Tag: ENVOY

“We have made progress on war against insecurity, Buhari tells new Envoys

Aminu Imam

…Warns against foreign interference in 2023 President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, told newly accredited foreign ambassadors that Nigeria has made progress in tackling insecurity with the help of some friendly countries. Receiving Letters of Credence of the Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Amb. James Kingston Christoff, and Ambassador of Mexico to Nigeria, Juan Alfred Miranda Oritz, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Buhari also commended collective the efforts of nations towards tackling security challenges across the globe, and within Nigeria, urging more collaboration to check terrorism, banditry and insurgency. He said that…

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Zambia’s founding President Kenneth Kaunda not dead – envoy

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Zambian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Solomon Jere, has refuted media reports that the country’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, is dead. The High Commissioner, who made the clarification in Abuja at a media briefing, urged people to ignore the reports which he described as “contemptuous rumours”. Kaunda, one of the leaders of the front-line States, comprising Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia, that helped in the liberation of most of Southern Africa from colonialism is 96 years-old and shall turn 97 on April 28. The High Commissioner also refuted media reports that…

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