By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter LAGOS STATE Government has directed residents in parts of Lekki, Ikorodu, and Ajegunle to move from lowland areas to higher ground to avoid the dangers of flooding. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, listed Ajilet...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has recorded a series of high-profile convictions and asset forfeitures in its ongoing campaign against illicit drug trafficking across Nigeria. In Lagos, businessman Ajah Johnson Uchenna and his wife, Rosemary Uchenna, were sentenced on Monday, ...
By Temitope Adelakun, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE NIGERIA Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has suspended the licences of two ValueJet pilots following what it described as a serious breach of aviation safety protocols at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Tuesday, 5 August 2025. In a statement issued on Wednesday by NCAA’s Direct...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu has, on Wednesday, signed into law the Nigerian Insurance Industry Reform Act (NIIRA) 2025, creating a consolidated framework to regulate and supervise all insurance and reinsurance businesses in the country. The new legislation repeals several outdated statutes, replacing...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PARENT COMPANY, Meta, has announced that its messaging platform, WhatsApp, has banned more than 6.8 million accounts linked to criminal scam activities targeting users worldwide in the first half of 2025. The action follows investigations into scam centres run by organised groups in South-East ...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter PRESIDENT Tinubu has approved the disbursement of N4,249,626,817.69 to fund 158 research projects under the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) National Research Fund 2024 Grant Cycle. The allocation follows recommendations from the TETFund National Research Fund Screening and Monitoring Committee (...
By Bola BOLAWOLE (PUBLISHED IN MY “TREASURES” COLUMN ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE WEDNESDAY, 6 AUGUST, 2025 EDITION OF THE NEW TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER). “A fruit, as they say, does not fall far from its tree. And when we develop the habit, and savour the taste, of throwing ourselves into a fray, we run the […]
By Joke Kujenya DR. DOYIN Abiola, Nigeria’s first female Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of a national daily newspaper, National Concord, has died at the age of 82. Messages shared among former colleagues on The Great Concord Family WhatsApp platform by Dr. Tunji Bello, confirmed she passed away at exactly 9:15pm on Tuesday after a bri...
By Reuben Abati In less than two weeks, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration has been twice lucky with female sports. The Super Falcons won the Women African Football Cup of Nations (WAFCON) title for a record 10th time in Morocco on July 25. While the country was still trying to fully digest the euphoria of […]
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent THE NATIONAL Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized 16 containers of substandard and falsified products valued at N20.5 billion, imported through Onne Port, Port Harcourt. The consignment, delivered to the agency on Saturday by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) ...
