By Juliana Francis, Securitynewsalert.com MS. ENE Oshaba, an investigative journalist with Blueprint Newspaper, has become a reporter to watch, earning admiration not only for her fearless fieldwork but also for doing so while caring for her nursing baby. Driven by her strong advocacy for exclusive breastfeeding, Oshaba often takes her baby al...
By Chief Okoi Obono-Obla A novel case has been filed by Nigerian lawyer Festus Ogun in Lagos State against the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, because the Governor blocked him on his X (formerly Twitter) account. Ogun contends that this action violates his fundamental rights. While it is legally possible for a private individual ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent CALLS FOR increased investment in integrated health services to address the growing burden of severe noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) echoed across the 75th session of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa, where ministers of health and partners gathered to discuss ur...
By Tanimu Yakubu, DG, Budget Office of the Federation. The Lagos Illusion The viral chart bundles together national infrastructure—federal highways, coastal transport corridors, and legacy roads—and labels them “Lagos-only projects.” By that logic, the Kano–Maiduguri expressway could be called a “Maiduguri-only project.” It is a sleight of han...
By Sodiq Opeyemi Adelakun, franktalknow.com NIGERIA IS turning to artificial intelligence as a cornerstone of President Bola Tinubu’s plan to transform the country into a $1tn economy by 2030. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, said the government’s approach blends national strategy, research partnerships and hom...
By Tanimu Yakubu When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration dismantled Nigeria’s rigid foreign exchange regime in 2024, critics were quick to call it a currency collapse. The naira plunged to ₦1,800 per dollar in March 2024, and headlines screamed of economic freefall. But beneath the noise, a deliberate, high-risk economic recalibratio...
By JKNewsMedia COMPLETION OF merger has been announced between the Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN) and Titan Trust Bank (TTB) Limited, following final approval from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The milestone, according to a statement, concludes a process that began with the signing of a Share Sale Agreement in 2021. Under the terms [&hellip...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent A SEVENTY-five-old man, Uchelue Ikechukwu, was among six suspects arrested with illicit drugs in Anambra State as the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) intensified nationwide operations that also led to the destruction of 178,750 kilograms of cannabis on a 71.5-hectare farm in Taraba...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu SEVEN YEARS ago, in 2018, my good friend and former Dean of Law at the University of Ghana at Legon, Professor Raymond Atuguba, undertook a path-breaking study which sought “to move away from the perception that Justices of the Supreme Court dispense justice impartially under a constitutional democracy and reflect on ...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Published in the ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper edition of Sunday, 31 August, 2025). “DOES IT then mean that the PDP is out of the woods? Not really! Party leaders still have to contend with the problem of how to reintegrate Wike into the party or effectively […]
