By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA’S CHIEF examination official, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, was in tears publicly as he apologised for the massive technical failures that marred the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. As the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) conceded grave technical failings in ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIAN ABROAD can now remotely obtain a Bank Verification Number (BVN), following the official launch of the Non-Resident Bank Verification Number (NRBVN) platform in Abuja by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS). This move, the group say, eliminat...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA’s EXTERNAL reserves slumped to an eight-month low in April as the Central Bank ramped up dollar sales and foreign debt service obligations weighed on the balance. Gross reserves dipped by nearly $375 million from March to $37.9 billion at the end of April, marking the fourth consecutive mont...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA’s MARITIME Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has fired back at allegations of operations being handed to private interests, affirming its full control while accelerating a digital overhaul to clean up the nation’s shipping sector and bolster public revenue. The agency stated unequivo...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter ONE YEAR after the tragic incident, faulty judgment, unresolved technical faults, and safety oversight failures caused the helicopter crash that killed Nigerian banker Herbert Wigwe, his wife Doreen, their son Chizi, former NGX Group chairman Abimbola Ogunbanjo, and two others, the United States. Na...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA’s FEDERAL Government has unveiled a bold pilot scheme to overhaul two of Nigeria’s worst-performing electricity distribution companies, targeting long-standing failures with a forceful new model aimed at systemic reform. The pilot initiative, expected to launch between May and August 2025,...
By Rosheedat Akinkunle, JKNewsMedia Reporter FUNDING SQUEEZE casts shadow over Nigeria’s Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) response causing mounting pressure on Nigeria’s overstretched healthcare system. This has reignited fears about the sustainability of free HIV treatment as international donor support begins to wane as the National Agenc...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter  DESPERATE EFFORTS to traffic illicit drugs across Nigeria’s borders were crushed last week as operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), arrested multiple suspects, including a woman attempting to smuggle cocaine to Iran by hiding it in her private part, stomach and handbag, an...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter ISSUES OF agricultural investment and food security took centre stage at the State House in Abuja, where President Bola Tinubu received a special envoy from the Amir of Qatar to discuss expanding bilateral cooperation. The envoy, Dr Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi, who serves as Qatar’s Minister ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter NATIONAL SCHEME faces critical restructuring to align with youth needs and national goals as the Federal Government has launched a major overhaul of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Setting up a reform committee to re-evaluate and transform the nearly five-decade-old programme, FG said the m...
