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  The US Senate has fallen short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict former President Donald Trump on a charge of incitement to insurrection over the Capitol riot on 6 January. A majority of senators - 57 to 43, including seven Republicans - voted to convict Mr Trump, 10 votes short of the 67 required for conviction. After his acquittal, Mr Trump released a statement denouncing the trial as "the greatest witch hunt in history". This was Mr Trump's second impeachment. If he had been convicted, the Senate could have voted to bar him from running for office ever again. After the vote, the senior Republican in Congress, Senator Mitch McConnell said Mr Trump had been "responsible" for the assault on the Capitol and called it a "disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty". Earlier, he voted against conviction, saying it was unconstitutional now that Mr Trump was no longer president. Mr McConnell was instrumental in delaying Mr Trump's trial un...

  Rihanna took to her twitter handle to lend Nigerians her voice by reacting to an #EndSARS PROTEST post from AMNESTY.  

  Central Europe has become the continent's latest coronavirus hotspot, with Austria struggling to contain an outbreak of the new   variant   first identified in   South Africa   and neighboring Czech Republic facing hospital bed shortages on top of a political crisis over lockdowns. The worsening situation in the Austrian province of Tyrol and the  Czech Republic  forced Germany to announce new border controls with both countries to contain the spread of the disease. German Health Minister Jens Spahn said the new rules, which will come into effect on Sunday, were "unavoidable." ''To protect the population from virus mutations -- this is why the federal government decided yesterday to declare the Czech Republic, Tyrol and Slovakia as coronavirus variant areas," Spahn said at a news conference Friday.  "This means there will be a ban on transportation -- and without exceptions tests must be made before entering Germany -- and there is an obligation...

  Senator Sani Musa has said that the use of Cryptocurrency has made the Nigerian currency almost useless and valueless. Senator Sani said this on Thursday, February 11, during plenary while he and other lawmakers debated on the CB's decision to ban the use of digital currency in Nigeria.   In his words ''Crptocurrency has become a world wide transaction of which you can not even identify who owns what. It is being protected by an app or stuck to a bloc chip. The technology is so strong. I don't know the kind of regulation that we can do Another very important thing that we should know is that Bitcoin has made our currency almost useless or valueless because I can remember that about six or seven years ago, my son bought three pieces of Bitcoin online and today, he is coming to tell me that he has Bitcoin for sale.  Where is it because it is not physical. He said he has it on sale because he has bought it and each one is going for N17 million. So if we have an economy t...

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  Democrats have finished their arguments that Donald Trump incited the attack on the US Congress, warning "he can do this again" if he is not convicted. Impeachment prosecutors used rioters' own words to link Mr Trump to the violence while arguing last month's riot had caused long-term harm as well. Democrats also presented accounts from police, staff, intelligence officials and foreign media to pursue their case. The former president's defence team will present their arguments on Friday. The Democratic-led House of Representatives impeached Mr Trump last month, accusing him of inciting the riot on the Capitol building on 6 January. Lawmakers from the House have been presenting their case to senators at his trial this week. Mr Trump's lawyers have argued he was using his right to freedom of speech when declaring last November's presidential election fraudulent. Impeachment: The basics What is impeachment?  Impeachment is when a sitting president is charge...