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Verdict: Kyle Rittenhouse, not guilty on all counts – Jury

  A Wisconsin jury acquitted US teenager Kyle Rittenhouse on Friday of murder in the fatal shooting of two men during a racial...

U.S. Pres. Biden in hospital for routine colonoscopy, transfers power to VP Harris

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris pose for a photo as they ride in the Presidential limousine from Emory University in...

U.S advocacy groups criticize Biden administration for removing Nigeria from top religious freedom violators list

  Top U.S federal religious freedom advisory panel and Religious freedom advocacy groups are criticizing the Biden administration for removing Nigeria from the U.S....

U.S. President Biden directs FTC to wade into high cost of gasoline, punish any wrongdoing by oil and gas companies

  I do not accept hard-working Americans paying more for gas because of anti-competitive or otherwise potentially illegal conduct, he declares   “I...

End military hostilities now to pave way for dialogue, AU Special Envoy to Ethiopia, Obasanjo urges

Former Nigerian President and African Union’s Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has urged sides to the military hostilities...

Former  South African president FW de Klerk, who helped end Apartheid dies at 85

  Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, who negotiated a peaceful transfer of power to a government under Nelson Mandela, has died. The former...

Fuel explosion kills at least 90 people in Sierra Leone

  An oil tanker exploded near Sierra Leone’s capital, killing at least 90 people and severely injuring dozens of others after large crowds...

Yahoo pulls out of China due to increased challenging legal, business environment

  Yahoo has pulled out of China, citing an ” increasingly challenging business and legal environment”. “In recognition of the increasingly challenging business...

Cop26: We are digging our own graves’ with climate change, says UN Sec Gen Guterres

The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said that Humans are “digging our own graves” through climate change and by “brutalising biodiversity”....

Biden pledge to return the US to JCPOA

United States President Joe Biden has pledged to return the US to full compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). President...

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Another Nigerian has been appointed by the U S. President, Joe Biden, into his cabinet

  US President Joe Biden has appointed Nigerian-born, Enoh Titilayo Ebong, to the post of Director, United States Trade and Development Agency. Her...

U.S. citizen and his Nigerian accomplice, both pilots, convicted of trafficking multi-ton loads of cocaine on board an aircraft

  Two men — Jean-Claude Okongo Landji and Jibril Adamu – have been convicted of conspiring to traffic five kilograms and more of...

Just in: Another military putsch in Sudan, soldiers sack transitional government

  A coup by the Sudanese military has now fully unraveled after it announced the dissolution of the transitional government headed by prime...

Barbados elects first president to replace Queen Elizabeth as head of state

Barbados has elected its first president to replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state in a decisive step towards shedding the Caribbean...

Ex – US President Trump’s Truth Social Media App Hacked Within Hours of Announcement

  Controversial former US President Donald Trump’s new Truth social media platform was reportedly hacked within hours of its announcement. Trump Media &...

COVID-19: Colombia, Dominican Republic and 5 others to remain on UK’s red list  

Dale Keller, chief executive of the UK Board of Airline Representatives, has said that the the list of Red Countries was useful as...