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Although U.S. President Donald Trump wasn’t conceding defeat, world leaders swiftly congratulated Joe Biden for his election victory Saturday and expressed hope that the new White House will prioritize the fight against climate change. Relief was a common theme expressed in many parts of the world to the news that Trump’s reelection bid failed. “Welcome […]
Continue ReadingIt is no longer news that the United States is opposing Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the consensus candidate to lead the World Trade Organisation (WTO). United States said it is supporting South Korean trade minister, Yoo Myung-hee, to become the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation because she is a “trade expert”. US Trade Representative, […]
Continue ReadingJust six days before the U.S. election in which trade is a hot topic, Washington struck another blow at the WTO, which U.S. President Donald Trump has described as “horrible” and biased towards China. Washington has already paralysed the WTO’s role as global arbiter on trade by blocking appointments to its appeals panel. Now it […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Finance, Dr. (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been elected as the new Director General of the World Trade Organization. She is the first female and first African Director General of the WTO. In a keenly contested election, Okonjo-Iweala beat her rival, South Korean Yoo Myung hee, with a wide margin. She polled 104 votes […]
Continue ReadingUnited Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, has called for an end to police brutality and attack on #EndSARS protesters in Nigeria. He condemned the killing of activists demanding police reforms in Lagos and other parts of the nation on Tuesday. In a statement on Wednesday, the UN scribe also expressed his condolences to the […]
Continue ReadingEx-Nigerian Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has reportedly advanced to the final round in the selection to lead the World Trade Organization (WTO). Only two of them remain standing on the contest, as members of the Geneva-based trade body also selected South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee. The initial pool of eight candidates to replace Roberto Azevedo, […]
Continue ReadingThe American president, Donald Trump, his wife, Melania Trump have both tested positive to coronavirus. Earlier on, it was one of his close aides, Ms. Hope Hicks who was reported to have tested positive to the virus. Trump has been carrying on his activities as if coronavirus means nothing. It is therefore a stunning announcement […]
Continue ReadingUnited States Supreme Court jurist, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away. She died on Friday from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer, aged 87. Ginsburg, also known as ‘Notorious RBG’ was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2009. Earlier this year, she announced a recurrence of the cancer, having discovered lesions on her liver. For young […]
Continue ReadingWorld Trade Organization (WTO) removed three candidates from the race of who to become the next Director-General of the body. The Geneva-based WTO said Mexico’s Jesus Seade, Egypt’s Hamid Mamdouh, and Moldova’s Tudor Ulianovschi could not secure enough support in a first of three rounds of voting. “Their expertise and high professional and personal qualities […]
Continue ReadingA co-founder and singer of the band group, Kool & the Gang, Ronald “Khalis” Bell, has died at the age of 68. Bell died at his home in the US Virgin Islands Wednesday morning, September 10, with his wife Tia Sinclair Bell by his side, publicist Sujata Murthy said. The cause of death has not […]
Continue ReadingUnited States president, Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, has passed away. He died at the age of 71. Robert died in New York on Saturday after being hospitalized for an undisclosed illness. The US president confirmed the death in a statement, adding that Robert was his best friend and will be missed. The statement […]
Continue ReadingUnited Nations Security Council on Friday rejected a proposal by the United States that sought indefinite extension of an arms embargo on Iran. Ambassador Dian Djani, Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the UN and President of the council for August, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the council’s meeting on the issue. […]
Continue ReadingVeteran, star and dazzling Nigerian actress, Genevieve NNaji has been appointed as an ambassador of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2020. The Nollywood actress and producer has joined the list of 50 celebrated filmmakers and actors invited as the ambassadors of the TIFF. This comes a month after The Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and […]
Continue ReadingLebanon’s premier Hassan Diab stepped down Monday amid fury within and outside his government over the deadly Beirut port blast he blamed on the incompetence and corruption of a decades-old ruling class. “Today we are heeding the people and their demands to hold accountable those responsible for a disaster,” he said in a televised address, […]
Continue ReadingThe giant social medium, Twitter, said hackers “manipulated” some of its employees to access 130 accounts in a high-profile attack on the social media company, including those of Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. Posts trying to dupe people into sending the hackers Bitcoin were tweeted by the official accounts of […]
Continue ReadingTwo employees of the United Nations mission in Israel have been suspended without pay after a viral video featured a sex act in their official vehicle, as it drove down a major street in Tel Aviv. Recall that in the 18-second video, a woman in a red dress was seen straddling a man in the back seat […]
Continue ReadingAhead of the planned reopening of its borders to international travellers on July 1, the European Union Commission has released a list of 54 countries that qualify for travels into Europe and Nigeria is not one of them. Schengenvisainfo.com reports that citizens from Nigeria, Brazil, Qatar, the US and Russia would not be allowed to travel into Europe […]
Continue ReadingThe United Nations (UN) says it has launched an investigation into a viral video showing a couple apparently having sex in one of its official cars in Israel. Spokesman of the Secretary-General, Mr Stephane Dujarric, told UN correspondents in New York that the organisation was “shocked and deeply disturbed” by the footage. Dujarric confirmed that […]
Continue ReadingAn ex-police officer has said that police could have handled the Rayshard Brooks case differently without getting to the point of killing him. She narrated how she handled a similar incident when she was a police officer. Brooks, 27, died after he was shot twice in the back on Friday, June 12, outside an Atlanta’s Wendy’s, […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday, the Russian President, Vladimir Putin spoke on the Black Lives Matter’s protests in the United States. United States has in the past few weeks been overwhelmed by protests against racism. The spate of protests have been on, following the death of George Floyd, who was allegedly killed by a white police officer. Speaking […]
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