Upon arrival, US President Donald Trump exchanged greetings with the visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin on the tarmac upon of Anchorage, the US state of Alaska, on Friday. The two leaders are scheduled to begin their talks at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in the city of Anchorage at 11:30 am localContinue Reading
Who’s Who in the U.S. and Russian Delegations: By – Lawal Sale U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to meet at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska on Friday, with the Russian delegation having arrived Thursday morning local time. Each president is accompanied by high-level delegationsContinue Reading
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has appointed a Chinese national, Mr. Li Zhensheng, as Economic Adviser to the state government. Mohammed made the announcement on Thursday during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the China Global Promotion Cooperation Research Centre in Bauchi. According to him, the move isContinue Reading
When is Trump meeting Putin? The two leaders will not be flanked by their advisers when they come face-to-face for the highly-anticipated meeting. The last meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin was in 2017. What time is Trump meeting Putin? The talks are scheduled to startContinue Reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the Trump administration’s “energetic” efforts to stop the war in Ukraine and hinted that Moscow and Washington could strike a deal on nuclear arms control during their summit on Friday in Alaska. In his first public comments since US President Donald Trump announced theContinue Reading
By Lawal Sale The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has congratulated Mr. Idris Olorunnimbe, Chairman-designate of the Commission’s Board, alongside other distinguished designate-Board members, as well as the designate-members of the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) Board, on their appointment by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. According to a statement signedContinue Reading
By Our Correspondent The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has reiterated its commitment to the full operationalisation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Executive Order on Critical National Information Infrastructure (CNII). The Executive Order designates telecommunications facilities as critical national assets deserving optimal protection. In a press statement signed by theContinue Reading
Ahead of his call with world leaders on Wednesday, Trump strongly criticized what he claimed has been “very unfair” media coverage of his upcoming talk with Putin. “Very unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin. Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people,” Trump said viaContinue Reading
South Korea’s military shrank by 20% in the past six years to 450,000 troops, largely due to a sharp drop in the population of males of enlistment age for mandatory service in the country with the world’s lowest birthrate, a report said on Sunday. The dramatic decline in the poolContinue Reading
In N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, celebrations marking the 65th anniversary of the country’s independence were held on 11 August, including a large-scale military parade reviewed by the country’s leader Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, according to the presidential website. The parade featured foot, mechanised and air units. On theContinue Reading
