By JKNewsMedia FACT-BASED journalism received a renewed defence as the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) joined the international community in marking World News Day, observed globally on 28 September to highlight the central role of accurate reporting in society. In a statement signed by President Eze Anaba and General Secretary Onuohe Ukeh, t...
John Ofem, JKNewsMedia Reporter PERSISTENT FLUCTUATIONS in the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), popularly known as cooking gas, are intensifying economic pressure on households across Nigeria. Families already burdened by rising food costs and inflation are now contending with soaring domestic energy prices that continue to vary sharpl...
By JKNewsMedia RECOGNITION OF exceptional achievement marked a historic moment as Olu Adetutu, Certified Life Coach and Chief Executive Officer of Olumination Enterprises, Tampa, Florida, United States (US), emerged the winner of the 2025 Most Outstanding African and Black Transformational Speaker in the World Award. She received an overwhelm...
By Premium Times THE GHANAIN government has announced that the United States has lifted the visa restrictions it had earlier imposed on Ghana. This comes a few weeks after Ghana accepted US deportees from Nigeria and other West African countries. In a post on X on Friday, the country’s Foreign Minister, Samuel Ablakwa, announced that […...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent FIRM GROWTH in revenue has been declared by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, with figures for August 2025 reaching N4.655 trillion, compared to N4.406 trillion recorded in July. The company’s Monthly Report Summary for August, released on Friday, showed that Profit After ...
By Oluwatobi Ojabello, BusinessDay FOR DECADES, every Nigerian administration has promised to “diversify the economy.” Yet crude oil, which accounts for less than 10 percent of GDP, has continued to provide the bulk of export earnings and fiscal revenues, leaving the country exposed to global oil cycles, fiscal crises, and foreign exchange sh...
By JKNewsMedia SUSPENSION OF Premium Motor Spirit transactions in naira by Dangote Refinery has set the stage for a nationwide increase in petrol pump prices, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) confirmed on Friday. National President of IPMAN, Alhaji Abubakar Maigandi, disclosed that members of the association ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent FAILURE TO curb persistent gas flaring has become the subject of a legal battle at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice (CCJ), where the Federal Republic of Nigeria now faces a suit alleging violations of international human rights and environmental treaties. The case, filed on 22 September 20...
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...
