By JKNewsMedia.com NIGERIA's MARITIME policing efforts have earned international recognition after 95,255,690 votes secured the North America Legendary Africa Supercop of the Year Award (NALASYA) for Assistant Inspector-General of Policc, Okunade Ronke Nurat, in a continental contest involving senior law enforcement officers from 10 African c...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter MORE THAN 175,000 visas issued to foreign nationals have been revoked by the United States Department of State (USDS) under President Donald J. Trump over visa violations, criminal activity, fraud, threats to national security and calls for violence against U.S. citizens. JKNewsMedia.com reports that th...
By JKNewsMedia SCORES OF Europeans are witnessing a rare total solar eclipse sweeping across parts of Iceland, Spain and a small corner of Portugal. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the event marks the first total solar eclipse visible from mainland Europe in more than two decades, with millions of people in prime viewing locations expected to wi...
By JKNewsMedia CANDIDATES WITH pending admission offers from the 2020 to 2025 admission cycles must accept or reject the offers by August 31, 2026, or risk possible forfeiture, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has warned. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the Board advised affected candidates to check their admission status and take th...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia A CENTENARIAN, Esther Ogunmabo, has been arrested for selling skunk in Ilisan, Ogun State, as the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives intercepted cocaine concealed in edible cassava fufu and seized Loud worth more than N4.4 billion at the Apapa and Lekki ports in Lagos. JKNewsMedia.com report...
By Babafemi Ojudu HAVE YOU seen the exchange between Mr Tony Elumelu, Chairman of UBA, and the young lady who addressed him simply as “Tony”? That brief encounter says something about the cultural transition taking place in our society: the sometimes-awkward marriage between Western informality and traditional African notions of respect. A you...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter A MAJOR international cocaine trafficking cartel that used Nigeria as a transit hub for moving illicit drugs to the United Kingdom (UK), other parts of Europe and Asia has been dismantled, with its alleged Nigerian arrowhead arrested while attempting to flee the country. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter CHALLENGES FACING Nigeria’s economy and insecurity, particularly those associated with elections, will feature prominently at the seventh yearly lecture of Freedom Online in Lagos on September 3. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the lecture will examine how Nigeria can tackle insecurity and conduct the 2027 ...
By JKNewsMedia.com NIGERIA's MARITIME policing efforts have earned international recognition after 95,255,690 votes secured the North America Legendary Africa Supercop of the Year Award (NALASYA) for Assistant Inspector-General of Policc, Okunade Ronke Nurat, in a continental contest involving senior law enforcement officers from 10 African c...
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...
By Joke Kujenya, Fellow, Naija Cancer Watch TO THINK that, in this current age and times, people still uphold myths about a global condition as cancer beats one's imagination. Yet, misinformation surrounding the disease continues to shape how some Nigerians understand its causes, treatment and prognosis, sometimes with serious consequences fo...
Relief at returning home has quickly given way to haunting memories for survivors of the Oriire school abduction in Oyo State. In her first detailed account of the ordeal, rescued principal Mrs Rachael Alamu revealed that male teachers endured the harshest treatment in captivity, with some reportedly blindfolded, handcuffed, chained and restra...
