By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter FOREIGN EXCHANGE reserves reached $55.25 billion in September, extending a steady rise that has pushed the country’s external buffer to its strongest level in 18 years, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the CBN said the latest figure in its foreign reserves' s...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter COLLECTION OF newly printed Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) will commence early next month, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced as preparations intensify for the 2027 General Election. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the announcement was made in Kaduna on Monday, 28 September 20...
By Helen Okechukwu, JKNewsMedia Reporter INSTITUTIONS HAVE been directed to accelerate the processing of admissions for the 2026/2027 academic session after the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) restored its Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), following a temporary disruption. JKNewsMedia.com reports that JAMB announced...
By Olamide Martins Ogunlade NIGRIA’s NEW mineral-investment framework with the United States has been presented as an opportunity to unlock an estimated $700 billion in mineral resources and move the country beyond the export of raw materials. On September 24, 2026, on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly in New York C...
By JKNewsMedia GROWING AWARENESS of Elu-Ulee, also known as Buruli ulcer, and the importance of early medical intervention has emerged from the second Awba-Ofemili community health campaign, with stakeholders commending the Awba-Ofemili Development Union Health Committee for sustaining the initiative. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the campaign,...
By Helen Okechukwu, JKNewsMedia Reporter INSTITUTIONS HAVE been directed to accelerate the processing of admissions for the 2026/2027 academic session after the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) restored its Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), following a temporary disruption. JKNewsMedia.com reports that JAMB announced...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter COLLECTION OF newly printed Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) will commence early next month, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced as preparations intensify for the 2027 General Election. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the announcement was made in Kaduna on Monday, 28 September 20...
By John Abanbeke Akomaye, JKNewsMedia Campus Journalist MORE THAN 600 graduating students of the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS) gathered at the St. Joseph’s Catholic Chaplaincy on Sunday, September 27, 2026, for a thanksgiving Mass marking the completion of their academic journey. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the graduates, drawn ...
By JKNewsMedia AS WE advance our tracking of synthetic AI content creators and their influence ahead of the 2027 elections, we examined the relationship between creators’ follower and subscriber numbers and their production of synthetic AI content. Our analysis shows that creators with over 100,000 followers and subscribers produced significan...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter FOREIGN EXCHANGE reserves reached $55.25 billion in September, extending a steady rise that has pushed the country’s external buffer to its strongest level in 18 years, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the CBN said the latest figure in its foreign reserves' s...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter MONDAY MORNING, millions of Nigerian children headed back to school with the safety of their classrooms under renewed scrutiny, as widespread gaps in fencing, security personnel and other protective measures expose schools to continuing threats of attacks and abductions. JKNewsMedia.com reports that ove...
By Joke Kujenya FOR MANY Nigerians, cancer does not announce its arrival with a funeral bell. It begins quietly, in a pain that refuses to disappear, a lump discovered almost by accident, unexplained weight loss, persistent fatigue or a medical examination that suddenly changes the direction of a life. JKNewsMedia.com reports that that is how...
By Joke Kujenya BY THE time the morning began at the oncology ward of a Lagos teaching hospital, the waiting area was already crowded. JKNewsMedia.com reporter observed that patients sat beside relatives on plastic chairs, holding thick folders filled with laboratory results, referral letters and prescriptions. Some told the reporter that the...
