ABUJA — The Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity) Garba Shehu has disclosed that 4,000 Nigerians are stranded in Ukraine and unable to cross its borders into neighbouring Poland. In a statement on Sunday night, Garba noted that Ukrainian police and security personnel are refusing to allow them to board buses and trains heading towards the Ukraine-Poland border. The statement reads: “While efforts to begin talks between Russia and Ukraine are underway,...

AWKA — The Ambassador of Poland to Nigeria,  Joanna Tarnawska has in a conversation with Prof. Kingsley Moghalu — retired career United Nations Diplomat, former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, and Political Economy expert said that her country is open for Africans and Nigerians, seeking to take refuge in Poland, from Ukraine. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has forced residents of Ukraine to seek refuge in nearby Poland. However, there have been...

ADDIS ABABA — The Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr. Buki Ponle, says efforts are being made to reopen the agency’s Bureau in Addis Ababa. Ponle made this known in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, when he paid a courtesy visit to Amb. Victor Adeleke, Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the African Union and Ambassador to Ethiopia and the Republic of Djibouti. He described the reopening of the office, which was closed down in...