NATO on Thursday marks 75 years since its founding with the Western alliance confronted by the urgent need to do more to help Ukraine win a war currently roiling Europe.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, implementing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization military alliance, in Brussels, on April 3, 2024.
Alliance members also have thrown their weight behind Kyiv — which is bidding to join NATO — by sending Ukraine weapons worth tens of billions of dollars. He is also pushing to get NATO as an organisation more directly involved in coordinating deliveries, something the alliance has so far refused to do out of concern it could drag it closer to war with Russia.Part of the urgency for the plan, officials say, is to try to protect support for Ukraine from the possible return of Donald Trump to the White House after US elections in November.
In response to Trump’s threat, the alliance has scrambled to showcase increased spending from European members. About two million households, representing 15 per cent of the 13 million electricity customers in Nigeria, are set to bear the burden of an inefficient power sector as the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission
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