Some Nigerian-American voters interviewed by NAN in New York on Tuesday said they voted against Trump over his visa restrictions on Nigeria.
“A president who doesn’t like immigrants, who just want to send everybody back home is not a president we should be voting for.
Trump is waging an immigration war against Nigerians,” said Mr. Olayinka Dan-Salami, chairman of the Organisation of the Advancement of Nigerians (OAN).
Salami said the president’s “anti-Nigeria” visa policy is born out of “jealousy of the accomplishments of Nigerians in this country”.
Meanwhile, Trump claims that he has done more for the African American community than any president in the country’s history.
“Nobody’s done what I’ve done in terms of the African American community. And they see it.
“And they’re tired of being used by the Democrats for 100 years,” Trump told newsmen at his campaign headquarters in Virginia on Tuesday.
General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) Prophet T.B Joshua yesterday dropped a hint on the outcome of the ongoing United States presidential elections.
Joshua held back from directly stating, who the winner of the polls would be, but suggested that Christians would be disappointed.
President Donald Trump of the Republican Party is seeking re-election against former Vice President Joe Biden of the Democratic Party.
Christians, especially of the white demographics, are known to overwhelmingly support Trump.
About 80 per cent of white evangelical voters still support Trump, according to the latest polling by the Pew Research Centre, about the same as supported him in 2016.
Joshua urged Christians to take solace in U.S. Supreme Court Judge, Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Barret’s appointment on October 27, in what was seen as a victory for President Trump and Conservatives, following the Democrats and Liberals’ opposition to her nomination.
In a November 1 YouTube audio titled ‘U.S. ELECTION 2020 PROPHECY!!!’ released by the SCOAN, Joshua promised to reveal more after the “inauguration of the new president”.
He said: “What is happening in the American election is as a result of the power in the tongue. The word we speak determines the life we enjoy (Proverbs 6:2). The tongue can either work for us or against us – death and life lie in the tongue (Proverbs 18:21).
“We Christians would have loved it to go the way we wanted. But the Bible says it is never proper to base our faith on our improvement after prayer. We should not worry. The joy is that the new Supreme Court Judge, Amy Coney Barrett, will be an instrument of check.
“Finally, let us learn how to believe that God hears us when we pray – it is a much greater blessing. There is likely going to be pockets of resistance here and there but nothing will change. Let me reserve what I am seeing until the inauguration of the new president.”
In 2016, Joshua faced criticism following a prophecy on the U.S. election won by Trump.
DEMOCRATIC candidate Joe Biden surged ahead as results of the United States Presidential election trickled in this morning.
As of 5:00am, Biden had secured 209 Electoral College votes to President Donald Trump’s 118.
For a candidate to win, he must secure 270 Electoral College votes.
Results from battleground states with 96 Electoral College votes that would determine the final outcome were being expected.
The states are: Arizona (11), Florida (29), Georgia (16), Iowa (6), Maine 2nd Congressional District (1), North Carolina (15) and Ohio.
The final outcome in not expected until later today.
The Democratic candidate won California (55), Connecticut (with seven Electoral College votes), Delaware (three), Illinois (20), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (11), New Jersey (14), New Mexico (5), New York (29), Rhode Island (4), Vermont (3), Virginia (13), Idaho (4) and Colorado (9).
The Republican candidate won in Alabama (with nine Electoral College votes), Arkansas (6), Indiana (11), Kentucky (8), Utah (6), Louisiana (8), Mississippi (6), Nebraska (4), North Dakota (3), Oklahoma (7), South Carolina (9), South Dakota (3), Tennessee (11), West Virginia (5), Wyoming (3), Arkansas (6) and Missouri (10).
Americans also elected members to the two chambers of Congress – Senate and the House of Representatives.
Thirty-five of the 100 Senate seats were in contest while all the 475 House of Representatives seats were contested.
Across America, businesses closed early and some planned to stay closed for the rest of the week for fear of unrest.
Pre-Election Day voting skyrocketed nationwide despite the ravaging coronavirus pandemic. At least, six states – Texas, Hawaii, Nevada, Washington, Arizona and Montana – surpassed their total turnout from the 2016 general election.
In seven other states, the pre-election vote represents at least 90 per cent of their 2016 total vote. The states are North Carolina, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee.
As Americans voted, the Coronavirus pandemic continued to worsen with 40 states seeing a 25 per cent rise in cases over the last two weeks.
The U.S. has recorded 9.3 million coronavirus cases with more than 232,000 deaths.
Trump made a brief Election Day visit to the Republican National Committee annex office in Arlington, Virginia.
He said he felt good about his chances for victory, predicting that he would register big wins in key states such as Florida and Arizona.
“We feel very good,” a hoarse-voiced President said.
Trump said he expected victory in all the key states that will decide the election, but said he would not “play games” by declaring his win too early.
Biden, 77, is looking to become the president after a five-decade political career including eight years as vice president under Barack Obama. He mounted unsuccessful bids for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008.
The Biden campaign took advantage of the final hours of the campaign to get out the vote in states that Trump won in 2016, whose electoral votes could be the key to winning.
Biden travelled to the battleground state of Pennsylvania and visited his hometown of Scranton, and Philadelphia.
Before leaving for the final events of his campaign, the former vice president and some of his family members attended a church service at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church just after 7am ET in Wilmington, Delaware.
He visited his family’s gravesite where his son Beau Biden, who died in 2015 after battling brain cancer, is buried.
Trump is hoping to repeat the type of upset he pulled off in 2016 when he defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton despite losing the national popular vote by about three million ballots. He is aiming to avoid becoming the first incumbent U.S. president to lose a re-election bid since George H.W. Bush in 1992.
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham will return to the Senate for a fourth term after defeating Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison, CNN projects.
Harrison gained attention for raising huge amounts of money, but he was still a long shot just a few months ago. South Carolina is a deep red state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1998. President Donald Trump will win the state’s 9 electoral votes, CNN projected earlier Tuesday night.
The Senate race appeared to tighten in the fall. Harrison raised $57 million during the final full quarter of the campaign, the largest single-quarter total by any candidate in US Senate history.
As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Graham pushed through Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation. The move fired up both Democrats, who painted the quick confirmation as hypocritical, as well as Republicans eager to get another conservative judge on the Supreme Court. Graham had said previously that he would not appoint a Supreme Court judge during an election year.
Harrison was born to a single 16-year-old mother and grew up poor in Orangeburg, halfway between Charleston and Columbia. He went on to Yale and then Georgetown Law School before going to work for South Carolina Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn, the most powerful Democrat in the state. He later served as the first Black chair of the South Carolina Democratic party.
Graham, a lawyer by training, had long been involved in South Carolina politics. He served four terms in the US House of Representatives and has held his Senate seat since 2003.
In the end, Harrison’s momentum wasn’t enough to win in a Republican stronghold as Graham repeatedly tried to tie him to the more progressive members of the Democratic party.
China said it has convicted 1,151 people linked to 111 major cases of organised crime, the nation’s anti-gang authority said yesterday at a news conference.
A total of 4,193 people have been placed under investigation for gang-related corruption and for sheltering organised crime, said the national office against organised crime.
More than 121 billion yuan (18.1 billion U.S. dollars) of assets involved in the 111 major cases were sealed up, seized or frozen, the office added.
Out of the 111 cases, 44 have been closed, with the rest under investigation, litigation or trial, the office said.
AMERICANS cast their votes on Tuesday in a bitterly contested presidential race between incumbent President Donald Trump and challenger former Vice President Joe Biden after a tumultuous four years under the Republican businessman-turned politician.
The country has been left deeply divided more than any time in recent history.
More than 100 million Americans voted nationwide before the polls opened yesterday, according to a survey of election officials by CNN, Edison Research, and Catalist.
These votes represent more than 47 per cent of registered voters nationwide. Twenty-one states and Washington, DC, have seen more than half of their registered voters cast ballots already.
Pre-Election Day voting skyrocketed nationwide despite the ravaging coronavirus pandemic. At least, six states – Texas, Hawaii, Nevada, Washington, Arizona and Montana – have surpassed their total turnout from the 2016 general election in recent days.
In seven other states, the pre-election vote represents at least 90 per cent of their 2016 total vote. The states are North Carolina, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee.
Nationwide, the 100.2 million ballots already cast represents 73 per cent of the more than 136.5 million ballots cast in the 2016?presidential election.
As Americans voted on Tuesday, the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen with 40 states seeing a 25 per cent rise in cases over the last two weeks.
The U.S. has recorded 9.3 million coronavirus cases, out of which more than 232,000 people have died.
According to the NBC News Polling Average, Biden yesterday led Trump nationally 51.5 per cent to 44.4 per cent.
Trump made a brief Election Day visit to the Republican National Committee annex office in Arlington, Virginia, which is where his campaign headquarters is based.
He said he felt good about his chances for victory, predicting that he would register big wins in key states such as Florida and Arizona.
“We feel very good,” a hoarse-voiced Trump told Fox News in a phone interview.
Trump said he expected victory in all the key states that will decide the election, but said he would not “play games” by declaring his win too early.
Trump, however, a warned that “cheating” in the key state of Pennsylvania could lead to violence in the streets.
Trump’s inflammatory behaviour, according to analysts, threatened to exacerbate already fraught national tensions amid fears of civil unrest that prompted businesses in some cities to board up their premises.
Incumbent Trump, 74, is seeking another four years in office after a chaotic first term marked by the coronavirus crisis, an economy battered by pandemic shutdowns, an impeachment drama, inquiries into Russian election interference, U.S. racial tensions and contentious immigration policies.
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Trump, looking tired and sounding hoarse after days of frenetic campaigning, struck a decidedly less belligerent tone yesterday than he did on the trail over the weekend. He was expected to spend most of yesterday at the White House, where an election night party is planned for 400 guests, all of whom will be tested for COVID-19.
Biden, 77, is looking to win the presidency after a five-decade political career including eight years as vice president under Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama. He mounted unsuccessful bids for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008.
The two candidates have spent the final days barnstorming half a dozen battleground states, with Pennsylvania emerging as perhaps the most hotly contested. Biden will have made at least nine campaign stops in Pennsylvania between Sunday and yesterday.
Biden’s poll lead has forced Trump to play defence as almost every competitive state was carried by him in 2016.
The Biden campaign, meanwhile, took advantage of the final hours of the campaign to get out the vote in states that Trump won in 2016, whose electoral votes could be the key to winning.
Biden travelled to the battleground state of Pennsylvania, where he visited his hometown of Scranton and Philadelphia.
Before leaving for the final events of his campaign, the former vice president and some of his family members attended a church service at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church just after 7am ET in Wilmington, Delaware.
He visited his family’s gravesite where his son Beau Biden, who died in 2015 after battling brain cancer, is buried.
Biden stopped by a canvass kickoff event at the Carpenters Local Union Hall 445, welcomed by Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa.
During his Scranton stop, Biden visited his childhood home with his granddaughters and was greeted by Anne Kearns who has lived in the house for years. Supporters lined the street, cheering him on. One person shouted “four more years.”
Biden told the crowd it felt good to be back home and waved to an elderly woman at a home across the street, who he said has lived there since he was a child. Biden then asked Kearns if he could show Finnegan and Natalie the kitchen, the location of many memories he has recounted on the campaign trail.
The United Nations (UN) has tasked Nigerian men to commit to transformational changes that will lead to gender equality in the country.
UN said this can be done by changing traditional practices that are gender sensitive.
It added that Nigerian men need to commit to ensuring that they commit fully to ending violence against women and girls.
Representative of UN Women Shaffiyu Umar stated these yesterday in Abuja at the men’s summit for ending sexual and gender based violence organised by YouthhubAfrica.
He said: “On behalf of the United Nations (UN) and UN Women, Nigerian men need to ensure they commit to ending violence against women and girls in the country.
“We need to ensure that we add our voice to see to the end of violence against women and girls, to ensure that women’s right is not just for women, but seen as a human right
“We need to commit to ensure that we join our voices and ensure that we are not just participators but to support women participation in ending violence against women and girls.
“Our traditional rulers should ensure that set up traditions that are gender sensitive. Let’s join hands together to ensure that we end violence against women and bring about transformational changes that will lead to equality. The struggle requires a lot of synergy, the coming together of people from all works of life to ensure we achieve gender equality.”
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Abuja Dr. Olanrewaju Aladeitan, who deliver the keynote speech, said that the country must develop a rights-based approach to women’s advancement and welfare.
He added: “We must understand that gender-based inequality is socially constructed and rests upon stereotyped assumptions about the role and position of Women, not upon sexual difference.
“This construction includes ‘the historically unequal power relations between men and women, which have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men’. Since inequality in gender relations is not natural, such relations can be reconstructed so as to achieve equality.”
Britain has missed a one-month deadline to respond to a European Commission warning concerning its alleged breach of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, a commission spokesperson said yesterday.
The commission is now considering taking the legal action to the next level following Britain’s failure to meet the deadline.
At the beginning of October, the commission launched legal action against Britain over its new Internal Market Bill by sending a letter of formal notice to the British Government.
The Internal Market Bill gives Prime Minister Boris Johnson the power to override a provision in the withdrawal agreement that would impose different post-Brexit customs rules on Northern Ireland than the rest of the United Kingdom.
The EU argues that this goes against the terms of their withdrawal agreement, signed earlier this year, whereas Britain claims that the bill is necessary to protect the integrity of its internal market.
Commission spokesperson Daniel Ferrie said the European Union had not received a response yet.
“Therefore, we are considering next steps, including issuing a reasoned opinion,’’ he said.
This comes amid intensified negotiations between EU chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, and his counterpart David Frost, that will take place this week in Brussels.
At the launch of the infringement procedure, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had said that the bill was by its very nature a breach of the obligation of good faith laid down by the withdrawal agreement.
The infringement process can ultimately result in the top EU court imposing sanctions, but this process takes at least several months.
A result can only be expected after Britain’s transition period runs out at the end of the year.
Police in Ivory Coast yesterday surrounded the houses of two of President Alassane Ouattara’s main rivals after the government accused them of sedition for creating a parallel administration in defiance of Ouattara’s landslide win in Saturday’s election.
It was not immediately clear if anyone had been arrested. But the moves deepened a bitter standoff over the president’s bid for a third term that has cost more than 35 lives since August, including at least five during election day on Saturday.
Outside the residence of former president Henri Konan Bedie in the commercial capital Abidjan, officers rolled tear gas canisters to disperse his supporters and journalists, video footage showed.
The house of another opposition candidate, former prime minister Pascal Affi N’Guessan, was also surrounded by the police, his wife told Reuters.
“We are at home with the house staff. The gendarmes have surrounded the house and we can’t leave,” said Affi N’Guessan’s wife, Angeline Kili.
The house of Assoa Adou, the leader of a party that supports former president Laurent Gbagbo, was also surrounded by the police, a witness said.
There was no immediate comment from the authorities.
Bedie and Affi boycotted the election on Saturday, arguing that Ouattara’s candidacy for a third term was unconstitutional.
Late on Monday, as the electoral commission prepared to confirm Ouattara’s victory, they announced they had set up a “transitional council”, with Bedie as its president.
The government said in a statement earlier yesterday that it condemned “in the strongest terms this act of sedition” and asked prosecutors to bring a criminal case.
Austrian authorities said they have detained 14 people in connection with what Chancellor Sebastian Kurz described as a “repulsive terror attack” in Vienna that killed four people.
The UK has preemptively raised its terror threat level to “severe” from “substantial” following the attacks in France and Austria.
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel said on Twitter yesterday that the move was a “precautionary measure and is not based on any specific threat”.
“The public should continue to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to the police,” she tweeted.
Bu, Austrian Police urged people to stay indoors as they hunt for suspects after gunmen opened fire at six locations in the city centre on the evening of November 2.
Two men and two women died of their wounds and 22 other people were wounded.
Police shot dead a suspect identified as a 20-year-old dual national of Austria and North Macedonia, who had a previous terror conviction.
Police conducted a series of raids in Vienna and Lower Austria, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said yesterday, adding that they have found no evidence that a second shooter was involved.
The attacker was named as Kujtim Fejzulai, a man born in Austria with roots in North Macedonia who was sentenced to 22 months in prison in April last year because he had tried to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State extremist group. He was granted early release in December.
He “managed to fool the deradicalisation programme of the justice system, to fool the people in it, and to get an early release through this,” Nehammer told a news conference.
The minister earlier said the dead assailant had been convicted under a law that punishes membership in terrorist organizations.
North Macedonia’s Interior Ministry said that, according to a list of suspects provided by Austrian police, two other dual citizens of Austria and North Macedonia are suspected of involvement in the Vienna attack.
The ministry, which vowed to cooperate fully with Austrian authorities in the the case, said the two suspects, identified as A.G. and U.A., were born in Austria.
