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00:00Queen Noamagbe Awuare II is the fourth wife of Benin monarch, his royal majesty, Oba Awuare II and the queen

00:07is also the biological sister of the Oba's fifth wife, Queen Isosa Awuare II, on Thursday early morning night.

00:15Queen Noamagbe apparently used a proxy TikTok account named Queen Awuare back up and accused the Benin Traditional Council, BTC

00:25of dishonest behavior, categorically stating, the BTC lied that Nigeria prominent social media streamer, Habib Hamzat Adelaja aka Pella was

00:35not authorized access into the palace of the Benin monarch where she accidentally met Pella and gave him a motherly

00:42welcome as the queen of the Oba.

00:44An action, the BTC has alleged she breached the palace protocol, hence, she risked being removed or sent packing from

00:51the palace, according to Queen Noamagbe in the apparent TikTok social media proxy account, Pella's visit to the palace is

00:59a mere cover up, that a lot has been happening behind closed door.

01:02She supported her claim with a document that suggests the Benin Traditional Council was aware of Pella coming to the

01:09palace, and the document dated February 23rd, 2026 indicated that the BTC received and acknowledged the letter of Pella planned

01:17visit.

01:18But, if, if, if, if, if, if, if the BTC actually wrote back to Pella to notify him about the

01:23acceptance or rejection of his request was not stated, this, the president of Iguabasami Movement Worldwide, Asaro Culture Iyamu counted

01:32the document and said,

01:33The receipt of letter at any institution registry doesn't amount to approval, however, the moment the letter is received at

01:41our revered palace registry, it's forwarded to the private office of Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Omo Nobun Edo

01:49Uku Akpilokpolo, Oba Ewuare II.

01:52Oba of Benin will then instruct the secretary of Benin Traditional Council, BTC to either write formally or call those

02:00seeking for approval of their letters especially as it's relate to royal visitations, those who lured and deceived Pella without

02:07the approval of Benin Traditional Council, BTC are the real problem.

02:11For the avoidance of doubts, Queen Noamagbe may not be first Oba wife to be sent packing from the palace

02:18Oba breached of access into the Monarch Palace.

02:21The Oba eldest wife, Queen Irogama Ewuare II had been sent packing from the palace simply because one of the

02:28biological children of the Oba entered the palace allegedly in a manner the Oba did not like.

02:34This was made known in a reactionary public letter issued on December 30, 2025 by Prince Ezelekai Ewuare II, the

02:44Oba's eldest son who is believed to be the next Oba of Benin, according to Prince Ezelekai.

02:49I want to make it very clear.

02:51My mother did nothing wrong, six months ago, my youngest brother allegedly barged into the palace wanting to see his

02:59father.

02:59Our father wasn't happy with his approach, as a result, my mother was told to leave the palace.

03:06I would like to use this medium to plead on behalf of your senior children you wouldn't see, your second

03:12son, your third son and your second daughter, please, whatever our father said they did wrong, please forgive and forget,

03:20time is precious, we want togetherness, not division.

03:23On the issue he had with the Oba over the establishment of the Museum of West African Art, Armed Forces

03:30of Nigeria, AFN has stated that its men resisted and pushed back a group of Islamic State of West Africa

03:37province.

03:38I swap fighters at Malam Fertori area in the Abadam local government area of Borno State early morning on Wednesday,

03:46after the I swap fighters launched a simultaneous five multiple and separate offensive attacks against the troops of the Joint

03:53Task Force, North East Operation Hadamkai.

03:56This, the Nigeria Army supported its press release with a video of dead bodies of the suspected terrorists, some of

04:04whom, according to the military authority, were well-known ISWAP commanders who led other terrorists to carry out the attacks.

04:11Lt. Sani Uba, the media information officer, Joint Task Force, North East Operation Hadamkai in a press release issued a

04:20few minutes ago, noted that Niger Republic Air Force supported in the killing of the terrorists and other defensive-offensive

04:27military actions that finally forced other surviving terrorists to withdraw and flee in disarray.

04:33Accordingly, the press release reads verbatim thus, Troops of the Joint Task Force, North East Operation Hadamkai, OPHK, in the

04:43early hours of Wednesday successfully repelled a coordinated and simultaneous five-pronged terrorist attack on own positions at Malam Fertori

04:51in Sector 3.

04:52The terrorists, who advanced in large numbers on foot and deployed armed drones in a desperate bid to breach the

04:59defenses of locations of troops, particularly along the frontage of Bravo Company from the Daguri general area, were met with

05:06overwhelming resistance.

05:08Having maintained full situational awareness of the battle space, troops had anticipated the attack and deliberately prepared an offensive-defensive

05:17battle designed to decisively defeat and annihilate the assault elements.

05:20Through disciplined fire control, coordinated maneuver and superior tactical execution, the attackers were engaged, disrupted and rooted in disarray, with

05:31no fewer than 80 terrorists neutralized during the engagement.

05:35Additionally, the firefight was further reinforced by precision of close-air support from the air component of Operation Hadamkai, complemented

05:44by rapid strike passes from allied Nigerian air assets, which compounded the pressure on the fleeing insurgents.

05:50Exploitation of the engagement area led to the recovery of a substantial cache of weapons, ammunition and combat enablers, including

05:5952 AK-47 rifles, 8 PKT machine guns, 7 RPG tubes, 5 general-purpose machine guns, GPMGs,

06:08over 3,000 rounds of assorted 7.62 mm ammunition, 21 RPG bombs, 9 locally fabricated IEDs, multiple magazines, communication

06:22radios and components of armed drones deployed by the terrorists.

06:26Despite the scale and intensity of the assault, own troops recorded minimal casualties, with four soldiers wounded in action and

06:34promptly stabilized, while follow-on battle damage assessment of air interdictions remains ongoing.

06:41Significantly, the operation resulted in the neutralization of three high-profile terrorist commanders, namely Malam Abdulrahman Gobara, Malam Bayuram and

06:51Abu Ayyubah, who were key figures in coordinating and leading the failed assault.

06:55Furthermore, several other identified fighters were eliminated.

07:00Nigeria military authority has placed the citizens and residents in the West Africa country on a high alert over increased

07:07security threats in the country, following apparent multiple suicide bombings on Monday in the northeastern state of Borno State, wherein,

07:15the Nigeria police force confirmed 23 people were killed and 108 other persons sustained injuries when bombs exploded.

07:23Almost at the same time at three different locations in Meduguri, the state capital, at locations which included the post

07:31office area, Monday market access and the entrance to the University of Meduguri Teaching Hospital, UMTH during the period of

07:40IFTA, breaking of fast, hours after the Borno State Command of the Nigeria Police Force had reported earlier on Monday

07:48that suspected Boko Haram,

07:49ISWAP terrorists made an attempt to infiltrate into the state capital with sporadic gunshots and explosions at Agilari Cross, Kofa

07:57area of outskirt of Meduguri Metropolitan Council, MMC, and Damboa Meduguri Road in Damboa local government area, and the latest

08:06activities and official reports indicated that the ISWAP and Boko Haram terrorists may have advanced and taken some positions closer

08:14to the state capital, this, the Nigeria police force said.

08:18The Borno State Joint Security Operatives has began aggressive patrols within the Meduguri Metropolitan Council and appealed to residents to

08:27alert the security agency for emergency response with contact numbers 080-680-75581 or 080-2-3-4-7-3

08:45-2-9-3.

08:47Lt. Col. Sani Uba, the media information officer of Joint Task Force in the Northeast Operation Haddon Kai in a

08:56press release on Monday, said,

08:58The headquarters Joint Task Force, the headquarters Joint Task Force, Operation Haddon Kai, OPHK, wishes to inform the general public

09:06of suicide bomb explosions that occurred at about 7.05 p.m. on Monday, 16 March, 2026, in Meduguri Metropolitan

09:15Council, MMC.

09:17The explosions were carried out by suspected Boko Haram terrorist suicide bombers who detonated improvised explosive devices at three different

09:26locations within the city, namely the post office area, Monday Market Access and the entrance to the University of Meduguri

09:34Teaching Hospital, UMTH, during the period of IFTA, breaking of fast.

09:39The cowardly attacks targeted crowded crowded crowded public areas in an attempt by the terrorists to inflict mass casualties and

09:46create panic within the metropolis.

09:49Troops of Operation Haddon Kai, in conjunction with the Nigeria Police Explosive Ordnance Disposal, EOD, team and other sister security

09:58agencies, responded swiftly to the incident and immediately secured and cordoned off the affected locations to prevent further harm.

10:06Emergency response teams, including personnel from the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, and other medical service providers, promptly evacuated casualties

10:18to the General Hospital, Specialist Hospital and the University of Meduguri Teaching Hospital for urgent medical attention.

10:25Medical teams are currently attending to injured victims of various health facilities.

10:30There may be no doubt that Iran is apparently giving the United States, U.S. a tougher time at the

10:35Strait of Hormuz, holding strong that none of its enemies and their allies will sail their ship through the Strait

10:41of Hormuz, an action that has since made the U.S. President, Donald Trump to make contradictory statements after the

10:48U.S. Army obviously failed in its intimidating military campaign and destruction of the Iran naval base,

10:55airport control tower, helicopter hangars, naval mine storage, missile bunkers and anti-aircraft and ballistic missiles defense system, with a

11:05threat to destroy the oil lifeline of Iran at the Karg Island if Iran continued to block ship from sailing

11:11through the Strait of Hormuz.

11:12But yet, as at the time, Iran remains deviant to U.S. threat, with close watchers saying, Iran may not

11:21fight a traditional normal naval war with the U.S. Marines who are currently on a high-speed traveling from

11:27their base in Japan to the Strait of Hormuz,

11:29of which, over 2,500 of the U.S. Marines and sailors have been redeployed and apparently drawn from the

11:3731st Marine Expeditionary Unit, MEU, an elite rapid response force,

11:42and the Marines are traveling aboard an amphibious ready group, ARG led by the assault ship USS Tripoli, LHA-7,

11:50an assault ship that can function as a lightning carrier, carrying F-35B stealth fighters and MV-22 Osprey transport

11:59aircraft and the assigned Marines are expected to arrive the Strait of Hormuz in a week or less than two

12:04weeks' time,

12:06but, currently, close watchers said, Iran is using deviant tactics like GPS jabbing, swarming drones, and underwater mines to keep

12:15the U.S. Navy off balance.

12:17An action that may be the reason the U.S. President, Donald Trump initially called on the international communities to

12:24help form an international naval coalition

12:26to reopen the Strait of Hormuz but some European countries like Germany, United Kingdom, France, Greece, Italy, and the North

12:35Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO refused,

12:39with some heads of the European countries saying, the war is not our war.

12:43Germany will not participate in any military activity in the Strait, any plan to reopen the Strait won't be a

12:50NATO mission and that the U.K. will not be drawn into a wider war.

12:54No sending France warships to the region until the security situation stabilizes.

13:00Italy's current naval missions would not be extended to the Strait.

13:04No Greece military engagement in the waterway.

13:07Following this, President Donald Trump in a nationwide media chat on Monday, said,

13:13U.S. don't need them, we don't need anybody.

13:16We are the strongest nation in the world, we have the strongest military by far in the world.

13:22We don't need them, but, it is interesting, in some cases, not because we need them,

13:28because I want to find out how they react.

13:30We have been protecting these countries for years with NATO, because NATO is us.

13:36You can ask Putin, Russia President, Vladimir Putin, Putin fears us.

13:40He doesn't fear them, he has no fear of Europe whatsoever.

13:44Meanwhile, Iran's stronghold on the Strait of Hormuz has made energy prices to go higher.

13:51Brent crude has surged to over $105 per barrel, a 40% increase since the start of the war on

13:58February 28th.

14:00There may be no doubt that the year 2026 may not be a year of good record for some men

14:05and women of the armed forces of Nigeria.

14:08AFN has multiple reports and official statements have confirmed that some numbers of Nigeria soldiers have been killed by Islamic

14:15State of West Africa province,

14:18ISWOP, since the beginning of this year.

14:20Thus, the multiple reports suggest, more than 180 Nigeria soldiers may have been killed in just 73 days into this

14:29new year 2026,

14:31which further indicated that an average of 2 to 3 soldiers are being killed daily in Nigeria by the ISWOP

14:38terrorists

14:38who appeared to have increased the daily offensive attacks on Nigeria soldiers since the US-Israel joint war against Iran

14:47began on February 28th, 2026.

14:50Although some close watchers accused the Nigeria military of always downplaying or reporting a very lower numbers of troops casualties,

14:59but, the Nigeria Minister of Defence, General Christopher Moussa stated and confirmed during the week after security chiefs held a

15:07meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tanubu at the presidential villa in Abuja

15:11said that a lot of Nigeria soldiers has been lost, but he insisted that contrary to some reports by the

15:17media,

15:18the terrorists and bandits are taking more casualties, specifically stating,

15:22their commanders are being killed every day, we are sure of victory, and some reports also suggest that the ISWOP

15:29terrorists are increasingly using armed drones

15:31for asymmetric warfare and high-end tech like night vision in recent attacks on military bases in Nigeria

15:39with some foreigners joining the Nigeria ISWOP fighters to launch a Ramadan campaign that saw ISWOP overrunning some military bases

15:48in Konduga,

15:49Mainik, Jakana, and Marte areas of Borno State, with local media reports stating approximately 40 soldiers were killed,

15:57while ISWOP in a press release claimed to have killed 16 in the initial assault and another 20 in a

16:03subsequent suicide bombing.

16:04On March 4, 2026, at least 14 soldiers were reportedly killed during attacks on military bases in Ingosh and other

16:13parts of Borno State.

16:15Between February 15 and 18, 2026, multiple reports confirmed 8 soldiers were killed and 23 injured at a base in

16:24Crosskawa in the Kakawa local government area of Borno State,

16:28another 6 soldiers were reportedly killed in Biu local government area, earlier in January 2026.

16:36At least 20 soldiers were killed in an attack on a remote base in Malam Fitori, and 8 others were

16:41killed in a separate ambush earlier in the month.

16:44This, former Nigeria presidential candidate in the last concluded general elections in the West Africa country,

16:52Peter Obi in awarded statement during the week, said,

16:56Our nation is clearly under siege, and the scale of insecurity is becoming unbearable spreading widely all over the country,

17:03this week alone in Borno State's Ingosh community, terrorists overpowered soldiers, killing them and several citizens,

17:11while abducting more than 100 women and children yet our leaders are silent.

17:16Nigerian army in press release signed and made available on March 14, 2026 by Lt. Col. Sani Uba,

17:23the media information officer of Joint Task Force in the North East Code named Operation Hadam Kai,

17:30Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the State of Israel has a lot of organized plans of what

17:37yet to be done in Iran,

17:38specifically saying, regarding what we will do next in Iran,

17:42we have an organized plan with many surprises to destabilize the regime and enable change,

17:48we have many more targets, and I will not detail them here.

17:52Benjamin Netanyahu stated this on Saturday, a day before,

17:56Mojtabakamani was officially and publicly announced as the Iran's new supreme leader in Tehran's Banak Square on Sunday,

18:03with residents in Middle East reporting with videos that Iran unleashed some numbers of massive waves of Fatah-2 hypersonic

18:11glide missiles

18:12straight at Israel shortly after the announcement of the Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtabakamani,

18:19many believed to be much more aggressive than his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

18:24The announcement of the new supreme leader was made known after days.

18:28The U.S. President, Donald Trump stated that the U.S. will have a complete control of Iran and determine

18:34its leadership,

18:35which in one of the occasions, President Donald Trump stated verbatim that,

18:39well, most of the people we had in mind are dead, we had some in mind from that group that

18:45is dead,

18:46now we have another group, they may be dead also based on reports,

18:50this, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu in a nationwide message to the people of Israel on Saturday

18:57as made available by the office of the Prime Minister, said countries can now see the hypocrisy of the United

19:04Nations,

19:05UN, following the U.S.-Israel joint war against Iran, saying,

19:10the war is changing the face of the Middle East and in his words,

19:13Benjamin Netanyahu said,

19:16at the same time, we brought all of our hostages home,

19:20struck the centers of terrorism in Judea and Samaria,

19:23climbed to the peak of Mount Hermon,

19:25and created buffer zones in Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza,

19:29as I promised you two days after October 7th,

19:32we are changing the face of the Middle East,

19:34but we didn't just change the Middle East,

19:37first and foremost, we changed ourselves,

19:39because after the great disaster of October 7th,

19:42I decided to leave a polar shift,

19:44powerful actions one after another,

19:47proactive and surprising actions,

19:49actions that dramatically change the balance of power between us and our enemies,

19:53the countries around us see the hypocrisy of the UN,

19:56which condemned us without reason in our just war against Iran's murderous proxies in Gaza,

20:03yet the same UN did nothing in the face of the mass slaughter in Iran,

20:07these countries, which were attacked by Iran,

20:10see the weakness and feebleness of leaders in the West who simply abandoned them,

20:14while Khamenei and his murderers slaughtered tens of thousands of Iranian citizens,

20:19where was the UN,

20:21where were many countries in the West,

20:23and where was the international media that constantly condemns us with fake news,

20:27they were nowhere,

20:29they simply vanished,

20:30together we rose from the terrible massacre of October 7th,

20:34together we repelled our enemies step by step in the war of redemption,

20:38and we struck them hip and thigh,

20:40in Gaza,

20:41Sinwar and his murderers,

20:42in Lebanon,

20:43Nasrallah and his terrorists,

20:45in Syria,

20:46we brought about the fall of the bloody regime,

20:49Iran on Sunday,

20:51officially named and announced Mojtaba Khamenei as the country's new supreme leader

20:55following the killing of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US,

21:00forces who are unable to bring the youth to news in a more digital way.

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