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Sunday, July 21st, 2024
Joe Biden drops out of US presidential race and endorses Kamala Harris to be nominee By Peter Nicholas WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he will end his presidential re-election campaign, bringing an abrupt and humbling conclusion to his half-century-long political career and scrambling the race for the White House just four months […]
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Sunday, July 21st, 2024
Outspoken US Congresswoman Jackson Lee dies Sheila Jackson Lee (PHOTO BY NBC News) Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat and outspoken advocate for racial justice and minorities rights has died, her family said on Friday. She was 74. Lee, a Black representative from Texas, who served in Congress for nearly three decades, revealed last month […]
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Saturday, July 20th, 2024
Former US president Barack Obama has told allies that Joe Biden needs to reconsider his reelection bid, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Obama believes that Biden’s path to victory has diminished and that the 81-year-old should “seriously consider the viability of his candidacy,” the newspaper said, citing people briefed on his thinking. It […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2024
Elon Musk on Tuesday said he will move the headquarters of SpaceX and X to Texas after a California law blocked schools from forcing teachers to notify parents about changes to a student’s gender identity. “This is the final straw,” Musk said on X a day after California governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill that […]
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Sunday, July 14th, 2024
US election: Nancy Pelosi reacts to assassination attempt on Donald Trump By John Owen Nwachukwu Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has reacted to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Nancy Pelosi was one of the key figures that ensured Trump never returned elected during the 2016 presidential […]
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Monday, May 13th, 2024
U.S. man who received first-ever modified pig kidney transplant dies The world’s first patient with a transplanted pig kidney has died, almost two months after the operation. In March, Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted the genetically-edited pig kidney into Rick Slayman, a 62-year-old man living with end-stage kidney disease. The operation was a milestone in xenotransplantation […]
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Thursday, March 7th, 2024
By John Owen Nwachukwu Former United States, US, First Lady, Michelle Obama has made her stance known following reports that she was warming up to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic Party nominee for the 2024 presidential elections. Concerns over Biden’s age have fuelled speculations that the President could be replaced as the Democratic Party’s […]
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Saturday, January 27th, 2024
A judge, Theresa Adams of the Baltimore County Circuit Court in the United States, has slammed a record $50,000 damages on a US-based Nigerian blogger, Funke Ashekun, for defaming the General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Dr Daniel Olukoya. This was disclosed in a statement on Thursday by Olukoya’s media aide, Collins Edomaruse, […]
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Africa & World Politics, American Politics
Tuesday, January 9th, 2024
White House rejects calls for sack of defense chief, Lloyd Austin The White House on Monday rejected Republican calls for US President Joe Biden to sack Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after he took several days to disclose a hospitalization. “The president has complete confidence, continues to have confidence in Secretary Austin,” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre […]
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Sunday, December 10th, 2023
By Motunrayo The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, on Thursday, seized $68,000 from a Nigeria-bound family who lied about the value of cash in their possession. The confiscation was made at the Washington Dulles International Airport when the officers were conducting inspections on outbound passengers departing on a flight to Cairo, […]
