Trump’s Desperation and the US Electoral College
Carl Umegboro The 45th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump has not only shocked the world...
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NYS urges safe operating practices on snowmobilers, warns against reckless operation, speeding
Akeem Alao At the start of snowmobiling season, New York State has urged riders to keep safety in mind, both...
DEC announces $1.4 million to develop urban forestry
Akeem Alao New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos today announced grant awards totaling $1.4 million...
EDUPEACE | The message of Mandela, seven years after
Seven years ago, precisely on Thursday, December 5, 2013, the world was jolted by the news of a colossus who...
Barca presidential candidate Farre to keep Messi
Barcelona presidential candidate Jordi Farre has disclosed plan to make sure Lionel Messi stay at the Catalan giants if elected...
Macron tests positive for Covid-19, Castex to self isolate
French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19. While disclosing this on Thursday December 17, 2020, the presidency stated...
Macron tests positive for Covid-19, Castex to self isolate
French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19. While disclosing this on Thursday December 17, 2020, the presidency stated...
Nigeria: Senators lament insecurity, threaten to remove President
Nigerian senators have lamented failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to address the country’s insecurity. While registering their indignation on Tuesday...
MacKenzie Scott donates $60 million to 2 CUNY schools
Mackenzie Scott has donated $60 million to two CUNY schools as part of her $4.1 billion philanthropic mission. Lehman College...
Beverly Lindsay-Johnson emerges AAMA Executive Director
AAMA has appointed Beverly Lindsay-Johnson as it's DC-based Executive Director. While congratulating Lindsay-Johnson on his Facebook page on Tuesday December...
DSNY issues Snow Alert for Wednesday
Moses Kuwema The New York City Department of Sanitation has issued a Snow Alert for Wednesday which will see alternate...
Cuomo signs ICE out of courts into law
Moses Kuwema Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed the Protect Our Courts Act (S00425A/A2176A) to ensure New Yorkers can freely access...
OIC condemns abduction of schoolchildren in northwest Nigeria, calls for unconditional release
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation OIC has condemned the mass abduction of schoolchildren in northwest Nigeria. While speaking reacting to...
Marzouq Al Ghanim re-elected as speaker of Kuwait’s parliament
Marzouq Al Ghanim has been re-elected as the speaker of Kuwait’s National Assembly (parliament), during the opening session of the...
Putin congratulates Biden on US election victory
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a congratulatory message to Joe Biden after the U.S. Electoral College confirmed the latter...
Trump announces William Barr’s resignation as Electoral College affirms Biden’s victory
US President Donald Trump has announced that Attorney General William Barr, the head of the Department of Justice, will leave...
US Election: Electoral College affirms Biden’s victory
The US Electoral College has affirmed the victory of the President-elect, Joe Biden. The announcement on Monday came as Biden...
We’re one Bronx, we’re Democrats, but politically different
Anthony Rivieccio I am asked all the time, from different people and different generations…" Are we all one Bronx? And...
Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez mourns Brandon Bernard, calls for abolition of death sentence
Akeem AlaoThe United States congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has expressed her condolences over the execution of Brandon Bernard.While issuing her condolences...
Between Fake News and Propaganda in Modern Journalism
Abdulrazaq HamzatCable News Network also known as CNN is today regarded as the poster medium for the propagation of fake...
Financial Focus: Retirement Planning Success — from today to tomorrow (Part 1)
Professor Anthony Rivieccio MBA PFA This semester I am teaching a group of students about Retirement Planning. My own definition,...
18 Nigerian Army generals test positive for covid-19
Not less than 18 Nigerian Army generals have tested positive for coronavirus, military sources said on Sunday December 13, 2020....
Covid-19: NY Council member Fernando Cabrera questions closure of restaurants
Akeem Alao Council Member Fernando Cabrera has questioned the practicality of closing the city’s restaurants. While expressing his indignation, Cabrera...
Letter to President Obama
Dear President Obama, Greetings from the South and Southeast neighborhoods of the Bronx! Congratulations on yet another bestseller. Many of...
Anthony Joshua defeats Kubrat Pulev, sets up fight with Fury
Anthony Joshua has knocked out Kubrat Pulev to set up a mouthwatering heavyweight unification bout with Tyson Fury. AJ stepped...
MARKEDNESS THEORY: A SEMANTIC INVESTIGATION ON THE USE OF WORDS “RECOMMEND” AND “ADVOCATE” IN DIFFERENT TEXTS
Harbi Barkad Aden, University of Djibouti Introduction The markedness theory was primarily proposed by Prague scholars and later on, attracted...
Nigeria mourns former Ambassador to US
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued its condolences over the demise of the former Nigerian Ambassador to the United...
OIC member states reiterate resolve to collaborate in production, distribution of vaccines
The member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have reiterated their resolve to collaborate in the production and...
Nigerian government orders reopening of isolation centres, prepares for second wave of Covid-19
Nigerian government has ordered the reopening of all isolation and treatment centres in the country. While disclosing this on Thursday...
Israel, Morocco agree to normalize ties
Israel and Morocco have agreed to normalize relations as President Donald Trump, in his final weeks in office, announced the...
Prominent NY Arab Community leader, Ahmad Jaber dies at 73
One of the most prominent Muslim and Arab leaders in Brooklyn, Dr. Ahmad Jaber, has died after a battle with...
Marcus Garvey Jr., son of Jamaican national hero, dies in Wellington at 90
Marcus Garvey Jr., the eldest son of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the late leader of the Pan-Africanism movement, has died in...
Biden defends choice of retired army general for top defence post
United States President-elect Joe Biden has named retired US Army General Lloyd Austin to be his secretary of defence amid...
Russian army establishes military base in Syria’s Ain Issa
Russia police forces have been deployed in new military positions in Ain Issa in Raqqa’s northern countryside, along the areas...
Iraqi PM calls for national dialogue to prepare for ‘transparent elections’
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi called on Wednesday for “comprehensive national dialogue” ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections. During a...
Syria: Death toll reaches 387,000
The overall death toll for Syria's war has crept up to 387,000 following the least deadly of 10 years of...
No PM could accept trade terms offered by EU — Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson has claimed that no prime minister would be right to accept the trade terms being offered by the...
Trump’s health secretary meets with Biden team to ensure smooth vaccine rollout
The health secretary, Alex Azar, had met with the Joe Biden transition team in an effort to ensure a smooth...
HOW TECHNOLOGY MURDERED THE SPELLING SKILLS
One of the inherent problems of the invention of the electronic media is the adverse effect on the spelling skills....
NYS senators endorse Bravo for City Council
By Moses Kuwema New York State Senators Jessica Ramos and Alessandria Biaggi have endorsed Ischia Bravo; Democrat for City Council...
Covid-19: Mayor de Blasio urges protection among New Yorkers
By Moses Kuwema New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has urged people to protect themselves against Covid-19 as they...
FG condemns US designation of Nigeria as ‘country of concern on religious freedom’
The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has condemned the designation ascribed to the country by...
Nigeria: Landmark College rewards best BECE candidate, waives 50% school fee
Landmark College, Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigeria, has rewarded one of the candidates who got the highest number of distinctions in this...
US: Former federal prosecutor Lawrence Byrne dies at 61
Lawrence Byrne, a former federal prosecutor, who served as a deputy commissioner of Legal Matters in the New York Police...
Biden selects retired General Lloyd Austin as Defense Secretary in Pentagon
President-elect Joe Biden has selected Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin to serve as a Defense Secretary in Pentagon. While disclosing this...
Iran’s court upholds death sentence against journalist
Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam for fuelling anti-government unrest in 2017 on...
Liberia senatorial election to assess Weah’s popularity
Arrangement has been concluded for the senatorial elections to contest half of the Senate’s 30 seats in the country. Liberians...
Fauci warns of post-Christmas covid-19 surge in US
Dr Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious disease expert, has warned that the upcoming holiday season may be even worse...
Saudi highlights preliminary signs of economic recovery
Saudi Minister of Finance, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, has disclosed that the Kingdom showed a “very rapid” response to the crisis caused...
Biden names health team to tackle Covid-19
President-elect, Joe Biden, has named his health team that will tackle and crush the Covid crisis threatening the United States....
UNODC partners Germany, EU, donates equipment to DCI in Kenya
Ibrahim Jaafar Olum The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has partnered Federal Republic of Germany and the European...
Rouhani laments economic hazard of US sanctions on oil, petrochemical products
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has lamented the economic hazard of the US sanctions on the Iran's exportation of oil and...
US to sanction Chinese officials over disqualification of lawmakers in Hong Kong
The United States has disclosed preparation to impose sanctions on at least a dozen Chinese officials over their alleged role...
Rudy Giuliani has contracted China Virus — Trump
President Donald Trump has announced that his personal lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has contracted coronavirus....
Nigeria: Digprom launches first exhibition to expose kids to coding
Digprom, a tech organization in Ilorin, Kwara State, has launched its first exhibition to kids between the ages of 6...
US court order Trump administration to restore DACA to protect immigrants
A United States federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to fully restore an Obama-era initiative that protects undocumented immigrants...
US court order Trump administration to restore DACA to protect immigrants
A United States federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to fully restore an Obama-era initiative that protects undocumented immigrants...
US court order Trump administration to restore DACA to protect immigrants
A United States federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to fully restore an Obama-era initiative that protects undocumented immigrants...
Deborah Gonzalez emerges Georgia’s first Hispanic district attorney
Deborah Gonzalez has emerged as the Georgia's first Hispanic district attorney after winning the runoff in her race for district...
United States waives visa reciprocity fees for Nigerian citizens
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced the removal all visa reciprocity fees for Nigerian citizens seeking visas to the...
