Chairperson of the African Union (AU), President Alpha Conde of Guinea, on Friday, called President Muhammadu Buhari in London, to wish him good health and speedy recovery. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina disclosed this in a statement. He said Conde called Buhari on behalf of leaders of member countries of the AU. Adesina said Conde assured the Nigerian President that all African leaders stand with him in prayers at a time like this. He said: “Buhari, while thanking President Conde for the telephone call, used the opportunity to congratulate him on his recent…

As the President Muhammadu Buhari administration continues its anti-corruption effort, the United States government has expressed concern over the capacity of Nigeria’s States Security Service, SSS, to investigate money laundering. The U.S. government also expressed worry about the SSS’ refusal to share intelligence with sister agencies to investigate financial improprieties. “There are concerns about the Department of State Services’ capacity to investigate money laundering and that it does not share case information with other agencies that also conduct financial investigations", the report states. The assessment is contained in March 2017 edition of the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) authored…

U.S. President Donald Trump accused predecessor Barack Obama on Saturday of wiretapping him during the late stages of the 2016 election campaign, but offered no evidence for an allegation which an Obama spokesman said was "simply false". Trump made the accusation in a series of early morning tweets just weeks into his administration and amid rising scrutiny of his campaign's ties to Russia. "How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!", Trump wrote in one tweet. "I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great…

Nigeria wants Royal Dutch Shell to reopen one of its main pipelines but the oil multinational is resisting, analysts say, for fear it could once again be bombed by militants. The Trans Forcados Pipeline, the main feed to the 400,000-barrel-a-day Forcados export terminal, has been shut for all but three weeks of the past year, Lagos-based SBM Intelligence said in its weekly risk analysis published Friday. In their most sophisticated attack, militants used divers to blow up an underwater section of the pipeline in the Atlantic a year ago. Defying militant death threats, Shell flew in underwater engineers who took…