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The Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Dr Temitope Ilori, has urged Nigeria to adopt a stronger financing strategy to safeguard the country’s HIV response, warning that declining international donor support makes greater domestic resource mobilisation an urgent priority. Ilori said Nigeria must build a more resilient and self-reliant HIV programme by strengthening domestic financing, improving governance, expanding partnerships and ensuring that available resources are used more efficiently. A copy of her keynote address, delivered at the Nigeria event during the 26th International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was made available to our correspondent…

Nigerian Afrobeats star Burna Boy has revealed that he does not view Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi as the greatest players of all time, Soccernet.ng reports. ​The debate over the greatest of all time is unending, typically revolving around Argentine maestro Messi and Portuguese goal machine Cristiano Ronaldo, particularly for the current generation. ​For older generations, the conversation usually centers on Brazilian great Pelé and the late Argentine icon Diego Maradona. Lionel Messi R and Cristiano Ronaldo Copyright: ImagoxStringerx ​However, Burna Boy leans slightly toward the older generation. ​In an interview, he stated that Super Eagles legend Austin Jay-Jay Okocha…

An unidentified man has been found dead in an uncompleted building at Albishiri Area in Chanchaga Local Government Area of Niger. The community leader, Dangana Abubakar, said residents discovered the body hanging inside the uncompleted building in the morning on Thursday. According to him, it was the second time that a dead body was found in an uncompleted building in the area. He said the deceased was yet to be identified and appealed to residents to remain calm while authorities investigate the incident. Confirming the development, the spokesman for Niger State Police Command, SP Wasiu Abiodun, told the News Agency…

The Managing Director, Rural Electrification Agency, Dr Abba Aliyu, speaks with select journalists on the agency’s completion of a nationwide energy mapping exercise that identified more than 750,000 communities, as well as the central role of electricity in driving economic growth and supporting emerging technologies. OKECHUKWU NNODIM was there How important is reliable electricity to Nigeria’s development, particularly as Artificial Intelligence continues to reshape the global economy? Power stimulates economic development and growth, enhances agriculture, improves the quality of health services, and enhances the quality of education, especially now that we are in the era of artificial intelligence. The future…

ChatGPT AI predicts a steady climb for Bitcoin, and this price prediction begins with an unusual correction built right in. At roughly $63,500, the model is explicit that this is Bitcoin trading near $63,479 today, not Cardano, before laying out a probability-weighted year-end 2026 target of $95,000, with a credible bull case range of $115,000 to $140,000.The rally catalysts here lean heavily on hard numbers rather than vague sentiment. US spot Bitcoin ETFs retain about $81.2 billion in assets, including roughly $46.9 billion held in BlackRock’s IBIT alone, suggesting that renewed institutional allocations could generate genuinely powerful marginal demand.Corporate treasury…

Fawzi Kehinde The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has lamented the agency’s manpower shortage. She said the agency is grossly understaffed to effectively regulate products consumed by over 240 million Nigerians. Adeyeye, during an interview on Channels Television on Thursday, said NAFDAC currently operates with about 2,000 workers, a situation she described as inadequate compared with the country’s population. She said a comparable country such as Indonesia, with a population of about 280 million people, has about 20,000 regulatory staff. “We have been chronically short of staff in NAFDAC. “We…

The Accord has petitioned President Bola Tinubu, the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, and other key stakeholders over what it described as the alleged harassment, intimidation and arrest of its members and government officials by the police ahead of the August 15 governorship election in Osun State. The party also renewed its demand for the immediate removal of the Osun State Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Gotan, accusing him of partisanship and alleging that his continued tenure could undermine the credibility of the governorship poll. In a statement issued on Thursday, the National Chairman of the Accord, Maxwell Mgbudem, lamented that…

Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, on Tuesday empowered 2,557 farmers in Ogun State with tractors, tricycles, farm inputs and cash grants. Speaking during the second edition of his farmers’ empowerment programme held at the Asade Agunloye Pavilion in Ilaro, the senator representing Ogun West said President Bola Tinubu’s sustained investments in agriculture were beginning to transform food production across the country. Adeola described the intervention as part of efforts to complement the Federal Government’s food security agenda under the Renewed Hope programme. The beneficiaries received 10 tractors with full attachments, 250 haulage tricycles, 1,500 knapsack sprayers, 8,000 bags of NPK and…

Grok AI predicts a massive breakout for Ethereum, and this price prediction sets the bar unusually high. The bull case runs to $6,000 to $8,000, with a stretch scenario reaching $10,000 to $12,000 by the end of 2026, up from roughly $1,890 today.Accelerating spot ETH ETF inflows anchor the case. These are described as already flipping positive, with BlackRock’s ETHA taking the leadership position and cumulative net inflows exceeding $11 billion.Expanding staked ETH ETF products are named as a second driver, unlocking yield for institutions in a way that turns simple price exposure into something closer to an income-bearing asset.…

Taiwo Bankole The Nigerian Medical Association, Ogun State chapter, has expressed concern over the shortage of medical doctors in the state, revealing that only about 1,200 physicians are currently serving an estimated population of nine million people. The association said the figure translates to approximately one doctor for every 7,500 residents, describing the situation as inadequate to meet the state’s healthcare needs. It also lamented that despite the shortage, doctors who have remained in the country instead of seeking opportunities abroad are increasingly subjected to harassment, intimidation and attacks by members of the public and in some cases, security agencies.…