Time magazine has jointly named President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris its “Person of the Year.”
Time's editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal says Biden and Harris won the honor for “changing the American story, for showing that the forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division, for sharing a vision of healing in a grieving world.”
Felsenthal notes, “Every elected President since FDR has at some point during his term been a Person of the Year, nearly a dozen of those in a presidential election year. This is the first time we have included a Vice President.”
He continues, "Joe Biden was elected President of the United States in the midst of an existential debate over...
A batch of 167 Nigerians stranded in Libya have been repatriated to the country.
The returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport (MMIA), Lagos on Tuesday night.
The returnees comprised of 65 adult females, eight female children, 76 male adults and 18 male children.
The reception exercise, which was coordinated by the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons and Facilitated by IOM under the EU/IOM Return and Reintegration initiative successfully received and profiled the returnees.
Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Mustapha Habib, who received them, advised the youth to look beyond seeking greener pastures in foreign lands.
The DG, who was represented by the NEMA Lagos Territorial Office Coordinator, Ibrahim Farinloye,...
