By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE AFRICAN Development Bank (AfDB) Group has endorsed a bold five-year Country Strategy Paper (2025–2030) for Nigeria, committing approximately $650million annually to drive economic transformation, enhance resilience, and support inclusive prosperity across the nation. It says the sweeping $3.2 bi...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu will on Friday begin a two-day working visit to Katsina State, where he will review the state’s security outlook, commission strategic development projects, and attend a private function hosted by Governor Dikko Umar Radda. According to a statement released by the Special Adviser t...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter VIBRANT PROCESSIONS, tight security, and resounding calls for a living wage defined this year’s International Labour Day gathering in Abuja, where Nigerian workers rallied in solidarity amid biting economic challenges. Workers across Nigeria converged on Eagle Square in the heart of Abuja on Thursda...
By Joke Kujenya and Rosheedat Akunkunle, JKNewsMedia Reporter . . .Labour Day Sparks National Calls for Wage Reform Amid Soaring Cost of Living SCORES of Nigerian workers troop out today in commemoration of the International Workers’ Day (IWD). In solidarity, Senate President Godswill Akpabio and First Lady Oluremi Tinubu extended comm...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter NTIONWIDE ROLLOUT of secure digital system for tinted glass permits begins. The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) says it has resumed the issuance of Tinted Glass Permits (TGP) across the country through a newly digitised platform, responding to escalating public outcry over the harassment of motorists usi...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter A NATIONAWIDE public holiday has been declared for Thursday as Nigeria gears up to celebrate Workers’ Day, a tribute to the nation’s workforce and their enduring contributions to development. The announcement came on Tuesday from the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, who praised Nigerian wor...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter PETER NWACHUKWU, husband of the late gospel singer Osinachi Nwachukwu, has been sentenced to death by hanging after a Federal Capital Territory High Court found him guilty of culpable homicide. Justice Njideka Nwosu-Iheme, presiding at the Wuse Zone 2 court in Abuja, ruled on Monday that the prosecu...
By JKNewsMedia CHAOS ERUPTED near Pen Cinema Bridge on Saturday when a fully laden truck lost control and plummeted from the bridge onto two stationary commercial buses, leaving the driver critically injured. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) confirmed the serious incident, which unfolded along Agege, Old Abeokuta Road. Ad...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu has urged global leaders to act with unity, courage and sustained resolve in confronting the intensifying climate emergency, declaring that climate action is not a developmental burden but a strategic imperative. Speaking during a high-level virtual meeting hosted by United Nations (UN) ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA’s MINISTER of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo SAN, has convened an emergency meeting with aggrieved staff of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), following a sweeping strike action that has paralysed flight operations across the country. The high-level meeting, curre...
