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The Federal Government on Friday said it is crazy and untrue claims that President Muhammadu Buhari donated $500m to Hillary Clinton campaign in the just-concluded US election. A video, purportedly circulated by a US non-governmental group, the American Black Group for Democracy, had last week...

The leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram has reacted to the election of Donald Trump to the White House with a warning that “the war has just begun” against the West. “Do not be overwhelmed by people like Donald Trump and the global coalition fighting our brethren in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan...

Following backlash over the failure of his prophecy on the U.S. election, Prophet Temitope Joshua, the Head of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, says he did not miss the mark but Lack of spiritual understanding made people misinterpret his prophecies. Joshua had few days before the election...

Donald Trump has restated his vow to deport millions of undocumented migrants from the United States, he said in an interview to be broadcast Sunday, saying as many as three million could be removed after he takes office. “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have...

Nigerian novelist,Chimamanda Adichie, floored the editor in chief of the American Spectator, R Emmett Tyrrell on the issue of whether U.S President-elect, Donald Trump, is a racist. Both were guests BBC Newsnight, a news and current affairs TV programme. When Tyrrell, during his speech, said...

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia, said she was “extremely saddened” by Hillary Clinton’s defeat at the hands of the Republican, and “concerned” about the prospects of US relations with African countries. Ms Johnson Sirleaf was elected President as Liberia emerged from a 14-year...

The Electoral College is a group of people that elects the president and the vice president of the United States. (The word “college” in this case simply refers to an organized body of people engaged in a common task.) In the United States presidential election, the electorate don’t vote for...

The American Billionaire, Donald Trump emerged President in a keenly contested race with the Democrat candidate, Hillary Clinton on November 8, 2016. Here are 40 things you need to know about the 45th President of the United States: 1. Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, in Jamaica...

A statement on Donald Trump's plan to ban all Muslims from entering the US has mysteriously disappeared from his website. On the same night that millions of votes were pouring in for the real estate mogul turned politician, the page linking to his December 2015 statement was removed. The page...

For millions of Democrats and fans of Hillary Clinton across the globe who can’t stand a Donald Trump presidency, there is still one last chance for them to see if their dream of Clinton becoming the first US female president could become a reality. Though Trump has been declared as the next US...

Aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omoki has shared a photo on what African should be afraid of and not US presidential election result. Omokri on his social platform said: "Even those without democracy in their own nations are protesting Trump's Win. You came to the United States...

Mark Zuckerberg has responded to Donald Trump’s election victory by encouraging people to come together. Zuckerberg in a Facebook post last night, used his daughter, Max, as the focal point of his message. He said: “Last night was Max’s first election. She’s got a lot of election nights ahead...

Nigerian Nobel Literature Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, is at risk of three to seven years in jail over his threat to destroy his American Green Card in protest of Donald Trump’s victory at the U.S. Presidential election. A legal luminary, Mr Kayode Ajulo cautioned the Nobel Laureate on...

President-elect Donald Trump met President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday. At the end, Trump could be heard calling Obama "a good man."

American President-elect Donald Trump meets President Barack Obama at the Oval Office in the White House. The duo had never met before. At the end of the meeting Trump called Obama "a good man."

Following the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, Aaron Sorkin, Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Social Network and mastermind behind The West Wing has written an open letter to his daughters. In the letter published in Vanity Fair, Sorkin wrote: Sorkin Girls, Well...

Donald Trump spoke to ten world leaders and even extended a St Patrick's Day invitation to the Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny shortly after his election's speech. Sky News reported that although Mrs May said she wanted to discuss the "special relationship" with the President-elect at the "earliest...

The election of Donald Trump has provoked mass protests and rallies by various activists groups across the United States. Activists in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Portland, Washington DC, Los Angeles and several other cities have come out in their thousands to protest against Mr. Trump’s victory...

Hillary Clinton “couldn’t stop crying” once she learned of her loss to Donald Trump on Tuesday, best-selling conservative author Ed Klein told Newsmax TV on Wednesday. “About 6:30 this morning she called an old friend,” he began on “The Steve Malzberg Show” in an interview. “She was crying...

A former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has written to Mr. Donald Trump over his victory as the 45th President of the United States of America. Obasanjo, in the letter dated November 9, addressed to Trump, felicitated with the newly elected U.S. president, his family and other...