‘You’re a disgrace’ – Putin’s ally, Medvedev attacks Biden

Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Friday described the United States President, Joe Biden, as a “mad” disgrace to the US. Medvedev said Biden had no right to compare himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Biden opened his State of the Union address on Thursday with a reference to a 1941 speech to Congress in which Roosevelt said the union faced an unprecedented turning point in history. Biden also accused Republican rival, Donald Trump of kowtowing to Russia, two weeks after calling Putin a “crazy SOB”. However, Putin’s ally wrote on X: “Even though Roosevelt was an infirm man in a wheelchair, he raised America from the Depression; Biden, on the other hand, is a mad, mentally disabled individual who set his mind on dragging humanity to hell. “Roosevelt together with allies including the U.S.S.R., was fighting for peace; yet, Biden is actively and persistently trying to start WWIII. “Roosevelt was fighting against fascists, but Biden is fighting for them,” Medvedev wrote in English. “He is the United States’ disgrace.” Medvedev, who cast himself as a liberal …

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Accept Ceasefire By Ramadan – Biden Urges Hamas

By Ogechi Okorie US President Joe Biden on Tuesday called on Hamas to accept a Gaza ceasefire deal by the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, while the Palestinian militant group warned talks for a truce and hostage release cannot go on “indefinitely”. As famine threatens Gazans, US and Jordanian planes again airdropped food aid into the besieged territory of 2.4 million people in a joint operation with Egypt and France. Bombing and fighting in the war sparked by the October 7 attack killed another 97 people in Gaza, said the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory, where Israel said its jets had struck 50 targets over the past day. In Cairo, US and Hamas envoys were meeting Egyptian and Qatari mediators in protracted negotiations to end the fighting and free hostages before Ramadan starts on March 10 or 11. Egypt’s Al-Qahera News, which is close to the country’s intelligence services, said the talks were “ongoing” and would continue for a fourth consecutive day on Wednesday. The parties in Egypt — so far excluding Israel — have discussed a plan for …

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Meet 2 Nigerian-Americans Joe Biden appointed as advisers

By Chris Udochukwu The United States (US) President, Joe Biden, has appointed 2 Nigerian-American professionals as special advisers. The 2 appointees, Osagie Imasogie and Chineye Ogwumike are part of the 12 members of the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States. The appointment was contained in a statement released by the State House on Wednesday, September 27, 2023. Council to enhance dialogueThe members include Silvester Scott Beaman who will chair the council, Mimi E. Alemayehou, Rosalind Brewer, Viola Davis, Helene D. Gayle, Patrick Hubert Gaspard, C.D. Glin, Osagie Imasogie, Almaz Negash, Chinenye Joy Ogwumike, Ham K. Serunjogi, and Kevin Young. The members of the council will serve for the 2023-2025 term. According to the statement, the establishment of the council was aimed at enhancing dialogue between United States officials and the African Diaspora. The statement partly reads, “The Council’s members include individuals who have distinguished themselves in government, sports, c “They will provide invaluable guidance to reinforce cultural, social, political, and economic ties between the U.S. and Africa, and promote trade, investment, and educational exchanges between …

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Military Intervention: Tinubu, US President Biden to meet

President Bola Tinubu and his United States (US) counterpart, Mr Joe Biden, may meet to discuss military intervention in Niger Republic among the options available to the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) to restore democratic rule in that country. This came to light yesterday after the US Special President Envoy and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ambassador Molly Phee, visited Tinubu in Abuja and extended Biden’s “exclusive invitation” to meet the Nigerian President on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City to advance discussions further (on the Niger crisis) in late September. ECOWAS has been in the forefront of the regional efforts to dislodge the Niger Republic coup leaders who ousted President Bazoum last month. Tinubu is the Chairman of ECOWAS. Among others measures to force the coup leaders to quit, the regional body has slammed sanctions on Niger Republic while Nigeria cut off electricity supplies to the neighbouring country. “We know there is more we can do to incentivize large-scale American investment in Nigeria and we are committed to …

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He Is Fine – White House, Gov. Desantis React To President Joe Biden’s Fall On Stage

The White House, and Florida governor, Ron Desantis have reacted after US President Joe Biden  tripped and fell over at an event in Colorado, USA. Biden stumbled on a sandbag while handing out diplomas at a graduation ceremony for the US Air Force Academy. Biden, who is the nation’s oldest serving president at 80, was helped back onto his feet by the Secret Service and appeared to be unhurt after Thursday’s fall. “I got sandbagged!” the president joked to reporters as he arrived back at the White House that evening. Before the fall, Biden had been standing for about an hour and a half to shake hands with each of the 921 graduating cadets. After the fall he was seen walking back to his seat unassisted and later jogging back to his motorcade when the ceremony ended. “There was a sandbag on stage while he was shaking hands,” White House communications director Ben LaBolt wrote on Twitter. “He’s fine.” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden had boarded the plane flashing “a big smile”, although one reporter noted that …

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US Debt Ceiling Talks Are Moving Along – Biden says

WASHINGTON. – President Joe Biden said on Saturday that talks with Congress on raising the U.S. government’s debt limit were moving along and more will be known about their progress in the next two days. “I think they are moving along, hard to tell. We have not reached the crunch point yet,” Biden told reporters at Joint Base Andrews. “We’ll know more in the next two days,” he said. Biden is expected to meet with Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders early next week to resume negotiations. The leaders had canceled a planned meeting on Friday to let staff continue discussions. Aides for Biden and McCarthy have started to discuss ways to limit federal spending as talks on raising the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling to avoid a catastrophic default creep forward, Reuters has reported. The Treasury Department says it could run out of money by June 1 unless lawmakers lift the nation’s debt ceiling. (Reuters)

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‘Old man with no future’ – Kim Jong’s sister mocks Joe Biden after US and South Korea signed nuclear weapons agreement

The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has hit back at a landmark nuclear agreement made between the US and South Korea, claiming it will only worsen security. The government of Washington and Seoul made an agreement at the White House on Wednesday April 26, that aims to deter North Korean aggression, including plans to deploy a nuclear-armed submarine in South Korea for the first time since the 1980s. In comments on state-run KCNA, Kim Yo Jong slammed the deal as a “typical product of their extreme anti-North Korean hostile policy, reflecting the most hostile and aggressive will of action. Yo-Jong, the vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, said: ‘South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s recent visit to Washington was an occasion for us to have much clearer understanding about the root cause and physical entity disturbing peace and security of the Korean Peninsula and the region.’ “As such, it will only result in making peace and security of northeast Asia and the world be exposed to more serious danger, and …

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Tinubu, Biden, Others Named TIME’s 100 Most Influential People Of 2023

Nigeria’s President-Elect, Bola Tinubu has been named in the Time Magazine’s list of 100 most influential people for 2023. Time Magazine’s yearly list of the 100 most influential people in the world recognises people for changing the world, regardless of the consequences of their actions. The 2023 list released on Thursday categorised individuals into pioneers, leaders, titans, artists, innovators, and icons. Tinubu, who was declared winner of the February 25 presidential election in Nigeria, was listed alongside United States President, Joe Biden; Brazil President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska; amongst other world leaders. The report described Tinubu, who would be inaugurated on May 29 as “a longtime political power broker”. The report also said Tinubu seems aware of his inheritance which include “a litany of crises in a fractured nation, including deep-rooted corruption, religious insurgencies, and shortages of cash, fuel, and power in a crumbling economy. (Channels)

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Nigeria Elections: SERAP Demands US Visa Ban Against Officials, Politicians and Other Perpetrators of Electoral Violence

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has requested that President Joe Biden ban Nigerian officials, politicians and other perpetrators and sponsors of violence during the February 25 elections. Nigerians had gone to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president and members of the National Assembly for a four-year tenure. There were reports of violence in some states, with soldiers gunning down a suspected ballot box snatcher. Some states with reported cases of election-related intimidation, harassment, and violence include Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Gombe, Lagos, Edo, Ogun, Osun, Rivers, and Taraba states, and the Federal Capital Territory. A day after, the rights group issued a statement, urging the US President to exercise his powers “pursuant to the Presidential Proclamations 7750 and 8697 and the Immigration and Nationality Act to ban Nigerian officials, politicians and other perpetrators and sponsors of violence during the just concluded elections”. SERAP Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, wants President Biden to “block or revoke the visas of anyone suspected to be responsible for cases of intimidation, harassment, and violence during the elections, and to impose asset …

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Biden secures 100th US Judge Blunting Trump’s Impact On Bench

The US Senate on Tuesday confirmed the 100th federal judge appointed by Joe Biden, as the president attempts to dilute the impact his predecessor Donald Trump had on the courts. Under the US Constitution, presidents appoint Supreme Court justices and federal judges for life, with Congress’ upper chamber confirming or rejecting the nominee. In theory, judges are politically impartial, but their previous decisions and the president who appointed them generally shed some light on their beliefs and leanings. Gina Mendez-Miro, a 49-year-old lawyer, became the latest judge confirmed to the US Federal Court for the District of Puerto Rico, after a 54-45 vote Tuesday in the Senate. Because Democrats have controlled the Senate throughout Biden’s presidency, he has been able to vet nominees like Mendez-Miro at an accelerated pace. In an effort to increase diversity in the judiciary, Biden has put forth candidates with traditionally underrepresented backgrounds: three quarters have been women and only one-third have been white, according to the American Constitution Society. He additionally nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the US Supreme Court, marking the first time a …

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‘I will be running with him proudly’ – Kamala Harris declares support for Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election bid

The US Vice President, Kamala Harris has reaffirmed her support for President Joe Biden’s re-election bid even as a growing number of their fellow Democrats cast doubt on Biden’s 2024 ambitions. During a wide-ranging interview on NBC News’ Meet The Press on Sunday, September 11, Harris also tried to avoid weighing in directly on the Justice Department’s bombshell investigation into Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents. However, she did say that ‘people are going to demand justice’ in a broad sense, calling upon her past as a US prosecutor,  and added that they would ‘rightly’ be doing so. Ever since the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida in August, concerns have been raised about how it looks for a Democrat president’s government to investigate a political rival – should the ex-president formally declare his 2024 candidacy. Asked whether Biden has any plans to file for re-election after the November midterm elections, Harris replied, ‘Listen, the president has been very clear that he intends to run again.’ ‘AND IF HE DOES, I WILL BE RUNNING WITH HIM PROUDLY,’ SHE ADDED …

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My First Year In Office Witnessed Strongest Economic Growth In Nearly 40 Years – Biden

By Chris Udochukwu Abuja (Precise Post) – United States President, Joe Biden has highlighted the gains recorded in his first year in office to include recording the strongest economic growth in nearly 40 years. According to him, some of the successes ranges from the largest drop in the unemployment rate on record to the largest reduction in childhood poverty ever in office in a single year. Biden who stated this when he took to his official Twitter handle on Sunday, acknowledged that there is more work to be done but that America is on the move. The tweet reads: “From the largest drop in the unemployment rate on record to the largest reduction in childhood poverty ever recorded in a single year, my first year in office saw the strongest economic growth in nearly 40 years.” “There’s more work to do, but America is on the move.” Precise Post recalls that in the last few days Biden has taken to twitter to announce the landmark gains recorded since the his election as the president of United States.

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US, Russia to hold security, Ukraine talks January

The United States and Russia are set to hold much-anticipated talks in January on European security and the Ukraine conflict after Moscow listed demands including to end NATO’s expansion. A spokesperson for the US National Security Council told AFP on condition of anonymity that the talks with Russia will take place on January 10. The Kremlin has grown increasingly insistent that the West and NATO are encroaching dangerously close to Russia’s borders. Moscow earlier this month presented the West with sweeping security demands, saying NATO must not admit new members and seeking to bar the United States from establishing new bases in former Soviet republics. “The United States looks forward to engaging with Russia,” the National Security Council spokesperson said. “When we sit down to talk, Russia can put its concerns on the table and we will put our concerns on the table with Russia’s activities as well.” Moscow and NATO representatives are then expected to meet January 12, while Russia and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which includes the United States, will meet January 13, …

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Trump Lashes Out On Netanyahu For Congratulating Biden While He Was Still Disputing Result

By Chris Udochukwu Abuja (Precise Post) – Former US president Donald Trump spat an expletive about his old ally, Israel’s ex-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for congratulating Joe Biden on his victory in last year’s election, while he was still contesting the result, according to a new book. Trump lashed out in an interview for a book on US-Israel relations during his presidency, author Barak Ravid wrote on the Axios website on Friday. “Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were the closest of political allies during the four years they overlapped in office, at least in public. Not anymore,” Ravid wrote. “I haven’t spoken to him since,” Trump told Ravid in an interview. “Fuck him.” Ravid said that he interviewed Trump twice for his forthcoming book, “Trump’s Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East.” He said Trump, who appeared close to Netanyahu while president from 2017 to 2021, was repeatedly critical of him in the interviews. “The final straw for Trump was when Netanyahu congratulated President-elect Biden for his election victory while Trump was still disputing the result,” …

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Biden Declared Healthy, Resumes As U.S President After 1.25hrs Of Power Transfer To Harris

Abuja – President Joe Biden got a clean bill of health from the White House doctor on Friday after undergoing an extensive, routine check-up during which his powers were briefly transferred to Vice President Kamala Harris. “The President remains a healthy, vigorous, 78-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to include those as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief,” Kevin O’Connor, the White House physician, wrote. The detailed report said that Biden did have “perceptibly stiffer and less fluid” motion while walking than a year ago, and suffered “increasing frequency and severity of ‘throat clearing’ and coughing during public speaking engagements.” However, these two symptoms were not considered of immediate concern and did not appear to result from serious conditions, O’Connor’s letter said. On a raft of tests, Biden came out with high marks. He has “no signs of heart failure,” “no dental issues,” has no “suspicions for skin cancer,” and his eye health “is reassuring.” One reason for that solid report may be the doctor’s finding that “the president does …

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Independence Day: US will continue to stand by Nigeria despite challenges, says envoy

United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard, has pledged that the Joe Biden administration will continue to stand by Nigeria in spite of the many economic and security challenges confronting the West African nation. The American envoy stated this in an OP-ED on Thursday titled, ‘Reflections on 61 years of U.S. – Nigerian Engagement’. Leonard said the US Mission in Nigeria “recognize that security and economic concerns weigh on the minds of all Nigerians”, adding that it has been working in solidarity with the Nigerian government to address the challenges together. She wrote, “We also recognize that security and economic concerns weigh on the minds of all Nigerians. We work in solidarity with the Nigerian government to address those challenges together. Diplomacy, development, public health, and defense have long been pillars that provide the foundation for promoting and protecting U.S. national security interests abroad. “Our bilateral relationship is strong and based on such mutual interests. We share the Nigerian government’s recognition that, indeed, military aid will not be the exclusive tool to end insecurity in the country. A “whole of …

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