…Trump and his administration to disregard what he described as politically motivated lobbying over historical US law enforcement records relating to President Bola Tinubu.Agbese also warned opposition politicians against damaging Nigeria's international reputation in their efforts to gain political advantage ahead of t…

…States. He has previously attracted attention in Nigerian political circles due to his lobbying activities connected to Atiku, a long-standing figure in Nigerian presidential politics.The specific White House presidential commission to which Von Batten has been appointed was not named in the firm's announcement.Read Vo…

…Local Government Areas of Edo State. 7. The Presidency has criticised a United States lobbying firm engaged by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over its campaign for the release of records relating to President Bola Tinubu, describing the effort as a politically motivated attempt to create a crisis ahead of the 202…

Von Batten-Montague-York, a lobbying firm linked to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has threatened to expose allegations against President Bola Tinubu during the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. The US firm made the statement in a post on its verified X handle on Monday. The firm also…

…noted that the case had already been pending for more than three years.Washington-based lobbying firm Von Batten-Montague-York, recently engaged by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, published court documents relating to the case on X and called for the records to be made public immediately.Judge Beryl Howell rules…

…and the information that remains in the possession of US authorities. Recall that a US lobbying firm has also circulated historical US Department of Justice, DOJ, documents concerning the matter to members of the Trump administration and Congress. The missionary demanded for the outstanding records to be made public, n…

…democratic process. “The Nigerian President will not be elected in an American school, lobbying office or courtroom; he will be elected by Nigerians, on Nigerian soil, through the Nigerian ballot. “If there is a question about a Nigerian election, take it to the Nigerian courts and allow Nigerian law to determine it,”…

…records linked to President Bola Tinubu.In an update posted on X, a Washington-based lobbying firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C. said it had been informed that Judge Beryl Howell of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday, August 21 granted the FBI permission to submit the documents to the court…

…the post appears tied to recent political activity around Abubakar. He hired a US-based lobbying firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C., to manage his public relations and target President Bola Tinubu's campaign. The firm drew attention to decades-old US Department of Justice documents linked to Tinubu and an alleged dru…

…a 10-day extension request to delay the release of FBI and DEA drug recordsA Washington lobbying firm hired by Atiku Abubakar published details of Tinubu's court filing and the judge's swift responseThe case stems from 12 FOIA requests filed in 2022 and 2023 seeking records from a Chicago her0in ring investigation in t…

…reshuffle last month. The sacking, announced by decree, happened however as Kyiv was lobbying Washington hard to obtain more Patriot air defence missiles to block Russian strikes. In a Facebook post in which she also posted a letter asking to be relieved of her duties, Stefanishyna said the decision was her own and “di…

A United States lobbying firm linked to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has renewed calls for the release of records relating to President Bola Tinubu’s case in the United States, while announcing plans to engage anti-drug organisations and victims of heroin abuse over the matter. The firm, Von Batten-Montague-Yor…

…the White House since Trump’s return to office in January 2025, with several companies lobbying the president directly over European regulation. The renewed tensions test the trade framework agreed between Washington and Brussels last year, which lowered US duties on European cars in exchange for concessions from the b…

A United States lobbying firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, has said that it would report the arrest of self-acclaimed Director-General of the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, PFIPC, Adeniyi Adeyemi, to the US government. The US-based firm said this in a statement posted on its X handle on…

…worked extensively on Boosie's case. "Boosie has no reason to be unhappy. In 30 years of lobbying, I doubt we have ever done more work and harder work. The provision in the contract he is referencing was never agreed to at all."Burkman also claimed that Boosie's arrest in Texas earlier this year on an alleged violent o…

…conference when asked about the Balogun controversy fueled by the Trump administration lobbying FIFA and Infantino."Yes, we have been obviously watching everything play out," the IOC president had said earlier when asked about interference in field-of-play issues by the World Cup co-host nation, which also will stage t…

…also the DA’s Deputy Federal Chairperson, sought to dismantle the narrative that private lobbying influenced government policy. His response came after Sangoni, a senior African National Congress (ANC) member, requested a detailed explanation following claims by former agriculture minister John Steenhuisen alleging tha…

…Party sources told The PUNCH that the restoration of some lawmakers followed intense lobbying, interventions by governors, traditional rulers and the Presidency as the APC sought to contain the fallout from its primaries and avoid a prolonged internal crisis ahead of the 2027 elections. A senior APC official at the nat…