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Time Magazine names Joe Biden and Kamala Harris 'Person of the Year'

 


Time Magazine names Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

Time magazine has jointly named President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris its “Person of the Year.”

 

Time's editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal says Biden and Harris won the honor for “changing the American story, for showing that the forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division, for sharing a vision of healing in a grieving world.”

 

Felsenthal notes, “Every elected President since FDR has at some point during his term been a Person of the Year, nearly a dozen of those in a presidential election year. This is the first time we have included a Vice President.”

 

He continues, "Joe Biden was elected President of the United States in the midst of an existential debate over what reality we inhabit. Perhaps the only thing Americans agree on right now is that the future of the country is at stake, even as they fiercely disagree about why.... The task before the new Administration is immense: a pandemic to confront, an economy to fix, a climate crisis to tackle, alliances to rebuild, deep skepticism to overcome with many Americans dubious about unity with Trump voters, and an opposition party still very much under Trump's sway.... This will be the test of the next four years: Americans who haven't been this divided in more than a century elected two leaders who have bet their success on finding common ground."

 

 

Kamala Harris is the first Vice President to be included in the choice for Person of the Year. 

 

Felsenthal writes: "TIME from its beginnings has had a special connection to the presidency, as a reflection of America and its role in the world. Every elected President since FDR has at some point during his term been a Person of the Year, nearly a dozen of those in a presidential election year. This is the first time we have included a Vice President. In a year that saw an epic struggle for racial justice, and one of the most consequential elections in history, the Biden-Harris partnership sends a powerful message."

 

In his letter to readers, Felsenthal writes, "The selection of Person of the Year is rarely easy, and this year was far more difficult than most… In Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, we have two individuals whose election mirrored and moved the major stories of this year and whose fates will shape the nation's role in the world and the future of the American experiment."

 

Time's other Person of the Year candidates were President Donald Trump; frontline health care workers and Dr. Anthony Fauci; and the movement for racial justice.

 

Religious Freedom: “We’re seeing a lot of religious-tinged violence taking place in that country - US explains why it blacklisted Nigeria

 

Religious Freedom: ?We?re seeing a lot of religious-tinged violence taking place in that country - US explains why it blacklisted Nigeria

The United States government has explained why it added Nigeria to its list of violators of religious freedom. 

 

U.S Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Samuel Brownback said the decision was taken because 'a number of terrorist groups are organising and pushing into the country, and the government’s response to terrorist activities has been minimal.''

 

Brownback added that a lot of ''religious-tinged violence'' are taking place in the country which is of great concern to the world. 

 

He said; 

 

 “The Secretary and, really, the world, has great concern about what’s taking place in Nigeria at this time. A number of terrorist groups are organising and pushing into the country.

“We’re seeing a lot of religious-tinged violence taking place in that country and indeed in West Africa. It’s an area of growing concern about what’s happening, in particular the tension that’s taking place there between religious groups. And it’s often the religious affiliation that is used to try to recruit and inspire violent acts.

 

The ambassador added that a major concern for the U.S regarding Nigeria is “the lack of adequate government response in Nigeria. 

“You’ve got expanded terrorist activities, you’ve got a lot of them associated around religious affiliations. The government’s response has been minimal to not happening at all. 

“A number of cases – there have not been criminal cases brought forward by the government. The terrorism continues to happen and grow, in some places unabated." he said


Cross River, Jigawa, Kogi, Osun, Ebonyi, Adamawa and Zamfara are not conducting enough COVID-19 tests - NCDC DG

 

Cross River, Jigawa, Kogi, Osun, Ebonyi, Adamawa and Zamfara are not conducting enough COVID-19 tests - NCDC DG

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu has averred that some states are not conducting enough COVID-19 tests. 

 

Ihekweazu said this at the presidential task force briefing on COVID-19 on Thursday December 10. Some of the states he said are not conducting enough tests include Cross River, Jigawa, Kogi, Osun, Ebonyi, Adamawa and Zamfara.

 

He said; 

 

“It is important to test, to manage the outbreak and plan for vaccination. 

“The numbers are not looking good and we need to take this very seriously as we plan for the end of the year.”


N950m Jonathan campaign fund: Court acquits former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aminu Wali, of all charges

 


N950m Jonathan campaign fund: Court acquits former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aminu Wali, of all charges

The Federal High Court, sitting in Kano, has discharged and acquitted a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aminu Wali, arraigned before the court over N950million alleged fraud.

 

Recall that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had dragged Mr Wali, and one Mansur Ahmed, before the court on a three-count charge for allegedly receiving N950million from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as campaign fund during 2015 presidential election.

 

The offence, according to EFCC, contravened Section 1 of the money laundering Prohibition Act 2011.

 

Delivering judgement in the case on Friday, December 11, the trial judge, Justice Lewis Allagoa, said the prosecution failed to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. He, therefore, discharged and acquitted the defendants.

Nigerian Ambassador to the U.S, Sylvanus Nsofor, dies at 85

 


 Nigerian Ambassador to the U.S, Sylvanus Nsofor, dies at 85

Nigerian Ambassador to the US, Justice Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor, is dead.

 Nigerian Ambassador to the U.S, Sylvanus Nsofor, dies at 85

The Nigerian envoy died in a Maryland hospital yesterday night December 10.

 

He was 85 years old.

 

Late Nsofor assumed office as Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States of America on November 13, 2017.

 

It was his first ambassadorial posting, after his retirement from the Court of Appeal.

 

The late Nsofor was born on March 17, 1935, in Oguta, Imo State, Nigeria.

 

May his soul rest in peace, Amen.

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