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Credit: CC0 Public Domain During his presidency, Donald Trump and members of his administration repeatedly accused federal civil servants of undermining their agenda through the "deep state." They sought to curtail career employees' workplace protections, sought to severely cut some agencies' funding, and in some cases attempted to undermine or alter agency missions. …

The Special Adviser to the President on Energy, Olu Verheijen, said on Wednesday that the development of gas was a priority for the President Bola Tinubu administration. Ms Verheijen said this at the opening of the “Decade of Gas” secretariat in Abuja. “It has been a long journey with gas in this country,” she said. The “Decade of Gas” programme is a federal government project designed to ensure that Nigeria propagates the supply and distribution of gas as the main source of energy both to power- and gas-based…

The Startup20 Engagement Group will press for raising the annual investment in the global startups ecosystem to USD 1 trillion by 2030 from USD 700 billion last year, a senior official said on Tuesday. The Group, under the India G20 Presidency, is holding its 'Startup20 Shikhar', the summit meeting in Gurugram on July 3-4. "This group concurred that they will call on the G20 leaders to raise their annual investment in the global startups ecosystem to a trillion dollars by 2030," Startup20 India Chair and Mission Director…

Kanye West reportedly cancels plan to run for US presidency(Photo Credit –IANS) Rapper Kanye West is reportedly no longer running for President of the US in the 2024 election. If a new report is to be believed, the ‘Donda’ artiste is planning to focus on his family and his private Christian school Donda Academy instead, reports aceshowbiz.com. Adam Camacho, a documentary producer hired by Kanye’s company to make a film in November 2022, spoke with the Daily Beast about his experiences and conversations with the…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Floyd Jiuyun Zhang, a political economist at Stanford University, has conducted a study of the impact of the journal Nature endorsing presidential candidate Joe Biden back in 2020. In his paper published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, Zhang outlines the answers given by over 4,000 people to a survey designed to measure the impact of Nature endorsing a candidate for president.…

WASHINGTON —  History isn’t kind to one-term presidents, at least in the short run.For most of the last 40 years, Jimmy Carter’s presidency has been widely remembered as an epic failure, the cautionary tale of a politician who was soundly rejected by voters when he sought a second term in 1980.Happily for Carter, 98, who entered hospice care last weekend, his reputation has since risen, thanks to his admirable post-presidency and biographies that have reassessed his record more favorably.Carter’s presidency, they argue,…

G-20 presidency gives authority to set the crypto agenda, which perceptibly helps to safeguard investors and consumers to uphold the integrity of the financial system. India now has the chance to influence international crypto policy thanks to a G20 presidency. As the industrialized world operates to figure out the direction of currency, India’s G20 presidency started its term in December, placing the nation ahead. Several potential outcomes exist are several potential outcomes for the Indian cryptocurrency market and…

India said on Thursday that under its ongoing G20 presidency, it will prioritize the development of a framework for global regulation of unbacked crypto assets, stablecoins and decentralized finance and will explore the “possibility of prohibition” in a potentially large setback for the nascent industry. India began its year-long presidency of the Group 20 early this month. The group, which comprises 19 nations across continents and the EU, represents 85% of the world’s GDP. It also invites non-member countries…

The Presidency has again dismissed allegations of misappropriation of Stamp Duty funds leveled against some government agencies by a member of the House of Representatives, Gudaji Kazaure. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Tuesday said the allegations were “baseless and misleading”. Mr Shehu had on Sunday described the claim as a figment of the imagination of Mr Kazaure, who had earlier claimed that he is the secretary of a committee set up by…

The Presidency on Saturday dismissed allegations of misappropriation of Stamp Duty funds levelled against some government agencies on Friday by a member of the House of Representatives, Gudaji Kazaure. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, described the claim as a figment of the imagination of Mr Kazaure. Mr Shehu added that it was unconstitutional for a member of the parliament to be secretary of an executive committee. In an interview with BBC Hausa…