The United States on Friday announced a further $205 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine to help the country with shortages of food, drinking water and other needs as its fights against Russia’s invasion. Top US diplomat Antony Blinken said that the aid will be distributed via partner NGOs in the region, and was also aimed at helping victims of …

The United States’ delegation for the inauguration of the Nigerian President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu has arrived in the country. According to a tweet by the official handle of the US Mission, the team, led by Secretary for Housing, Marcia L. Fudge, touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Sunday afternoon. Tweeting the arrival of the nine-member team, …

Russia on Friday said it banned entry to 500 Americans, including former President Barack Obama, in response to sanctions imposed by United States. “In response to the anti-Russian sanctions regularly imposed by the (Joe) Biden administration… entry into the Russian Federation is closed for 500 Americans”, the Russian foreign ministry said, adding that Obama was among those on the list. …

Donald Trump consolidated his record in demagoguery when he became the first former United States president ever to be criminally indicted and arraigned in a Manhattan court on 4th April. He was the first US president to complain about an election he won and also the first to openly express support for the body-slamming of a reporter. He has the …

Eight days after Nigeria held its presidential poll, the United States has said that the exercise failed to meet the expectations of Nigerians. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the election after polling 8,794,726 votes, almost two million votes more than his closest rival — former Vice …

The United States announced a new $400 million security aid package for Ukraine on Friday that features various types of ammunition for Kyiv’s forces. “This military assistance package includes more ammunition for US-provided HIMARS and howitzers, which Ukraine is using so effectively to defend itself,” the US State Department said in a statement, referring to precision rocket systems and artillery …

United States President Joe Biden, 80, had a cancerous skin lesion successfully removed from his chest in February, his doctor has revealed. The lesion, detected during a routine medical examination, was a basal cell carcinoma, which “do not tend to ‘spread’ or metastasize,” Biden’s physician, Dr Kevin O’Connor, said in a report made public by the White House on Friday. …

Former US President Donald Trump didn’t just happen to the United States. He hit the world like the climax of a horror movie. Scene after scene, act after act left the thoughtful in bewilderment, the reserved in shame, and even the incorrigible in doubt. Only the fantasts and ultra-right wing extremists were impressed by Trump’s macabre dance. It was a phase …