News From Nigeria

I congratulate Nigeria for the adoption of a Nigerian language, Yoruba, as a testing language for the Department of Motor Vehicles in the United States. Similarly, since 2014, Selfridges and Harrods have been employing Yoruba-speaking staff, and the UK Metropolitan ...

Burkina Faso’s presidential office reported that talks have been held between interim President Ibrahim Traore and a delegation led by Russia’s deputy defense minister to investigate possible military cooperation between the two countries. A Russian delegation held talks with Interim ...

The Cameroonian president, Paul Biya has reportedly made critical changes to the country’s ministry of defense. Key security posts were reshuffled, including that of the delegate to the presidency in charge of defense, Air Force staff, navy and the police. ...

The situation in Gabon and across West Africa represents a ‘big issue’ for the bloc’s defense ministers, Josep Borrell has said. European Union defense ministers will discuss the situation in the Central African state of Gabon, the bloc’s foreign-policy chief ...

Central African bloc ECCAS says it “firmly” condemns the military takeover in Libreville and is considering how to respond. Officers from the Gabonese Armed Forces have appointed the chief of the Republican Guard, General Brice Oligui Nguema, as the Central ...

Ali Bongo has called on his supporters and “friends around the world to make some noise” over the military coup. Gabonese President Ali Bongo has been placed under house arrest and is surrounded by his family and doctors, military officers behind ...

In 2017, the UN Security Council (UNSC) imposed sanctions on Mali in response to the security situation and continued hostilities in the country in violation of the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali. The UNSC sanctions regime consisted of ...

Report: The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali has sped up its withdrawal from the city of Ber in the north after a surge in fighting. The UN mission, known as MINUSMA, said in a statement on Sunday that “deteriorating ...

“Can we continue to service external debts with 90% of our revenue? It is a path to destruction. It is not sustainable. We must make the very difficult changes that are necessary for our country to get up from slumber ...