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Chinedu Eze Industry stakeholders have called on the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to seek for additional revenue streams that will boost its finances and avert any form of financial crisis. According to them additional sources of income will continue to stabilise NCAA, even when airlines face disruptions due to operational challenges and are unable to meet up with their financial obligations to the agency. The industry observers are of the view that as the industry grows and airline operations expand, NCAA will spend more money on skilled manpower remuneration, technical training and engagement of more personnel to carry out…

As cases of the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora rise across the US, former employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the country’s response is being severely hampered by personnel cuts at the agency.Amid mass government layoffs last year implemented by President Donald Trump and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, the CDC lab that responds to outbreaks of the parasite cyclospora was downsized from 11 people to just three, according to Joel Barratt, a molecular parasitologist and assistant professor at Emory University School of Medicine who previously led that team.“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid,…

An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Farouk Aliyu, has said Nigerian Christians are now more comfortable with the party’s Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket than they were ahead of the 2023 general election, arguing that President Bola Tinubu’s administration has disproved fears of religious marginalisation. Aliyu made the remarks during an appearance on ARISE Television’s The Morning Show on Thursday, following President Bola Tinubu’s decision to retain Vice President Kashim Shettima as his running mate for the 2027 presidential election. Defending the President’s decision, Aliyu said the APC leadership opted to retain the same ticket because it had already won the confidence…

Challenges to the voluntary zero-deforestation pact could impose costs for forests and the soy sector

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Proceedings continued on Thursday in the deportation case against former Miss Universe Nigeria 2024, Chidinma Adetshina, as she appeared before a South African court. PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that Ms Adetshina’s deportation process began in June, after officers arrested her in Cape Town for allegedly residing in the country unlawfully. She had appeared before the Cape Town Regional Court following her arrest in Summer Greens, and the court released her on a warning. According to the BBC, Ms Adetshina returned to court on the adjourned date as the Department of Home Affairs pressed ahead with deportation proceedings. At the hearing,…

Chiemelie Ezeobi  The National President of the Police Officers’ Wives Association (POWA), Chief Mrs. Olufunmilola Disu, has called for greater investment in the welfare, mental well-being and economic empowerment of police families, arguing that the resilience of police wives must be matched with stronger institutional support rather than an expectation that they endure hardship in silence. Speaking at the opening of the 2026 POWA National Convention in Abuja, Disu said the sacrifices of police wives and families often go unnoticed despite the critical role they play in supporting officers deployed across the country. The convention, which attracted delegates from across…

• Moves to raise withheld aid from 50% to 100% pending FG’s action •Steube: We can’t reward a govt that fails to protect its citizens Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja The United States House of Representatives has approved an amendment seeking to withhold 100 per cent of the country’s assistance to Nigeria until the federal government takes effective steps to prevent and respond to terrorism and violence, significantly tightening an earlier proposal that sought to suspend only half of the aid. The amendment, sponsored by Representative Gregory Steube of Florida’s 17th Congressional District, was adopted by voice vote during consideration of…

US President Donald Trump has delivered a primetime address in which he accused China of interfering in the 2020 election and alleged “shocking vulnerabilities” in American voting systems.Trump, who spoke from the White House on Thursday, has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud and foreign meddling in the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden.In the half-hour speech, delivered three months before the midterm elections, he said he had declassified hundreds of intelligence files which supported his claims that Beijing had tried to sway the election in Biden’s favour.The US intelligence community has previously concluded China did not…

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