By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NIGERIAN LAW School students abducted on July 26 while travelling to the Yola campus have regained their freedom, according to the Benue State Command of the Nigeria Police Force. Five students, identified as Rev. Ernest Okafor, Ogbuka Fabian, Nwamma Philip, Okechukwu Obadiegwu, and Obalem Emma...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu has urged young Nigerians in the digital media space to transform their platforms into instruments of national development, fostering unity, creating jobs, and curbing misinformation. Addressing participants at the Progressives Digital Media Summit on Friday, the President...
By Owei Lakemfa HISTORY WAS made. It was the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent. Benin Republic chose this Day of Saturday July 26, 2025 to implement its new nationality initiative for diaspora and Black individuals. The law, passed on September 2, 2024, grants Beninese citizenship to descendants of African...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NURSES ON strike under the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) – Federal Health Institutions Sector have declared they will not return to work until the Federal Government addresses key parts of their demands, despite ongoing negotiations. The union’s National Chai...
By JKNewsMedia THE 19 NORTHERN states have reduced their domestic debt stock by 42.06 per cent, falling from ₦1.98 trillion to ₦1.14 trillion, according to the Federal Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning. The decline was attributed to the economic reforms implemented by the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This was disclose...
By JKNewsMedia RENEWED EMPHASIS on professional capacity building and strategic collaboration defined the 4th Investiture and Patron Conferment Ceremony of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Fidelity Bank Chapter, where Mr. Audifax Onuoha was formally inaugurated as Chairman. Held at Fidelity Place, the bank’s head offi...
By JKNewsMedia STRONG REVENUE growth and operational efficiency have propelled Sterling Financial Holdings Company Plc to a 157% year-on-year rise in profit-after-tax, as disclosed in its unaudited financial results for the half-year ended 30 June 2025. According to the Group, profit-after-tax climbed to ₦41.78 billion from ₦16.26 billion rec...
By Olukorede Yishau THIS YEAR’s the Nigeria Prize for Literature longlist showcases a diverse range of narratives. In some of them, ghosts and otherworldly figures are characters. Two of the eleven authors on the list are past winners. Chika Unigwe won the prize in 2012 and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim won it in 2016. Of the […]
By Joke Kujenya A CONTINENT-wide study has uncovered alarming rates of drug resistance in common infections across 14 African countries, exposing critical weaknesses in laboratory capacity, data systems, and health infrastructure. Researchers analysed over 187,000 lab results collected between 2016 and 2019 from 205 laboratories in countries ...
By Reuben Abati NIGERIA’s SENIOR female soccer team, the Super Falcons are the Queens of Africa given their superlative, dominant and creative performance, their resilience, and agility at the just concluded Women’s African Cup of Nations (WAFCON) organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Morocco, July 5–26. Since the incept...
