Increased access to health insurance offered by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may not improve diabetes control among low-income patients because of social determinants of health, which are outside the scope of medical practice, such as difficulty paying for food, medications, housing or utilities (material need insecurities), according to the study background.

Although Nigeria’s Information and Communication Technology, ICT, market has recorded tremendous success while deploying 4G for commercial services, a feat that had put the country ahead of Europe and China, identifying access gap areas that needed the intervention of the network operators have remained a challenge due to lack of available data.

By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North ABUJA—The Federal Government has continued to keep Nigerians and foreigners guessing by not making public the details of the 2015 budget, which was presented to the National Assembly about two weeks ago by the Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Although Okonjo-Iweala had promised to release the breakdown of the […]

Akure—THE Senatorial Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Ondo North Senatorial District of Ondo State, Dr. Bode Olajumoke yesterday called for truce in the crisis bedeviling the party.

A strong indication has emerged that, a mass exodus of members and stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State is currently looming.

Yenagoa—Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has urged Bayelsans to pray for the leaders of the state and the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government to overcome the difficult circumstances the administration was going through.

Bursaspor defender Taye Taiwo has expressed his willingness to return to the Super Eagles if given a chance.

The former Olympic Marseille of France player has appeared for the national team 53 times but has been shut out of the team since coach Stephen Keshi took over as coach

Anglican Bishop of Okigwe, Rt. Rev. Dr. Edward Osuegbu, has described the continuous attack on President Goodluck Jonathan by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as “shocking, most unfair and uncharitable, especially as it is coming from a former occupier of the office of the President of Nigeria.”

NIGERIANS are getting to the reality that every part of the country wants to free space and whatever resources it can for itself. The arguments are not about who settlers are and who are the indigenes, they are about the fact that Nigerians are now grappling with issues of citizenship. It is an issue that deserves handling with uttermost sensibility and sensitivity.

GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State, Senator Teslim Kolawole Folarin, has called on all politicians and major players of the democratic process to eschew violence and avoid mudslinging, if the primary motive of contesting was to serve the people.

ASABA—Coalition of Urhobo Youths Organisation, CUYO, yesterday, said it had rebuffed moves by the Goodluck Support Group, GSG, to solicit its support for President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general elections.

The Former Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr. Ernest Ndukwe, had described telecommunication infrastructure as a critical component of Christmas season. The former EVC stated this at Phase 3 annual Christmas Carol and Cocktail organised in Abuja.

THE year 2014 started on a sad note for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The party opened the year with the forced resignation of its national chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur following some irreconcilable differences among stakeholders especially governors elected on the platform of the party

The Microsoft Mobility Summit was successfully held recently in Lagos to introduce tech savvy individuals to the Microsoft mobile-first and cloud-first world.

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