US President-elect Joseph Biden narrowly defeated President Donald Trump in Georgia as two final states — Georgia and North Carolina — were called on Friday. This is the first time since 1992 that a democrat will win the southeastern US state. Biden’s victory comes more than one week after election day. The former US vice-president […]

President Donald Trump of the United States has finally broken the longest media silence of his administration. The president addressed the nation from the Rose Garden of the White House on Friday, breaking the longest absence from the cameras since January 2017. This is the longest Trump has gone without a verbal address to the […]

Libyans at UN-led talks agreed Friday to hold national elections in December next year, the United Nations said, raising hopes for an end to a brutal decade-old conflict. Libya has been gripped by chaos and violence since the 2011 ouster and killing of longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi in a NATO-backed popular uprising. Rival administrations in […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says all the 15 pending bye-elections in the 11 states will be conducted on Saturday, December 5, 2020. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, made the announcement in a statement on Friday. He explained that the decision to conduct the polls on […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the amended final list of candidates, vying for the Imo North Senatorial District bye-election, in line with the order from the Federal High Court, after its determination of the suit between Lady Uchenna Onyeiwu and The All Progressive Congress (APC) & 4 ors. The amended list is […]

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden cemented his electoral victory by capturing the battleground state of Arizona late on Thursday, throwing President Trump into more political misery. Biden’s electoral college votes have now risen to 290, while Trump has 217 votes. Biden only needs 270 votes to claim the presidency. He reached the threshold on Saturday and […]

China congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday nearly a week after he was declared winner of the American election. US-China ties have grown increasingly strained in recent years under the administration of incumbent Donald Trump, and relations are as icy as at any time since formal ties were established four decades ago. “We respect […]

Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo state, has described himself as a “redefinition of democracy”. He stated this on Thursday at the swearing-in ceremony for his second term in office, held at the Samuel Ogbemudia in Benin City, the Edo capital. The event marked the inauguration of the governor and Philip Shaibu, his deputy. According to […]

The U.S. state of Georgia is to conduct a full manual recount of the Nov 3 presidential election ballots in each county (local government area). Announcing this at a news briefing on Wednesday, Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, said the recount was necessitated by the close margin between the two major contenders. U.S. President-elect […]

…Kamala Harris’s husband quits job for White House role U.S. President-elect Joe Biden appointed top Democratic official Ron Klain as his chief of staff and assistant to the president on Wednesday. Klain is one of Biden’s closest confidants and first worked for the Democrat in 1989 when he was a U.S. senator. Klain has been […]