By Babafemi Ojudu AS ANOTHER election approaches, the subsidy debate is once again raging across Nigeria. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu removed the subsidy on petrol at the beginning of his administration. The consequences have been severe. Transportation costs rose sharply, food prices followed, production became more expensive, and the cost o...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter DEVELOPING ECONOMIES can strengthen global energy security by building resilient power systems capable of withstanding geopolitical pressures, Minister of Power Joseph Tegbe said on Tuesday. JKNewsMedia.com reports that Tegbe made the remarks in a keynote address at the opening plenary of the Middle Eas...
By JKNewsMedia THREE HUNDRED trained volunteers have begun monitoring developments that could shape the credibility, peace and inclusiveness of Nigeria’s 2027 general elections. JKNewsMedia.com reports that three hundred volunteers have been deployed to track developments capable of affecting the credibility, peace and inclusiveness of Nigeri...
By Babafemi Ojudu AS ANOTHER election approaches, the subsidy debate is once again raging across Nigeria. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu removed the subsidy on petrol at the beginning of his administration. The consequences have been severe. Transportation costs rose sharply, food prices followed, production became more expensive, and the cost o...
By JKNewsMedia AN INDEPENDENT investigation into the reported teargassing of peaceful pensioners protesting unpaid entitlements has been demanded by a coalition of Civil Society Organisations, which also accused the Lagos State Police Command of attempting to conceal the alleged assault. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the coalition described th...
By Babafemi Ojudu AS ANOTHER election approaches, the subsidy debate is once again raging across Nigeria. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu removed the subsidy on petrol at the beginning of his administration. The consequences have been severe. Transportation costs rose sharply, food prices followed, production became more expensive, and the cost o...
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...
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...
