Ambassador Joe Keshi is Nigeria’s retired top career diplomat to the United States. In this interview, he diagnoses the US reduction, last week, of the five-year visa validity for Nigerians to three months, effective 8 July 2025, stressing the urgent need for Nigeria to negotiate and build a cordial relationship with the US as this means more trouble for Nigeria’s …

United States President Donald Trump never ceases to amaze with his haughty and self-aggrandising governance style, endless huffing and puffing, brinkmanship, and tendency to weaponise America’s often-stated exceptionalism and unilateralism. Last weekend, as member states of the fledgling association of the Global South and a growing economic bloc, otherwise called BRICS, were holding their 17th Summit in the Brazilian city …

As I was saying…as my boss, Allah-De for some years now, of blessed memory, was wont to say — for how much longer will the world have to wait to see peace restored to the Middle East. United States President, Mr. Donald Trump believes after his meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, that what has been achieved goes …

It’s hard not to love United States President Donald Trump. He is the world’s most powerful president and wears his preeminence on his sleeve. Not for him the crooked modesty of the Chinese or the boring self-effacement of the British. Six months after his second inauguration, it’s been one day, one Trump. Two of his latest alter egos have been …

United States President Donald Trump complimented the president of Liberia Wednesday on his English-speaking skills — despite English being the official language of the West African nation. Trump was hosting a White House lunch with African leaders Wednesday, and — after brief remarks from President Joseph Boakai — asked the business graduate where he had picked up his linguistic know-how. …

The United States Department of State has limited non-immigrant and non-diplomatic visas issued to Nigerian citizens to a single-entry with a three-month validity period. In a statement on Tuesday, the US Mission in Nigeria said that the move aligned with the Donald Trump administration’s reciprocal non-immigrant visa policy, impacting several countries, including Nigeria. ‘Effective immediately, most non-immigrant and non-diplomatic visas …

The ceasefire between Israel and Iran, announced just hours earlier, is already under strain. United States President Donald Trump said both sides had agreed to the ceasefire, effectively ending the 12-day war. Iran and Israel also confirmed that they would pause hostilities. However, Israeli Prime Minister’s office vowed to ‘respond forcefully’ to any violations of the truce. Before the truce began, …

Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States of America is indeed an enigma. If he doesn’t exist America would have invented one. In a world that has slipped into ungodliness you need mad Republican presidents like Nixon, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump to sustain the macho image of America. In his …

A sweeping new travel ban introduced by United States (US) President Donald Trump came into effect at midnight on Monday, blocking entry into the United States for citizens of 12 countries and reviving a controversial policy from his first term, BBC reported. The measure, which the administration says is part of an intensified immigration crackdown, halts travel from nations including …

The world has never been short of demagogues and fools, but the remedies have often matched the supply. In 1990, during President Nelson Mandela’s thank-you tour of the world, he was asked at the City College of New York, Harlem, United States, why he remained friends with Muammar Gaddafi, Yasser Arafat, and Fidel Castro. He replied that he didn’t think …