By Oduyemi Odumade The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dr. Abbas Tajudeen has solicited the assistance of the United States Government in tackling the menace of insecurity and corruption. The Speaker who made the appeal in Abuja while addressing a delegation from the US Embassy in Nigeria, led by the Chargé d’Affaires, Mr. David Greene, observed that the failure of Nigeria, the most populous black nation in the […]
The United States is pausing certain foreign assistance programmes to the government of Gabon following last month’s coup, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement released by the Department of State on Tuesday. The pause would continue while “[we] evaluate the unconstitutional intervention by members of the country’s military”, Blinken said, adding that the move is in line with steps taken by the Economic Community of Central African […]
The United States government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing $9 million in humanitarian assistance to bolster disaster response efforts in Northeast Nigeria. In a statement, through the United Nations’ International Organisation for Migration, the funds would provide emergency shelter, water and sanitation, psychosocial support services, and cash to population affected by floods from the ongoing rainy season across Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe States. In addition, […]
