Jimmy Carter
18 Jan
The Olympics were about to take place in Moscow. The world was in crisis. The Games were threatened. The USA reacted, imposing sanctions on the USSR and boycotting the Games!
13 Jan
Former Nigeria's President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, revealed how a former President of the United States of America, Jimmy Carter, saved him from death at the hands of late General Sanni Abacha.
10 Jan
The United States Government Exchange Alumni Association (USGEAA), Lagos Chapter, has extended its heartfelt condolences to the U.S. Consul General in Lagos and the people of the United States on the passing of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States of America. In a letter signed by the association’s president, Akeem Aponmade, Esq.,…
9 Jan
Jimmy Carter was to be honoured Thursday with a state funeral at Washington's National Cathedral, amid a groundswell of tributes honouring the 39th US president and the last from the so-called Greatest Generation.
9 Jan
In describing James Earl Carter, popularly called Jimmy Carter, adjectives and superlatives are simply exhausted and squandered.
8 Jan
The body of late US president Jimmy Carter was transferred Tuesday in a grand and solemn military ceremony to the US Capitol, where it will lie in state until a national funeral later this week.
8 Jan
Year 1977 and 1978 will be a distant memory in the minds of many people, not least because the global population median is 30.6 years according to World Demographics 2024; and also because of issues pertaining to selective and unselective historical amnesia.
31 Dec
The Academy of International Affairs has joined global leaders in mourning former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who passed away at 100.
30 Dec
Flags flew at half-staff across the United States on Monday as global tributes poured in for the life and legacy of Jimmy Carter -- the longest-lived US president who died aged 100. The Georgia native, whose unlikely political ascent carried him from picking peanuts on the family farm to the Oval Office, was remembered in…
30 Dec
Flags flew at half-staff across the United States on Monday as global tributes poured in for the life and legacy of Jimmy Carter -- the longest-lived US president who died aged 100. The Georgia native, whose unlikely political ascent carried him from picking peanuts on the family farm to the Oval Office, was remembered…
30 Dec
President Bola Tinubu has extended condolences to the government and people of the United States of America on the passing of former President Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100. According to Tinubu, Carter, the 39th President of the United States, was a beacon of service to humanity, demonstrating to leaders worldwide the…
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