By Rimamnde Shawulu Now what happens next that President Tinubu can order the EFCC? President Tinubu has directed the EFCC to end its court-backed action freezing an Osun State Government account. Watch here: https://youtu.be/Hry2BKKFzm8?si=dijISDO4iLXG3daz The EFCC linked the action to an investigation into the alleged handling of about N11 b...
Culled from CNN TWO PEOPLE in Michigan have died in connection with the outbreak of cyclosporiasis, health officials reported Monday. These are the first known deaths related to the multi-state outbreak of explosive diarrhea in the United States. “Two deaths have been identified as part of the cyclosporiasis outbreak affecting Michigan. Accord...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Report AGREEMENT ON the complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza has been announced by United States (US), President Donald Trump, while Hamas and Israeli officials outlined conditions and responses surrounding the proposed plan. JKNewsMedia.com reports that Trump said on Truth Social tha...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter ECONOMIC FRAUD involving the purported Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) has established that the agency never existed and that its alleged Director General, Adeniyi Adeyemi Mathew, was never appointed by the Federal Government or any government authority, Chairman of the Indepen...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu has instructed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to immediately return to court to vacate the order freezing the accounts of the Osun State Government and discontinue every action it instituted against the state in the matter. JKNewsMedia.com reports that in a sta...
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 JKNewsMedia PROPOSED AMENDMENT to Nigeria’s National Tobacco Control Act 2015 could weaken the country’s tobacco control framework and create loopholes for nicotine addiction, particularly among young people, the Africa Centre for Tobacco Industry Monitoring and Policy Research (ATIM) has warned. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the organisati...
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 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 JKNewsMedia THE EUROPEAN Union has confirmed that it will deploy an Electoral Expert Mission for Nigeria’s 2027 General Elections, dismissing reports that it had declined an invitation from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). JKNewsMedia.com reports that the EU Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS said it received a formal in...
By Eniola Olatunji reporting for Patmos Media Line ...Beat Ten Women Ivory Coast 2-1 at the Quarterfinal. THE FENNECS of Algeria on Saturday in Casablanca Morocco booked their first female world cup appearances in history and a first WAFCON semifinal ticket with a 2-1 win over better rated Female Elephants of Ivory Coast. Ines Konan of Ivory C...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE THE CATHOLIC Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) recently held a closed-door meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu after which one of the bishops, John Onaiyekan, Bishop Emeritus of Abuja, went public with the contents of the meeting. The public was aghast when the president was reported as saying that hunger has been...
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...
