>>>Coalition for Media Politics and Governance, CMPG, has commended Delta North Traditional Rulers Forum, for supporting the idea of power rotation among the three senatorial districts in the state.
>>>The U.S. government is concerned that the Russian government may retaliate for recent Ukraine-related sanctions by arresting American citizens in Russia and holding them as pawns in the conflict, current and former U.S. officials tell NBC News.
>>>Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the list of new voters to registered political parties. National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, said this on Tuesday in Abuja at the end of the commission’s management meeting.
>>>Man rapes his daughter in Kebbi: Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kebbi state command, Tuesday arrested and paraded a 40 year old suspect, Aminu Bello for allegedly raping his 13 year old daughter Hafsat.
>>>The Ukraine military says Russian paratroopers have landed in its besieged second-largest city Kharkiv.
>>>Meanwhile, Russia’s defence ministry says its troops have now captured the southern city of Kherson
>>>But there has been little movement by a 40 mile-long convoy of Russian armoured vehicles north of Kyiv
>>>On Monday five people died after Russia attacked a TV tower in the capital, Ukrainian officials say
>>>US President Joe Biden says in a speech to Congress that Vladimir Putin underestimated the West’s response to the war
“Putin’s war was premeditated and unprovoked,” he says, adding that Nato is ready and the world is united in its response
>>>Stock market trading on the Moscow Exchange will be suspended for a third day, says Russia’s central bank
>>>President Putin “would rather decimate Ukraine than have it in the Western camp” says the BBC’s Frank Gardner.
>>>At least 21 people were killed and 112 wounded in the shelling of Ukraine’s second most populous city Kharkiv, according to the city’s mayor
>>>There are reports of a new rocket attack in the city, that has struck the building of the regional police department in the city, and part of Karazin University
>>>Russian paratroopers have also landed in Kharkiv in an effort to take the besieged eastern Ukrainian city, according to Ukraine’s military
>>>Russian military forces seem to be making more concrete gains in Ukraine’s south, and Russia’s defence ministry claims it has taken the southern city of Kherson
>>>Television broadcasts and access to news has been disrupted as two Russian missiles struck a TV tower, killing five people and leaving five others injured.
>>>Residents of the north-eastern city of Sumy have been ordered into shelters over the threat of artillery fire, according to the regional governor
>>>Elsewhere in the world, US president Joe Biden delivered a State of the Union address, in which he announced the closure of US airspace to Russian planes
He also noted the determined resistance of Ukrainians, saying “Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he will never gain the hearts and souls of the Ukrainian people”
