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Facial nerve paralysis experienced after receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine shot against COVID-19 is a rare complication, an official has said. Prof. Leonid Eidelman, an Israeli doctor and the former Head of the World Medical Organisation, said this on Wednesday that it does not last long but the cause of side …

Burna Boy’s hit track ‘Destiny,’ has been included in Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ inauguration playlist. ‘Destiny’ is the 13th track on Burna Boy’s Grammy-nominated ‘African Giant’ album. Burna Boy is the only Nigerian and African artiste on the playlist. The Presidential Inaugural Committee’s CEO, Tony Allen, explained the criteria …

The inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States will hold on Wednesday but with a bit of difference from other inauguration ceremonies in the history of the country. Biden and incoming Vice President Kamala Harris won the US presidential election of November 3, 2020, defeating …

Ivermectin, a drug for river blindness that some Nigerian scientists said could cure CoVid-19 is not a miracle drug after all. This is the view of U.S. FDA, the World Health Organization and others. The Nigerian team, which is composed of Nigerian scientists at home and abroad, said it has …

Unitd States (U.S.) capital Washington DC and many others states are under security lockdown ahead of Wednesday’s inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. The security beef-up came after Wednesday’s impeachment of President Donald Trump by the House of Representatives for “incitement of insurrection.” It was the second time the House would …

May be barred from future public office, retirement benefits Unless the U.S. senate fails to convict the impeached president of the United States, Donald Trump, he will hold the record of being the first U.S. president to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives and also convicted after leaving …

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has ruled out a Senate impeachment trial for President Donald Trump before incoming president Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20. “There is simply no chance that a fair or serious trial could conclude before President-elect Biden is sworn in next week,” McConnell said in a …

China recorded its first COVID-19 death in eight months on Thursday, as experts huddled to discuss worrying new strains of the coronavirus that are spreading rapidly around the globe. The gathering in Geneva of the World Health Organization’s emergency committee comes as their colleagues landed in Wuhan for a long-delayed …

A bipartisan majority of lawmakers in the House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impeach Donald Trump seven days from the end of his term, assuring he becomes the first US president to be impeached twice. With nearly all votes counted, the number supporting impeachment on the single charge of “incitement …

Following VP Mike Pence’s refusal to invoke 25th Amendment for the removal of US President Donald Trump, the US House of Representatives Speaker, Nancy Pelosi has revealed her next move. In a sign that the Democrats are moving quickly to impeach the embattled President, the Speaker on Tuesday announced the …