Biden phones Tinubu over Binance executive, discusses law enforcement issues

The United States President, Joe Biden phoned his Nigerian counterpart, President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday as both leaders discussed law enforcement issues and the recently released Binance Executive, Tigran Gambaryan.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, while briefing State House Correspondents, disclosed that the phone discussion lasted for about 30 minutes.

He said, “The call was about the collaboration between the two countries with regards to law enforcement and law enforcement agencies as well as the release of one of the suspects of the cryptocurrency exchange company that you are all aware of.

“Mr President also thanked the US for the partnership and collaboration in numerous areas about security in Africa and West Africa as a whole. President Biden assured President Tinubu that this is a partnership because the future of the world resides in Africa and as such, the partnership is important.

“The leaders also discussed the issue of a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council and Biden assured the United States is committed to seeing Africa having a permanent seat and does not see why one of those seats should belong to Nigeria.”