By Joke Kujenya DENTAL CARIES, also known as tooth decay, has emerged as the most widespread noncommunicable disease globally, affecting an estimated 2.5 billion people and continuing to place a heavy burden on health systems. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the disease, though preventable, persists across all age groups and...
By Bola BOLAWOLE (Published in TREASURES column on the back page of the New Telegraph newspaper edition of Wednesday, 20 August, 2025). I DID not work at Concord newspapers where Dr. Doyin Abiola held sway during her stellar journalism career; I never even met her in person. If you have to meet a person before […]
By Rosheedat Akinkunle, JKNewsMedia Reporter CALLS FOR deeper collaboration between Ogun State and Chinese investors dominated discussions during the visit of Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Yu Dunhai, to Governor Dapo Abiodun in Abeokuta. Governor Abiodun told his guest that the state holds vast opportunities for investment, describing Ogun a...
By Owei Lakemfa THE NIGERIAN-born, American Director General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, visited her old country on August 14, 2025. A consummate politician, she told the Bola Tinubu administration what it loves to hear: that it is doing quite well. She told the suffering population what they know: that they [...
By Joke Kujenya NIGERIA’S PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has arrived in Tokyo for the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9), which will take place from August 20 to 22 in Yokohama. The Presidential aircraft landed at the Presidential Wing of Haneda International Airport, Tokyo, at 00:50 am local time on Tuesday, wh...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent COUNTRYWIDE CONTINUOS voter registration began with online pre-registration on Monday 18 August 2025, recording 69,376 entries within the first seven hours. According to figures released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the portal went live at 8.30am and by 3.30pm the sa...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter Federal retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) are set to receive a N32,000 monthly pension increase following the approval of a N758 billion bond by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to settle all outstanding pension liabilities. The bond was approved to ensure that pensioners benefit from the ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent SEVERE AID cuts by the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) are taking a heavy toll on millions of Nigerians, disrupting health services, nutrition programmes, and humanitarian support across the country. Donor-funded clinics are shutting down, maternal health services are stalling, a...
By CenturyPost ABOUT N2.354 billion in pay cheques, comprising the monthly salaries of the 109 senators and the cost of running their offices, is enough to pay monthly wages of 4,708 professors at universities across the country. Debates have continued over the perceived imbalance in the remunerations of political office holders and academics,...
By Faith Obams, JKNewsMedia Intern COMMITMENT TO clean and sustainable energy solutions across Africa took centre stage on Monday as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu commissioned a 40,000 cubic metres (CBM) Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) vessel in Ulsan, South Korea. The vessel, named MT Iyaloja (Lagos), is owned by WAGL Energy Limited, a joint ven...
