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United States Secretary of State,  Antony Blinken, on Tuesday, spoke with the President-elect, Bola Tinubu over the phone. Spokesperson, United  States Department of State, Matthew Miller, in a statement issued in Washington DC, said that during the conversation, Blinken emphasised his continued commitment to further strengthening the US-Nigeria relationship with the incoming Tinubu administration. “Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke this morning …

Barring any last-minute change, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), will declare a free contest for principal officers of the 10th National Assembly, according to report by the Vanguard. The APC had zoned the Senate presidency to the South-South and the speaker of the House of Representatives to the North-West. It announced Senator Godswill Akpabio, …

San Francisco (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes appears to be soon bound for prison after an appeals court Tuesday rejected her bid to remain free while she tries to overturn her conviction in a blood-testing hoax that brought her fleeting fame and fortune. In another ruling issued late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila ordered Holmes to pay …

Raleigh, N.C. (AP) — Legislation banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy will become law in North Carolina after the state’s Republican-controlled General Assembly successfully overrode the Democratic governor’s veto late Tuesday. The House completed the second and final part of the override vote after a similar three-fifths majority — the fraction necessary — voted for the override earlier …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the government is pursuing a comprehensive digital development agenda with sustained investment in digital infrastructure to enhance connectivity and expand the state’s digital economy. Obaseki said this in commemoration of the 2023 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, marked by the United Nations and its sister agencies with the theme, “Empowering the …

Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has condemned the attack on a United States consulate convoy that resulted in the killing and burning beyond recognition of four persons, and the abduction of about three others. The seven persons include two US Embassy staff, two Police Mobile Force officers, and their vehicles, as well as the likely abduction of three others …

Unknown assailants yesterday attacked a convoy of two U.S. government vehicles in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra state, Nigeria resulting in the death of at least four members of the convoy, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has confirmed. According to him, the convoy was carrying nine Nigerian nationals: five employees of the U.S. Mission to Nigeria and …

United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Tuesday morning called and spoke with Nigerian President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu to emphasize his continued commitment to further strengthening the U.S.-Nigeria relationship with the incoming administration. According to State Department’s Spokesperson, Matthew Miller Blinken noted that the U.S.-Nigeria partnership is built on shared interests and strong people-to-people ties and that those …

• Headline inflation rises to 22.22%• Experts blame high commercial lending rates  On May 29, President Muhammadu Buhari will leave behind an inflation rate of 22.22 per cent (the highest in about 17 years), which is well over double of the level he met in 2015. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), yesterday, released the last consumer price index (CPI) …

Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun has remanded the Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, for 48 hours in police custody for allegedly assaulting a police officer. Seun Kuti after his arrest Kuti, in a 12-second video clip that went viral on May 13, 2023, had assaulted a policeman on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State. The defendant turned himself in at the Lagos …