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The Chief Medical Director, Kogi Hospitals Management Board, Ayo Olayemi, says renovation of Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) across the state is improving healthcare delivery and patient safety. Mr Olayemi said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lokoja, to commemorate World Patient Safety Day, marked annually on 17 September. He said Governor Ahmed Ododo had renovated three PHCs in each of the state’s 21 Local Government Areas, bringing the total number of renovated facilities to 63. Mr Olayemi said the government had also constructed seven additional PHCs in locations with large populations that…

Kwairanga, Chairman of the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX Group), says the Dangote Petroleum Refinery Initial Public Offering (IPO) signals Nigeria’s readiness to support large-scale capital raising through its capital market. Mr Kwairanga said this on the sidelines of Fintech Money 20/20 Middle East at the Riyadh International Conference Centre, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NGX Chairman said the significance of the Dangote Refinery IPO was beyond the size of the transaction. “It demonstrates the capacity of the Nigerian capital market to support businesses of substantial scale,” he said. According to him, the…

The Week 3 college football schedule includes power conference matchups on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and there are dozens of opportunities for college football betting beginning with Pittsburgh vs. Syracuse tonight. The Week 3 college football odds list the Panthers as 10.5-point home favorites against the Orange, and the over/under for this ACC matchup is 51.5. There are three ranked matchups on the Week 3 college football schedule, with No. 13 Texas Tech (-7.5, 53.5) vs. No. 22 Houston on Friday, followed by No. 23 Louisville (-1.5, 59.5) vs. No. 16 SMU and No. 8 Ole Miss vs. No. 7…

According to new education reforms scheduled for implementation from 2027, plans are underway to include seven subjects, including history and aesthetic studies, for the General Certificate of Education (Ordinary Level) examination.The Department of Communication of Parliament announced that this was discussed during a subcommittee meeting on education reforms held in Parliament, chaired by Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education, and Vocational Education Dr Harini Amarasuriya.Under the proposed new reforms, several main changes are scheduled to take place:Plans are in place to limit the total number of subjects to seven, including history and aesthetic studies.Additionally, steps will be taken…

•Says NDLEA established reasonable suspicion Wale Igbintade The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has dismissed an application by Afolabi Michael Kazeem, popularly known as KC Luxury, seeking to set aside an order extending his detention for 30 days over his alleged involvement in the trafficking of 184.5 kilogrammes of cocaine. Justice Akintayo Aluko, in a ruling delivered on Thursday, held that the detention extension order granted on August 20, 2026, was validly made and supported by the Constitution and relevant drug-control laws. Kazeem, through his counsel, Abdulakeem Labi-Lawal, SAN, had urged the court to set aside the order, arguing…

Tony Burke has promised to make Labor’s existing migration policy work better rather than announcing a dramatic cut in numbers, arguing that populist promises to slash net overseas migration will “trash Australian services and trash the Australian economy”.The home affairs minister’s message was immediately endorsed by employer groups, who over recent days have made it clear that steps to arbitrarily slash migrant numbers would compound already severe skills shortages and hurt businesses, especially those in the regions.“We need immigration. We just need to make sure that it is targeted for the needs of Australia in numbers and across the different…

Muhammadu Sanusi II, the Emir of Kano, has said that one of his regrets in office as the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, was delaying the entry of telecommunications companies (telcos) into financial services. Sanusi spoke on Wednesday at the launch of the 2026 Access to Financial Services in Nigeria (A2F) survey by Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access (EFInA). “One of my regrets as CBN governor was delaying telcos’ entry into financial services,” the  said. The economist said telcos already had the infrastructure and reach that could have helped accelerate financial inclusion, particularly in underserved communities. Sanusi…

Since August, a wave of discussion about AI’s potential power and how to control and regulate it has dominated blog posts and social media, emphasised by several dramatic statements from those in the industry.The debate has also been met with criticism from sceptics who say the focus on AI’s hypothetical future risks distracting from more immediate concerns around the technology, such as its environmental impact.In July, OpenAI announced what it called an “unprecedented” incident in which its advanced AI escaped test limits and hacked into the tech platform Hugging Face.After several other incidents, in September, a resignation post from Anthropic…

Two strategies, one presidency: Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike is widening the political net, while the governors are tightening the ruling All Progressives Congress structure. The question is whether both approaches can coexist without pulling the coalition apart. Jonathan Eze writes. The political temperature surrounding President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election bid appears to be rising, not because of an open confrontation between the President and his allies, but because of an increasingly consequential disagreement over who should control the machinery of political mobilisation around him. At the centre of the emerging contest are FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike…

Ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti, thought to have ruled as Pharaoh, might be buried near Tutankhamun. Credit: Filo/GettyTutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings has long puzzled archaeologists. Might hidden chambers — suspected to hold the remains of Nefertiti — lie beyond its walls? Now, researchers say they have found new evidence pointing to this controversial conclusion. The decision of whether to peek into the supposed chambers, a few metres from the existing tomb, is in the hands of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. If approved, careful drilling to deploy miniature tractors equipped with cameras could start in November, co-author…