By Owei Lakemfa MAY DAY! May Day!! May Day!!! The desperate calls from Chicago, United States workers in 1886, taken up by workers of the world, now sounds more desperate. But the world seems to have gone deaf with the May Day calls becoming almost inaudible. In fact, the US, the country from which May Day emanated, does not even allow such a...
By JKNewasMedia INCREASING TERRORISM concerns have led the United States (U.S.) to urge its citizens in the United Kingdom (UK) to remain vigilant after authorities announced a severe threat level. JKNewsMedia.com reports that authorities in the UK raised the national terrorism threat level from substantial to severe on Thursday after an antis...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent ESCALATING ATTACKS across northern Mali have forced government troops and allied Russian mercenaries to surrender a strategic military base to armed rebel groups. JKNewsMedia.com reports that Mali’s army and its Russian allies withdrew from the Tessalit super camp near the Algerian border on Fr...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent ELECTORAL PREPARATIONS have advanced as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) fixed June 20 for the conduct of by elections in six states of the federation. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the INEC Chairman Prof Joash Amupitan announced the date during the swearing in of a new Natio...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PLANS FOR a three-nation visit have been announced as President Bola Tinubu prepares to travel to France, Kenya and Rwanda JKNewsMedia.com reports that the President will depart Abuja on Saturday May 2 for the trip, with his first stop in France before proceeding to Nairobi to attend the Africa...
By Owei Lakemfa MAY DAY! May Day!! May Day!!! The desperate calls from Chicago, United States workers in 1886, taken up by workers of the world, now sounds more desperate. But the world seems to have gone deaf with the May Day calls becoming almost inaudible. In fact, the US, the country from which May Day emanated, does not even allow such a...
By JKNewsMedia NINE YEARS of digital banking innovation is being marked as Wema Bank Plc celebrates the anniversary of ALAT by Wema, described as Africa’s first fully digital bank. Launched in 2017, ALAT by Wema was introduced as a response to limitations in traditional banking including long queues, physical barriers, and slow processes. The...
By Humphrey Ukeaja NIGERIA’s SUGAR-sweetened beverage (SSB) market is not just growing; it is expanding its product lines and accelerating the establishment of new plants in a country already carrying a heavy and costly burden of non-communicable disease (NCD). Evidence indicates that SSB consumption in Nigeria rose by 123 percent between 200...
By Babafemi Ojudu THERE ARE moments in the life of a people when difficult questions must be asked, not for provocation, but for the preservation of conscience. This is one of such moments. Across Nigeria today, there is a growing perception—fair or unfair—that the Yoruba, once regarded as a stabilizing moral force in the national equation, a...
By Owei Lakemfa NIGERIANS AND Africans have no friends in Israel. They may, amongst the Israeli people, but not in its establishment which is wedded to a philosophy of violence, repression, exploitation and genocide. Therefore, Nigerians must be on alert and view with suspicion, Israel's overt and strenuous attempts to befriend the continent,...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Published in "ON THE LORD'S DAY" column in the Sunday Tribune edition of Sunday, 3 May, 2026). EXCEPT ONE takes time out to carefully peruse the 2026 amendments to the Electoral Act, its critics will run away creating the impression that digital or non-digital transmission of election results is the only provision of the ...
By Owei Lakemfa MAY DAY! May Day!! May Day!!! The desperate calls from Chicago, United States workers in 1886, taken up by workers of the world, now sounds more desperate. But the world seems to have gone deaf with the May Day calls becoming almost inaudible. In fact, the US, the country from which May Day emanated, does not even allow such a...
By Joke Kujenya ENDING MALARIA is now within reach as advances in science and innovation deliver new tools, even as global figures show the fight remains far from over. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the World Malaria Day 2026 centres on a renewed global campaign launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners under the theme “...
First published on February 10, 2013, by The Nation Newspaper. Concern over alleged wrong diagnosis from medical laboratories and diagnostic centres is growing, but these are not documented. (Back then) Assistant Editor (Investigations), JOKE KUJENYA, visited a number of such centres and reports. FROM CHILDHOOD, Miss Jemima (surname withheld...
By Joke Kujenya GROWING GLOBAL health crisis is tightening its grip as Antimicrobial Resistance (AR) continues to make once treatable infections harder and, in some cases, impossible to cure. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the Global AMR Media Alliance (GAMA), is raising concerns that AR continues to rank among the top ten global health threats...
