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Outgoing US President Donald Trump suffered a triple of legal setbacks on Friday, even as he continues to make his case that the election was ‘rigged’ and that he will prevail. The latest bad news for the president came in Michigan. There, a judge denied the Trump campaign’s request to stop the counting of ballots […]

Super Eagles fans have slammed the national team coach Gernot Rohr and his team following their lethargic performance against Sierra Leone in Friday’s 2022 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at the Samuel Stadium, in Benin City, Edo State, Saturday Punch reports. Nigeria let a dominant four goal lead slip in a 4-4 draw with Sierra Leone […]

As part of efforts to mitigate the effect of COVID-19, the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says the Federal Government, is in the process of acquiring a 750 million dollar loan, from the world bank to help states. This loan according to her is to stimulate the local economy and support […]

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday participated in the official launching of what has been described as Nigeria’s first assembled electric car. The electric car, named ‘Hyundai Kona’, was assembled by Stallions Automobile factory. In his remarks at the launch, Sanwo-Olu said the state government will provide charging points for electric cars, and […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO), says nearly one in five COVID-19 deaths in Africa is linked with diabetes, according to a study. WHO disclosed this in a statement issued on Thursday from its Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo. According to the statement, WHO finds out that 18.3 per cent of COVID-19 deaths in the […]

The government of Kogi State has contracted a consultant to levy every bread baked, with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry saying the levy is to improve the internally-generated revenue, IGR. However, bakers in the state, on the platform of the Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria (AMBCN) told TheCable that the bakers […]

Senior US federal and state election officials said Thursday that there was “no evidence” that votes were lost or changed, or voting systems corrupted, in the presidential election. The officials, responsible for election security across the country, rejected claims made by President Donald Trump and Republicans that fraud and lost ballots led to his loss […]

Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), says he is in support of the plan of Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos state, to repeal payment of pension to former governors. TheCable had reported how Sanwo-Olu submitted a bill to the state house of assembly on the abolishment of pension payments to former governors […]

Just five days after American rapper King Von was killed in Atlanta, another rapper, Mo3 has been killed in Dallas, Texas. Rapper Mo3.whose real name was Melvin Noble, was killed while driving on a freeway in Dallas on Wednesday morning, according to multiple reports. CBS reported that the 28 year-old talented singer died after being […]

Publisher of Sahara Reporters and convener of #RevolutionNow campaign cried out on Wednesday night that he has been marked out to be either arrested or assassinated. Sowore was arrested last year November and later charged with treason, for calling out a nationwide march against the government. The trial has gone through fits and starts. The […]

Policemen in Delta State have been paid N200 as COVID-19 allowance, with many of them describing it as not only embarrassing, but a mockery of the Force. While making the disclosure to Vanguard, Monday, some police operatives, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the amount was paid to all police personnel in the state […]

One of the prominent faces of the #EndSARS movement, Deji Adeyanju, has filed a complaint against a lawyer, Kenechukwu Okeke, before the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee for “acts unbecoming of a legal practitioner.” The petition dated November 11, 2020, was also supported by an affidavit filed at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, […]

In an apparent reference to President Donald Trump’s refusal to accept defeat, former US First Lady and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has said the willingness of American Presidents to accept defeat distinguishes American democracy. She said this in post on her Facebook page, where she posted a letter written by then outgoing President George […]

Scientists Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci have dedicated their lives to the field of oncology and infectious diseases, and spent years pioneering personalized immunotherapy treatments for cancer. But amid the coronavirus pandemic, the couple’s groundbreaking research in the field of modified genetic code has catapulted them into the public eye, as the brains behind the world’s first […]

The Federal Government was able to freeze the accounts of 20 #EndSARS campaigners after telling a Federal High Court in Abuja that the funds in their accounts might have been linked to terrorist activities. This is according to a written address in support of a motion ex parte filed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. […]

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday called President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede his election loss an “embarrassment” but dismissed the standoff as unimportant. “I just think it’s an embarrassment, quite frankly,” Biden said when asked what he thinks about Trump’s refusal to acknowledge defeat in the November 3 election. “How can I say this tactfully? […]