Tag: Jimmy Carter
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REVEALED: How Jimmy Carter visited Gen Abacha to plead for my release -Obasanjo
Ex-Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has paid tribute to the late American President Jimmy Carter, recalling how the former US leader visited Nigeria to plead for his release during the reign of military junta leader Sani Abacha. President Carter was one of my foreign friends who stuck their necks out to save my life and to…
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Obasanjo holds funeral service for Jimmy Carter in Abeokuta, lists similarities shared with ex-U.S. President
Former Nigeria’s President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Sunday listed some similarities he shared with the late Jimmy Carter, a former American President.
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America buries a president – By Steve Egbo
All over the world, the death of a President is a very huge affair. Whether it is in Africa, Asia, Europe or America. A presidential death is a big deal in any part of the world. It doesn’t matter whether he died from the assassin’s bullet or from natural causes, or simply old age, the…
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Carter: US to close down embassy in Nigeria
In honour of the late former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, the United States (US) Embassy in Abuja and the Consulate General in Lagos will temporarily close on Thursday, January 9, 2025.
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MAN OF PEACE! Ex- US president, Jimmy Carter begins final journey home
Adored as man of peace globally, former US number one citizen, Jimmy Carter finally embarks on his final journey home. The body of the former United States President was transferred to the US Capitol on Tuesday in a grand and solemn military ceremony, where it will lie in state until a national funeral later this…
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Jimmy Carter was a great leader by any standard, understood humility – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the late President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, as a man who was a great leader by any standard.
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Biden declares national mourning day over death of former US president, Carter
President Joe Biden has declared January 9 a national day of mourning to honor the life and legacy of former President Jimmy Carter, who died peacefully at the age of 100 in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, on Sunday.
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Just in: Former US president, Jimmy Carter dies at 100
Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States and winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, died peacefully Sunday, Dec. 29, at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his family. He was 100, the longest-lived president in U.S. history. President Carter is survived by his children — Jack, Chip, Jeff, and Amy; 11 grandchildren;…
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Ex-U.S. President, Jimmy Carter back in hospital
Former US President Jimmy Carter has been admitted into hospital in South Georgia, just weeks after he had an operation on the brain at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. His new ailment was identified as urinary tract infection. “He is feeling better and looks forward to returning home soon,” the Carter Center said in a…
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Trump calls Jimmy Carter ‘forgotten president’
U.S. President Donald Trump railed back Saturday against former President Jimmy Carter’s comments questioning the legitimacy of the 2016 election, saying: “He’s like the forgotten president.” Trump said this of Carter, 94, who a day earlier suggested that Trump only got the White House with help from Russia. “Russia. Russia. Russia. Isn’t it crazy?” Trump…