United States President, Joe Biden has appointed Nigerian-born Enoh Titilayo Ebong as the acting director of the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). “As Acting Director, Ms. Ebong leads an agency that partners with the U.S....
US President-elect Joe Biden has appointed Nigerian-born Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo into his cabinet in the office of the White House counsel. The office of White House counsel advises the president, the executive office of the president,...
President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, has named a Nigerian-American, Osaremen Okolo as his COVID-19 policy advisor. Okolo was among 100 names announced as additional members of the White House staff by the Biden transition...
The US has suggested that the process to find a new Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) needs to be reopened, in what would be an unprecedented move. Donald Trump's trade chief Robert Lighthizer told...
* The economy to exit recession by the fourth quarter as it recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic * Nigeria has fulfilled the conditions for a World Bank loan and is in the final stages of closing...
Oil rose for a fifth day on Thursday after a surprise fall in U.S. crude inventories gave further legs to a rally driven by optimism that vaccines will end the coronavirus pandemic and revive demand...
President Donald Trump has accepted a formal US transition should begin for President-elect Joe Biden to take office. The president said the General Services Administration (GSA), the federal agency overseeing the handover must "do what needs...
The outgoing administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday issued a new temporary rule that could require tourist and business travelers from two dozen countries, most in Africa, to pay a bond of as...
President Donald Trump for the first time, on Sunday, briefly acknowledged losing the U.S. election in Twitter post but then backtracked, saying he concedes “nothing” and vowing to keep up a court fight that election-law...
The US Department of Homeland Security broke away from President Trump on Thursday, calling the 2020 presidential race 'the most secure in American history,' and stressing that there is no evidence of fraud. The Department's Elections...