By JKNewsMedia Reporter RECOGNITION OF contributions to journalism and public governance forms the core of the announcement as the Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) announces recipients of its 2025 Press Week Awards. This forms part of preparations for the council’s annual celebration, themed Unlocking Opportunities...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent THE 25 FEMALE students abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Maga, have regained their freedom following a strategic intervention by federal security agencies. Security sources confirmed to journalists on Tuesday that all the kidnapped students had been rescued through efforts led by ...
By JKNewsMedia Reporter UPDATE REPORTS indicate tense moments gripped a rural community near Kwara State after armed bandits attempted an evening incursion, but security volunteers swiftly confronted the threat and forced the attackers to retreat. Reports indicated that the incident triggered brief panic among residents before the local secur...
She set out to collect the certificate that would seal her academic journey. Instead, Temitope Akinwale, then 25, now 33, found herself fighting for survival in a swampy forest, blindfolded, terrified, and praying through four days of captivity, as she recounts her traumatising ordeal to JKNewsMedia Reporter, HELEN OKECHUKWU. FAINT TRACES of ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent REDEPLOYMENT OF police officers previously assigned to protect Nigeria’s supposed Very Important Personalities has commenced after being recalled to their bases and reassigned to routine community policing duties, as the presidency moves to bolster police presence in underserved areas. The dire...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent SECURITY EFFORTS surrounding the release of 38 abducted church worshippers in Kwara State have come under clearer focus after the presidency confirmed that a non-kinetic strategy guided the operation. The disclosure followed several days of silence from government and military channels on how t...
By Abdulhakeem Garba, ChannelsTV The latest attack comes about two weeks after gunmen struck a church, kidnapping 38 members, while others reportedly died during the assault. BANDITS HAVE struck the Isapa community of Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, abducting 11 residents, again. ChannelsTV reports that the gunmen, numbering more...
By JKNewsMedia Reporter TRAILBLAZING WOMEN converged at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, on Friday, 21 November, as the inaugural Sisters’ Hangout, convened by Ms. Ify Onyegbule, Director General of Imo Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), Owerri, officially launched. The event attracted professionals, entrepreneurs, executives, and creatives from diver...
By Joyce Eyaba, JKNewsMedia Reporter CLOSED-DOOR deliberations in Ibadan signalled a decisive shift in the security stance of the South-West Governors’ Forum (S-WGF) on Monday, as leaders of the six states jointly declared that the establishment of state police “can no longer be delayed” and unveiled a new framework for regional security coor...
TERRORISM AND Insurgency have ravaged Nigeria since 2009 when Boko Haram turned violent after its establishment in 2002 by the Late Mohammed Yusuf. Churches have been viciously attacked and many Christians killed in the Northern and North-Central parts of the country almost on a daily basis. Tens of thousands of Nigerians have been killed with...
