By JKNewsMedia STRICTER VISA reciprocity rules now confine most Nigerian non‑immigrant travellers to single‑entry United States (US) visas valid for only three months, effective immediately. The adjustment, announced on 8 July 2025 by the US Department of State, narrows the previous multiple‑entry allowances in line with Washington’s policy o...
By Joke Kujenya UNITED STATES (US) President Donald Trump has received a formal nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, following efforts to secure a ceasefire during the recent 12-day conflict. The letter of nomination was personally handed to Trump during a White House dinner, where Netanyahu com...
By Joke Kujenya GLOBAL AUDIENCE is expected to join mourners in Baton Rouge this weekend as funeral arrangements for the late Rev. Jimmy Swaggart unfold at the Family Worship Center, the church he founded and led for decades. The internationally renowned televangelist, who died on 1st July at the age of 90 following a heart attack, will be ho...
By JKNewsMedia STRICTER VISA reciprocity rules now confine most Nigerian non‑immigrant travellers to single‑entry United States (US) visas valid for only three months, effective immediately. The adjustment, announced on 8 July 2025 by the US Department of State, narrows the previous multiple‑entry allowances in line with Washington’s policy o...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NIGERIA’s ECONOMIC transformation is gathering momentum as policymakers push through painful but necessary reforms aimed at stabilising the country’s finances and unlocking its vast growth potential. The impact is beginning to show, but rising inflation, entrenched poverty, and a volatile globa...
By Owei Lakemfa THE WORD Bank in its May 2025 Report stated that 75.5 per cent of rural Nigerians are engaged in deadly combats with poverty. The number in the urban areas, it said, is 41.3 per cent with an additional 13 million Nigerians, projected to slip below the poverty line by the end of the year. It also stated that 63 per cent of the e...
By JKNewsMedia THIRTY-FIVE hybrid Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered buses have been officially transferred to the Presidential Initiative on Compressed Natural Gas (Pi-CNG) by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd, in a strategic push to advance the nation’s gas-powered transport system. The handover ceremony took place at the...
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By Joke Kujenya A STARK warning from the World Health Organization (WHO) has reignited calls for urgent global action as rising tobacco industry interference stalls momentum in public health efforts. The new Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 report, launched at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin, presents a mixed picture, documentin...
By Joke Kujenya SILENT AND often swift, drowning strikes without warning, leaving behind a trail of anguish and irreversible loss. Each year, around 300,000 people die from drowning globally, with low and middle-income countries like Nigeria bearing the heaviest toll. This tragedy, says a December 13, 2024, report by the World Health Organisa...
DAYS AFTER devastating floods swept through Mokwa, a town in Niger State, Nigeria, displacing dozens of families, wrecking homes, leaving thousands missing and killing hundreds, many victims remain without shelter despite the establishment of temporary displaced camps in two local schools. Our West and East Africa Correspondent, ADEDOKUN THEOP...
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