Russia is not going to seal itself off from the rest of the world and it is ready to cooperate with all its partners who wish to do so, Russian President Vladimir Putin maintained. "We are not going to seal ourselves off. In today’s world, it is completely impossible to fully isolate anyone, and totally impossible [to isolate] such an enormous country like Russia. Therefore, we will work with those of our partners who want to cooperate," the Russian leader said during a meeting with Russian space industry personnel at the Vostochny Spaceport on Tuesday. The president noted that in…

China and Russia continue to develop and deploy weapons that can attack US satellites even as they increase their own fleets of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance space vehicles, according to the Pentagon’s intelligence agency. Although the updated report issued on Tuesday by the Defence Intelligence Agency is based mostly on news accounts and declarations from Chinese and Russian officials, it is a useful summary of the threats that the US says are driving major investments in the Pentagon’s proposed fiscal 2023 defence budget, specifically for the US Space Force and Space Command. “China has multiple ground-based laser weapons of varying…

A high court in Ogun state has ordered Zenith Bank Plc to pay N500,000 as damages for sending spam messages to one Omotola Fathiat Quadri. Quadri had, in the suit marked HCT/605/2021, sued Zenith bank for infringing on her fundamental rights to privacy as guaranteed under section 37 of the constitution. She claimed the respondents between February 16 to May 26, 2021, sent over 300 unsolicited messages to her email address despite not owning an account with the bank. Quadri also claimed that despite writing to the bank through her solicitors and a petition to both the Central Bank of…

Foreign missions in Nigeria and other international bodies have heightened security alerts for travels in the seven states making up the Northwest geopolitical zone following last month’s attack on a passenger train arriving Kaduna from Abuja, the Nigerian capital. Multiple diplomatic sources and staff of international organisations in Abuja told our correspondent that though there had been travel advisories to states like Katsina, Zamfara and Kaduna, the alert level was upped across most embassies and other organisations over heightened fear of insecurity. Foreign missions such as those of the United Kingdom, Canada, United States and a host of other countries…