•Gilles Fagninou The United Nations Children’s Fund has disclosed plans to reduce workforce and travel as part of measures to mitigate the effect of the cut of USAID funding by the Trump administration. The UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Gilles Fagninou, made the disclosure today during an assessment visit to some of [&h...
•A USAID officer watches as a US military C-17 cargo plane taxis to a stop at Kathmandu’s international airport Former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev Samson Ayokunle, has described as belated, a claim by United States Congressman Scott Perry that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) funded terroris...
•US Ambassador to Nigeria, Richard Mills The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Richard Mills, has dismissed allegations that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funds Boko Haram or other terrorist organisation. Mills who met with members of the Nigeria Governors Forum in Abuja last night, said there was no evidenc...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has asked the heads of the National Security Adviser, the National Intelligence Agency and Defence Intelligence Agency to appear before it, over allegations of funding of terrorist group Boko Haram by the USAID. The call for an urgent investigation into allegations that international organisations, including the Uni...
•Senator Ali Ndume The lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District, Ali Ndume, has asked the Tinubu-led federal government to probe a claim by US Congressman Scott Perry that the aborted United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded terrorist organisations, including Boko Haram. “You can’t say it’s just an allegat...
•Scott Perry US Congressman, Scott Perry, has said that US aid agency, United States Agency for International Development, funded terrorist organisations, including Boko Haram. Perry, a Republican representing Pennsylvania, made the claim during the inaugural hearing of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency yesterday, reports...
•Elon Musk and Donald Trump Elon Musk attacked the US Agency for International Development (USAID), calling it a “criminal organisation” yesterday, as President Donald Trump claimed the agency was “run by radical lunatics” and said he was considering its future. The assault on the agency tasked with humanitarian relief overseas marks a signifi...

