By JKNewsMedia THE RISING cost of living, economic uncertainties, and inflationary pressures have spurred the Lagos State Government to intensify efforts toward tangible developmental projects across critical sectors in 2025. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to improving transportation, energy, agricu...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter BASIC EDUCATION curriculum in Nigeria has undergone a major overhaul, aimed at equipping students with practical and employable skills to address the country’s economic needs. The Federal Government has introduced 15 new trades into the curriculum, which will be implemented in January 2025. This ini...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA GRAPPLES with growing regional challenges, including youth unemployment, poverty, and insurgency, as President Bola Tinubu calls for a united response across West African states. During his participation as a special guest of honour at Ghana’s recent presidential swearing-in ceremony, Tinubu ...
AT PEAK of the campaign in 2013 to package an amnesty programme for Boko Haram terrorists who were wreaking havoc in the northeast and enormous pressure was brought on then President Goodluck Jonathan, Hajia Turai Yar’Adua, widow of late President Umaru Yar’Adua, pleaded that a general amnesty be granted to the Boko Haram terror group. [...
By Bola BOLAWOLE HOW MANY people know the difference between another year and a new year? When, on the eve of a new year we shout: “Happy New Year!”, how many have an understanding whether the new year they are ushering in will be just “another” year or they actually want it to be a […]
By Joke Kujenya TUEDAY’S SUCCESSFUL democratic transition in Ghana has reinforced West Africa’s potential for democratic and productive governance, according to Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu. Speaking during the inauguration of Ghana’s new President, John Dramani Mahama, in Accra, Tinubu reaffirmed the stronger need for regional...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter VIOLATIONS OF Nigerian labelling regulations has led to the sealing of a popular supermarket in Wuse 2, Abuja. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) discovered that over 90% of the products sold at the store were labelled in Chinese, lacking the required English t...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter OVER 1,000 employees left the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in December through its voluntary Early Exit Programme (EEP). The development prompted the House of Representatives to summon the CBN management to clarify why so many workers left and how the N50 billion severance package was arrived at. C...
By Folu Olamiti FNGE A LOT has been said and written about the late elder statesman Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, popularly known as LKJ, who passed on to the world beyond and was laid to rest recently. He was a man of many parts that no single individual comment or testimony can exhaustively cover. Though […]
PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu has approved $20,000 foreign medical treatment, bullet-proof SUVs and cooks, among other benefits, as a retirement package for service chiefs and generals, which the Nigerian Medical Association, the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, and the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors faulted, The PUNCH ...
