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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said his government has in the last seven years and a half years focused on revamping and upgrading the State’s health sector, decentralizing the system and bringing quality and effective healthcare services closer to the people. Obaseki said this when he inspected the progress of work at the ongoing reconstruction of Aruogba Primary …

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday released a budget proposal aimed at getting voters’ attention: It would offer tax breaks for families, lower health care costs, smaller deficits and higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations. Unlikely to pass the House and Senate to become law, the proposal for fiscal 2025 is an election year blueprint about …

The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has confirmed Monday first day of Ramadan in Nigeria. The President General, the Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs stated this in a broadcast at his palace in Sokoto on Sunday evening. According to a post on the official account of the National Moonsighting Committee Nigeria, “The Sultanate has confirmed a single sighting …

President Bola Tinubu has directed the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to return food items that were confiscated at border communities to owners on the condition that they would be sold in the Nigerian markets to boost food sufficiency. This was disclosed Saturday by the Comptroller General of the NCS, Adewale Adeniyi, during an interface with residents of border communities in Kongolam and …

Major companies in Nigeria spent about N635.2 billion on power generation and utilization in 2023 amidst rising energy costs and its attendant impact on businesses. This represents a 41.5 per cent Year-on-Year (YoY) increase compared to N448.76 billion spent in the corresponding period in 2022. Details of the cost show that the bulk of the expenditure was on diesel and …

LANSING, Mich. — The protest-vote movement over President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war has spread to several states and raised more questions about whether a small but significant number of Democrats angry at Biden might abandon him in November. A week after 101,000 Michigan voters chose “uncommitted” on their ballots, so did roughly 263,000 voters in the five Super Tuesday states where …

Fresh report by the Lagos-based Financial Derivatives Company Limited has re-echoed several factors that led to exchange rate weakness in Nigeria in recent times. According to the report, macroeconomic imbalances like high inflation and fiscal deficits; currency policy especially the floating of exchange rate are among the real factors. The report made available to Nigerian Tribune at the weekend, also …

Cleric begs Obaseki Thousands of indigenes and residents of Edo North Senatorial District yesterday peacefully protested against plot to impeach Edo State Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu. The protesters asked Governor Godwin Obaseki to give peace a chance. The demonstrators, who chanted anti-Obaseki songs, carried placards with inscriptions such as: “No to impeachment of Edo deputy governor”, “Peace cannot be kept by …

After over a decade of insurgency in the North-east, there has been a significant escalation of terrorism in the North-west zone of the country. From Kaduna, Zamfara, Niger, Katsina and Sokoto states, reports of killings, kidnappings, the destruction of properties and other forms of degradation of human lives continue to cascade ad nauseam. It is not, therefore, shocking that a …

Team Nigeria recorded a clean sweep of gold medals on Sunday at the ongoing African Games in Ghana, after six female wrestlers won in their various categories. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mercy Genesis kicked off the gold medal rush, winning Nigeria’s first wrestling gold medal in the 50kg category. It was an atmosphere of joy and excitement for …