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(CNN)  Health care costs won’t decrease right away if a Republican plan to replace Obamacare is passed, President Donald Trump warned Monday. Trump told a White House gathering of Americans who say they’ve been negatively affected by the Affordable Care Act that it could take several years before a drop in prices. “More competition and less regulation will finally bring …

(CNN) More Syrian children were killed in 2016 than in any other year of the six-year conflict, making last year the worst on record for children in the war-torn nation, according to children’s charity UNICEF. At least 652 children died in the last 12 months, a 20% increase on 2015, the organization said in a damning new report published Monday. …

The Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi has offered to resign his position and called on the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff to also resign. Makarfi said he was ready to resign, in line with the directive by former President Goodluck Jonathan asking him and Sheriff to step aside to …

A socio-cultural group under the aegis of Benin Solidarity Movement (BSM) has raised the alarm over alleged plot by Ijaw and Itsekiri people to take over Gelegele Community in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State. The group, while protesting to the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Edo State Council, on Monday, displayed placards with various …

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on some of his activities as acting president while the president was away in London. Osinbajo who made this known after a closed door meeting with the president in Abuja, said “I’m back to my regular position as Vice-President .’ He said that the president, who was updated on national and …

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on some of his activities as acting president while the president was away in London. Osinbajo who made this known after a closed door meeting with the president in Abuja, said “I’m back to my regular position as Vice-President .’’ He said that the president, who was updated on national and …

President Muhammadu Buhari has formally written to the National Assembly informing the federal lawmakers that he had resumed his functions as the President of the country. His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. Adesina said the Presidential communication to the National Assembly was in compliance with Section 145 of the …

Another London-Paris Club loan refund (about N500billion) is on the way for states— with fresh hurdles for governors. The Presidency has made it mandatory for all the states to account for the first tranche of the loan refunds – in line with the agreement it reached with the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF). States implicated in the mismanagement of the first …

Former Governor of the defunct Bendel State, Dr Samuel Ogbemudia, will be buried next Friday besides his mother’s grave at his Benin City residence. Ogbemudia, who died of diabetes complications, last Thursday, prepared his final resting place five years ago. Family sources said he wrote down details of how he would be buried and sent them to all his children. …

The immediate past governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole yesterday said he drew from the fountain of knowledge of the late Samuel Ogbemudia in various areas of governance. The ex-governor made the assertion when he paid a condolence visit to the family of the former governor of the defunct Midwest region and old Bendel State in Benin City. Oshiomhole, …