Former French president Valery Giscard d’Estaing, a leading advocate of European integration who led his country into a new modern era, has died of Covid-19, his family said. He was 94. Giscard, who had been in the hospital several times in recent months for heart problems, died late Wednesday “surrounded by his family” at the […]
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Wisconsin became the last of six states to officially declare victory for Joe Biden late on Monday, in spite of the legal challenges posed by President Donald Trump to stop the certification of results. Biden’s victory in Wisconsin was certified following a partial recount that only added to his 20,600-vote margin over Trump, who has […]
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United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the government’s top election security official, who had rejected the president’s claims of “massive” fraud in the vote he reportedly lost to Joe Biden. He announced on Twitter the termination “effective immediately” of Chris Krebs, who led the agency that jointly declared “the November 3rd election was […]
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A staunch supporter of US President Donald Trump, Femi Fani-Kayode, says the ruling All Progressives Congress wants Democrat Joe Biden as the next US president because of the support it received from former US President Barack Obama during the 2015 elections. The former Nigerian Aviation Minister alleged that the incumbent Nigerian President Muhammadu and his […]
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US President-elect Joe Biden holds up his fist after delivering remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 7, 2020, after being declared the winners of the presidential election. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) US President-elect Joe Biden took the first steps Sunday towards moving into the White House in 73 days, as Donald Trump again […]
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Biden Already Carries Himself As President – Obama His Victory, Triumph Of Good Over Evil – Obasanjo U.S. Foreign Policy Not Likely To Change Under Biden Presidency – Akinterinwa Biden Most Likely To Be Friendlier To Nigeria – Adesina Four years after President Donald John Trump shocked the world by winning the White House with […]
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French members of the elite tactical police unit RAID enter to search the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Nice after a knife attack in Nice on October 29, 2020. – A man wielding a knife outside a church in the southern French city of Nice slit the throat of one person, leaving another dead and injured […]
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Nigerian former Foreign and Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala attends a press conference on July 15, 2020, in Geneva, following her hearing before World Trade Organization 164 member states’ representatives, as part of the application process to head the WTO as Director General. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini / AFP) Key WTO ambassadors tapped Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala […]
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Democrat Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in the polls with less than a week to go before the US election. The debates are over, tens of millions of Americans have cast their ballots already and the 77-year-old former vice president would appear to be on a glide path to the White House. Not so […]
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Grim data highlighted the struggle for authorities around the world to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control Saturday, as the US reported 80,000 infections in a single day, France extended a curfew to two-thirds of citizens and Germany’s death toll passed 10,000. The World Health Organization, WHO, had earlier warned of an “exponential” rise in […]
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