President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is visiting France on a state visit, hosted by President Emmanuel Macron. While President Tinubu has visited France at different times since he assumed office, most of the trips have been private. However, his first official foreign trip in June 2023, less than a month after his inauguration, was to Paris to attend the “Summit on …

President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja for Paris, France, on Wednesday. According to his Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, the President is on a private visit, which will run till the first week of February. This is President Tinubu’s third to the French capital since he assumed office eight months ago. On 20th …

The Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Saturday reacted to the criticisms from Nigerians over the photographs she took in Paris, France. Mrs. Okonjo-Oweala had posted a photograph of herself in which President Bola Tinubu was cropped out. The WTO DG had taken the photograph during the summit for ‘A New Global Financing Pact’, …

President Bola Tinubu has departed Abuja for Paris, France to join his counterparts from across the world at the Paris Summit for the New Global Financial Pact. The President’s official Gulfstream jet departed the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at 11:30 am Tuesday for his first foreign trip as president. The two-day summit, which will be hosted …

FIBA has banned the Russia and Belarus men’s basketball teams from the second-chance qualification tournaments for the 2024 Olympics. FIBA, or the International Basketball Federation, announced the development on Tuesday. Athletes from Russia and Belarus have faced sanctions from a multitude of sports since Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year. As Moscow’s assault on Ukraine stretches into a second year, the …