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As House Republicans cheered the “beginning of the end” of the Affordable Care Act at a celebration in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, Senate Republicans welcomed the bill with muted fanfare. After weeks of fits and starts, House Republicans had narrowly passed a proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare and voted to forward to the Senate a bill …

Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who will turn 96 next month, will step down from public life this fall, Buckingham Palace announced today. He will continue to carry out public engagements between now and August, according to a statement released by Buckingham Palace. “In taking this decision, The Duke has the full support of The Queen,” the release announced, …

The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, on Thursday said with stable crude oil production in recent times and attendant increase in the volume of oil export, the current state of the economy is good. He also said the development had given signals of imminent exit from the current economic challenges. Emefiele made this disclosure in …

They are beautiful, powerful; mostly brilliant and accomplished. They were the dream come true of the Nigerian feminist community which lauded the Jonathan administration’s affirmative action of appointing women into key government positions. They were to prove the widely held belief that what a man can do, a woman can do better. In his controversial 2014 book, My Watch, former …

Number of people left uninsured The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted that if the ACA continued, the number of uninsured Americans – currently 28 million – would remain stable for the next decade. The revised Republican healthcare bill: The CBO has not had time to estimate the impact of the …

Donald Trump, in a long-anticipated overture to the religious right, signed an executive order on Thursday directing the IRS to weaken its enforcement of a rule barring churches and tax-exempt groups from endorsing political candidates. With the same stroke of his pen, he took steps to resolve a longtime dispute over an Obama-era rule requiring contraception coverage in employer healthcare …

House Republicans narrowly approved a controversial plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on Thursday, taking a significant first step toward fulfilling a seven-year promise to repeal and replace the 2010 law that served as a landmark overhaul of the US health care system. Republicans passed the American Health Care Act with one vote to spare, following a dramatic …

The Redeemed Christian Church of God has announced the death of the Assistant General Overseer and Pastor-in-charge of RCCG, West African coast, Pastor Olu Obanure. Obanure became the Assistant General Overseer in charge of Establishment following his investiture at the 64th Annual Convention of the church last August. According to a statement announcing Obanure’s demise and signed by the church’s …

The West African Examinations Council says it has launched a talk back platform, known as “WAECKonnect’’ to improve effective communication between the council and candidates. The organisation said this in a statement issued by its Head of Public Affairs, Mr Damianus Ojijeogu, on Thursday in Lagos. WAEC said it established the platform to further engage the candidates and bridge the …

The Iyase (Prime Minister) of Benin Kingdom, Chief Sam Igbe, yesterday, faulted members of the Senate over their comment that the anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration would fail if the Nigerian worker continued to live in abject poverty. Pointing out that the Senate seems to be ignorant of the fact that majority of workers in the country work …