Newly inaugurated US President Joe Biden has reversed a Donald Trump policy that restricted the granting of immigrant visas to Nigerians. In January 2020, Trump had expanded curbs on immigration to include six more countries, including Nigeria. At the time, the US government said the policy was designed to tighten security...... more
Kamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president. She was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president. Ms Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination. But Mr Biden...... more
Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th US president, ending one of the most dramatic political transitions in American history. “Democracy has prevailed,” he said after taking the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts. Donald Trump – who has not formally conceded the presidency to Mr Biden...... more
President Yoweri Museveni won a landslide victory extending his 35-year-rule in a contentious Ugandan election, fuelling concerns of an erosion of democracy after a campaign marred by violence and an internet shutdown. The electoral commission on Saturday said official results showed Mr Museveni secured 58.6 per cent, while Robert Kyagulanyi, better...... more
Donald Trump became the first US president in history to be impeached twice when the House of Representatives voted Wednesday to charge him with inciting last week’s mob attack on Congress. The Senate will not hold a trial before January 20, when Democrat Joe Biden assumes the presidency, meaning the real...... more
Malawi’s transport minister Sidik Mia died Tuesday morning from Covid 19, information minister Gospel Kazako has confirmed. The local government minister Lingson Belekanyama had also died. The two senior ministers died within two hours of each other.Over the weekend, Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera made a special radio address to the nation...... more
A security cordon has been thrown over Washington DC, the US seat of power, where President-elect, Joe Biden is supposed to be inaugurated as the 46th President on the next one week. Dailymail, reports say that President Donald Trump, declared a state of emergency in city as police revealed three plots to...... more
Rescuers on Sunday collected five bags of human body parts and three bags of debris of the Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed in the waters off the coast of Indonesian capital Jakarta on Saturday, according to a senior official. “We received three bags containing the debris of the plane and five...... more
A Boeing 737 passenger plane carrying 62 people is believed to have crashed into the sea shortly after take-off from Indonesia's capital Jakarta. The Sriwijaya Air disappeared from radars four minutes into its journey to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province. It is thought to have dropped more than 3,000m (10,000ft) in...... more
London mayor, Sadiq Khan, declared a major incident Friday afternoon as he said the spread of Coronavirus was now ‘out of control’ in the capital. The number of cases in London is now above 1,000 per 100,000 people, he said, with a 27 per cent increase in hospital patients between December...... more
Twitter has permanently suspended the United States President Donald Trump’s account for inciting violence. The social media network made this known in a blog post titled ‘Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump’ on Friday. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being...... more
NO fewer than 14 people, including eight children, were killed on Friday after a female suicide bomber blew herself up in an attack in a village in northern Cameroon. Witnesses blamed the attack in Mozogo in the Mayo Tsanaga area on the terror sect, Boko Haram. A woman and her three...... more
The United Kingdom is imposing a ban on travellers entering England from 11 African countries for an initial period of two weeks, the government has said. In a statement on its website, the government explained that the decision was taken in a bid to prevent the spread of a new coronavirus...... more
The U.S. Capitol descended into chaos Wednesday as hundreds of pro-Trump protesters swarmed the building, forcing the Senate to evacuate and Vice President Mike Pence to be ushered to a secure location. The frenzied scene after demonstrators broke through barricades forced Congress to abruptly pause a ceremonial event affirming that President-elect...... more
The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, on Monday, declared a full COVID-19 lockdown in England, a country of nearly 56 million people. The lockdown will be in place until mid-February in a bid to cut the spiraling COVID-19 infection rates. Johnson, who announced this in a televised address, said the measures,...... more
A man has died after getting Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in Israel. The 75-year-old man from Beit Shean died on Monday morning from cardiac arrest, about two hours after receiving the vaccine, according to The Jerusalem Post. The man received the vaccine at 8:30 in the morning, and waited for the customary...... more
A Chinese court on Monday sentenced citizen journalist, Zhang Zhan, to four years in prison for her live stream reporting of COVID-19 breakout from Wuhan. Zhan, who was detained in May, was convicted on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” in her coverage of the chaotic initial stages of the...... more
The United States of America has condemned the violent kidnapping of over 300 boys from the Government Secondary Science School in Kankara, Katsina State on December 11. In a statement made available to journalists Thursday, US said, “We offer our sincere sympathies to the families of the missing students and the...... more
The Prime Minister of Swaziland, Ambrose Dlamini has died four weeks after testing positive for the dreaded Covid-19 disease which has spread across the continent of Africa. The death of the Prime Minister was confirmed on Sunday by the government of Swaziland which revealed that Dlamini, 52, died yesterday afternoon in...... more
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill that seeks to decriminalise the use of marijuana at the federal level. Initiated by Democrats, the Marijuana Opportunity, Re-investment and Expungement Act contains provisions for “re-assessment of prior marijuana-related convictions”. It also seeks investments in services for people caught up in...... more
United States (US) President-Elect, Joe Biden, is about to announce Nigerian-born attorney and economist, Adewale ‘Wally’ Adeyemo, as deputy Treasury secretary.Adeyemo, who is a former senior international economic adviser during the Obama administration. According to US-based media Politico ,he will serve under former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, who Biden plans...... more
Former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya said on Friday that he had been "unjustly" detained at the Central American nation's Toncontin international airport for carrying $18,000 in cash, which he said was not his. "I don't know the origin of that money. Obviously someone must have put it in my belongings. I...... more
James Wolfensohn, an investment banker who helped straighten out the finances of major American cultural institutions and served as president of the World Bank, died Wednesday at the age of 86. World Bank Group President David Malpas paid tribute, saying that Wolfensohn “sharpened its focus on poverty reduction and redoubled its...... more
South Korea has decided to withdraw its candidate Yoo Myung-hee from the race for World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General (DG), Washington Trade Daily has reported. Myung-hee is South Korea’s trade minister and its candidate for the top job at the WTO following the resignation of Roberto Azevedo. Nigeria’s candidate in the...... more
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is preparing to help international partners overcome economic and humanitarian hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. USAID Acting Deputy Administrator John Barsa on October 28 announced the agency’s Over the Horizon Strategic Review, a new initiative to plan for a world altered by COVID-19 by...... more
A 14-year-old American student’s award-winning science project could offer insights into a potential treatment for COVID-19. Anika Chebrolu, an eighth-grader and aspiring medical researcher from Frisco, Texas, used computer modeling to pinpoint a molecule that can bind to the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and inhibit its ability to infect people, according...... more
A man who crashed his car into a grocery store and fled the scene was later arrested after running nude through a nearby retirement home, US police said. The suspect was transported to a local hospital for non-injury medical issues on Thursday and is expected to be booked after he is...... more
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump’s campaign over an opinion piece by CNN that claimed the campaign was open to receiving Russian assistance in the election. U.S. District Judge Michael L. Brown ruled on Thursday that the campaign had failed to demonstrate “actual malice,”...... more
Former President of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings has died at the age of 73. He was born on June 22, 1947. Mr Rawlings was said to have died from complications of COVID-19, but this could not be independently confirmed by press time. The former president who governed Ghana from from 1981 to...... more
Police on Tuesday reported that a radio commentator who survived a 2016 assassination attempt was shot dead in front of his house in the northern Philippines. According to a police report, Virgilio Maganes, 62, was about to enter his house in the town of Villasis when two suspects shot him six...... more