An Indian Navy Warship Replenished American And Japanese Warships During Ongoing Joint Naval Exercises In The Bay Of Bengal, Thursday.

The Australian Navy Joined Indian, Japanese And American Warships For Annual Malabar Exercises That Began Tuesday In The Indian Ocean Marking The Growing Strategic Convergence Of The Four Countries Amid Rising Concerns About Chinese Assertiveness In Asia.     

India’s Decision To Include Australia For The Annual Drills Comes In The Wake Of A Push By Washington For Deeper Security Collaboration In The “Quad,” The Informal Group That Includes The United States, Japan, Australia And India As A Counter To China.     

Australia Returns To The Exercises After 13 Years When Its Participation Triggered Strident Chinese Objections. 

In Central America, Panamanian rescue forces have evacuated victims from flooded areas after tropical storm eta brought heavy rain that caused deadly flooding in the region.

Tropical depression eta is expected to re-enter the Caribbean Sea and begin a trek that could end up near Florida as a tropical storm, according to the national hurricane center.

Eta weakened into a tropical depression Wednesday evening after previously making landfall in Nicaragua as a category 4 major hurricanes.

This however degenerated once ETA’s center was disrupted by Central America’s mountainous terrain.

Federal Political Leaders Are Calling On Canadians To Find Different Ways To Remember The Sacrifices Of The Country’s War Veterans, Despite The Isolation Of The Covid-19 Pandemic.

In A Speech At The Marking Veterans’ Week And Remembrance Day In The House Of Commons, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Noted How Many Canadians Have Been Supporting Veterans Throughout The Pandemic By Delivering Groceries And Helping Them In Other Ways.

Over the years, the Veterans’ Week posters have been both artistic and photographic in nature.

Themes have ranged from marking specific battles or events to portraying the very personal side of war and peace.

The posters date back to 1982.

In Nigeria’s south-west, Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-olu has signed an executive order to set up a “Lagos Rebuild Trust Fund Committee”.

He said and I quote, “I assure you of the committee’s utmost commitment to the reconstruction and upgrade of our dear state. in these challenging but interesting times, we realise that we have the potent opportunity to reform our state, and upgrade our structures,” end quote.

He recounted that in the last few weeks, the state government had been swamped with local and global offers of assistance to rebuild the state and recover all that were lost in October.

The governor said the 8-man committee, becomes relevant at this time following the recent attacks on various government assets and private businesses across the state.

The National Task Force on illegal importation of arms, ammunitions light and chemical weapons says it has strengthened its surveillance towards checking the activities of banditry and other security threats in the Northern parts of the country.

The acting director general of the force Musa Mohammed stated this during an emergency meeting of the organisation in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.

Musa Mohammed however appealed to the National Assembly to expedite action on the bill which has passed second reading seeking for the establishment of a commission on illegal importation of arms to strengthen the force operations across the country.

The Nigerian senate has urged the state house officials to stop president Muhammad Buhari, from embarking on foreign medical trips.

The senate committee on federal character and intergovernmental affairs, through its Chairman Danjuma Laah gave the charge when the permanent secretary of the state house, Tijani Umar, defended his 2021 budget estimates before the panel.

Laah said this can be done by ensuring that the state house clinic becomes fully functional this year.