Venezuela’s highest court yesterday fined TikTok $10 million in connection with viral challenges that authorities say left three adolescents dead from intoxication by chemical substances. Supreme Tribunal of Justice Judge Tania D’Amelio said that the popular video-sharing app had been negligent in failing to implement “necessary and adequate m...
•Senator Ali Ndume Senator Ali Ndume is a Senator representing Borno South Senatorial District. In this interview with Daily Independent, he speaks on President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet reshuffle, the Tax Reform Bill before the National Assembly, need for the government to cut the cost of governance, why the prescriptions of International Monetar...
•Demonstrators in Venezuela At least one person died yesterday in Venezuela as security forces tried to break up protests triggered by a hotly disputed election result that gave Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a third term in power, an NGO said. Venezuelan security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets yesterday at irate protesters chal...
•Nicolas Maduro Nicolas Maduro was declared the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election yesterday but the opposition and key regional neighbours immediately rejected the official results. The opposition coalition itself claimed victory by a large margin, after an election campaign tainted by claims of political intimidation and fears of fr...
•Gov Bala Mohammed The People’s Democratic Party Governors’ Forum (PDPGF), has decried the rising cost of living in Nigeria saying the nation is sliding down the road of Vanezuela’s economic turmoil under President Bola Tinubu’s watch. Chairman of the forum and Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, said this in an interview with newsmen sho...

