By JKNewsMedia PRESTIGE AND tradition will converge at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) as its Department of Chemical Engineering commemorates 55 years of academic and developmental impact on Saturday, June 28, 2025. The celebration will feature the launch of a commemorative book and the formal unveiling of a five-billion-naira endowment fund...
By Rosheedat Akinkunle, JKNewsMedia Reporter SMOKE AND screams filled the air as a powerful bomb exploded inside a church in central Damascus, leaving at least 20 people dead and 52 wounded in Syria’s first major suicide attack since the fall of the Assad regime. The attack targeted the Saint Elias church in the Dwelaa district […]
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent A NATIONWIDE mechanisation rollout took centre stage on Monday as 2,000 tractors were officially commissioned under Nigeria’s Renewed Hope Agricultural Mechanisation Programme. Held at the National Agricultural Seeds Council, Sheda, along the Abuja–Lokoja Expressway, the launch signalled the fe...
By JKNewsMedia THE FEDERAL Government has scheduled October 7 for the arraignment of Adewunmi Ogunsanya, Chairman of MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, and John Ugbe, the company’s Managing Director/CEO, over allegations of violating the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act, 2018. The date was set by Justice James Omotosho following an a...
By John Igbinovia Dear Ose, I READ, with consternation, your pathetic attempt to defend your dad, “Mr. Fix-It” (sorry, Chief Tony Anenih), in your rather insolent rejoinder to Mr. Bayo Onanuga’s passing reference to the original author of “No Vacancy in Aso Rock”. A truly sensible boy would have avoided getting involved in such sensitive [&hel...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent THE PRESIDENCY has firmly dismissed claims that President Bola Tinubu supported the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election. Countering allegations by former Jigawa State Governor Alhaji Sule Lamido, the Presidency described the claims as false, revisionist, and a deliberate disto...
By Owei Lakemfa I WAS in Ndjamena, Chad in 2014 as the then Secretary General of the African Workers, to meet the labour leaders in that country. There was a major barracks on the road opposite the hotel I stayed. Newly arrived soldiers poured from the barracks towards the hotel. They were Chadian troops that […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE “ANY INSURGENCY that lasts more than 24 hours, a government official has a hand in it” – the vile dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha. “Finally, Mr. President has moved out of his comfort zone in the Presidential villa…” “That is not true! The president has moved on a countless number of occasions from […]
By Laila St.Matthew-Daniel “A Leadership Imperative for Women Navigating Midlife and Mission” I ONCE led a team through a high-stakes transition while silently battling burnout. I was the steady voice in the boardroom, the go-to mentor, the fixer. But behind closed doors, I was running on fumes—surviving on my cups of coffee and pu...
By JKNewsMedia SHAREHOLDERS OF Nigeria’s leading engineering and construction giant, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, rallied in resounding support of their new leadership team during the company’s 55th Annual General Meeting held at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja. The gathering marked the first AGM presided over by Board Chairman, Engr. Gon...
