By Owei Lakemfa THREE EVENTS made Monday, June 16, 2025, a sobering moment for me. On that day, back in 1976, news filtered that the killer Apartheid security forces which had been terrorising African countries like Zambia, Botswana and Lesotho, had turned on unarmed school children in South Africa. The Nigerian society was so conscious [&hell...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter KADUNA’s transformation from a conflict-prone region to a model of stability and development came into sharp focus on Thursday as President Bola Tinubu celebrated the state on his X handle. The President, commissioning major infrastructure projects and endorsing Governor Uba Sani’s performance as a ...
By Daanish Anand The government issued a clarification after reports that the Boeing Dreamliner’s black boxes were being sent to the US for analysis. NEW DELHI: The Union civil aviation ministry on Thursday said the probe into the Air India AI -171 crash, is progressing steadily in India, with the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau ...
By JKNewsMedia NIGERIA’s SUBSCRIBERS stand a chance to win premium gadgets and cashback rewards as PalmPay partners with Globacom to launch the second edition of the “Recharge and Win Bonanza.” Running from June 19 to August 8, 2025, the nationwide campaign incentivises users who purchase Glo airtime or data via the PalmPay ...
By Joke Kujenya SILENT AND often swift, drowning strikes without warning, leaving behind a trail of anguish and irreversible loss. Each year, around 300,000 people die from drowning globally, with low and middle-income countries like Nigeria bearing the heaviest toll. This tragedy, says a December 13, 2024, report by the World Health Organisa...
By JKNewsMedia THE SENATE Committee on Public Accounts has uncovered alleged financial irregularities totalling N210 trillion in the audited statements of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), raising concerns over what lawmakers described as severe contradictions and unexplained transactions within the company’s books bet...
By Dare BABARINSA SAM AMUKA-Pemu (Sad Sam) has staying power. He has remained a prominent Nigerian for more than half-a-century. In 1967 when he was appointed the editor of the Sunday Times, he was just 32. Before then, he had been the editor of Spear magazine, also published by the Daily Times group. In 1973, […]
By JKNewsMedia CONFIRMATION OF full compliance with the country’s new banking capital requirement emerged as Access Bank Plc declared it had exceeded the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s N500 billion minimum thresholds, making it the first commercial bank with international authorisation to do so. Responding to the CBN’s recent directive halti...
By Sola Olaiya, JKNewsMedia Intern NIGERIA HAS proposed a strategic deal to the United States of America (US): ease sweeping visa restrictions on government officials in exchange for access to the region’s critical and rare earth minerals. Addressing regional leaders at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Mediation and Secur...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE UNITED States government has announced the resumption of visa application processing for international students, with a new requirement mandating all applicants to make their social media profiles public. In a statement released by the State Department, applicants seeking F, M, and J nonimmigran...
