(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday night said he was not scheduled to be vaccinated against the Coronavirus (COVID-19), after a media report indicated he could receive a jab as early as Monday. Earlier in the day Bloomberg reported Trump could be vaccinated “as soon as Monday,” and other top White […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States government has announced the removal of visa reciprocity fee for the nonimmigrant visa categories or any visa class for Nigerian nationals effective from Dec. 3. The Public Affairs Department of the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, which disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, said that reciprocity fees paid before […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for use and said that it will be rolled out from next week. “The Government has today accepted the recommendation from the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to approve Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for use,” […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday said the Department of Justice had found no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could upturn the Nov. 3 elections. “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” The Associated Press (AP) quoted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pfizer and BioNTech said they had submitted their COVID-19 vaccine to the European Medicines Agency for conditional approval. The companies said this in a statement on Tuesday, aiming to make their drug available in Europe by the end of the year. The partners, a U.S. pharma giant and a small German biotechnology […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – United States President-elect, Joe Biden, has selected Nigerian-born, Adewale Adeyemo, as Deputy Treasury Secretary. Adewale Adeyemo will serve under former Federal Reserve Chair, Janet Yellen, who will be head of the US Treasury Department. African Examiner reports that Adeyemo who was born in 1981 in Nigeria, arrived the US at the age […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Iran Foreign Ministry on Friday confirmed that a high-ranking Iranian nuclear physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, had been assassinated. Fakhrizadeh was shot and injured “by terrorists” in his vehicle in Ab-Sard, a suburb in eastern Tehran, and later succumbed to his injuries in what amounted to a “martyr’s death,” the ministry said. Local authorities […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chair of the United States House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Keren Bass (D-CA), along with 52 other Members of Congress, have called for a halt to the deportations of Cameroonian asylum seekers. When the House was alerted that Africa asylum seekers from Cameroon and other African countries will be […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The European Commission has wrapped up negotiations with BioNTech and Pfizer to secure doses of the company’s experimental Coronavirus vaccine for Europe, a spokesperson announced this on Tuesday. EU commissioners were due to approve the agreement on Wednesday, Eric Mamer said at a Brussels press conference. “Negotiations with the pharmaceutical industry have […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has expressed worry over the alarming spate of food and Nutrition related issues in Nigeria due to its population. It, however, urged various state governments in Nigeria to take the issue very seriously, by domesticating the 2016, national policy on Food and Nutrition because of its […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Covid-19 vaccine being developed by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE prevented more than 90% of infections in a study of tens of thousands of volunteers, the most encouraging scientific advance so far in the battle against the coronavirus. Eight months into the worst pandemic in a century, the preliminary results pave the way for the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent a congratulatory message to America’s president elect Joe Biden. Democratic candidate and former vice president Biden defeated controversial Donald Trump to become America’s 46th President. His election follows a tightly contested race. Putting aside the sour relations between Zimbabwe and United States of America, Mnangagwa said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President-elect, Joe Biden, says his first task in office is to get the coronavirus pandemic under control. Biden stated this in his acceptance speech, which he delivered before a crowd of supporters in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday night. “Our work begins with getting Covid-19 under control. “We cannot […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Joe Biden’s campaign manager says she is confident that her candidate will win the U.S presidential election and called the lawsuits being filed by President Donald Trump meritless. “Donald Trump continues to push a flailing strategy designed to prevent people’s votes from being counted,’’ Jen O’Malley Dillon says. “Joe Biden will be […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – About 400 people rallied outside the French embassy in the Indonesian capital to denounce France’s handling of cartoons of Islam’s prophet Mohammed deemed offensive by Muslims. The protesters outside waved posters calling French President Emmanuel Macron “an enemy of Muslims. A banner read “we condemn the insult against Prophet Mohammed,’’ referring to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than nine Nigerian Americans are on the ballot in Tuesday’s general elections in the United States. Running mostly on the platform of the Democratic Party, the candidates are bidding for different offices at the federal, state and local levels. NAN reports that besides the presidential election, governorship polls are holding […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen had kidnapped 27-year-old Philip Walton in Niger on October 26 and moved him to northern Nigeria where he was held captive. The Pentagon disclosed that the operation was executed on Saturday. “U.S. forces conducted a hostage rescue operation during the early hours of 31 October in Northern Nigeria to recover an […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has enjoined President Buhari to issue a “diplomatic offensive” to Trump to clear every obstacle and enable the emergence of Nigeria’s former finance minister, Okojo-Iweala as the director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). African Examiner had earlier reported that Okonjo-Iweala was nominated as the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States Mission to Nigeria has shut down its consulate in Lagos following the #EndSARS protest in the state. The U.S Mission in Nigeria made this known in a message on its official website on Tuesday. The mission also issued security warnings to its nationals living across the country. The US […]
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has tested positive for the coronavirus. He announced this via his twitter handle. “I just received word that I am positive for COVID-19. I want to thank all of my friends and colleagues who have reached out to ask how I was feeling in the last day or two,” […]
