0% introductory APR for 21 months on balance transfers: One of the longest introductory periods on balance transfers we’ve come across, you’ll get a 0% intro APR on the balance transferred for a full 21 months, which means you’ll have almost two years to pay off your balance. 0% introductory …
Read More »Pastor Taiwo Odukoya loses wife Nomthi to cancer
The church announced Nomthi’s passing on its Twitter page. “With deep regret and gratitude to God, we have to announce the passing of our Senior Pastor’s wife, Pastor Nomthi Odukoya. “She battled cancer for the better part of 2 years, she stood on the Word of God, and she fought. …
Read More »Infographic: Dengue – what the symptoms are and how it spreads
A wave of dengue fever is sweeping through India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Tens of thousands of people across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have been struck by dengue fever this year, in one of the worst outbreaks in recent times that has further burdened the countries’ already fragile public health systems. …
Read More »What Moves Swing Voters
Political pundits often talk about swing voters as if they were upscale suburbanites, like “soccer moms” or “office-park dads.” And some are. But many are blue-collar. They are the successors to the so-called Reagan Democrats, who let Republicans win the White House in the 1980s and Democrats retake it in …
Read More »Why more Brits are turning to food banks
Volunteer Tania Nedvetsky helps arrange donations at Dad’s House, a food bank in London. In an upmarket neighborhood in west London, a growing number of people are visiting a storefront tucked between a bicycle shop and a coffee house that charges no money and caters exclusively to the less fortunate. …
Read More »UNs Indispensable Partners Barred from Entering Secretariat Building
by Thalif Deen (united nations) Monday, November 08, 2021 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Nov 08 (IPS) – The United Nations has come under heavy fire for continuing a 20-month-long ban on non-governmental organizations (NGOs)– even though the Secretariat is expected to return to near-normal by September 15 after a pandemic …
Read More »Over 5.7 million people receive COVID-19 vaccines in Nigeria
The Director, Planning Research and Statistics, NPHCDA, Dr. Abdullahi Bulama Garba, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja, at the Ministerial Press Briefing update on COVID-19 Response and Development in the Health Sector. Garuba added that these figures were achieved as at November 7th, 2021, in the 36 States and the …
Read More »Syrian media says Israeli air raids wound two soldiers
Syria’s military says Israeli air raids on central and western provinces wound two soldiers and cause material damage, state media reports. Syria’s military has said Israel carried out air raids on central and western provinces, wounding two soldiers and causing material damage, according to Syrian state media. The military said …
Read More »The U.S. allows vaccinated international travelers in and bars unvaccinated travelers from abroad.
The United States reopened its borders for fully vaccinated travelers from dozens of countries on Monday, ending more than 18 months of restrictions on international travel that left families separated from loved ones and cost the global travel industry hundreds of billions of dollars in tourism revenue. Under the new …
Read More »Campaigners make last effort to save man with intellectual disabilities from execution in Singapore
Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, a 33-year-old Malaysian man, was arrested in 2009 for bringing 42.7 grams (1.5 ounces) of heroin into Singapore. He was due to be executed by hanging on Wednesday. On Monday, the High Court ordered a stay of execution following a last minute constitutional challenge, his lawyer in …
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