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Two female candidates have been declared winners of the just-concluded House of Assembly elections in Kogi. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two female candidates – Omotayo Adeleye-Ishaya and Comfort Nwuchola – won in Ijumu and Ibaji State Constituency seats, respectively. Both were candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and were also first females to represent their respective constituencies in Kogi Assembly. According to the Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Grace Abalaka Haruna, Mrs Adeleye-Ishaya scored a total of 8,568 votes to win. The returning officer added that the candidate of the…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has adjourned the collation of results for the governorship election in Cross River to 9 a.m. on Monday. The State Returning Officer, Teddy Adies, announced the adjournment midway into the collation of the results on Sunday at the state INEC Collation Centre in Calabar. Mr Adies said the adjournment became necessary to ensure that the results of the three remaining LGAs were available after 15 of the 18 LGAs of the state were announced by the collation officers. “The exercise will continue in the morning on Monday, by 9 a.m. Hopefully, the results of…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal, has an early lead having won the five local government areas whose results have been declared so far. There are 14 local government areas in the state. Mr Lawal of the PDP seeks to unseat the incumbent governor of the state, Bello Matawalle, who is seeking re-election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In the results declared so far, PDP won Anka Local Government Area with 17,116 votes. The APC trailed with 10,156 votes in the area. In Bukuyum Local Government Area, PDP polled 24,341…

An international research team identified a novel molecular pathway believed to cause gout and its progression to erosion of joint tissue. Researchers believe lubricin, a protein found in joint fluid, may serve as a novel therapeutic target for prevention and treatment of gout. Researchers made the discovery, in part, by studying a woman who had developed urate crystal deposits and joint erosion but did not show high urate levels in her blood. Gout, a common form of inflammatory arthritis, can cause intense pain, swelling, and stiffness in the joints. A torment on humanity since ancient times, gout typically affects one…

Alicia Silverstone and Brendan Fraser. Shutterstock (2) Alicia Silverstone would be happy to reunite with Brendan Fraser for a Blast From the Past sequel — but they had private reunions right after his Oscar win. “I’d be happy to do anything with Brendan … I just saw Brendan after he won his Oscar,” the Clueless star, 46, said at 90s Con in Hartford, Connecticut, which was attended by Us Weekly, on Sunday, March 19. “He’s so cute and so sweet.” Alicia Silverstone and Brendan Fraser in ‘Blast From The Past.’ Peter Sorel/New Line/Kobal/Shutterstock     Fraser, 54, won the Best…

Bitcoin (BTC) price surged on March 19 to surpass the $28,000 zone, marking a 16% boost in value in the past 7-days, according to Cointelegraph’s MarketPro data. At the time of writing, the leading cryptocurrency is trading at $28,063, a 2.4% increase in the past 24 hours. The price reached $28,459 at its highest point during the day, before trading at $26,877 during the day’s low.Overall this week, Bitcoin has gained over 37% against the U.S. dollar. Bitcoin’s market capitalization added $194 billion in 2023, representing a 66% gain year-to-date, outperforming Wall Street banks stocks especially as fears of a global…

Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro has announced the reorganization of the National Superintendency of Crypto Assets, known as Sunacrip in Spanish, according to a decree issued on March 17.A new board will lead the reorganization, headed by Anabel Pereira Fernández, a lawyer who served as president of the Fondo de Garantía de Depositos y Protección Bancaria (FOGADE), the Venezuelan version of the United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC). Among the other directors are Héctor Andrés Obregón Pérez, Luis Alberto Pérez González, and Julio César Mora Sánchez.Without providing any further details or specific reasons for the reorganization, the decree says the…

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The Federal Reserve and five other leading central banks have taken fresh measures to improve global access to dollar liquidity as financial markets reel from the turmoil hitting the banking sector.In a joint statement on Sunday, the central banks said that, from tomorrow, they would switch from weekly to daily auctions of dollars in an effort to “ease strains in global funding markets”. The daily swap lines between the Fed and the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Swiss National Bank, the Bank of Canada and the Bank of Japan would run at least until the end of…

As part of this change, Twitter will also turn off 2FA for your account completely if you don’t switch away from SMS verification or pay for Blue before that deadline, leaving your account vulnerable to hacking. Fortunately, you can still enable 2FA for free using an authenticator app, like Google Authenticator or Authy. You can also use a security key, but this requires the purchase of an actual piece of hardware.Twitter’s making SMS 2FA a paid feature because it’s the least secure form of authentication. This may seem counterintuitive, but it should at least steer non-subscribers away from the method,…