By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NIGERIANS APPLYING for standard passports within the country will from September 1, 2025, pay N100,000 for a 32-page booklet with five-year validity and N200,000 for a 64-page booklet with 10-year validity, following a review announced by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS). In a statement is...
By JKNewsMedia FACILITY MANAGEMENT professionals from across Africa converged in Lagos last week for the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Global Africa Conference, where Julius Berger Nigeria (JBN) Plc featured prominently as both sponsor and key contributor, reaffirming its commitment to advancing Facility Management (FM)...
By JKNewsMedia TRADE AND business leaders will convene at the Fidelity Nigeria International Trade & Creative Connect (FNITCC) to outline a roadmap aimed at strengthening Africa’s presence in global markets, the organisers have confirmed. The session, themed “Laying the Tracks: Strengthening the Institutional Infrastructure for Africa’s T...
By Olukorede Yishau TERRORISM IN Nigeria did not begin yesterday or even the day before. Its roots run deeper, dating back to the early 2000s when Boko Haram emerged in the country’s Northeast. What began as a small, fringe sect railing against Western education and government institutions soon mutated into a hydra-headed monster that has [&...
By Faith Obams, JKNewsMedia Intern EFFORTS TO sanitise Lagos State’s transport system received a new push as frontline journalist and publisher of August24news.com, Mr Ajagbe Adeyemi Teslim, unveiled a competition to honour outstanding commercial bus drivers and conductors. The initiative, designed to reward excellence and discourage miscondu...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NEW RULES from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) mandate the geo-tagging of every Point of Sale (PoS) terminal in the country within 60 days, with precise GPS coordinates recorded for each active device. In a circular dated 25 August 2025, the regulator directed payment service providers and ba...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu has departed Brasília, Brazil, for Abuja after concluding a high-level state visit focused on strengthening bilateral cooperation between Nigeria and Brazil. The presidential jet departed from Brasília International Airport Air Force Base at about 12:57 p.m. local time on ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent KAYODE OLAIFA, Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), has taken full responsibility for Tuesday’s derailment of an Abuja-Kaduna passenger train near Asham station in Kaduna State. The incident, which occurred shortly after the train departed Abuja at about 11.00am, left si...
By Joke Kujenya OUR CALF muscles have been described as our body’s “second heart” according to a public health advisory issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO) highlighting their essential role in keeping blood circulating effectively. The statement explained that every movement of the lower legs, whether walking, climbing stairs or stan...
By The Punch NO FEWER than 239 first-class graduates of the University of Lagos, employed as lecturers, left the institution within seven years. Immediate past Vice-Chancellor of UNILAG, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, disclosed this on Tuesday while speaking as guest lecturer at The PUNCH Forum, themed: “Innovative Funding of Functional Education...
