•The United Nations Security Council The UN Security Council will meet Monday to discuss Ukraine, a revised schedule showed, after Kyiv’s mayor urged residents to leave the capital due to mass heating outages caused by Russian strikes. “The Russian Federation has reached an appalling new level of war crimes and crimes against humanity by its [...
•Governors All the Southern Governors are billed to hold meeting today in Ogun State to address “pressing national issues,” a statement by the Chairman of the Forum, Governor Dapo Abiodun, has disclosed. This meeting is coming in wake of rising insecurity and abductions in the northern part of the country, reports Daily Trust. Recall that [&he...
•Northern governors The 19 Northern State Governors will hold a crucial meeting on Saturday November 29 to discuss the region’s pressing security challenges. Peter Ahemba, Senior Special Assistant to the Nasarawa State Governor on Public Affairs, disclosed this in a phone interview with our correspondent. According to Peter Ahemba, the Norther...
•Nigeria’s security chiefs The National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, is currently meeting with service chiefs and heads of security and intelligence agencies in Abuja. The agenda of the closed-door meeting was not known at the time of filing this report. The meeting follows reports alleging that US President Donald Trump issued a direc...
•Wike and Makinde The growing conflict between the factions loyal to Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde and former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has intensified the crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party, threatening the planned 99th National Executive Committee meeting scheduled for May 27. In a statement released yesterday, Wike announc...
•PDP governors In a wider consultation on how to address the wave of defections and the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, governors elected on the platform have invited former governors and other stakeholders of the party to a meeting today (Sunday) in Abuja. Our correspondent gathered from an insider that the governors also summone...
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has begun an emergency meeting at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. The meeting, currently being held behind closed doors today, comes amid the gale of defections sweeping through the ranks and strongholds of the opposition party as well as the internal crises that h...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) is currently holding an emergency meeting at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja. The meeting was called to find lasting solutions to the current leadership crisis bedevilling the party, reports Vanguard. Discussions are expected to revolve around the multiple court judgments affecting...
As the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party persists, the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum and Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has charged the factional acting National Chairman of the party, Umar Damagum, to revert to the status quo. A senior party member informed our correspondent that the PDP Governors Forum has called for [...
•Thick smoke rises above the southern suburbs of Beirut after Israel strike last weekend The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting today on the escalating violence in Lebanon, said Slovenia’s mission to the UN, which holds the rotating presidency of the council. “After consulting with the delegations, the presidency in...

