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Nigeria and India are deepening their strategic partnership across trade, investment, defence, energy, healthcare, agriculture and technology, with bilateral trade rising to about $9 billion in the 2025–26 financial year. India’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Abhishek Singh, disclosed this during a media interaction with diplomatic correspondents in Abuja. Singh…
US President Donald Trump has thrown his support behind FIFA president Gianni Infantino as the football chief faces mounting criticism over a failed private investment plan and allegations of a workplace affair. Trump said FIFA would make a “terrible mistake” by replacing Infantino, who is due to seek re-election next…
Colombia has declared a state of emergency after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake killed at least 111 people and damaged more than 1,000 buildings. The earthquake struck western Colombia at 07:34 local time (12:34 GMT), triggering rescue operations as authorities searched for people trapped beneath collapsed buildings. President Abelardo de…
The trial of former gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis over the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur has begun in Las Vegas, nearly three decades after the hip-hop star was fatally shot. Davis, 63, is accused of orchestrating the drive-by shooting that killed Shakur, one of America’s most…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he no longer has confidence in FIFA President Gianni Infantino, intensifying growing international pressure on the football chief following the collapse of a controversial plan to open the FIFA World Cup to private investment. Carney, whose country co-hosted the expanded 2026 FIFA…
The United States has revoked the visa of Brazil’s ambassador to Washington, Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, escalating a diplomatic dispute between the two countries just months before Brazil’s presidential election. A US State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity said the decision would be reversed if Brazil approved President…
The United States has introduced a new immigration rule allowing certain asylum applications to be referred directly to immigration judges without applicants first undergoing interviews with asylum officers, as authorities seek to reduce the country’s growing asylum backlog. The interim final rule, announced by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services…
The United States says it will resume negotiations with Iran in a renewed diplomatic effort to end months of fighting, after President Donald Trump said he had shelved plans for a major military strike in favour of talks. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said negotiations would…
Firefighters are battling massive wildfires sweeping through the northwestern US city of Spokane, Washington, after hundreds of homes and other structures were destroyed and thousands of residents were forced to flee. Three separate fires broke out in and around Spokane over the weekend, fuelled by strong winds, extreme dryness…
“Ninety-seven percent (97%) of the Ambassadors appointed by His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu have successfully received the Agreement (Agrèment) of their respective host countries,” the statement said. Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says 65 of the 69 ambassadors-designate appointed by President Bola Tinubu have received diplomatic…
