Nigerian Senate during plenary on Tuesday, confirmed the ex-service chiefs as non-career ambassadors. They are General Abayomi G. Olonisakin from Ekiti state; Lt. General Tukur Y. Buratai from Borno; Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete E. Ibas from Cross River; Air Marshal Sadique B. Abubakar from Bauchi and Air Vice Marshal Muhammad S. Usman from Kano.

Nigerian ambassador to the United States, Mr Syvanus Nsofor is dead, aged 85, Arise News TV reports. He reportedly died in a Maryland hospital on Thursday. A retired justice of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, Nsofor assumed office as Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States on November 13, 2017. Born on March 17, 1935, Nsofor was ...

Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Canada, Amb. Adeyinka Asekun says the host country is unfairly denying a lot of Nigerians visas including students. Asekun stated this during a webinar on Nigeria’s 60th Independence Anniversary organised by the mission on Thursday evening. He expressed the hope that the issue would be addressed in the draft bilateral agreement, ...