Former US vice president Mike Pence launched his presidential campaign Wednesday by framing the Republican nomination as a choice between “reckless” Donald Trump and the Constitution — arguing that his old boss’s bid to overturn the last election should bar him from returning in 2024. Offering a spirited defense of...
The United States President, Donald Trump, has announced the suspension of funding to the World Health Organisation, claiming the agency had covered up the seriousness of the COVID-19 outbreak in China allowing it to spread around the world. Mr Trump on Tuesday at a press conference said he has instructed...
Britain’s finance minister, Sajid Javid, resigned on Thursday, just weeks after Brexit and a month before he was due to deliver the government’s annual budget. Javid’s spokesman confirmed he would be leaving just as Prime Minister Boris Johnson carried out the first reshuffle of his cabinet since winning a parliamentary...
We insist UN, EU, others support impositions of sanctions, says Osinbajo in Accra An ECOWAS Extraordinary Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government held yesterday in Accra, Ghana to review the political situations in Guinea and Mali, has decided to maintain the sanctions imposed on Guinea...
In a strong statement on its official platform, the United States government has denounced the abduction of numerous school children and women in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Additionally, the US Mission in Nigeria condemned the abduction of displaced persons in Borno State, where over 100 internally displaced persons were kidnapped...
U.S. President Joe Biden ordered U.S. state flags be flown at half-mast after a shooting at a private Christian grade school in Nashville, the White House said in a proclamation. The president said “as a mark of respect for victims of the senseless act of violence perpetrated on March 27,...
Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Wagner, a private military company, has been reportely killed in plane crash. Ten people were on board the private jet that crashed in the north of Moscow, capital of Russia. The Russian Civil Aviation Authority said seven passengers and three crew were on board the Embraer aircraft,...
Gambian President Adama Barrow on Wednesday pledged to work to jumpstart the economy and ensure broad-based development gains as he was sworn in for a second five-year term in office. Barrow, 56, came to power in 2017 by unseating his autocratic predecessor Yahya Jammeh at the polls. He comfortably won re-election...
Saudi Arabia on Thursday extended curfew restrictions on Islam’s two holiest cities to 24 hours to stem the spread of coronavirus as the number of deaths from the disease rose to 21. The announcement comes amid uncertainty over the hajj which is due to take place at the end of...
FULL ADDRESS BY QUEEN ELIZABETH II ON COVID-19 PANDEMIC "I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time. "A time of disruption in the life of our country: a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily...