Police Service Commission (PSC), yesterday, approved the promotion of AIG Adeolu Egbetokun, to the rank of Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG). He would be representing the Southwest geopolitical zone of the country. DIG Egbetokun will be replacing DIG Johnson Babatunde Kokumo, who retired on March 15. A statement last night by the spokesman of the commission, Ikechukwu Ani, said the commission also approved the promotion of 24 Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police and 33 Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs) to substantive Commissioners of Police (CP). The appointment and promotions were some…

The Taliban posted pictures of hundreds of military vehicles abandoned by the US. The US abandoned the equipment in its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. The Taliban now claims to have repaired the vehicles and is using them. The Taliban claims to have repaired and put back to use around 300 military vehicles abandoned by the US during its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. In a Twitter post by the Afghanistan defense ministry, rows of the vehicles are pictured, some of which appear to be armored trucks resembling Humvees. According to the Khaama News Agency citing state media,…

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russian forces making no headway in Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Ukraine says Russian forces remain relentless in their attempts to capture the bombed-out eastern Ukrainian towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka but were not making progress, Ukraine's military said, as a Russian-installed official claimed otherwise. The two towns along with other communities in the industrial Donetsk region continued to receive the brunt of Russia's attacks, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement on Tuesday evening. "They simply try to exhaust our troops with attack after attack," Serhiy Cherevatyi, spokesperson for the military's eastern group, said on…

Deposit Money Banks are set to raise their cash withdrawal limits from the current N20,000-N50,000 range to over N80,000-N100,000, according to multiple bank officials. The move, it was learnt, would help bank branches to tackle lingering queues in some cities across the country. Central Bank of Nigeria had on Friday directed commercial banks to open for operation on Saturday and Sunday, as part of a coordinated effort to ease the circulation of old and new banknotes. This came after the CBN began the release of billions of old naira notes to DMBs. CBN on Thursday finally obeyed the Supreme Court…