By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent WIDESPREAD RAINFALL and thunderstorms are forecast to persist across Nigeria through Wednesday, with the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (Nimet) warning of possible flash floods in several regions and advising heightened vigilance from residents and emergency responders. The agency’s weath...
By JKNewsMedia COMMITMENT TO safer roads remains the central focus as the Federal Road Safety Corps reaffirmed its long-standing partnership with Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, applauding the company’s exceptional engineering standards and consistent support for national traffic safety initiatives. During a courtesy visit to the company’s Abuja of...
By Owei Lakemfa GOVERNOR MOHAMMED Umar Bago, the 51-year-old Governor of Niger State who wears mullah-like beards, is once again trending in the country. He is the star boy of a state gone rogue. On August 2, 2025, even the Federal Government which, as usual, is into its own tantrums in seeking to override the […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Published in my ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper edition of Sunday, August 3, 2025). LAST WEEK, I printed here one of the two write-ups on President Muhammadu Buhari that I said aligned with my own views on the late president’s place in history. Today I bring you […]
By Joke Kujenya THE NATIONWIDE strike by the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has been suspended following formal commitments by the Federal Government to address the union’s nine-point demands. Four days into the planned seven-day warning strike, the national executive council of the association convened an emerge...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NIGERIA’s ELECTORAL commission has announced it has formally opened the process for its 2025 Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise, urging all eligible citizens to engage actively ahead of the 2027 general elections. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the roll...
By Joke Kujenya DEPLOYMENT ORDERS for two United States (U.S.) nuclear submarines have been issued by President Donald Trump in response to increasingly hostile exchanges with Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev. He remarked that the move signals a stark escalation in nuclear posturing as diplomatic tensions deepen over the war in Ukrai...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent EXTENSIVE MODERNISATION and safety upgrades are set to be implemented at key airports across Nigeria following Federal Executive Council (FEC)’s approval of contracts valued at N987billion. The announcement came after Thursday’s council meeting at the State House in Abuja, where the Minis...
By Juliana Davies, JKNewsMedia Intern THE NIGERIA Immigration Service (NIS) has urged Nigerians travelling to the United States to strictly adhere to the conditions of their visas or risk facing removal, visa revocation, or long-term travel ineligibility. Raising concern over what it described as increasing misuse of American visas by Nigerian...
By JKNewsMedia PROLONGED VISA processing delays have left more than 300 Nigerian students unable to begin their studies in the United States, despite securing admission into various American universities and attending embassy interviews weeks ago. Members of a WhatsApp group comprising 301 affected students raised alarm over what they describ...
