The United States recorded its 10 millionth case of the coronavirus Monday, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University, the same day that Pfizer and BioNTech announced their vaccine showed 90 percent effectiveness. Shortly before 1400 GMT Monday the tracker by the Baltimore-based university showed 10,018,278 cases recorded in the United States since the […]
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NIGERIA – President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria is working on reversing the suspension of the issuance of immigrant visas to Nigerians by the United States. Recall that in January, the United States imposed an immigrant visa ban on Nigeria as a result of the country’s failure to comply with its established identity-management and information-sharing criteria. […]
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Kanye West, the entertainment mogul who urges listeners in one song to “reach for the stars, so if you fall, you land on a cloud,” claimed Saturday he is challenging Donald Trump for the US presidency in 2020. “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our […]
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The United States of America has become the first country to record 100,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The US achieved the grim record on Wednesday as its death toll stands at 100,276, according to Johns Hopkins University, which has been tracking the pandemic. The North American country has recorded more fatalities than any […]
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The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has ordered an investigation into the killing of a middle-aged black man, George Floyd. Trump described Floyd’s death as very sad and tragic while commiserating with his family on the loss. The US president, who ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Department […]
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The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has said he will temporarily suspend immigration into the United States to ‘‘protect the jobs of American citizens’. In a tweet early today, Trump said: “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our […]
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What could be worse than a pandemic overwhelming health care systems and causing global economic collapse? Florida knows the answer: a pandemic that rages into hurricane season, which is already on the horizon and causing the Sunshine State to dramatically update its storm preparations. “COVID is bad, a hurricane is bad. If you combine the […]
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Canada government has closed its borders to nationals from all countries except the United States in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus. This is coming after reports that 26 African countries have now recorded at least one case of the virus. Benin, Liberia, Somalia and Tanzania are the latest African countries to hit […]
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The United States and Nigeria voiced hope Tuesday that the Trump administration would soon lift onerous visa restrictions slapped on Africa’s most populous country, which said it was “blindsided” by its ally. On a previously scheduled visit to Washington, Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said he sought more information on President Donald Trump’s latest immigration […]
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The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump says the US is ready to embrace peace “with all those who seek peace”. Trump said this in a broadcast after the claim of Iran that 80 American soldiers had been killed in retaliation for the murder of Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian general. But in […]
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