chika Onuegbu, the demonstrators blocked the company’s plan to open operations.

Ambode orders repair of Lagos-Badagry Expressway

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has ordered the State Public Works Corporation to immediately commence extensive repair work on the ever busy Lagos-Badagry Expressway so as to improve driving experience of motorists in the area.

Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Works, Engr. Ayotunde Sodeinde, told journalists on Thursday that the Corporation has already mobilised its workers to commence work immediately on several sections of the road.

“Immediately Governor Ambode gave us the directive, we moved into the area to commence extensive work on the roads,” Sodeinde said

Declare three-year emergency on economy, group tells Buhari

Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja

A group, the South-East South-South Professionals of Nigeria, on Thursday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a three-year state of emergency on the nation’s economy as a matter of urgency.

The group’s President, Mr. Emeka Ugwu-Oju, made the call in an interview with State House correspondents shortly after leading a delegation to meet Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

SUBEB uncovers over 200 fake teachers in C’ River

Mudiaga Affe, Calabar
The Cross River State Universal Basic Education Board has uncovered over 200 fake teachers in nine local government areas of the state.
Following the ongoing personal audit of teachers in the state by SUBEB, it was discovered that the bulk of the exposed teachers were in the nine LGAs out of the 18 council areas where the audit of teachers had been completed.
Those found culpable had fake certificates while others were ghost teachers, dead teachers whose salaries were still being drawn on monthly basis, among others.
A top official of SUBEB, who preferred anonymity, confirmed that over 200 fake teachers had been uncovered in the nine LGAs screened.

Governor Ambode abolishes monthly environmental exercise in Lagos -

Every last Saturday of each month is dedicated to a mandatory clean up of Lagos; the nation’s commercial capital and wannabe mega city.

Shops and businesses are often shuttered from 7am to 10am and vehicular movement ceases for the period.

Not any more, says Lagos governor Akinwunmi Ambode.

Meet Thelma West, a 32-year-old Nigerian, the only woman in the male-dominated world of diamond business

Nigerian Thelma West is a rare gem in the diamond world as a woman in a male-dominated sector with few Africans, despite the continent being the main source of the precious rocks.

The first in her family to work in diamonds, West is used to being an outsider, having been raised in a Jewish family in a country where Jews number fewer than 50,000 out of a population of around 180 million.

Photos: Man dies from gas explosion at Niger Biscuit factory

The man pictured above, Godwin Tonte, died on Monday March 28th from severe burns he sustained after a gas explosion that occurred at his place of work at Niger Biscuit Factory located in Apapa, Lagos on Sunday March 20th. Godwin who is the only child of his parents, had gone to his duty post that morning when one of the gas in the factory exploded, which engulfed him, burning his entire body. Two others were also burnt. He was rushed to the Tincan Island Hospital in Apapa where doctors worked to save his life. He however died on Easter Monday from complications from the injury. May his soul rest in peace Amen. A photo of him in hospital before he died after the jump...

Beautiful, naked 20 year old model jumps to her death rather than be raped

A model jumped to her death from her rented holiday flat rather than be raped by an estate agent and his friend, it has been reported.

University student Gulay Bursali, 20, jumped naked from the Istanbul apartment she was staying in with her boyfriend, identified only as Engin O, to escape the home invasion sex attack.

The young couple had asked a property agent if there was an empty apartment they could rent for the weekend, and were given the keys to a property in Basaksehir, a district located on the European side of Istanbul.

Yet another version of Mozgovoi’s murder.

by Colonel Cassad (Boris Pozhin)

Source: http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2677245.html

Translated by Seva

Journalist Roman Skomorokhov proposed yet another version of the murder of Alexey Mozgovoi.

It sometimes happens that the story is over, and it makes no sense to return to it. One cannot revive the dead, whereas issues of honor and memory in some places do not matter, to put it mildly. But as far as this story goes, I could not be satisfied. Frankly, there were too many strange and unexplained things in it.

BOMBSHELL: French Counter-Terror Boss: ‘I Have Proof Who Killed Litvinenko – It Wasn’t Russia’

He says it was done by US and UK secret services and that he is going to go public with the evidence

by Ricky Twisdale for Russia Insider

Paul Barril

A former French official who has had senior roles in internal security and terror fighting has come forward with a remarkable statement: that he has documentary evidence proving that Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian spy who died from polonium poisoning, was killed by US and UK special services.

In a lengthy interview which is soon to be published, he goes further, saying that Litvinenko’s murder was a special sevices operation designed to defame Russia and Vladimir Putin, that the notorious Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky was involved, and was himself killed by MI6 when he became a liability.  He even says he knows the code name of the operation: “Beluga”.

The Daesh Chronicles: The Definition Challenge

by Ghassan Kadi

Islam, real Islam, is a religion of piety, wisdom and peace, and Muslims, real Muslims are not terrorists. Even though all terrorists that have been caught involved in terrorism are “Muslims”, this does not give a blanket description of all Muslims as beings terrorists.

Those who “use” terrorism to spew hatred towards Islam and indiscriminately against all Muslims have their own agenda. These are the true Islamophobes. These people do not need a reason to hate Islam and Muslims. They are now having a field day with the terror issue and using it to feed their hatred and to justify it.

Female Robbery Gang Arrested In Rivers State (Photo)

Nigeria's deadly female robbery/kidnapping gang arrested in Rivers State. Queen Eze,Osarachi Onyewu, Queen Godspowerare the leaders of the deadly group and they have been apprehended and to be taken to court.

Nigerian Army, Govt Offices Owe N60 Billion In Electricity Bills’

The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors says ministries, departments, agencies and the Nigerian Army are owing the Distribution Companies (DISCOs) N60 billion from 2015 to February.

Sunday Oduntan, the Executive Director of the group, said this on Tuesday at a news conference.

He said the army owed Benin DISCO N2.3 billion; Eko, N1.9 billion; Ikeja, N1.6 billion; Jos, N2 billion; Kaduna, N6.6 billion; Kano, N301 million; Port Harcourt, N1.3 billion and Yola, N435 million.

Policemen Damage Passenger's Eye In Edo (photo)

A Lagos-based interior designer, Stephen Akams, is currently on admission at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital with a damaged eye.
The 41-year-old man said a medical result he would get on Thursday (tomorrow) would determine whether he would see clearly again with his left eye or not.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Akams was battered last Thursday, March 24, along the Benin bypass, Edo State, by some policemen numbering about seven while he was returning from an assignment in Enugu State.

2019: Tension In PDP Over Moves To Violate Zoning-daily Trust

The Board of Trustees (BoT)‎ of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned against any move to jettison the zoning of the party’s 2019 presidential ‎ticket to the North.
The BoT acting chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, who addressed newsmen yesterday in Abuja, said anyone who tried to reverse the position, which had already been approved by the National Executive Committee (NEC) would ever remain an “enemy to the north” and a “killer” of the PDP.
Senator Walid also said that the party’s national chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, must vacate office alongside other members of the National Working Committee (NWC) in May as approved by the various organs of the PDP.

Army Spokesman Say This Circulated Photos Were Taken During Training In 2012

This goes to the general public, I apologize because I also helped in circulating the photos thinking they were recent and true, I even contacted the guy who posted the photos and said in Happen in Bayelsa and he told me they were real that he was still expecting more information on the incident, but now, I realize he merely lifted the photo from somewhere and painted a story suiting it because the Nigeria Army spokesman says these particular photos taken during in-barracks training exercise that took place in 2012.

Nigerian Airforce Under President Buhari (Photos)

Photos: See What Nigerian Airforce Have Turned Into Under President Buhari

– The Nigerian Airforce (NAF) is contributing its own quota to the fight against insurgency in the North East zone

– The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar, has been a role model for the Airforce personnel in the frontline

– The CAS visited the two states recently after a similar visit in December 2015

Saying Wike Defeated Amaechi Is Laughable

PDP has it's strongest structure in the whole of the south, in Rivers state. Rivers people have never voted for any party aside the umbrella party. From Governors all the way down to councillors, it has always being PDP all the way, even as far back as 1998.

PDP is rivers and rivers is PDP. A TA orji PDP candidacy in a Rivers would Garner more votes than a Fashola candidacy, from another party. Even if you present a fowl as a PDP candidate in Rivers state, he would still win any election.

Adding to this is the sense of betrayal and hate the people feels for APC is particular for snatching the presidency from their Son, GEJ.

Why Islamic State carried out Paris and Brussels attacks?

by Nauman Sadiq

As we know that France under Nicolas Sarkozy had played a lead role in fomenting the insurgency against the Gaddafi regime in Libya in 2011 and after him Francois Hollande too had been on the forefront of supporting the Sunni militants in Syria against the Alawite-Shi’a Assad regime. That arrangement of an informal pact between the Western powers and the Sunni jihadists of the Middle East against the Shi’a-Iranian axis had worked well up to August 2014, when Obama Administration made an about-face on its previous regime change policy in Syria and started conducting air strikes against one group of Sunni jihadists battling against the “hostile” Assad regime, i.e. the Islamic State, after the latter transgressed its mandate in Syria and overran Mosul and Anbar in Iraq and threatened the capital of another steadfast American ally: Masoud Barzani’s Erbil in the oil-rich Iraqi Kurdistan.

Brazil, like Russia, under attack by Hybrid War

by Pepe Escobar for RT

Color revolutions would never be enough; Exceptionalistan is always on the lookout for major strategic upgrades capable of ensuring perpetual Empire of Chaos hegemony.

The ideological matrix and the modus operandi of color revolutions by now are a matter of public domain. Not so much the concept of Unconventional War (UW).

UW was spelled out by the 2010 Special Forces Unconventional Warfare manual. Here’s the money quote:

APC Is The Real Threat To National Security Not Me – fayose

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the real threat to the security of Nigeria and its people.

“The major threat to national security is a party that lost election since June 21, 2014 and still trying to get back to power, using crude means including turning itself to the mouthpiece of the Department of State Services (DSS),” the Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said in a statement Monday.
Mr. Olayinka, who reacted to a statement by the APC in Ekiti State that Mr. Fayose was a threat to national security, said “it is only in Nigeria that a party that ran Ekiti State aground in four years and was rejected in six straight elections by the people can still be talking.”