Senator Iroegbu The Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (Rtd) has hosted the Republic of Indonesia Ambassador to Nigeria, Usra Hendra Harahap at the Ministry of Defence Headquarters (DHQ), Abuja. A statement on Thursday signed by the Special Assistant Media and Publicity to the Minister of Defence, Mohammad Abdulkadri
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Twitter suspends 1.2 million accounts for terrorism
Social media giant Twitter suspended 1,210,357 accounts for promoting terrorism in two years between August 2015 and the end of 2017. That figure, detailed by the company’s head of public policy in Indonesia, Agung Yudha, was shared at a regional counter-terrorism meeting in the Indonesian capital on Tuesday. The suspensions represent just
Hope for survivors fade as Indonesia’s quake-tsunami toll hits 1,400
The death toll in Indonesia's quake-tsunami disaster passed 1,400 Wednesday, with time running out to rescue survivors and the UN warning of "vast" unmet needs that have fuelled looting. Indonesian soldiers have been ordered to fire on those raiding stores on the quake and tsunami-struck island of Sulawesi, a colonel told
Quake-hit indonesia buries dead in mass grave
Indonesian volunteers began burying bodies in a vast mass grave on Monday, victims of a quake-tsunami that devastated swathes of Sulawesi, as the UN warned that some 191,000 people were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. Indonesia is no stranger to natural calamities and Jakarta had been keen to show it
Death toll in Indonesia quake-tsunami hits 800
The death toll from a powerful earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia leapt to 832 Sunday, as stunned people on the stricken island of Sulawesi struggled to find food and water and looting spread. The new toll announced by the national disaster agency was almost double the previous figure. Indonesian vice-president Jusuf
400 killed after quake, tsunami hits indonesia’s Sulawesi island
Nearly 400 people were killed when a powerful quake sent a tsunami barrelling into the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, officials said Saturday, as hospitals struggled to cope with hundreds of injured and rescuers scrambled to reach the stricken region. The national disaster agency put the official death toll so far at
Indonesia quake: death toll rises above 430, over 350,000 displaced
Authorities say the death toll from a major earthquake which struck the Indonesian island of Lombok reached more than 430 on Monday, with over 350,000 people displaced. The death toll is expect to rise as relief efforts continue. Bodies were still being pulled from destroyed buildings following the shallow 6.9-magnitude quake on August
Strong aftershock sparks fresh panic to Indonesia’s quake-hit lombok
A strong aftershock struck Indonesia's Lombok Thursday, causing panic among evacuees already traumatised by a devastating earthquake that killed more than 160 on the holiday island four days earlier. The 5.9-magnitude quake struck at a shallow depth in the northwest of the island, the US Geological Survey said, even as relief
Indonesia quake: over 100 dead, thousands still stranded
The death toll from a powerful earthquake that hit Indonesia’s tourist island of Lombok topped 100 on Tuesday as rescuers found victims under wrecked buildings, while thousands left homeless in the worst-affected areas waited for aid to arrive. A woman was pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed grocery store
Indonesian quake: death toll hits 91, over 200 injured as tourists flee
At least 91 people killed as Indonesia's Lombok island is rocked by the second earthquake in a week, a death toll that is expected to rise, with over 200 seriously injured. Tourists fled the Indonesian island of Lombok on Monday after the magnitude 6.9 earthquake,as rescue workers scrambled to reach survivors in remote