By Joke Kujenya CONTROVERSY OVER result transmission framed the final stretch of deliberations as President Bola Tinubu signed the Electoral Act, 2022 Repeal and Re Enactment Bill 2026 into law. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the signing followed passage of the bill by the National Assembly (NASS) on Tuesday after months of deliberations. The...
By Bola BOLAWOLE If I am to tell, I will say that Nigeria’s problems revolve around her sacred cows. Each and everyone of this country’s problems – be it corruption, insecurity, bad governance, infrastructure deficit, rigged elections, name it – they all revolve around and are traceable to sacred cows. If only we can find [&helli...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NIGERIA’s HEADLINE inflation rate eased to 15.1 percent in January 2026 from 15.15 percent in December 2025, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday. “The January 2026 Headline inflation rate showed a decrease of 0.05% compared to the December 2025 Headline inflation rate,” the N...
By Joke Kujenya MORNING ROUTINES rarely travel beyond the kitchen. A banana is peeled, eaten, and the day moves on. Yet on farms thousands of miles away, the plant that produced that fruit leaves behind a thick, water-heavy trunk, the pseudostem, that may soon reappear as part of a T-shirt, a notebook or even a […]
By JKNewsMedia Reporter STRATEGIC COOPERATION between Nigeria’s BUA Group and United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based AD Ports Group and MAIR Group has drawn commendation from President Bola Tinubu following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Abu Dhabi. JKNewsMedia.com reports that President Tinubu described the MoU as a significa...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent CAPTIVITY REMAINS for about 176 women and children taken during the February 3 attack on Woro and Nuku communities in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State. JKNewsMedia.com reports that footage circulating on social media showed the abductees being paraded by their kidnappers. In the vide...
By Joke Kujenya UNITED STATES (US) military aircraft have landed in northeastern Nigeria, delivering ammunition and logistics to support the country’s fight against insurgency. JKNewsMedia.com reports that senior officers at Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters disclosed that no fewer than three US military aircraft touched down between Thursday an...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent FRESH DEVASTATION struck Kano’s Singer Market over the weekend as a fire outbreak destroyed sections of the food market, prompting President Bola Tinubu to commiserate with traders and the people of Kano State. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the fire started on Saturday evening and raged into Sun...
By Eniola Olatunji reporting for Patmos Media Line NIGERIA’s STAR boy Heavy Weight Boxing Contender nick named “African Nightmare”, Efe Ajagbe because of his rare hard punches on Monday morning Nigerian time in Las Vegas, America knocked out former International Boxing Federation Heavy weight champion, Charles Martin in the 4th round. 31-year...
By Owei Lakemfa THE INAUGURAL lecture of Professor Wole Soyinka in the 1980/81 period at the then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, was expectedly explosive. Its title, “The Critic and society: Bathes, Leftocracy and Other Mythologies”, left no one in doubt that this was an ideological offensive. It was the famous...
