China says it will send a delegation to Israel after its ambassador to Tel Aviv, Du Wei, was found dead in his home on Sunday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on Monday. “They are sending a delegation to help with the arrangements of sending the body back to China,’’ Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lior Haiat told dpa. He would not confirm a report in the Israeli Haaretz daily that the delegation would examine the circumstances of the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday met behind closed doors with Guinea-Bissau’s President, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Embalo was received at the official residence of the president by the Nigerian leader. Speaking to State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, Embalo said he was on `routine visit’ to President Buhari, whom he described as his political father, for consultations and advice over...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he does not want to talk to his Chinese counterpart, and mused about ending the world’s largest trading relationship, amid rising tensions about the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking in an interview with Fox Business Network, Trump said he had a “very good relationship” with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but “right now, I don’t want to speak to him.” “There are many things we could do,” Trump said. “We could cut...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, on Thursday, said that Canada denied Nigerian carrier landing rights for a scheduled evacuation of Nigerians. The minister, however, said that further diplomatic negotiations were ongoing on the matter. Onyeama confirmed the development during the daily briefing by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID- 19 in Abuja. “It is true the Canadian Government denied landing rights to a Nigerian carrier scheduled for an evacuation duty, on...
The United States Government has certified Iran, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela and Cuba as “not cooperating fully” with its counterterrorism efforts in 2019. In a statement on Wednesday, the Department of State said it had notified Congress of the certification, done under Section 40A(a) of the Arms Export Control Act. By this action, the five countries are prohibited from the sale or license for export of defence articles and services, according to the statement. It...
The Nigeria High Commission in Canada says it is set to evacuate Nigerians stranded in that country due to coronavirus travel restrictions. In a statement on Monday, the mission said it had received no fewer than 200 requests for evacuation. To this end, it stated that a Boeing 777 aircraft operated by Air Peace had been specially arranged to fly the intending returnees home this Thursday. The high commission noted that it could be the...
Russia’s GRU military intelligence service appears to have got hold of many emails from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s constituency office in a 2015 hack attack on Germany’s parliament. Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, without citing its sources. The report says federal criminal police and the federal cyber agency had been able to partially reconstruct the attack and found that two email inboxes from Merkel’s office had been targeted. They contained email correspondence from 2012...
The U.S. Senate failed to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a resolution meant to curb his ability to take military action against Iran without congressional approval. The Senate requires a two-thirds majority to override a presidential veto, and Thursday’s 49-44 vote fell largely along party lines. The legislation passed the House of Representatives in March and the Senate in February in response to Trump ordering the killing of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in...
The Embassy of Israel in Nigeria on Thursday donated 2000 protective face masks to support Nigerian medical personnel in the ongoing fight against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Mr. Shimon Ben-Shoshan, Ambassador of Israel to Nigeria, while delivering the face masks to the Minister of Health, Mr. Osagie Ehanire, said that the items were designed in Israel and manufactured in Nigeria. Ben-Shoshan, also Permanent Representative of Israel to ECOWAS , said that the items were put...
The United States says its coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency assistance to Nigeria has risen to 30 million dollars (N11.2 billion). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this represents an additional 23 million dollars (N8.6 billion) COVID-19 aid from the U.S. to Nigeria. On March 27, the U.S., through its Department of State, announced a seven-million-dollar (N2.6 billion), “emergency health and humanitarian assistance” to boost the fight against the disease in Nigeria. According to the department,...
