January 8, 2022

The UN Security Council has announced that it will meet next Wednesday in an informal session to address the latest developments in Sudan as demonstrations against military rule in the African nation continue.

According to diplomatic sources, the session will be behind closed doors, the sources said Friday, adding that the meeting was requested by six of the council’s 15 members.

A common position of the Security Council ‘is not expected, as China and Russia would oppose it,’ a diplomat said on condition of anonymity.

Africa Daily News, New York undertsnds that Beijing and Moscow in the past have stressed …

The Senator representing Imo West in the red chambers of the national assembly, Rochas Okorocha has accused the State Governor, Hope Uzodinma of being in charge of a killer squad known as Hopism Strike Force, HSF.

Okorocha alleged that the killer squad was behind the insecurity crisis rocking Imo State.

Speaking with journalists at his Owerri residence, the former governor alleged that the strike force comprised the military, police, DSS and Ebubeagu.

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Okorocha dared the governor to open up on who killed a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), …

The Director-General of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Dr. Lukman Salihu has asked the Chairman of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) and the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni to honourably resign if he fails to conduct the party’s convention tentatively slated for February.

According to him, the party leaders must understand that the survival of the party was at stake and any attempt to continue to contemplate postponement of the convention would simply mean gambling with the future of the party.

Lukman’s demand for Buni’s resignation was made known in a letter dated January 5, 2022 titled,…