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States’ funding of the health sector was lower in 2021 compared to the height of COVID pandemic in 2020, according to a report by SB Morgen (SBM) Intelligence. In its health preparedness index for 2022, SBM said only Osun and Ondo states allotted more than 10 percent of their budgets to healthcare in […]

Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue state, says he has been barred from seeing President Muhammadu Buhari. While appearing on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, on Thursday, Ortom expressed frustration that the show’s presenter would not allow him to speak about the country’s security challenges. “That is my problem with Channels Television, […]

Rabiu Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), says northerners will not vote for Peter Obi, Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, if he is made the standard bearer of the merger of the two parties.  Kwankwaso said this on Sunday while speaking on a Channels TV programme.   He said […]

Emmanuel Silas, a Catholic priest, has been reportedly abducted by gunmen in Kaduna state.  Silas was said to have been kidnapped in Zambina, Kauru LGA of the state early Monday morning. Emmanuel Uchechukwu Okolo, chancellor of the Catholic diocese of Kafanchan, confirmed the cleric’s abduction in a statement on Monday. “It […]

The federal government has condemned the call by five US senators for the re-designation of Nigeria as a country of particular concern over alleged violation of religious freedom. In June, the five US senators asked Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, to re-designate Nigeria as a country of particular concern. They cited […]

A yet-to-be-confirmed number of persons have been killed, following a shooting at a shopping centre in Denmark. The shooting happened on Sunday at the Field’s shopping mall in Copenhagen, the Denmark capital. Field’s is said to be the largest shopping centre in Denmark, with over 140 shops and restaurants. Speaking on […]

Eight more corpses of security personnel have been reportedly found in a bush following the recent attack on Ajata Aboki village in Shiroro LGA of Niger state. Sani Kokki, convener of Concerned Shiroro Youths, disclosed this to TheCable via telephone call on Sunday. TheCable had reported that gunmen invaded a mining site […]