By JKNewsMedia Reporter GROWING EVIDENCE of diet-linked illnesses propelled fresh demands for a stronger sugar-sweetened beverage tax during a Senate public hearing, where health officials, civil society groups and public-health advocates urged lawmakers to abandon the fixed N10-per-litre duty and adopt a percentage-based system tied to retai...
By Olukorede Yishau SHE WAS only fifteen. Her best friend was Moniba, and she had imagined many more years of easy companionship with this special being she could talk to from morning till night without ever feeling bored. But this friendship, and indeed their future, came under a grave threat. The Taliban had invaded their […]
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NIGERIA’s FEDERAL Government on Thursday confirmed that former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had finally left Guinea-Bissau safely after being trapped in the country when military officers launched a coup, closed its borders, and plunged the nation into uncertainty, raising global concern f...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent FORMER NIGERIAN President Goodluck Jonathan has been escorted from Guinea-Bissau by military personnel as political instability deepened following a contested presidential election. Jonathan was in the country as part of a joint election observer mission deployed by the African Union (AU), ECOW...
By JKNewsMedia Reporter THE NIGERIAN National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Renaissance Joint Venture (JV) has contributed $300,000 to the National Hospital, Abuja, to fund maintenance of its Linear Accelerator (LINAC) Radiotherapy Machine. The funding targets operational upkeep of the hospital’s cancer treatment facility, ensuring con...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent CONFUSION DEEPENED across Guinea-Bissau as the country’s military shut down the presidential election process and blocked all exit routes, leaving former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and dozens of African observers unable to leave. The disruption unfolded mid-week after senior military ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent ESCALATING TENSION linked to kidnappers and armed groups prompted a decisive move in Abuja as lawmakers adopted a resolution that classifies kidnapping and banditry as acts of terrorism and endorses the death penalty as the maximum punishment. The Senate reached this position after voicing conc...
By Joyce Eyaba, JKNewsMedia Reporter REGIONAL SECURITY plans moved forward as southern leaders adopted new measures outlined in a communiqué issued at the end of a joint meeting between the Southern Governors’ Forum and the Southern Nigeria Traditional Rulers’ Council. The meeting took place in Iperu, Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun Stat...
By Bola BOLAWOLE OUR CROSSING of paths left an indelible mark when Banji Adekunle and his bosom friend, Taiye Oladapo, were both undergraduates at the University of Ibadan (UI) and I was serving my one-year mandatory NYSC national service at the same university after graduating from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-...
By Kunle Oyatomi NIGERIA IS with sad and disturbing tales. No thanks to eight years of lackadaisical approach to insecurity under the Buhari administration. For eight years, Nigeria’s security architecture, which had weakened under the Goodluck Jonathan administration, completely collapsed under the late President Muhammadu Buhari. Across the...
