Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has maintained his lead in the polls ahead of the October general elections.

NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, on Wednesday praised Ukraine’s armed forces in a video message to celebrate the country’s independence day, exactly six months after the Russian invasion began.

Russia’s Defence Ministry has confirmed that its forces were behind Wednesday’s missile strike on a railway station in central Ukraine that Kiev said left at least 25 people dead, including civilians.

President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday hosted the Indian Minister of State for External and Parliamentary Affairs at State House, Abuja, and went down memory lane on his one-year training in the country as a military officer.

Taiwan proposed a budget of 17.3 billion dollars in defence for 2023 on Thursday, a 14.9 per cent increase from this year’s total allocation.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says that global carbon trade has, in a short space of time, grown into a market worth over $175 billion annually.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres says the “senseless war” in Ukraine is now six months old with no end in sight, repeating his ongoing appeal for peace.

The United Nations said funding was required to implement the 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) to address the humanitarian needs of people in Northeast Nigeria.