Foreign Affairs

BIDEN PHONES TINUBU OVER BINANCE EXECUTIVE, OTHER ISSUES President Bola Tinubu has received a called from President Joe Biden of the United States of America. The call which took place at about 4pm, Nigerian time lasted for about 30 minutes. This was disclosed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, while briefing state House Correspondents about the development. …

GHANA TO IMPORT PETROLEUM PRODUCTS FROM DANGOTE REFINERY The Ghana National Petroleum Authority (NPA) says it is considering buying petroleum products from the Dangote Petroleum Refinery once the facility is operating at full capacity. According to Reuters, Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, chairman of NPA, Ghana, spoke on Monday at the OTL Africa Downstream Oil Conference in Lagos. On September 3, Dangote refinery …

LIKE IN NIGERIA, BALLOT PAPERS SET ON FIRE, STOLEN, THROWN IN GUTTERS IN US ELECTION Ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington were set on fire with incendiary devices early Monday in what authorities believe are connected incidents, police said. The two arson incidents, which occurred near the Oregon-Washington border, are also believed to be connected to a third ballot box …

GHANA’S FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER, BOTCHWEY, EMERGES COMMONWEALTH SECRETARY GENERAL, TINUBU HAILS HER Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Botchwey, has emerged as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. Leaders of the 56 Commonwealth nations meeting in Apia, Samoa, on Friday, elected Botchwey as the 7th Secretary-General. The 61-year-old former lawmaker, who has served as Ghana’s foreign minister for the …

As the American general elections approach on November 5, the polit­ical environment is as turbulent as ever. The race for the White House has taken on an unpredictable turn, dominat­ed by polarizing debates, media bias, and unprecedented events that are shifting public opinion in ways never seen before. One of the most striking as­pects of this election is the num­ber …

UK DEPORTS 44 NIGERIAN/GHANIAN ASYLUM SEEKERS The United Kingdom has deported 44 Nigerian and Ghanaian asylum seekers, marking the highest number of deportations in a single flight to date, according to a report by the UK Guardian. This deportation comes just 48 hours after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a controversial deal to deport migrants arriving on small boats …

HOW MANY AFRICAN COUNTRIES HAS WORLD BANK TAKEN TO PROMISED LAND’? – SHEHU SANI Social activist and former Nigerian lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has knocked the World Bank and the President Bola Tinubu-led government’s economic policies despite its harsh effects on Nigerians. Sani said that the World Bank only wanted the hardship in Nigeria to extend to the next 15 …

LONGEST LIVED AMERICAN PRESIDENT IN HISTORY, JIMMY CARTER, VOTES FOR KAMALA HARRIS IN US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION The 39th president, who entered hospice care in February 2023, submitted an absentee ballot, according to a grandson. His family said he had been eager to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. The longest-lived president in American history has voted again. Jimmy Carter, who …

CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE WHO WILL SUFFER IF TRUMP WINS AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION – SHEHU SANI Ahead of the forthcoming United States presidential election, the former senator who represented the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial Zone, Senator Shehu Sani, has listed the categories of people who will suffer if Donald Trump wins the presidential election in the United States of …