A group of fourteen West Africans deported from the United States to Ghana, have all been sent to their home countries of Nigeria and Gambia, according to a Ghanaian government spokesman.

Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, pushed back on criticism that the decision was an endorsement of the United States President, Donald Trump’s migration policies, insisting Ghana accepted the third-country deportees purely on humanitarian grounds.

At a press briefing in the capital, Accra, Ablakwa added that Ghana did not receive any financial compensation from the US over the deportation, however, lawyers of the deportees are questioning the legality of the whole process.

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, have informed the federal government of plans to shut down public universities on September twenty-two if their demands are not addressed.

The threat was contained in a seven-day ultimatum, issued by the two unions through their Joint Action Committee, JAC, owing to issues of the non-renegotiation of the two thousand and nine Agreements, the exclusion of the inter-university centres in the disbursement of the fifty billion Naira earned allowances, and the non-payment of the two months’ withheld salaries.

JAC, in a letter addressed to the Minister of Education accused the minister of treating non-teaching staff unions with levity, therefore, noting that the renegotiation of two thousand and nine  Federal Government of Nigeria and NASU/SSANU Agreements had been delayed without any justification.

The People’s Democratic Party National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade, has stated that as part of efforts to resolve the party’s looming internal crisis, discipline has been enforced for erring members.

Speaking during an interview, he affirmed that the zoning of the party’s presidential ticket to the south is in alignment with the party’s internal democracy and constitution.

Ajibade, however, urged political officeholders to continue to pursue their ambitions discreetly to avoid havoc to the party they represent.

The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has led a senior Nigerian delegation to the Global Public Security Cooperation Forum in Jiangsu Province, China.

The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this in a statement released in Abuja.

The three-day conference runs from September 16th to 18th, and brings together ministers of security, chiefs of police, and law-enforcement leaders from around the world to discuss joint responses to transnational crime.

The United Kingdom and United States are set to sign a landmark agreement aimed at accelerating the development of nuclear power, generate more jobs and strengthen Britain’s energy security.

The Atlantic Partnership for Advanced Nuclear Energy, as the agreement is tagged, is expected to be signed off during United States President, Donald Trump’s state visit this week, with both sides hoping it will unlock billions in private investment.

Prime Minister. Keir Starmer, said the two nations were building a golden age of nuclear that would put them at the “forefront of global innovation.