By Eniola Olatunji reporting for Patmos Media Line NIGERIA’s 18-YEAR-old football brat, Usman Oyelade on Tuesday 19th May 2026 had a standout night at the FVC International Football Academy year-end function, carting home 3 awards: 1. Highest Goal Scorer – Improved from 19 goals last season to 21 goals this season 2. Players’ Player Aw...
By Emeka Monye A LOT of politicians are still misreading Nigeria. That’s especially true of the new entrants to the country’s political circus, the ones who mistake money for momentum and assume that deep pockets can buy power, influence, and the right to decide who gets what, when, and how. Nigerian politics doesn’t work like […]...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter MORE THAN 20 Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters have been killed in multiple United States (US)-Nigeria air strikes in Metele, Borno state, the Nigeria Defence Headquarters (NDH) has said. JKNewsMedia.com reports that Samaila Uba, Director of De...
By Joke Kujenya A business built on hope, algorithms and endless labour … EVERY MORNING, thousands of online publishers wake up and begin the same routine all over again, keeping their hopes alive that things might eventually click. They search for stories, verify facts, edit headlines, upload reports, resize images, fix website proble...
By Jemima Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent COMPULSORY DRUG testing for secondary school students has been introduced by the Federal Government as part of efforts to curb rising cases of drug and substance abuse among adolescents across Nigeria. JKNewsMedia.com reports that under the new National Implementation Guidelines Against Drug and...
By Bamidele Johnson NOT LONG before the now-departed Jose Peseiro was hired as technical adviser to the Super Eagles, I found myself listening to one of those radio stations where everybody is committed to sounding like they schooled at Eton. I was driving, which was my first mistake. The second was leaving the radio on. […]
By JKNewsMedia RAGING ISSUES over the growing push towards water privatisation in Africa and the exclusion of affected communities from the implementation of the Africa Water Vision 2063 have been raised by the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition (OWORAC), which warned that such an approach could weaken public accountability and threaten acc...
By Tunde Rahman THE RACE to the presidency in 2027 is getting more exciting. Last Thursday, May 14, 2026, at the ancient Mapo Hall in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, Governor Seyi Makinde formally threw his hat into the ring and organised a spectacle that could only have been funded by Oyo State taxpayers’ money. […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Published in the ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune edition of Sunday, 17 May, 2026 edition). IT STILL looks like yesterday when, in 1971, the outgoing military governor of the then Western State, Brigadier Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, performed the foundation laying ceremony of the Owo General Hospital whi...
By Joke Kujenya A NEW study has shown that sleep may hold deeper clues about brain health than previously understood, as researchers report a sleep derived brain health score that can predict future cognitive performance and long-term neurological health using overnight brain activity patterns. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the approach, resea...
