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Top defence and intelligence chiefs from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey arrived in Tehran on Monday for emergency security talks with Iranian officials. The visit marks the first direct high-level consultation between the Islamic Republic and members of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement since regional hostilities escalated. Shifting alliances reflect deepening panic across capitals. Saudi…
Brent crude climbed to 115.18 dollars per barrel on Friday, setting off immediate alarms across Nigeria’s fragile retail energy sector. Escalating conflict in the Middle East sparked panic among international buyers after drone strikes hit key Saudi Arabian energy hubs and disrupted shipping lines. War fears always rattle fuel markets. Domestic depot owners and the…
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared the Strait of Hormuz closed on Saturday after sea strikes hit three commercial oil tankers navigating the strategic chokepoint. The naval arm of the Guards singled out a vessel carrying two million barrels of crude oil, claiming the ship entered unauthorised waters without clearance from Iranian maritime controllers. Chokepoints…
Donald Trump climbed the green marble rostrum at the 81st United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday and offered Iran total ruin or total submission. In a pugnacious forty-minute address in New York, the American president openly mused whether he should broker an agreement with Tehran or simply wipe the country off the global map. He…
American warplanes pounded targets across southern Iran again on Thursday while Tehran fired drones and missiles at United States bases and allies in the Gulf, driving the reignited war over the Strait of Hormuz into a punishing sixth day and reviving fears of a fresh global oil shock. The US military said it launched…
The United States and Iran have formally signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending months of war, but President Donald Trump made clear that military action remains on the table should Tehran fail to honour the terms. Both Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed the agreement on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, with…
The World Bank could scale up financial support to as much as $100bn over the next 15 months to help developing countries withstand the economic fallout from the escalating crisis in the Middle East, the lender has announced, warning that the conflict risks pushing global growth to its weakest level since the COVID-19 pandemic….
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered immediate air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs in response to persistent rocket and drone attacks. The directive, issued jointly with Defence Minister Israel Katz, targets the Dahiyeh district, a densely populated stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah. This military escalation effectively shatters the fragile ceasefire brokered in mid-April….
A fragile truce between the United States and Iran came under severe pressure on Friday after Iranian forces launched attacks on three American destroyers in the Strait of Hormuz, triggering US retaliatory strikes on Iranian military targets and raising fresh fears that weeks of painstaking diplomacy could unravel. Despite the exchanges of fire, US…
Nigerian petrol prices are climbing toward N1,400 per litre as a naval standoff in the Middle East chokes global supply. The failed ceasefire between the United States and Iran has kept the Strait of Hormuz closed, driving Brent crude from $105 to $118 per barrel in 48 hours. This volatility forced the Dangote Petroleum Refinery…