🇳🇬🗳📃 — 📰 Nigeria's The Guardian: Biafra Referendum: Court fixes March 30 for suit on self-determination
— "A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, adjourned the hearing on the suit filed by the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) seeking a referendum to determine the fate of Biafra and other self-determination agitations to March 30, 2023.

It would be recalled that the CNG, in June 2021, dragged the National Assembly and the Attorney-General of the Federation to court, asking it to compel the defendants to halt the ongoing constitutional review exercise and in its place, conduct a referendum to ascertain “what determines Nigeria and who populates it.”

The case was adjourned after the court presided over by Justice Inyang Ekwo could not sit as scheduled."

Link
https://archive.is/xsknw

🇳🇬❌🇫🇮 — 📰 Business Day: Federal Government summons Finnish Ambassador over Simon Ekpa‘s threats to bar elections in South East
— "Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday summoned the Finnish Ambassador, over misinfornation, disinformation, hate speech and incitive comments by a Nigerian-Finnish lawyer and Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, which many fear could derail the peaceful conduct of 2023 general elections.

At the meeting with the Finnish Ambassador to Nigeria, Leena Pylvanainen, Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama expressed displeasure over the orders given by Simon Ekpa to his teeming followers who consequently embarked on killings, maiming, burning and other destructive activities.

The Ekpa-led faction of the outlawed Indigenous People’s of Biafra (IPOB) had reportedly declared that elections will not be allowed to hold in the South-East, and had declared the period of the elections as sit-at-home."

Link
https://archive.is/E8Doa

🇳🇬🗳📃 — Nigeria, The Nextier poll, Presidential Election:

Obi (LP, centre-left):
— 39%
Abubakar (PDP, centre-right):
— 28% (-13)
Tinubu (APC, centre):
— 25% (-31)

🔗 Africa Elects (@AfricaElect)

🇳🇿🆘❗️ — A M5.7 earthquake occurred in New Zealand, reports the US Geological Survey

The epicenter of the earthquake was reportedly located at 98 km northwest of Lower Hutt near Wellington

The earthquake is assessed as "destructive" per local media

🇷🇺🎙📃 — 📰 RIA Novosti: Putin will deliver a message to the Federal Assembly on February 21, Peskov said

https://t.me/rian_ru/193913

🇷🇺🎙📃 — 📰 RIA Novosti: Putin will approve the concept of Russia's foreign policy in the near future, said Peskov

https://t.me/rian_ru/193914

🇯🇵❌🇷🇺— 📰 RIA Novosti: The subject of a peace treaty with Japan is closed for Russia, the Foreign Ministry said

https://t.me/rian_ru/193926

🇵🇱❌🇧🇾 — 🇷🇺 Russian State Media, RIA Novosti on Telegram (February 10, 2023):
— "Poland may close all checkpoints on the border with Belarus, the Polish prime minister said.

Yesterday, Warsaw announced the closure of the crossing at the Bobrovniki checkpoint, Minsk protested and said that it saw no objective reasons for this.

Today, the Polish Foreign Ministry explained that the reason for the closure was "issues related to national security", and recalled the case of the activist of the Union of Poles Andrzej Poczobut, who was sentenced in Belarus to 8 years in prison."

https://t.me/rian_ru/193933

🐺🤝🏴 — Another Controversy on social medias as Danish TV DRTV interviewed some Ichkerian Volunteers to Ukrainian Volunteer Battalions

On the shoulder of one of the Ickherian Militants, a Patch of the Infamous Flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) the salafi-jihadist terrorist group that plagued the Middle East and Africa for years between 2006-2019

Interestingly, it is worth noting that many of the Ickherian militants came from Chechen factions based in rebel areas of Syria, beyond the traditional separatist groups based in the European Union

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼🇺🇸 — 🇺🇸 Deputy Secretary of State, Wendy R. Sherman: The United States hopes China will not use a visit by a member of Congress to Taiwan as a pretext for military action

🇷🇺🎙📃 — 🇷🇺 Russian State Media, TASS on Telegram:

— "The broadcast hour scheduled by TV channels for Vladimir Putin's message to the Federal Assembly on February 21 is a formality, this does not indicate the expected duration of the speech, Dmitry Peskov told our agency.

As previously reported, federal TV channels will show Putin's message to the Federal Assembly at 12:00 Moscow time on February 21. At the same time, from 13:00 Moscow time, other programs appear in the broadcasting grid of Channel One, Rossiya-1, NTV."

https://t.me/tass_agency/180947

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 📰 The Telegraph: Russia planning air assault to support major new offensive

— "Russia is preparing a new air assault with fighter jets and attack helicopters to support its large-scale offensive in Ukraine, Western intelligence has warned.

Intelligence shared amongst the alliance’s member states shows a build-up of fixed-wing and rotary aircraft on Russia’s borders with Ukraine, according to two people briefed on the discussions.

It is believed Moscow could attempt to use the air assets to gain the initiative in the eastern Donbas region because the artillery-led ground forces have so far failed to do so."

Link
https://archive.is/jLdG3