She set out to collect the certificate that would seal her academic journey. Instead, Temitope Akinwale, then 25, now 33, found herself fighting for survival in a swampy forest, blindfolded, terrified, and praying through four days of captivity, as she recounts her traumatising ordeal to JKNewsMedia Reporter, HELEN OKECHUKWU. FAINT TRACES of ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent REDEPLOYMENT OF police officers previously assigned to protect Nigeria’s supposed Very Important Personalities has commenced after being recalled to their bases and reassigned to routine community policing duties, as the presidency moves to bolster police presence in underserved areas. The dire...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent SECURITY EFFORTS surrounding the release of 38 abducted church worshippers in Kwara State have come under clearer focus after the presidency confirmed that a non-kinetic strategy guided the operation. The disclosure followed several days of silence from government and military channels on how t...
By Abdulhakeem Garba, ChannelsTV The latest attack comes about two weeks after gunmen struck a church, kidnapping 38 members, while others reportedly died during the assault. BANDITS HAVE struck the Isapa community of Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, abducting 11 residents, again. ChannelsTV reports that the gunmen, numbering more...
By JKNewsMedia Reporter TRAILBLAZING WOMEN converged at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, on Friday, 21 November, as the inaugural Sisters’ Hangout, convened by Ms. Ify Onyegbule, Director General of Imo Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), Owerri, officially launched. The event attracted professionals, entrepreneurs, executives, and creatives from diver...
By Joyce Eyaba, JKNewsMedia Reporter CLOSED-DOOR deliberations in Ibadan signalled a decisive shift in the security stance of the South-West Governors’ Forum (S-WGF) on Monday, as leaders of the six states jointly declared that the establishment of state police “can no longer be delayed” and unveiled a new framework for regional security coor...
TERRORISM AND Insurgency have ravaged Nigeria since 2009 when Boko Haram turned violent after its establishment in 2002 by the Late Mohammed Yusuf. Churches have been viciously attacked and many Christians killed in the Northern and North-Central parts of the country almost on a daily basis. Tens of thousands of Nigerians have been killed with...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent WASHINGTON, DC witnessed crucial discussions last week as a high-level Nigerian delegation secured renewed commitments from the United States to strengthen bilateral security cooperation. The engagements, which spanned senior offices across the United States (US) Congress, the White House Faith...
By Joyce Eyaba, JKNewsMedia Reporter STRONG FINANCIAL financial performance marked the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited’s latest full-year results, with the company reporting a Profit After Tax of N5.4 trillion on revenue of N45.1 trillion for 2024. The figures, presented during an earnings call with analysts, were descri...
Joke Kujenya JOYCE EYABA, 39, lives in a small rural town in Potiskum, Yobe State, in the northeastern part of Nigeria. For years, sharing with jknewsmedia.com, she said she has endured repeated physical and emotional abuse from her husband, which often left her with bruises hidden under long sleeves and silent nights spent worrying about [&h...
