Paper Promises vs. Real Pulses: Why Nigeria’s Hypertension Crisis Demands Cash-Backing, Not Just Budget Speech-Making – Professor Emmanuel Alhassan and LISDEL
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At Sabo market in Kaduna, 47-year-old Yusuf Ibrahim, a schoolteacher and father of four, slumped beside a pile of grain. He never woke up. To his heartbroken family, it was a sudden tragedy. To any clinician who has worked a Nigerian emergency ward, it was a familiar face of the country’s most pa...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of delusion for blaming the opposition for Nigeria’s economic hardship and hunger. Read More: https://punchng.com/blaming-opposition-for-hunger-is-delusion-atiku-tells-tinubu/...
By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA: Director General of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council APC-PCC, Senator Abdul’aziz Yari, has assured President Bola Tinubu that the power brokers of Northern Nigeria, traditional rulers and Islamic clerics are solidly behind his ret...
Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (NGX Group) has reported an 83.29% year-on-year increase in group profit before tax to N20.58 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2026, compared with N11.23 billion in the corresponding period of 2025. The post NGX Group’s pre-tax profit ri...
By Peter Duru, Makurdi Former Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly and Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Namibia, Terhemen Tarzoor, has faulted former Governor Samuel Ortom over his reported remarks against Governor Hyacinth Alia and his administration urging political leade...
The Commandant-General of the Kano State Hisbah Board, Sheikh Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa, has said he will not campaign for any politician in the 2027 general elections. He said he wants leaders who will promote justice and improve the lives of ordinary Nigerians. Daurawa made this kn...
President Bola Tinubu has charged the West African College of Physicians to find solutions to the migration of doctors from Nigeria and other West African countries. The college’s Assistant Secretary-General, Hasibu Galadanci, disclosed this on Saturday at a press conference in A...
Kaduna metropolis was filled to the brim as from Friday when party supporters and government officials converged on the former capital of Northern Nigeria, for the flag-off of the 2027 APC presidential campaign on Saturday. The Township stadium burst at the seams as people spille...
Unilever Nigeria Plc has announced that Chika Nwobi will retire from its board of directors on December 31, 2026, after nearly nine years as an Independent Non-Executive Director. The post Unilever Nigeria announces Chika Nwobi’s retirement after nine years on Board appeared firs...
A recent report by the Climate Impact Lab estimated that Nigeria could record 31,400 additional heat-related deaths between September 2026 and February 2027. The post PT Health Watch: What to do as extreme heat hits Nigeria appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria ....
.As APM launches reset movement in Lagos By Olasunkanmi Akoni Oyo State Governor and Presidential candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Seyi Makinde, has accused President Bola Tinubu of using reported growth in foreign reserves to create impression of economic recovery...
The Action Alliance presidential candidate, Adekunle Omoaje, has flagged off his 2027 campaign, vowing to revive Nigeria’s economy and end poverty if elect Read More: https://punchng.com/2027-aa-presidential-candidate-vows-to-end-poverty-revive-economy/...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of shifting responsibility for Nigeria’s economic hardship to the opposition, insisting that the administration must account for its record ahead of the 2027 presidential election. Atiku, the presidentia...