By Helen Okechukwu, JKNewsMedia Reporter REVENUE GAP widened sharply in 2025, with Lagos State recording N1.77tn in Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), almost N860bn more than the N909.35bn generated collectively by 22 other states. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the figure made Lagos the highest revenue generating state in the country, with i...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS Council (NECO) has announced that 804,948 candidates secured five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics, in the 2026 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE). JKNewsMedia.com reports that the figure represents 58.67 per cent of the 1,371,992 candidates w...
By JKNewsMedia NIGERIA’s GAS sector has recorded another major investment milestone with the $800 million Final Investment Decision (FID) on the IMA Gas Project (IGP), expected to unlock a resource discovered more than five decades ago. JKNewsMedia.com reports that President Tinubu said the decision demonstrated what could be achieved by prov...
By Owei Lakemfa A COUNTRY's Ministry of Education is supposed to be a place of illumination with clear ideas about the future. Nigeria has had not just super educators like Professors Wole Soyinka, Ebi Alagoa, Alvan Ikoku and Adamu Baikie, but also outstanding Education Ministers like Abudu Yusufu Eke and Babs Fafunwa. The ongoing conflagratio...
By JKNewsMedia THE FEDERAL government is facing renewed calls to cancel its concession agreement for King’s College, Lagos, as Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) warn that transferring the school’s management to a private association would undermine the government’s responsibility to fund and administer public ed...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia FOR FIVE years, Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello led Lagos State University (LASU) through a period of expansion, institutional reform and growing financial pressure, leaving office with a record shaped by new programmes, stronger revenue generation, infrastructure projects and a renewed push for research and in...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter BRITAIN IS urging households to keep supplies of food and drinking water at home as part of preparations for severe national disruption, including war, cyberattacks and extreme weather. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the preparedness campaign is intended to help households cope with major emergencies, whi...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter FRESH LEADERSHIP chapter has opened at Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, with Professor Ayodeji Olawunmi Badejo formally assuming office as the institution's 10th substantive Vice Chancellor and promising to make dialogue and participation central to her administration. JKNewsMedia.com reports that Ba...
By Helen Okechukwu, JKNewsMedia BATON OF leadership at Lagos State University, (LASU), changed hands on Friday, September 18, 2026, as Distinguished Professor Ibiyemi Ibilola Olatunji Bello formally handed over the affairs of the university to Professor Ayodeji Olawunmi Badejo. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the ceremony, held at the Senate Cham...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter MOTORISTS AND other road users on the Lagos section of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway have been issued a two-week ultimatum by the Federal Government for them to comply with safety measures or face closure. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Olufemi Dare, gav...
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...
