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.
The Nigerian presidency is outraged over the ill-treatment of Nigerians and Africans in Ukraine, and has issued a strong statement after video evidence showed that Nigerians and Africans were being denied entry into trains in Kyiv and across Ukraine to flee to safety in Poland as Russian troops close in on the Ukrainian capital.