US leader, Donald Trump, talked during a Christmas reception at the White House on Tuesday night, December 1, 2020, about spending four more years in office -- whether he was referring to January 2021 or January 2025, he didn't clarify.
Trump lost his bid for a second term in the...
In an interview with the Associated Press published Tuesday, December 1, Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department hasn't found evidence to support allegations of widespread fraud that could have changed the result of last month's presidential election.
The comments from Barr, who has been steadfast in his support of President...
US President-Elect, Joe Biden, is set to announce a Nigerian-born lawyer, Adewale Adeyemo, as deputy Treasury secretary, website, Politico reported on Sunday November 29.
According to the report, Adeyemo’s appointment is one of many key cabinet positions Biden is expected to announce in the coming days as he prepares to...
Donald Trump is still lamenting his electoral loss to Joe Biden.
The US President has refused to concede to Joe Biden since media agencies projected the Democrat won 306 electoral college votes in the November 3 elections.
Despite losing his legal challenges so far to the electoral results, Trump late Sunday...
President-elect, Joe Biden's total tally of votes has surpassed 80 million, making him the first-ever presidential candidate in United States history to achieve the feat.
The vote-tracking count from the Cook Political Report reported the Democrat has so far received roughly 51 percent of the national popular vote to Donald...
US President Donald Trump, has finally given President-elect Joe Biden the green light to begin his transition to the White House, the clearest sign that Trump now understands he lost the election.
Despite Trump’s claims of electoral fraud, his campaign’s legal attempts to change the election have been roundly rejected...
US president-elect, Joe Biden will announce the first members chosen for his cabinet on Tuesday November 24, the incoming White House chief of staff, Ron Klain has revealed.
Klain made the comments during an interview on ABC News’s “This Week” on Sunday, November 22nd.
“Well, what I can confirm, George, is...
Twitter will hand control of the US president's official account to Joe Biden on January 20 regardless of whether Donald Trump has left the White House or not, it has been revealed.
President Donald Trump is yet to concede defeat in the 2020 president election, alleging high-level voter fraud after Biden...
Georgia has confirmed Democratic President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the Nov 3 election in the state after completing a hand audit of ballots on Thursday, November 19, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said.
The audit, launched after unofficial results showed Biden leading Republican President Donald Trump by about...
The Trump campaign and other Republican groups have mounted 21 legal challenges since Election Day, alleging "rigged" election marred by "major fraud" from Democrats.
However, Trump has won none of the lawsuits.
The lawsuits argue that states and counties have violated election laws.
Republicans have filed the lawsuits in local, state, and federal...
US President, Donald Trump, has reacted after the Michigan Electoral board refused to certify results declaring Joe Biden as the winner in the state during the just concluded presidential election.
Republicans on Tuesday November 17, blocked the certification of results in a party-line vote that threatened to temporarily stall official...
2700 missing votes have been found in a county in Georgia, one of the battleground states Joe Biden won in the just concluded Secretary election, the Secretary of State's Office has announced.
This is the second county in the state to have found missing votes, since the electoral audit in...
US President-elect, Joe Biden, is to receive a national security briefing today according to a transition official, reports say.
According to new reports, Biden's national security briefing will come from a team of diplomatic, intelligence, and defense experts.
Biden's briefing on Tuesday November 17, will not be an official US government...
Michelle Obama has weighed in on Donald Trump and Melania Trump's refusal to move forward with a transition of power to the incoming administration.
The former US First Lady reflected on where she was four years ago and how angry she felt that Trump had won.
She stated that despite the...
US President, Donald Trump has continued to attack the legitimacy of the just concluded US Presidential elections.
Several media agencies have called the result for Biden, projecting he won the 270 electoral college votes required but Trump has refused to concede.
Trump, in the last two weeks has challenged the results...
Former US President Barack Obama has revealed what the election results in which Donald Trump got 72 million votes, means to him.
Even though the US presidential race has been called for Joe Biden by several media houses, Trump has refused to concede, making Biden's transition even harder.
Both candidates got...
Peru's interim president, Manuel Merino has resigned less than a week into his new administration after protests calling for his removal left two dead and dozens injured.
In a short televised address on Sunday November 15, Manuel Merino said he’d acted within the law when he was sworn into office...
Peru's interim president Manuel Merino is now under pressure to resign after violent crackdown on protests against his new government left at least two people and more than 60 injured.
Thousands took to the streets to protest against Merino following the removal of his predecessor, Martin Vizcarra, who was impeached on corruption allegations on...
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said on Friday, November 13, that based on unofficial returns, she will not order a recount or recanvass of ballots cast in the 2020 election, including in the presidential race.
Donald Trump has refused to concede to President-elect Joe Biden and continues to litigate...
China has finally congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on winning the U.S. presidential election after days of silence to acknowledge the victory.
“We have been following the reaction on this U.S. presidential election from both within the United States and from the international community,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang...
Donald Trump is being offered book and TV deals worth around $100 million as part of a 'plan B' if his election legal battle fails to secure him a second term, a source close to the president has claimed.
The insider told Page Six on Tuesday November 10, the president is being 'bombarded' with lucrative...
A Pennsylvania postal worker has admitted he fabricated claims of voting irregularities in the 2020 election that were picked up by the Trump campaign as evidence of fraud, according to congressional investigators.
The case had been cited by Republicans as evidence of widespread ballot tampering in a letter to the Justice Department...
In another escalation of the post-electoral dilemma occuring in the White House, the United States Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, has suggested that the presidential election has not yet been decided saying President Trump could still be the winner.
Major US news organizations projected Biden won the presidential election on...
The United States' Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo has refused to acknowledge or accept Joe Biden’s projected victory as President-elect, saying that “there will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration."
Major US news organizations projected Biden will win the presidential election on Saturday but Biden's transition process...
Estonia’s far-right minister has resigned over comments he made about US president-elect Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
In a radio interview on Sunday, Interior minister, Mart Helme, called the father and son “corrupt characters.” His son, Martin Helme said Biden's victory in the U.S. presidential election was rigged.
The...
Donald Trump is still hopeful he will be declared the winner of the US presidential election despite Joe Biden's projected victory in the election which made him president-elect of the United States.
Recall Trump claimed that there has been voter fraud in the election with no evidence, and has already lost 10 different...
A Donald Trump aide is refusing to sign paperwork that will pave the way for Joe Biden to receive $9.9m in transition funds he needs to begin as president.
Emily Murphy, head of the General Services Administration (GSA), said the election has not yet been decided.
“An ascertainment has not yet been...
Russian President, Vladimir Putin is waiting for the official results from the US presidential election before congratulating a winner, the Kremlin said on Monday November 9.
"We consider it correct to wait for the official results to be finalised. I want to remind you that President Putin repeatedly said he...
Former Republican President George W. Bush on Sunday congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory in the 2020 election.
“Though we have political differences, I know Joe Biden to be a good man, who has won his opportunity to lead and unify our country. The...
Despite several media agencies naming Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 US presidential Elections, Rudy Giuliani, the former Mayor of New York and Trump's lawyer has stated that the US President wouldn’t concede the election at this point and the race is “far from over,” alleging high...
Kamala Harris has reacted after making history as the first woman and black person to be named vice president-elect following her election victory with President-elect Joe Biden.
Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States of America by clinching Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes on Saturday November...
Joe Biden has been elected as the 46th President of the United States of America.
The democrat who turns 78 next month, will become the oldest president when he is inaugurated in January 2021 in the North American country.
Biden edged President Trump, who in the days since voting ended has falsely...
More US Secret Service agents have been sent to Wilmington, Delaware in anticipation of a potential Joe Biden presidential win.
Two sources told CNN that the extra Secret Service agents were sent to Delaware on Thursday November 5. The agents were dispatched once learning the former vice president planned to remain...
A Nigerian woman, Esther Agbaje has been elected into the Minnesota House of Representatives in Tuesday’s U.S. general elections.
Agbaje who will be representing District 59B in the 134-member House on the platform of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), an affiliate of the U.S. Democratic Party, won by a landslide polling 17,396...
Democratic candidates, Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones have made history by becoming the first openly gay Black men elected to the United States Congress.
Both New Yorkers were elected on Tuesday, November 4th, and will enter the House in January 2021.
Ritchie Torres, 32, who identifies as Afro-Latino, won the House seat representing...
A Nigerian living in the United States has been elected to the country's Congress.
Adeoye Owolewa, 31, ran on the platform of the Democratic Party to represent Washington DC in the House of Representatives, and won, making him the first Nigerian to be elected to the United States Congress.
Oye Owolewa,...
A North Dakota state legislative candidate who died of coronavirus last month won his election
Republican David Andahl, who was 55 when he died, and another GOP candidate, Dave Nehring, were elected to represent the 8th district in the state’s House of Representatives in Tuesday's election.
Andahl and fellow District 8...
Joe Biden has become the first Democrat to win a Presidential election in Arizona in 24 years.
With his win, Biden denied President Donald Trump 11 pivotal electoral votes that were once reliably Republican.
While Trump ran up the score in rural Arizona, Biden carved a path through fast-changing Maricopa County,...
After an unprecedented election campaign in the midst of an ongoing pandemic, American voters will now decide whether to give U.S. President Donald Trump four more years in office or elect Democratic rival Joe Biden.
Updates coming shortly..
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A mystery British businessman has bet $5million on Donald Trump winning the US presidential election ahead of Joe Biden.
Betting insiders believe the businessman's enormous $5million pledge is the biggest number ever wagered in politics.
The unnamed financier - who is based overseas placed his bet with a private bookmaker in...
US President, Donald Trump, has denied reports he plans to declare victory on Tuesday night November 3, once it looks like he's ahead, even though it might take days or even weeks before battleground states like Pennsylvania finally count their votes.
According to a report by Axios on Sunday night...
President Yoweri Museveni was on Monday, November 2, nominated by the Uganda Electoral Commission to contest in 2021 general election as he seeks to extend his rule to the fourth decade.
The 76-year-old president, who assumed power in 1986 following a five-year guerilla warfare, will be contesting for his sixth...
The United States opposed Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the consensus candidate to lead the WTO.
It has now been revealed that the US 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, Robert Lighthizer,...
Malaysia's former prime minister on Wednesday, October 29, said that Muslims have the right "to kill millions of French people", shortly after a knife-wielding Islamist killed three people in a Church in Nice.
Mahathir Mohamad, who lost power in February this year, said freedom of expression does not include "insulting other people" as anger...
Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Otu has asked Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River state to step aside.
Daily Trust reported that the monarch said this when Liyel Imoke, a former governor of the state paid homage to him.
The Obong blamed Ayade for the vandalism, looting and destruction of public and private property in...
President Donald Trump’s election campaign website was temporarily “seized” by hackers who claim to have evidence that 'proves his criminal involvement with foreign actors to manipulate the presidential election.
A message appeared on the president’s website that stated “this site has been seized” and the hackers claimed to have information that proved his...
US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo is under investigation for potentially violating a federal law that forbids federal employees from participating in political activity while on duty or while inside federal owned buildings after he sensationally addressed the Republican Party national convention in August.
The Office of the Special Counsel,...
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has threatened that members of his group would henceforth publicly disgrace and humiliate corrupt Nigerian political office holders sighted in any foreign country.
Kanu stated this during a live Facebook session.
“Any day any corrupt Nigerian political office holder is sighted in...
President Alpha Conde has secured a third term in office by winning Guinea’s controversial presidential election with 59.5 percent of the vote.
The electoral authority president Kabinet Cisse said Conde's main opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo polled 33.5 percent of the vote.
The announcement on Saturday October 24, came after days of deadly violence in the...
Rapper and Fashion designer, Kanye West has taken to Twitter to show off off a ballot where his name was listed as a vice presidential candidate.
Father of four, West, shared a photo of a ballot on which he's listed for the American Independent Party as a vice presidential candidate...
US Presidential candidate, Joe Biden says the next presidential debate on 15 October should not take place if rival and president, Donald Trump still has Covid-19.
Trump, 74, announced last week Friday two days after his first debate with Biden in Cleveland that he had tested positive for Covid-19.
He was...
Belgium has appointed the world’s first transgender cabinet minister as the country's deputy leader.
Petra De Sutter, 57, a gynaecologist and Green party Member of the European Parliament , was chosen as deputy leader in the country's new seven-party coalition, becoming the most senior openly transgender MP in Europe.
"Incredibly grateful...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has challenged his predecessor now Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, to mention his contributions to the state in his capacity as a Minister.
Wike threw the challenge while reacting to Amaechi’s claim that he, Amaechi, is one of the best governors the state has ever had. While...
US President, Donald Trump, wanted his daughter, Ivanka Trump, as his vice presidential running mate during the 2016 election, a report by The Washington Post published on Monday, September 28, alleges.
According to the Washington post, in an upcoming book by former Trump deputy campaign chair Rick Gates, "Wicked Game,"...
The Federal Government has lifted the ban on Emirates Airlines from operating in Nigeria. This development comes after the United Arab Emirates UAE agreed to start issuing visas to Nigerians.
The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced the decision to lift the ban on the airline via his Twitter handle this...
US president Donald Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 out of 15 years beginning in 2000 and paid just $750 as income tax in 2016 according to an explosive report released Sunday by the New York Times.
According to the report, in both the year he won the presidency...
