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With a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet, Donald Trump stole the show when he made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump joined the man he’d chosen hours earlier as his vice presidential running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, in a box in …

In the 48 hours before he opened fire on former President Donald Trump, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks made a series of stops in and around his suburban Pittsburgh hometown. On Friday, he went to a shooting range where he was a member, and practiced firing, a law enforcement official told CNN. The next morning, Crooks went to a Home Depot, …

The Nigerian government, on Monday, held its first quarterly dialogue on the performance of the health sector across the country in the past months. The dialogue, according to the Coordinating Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, was between the federal authorities and sub-national governments, and key stakeholders in the health sector. Mr Pate, in a statement shared on …

Officials are demanding to know how an armed man was able to get to the top of a building and shoot former President Donald Trump. A report of a suspicious man had reached police and witnesses pointed and shouted at an armed man on a roof nearby where Trump was speaking. The attempted assassination left Trump and two other men wounded. …

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has lifted the visa ban on Nigerians travelling to that country, an official has announced. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this while briefing State House Correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Monday. “You are aware that Nigeria has been discussing with the United Arab Emirates …

… receives 2 repatriated artifacts The Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Oba Ewuare II, has stated that the federal government’s recognition of the Oba of Benin as the owner and custodian of all repatriated Benin artifacts has paved the way for the return of more. The Oba made this disclosure at his palace when he received two artifacts repatriated …

A Kano State High Court, presided over on Monday by Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu, has perpetually restrained Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero and four other dethroned emirs from parading themselves as emirs of Kano, Bichi, Rano, Gaya, and Karaye. In delivering the judgement, Justice Amina Aliyu further restrained the 15th Emir of Kano and the other four Emirs, including their servants, …

The Edo state government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have engaged in a war of words over allegations that the governorship candidate of the APC, Sen. Monday Okpebholo was planning to review the N70,000 minimum wage currently being paid by the state and that he hoped that the federal government would fix its wage below N70,000 to justify the …

The headline inflation rate in Nigeria soared to a new high of 34.19 percent in June 2024, relative to 33.95 percent recorded in May 2024, indicating an increase of 0.24 percentage points.  This is contained in the latest data released by the National Bureau of State Statistics (NBS) on Monday.  The NBS stated, “In June 2024, the headline inflation rate …

WASHINGTON — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump in Florida dismissed the prosecution on Monday, siding with defense lawyers who said the special counsel who filed the charges was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. The decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, which can be appealed and may be overruled by a higher court, …