By Joke Kujenya MOTHERS TRYING to breastfeed face mounting challenges in healthcare facilities, homes, and workplaces that offer little or no support for nursing. Yet, according to global health authorities, structured assistance during the early days of motherhood remains key to ensuring infants receive the critical nourishment and immunity ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu has urged young Nigerians in the digital media space to transform their platforms into instruments of national development, fostering unity, creating jobs, and curbing misinformation. Addressing participants at the Progressives Digital Media Summit on Friday, the President...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NURSES ON strike under the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) – Federal Health Institutions Sector have declared they will not return to work until the Federal Government addresses key parts of their demands, despite ongoing negotiations. The union’s National Chai...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PUBLIC SCRUTINY has intensified following a report shared by the United States Embassy in Nigeria, revealing how state governors continue to commit billions of naira to luxury construction projects while citizens grapple with rising economic pressures. The report, published by The Africa Report...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent HOSPITAL OPERATIONS across Nigeria’s federal health institutions face imminent shutdown as nurses under the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) commence a seven-day nationwide warning strike from midnight on Tuesday, 29 July 2025, following the expiration of a 15-day ul...
By Evelyn Nwoke, JKNewsMedia Reporter DIRECT PAYMENT of foreign tuition fees from naira accounts has resumed as Nigerian banks confirm the functionality of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Form A portal for educational remittances. Form A, a CBN-regulated channel, enables Nigerians to pay for eligible services such as overseas school fees,...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent FOOTAGE CIRCULATING on social media showing a protest in Ghana, where demonstrators called for Nigerians to be sent home, has drawn sharp condemnation from the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), which cautioned against sweeping criminal labelling and urged restraint as diplomatic effort...
By Premium Times MEDICAL SERVICES were disrupted across several public hospitals in Lagos on Monday as doctors under the state government’s employment commenced a three-day warning strike to protest salary deductions and unpaid arrears. At the Orthopaedic Clinic of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), four patients sat quietl...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent, and Rosheedat Akinkunle, Reporter PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu has honoured Nigeria’s Super Falcons with national awards, luxury housing, and cash rewards following their triumphant 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) campaign in Morocco. Each of the 24 players and 11 technical crew members r...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent THE UNITED States of America has issued a renewed warning to Nigerians seeking to travel for the sole purpose of giving birth on American soil, cautioning that such visa applications will be denied under tightened scrutiny of “birth tourism.” In a statement posted Monday on its official X (form...
