The Nigerian President, Bola Tinubu, and his United States counterpart, Joe Biden, yesterday had a 30-minute phone call, with the latter calling for deeper US-Nigeria relations.
Briefing newsmen on the issue at the State House, Abuja, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, stressed that the two leaders also discussed the issue of the permanent seats in the United Nations Security Council, and Biden once again assured that the United States was committed to seeing Africa having two permanent seats.
Biden also thanked Tinubu and the Nigerian government for dropping the criminal charges against the Head of Financial Crimes Compliance at Binance, Tigran Gambaryan.
Gambaryan, a US citizen, was arrested last February while on a business trip to Nigeria and later charged alongside his company, Binance, with laundering $35.4 million, and tax evasion, which they denied.
This was sequel to the escape from custody of his colleague, Nadeem Anjarwalla, a British-Kenyan dual national who was Binance’s Africa regional manager, and had been arrested alongside Gambaryan.
