U.S election
17 Nov 2020
President Donald Trump, yesterday, declared that he would not let a “rigged election steal” his country. Tweeting on his official handle, the American leader alleged that President-elect Joe Biden...
9 Nov 2020
Jennifer Lawrence, the Oscar-winning American Actress, danced like nobody was watching after Democrat Joe Biden was announced as the winner of the presidential election on Saturday morning. When the news broke, Lawrence bolted out of her home sporting only a leopard-print face mask, pink pyjama pants and a comfy pullover before running through her neighbourhood…
9 Nov 2020
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated the United States President-elect, Joe Biden, on his successful election as the 46th President of the United States. The party congratulated Biden in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja on Sunday. Ologbondiyan urged the president-elect to use his new office to…
8 Nov 2020
It is logical to suspend the discussions on ‘#EndSARS and the power of truth’ as promised last week because there is a weightier matter of lessons from the power of strong institutions over strong men in a democracy
8 Nov 2020
It was a nail-biting long drawn presidential poll. The United States election, which pitted incumbent President Donald John Trump of the Republican Party against the Democratic Party challenger and immediate past Vice President, Joe R. Bidden, had all the trappings of a high stakes contest. The controversies that trailed the election proved true to…
8 Nov 2020
After four days of suspense, the White House yesterday beckoned on Joe Biden, the former U.S vice president and candidate of the Democratic Party in the 2020 Presidential Election after he met the statutory requirement by polling 273 electoral college votes. Results from the swing state of Pennsylvania confirmed victory for Biden and his running mate,…
7 Nov 2020
Joyous New Yorkers poured into the streets Saturday after Democrat Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to win the White House, erupting in celebration as the business mogul and former star of The Apprentice was told: "You're fired." Revelers cheered across a city that has sparred for years with the president who rose to prominence in…
7 Nov 2020
As votes were being counted in the final few states in the United States presidential election yesterday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said Joe Biden’s electoral victory was “imminent.”
5 Nov 2020
Joe Biden has taken a slim lead in Tuesday’s Presidential election, claiming 237 electoral votes, as opposed to incumbent President Donald Trump’s 213. Trump had, early morning of Tuesday
4 Nov 2020
Kanye West has refused to let his political ambitions be defeated after his ill-fated run in the US presidential election and has vowed to try again in 2024. The rapper, 43, mounted an election campaign this year which was full of controversy as he shared intimate details of his marriage to Kim Kardashian in an…
2 Nov 2020
Born on November 20, 1942, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.’s political career started in 1969, at the age of 27 when he was elected a Councillor. In 1972, at only 29, he beat Caleb Boggs, the Republican incumbent, to get into the Senate, defying the odds stacked against him, which at a time was 30 percentage…
31 Oct 2020
The millions of signs that Americans place on their lawns during election season are increasingly being vandalized or removed by disgruntled neighbors, a sign of the acutely hostile political climate. After signs expressing support for Democratic candidate Joe Biden disappeared twice from a road outside Newtown, Pennsylvania, Gayle Share-Raab covered the next one in vaseline…
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated governors who recently emerged as leaders of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) and Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) respectively. The President's felicitation was contained in a statement from the State House on Thursday. "I congratulate the Governor of Kwara State, His Excellency Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, on his emergence as the Chairman…
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President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with Tajudeen Abbas and Ben Kalu, both contenders for the offices of Speaker and Deputy Speaker positions respectively. The meeting currently ongoing, is coming immediately after the President earlier met with the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, also in…
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The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari says no going back on the removal of fuel subsidy. Speaking during a consultative meeting with the Sen Abdullahi Adamu led national working committee (NWC) of the ruling All progressives Congress (APC), in Abuja, he maintained that the subsidy regime…
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President Bola Tinubu on Thursday met with the nation's security apparatus at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where he gave marching orders to the nation's security agencies in the country to redouble efforts in dealing with the menace of terrorism, insurgency, banditry, oil theft, sea robbery and piracy among others that have conspired to weigh down…
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The Plateau State House of Assembly has suspended all the Local Government Council chairmen and councillors in the 17 LGAs of the state with immediate effect. The suspension was announced by the Speaker of the House, Ayuba Abok, during the plenary session on Thursday, following a motion moved by Pirfa Tyem, the lawmaker representing the…