By Owei Lakemfa JANUARY 8, 1959. CUBAN youths led by a 34-year-old bearded lawyer, Fidel Castro, drove in a convoy into Havana. A week earlier, the dictatorship of Batista, propped by bayonets, had collapsed. Fidel, the leader of the triumphant youths, then began his drive from his Santiago base at the head of a convoy […]
By Paul Ejime DANGOTE PETROLEUM Refinery has clarified its position on the sacking of an undisclosed number of Nigerian workers, mainly truck drivers who reportedly joined national industrial unions. “Over 3,000 Nigerians continue to work actively in our Petroleum Refinery, at present. Only a very small number of staff were affected, as...
By Faith Obams, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA’s CAMPAIGN against illicit drugs received a major boost on Friday, 26 September 2025, with the commissioning of a new state-of-the-art canine facility for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Ikeja, Lagos. The facility was built and donated by the Government of the Federal Republic of...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PREPARATIONS FOR Nigeria’s 65th Independence anniversary took shape on Friday as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu arrived in Lagos on a working visit to the former seat of government. The President’s arrival came after his attendance at the coronation of the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Ladoj...
By JKNewsMedia STEADY OPERATIONS in Ogoniland have been officially re-affirmed as President Bola Tinubu declared the re-entry a historic turning point for Nigeria, linking the development directly to his government’s Renewed Hope Agenda. Speaking during the presentation of the Ogoni Consultations Report at the State House in Abuja on Wednesda...
By JKNewsMedia SCHEDULED PASSENGER flights are set to commence at the Gateway International Airport (GWI), Ogun State, on Thursday, 7 October, after regulatory authorities cleared the new facility for operations. According to the flight schedule released by the state government, the airline will operate two flights per week on the GWI-Abuja ro...
By Olukorede Yishau The question looked simple and I answered it. Less than five minutes later, I knew that some things that appeared simple were complex. The South African Airways flight attendant on the double-deck Boeing plane had asked me: ‘Red wine or white wine.’ ‘White wine, please,’ the uninitiated me answered ...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter DIRECTIVE FOR the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to open immediate engagement with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, the Ogoni people, and other key stakeholders has been issued by President Bola Tinubu to finalise modalities for restarting oil production in Ogoniland. The ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent THE JAPAN International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has withdrawn its “Africa Hometown” initiative, following public confusion and mounting concerns within the country over the nature and interpretation of the programme. The initiative, unveiled in August at the 9th Tokyo International Conference...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent THE CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned that careless handling of the naira is raising costs and eroding public confidence in the national currency. During the launch of a nationwide sensitisation campaign in Abuja on Wednesday, the Deputy Governor, Operations Directorate, Bala Bello, caut...
