A woman undergoes COVID-19 testing at an express test point in Moscow on Wednesday. Authorities approved non-working week through Sunday in Russia to curb the fast spreading of coronavirus infection. Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA-EFE Nov. 7 (UPI) — Europe is once again at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, fueled by daily record deaths and…
Nov. 7 (UPI) — Now that Halloween has passed and the clocks have turned back, many are seeing more and more of the traditional sights and sounds of the winter holiday season. AccuWeather forecasters say Mother Nature may add to the growing winter feeling by contributing its own dose of wintery conditions to northern and…
1/5 U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on Sunday said the mandate ordering businesses with more than 100 employees to require vaccinations against COVID-19 is “good for people’s health” and the economy. File Photo by Ken Cedeno/UPI | License Photo Nov. 7 (UPI) — Top members of the Biden administration on Sunday defended the president’s mandate…
1/5 Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is my top fantasy football play for Week 9. File Photo by John Sommers II/UPI | License Photo MIAMI, Nov. 4 (UPI) — Joe Burrow and Josh Allen top my Week 9 fantasy football quarterback rankings for 2021. Patrick Mahomes, Matthew Stafford and Kyler Murray round out my Top…
1/5 Kieran Culkin (L) and Kenan Thompson on “Saturday Night Live.” Photo courtesy of NBC Nov. 7 (UPI) — Succession star Kieran Culkin guest hosted this weekend’s edition of Saturday Night Live. One sketch saw him as a man who recently broke up with his girlfriend and is now trying to cancel his cable TV…
The Socio-economic Rights And Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned the Presidency for allocating N26 billion in the 2022 budget for meals, travel, refreshment and the presidential wing of the State House clinic which is more than the budgets for projects in 14 teaching hospitals put together. From the proposed budget, about N19. 17 billion only was…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit at the Federal High Court in Abuja against President Muhammadu Buhari for budgeting N26 billion in the 2022 presidency budget on local and foreign travels, meals and refreshments, ‘sitting allowance’, ‘welfare package’, and office building.In the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1361/2021, the group seeks an order…
Governor of Gombe State, Mohammed Inuwa Yahaya, has been urged to promote unity among residents of the state instead of having a selfish political agenda.The call was contained in a statement by a prominent indigene of the state, Muhammad Jibrin Barde, following a recent attack on a former governor and current federal lawmaker from Gombe,…
Charles Soludo, candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has amassed the highest number of votes in eight local government areas (LGAs) in the Anambra State governorship election.There are 21 LGAs in the state and the APGA candidate, a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has won in eight LGAs. The…
A non-governmental organisation, Yiaga Africa, says it received about 66 critical incident reports from the Anambra State election, which if unaddressed, could undermine the integrity of the election results.The organisation based its assessment on reports derived from 500 election observers and 27 mobile observers deployed to 229 out of 248 polling units across the 21…
