Author: Chronicle Editor

Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump has been elected the 45th president of the United States after reaching the 268 Electoral College votes. Trump won Wisconsin to seal his fate as the next number citizen of the US. His triumph over Hillary Clinton will end eight years of Democratic dominance of the White House and threatens to undo major achievements of President Barack Obama. He’s pledged to act quickly to repeal Obama’s landmark health care law, revoke the nuclear agreement with Iran and rewrite important trade deals with other countries, particularly Mexico and Canada. The Republican blasted through Democrats’ longstanding firewall,…

With Donald Trump in the lead, Nigerians have called on Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka to rip his United States Green Card. Giving a seminar at Oxford University, Soyinka said he will cut his Green Card if Trump wins. “If in the unlikely event he does win, the first thing he’ll do is to say [that] all green-card holders must reapply to come back into the US. Well, I’m not waiting for that,” said Soyinka, who is scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs this autumn. “The moment they announce his victory, I will cut my green…

Republican nominee Donald Trump is just within six Electoral College votes from winning the White House race. He is in early lead over her rival Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton winning a 264 Electoral College votes against Clinton’s 215. But as the race lurched past midnight, neither candidate had cleared the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. The correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in the US, reports that exit polls projection showed that Trump won Kentucky, Indiana, Florida, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan and Wisconsin, while Clinton won in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Vermont. However,…

A gunman with an assault rifle killed a man and critically wounded two women Tuesday in a California neighborhood near two polling sites that were shut down before the attacker was found dead inside a nearby home, authorities said. One polling place was reopened hours after a gunbattle involving the gunman and Azusa police. The shooting “had nothing to do with the ballot or voting,” Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. John Corina said. “It just happened to be across the street from the park where the voting was taking place and also an elementary school” that was being used as…

The dollar crashed against the yen and euro while the Mexican peso fell off a cliff as polling results in the knife-edge US presidential race pointed to a strong showing by Donald Trump. The greenback plunged 3.8 per cent to 101.47 yen and shed more than two percent against the euro, which bought $1.1232 in Tokyo trading. The Canadian dollar, meanwhile, also traded lower, with the greenback rising to about 1.35 to the loonie. The peso, which has become a proxy for the property mogul’s chances of becoming US president, slumped to below 20 against the dollar, an historic low.…

With 64 percent of precincts reporting, Donald Trump is the declared winner of Ohio, with 53 percent to Hillary Clinton’s 42 percent, according to NBC News. The swing state delivers the Republican nominee 18 electoral votes. Trump now has a total of 168 electoral votes, to Clinton’s 109. Elsewhere, Clinton was declared the winner in Virginia, with 48 percent of the vote to Donald Trump’s 47 percent, with 96 percent of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press. Victory in this battleground state adds 13 electoral votes to the Democratic candidate’s total. To win, a candidate must secure 270 electoral…

Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez has picked up a “low grade muscle injury” on international duty with Chile. Sanchez, 27, will miss Chile’s World Cup qualifier in Colombia on Thursday. But the Chilean team’s medical staff say the former Barcelona player could return for the home game against Uruguay next Tuesday. “He will remain in Santiago, under treatment and in evaluation for the meeting against Uruguay,” said a statement. Sanchez, who has scored eight goals for the Gunners this season, played the whole 90 minutes of Sunday’s 1-1 home draw against Tottenham. Fourth-placed Arsenal go to Manchester United on 19 November…

Nigeria’s The nation’s apex court, Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the election of Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State. The panel of justices led by Tanko Ibrahim affirmed the judgments of the Bayelsa State Election Petitions Tribunal and the appellate court. The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in he election, Timipre Sylva, had challenged the victory of Dickson, alleging that the election was marred with irregularities. Sylva asked the tribunal to declare him the duly elected governor. But having lost at the tribunal and appellate court, Sylva headed for the apex court. ‎

Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, Lagos Chapter, Segun Adewale, says the party can win the forthcoming bye-election in Ifako-Ijaiye federal constituency, if its factions unite. Adewale, in a statement by his media office, lamented the lack of unity in fielding a commonly acceptable candidate by a rival faction, led by Moshood Salvador. “I am concerned because I do not what happened in Edo, or currently happening in Ondo State, where our party has two candidates from two factions for the same election replicate itself in Lagos. “I am also concerned because we owe the good people of Ifako Ijaye Federal Constituency…

Former NBA player John Amaechi has said that he is in contact with gay footballers who cannot publicly say they are gay. Amaechi, who played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Orlando Magic and Utah Jazz during the 1990s and 2000s, said he was in contact with gay footballers who were reluctant to come out. “If someone is using 1% of their energy to stop themselves being who they are, that is the difference between being good and being great,” said the Briton. Amaechi was addressing the Culture, Media and Sport Committee after a recent BBC Radio 5 live survey found 82…