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President Bola Tinubu has suspended the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, from office immediately. This was revealed Friday night in a statement by Willie Bassey, Director of Information at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The CBN Governor’s suspension is a sequel to the ongoing investigation of his office and the planned reforms in the economy’s financial sector, the statement said. Mr Emefiele has been directed to immediately hand over the affairs of his office to the…

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has vetoed a bill that would’ve set a minimum wage for rideshare drivers in the state. His decision—the first veto of his gubernatorial tenure—came after Uber threatened to cease operations across most of Minnesota, if the legislation became law.Cops Pull Over Self-Driving Car“Rideshare drivers deserve safe working conditions and fair wages,” Walz wrote in a letter announcing the veto on Thursday. “However, House File 2369 is not the right bill to achieve these goals and is simply not ready to…

Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein paid school tuition for the children of then-governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, whose wife made efforts to secure student visas and a work license for young women connected to Epstein, according to an updated court filing Thursday by JPMorgan Chase.Those tuition payments, whose duration and amounts were not revealed, allowed then-Gov. John de Jongh Jr. "to funnel additional money to his political campaigns," JPMorgan said in the filing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.Epstein also…

The founder of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Subomi Balogun, is dead. Confirming the incident, Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun and former governor Gbenga Daniel, expressed their sadness over the passing of the business mogul. The duo said they received with shock, the passing unto eternal glory of the ‘Olori Omoba’ and Otunba Tunwase of Ijebuland. Mr Abiodun, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, described the death of Mr Balogun as a colossal loss, not only to Ogun State, but to Nigeria…

Gianforte demanded that no electronic device issued by the state of Montana download any aforementioned apps by June 1. In December, Congress passed the No TikTok on Government Devices act, forcing the removal of TikTok on all federal-issued government devices.Also: Can Montana really ban TikTok?Many American lawmakers have been wary of TikTok for years, worrying that the app collects too much American user data and shares the data with the Chinese government. But according to U.S. House Representative Alexandria…

Montana’s TikTok ban is now . Governor Greg Gianforte signed a bill banning the app in the state, one month after it was by the state’s legislature. The law is scheduled to take effect in 2024, though legal challenges could potentially delay that timeline. The law prohibits the company from operating in the state and requires app stores to block users in Montana from downloading TikTok. The app’s users won’t face repercussions for using the service, but app stores and TikTok face daily fines of $10,000 for violating the…

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Montana Governor Greg Gianforte is seeking to broaden a bill that will ban not just TikTok, but other social media applications that provide certain data to foreign adversaries, the Wall Street Journal reported. Earlier this month, Montana lawmakers passed a bill, known as SB 419, to ban TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance, from operating in the state. TikTok as well as Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google, which operate mobile app stores, would face fines if they violate the ban, should the bill…

Montana’s governor is asking legislators to make changes to a bill that would be the first in the U.S. to ban TikTok outright, according to a draft of the amended bill language viewed by The Wall Street Journal. The changes would broaden the ban from applying specifically to TikTok, which is owned by China-based ByteDance Ltd., and cover social-media applications that provide certain data to foreign adversaries, according to the proposed bill language.  Montana’s governor is asking…

The Madras High Court had said in its 2021 judgment that a new law to ban online gambling may be enacted by the government and this made it clear the state legislature is competent to pass a Bill to ban online Rummy, Tamil Nadu law minister S Regupathy said on Thursday. The HC had struck down on August 3, 2021 the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Gaming and Police Laws (Amendment) Act 2021, which banned wager or placing bet in cyber space for other reasons and not on the premise of competence of legislature, the minister told…