NOVEMBER 8, 2020 Nigeria recorded 59 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, one of the lowest in seven months. The latest figure, is a sharp decrease from the 180 and 223 cases reported on Thursday and Friday respectively, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 63,790. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease … Read more
On Saturday, following the presidential election being called, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) — now the vice president-elect — posted a short video of herself to Twitter, ecstatically calling President-elect Joe Biden to celebrate their victory. “We did it,” she said, grinning and laughing. “We did it, Joe. You’re going to be the next president of … Read more
Minutes after the announcement that Joe Biden had won the election to become the 46th president of the United States, crowds began to converge on the White House, celebrating Biden’s victory and the imminent removal of Donald Trump from the iconic mansion. pic.twitter.com/jNON8zRHys — EkoHotBlog (@ekohotblog) November 7, 2020 READ ALSO:BREAKING: Joe Biden Elected 46th … Read more
Joe Biden is now projected to win the 2020 presidential race after surging ahead in key swing states. MSNBC and CNN have both called the race for the Democratic candidate. The Rust Belt states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania proved to be crucial in the 2020 election, after Biden flipped Arizona and Trump was projected … Read more
Guinea’s constitutional court has confirmed President Alpha Conde’s victory in last month’s disputed election, rejecting allegations of fraud and handing him a third term. The 82-year-old Conde’s earlier this year campaign to change the constitution in bid to bypass a two-term limit and subsequent candidacy in the October 18 polls sparked violent protests that killed … Read more
A former judge of the Lagos High Court, Justice Dolapo Funlola Akinsanya, who on November 10, 1993, declared the Interim National Government (ING) of Chief Ernest Shonekan illegal, is dead. Justice Akinsanya died on Thursday in Lagos at the age of 79. Akinsanya was born on February 24, 1941, to the family of the late … Read more
US Supreme Court justice on Friday denied a request by Pennsylvania’s Republicans to immediately halt the counting of ballots arriving after Election Day — referring the challenge to the full court to consider on Saturday. Justice Samuel Alito ordered Pennsylvania in the meantime to continue keeping the late-arriving ballots separate, affirming a decision already made … Read more
Thieves have taken some 600,000 euros worth of high-end goods from the Paris home of a Saudi princess, a source close to the case said on Friday. The 47-year-old princess, who had not set foot in the apartment since August, discovered on returning that bags, watches, jewellery and furs worth about $720,000 were missing. The … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday appealed to Nigerians yet to feel the impacts of his Administration and those who feel the government is not doing enough to bear with the government. The President made the appeal in Ilorin at a town hall meeting with the traditional rulers, youths, students, organised labour, market women and other … Read more
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday gave SERAP a victory in round one of our attempt to secure the release of completed public hearings and corruption probes by the National Assembly since 1999. Justice Ogunbanjo gave SERAP the permission to apply for judicial review and seek an order of mandamus directing and compelling … Read more
The hope of students of public universities returning to classes in the country anytime soon may be futile as the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), Akure Zone has made it known that the industrial action embarked upon by the union may last years if the Federal Government refuses to honour its agreement with the … Read more
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) on Friday extended registration for its 2020 West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination for private candidates. This was disclosed in a tweet via its Twitter handle, @waecnigeria The examination body said that the new registration deadline is Friday, November 13, 2020. It tweeted, “WASSCE for private candidates, 2020 … Read more
National Youth Service Corps, NYSC call up letter for 2020 Batch ‘B’ Prospective Corps Members is now available for printing online. EKOHOTBLOG would love to inform all the 2020 Batch ‘B’ prospective corps members that the portal is open for printing of call up letters. Prospective Corps members are expected to log on to the … Read more
Democrat Joe Biden, 77 was pushing closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to carry the White House, securing victories in the “blue wall” battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Michigan and narrowing President Donald Trump’s path. With just a handful of states still up for grabs, Trump sought to stave off defeat with scattershot legal … Read more
NOVEMBER 5, 2020 IGP Adamu heads to Imo as part of his tour to ascertain the level of damage done during the carnage that ensued after hoodlums hijacked the #EndSARS protests. Inspector-General of Police, (IGP) Muhammad Abubakar Adamu said social media was the biggest weapon used in escalating #EndSars demonstrations across the states of the … Read more
The House of Representatives on Thursday rejected the 2021 budget proposals of the Ministry of Aviation. The lawmakers, said the won’t treat their budget, because they failed to present their 2021 proposals ahead of the scheduled date for defence. Ministries and heads of agencies, are customarily required to lay their proposals, days before the scheduled … Read more
Kosovo president Hashim Thaci resigned on Thursday after learning that war crimes charges against him had been confirmed by the Kosovo war crimes tribunal in The Hague. “To defend the integrity of the Kosovo presidency, the state of Kosovo and the people of Kosovo, I resign from the position of Kosovo president,” Mr Thaci told … Read more
The Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) scheduled to take place in Marrakesh, Morocco, in October 2021 has been postponed by 12 months until 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The IMF, in a statement on Thursday disclosed that the decision to postpone the Annual Meetings, was reached … Read more
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Thursday has set up a fact finding team over the alleged killings in Oyigbo. NBA President Olumide Akpata who made the announcement, said the 4-man team will conduct an inquiry into reports of alleged reprisal killing of suspected members of the proscribed indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) by the … Read more
The Senate on Thursday told State House officials to restrain the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), from foreign trips for medical treatment in order to ensure the State House clinic becomes effective. The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs gave the warning when the State House Permanent Secretary, Tijani Umar, appeared before … Read more