By JKNewsMedia APPLICANTS WHO began but failed to complete their online registration for recruitment into Nigeria’s paramilitary services have been directed to return to the portal and finalise the process as the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) reopened its platform today, Monday, 21st July 2025. The ...
By JKNewsMedia NIGERIA’s HEALTHCARE system faces intensifying scrutiny as outrage grows over the $1.2 billion lost annually to medical tourism, a drain experts warn is crippling the economy and decimating local hospitals. The anger reached a tipping point following the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari during a medical trip to London...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent FALSE REPORTS claiming the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) had been cancelled have been firmly debunked by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Nigeria, as the body moves to release candidates’ results by Thursday, August 4. The widely circulated hoax, ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent A SEVEN-year manhunt has ended with the arrest of 60-year-old drug baron Okpara Paul Chigozie as Nigeria’s anti-narcotics agency intensified its crackdown on syndicates smuggling hard drugs across the country and abroad. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives stormed his hi...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent DIGITAL-ERA journalism took focus at a hybrid seminar that drew over 500 journalists from Nigeria and abroad hosted by the Polaris Bank Limited last Thursday. Framed by the theme “Empowering Journalists in the Digital Age: Storytelling, Tools & Transformation,” the event revealed the bank’s...
By Owei Lakemfa FOUR LEADING Nigerians died within three months, each leading to one national debate or the other. Dr Victor Omololu Olunloyo, noted mathematician and former Governor of Oyo State passed away on April 14, 2025, and the nation mourned him. However, when the iconic Polytechnic, Ibadan was renamed in his honour, it ignited [&hell...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.” Article 21(3), Universal Declaration of Human […]...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Also published in my ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper edition of Sunday, 20 July, 2025). THE DEATH of three prominent Nigerians happened in quick succession, setting tongues wagging. The first was the passage of the 43rd Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin, which occurred on Monday...
By JKNewsMedia DIGITALLY EMPOWERED business growth is set to reach 100 small and medium-scale enterprises nationwide, as Fidelity Bank announces it will roll out its SME Empowerment Programme (SEP) with a free digital toolkit for entrepreneurs. The bank discloses that through its Fidelity SME Empowerment Programme (FSEP), selected growth-read...
By JKNewsMedia NEARLY ONE in four employees across the Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN) has been elevated following its latest performance evaluation recorded as the highest promotion rate it has recorded in ten years. The bank in a statement notes that the promotion exercise, concluded after a rigorous annual assessment, spanned multiple departme...
