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Senior Republicans defy Trump, accept Biden as president-elect

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

Several senior Republican U.S. senators on Monday acknowledged Democrat Joe Biden as the country’s president-elect after the Electoral College affirmed…

UN reacts to Boko Haram attack on southeast Niger

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned Saturday’s deadly attack by gunmen that claimed 27 lives in the Republic of Niger.

Biden delivers blistering rebuke of Trump [Video]

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden delivered a blistering rebuke of Donald Trump as Biden spoke after 306 electors confirmed his victory…

Trump’s attorney-general William Barr resigns

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

U.S. Attorney General William Barr, one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest allies, has given notice of his resignation amid public…

Joe Biden thrashes Trump in Electoral College

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Monday won the state-by-state Electoral College vote that formally confirmed his victory in the 3…

Hillary Clinton wants U.S. electoral college scrapped

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

By Harrison Arubu/New York Former U.S. First Lady and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, on Monday renewed her call for…

Israel’s Netanyahu in self-isolation for third time

Nimot Sulaimon

5 years ago

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gone into self-isolation after coming into contact with someone who later tested positive for…

ICU nurse Sandra Lindsay first American to receive COVID-19 vaccine

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Sandra Lindsay, an ICU nurse has become the first New Yorker and American to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19.

Trump does quid pro quo with Sudan

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump has lifted the designation of Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism, in exchange for…

Google services including Gmail, YouTube suffer outage

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

Google services including Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive and Google Classroom suffered a widespread outage Monday, affecting many users and employers.

Final loss to Trump; US Electoral College set to confirm Biden

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

Long a mere formality, a vote on Monday by members of the Electoral College to formally recognise Joe Biden as…

Russia hits back as US confirms cyber attack

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

Russia’s embassy in the US has hit back after the US government confirmed Sunday that its computer networks had been…

Ghana election: NDC releases evidence Akufo-Addo should not have been winner

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Ghana's opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has pressed on with its charge that the result of the 7 December election…

COVID-19 kills ESwatini prime minister Ambrose Dlamini

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

COVID-19 has killed Ambrose Dlamini, the prime minister of Eswatini, Africa’s last absolute monarchy.

South Korea shuts schools over COVID-19 explosion

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

South Korea ordered schools to close from Tuesday in the capital Seoul and surrounding areas as it battles its worst…

Ethiopian, Sudanese leaders hold regional security talks

Taiwo Okanlawon

5 years ago

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and visiting Sudanese counterpart, Abdullah Hamdok, on Sunday called for an emergency summit of the…

New Zealand to re-open to Australia, Cook Islands next year

PM NEWS Live

5 years ago

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that New Zealand is working to establish two-way “travel bubbles” with…

538 Electors confirm Biden as 46th U.S. president today

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Electors will gather in state capitals across the United States today to formally vote for Joe Biden as the 46th…

Benin records 547 pregnancy cases in secondary schools

Taiwo Okanlawon

5 years ago

The Beninese news agency, ABP has reported that more than 500 pregnancies were recorded in secondary schools of Benin’s northeastern…

British novelist John le Carre dies at 89

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

British author, David Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carre, has died at the age of 89,…

Missile strike? Oil ship explodes in Saudi Arabia port city of Jeddah

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

An explosion rocked an oil ship off Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah on the Red Sea, with the owners…

Ethiopia PM Abiy visits troubled Tigray region

PM NEWS Live

5 years ago

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has arrived in Mekelle, the regional capital of the troubled Tigray region, a senior Cabinet…

COVID-19: Algerian President to return from Germany after recovery

PM NEWS Live

5 years ago

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has announced that he “will soon return home” from his recovery process in Germany following contracting…

COVID-19: I’m not scheduled to be vaccinated – Trump

PM NEWS Live

5 years ago

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday night said he was not scheduled to be vaccinated against the Coronavirus (COVID-19)…

Biden orders Trump White House deep-cleaned of virus

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden was reported to have ordered a deep cleaning of the White House after Trump vacated the…

Kenya grants citizenship to Zimbabwean missionaries

PM NEWS Live

5 years ago

Kenya is to grant citizenship to 1,600 stateless people from the Shona community who came to Kenya as missionaries.

U.S records highest COVID-19 caseload

Nimot Sulaimon

5 years ago

More than 16 million people have been confirmed to have caught the coronavirus in the United States since the start…

Trump now deposed king ranting: William Barr

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump has become a 'deposed king ranting', according to the opinion of Attorney General William Barr.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms rejects Biden job offer

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Keisha Lance Bottoms, the African-American mayor of Atlanta Georgia has rejected a cabinet job offer from U.S. President-elect Joe Biden.

COVID-19 recoveries in Africa surpass 2 million

Nimot Sulaimon

5 years ago

Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Saturday that over two million people have recovered from…

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