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President Donald Trump has blamed his lawyer, Rude Giuliani for his second impeachment on Wednesday, according to CNN.

The President has also told people to stop paying for the lawyer’s legal fees, according to the news network quoting a source.

CNN reports that though Trump’s aides were not clear if the President was serious about his instructions given he’s lashing out at nearly everyone after the events of his second impeachment.

Trump, who is US 45th President, became the first among them all to be impeached twice when …

YouTube has suspended US President, Donald Trump’s channel for at least a week.

The video-sharing platform made this known in a statement, explaining that a video uploaded to President Trump’s channel violated the site’s policy against inciting violence.

As a result, Youtube suspended Trump’s ability to share content on the platform for at least seven days.

YouTube, however, did not provide any details of the video on Trump’s channel which violated its policy and led to the ‘first strike.’

But five out of the six videos uploaded to …

Three key Republican members of the US House of Representatives have vowed to vote to impeach President Donald Trump today.

Recall that no Republican supported Trump’s first impeachment in 2019 but these lawmakers said they would support the President’s removal.

President Trump has been under fire since Wednesday when he was accused to have encouraged his supporters to launch a deadly attack on US Capitol.

Although the President has denied having a hand in the attack, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi on Monday, introduced the article for his impeachment and vowed that “we must take action.”

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said that it was reviewing its adopted technologies for elections, with the view of introducing new ones to improve the conduct of the elections in the country ahead of 2023.

Mr. Nick Dazang, the INEC Director of Voter Education and Publicity Department (VEP), stated this on Tuesday, at a workshop for the department on the ‘Review of National Voter Education Manual’ held in Keffi, Nasarawa State.

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Dazang, speaking with journalists on the sideline of the workshop, disclosed that INEC began the process for electronic …

US President-elect, Joe Biden, has announced William Burns as his choice to lead the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

In doing this, Biden taps a retired veteran diplomat who in the past helped lead secret talks with Iran.

Burns will work alongside Biden’s nominee for director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, to rebuild the US spy community’s reputation.

Most observers believe the US spy community became heavily politicised under outgoing President Donald Trump.

Burns is currently president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a leading Washington foreign policy think-tank and …

The two-day visit is a follow-up on the Conference of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government on Mali held in the Nigerien capital, Niamey, months ago.

According to the programme of the visit, the delegation will hold talks with the Malian transitional authorities, as well as with politicians and civil society before meeting with the press.

Jonathan will meet with Malian Prime Minister Moctar Ouane.

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The ECOWAS …

A former commissioner in Imo State, Engineer Chidi Ibeh has emerged factional President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo.

Chidi Ibeh, a holder of national award, Member of the Federal Republic, MFR, emerged during a parallel election organized by the Prince Richard Ozobu-led election committee.

Also elected were Dimm Uche Okwukwu, Deputy President General. Okwukwu from Rivers State is the incumbent Secretary-General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization.

Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro from Abia State was elected Secretary General.

Ozobu told journalists on Saturday that the election was held in Enugu under strict observance …

Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Friday said the 36 states governors have agreed to take the COVID-19 vaccine on live television.

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Fayemi, told the State House Correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari that the agreement will help drive acceptance among the populace.

‘We, too, will like to demonstrate to our citizens that we believe that vaccines will work.’

‘The Governors Forum managed the polio vaccines administration in the country, and we have garnered a lot of experience.’

‘We have worked with the Primary

Embattled United States President, Donald Trump has disclosed that he will not be attending the inauguration of president-elect Joe Biden.

Mr Trump who until yesterday refused to concede the 2020 election, is currently facing impeachment following the invasion of Capitol Hill by some of his supporters.

The 45th POTUS has consistently claimed that the election was rigged without providing evidence. His claims of rigging got him suspended on major social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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On Friday, Mr Trump tweeted that he will not be attending the inauguration.

‘To all of

United States President-elect Joe Biden has reiterated his condemnation of the invasion of the US Capitol on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol Building as Vice President Mike Pence was about to perform his role in the electoral vote count.

The edifice is the meeting place of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

On Thursday, Biden stated that it would have been a different case if the attackers were Black people.

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‘No one can tell me that if that had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they

President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has said the United State of America no longer have the moral right to punish another nation.

Mnangagwa said this while speaking on the invasion of Capitol Hill by pro-Trump supporters yesterday.

He said sanctions were placed on Zimbabwe by President Donald Trump in 2020 citing concerns about Zimbabwe’s democracy.

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Mnangagwa urged Trump to withdraw sanctions it placed, adding that the events that followed the recent presidential election shows that they have no moral right.

His tweet read: ‘Last year, President Trump extended painful economic sanctions placed on

The federal government yesterday listed President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha, among the first set of Nigerians to be administered with COVID-19 vaccines, when the country takes delivery of the first batch by the end of the month.

The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 press briefing in Abuja, said their vaccination would be televised to inspire public confidence in the safety of the vaccines.

He had said on Tuesday that …