Tag: trump
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COVID-19: Buhari sends message to Donald Trump, wife
President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a get-well-soon message to President of the United States of America (USA) Donald Trump, and his wife, Melania, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the President also charged Nigerians to comply more with the…
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Biden reacts to Trump’s positive COVID-19 test
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has expressed solidarity with President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, after they tested positive for COVID-19. “Jill and I send our thoughts to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for a swift recovery. “We will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and…
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COVID-19: Putin, Erdogan, al-Sisi offer support’ to Trump
Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders have expressed their “sincere support” to U.S. counterpart Donald Trump after the latter said he and his wife had contracted the coronavirus. Putin wished Trump and his wife a “speedy recovery and expressed sincere support at this difficult moment,” the Kremlin said in a statement on Friday.…
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Trump and the American Dream, Sonnie Ekwowusi
By Sonnie Ekwowusi Once upon a time, narrates a bosom friend of mine, there lived in his village a certain mad man called Papauwa. Like most village madmen and women, this particular mad man is ill-attired. He eats from the dirty gutter, drinks from the gutter and sleeps in the gutter. Although Papauwa was…
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US election 2020[Highlights]: Trump, Biden clash in rowdy debate session
President Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden have fiercely clashed in one of the rowdiest White House debates in years. Amid angry shouting and name calling, the two fought over the pandemic, race and the economy during the 90-minute forum in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr Biden called the president a “clown” and told him to…
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Police recover guns from Trump associate’s home after suicide attempt
Fort Lauderdale police confiscated 10 guns on Sunday from the home of President Donald Trump’s former reelection campaign manager, after his wife told them he was suicidal. She told police that he had hit her, and racked a handgun during an argument. Brad Parscale, 44, was involuntarily hospitalised under Florida’s Baker Act by officers and…
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Trump paid just $750 in federal income tax in 2016, 2017 – Report
Donald Trump paid just 750 dollars in federal income tax in 2016, the year he won the U.S. presidential election, the New York Times wrote in an explosive investigative report late Sunday. The president, a self-proclaimed billionaire, paid the same amount in 2017, and nothing at all in 10 of the 15 previous years largely…
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US Presidential debate: Trump, Biden prepare for first showdown
U.S President Donald Trump and his opponent, Joe Biden are scheduled for a face-off in the first of the three presidential debate, happening on 29th of September, 2020. The duo will face each other in three stages of debate before the November election. Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris are the Democratic Party’s candidate…
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Trump unveils ‘Platinum Plan’ for Black Americans
US President Donald Trump unveiled a plan aimed at winning over Black Americans on Friday, less than two months before Election Day, largely expanding upon the existing economic-related initiatives the President established in his first term. According to a report by CNN, the proposals include prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan and Antifa as terrorist organizations,…
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I’m not your fan, Trump slams Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
United States president, Donald Trump, has fired back at Meghan Markle and her husband, Prince Harry after the couple released a message in honour of the National Voter Registration Day, US Weekly reports. “I’m not a fan of hers,” Trump, 74, told reporters from the White House. The president then directed his remarks toward Harry,…