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November 16, 2020 No Responses

Fifteen Countries Seal World Biggest Trade Deal

Fifteen countries have formed the world’s largest trading bloc, covering nearly a third of the global economy. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is made up of 10 Southeast Asian countries, as well as South Korea, China, Japan, Australia and...

March 19, 2020 No Responses

Ekiti Corona Virus Patient, Driver To A Visiting American

Latest Nigerian to test positive of Corona Virus was said to have been infected while driving a 27-year- old American, who was visiting Nigeria from Richmond, Virginia, USA in the company of his caregiver, a Nigerian female Age 31, of...

March 12, 2020 No Responses

Stocks Fall As US Imposes EU Travel Ban

Asian stocks traded sharply lower after President Donald Trump suspended all travel to the US from mainland Europe in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus. It followed steep losses on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones plunging...

November 26, 2017 No Responses

Iyalode Alaba Lawson bags State of Georgia honourary citizenship

The State of Georgia, United States of America, has conferred its honourary citizenship on the Chairman of US-Nigeria Trade Council, Iyalode Alaba Lawson. At a ceremony held in her honour, the Secretary of State for the State of Georgia, Mr....

June 23, 2017 No Responses

Qatar wants 10% of American Airlines

(BBC) American Airlines has received an “unsolicited” approach from Qatar Airways which wants to acquire 10% of the US carrier. In a regulatory filing, American Airlines said Qatar intended to buy at least $808m (£638m) of its shares. American....

April 30, 2017 No Responses

North Korea crisis: Pope urges international mediation

(BBC) Pope Francis has called for international mediation to ease rising tensions between the US and North Korea over Pyongyang’s nuclear activity. The pontiff suggested that Norway, for example, was “always ready to help”. He warned the cris...

January 21, 2017 No Responses

Trump vows to ‘put America first’

(BBC) President Donald Trump has painted a bleak picture of a broken country after being sworn in as US president. He spoke of abandoned factories, rampant crime and a failed education system, pledging that his presidency would bring about change....

November 7, 2016 No Responses

Clinton maintains lead over Trumph

The closing days of this long campaign has seen Trump closing the gap on the Democratic nominee. Two new polls, two days out from the US presidential election, show Hillary Clinton opening up her lead against Donald Trump, but the...

July 23, 2016 No Responses

Hillary Clinton picks Tim Kaine as her running mate

Hilary Clinton named Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her vice presidential running mate Friday, adding a centrist former governor of a crucial battleground state to the Democratic ticket. In a text message to supporters, the presumptive Democratic nominee said...