NAN Report THE ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked the federal government to fulfil the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement or face a nationwide industrial action. Chris Piwuna, ASUU president, spoke during a press conference in Abuja on Friday. Piwuna said the union was frustrated by the government’s failure to resolve nine critical iss...
By Helen Okechukwu, JKNewsMedia Profession FRESH COMMITMENT on renewable energy, trade expansion, and legal migration frameworks emerged from high-level bilateral talks in Berlin between Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, and his German counterpart, Johann Wadephul. The engagements reaffirmed a long-standing ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter SOME OF the economic reforms under President Bola Tinubu have propelled the Nigeria Customs Service to an all-time high revenue of ₦1.3 trillion in the first quarter of 2025, more than double the ₦600 billion generated in the same period two years earlier. The figure, described by officials as unpre...
By Otega Ogra and Temitope Ajayi THERE IS a particular kind of silence that greets progress in Nigeria—when food prices fall, inflation slows, the country is positively recognised, debts paid, or things begin to work. It is the kind of silence that would rather keep a good story buried than be told. But make no […]
By JKNewsMedia THE NIGERIAN National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) has announced that the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) commenced a scheduled maintenance shutdown on 24 May 2025. According to a statement issued on Sunday by Olufemi O. Soneye, Chief Corporate Communications Officer of NNPC Ltd, the maintenance exercise includes ...
By JKNewsMedia THE NIGERIAN Exchange Group (NGX) has formally dismissed allegations of insider trading levelled against Fidelity Bank’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Dr Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, following her recent acquisition of 18 million units of the bank’s shares. A regulatory letter dated 22 May 2025 confirmed that the transa...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter VANDALISM OF power infrastructure must be treated as a criminal offence, not a civil matter, Minister of Power Chief Adebayo Adelabu told lawmakers at a weekend retreat organised by the Senate Committee on Power. He urged the National Assembly to pass stricter laws to protect national electricity assets...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter COLLABORATION BETWEEN Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration is set to deepen following strategic talks aimed at enhancing joint action against substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking. At the meeting held at the NDLEA Nationa...
By Bola BOLAWOLE THE APPEAL court gave a ruling in the case of the local government chairmanship tussle between the ruling PDP government and its APC predecessor government in Osun state: You thought that settled the matter, but it was the beginning of the melee with both sides claiming that the same judgment gave them […]
EXTERNAL DEBT service surged by 49.2 percent year-on-year to $2.01 billion in the first four months of 2025, up from $1.34 billion in the same period of 2024. The data, released by the Central Bank of Nigeria, underscores the growing strain on the nation’s public finances amid persistent foreign exchange constraints and a weakened revenue [&he...
