Tag: Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar

Nigeria Rejects US Push To Deport 300,000 Venezuelan Prisoners To Abuja

Abibat Babalola

. ‘We’re already facing significant domestic challenges. No to being a dumping ground for prisoners of Venezuelan descent being Deported by US,’ word-for-word statement by foreign affairs minister, Yusuf Tuggar     The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar has declared that Nigeria will not yield to pressure from the United States to accept Venezuelan deportees. Speaking in an interview on Thursday, Tuggar said Nigeria is already facing significant domestic challenges and cannot become a “dumping ground” for Venezuelan prisoners being deported amid the U.S. immigration crackdown. “We have enough…

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Nigeria Rejects Move To Split AU’s Political, Peace And Security Dept

ADEOLA YUSUF

What the Nigerian President said about Rwanda and Kenya counterparts, Paul Kagame and Williams Ruto, for the reform proposals.   Nigeria’s President Tinubu has rejected the proposal to create a new department out of the existing Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security at the African Union (AU). Platforms Africa reports that Nigerian diplomat, Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, heads the department. He was re-elected to another term at the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government, which ended Sunday. Backing the proposal of any move…

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