That reminds of people that were making comments about parades. Every country has its own traditions, but retirement parades are quite common and regular. This is General Loyd Austin's retirement parade. General Austin was the last US general in Iraq and then he became the commander of Centcom (you might remember when I told you about the US joint combat commanders).
His joke at the beginning of his speech was because the ceremony was held in a hall due to bad weather.
bigpicture001: APC finally demystify this place.. through out the military and also PDP, it is illegal to take a picture of this place talk less of making it public
Those are obviously not photos of the presidential villa. They are AI generated images of the National Assembly.
Photos of the presidential villa have been public since when Olusegun Obasanjo was president. I have posted some on Nairaland.
🇳🇬: Former Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun has retired from the Nigeria Police Force after 36 years of service, saying he served the country to the best of his ability as he took his final salute in uniform. pic.twitter.com/cevMq7Gpzu
The pulling out parade is the last official duty of a retiring senior officer. At the end of the parade the retiring officer and his/her spouse mount the back of an open top SUV. There are two long ropes that are tied to the front of the SUV and other senior officers ceremonially "pull" the retiring officer out of the barracks.
In the Navy the retiring officer boards a vessel after being pulled out and then he sails away (sailing out parade). In the air force the retiring officer boards an aircraft (usually a helicopter) and flies away.
NIGERIA POLICE FORCE HOLDS PULL-OUT PARADE IN HONOUR OF FORMER IGP EGBETOKUN
The Nigeria Police Force today held a ceremonial Pull-Out Parade at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, in honour of the immediate past Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olukayode Adeolu Egbetokun (rtd), PhD., NPM, marking the formal conclusion of his distinguished policing career spanning over three and a half decades.
The colourful parade celebrated the remarkable service and leadership of the former IGP, who retired from active duty on 25th February 2026 after 36 years of dedicated service to the Nigeria Police Force and the nation.
In his remarks, IGP Olatunji Rilwan Disu, psc(+), NPM described the ceremony as a significant moment for the Nigeria Police Force, noting that the career of the retired IGP was defined by dedication, professionalism, and exemplary leadership. He highlighted the former IGP’s contributions to strengthening operational efficiency, promoting intelligence-led policing, enhancing professionalism, and reinforcing the institutional values of discipline, accountability, and service within the Force. On behalf of the officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force, he expressed profound appreciation for the retired IGP’s outstanding service and invaluable contributions to policing in Nigeria.
In his farewell address, the retired IGP, IGP Olukayode Adeolu Egbetokun, expressed gratitude for the opportunity to serve the nation through the Nigeria Police Force for thirty-six years. Reflecting on his tenure, he noted that deliberate efforts were made to strengthen institutional processes, expand operational capabilities, and enhance professionalism across the Force. Key initiatives included the expansion of the Intelligence Bureau to a full department, the elevation of the Legal and Medical Units to Directorate status, the development of the Nigeria Police Cybercrime Centre, improvements to the National Criminal Database, and the establishment of additional Police Mobile Force Squadrons, Area Commands, and the Special Intervention Squad.
The event was attended by several distinguished dignitaries including the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu; the Chairman, House Committee on Police Affairs, Hon. Dr. Abubakar Yellman, represented by Hon. Kama Nkemkanma; the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Mr. Oluwatosin Adeola Ajayi; the Chairman, Police Service Commission, DIG Hashimu Argungu (Rtd); former Inspectors-General of Police including IGP Mike Okiro (Rtd) and IGP Ogbonna Onovo (Rtd); heads and representatives of sister security agencies and traditional rulers led by the Paramount Ruler of Yewaland, HRM Oba Kehinde Olugbenle.
DCP ANTHONY OKON PLACID psc(+), mni Force Public Relations Officer Force Headquarters, Abuja 12th March, 2026
Iran appears to have conducted a significant cyberattack against a U.S. company, a first since the war started
The company, Stryker, said a cyberattack disrupted its “Microsoft environment.”
An Iran-linked hacker group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on a medical tech company in what appears to be the first significant instance of Iran’s hacking an American company since the start of the war between the countries.
The company, Stryker, which is headquartered in Michigan, produces a range of medical equipment and technology.
Historically, Iran has conducted some of the most infamous “wiper” cyberattacks on national enemies, aiming to simply erase all data on computers’ networks. Victims include Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, in 2012, and the Sands Casino in 2014.
Since the war started, some established hacker groups sympathetic to Iranian leadership have claimed minor attacks, but most have been relegated to briefly altering the appearance of a website, and none have appeared to have had major impact. Some tech and cybersecurity companies, including Google, and the email cybersecurity company Proofpoint have told NBC News that they have largely seen Iran’s hackers conducting espionage related to the war.
But that appears to have changed Wednesday, with what appears to have been a different type of attack that also deleted information from devices. A Stryker employee, who requested to not be identified because they are not authorized to speak for the company, said that employee’s work-issued phones stopped working, grinding work and communications with colleagues to a standstill.
Handala Team has claimed responsibility for the Stryker hack in statements on its Telegram and X accounts. The group routinely brags about its exploits on the social media platforms, which have in recent days taken down previous versions of their accounts.
Specifics of how the hack was conducted are not clear. But public evidence of the hack points to the likelihood that hackers gained access to the company’s Microsoft Intune account, which the employee confirmed Stryker uses. From there, Handala appears to have wiped some employees’ devices back to factory settings, an expert said.
“They seem to have obtained access to the Microsoft Intune management console. This is a solution for managing corporate devices,” said Rafe Pilling, the director of threat intelligence at the cybersecurity company Sophos, which has tied Handala to Iran’s Intelligence Ministry.
“One of the features is the ability to remotely wipe a device if it’s lost/stolen etc. Looks like they triggered that for some or all of the enrolled devices,” he said in a written exchange.
Microsoft’s website describes the remote wipe feature as “commonly used when a device needs to be retired, repurposed, reset for troubleshooting, or securely erased if lost or stolen.”
In a statement on its website Wednesday, Stryker said that the disruption was due to a cyberattack but that its own systems were not directly hacked and that ransomware — a common type of cybercrime that can also significantly disrupt companies’ networks — was not a factor.
“Stryker is experiencing a global network disruption to our Microsoft environment as a result of a cyber attack. We have no indication of ransomware or malware and believe the incident is contained,” the statement said.
The company did not respond to a request for further details. Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment.
IbrahimSola: Surely whoever posted this report is a learner. People should endeavor to provide back stories to their posts. The OP should have included what the guy tweeted.
You are a learner if you did not see the links to previous posts. You are in fact at infant level if you think I'm going to post tweets that break the law.
Since some people are asking why the DSS could track Affan yet (according to these people) they can't track bandits, Boko Haram, etc. I think I should quote my posts about tracking again.
(This is really just an excuse to post Mike Ozekhome's story again).
Some people complain that the DSS could track down Aminu Mohammed, yet they can't track down kidnappers, bandits and terrorists. This statement doesn't make sense to me. In fact this is false equivalence to me.
Firstly, let's get one thing out of the way, Aminu Mohammed was not arrested by the DSS. However, that's not important in this discussion.
Secondly, this is the reason that I say that it is false equivalence. Aminu Mohammed is just a student who tweeted something. He probably never thought that he would be arrested or that his tweet would have such an impact, therefore, he didn't bother to hide his location or identity.
On the other hand, terrorists, bandits and kidnappers know that the authorities are out to get them and so they go to great lengths to hide their identity and location.
A good example is the case of Mike Ozekhome.
Mike Ozekhome is a well known lawyer and human rights activist. He was kidnapped in 2013 and he appeared on Good Morning Nigeria on the NTA after he was released. He told a very interesting story when he appeared on the programme.
Kingsley and Claire asked him how he was, what happened at the point that he was kidnapper, etc, but there was something else that they didn't ask him, but he took time to explain in detail.
The kidnappers allowed him to speak to his relatives and he explained how this was done. A kidnapper would take Mr Ozekhome's phone and another phone and go far away from their camp, to the middle of nowhere. The batteries of the phones would have already been removed.
The kidnapper would get to a place, put the batteries in the phones and use one phone to call the kidnappers' camp and use Mike Ozekhome's phone to call his relatives. He would then put both phones on speaker. This was how Mike Ozekhome could speak to his relatives.
When he was done, the kidnapper would remove both batteries and quickly leave the area.
What this meant was that the authorities could not use sim registration to identify Ozekhome's kidnappers, because they used his phone to call his relatives, and they could not catch the kidnappers by triangulating their location, because they didn't make the call from their camp.
Obviously Aminu Mohammed would not go to such lengths to hide his identity and location.
naptu2: Besides, the authorities have tracked down and arrested many terrorists, bandits and kidnappers (both within and outside the country). The people that kidnapped Mr Ozekhome were eventually arrested. Some examples include Kabiru Sokoto, Hamisu Bala (Wadume), Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike (Evans), etc.
naptu2: There is a third part of this series that I have not yet had the time to write.
naptu2: This is part of the third part of the series on kidnappers and tracking people's phones that I wanted to write. I have shown (using the Ozekhome example) that it is not easy to track kidnappers.
Therefore, people have asked me, why do we have SIM registration, BVN, NIN, etc, when it's not easy to use them to track kidnappers?
The answer is that many criminals have been caught using SIM registration, BVN, NIN, etc. Even the criminals that are difficult to track can still be apprehended or curtailed using those methods. I will explain in detail this night, but read this example.
I have followed the news very closely for more than 40 years and that's why it was easy for me to notice this trend and to figure out what was causing it.
There was a time that kidnapped people were regaining their freedom. They were not rescued by the security forces, yet they were regaining their freedom because of the security forces.
Quite often, when there's a crime, the media would focus a lot of attention on it for a short period and then move on. The crime would be talked about by the public and then everybody would move on. I don't move on, I usually follow the reports in detail. So, for example, many people will easily remember that there was a major robbery incident in Lekki in 2015, but few people will remember that the robbers were caught a few months later and fewer people will remember what the robbers told journalists about their operation. I remember all of that.
So I noticed that kidnapped people were regaining their freedom and I remembered what they said about how they became free.
There were instances when the kidnapped people said that they had been held in a camp for a while and then, all of a sudden, the kidnappers began moving them around and then, eventually, the kidnappers abandoned them and they found their way to freedom.
Some kidnapped people said that they noticed aircraft (usually helicopters or fighter jets) regularly flying past their location before the kidnappers abandoned them.
Some of the hostages actually said that there was pressure from the security forces and they heard the kidnappers talking about it before they were abandoned in the bush.
Taking that information and linking it to what Mike Ozekhome said, I suspect that the security services were triangulating the location of the phones that were used to make ransom demands. Mike Ozekhome said that a kidnapper would take his phone and another phone to another location and call from there (using the speaker function to connect both phones). Well, if the security forces regularly triangulate the location of those calls, then they will have a general area to patrol. They won't get the location of the kidnappers, because the calls were not made from the kidnapper's location, but they would have a general idea of the region in which the kidnapper is operating and by patrolling that region, they would be able to put pressure on the kidnapper.
If a kidnapper notices that there are more aerial patrols around his location, if, when he goes to buy food and other necessities, he notices that there are more ground patrols, then he might feel that it is safer to distance himself from the hostages, so that he won't be caught with them.
Lastly, things like SIM registration, NIN and BVN are also very important because not every criminal is clever and good at hiding his tracks and those measures will help the security forces to apprehend those criminals, such as the one in the last example below.
naptu2: The last time that I wrote about the way that criminal groups communicate, I was referring to bandits and kidnappers. I wasn't really thinking about terrorists. Of course terrorists use more sophisticated methods.
I often wrote about it in 2011-2016, I haven't written about it recently, but it's now time to update my posts.
Terrorists often use satellite phones to communicate. Back then I referred to Thuraya satellite phones which were popular in Nigeria in the 2000s and 2010s. These phones do not use the regular cell towers (they communicate directly with satellites) so it's difficult for phone companies to track them. They can also avoid sim registration regulations.
Well, now there are reports that the terrorists are using Starlink systems for communication. These perform the same functions as satellite phones but they are cheaper and easier to use.
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