By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PRESIDENT OF the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Yomi Otubela, has criticised the conduct of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) during nighttime hours in some parts of the country, warning that such conditions cannot produce commendabl...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu has, on Wednesday, signed into law the Nigerian Insurance Industry Reform Act (NIIRA) 2025, creating a consolidated framework to regulate and supervise all insurance and reinsurance businesses in the country. The new legislation repeals several outdated statutes, replacing...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter PRESIDENT Tinubu has approved the disbursement of N4,249,626,817.69 to fund 158 research projects under the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) National Research Fund 2024 Grant Cycle. The allocation follows recommendations from the TETFund National Research Fund Screening and Monitoring Committee (...
By Joke Kujenya DR. DOYIN Abiola, Nigeria’s first female Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of a national daily newspaper, National Concord, has died at the age of 82. Messages shared among former colleagues on The Great Concord Family WhatsApp platform by Dr. Tunji Bello, confirmed she passed away at exactly 9:15pm on Tuesday after a bri...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent JUST ABOUT a week after a national reception for the Super Falcons, President Bola Tinubu has conferred national honours on Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, following their historic victory at the 2025 FIBA Women’s Afrobasket Championship in Côte d’Ivoire. Vice President Kashim She...
GROUP CHIEF Executive Officer of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Bayo Ojulari, has resumed work. Mr Ojulari reported to the office at about 9:35am on Monday. A top security source confirmed to Vanguard that Ojulari was currently engaging with his usual official duties. The source said that NNPC staff had been asked via internal ...
By Joke Kujenya THE NATIONWIDE strike by the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has been suspended following formal commitments by the Federal Government to address the union’s nine-point demands. Four days into the planned seven-day warning strike, the national executive council of the association convened an emerge...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NIGERIA’s ELECTORAL commission has announced it has formally opened the process for its 2025 Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise, urging all eligible citizens to engage actively ahead of the 2027 general elections. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the roll...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent REFINERY OPERATIONS at Dangote Group have entered a new phase with the appointment of David Bird, former Shell and OQ8 executive, as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals, the company announced on its X handle. The company also confirmed the leadership c...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA’s NURSES have dismissed reports suggesting their ongoing warning strike has ended, directly contradicting a public announcement by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Ali Pate. The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) confirmed on Friday that its industria...
