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Twenty-four years after African leaders pledged to devote at least 15 per cent of national budgets to healthcare under the Abuja Declaration, Nigeria is still falling significantly short of the target. The Federal Government has proposed a N2.48 trillion allocation to the health sector in the 2026 budget, representing about six per cent of the…
Many travellers are feared dead following an explosion along the Yar’Tasha–Dansadau road in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State, the police have confirmed. The Zamfara State Police Command said the blast occurred on Friday afternoon, triggering panic among commuters and prompting an emergency security response. Police Public Relations Officer, Yazid Abubakar, confirmed the incident…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed plans to meet United States President Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday as diplomatic efforts intensify to end Russia’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine. Zelensky said the talks would focus on a United States–brokered peace plan and proposals for security guarantees for Ukraine, amid continued fighting and fresh Russian…
The Federal Government on Friday said electricity supply across the country has begun to improve following the repair and restoration of the vandalised Lagos–Escravos gas supply infrastructure. The Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) confirmed the development in a statement, attributing the recovery to repair works carried out by the Nigerian Gas Infrastructure Company, which has…
The Federal Government has reaffirmed that Nigeria’s far-reaching tax reforms will take effect on January 1, 2026, dismissing calls for further delays and insisting that the new tax regime is designed to ease the burden on ordinary Nigerians and small businesses. The confirmation followed a high-level meeting between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and members of…
Stress is no longer hiding in racing thoughts or sleepless nights. Doctors say it is now showing up as real, measurable disease—written across the body in pain, imbalance, and exhaustion. For decades, stress was treated as a mental or emotional concern, blamed for anxiety, burnout, or mood changes. Today, a different picture is emerging in…
Lagos — Bola Babarinde, a public policy analyst and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, has urged the Federal Government to incorporate Nigeria’s solid minerals sector into its ongoing tax reforms, warning that its exclusion would render the reforms incomplete and unjust. In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday, Babarinde, a former Chairman of…
The Federal Government has confirmed that recent airstrikes on terrorist locations in Nigeria’s North-West were carried out as part of structured security cooperation with international partners, including the United States. In a statement issued on Friday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the government said the strikes resulted from ongoing intelligence sharing and strategic coordination…
Ghanaian authorities have arrested at least 48 Nigerians over alleged involvement in romance scams, online investment fraud and other cybercrime-related offences, following a coordinated security operation in the Dawhenya area of the Ningo-Prampram Constituency. The arrests come less than a week after Ghana deported no fewer than 42 Nigerians from the Ashanti Region over alleged…
Algeria’s parliament on Wednesday unanimously passed a law declaring France’s 132-year colonisation of the country a crime, formally demanding an official apology and reparations in a move that has drawn sharp criticism from Paris and further strained already tense diplomatic relations between the two countries. The legislation, adopted amid chants of “long live Algeria” from…
