By Joke Kujenya TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2024, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will travel from Lagos, Nigeria, to Pretoria, South Africa, to attend the inauguration of President Cyril Ramaphosa. Ramaphosa’s inauguration follows his re-election for a second term as President of South Africa which came after a deal between his party, the African Nat...
By Joke Kujenya A DREADFUL DRUG cartel led by 49-year-old Kelechi Monday Nwaobasi and his 50-year-old sister, Ms. Chinwe Rose Nwaobasi. has been successfully pulled down to pieces in a major operation, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The special operation, conducted in Aba, Abia State, resulted in the arrest of the siblings a...
By Joke Kujenya NIGERIA’s NATIONAL Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported that in the first quarter of 2024, the country exported electrical energy worth N58.65 billion to several African nations. This export constituted 2.62% of the total goods imported from Nigeria by the continent noting that he primary recipients of this electrical ...
By Joke Kujenya IN FUNDING to support Nigeria’s economic stabilization and reform initiatives, the World Bank has approved $2.25 billion loan. The package includes $1.5 billion for the Nigeria Reforms for Economic Stabilization to Enable Transformation (RESET) Development Policy Financing Programme and $750 million for the Nigeria...
By Joke Kujenya UP TILL RECENTLY, Nnena Francis, a vibrant 60-year-old retired teacher, had always led an active lifestyle. She recounts how she often enjoyed gardening, dancing, and playing with her grandchildren. However, over the years, as she narrated to JKNewsMedia, she said she had neglected her diet and often skipped meals and relying o...
By Helen Okechukwu, JKNMedia Reporter EXPRESSING EXCITEMENT over an independent assessment by online media platforms that rated the state highly for projects’ delivery among first-term governors in Nigeria, Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has said it is a piece of news worth celebrating for him and citiens. Speaking during a Sall...
By Joke Kujenya ON THE urgent need to preserve and restore the global habitat through sustainable environmental practices, the Union Bank of Nigeria has entered a partnership with the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) in commemoration of 2024 World Environment Day (WED). During an event held on June 5th, 2024, at the Lekki Conservation Ce...
By Joke Kujenya ISSUING AN alarming warning about a cholera outbreak, describing the identified strain as “highly aggressive and contagious, with potential for widespread dissemination.” This update was provided by the state’s Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, via his Instagram page, @profakinabayomi, on Monday. He...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu LESS THAN a decade ago, the detention centre of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Scheveningen on the outskirts of The Hague could easily have been mistaken for a committee meeting of leaders of the African Union. One of its long-term guests was Laurent Gbagbo, a former president of Côte d’Ivoire. […]
By Martins Oloja AFTER WATCHING all the shenanigans, peccadillos, frills and thrills of the strange Democracy Day June 12, 2024, last week, I had wanted to write on the inconclusive list of ‘Heroes of Democracy” President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s historians drew up and made public on May 29, 2024. I wanted to deconstruct the list, […]
