By JKNewsMedia Introduction: Stakeholders are intensifying discussions and efforts towards peaceful elections across several Nigerian regions, despite security concerns surrounding the Federal Capital Territory, with four of the six South-West states showing notable engagement in peacebuilding discussions. Report: While the Federal Capital...
By Associated Press EBOLA DISEASE from the fast-moving outbreak in Congo has now spread to four other countries, including two where it’s active. It has spread farther across Africa than any previous Ebola outbreak, reaching three regions. Nigeria on Tuesday became the latest country affected by the outbreak, which was first declared in easter...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA's FEDERAL Government’s has revealed its plan to secure billions of dollars and euros in fresh external loans for its 2026 to 2027 supplementary borrowing programme which will undergo legislative scrutiny after the Senate referred President Bola Tinubu’s request to relevant committees for examina...
By JKNewsMedia News Introduction: Analysts have recommended removing more than 70 per cent of 84 pieces of harmful AI-generated content identified for damaging reputations and misleading the public ahead of the elections. News Report: YESTERDAY, OUR tracking established the need to unpublish a number of artificial intelligence-generated cont...
By Babafemi Ojudu I HAVE been looking at this photograph, trying to remember what made us laugh. Was it a joke? An outrageous proposition? One of those arguments in which young journalists settle the problems of their country before remembering that they have yet to settle their own? I cannot recall. But the happiness is there, preserved more...
By Fatima Idera, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE NATIONAL Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a South African woman with 36.65kg of cocaine at Lagos airport and a Nigerian-American grandmother with 9.45kg of imported cannabis, as nationwide operations yielded major drug seizures and several arrests. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the agen...
By Joke Kujenya THE MEDICAL evacuation of the Ebola patient and her husband to Switzerland has left Nigeria with no active case of the disease, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Mohamed Janabi. JKNewsMedia.com reports that Janabi disclosed this in a statement on his official X handle on Monday, ...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA's FEDERAL Government’s has revealed its plan to secure billions of dollars and euros in fresh external loans for its 2026 to 2027 supplementary borrowing programme which will undergo legislative scrutiny after the Senate referred President Bola Tinubu’s request to relevant committees for examina...
By Babafemi Ojudu I HAVE been looking at this photograph, trying to remember what made us laugh. Was it a joke? An outrageous proposition? One of those arguments in which young journalists settle the problems of their country before remembering that they have yet to settle their own? I cannot recall. But the happiness is there, preserved more...
By Owei Lakemfa PRESIDENT BOLA Ahmed Tinubu told Nigerians on October 19, 2026, that they will not return to Egypt. He seems unaware that Egypt is our ancestral home and that we never left and will never leave. This Niger Area is the land of milk and honey we inherited from our fathers and mothers. We were never slaves in this land, will fight...
By JKNewsMedia THE FIRST documented human case of Shamonda Virus Disease (SVD) has been reported in October 2026, in France, marking a significant development in the monitoring of a virus previously identified in animals, as scientists seek to understand its potential effects on people and how it spreads. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the pati...
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...
