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Ann Lai, a general partner at Bullpen Capital, has been fired from the firm, she says. The investor described the termination experience as “discriminatory and retaliatory” in a LinkedIn post published on Monday. Lai helped raise Bullpen Capital’s most recent fund, a $145 million investment vehicle, the first investment vehicle…

The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in the just concluded elections in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Abe has withdrawn his petition at the Election Petition Tribunal against the victory of Siminalayi Fubara of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The former senator said his decision to withdraw the…

You would think that once PEFERN met with all those jostling for the Number 3 seat and expressed his choice, all the senators-elect under the APC banner would automatically fall in line. But the cabals, in different strategic formations, who never wanted PEFERN to emerge at the presidential primaries, let…

By Daniel Kanu The reality on the ground now is that the race for the Senate president is hot. Nothing less is expected. The tempo has been raised to higher frenzy since the return of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu last Monday  from France where he went for vacation. It…

The Senator representing Oyo North Senatorial district, Fatai Buhari has been described a Tinubu-like Senator. Buhari, who is one of the ranking Senators from the southern part of the country, was recently re-elected for a third term in office. Former Osun commissioner for works, Remi Omowaiye, spoke at Buhari’s latest…

Representative Patrick McHenry, the House Financial Services Committee chairman, has announced a series of joint hearings in May focusing on addressing the market structure around digital assets in the United States. The move was revealed in a joint announcement on April 27 from McHenry and Representative Glenn Thompson, chairman of the…

The candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for Adamawa Central senatorial zone in the 2023 election, Alhaji Hamman Ahmadu has left the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC). It is a return home for Hamman Ahmadu, better known as Dan Maje after his Dan Maje Adamawa traditional…

A new virtual care programme is providing round-the-clock access to neonatal care in rural Queensland.  US-based companies Royal Philips and Teladoc have tied up to help deliver the Neonatal Virtual Care programme to hospital chain Mater.  The said programme, which was co-designed by the Mayo Clinic, provides patients, parents and…

What we have been seeing lately is a full-court press to compromise the independence of the judiciary, particularly the Supreme Court. Recently, we have seen the racist attacks on Justice Thomas get undermined by former Justice Breyer, and a hit piece of Justice Gorsuch that apparently wasn’t reviewed by anyone…

United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet and some far-right conspiracy theorists turned up at a Monash City council meeting on Wednesday evening to oppose a drag storytime event.  The protestors hurled slurs at the councillors calling them “paedophiles” and demanding their arrest. A group of counter-protestors and LGBTQI activists carrying…