By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIAN’s STRUGGLING primary healthcare system is set to receive a critical boost. Orodata Science and Africa Data Hub (ADH) have announced the second phase of their ambitious data collection initiative. This project, focused on over 1,000 additional Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) across 10 state...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter GHANA’s 2024 presidential election has concluded with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, John Mahama, declared president-elect. The Electoral Commission (EC) announced that Mahama secured over 50% of the votes, defeating the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate, Mahamadu Bawumia, by a s...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter A 28.2% decline in Nigeria’s company income tax (CIT) revenue marked the third quarter of 2024, with total collections dropping to N1.77 trillion from N2.47 trillion in the preceding quarter, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The CIT, levied on profits of both local and foreign co...
By Femi Kusa WHO AMONG us who can read or write or, if unable to, is capable of deep thinking who never had a teacher? We all had,and still have, fabulous teachers. I remember ALHAJI BABATUNDE JOSE, chairman and Managing Director of the powerful DAILY TIMES group of newspapers in the 1970s warning my 1972 […]
By Helen Okechukwu, JKNewsMedia Reporter In a setting brimming with seasoned journalists, eager students, and advocates for gender equity, a profound conversation unfolded about the pervasive issue of gender-based violence and misogyny in Nigeria. Misogyny, in a layman’s language, is a deep dislike, prejudice, or unfair treatment toward ...
By JKNewsMedia IT WAS a life-changing moment for Lagos contractor Ayobami Adejumobi who celebrated on Thursday as he received the keys to a brand-new Toyota Prado in Globacom’s ongoing Festival of Joy promotion. The event, held at Gloworld on Adeola Odeku, Victoria Island, Lagos, also saw several other Nigerians walk away with prizes including...
By Pius Mordi THAT NIGERIA has shut down her four refineries by willfully neglecting the rehabilitation while preferring to import refined products for more than 20 years is known to all. That every administration routinely pledges to end the hemorrhaging of public funds by failing to rehabilitate the refineries by perpetrating the fraud in th...
By Gloria Ogine, JKNewsMedia Reporter Inadequate funding and poor working conditions hinder the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) from fully delivering on its mandate to ensure public officers’ accountability and discipline. Members of the CCB, led by Chairman Dr Abdullahi Bello, raised these concerns during a visit to the Senate on Thursday....
By JKNewsMedia THE SENIOR Special Assistant to Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori on Media, Mr. Nelson Egware, has been inducted as a Distinguished Fellow into the Nigerian Institute of Social Media Analysts (NISMA). The ceremony, which took place at the Nigeria Police School of Public Relations in Abuja, recognised Egware’s significant c...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA’s PRESIDENT, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has congratulated Ghana’s President-elect, John Dramani Mahama, on his victory in the December 7 general elections. Tinubu, who is the current Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), expressed confidence that Mahama’s sec...
