Continuous optimism is the phrase that best describes the attitude of foreign policy analysts and diplomats who watched President Muhammadu Buhari’s four-day visit to Washington where he met with his United States (US) counter part, Mr. Barack Obama. It was the first step aimed at normalizing the frosty relations between Nigeria and the US under the presidency of the first black man to occupy the White House.

Hans-Rudolf Hodel, Ambassador, Embassy of Switzerland to Nigeria, Chad and Niger, speaks on the insinuation that his country remains a safe haven for looted funds by African government officials.

As President Muhammadu Buhari meets with his US counterpart, Mr. Barack Obama in Washington, today former Permanent Secretary in Foreign Affairs Ministry and Chairman of UBA, Ambassador Joe Keshi in this interview with Vanguard said that we must insist on being treated with mutual respect.

By CHIOMA GABRIEL It is often felt and hardly spoken but the body language says it all. A pregnant woman who puts to bed perceives greater joy when the baby turns out to be a boy. The female child is welcomed with restrained joy by the parents. The expression of joy when a girl is […]

WATCHERS of Nigeria’s foreign policy and diplomatic practice are divided in their disposition to the proposed visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to the United States. To members of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), there is a sense of celebration that Nigeria is returning to international reckoning with the proposed visit but most Nigerians are not amused by Washington’s “Do Good Diplomacy” which is unravelling with the emergence of the new administration in Nigeria.