AS THIS year’s World Population Day is marked on July 11, 2024, the spotlight turns to Nigeria’s efforts to address its burgeoning population, particularly in the bustling commercial capital of Lagos. At the forefront of this critical endeavor is The Challenge Initiative (TCI), a dynamic program building on the successes of the pioneerin...
JKNMedia A GRAND reception and award ceremony has been announced by the Idanre Development Assembly (IDA), to recognize prominent sons and daughters of the community in Ondo State, for their significant contributions to the development of the ancient kingdom. The event is scheduled for Saturday, July 6, in Idanre. Among the honorees are Chief ...
By Justina Ashishana SALAMATU ABDULLAHI Abubakar, a recent Mass Communication graduate from Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida University, emerged as the overall winner of the 2nd Aisha Wakaso Award for Young Female Journalists. The first and second runners-up were also recent graduates for the award meant for upcoming female journalists and young fem...
By Joke Kujenya, JKNMedia Reporter THE MINISTRY of Housing, Ogun State, has been directed the to promptly renovate the family house of the late MKO Abiola in Gbagura, Oja Agbo, Abeokuta. This initiative, on the direction of Governor Dapo Abiodun, was in preparation for Democracy Day, which will be celebrated on Wednesday. In a statement [&hell...
By Olaide Ajibola, JKNMedia Reporter TO BE ready for inauguration by the end of June, Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has announced the near-completion of the newly constructed Okpanam-Ibusa bypass in the Oshimili North Local Government Area during an inspection of the road on Tuesday. While on the visit, Oborevwori highlighted a signi...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNMedia Reporter A DEAN of the Faculty of Arts and Education at Borno State University, Professor Abdulkarim Ishaq, has publicly commended Dr. Hassan Gimba, Publisher, Neptune Prime Online, for his exceptional contributions to journalism. In a deeply appreciative letter, Prof. Ishaq, who also serves as Professor of Curr...
By Olaide Ajibola, JKNMedia Reporter DAMAGES STRUCK Iran once again as a 3.7 magnitude earthquake jolted the region of Malayer in the Hamedan province on Monday morning. Reports say that he seismic event, which occurred at 08:20:52 local time, sent tremors through the area, further deepening the nation’s sense of sorrow following the tra...
By Paul Ejime THE more than 100 journalists and media workers killed as of 3rd May 2024 in the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict, ignited by Hamas’ unprecedented attack against Israel on 7th of October 2023, makes it the deadliest period for journalists since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began gathering data in 1992. This year [&helli...
By Olaide Ajibola, JKNMedia Reporter THE Lagos State government has ramped up efforts to apprehend and prosecute individuals behind the leasing of apartments to tenants, including those who reside with children under the bridges in the Ikoyi area of the state. During a ministerial press briefing held at the Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, Commissioner f...
By Justina Asishana, Minna, Niger State PROGRESS made by Nigeria toward the control infectious diseases could be reversed by the absence of a reliable health surveillance system in the country, a Epidemiologist, Dr Muhammad Shakir Balogun has said. Balogun, who is the Resident Advisor, Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program...
