By Favour Olisah, JKNewsMedia Reporter TWO NIGERIANS who returned from Brazil have excreted 116 wraps of heroin and cocaine while in observatory custody after their arrest by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos. One of the suspects, 46-year-old Ofoma S...
By Hope Gift, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA’s POWER Minister, Adebayo Adelabu, has called for international collaboration to strengthen and reform the nation’s power sector. He made the appeal at the commissioning of new facilities at the National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN) in Abuja on Wednesday, 10 September 2025. Adelabu st...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter MANAGEMENT OF the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), has ordered an end to all social activities extending beyond 6.00pm across its campuses. The directive, contained in a statement signed by the Acting Public Relations Officer, Mr Inya Egwu, followed the incident of 12th September in which a business...
By JKNewsMedia THE GANI Fawehinmi Memorial Organisation (GAFAMORG) has announced that it will hold an extended emergency meeting of its Governing Council and stakeholders on Thursday, 11 September 2025, at the Right House, Adeniyi Jones Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos. The organisation stated that the meeting, scheduled for 11:00am, will coincide with t...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent A MAJOR international drug trafficking syndicate has been dismantled following a two-week intelligence-led operation by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos, leading to the arrest of three cartel leaders and the seizure of a cocaine consignment valued at N5.3 ...
By The Guardian IF AVAILABLE information in the second quarter of 2025 budget performance document of Lagos State government is anything to go by, the 40 Lagos State House of Assembly members would be spending N6.2 billion for the purchase of 40 property in Lagos or Abuja. Already, as at the end of second quarter […]
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent SCREENING and SURVEILLANCE have intensified across all entry points in Nigeria following the resurgence of Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Director of Port Health Services at the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Akpan Nse, confirmed the measu...
By The Punch NO FEWER than 239 first-class graduates of the University of Lagos, employed as lecturers, left the institution within seven years. Immediate past Vice-Chancellor of UNILAG, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, disclosed this on Tuesday while speaking as guest lecturer at The PUNCH Forum, themed: “Innovative Funding of Functional Education...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu has ordered an immediate temporary ban on the export of raw shea nuts. The directive was announced by the minister of agriculture and food security, Abubakar Kyari, who said the measure is designed to encourage local processing and increase value addition within Nigeria. H...
The Punch THE JOINT Admissions and Matriculation Board has issued a warning to several higher institutions that violated admission guidelines, describing their actions as an “aberration” and demanding full compliance within seven days. The institutions, summoned to a meeting with JAMB on August 18, 2025, tendered apologies and pleaded with the...
