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NHIA’s Health Financing Scheme Grants Over 63,000 Women Access to Maternal Healthcare
The National Health Insurance Authority’s (NHIA) financing scheme has enabled over 63,000 women to benefit from the Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEmONC) programme. The CEmONC was rolled out
NUPRC: Awardees of Gas Flare Sites May Lose Unutilised Permits
• 27 of 43 locations successfully given out •Says host community development trust curbed oil theft Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja and Peter Uzoho in Lagos Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission
M-East crisis: Marketers to adjust prices as crude surges past $100 per barrel
***Experts call on FG to intervene to mitigate impact of petrol price adjustment ***Nigeria lacks barrels to maximise forex windfall — OPEC ***Expect higher diesel, transport, freight costs — ANALYST
I’m not Obidient, not Kwankwasiyya, I’m NDC - Seriake Dickson
National Leader of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Senator Seriake Dickson, has said he does not belong to either the Obidient or Kwankwasiyya political support groups, insisting that his allegiance
Tactical voting: How opposition can defeat Tinubu without a sole candidate, by Olu Fasan
This is authorial licence. I am writing about a subject on which I have no particular interest, by which I mean that I’m not rooting for any candidate in next
2027: Don’t turn your pulpits into platforms for incitement, Tinubu cautions bishops
By Chidinma Chukwu, Abuja ABUJA — Ahead of the 2027 general election, President Bola Tinubu has urged Christian leaders to promote peace and responsible participation in the electoral process, warning
Nigeria must secure its agro-export future
Nigeria cannot afford to sleepwalk into the European Union’s new deforestation regime. The warning that the country could put more than $1bn, or about N1.4tn, in annual agro-export earnings at
Why listening is the most underrated communication skill, by Ruth Oji
There is no shortage of advice about listening. Every leadership book includes a chapter on it. Every communication workshop dedicates time to it. The guidance is remarkably consistent: make eye
2027, APC and merchants of political violence, by Ikechukwu Amaechi
Former Rivers State governor Chibuike Amaechi buried his mother, Ezinne Mary Oruah, on May 5, 2026 in Ubima, his ancestral Ikwerre hometown. It was a celebration of life. At 89
How intelligence, technology, VCRU are closing in on Auchi–Okene kidnappers
By AKINDELE ADEGEBO For years, the Auchi–Okene–Abuja highway and its surrounding communities have carried a reputation that no Nigerian traveller would wish to associate with a journey home: the fear
