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German Chancellor ANGELA MERKEL has cancelled plans for a strict lockdown over Easter, just a day after the measures were announced. Calling the plan, a “mistake”, MERKEL said she took “ultimate responsibility” for the U-turn. The proposed lockdown was agreed with regional leaders in talks overnight on Monday, with restrictions set to be tightened between […]
United States President JOE BIDEN has vowed to take “common-sense steps” to crack down on firearms following two mass shootings in the country in less than a week. He renewed his call to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and urged Congress to pass bills that would end loopholes in background checks. BIDEN was speaking […]
The Republic of Congo’s President, Denis Sassou Nguesso, has won a fresh term after winning a presidential election boycotted by the main opposition movement. Provisional results indicated that 77-year-old NGUESSO scored 88.57 percent of the vote in a first-round victory, with the turnout at 67.55 percent. Source[Reuters] Edited by George Ukaegbu
Pakistan is set to purchase its first 1 million-plus doses of Chinese Sinopharm and CanSino COVID vaccines by the end of March. The minister in charge of pandemic operations, ASAD UMAR said the government was in talks to purchase another seven million doses of the vaccines. The consignment is the first purchase of vaccines by […]
Officials in the Republic of Niger have revealed that armed men killed at least 60 people in southwestern region of the West African country yesterday. The Mayor of Tillia, ALFOUZAZI ISSINTAG, the rural district supervising area where the villages belong, said this after stressing that it was revising the toll up from a previous estimate […]
About 18,000 Australians have been evacuated from flooding across New South Wales (NSW) as heavy rain continues to batter the east coast. Days of torrential downpours have caused rivers and dams to overflow around Sydney the state capital and in south-east Queensland. Officials say the “one-in-a-50-year event” may continue all week and have urged the […]
THE COVID-19 death toll in Turkey has risen to over thirty thousand. Meanwhile, health ministry data showed the total number of cases topped 3 million, weeks after the country started easing restrictions. According to the figures, the country recorded 102 deaths, bringing the total to thirty thousand and sixty one. Local media indicate that it […]
Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn in as the country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery. Hassan, 61, a soft-spoken Muslim woman from the island of Zanzibar, will finish Magufuli’s second five-year term, set to run until 2025. Wearing a bright red headscarf, […]
Three days of national mourning have begun in Argentina after DIEGO MARADONA died on Wednesday at the age of 60. His body will lie in state at the Casa Rosada, the seat of the Argentina government, during that time. MARADONA, who played for clubs including Barcelona and Napoli, was captain when Argentina won the 1986 […]
The Minister of Information and Culture, LAI MOHAMMED, has accused CNN of desperation over its second report on the Lekki toll plaza shootings that happened on October 20. CNN had on Tuesday released a second ‘investigative report’ on the shootings at Lekki toll plaza during the #EndSARS protests amid threats of sanction from the Federal […]
