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The Kano State Government says it has implemented about 90 per cent of its healthcare blueprint within three years of Governor Abba Yusuf’s administration. The Commissioner for Health, Abubakar Labaran, disclosed this on Thursday while briefing journalists in Kano on the achievements recorded in the health sector. Mr Labaran said the state had fully implemented the Abuja Declaration on Health, demonstrating its commitment to improving healthcare delivery. He said the administration sanitised admissions into health training institutions through the introduction of a digital process, eliminating fraud that previously cost the state more than N1 billion. “The government had also revived…

Miss University of Jos (UNIJOS) Queen, Promise Dikko, has recounted how bandits killed her fiancé, Ifeanyi, a lieutenant in the Nigerian Army, months before their planned wedding. Ms Dikko, declined to give her fiancé’s full name, citing security reasons, during an exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday evening, choosing instead to refer to him only as Ifeanyi. Ms Dikko is a Banking and Finance undergraduate at the UNIJOS. The Edo-born lady said she spoke with her fiancé on Monday morning and afternoon before suddenly losing contact with him. Bad news According to her, she initially assumed it was a…

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has warned front-end enrolment partners of the National Identity Management Commission that any involvement in fraudulent National Identification Number registrations, including the enrolment of non-Nigerians as Nigerians, could attract a seven-year prison term upon conviction. The warning was issued on Thursday in Abuja during a security briefing organised by NIMC for its front-end enrolment partners in collaboration with the Office of the National Security Adviser and other security agencies. Speaking at the event, an Assistant Director at the ICPC, Mark Faison, said enrolment agents must strictly comply with the terms of…

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Joash Amupitan, on Thursday assured Ekiti people that the June 20 governorship election would be credible. Amupitan said that “INEC is logistically, technologically and operationally prepared to deliver an election that will stand as an unassailable baseline of credibility. A credible election is built upon the integrity of its voter registers. The INEC chairman stated this in Ado Ekiti while addressing stakeholders on the commission’s preparedness for the election. He said that there were 1,059,360 registered voters who could exercise their franchise across the 16 local government areas, spanning 117 wards and 2,445…

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency has added 177 new members to the Deep Blue Maritime Security Unit as the country intensifies efforts to dominate West African shipping, writes FELIX OLOYEDE It felt like a scene from an American movie when fresh graduates of the Deep Blue Maritime Security Unit demonstrated a rescue mission involving a pirate attack vessel at Navy Town, Ojo, Lagos, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. Visitors at the ceremony were in awe as three boats from the Deep Blue Maritime Security Unit surrounded the attacked ship. A helicopter even dropped special squad members onto the…

One hundred and fifty physical and health education teachers, alongside games masters from public primary schools across Lagos State, are participating in a two-day capacity-building programme organised by the Nigeria School Sport Federation and the Nigeria Olympic Committee, with support from Olympic Solidarity and in partnership with the Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board. The programme, which commenced on Wednesday at the LASUBEB Multipurpose Hall in Maryland, is designed to introduce participants to the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Values Education Programme. Sessions are being facilitated by IOC-certified trainers led by Professor Clement Fasan, with Lagos serving as the fifth stop…

You can save on a big set of outdoor security cameras ahead of Prime Day. Amazon has a five-pack of Blink cameras with a video doorbell included that’s marked down to $166.99. The bundle includes a Blink Battery Doorbell 2K+, five Blink Outdoor 2K+ cameras, and a Blink Sync Module Core. The doorbell is typically $70, and each camera generally retails between $80 and $100, so you’re saving at least $200 by grabbing them all in the set.The video doorbell captures video in 1920 x 1920 with a 140- degree field of view, and can last for months on three…

The 2026 FIFA World Cup could mark a breakout moment for prediction markets, with Coinbase emerging as one of the biggest winners, according to a new research report from Bernstein.Published Thursday, the Bernstein analysts estimate the expanded tournament will generate more than $3 billion in incremental sports betting handle and $5 billion to $10 billion in additional consumer prediction market volume, as 104 matches transform what is typically the slowest period for online sports betting.FIFA expects the month-long tournament to attract roughly 6 billion viewers worldwide, up from an estimated 5 billion during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Matches…

Buzz Lightyear and Woody might be fictional best friends, but the real-life bond between Toy Story actors Tim Allen and Tom Hanks stretches to infinity and beyond. “We completely, whether surface or subsurface, completely connected as two individuals,” Allen, 72, exclusively tells Us Weekly in his cover story of the costars’ connection. “Almost like we’re related.” Allen — who has voiced toy spaceman Buzz alongside Hanks’ cowboy Woody since 1995’s Toy Story — reveals that their relationship, like the toys they play, has evolved over the years. Tom Hanks and Tim Allen. Monica Schipper/Getty Images for CinemaCon The Home Improvement…

A bill seeking to establish state police passed the second reading in the Senate on Wednesday. The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, announced the passage of the bill during Wednesday’s plenary after a majority of senators supported it through a voice vote. After the passage, the bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Constitution Review, chaired by the Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin, for further legislative scrutiny, including the conduct of public hearings to gauge public opinion on the proposed state police system. The bill, sponsored by the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, seeks to devolve policing powers to subnational governments…