Simon Ateba is Chief White House Correspondent for Today News Africa. Simon covers President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other financial and international institutions in Washington D.C. and New York City.
Demonstrators on Saturday carried a symbolic coffin of President Muhammadu Buhari as protests exploded in Nigeria over Twitter ban, corruption, bad governance, human rights abuses, hunger and economic hardship across Africa’s most populous nation.