By JKNewsMedia CONCERNS OVER a planned private concession of parts of Lagos State's public water infrastructure have prompted Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), to warn that the move could weaken government responsibility for providing safe, affordable and reliable water to residents. JKNewsMedia.com reports tha...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter MORE THAN 175,000 visas issued to foreign nationals have been revoked by the United States Department of State (USDS) under President Donald J. Trump over visa violations, criminal activity, fraud, threats to national security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 Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter REFINERIES WILL not be allowed to waste away after years of huge investments, President Bola Tinubu has said, pledging in-depth research, restructuring and leadership to reposition the facilities to deliver value and profit. JKNewsMedia.com reports that Tinubu gave the assurance on Thursday in Abuja whe...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has approved a new investment framework aimed at unlocking up to US$50 billion in deep offshore investment and reviving large, capital-intensive offshore developments that have remained stalled for decades. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the reform establishes a transparent, rules-based...
By Olukorede Yishau POLITICAL PARTIES, like men, often think history is a story about other people's past until it knocks on their own door and when it does, it rarely asks whether they were once popular, but it asks a simpler question: What did you learn? It is the lack of this understanding that makes sitting too comfortably on a throne com...
By JKNewsMedia CONCERNS OVER a planned private concession of parts of Lagos State's public water infrastructure have prompted Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), to warn that the move could weaken government responsibility for providing safe, affordable and reliable water to residents. JKNewsMedia.com reports tha...
By Olayinka Oyegbile Newspapers - both online and physical - have become dead; no one wants to read them again, because they are filled with shallow pro-government stories. IT IS not in doubt that journalism around the world is undergoing tremendous changes and threat: technology, dictatorship, problems of funding and self-inflicted wounds (...
By JKNewsMedia RECRUITMENT HAS opened for suitably qualified candidates to fill nine positions across the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), with opportunities ranging from trainee roles to assistant management positions. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the government owned agency, responsible for port administration in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Onne, ...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter PERSONAL PARTICULARS and credentials of 19 presidential candidates and their running mates for the 2027 general election have been published by the Independent National Electoral Commission, paving the way for presidential campaigns scheduled to begin on August 19. JKNewsMedia.com reports that INEC desc...
By Tunde Rahman WITH JUST a few days before the August 15 Osun State governorship election, the political calculus is already shifting. The election is a two-way horse race between incumbent Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke of the Accord Party (AP) and his challenger, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Asiwaju Munirudeen B...
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...
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...
By Joke Kujenya How Intelligence, Special Forces ended 57 days of captivity for Oyo schoolchildren and teachers . . . FIFTY-SEVEN harrowing days after gunmen stormed three schools in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, abducting pupils, teachers and a school principal, a painstaking multi-agency security operation finally brought ever...
