By JKNewsMedia FALLING INTERNATIONAL crude oil prices have prompted the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) to intensify its monitoring of petrol prices, warning refiners and marketers against keeping pump costs high despite declining global oil prices. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the Commission's Executive Vice Ch...
By Joke Kujenya UNITED STATES President Donald Trump has blamed his party’s losses in the midterm elections on his absence from the ballot, while saying he was “absolutely willing to accept” the election results. JKNewsMedia.com reports that Trump made the remarks following projections by US media that Democrats had secured control of both th...
By Joke Kujenya WOMEN AND candidates from historically underrepresented communities have secured landmark victories in the 2026 United States (US) midterm elections, bringing new representation to some of the country's highest political offices. JKNewsMedia.com reports that from the governorships of Georgia, Texas and New Mexico to seats in t...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA's ELECTRICITY expansion drive is gathering momentum, with the Federal Government (FG) pursuing plans to raise generation capacity towards 20,000 megawatts, invest $2 billion in a new transmission super grid and restore critical infrastructure following recent supply disruptions affecting Lagos an...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter MORE THAN 1.6 million student loan applications have been processed, while over 156,000 trainees have received support under the Federal Government’s education interventions, as the President Bola Tinubu administration reports progress across Nigeria’s education system. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the ...
By Owei Lakemfa TEN WEEKS before the contentious and increasingly violent general elections in the country, Justice Peter Odo Lifu of the Federal High Court Abuja nullified the leadership of one of the two main opposition parties, the African Democratic Congress (ADC). He did not only purport to remove the David Mark-Rauf Aregbesola leadershi...
By JKNewsMedia FALLING INTERNATIONAL crude oil prices have prompted the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) to intensify its monitoring of petrol prices, warning refiners and marketers against keeping pump costs high despite declining global oil prices. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the Commission's Executive Vice Ch...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter EFFORTS TO restore electricity supply to parts of Nigeria affected by prolonged outages are gathering pace, with the Federal Government announcing plans to return affected generating units to service within 48 to 72 hours while recovering critical transmission equipment that has remained stranded at the ...
By JKNewsMedia THE FEDERAL Government has fixed December 3, 2026, for the inauguration of the Kaduna-Kano Standard Gauge Railway, as construction reaches approximately 90 per cent completion. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the 203-kilometre railway project, which connects Kaduna, Zaria and Kano, is among two major rail developments in Northern ...
By Steve Osuji NEVER TRY to convince me that a dog is a monkey! This is a brutal Yoruba adage. The saying mocks someone who's telling what is regarded as a 'foolish lie'. Someone who tries to deceive and cheaply hoodwink another. Maa pe aja l'obo funmi, the victim would retort, always angrily. It also means, "don't take me for a fool; do you t...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter MORE THAN 1.6 million student loan applications have been processed, while over 156,000 trainees have received support under the Federal Government’s education interventions, as the President Bola Tinubu administration reports progress across Nigeria’s education system. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the ...
By Owei Lakemfa I DO not know where His Excellency Hope Odidika Uzodimma lives. He is Governor of Imo State but is reported from Abuja so frequently that I have come to the conclusion that he lives in Abuja but visits Imo State. He is so much in and around the Aso Rock Presidential Villa that I expect the occupiers of the Rock to have gotten 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...
