Science News When fiber runs low, gut microbes may start feeding on your protective gut lining instead. GUT MICROBES need something to eat, and when fiber is limited, they may begin consuming proteins from the mucus lining that protects the gut. Researchers found that fiber can suppress this process, while indigestible plant proteins help mic...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter THERE ARE lives that seem to move in a straight line, and there are lives that bend so sharply that, when the journey is over, it becomes difficult to recognise the person at the beginning from the one at the end. JKNewsMedia.com writes that Valentine Esegragbo Melvin Strasser belongs to […]
By Joke Kujenya, Fellow, 2026 Naija Cancer Watch Fellowship AS THE Naija Cancer Watch Fellowship boot camp moved into its next session, none of us quite knew what to expect. The organisers had held their holding rights to the programme fluid, revealing each presentation only as it came. There was none of the usual scramble […]
By Gbenga Adebamiwa A SURVIVOR of the May 15, 2026, abduction, Mr. Zacheaus Olatunde, has recounted the harrowing 56-day ordeal in the hands of terrorists, revealing how two of his colleagues, Mr. Michael Oyedokun and Deacon John Olaleye, were killed while in captivity. Speaking about the incident, Olatunde said the terrorists accused Oyedoku...
By Victoria Ikwun, UNICROSS FOR MANY students at the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS), the ongoing industrial strike has become more than a disruption to academic activities. It has delayed graduation, stalled career plans, interrupted student leadership, strained finances and left many wondering when normal campus life will return....
By Joke Kujenya FOR YEARS, 17-year-old Amina Yesufu thought the crippling pain that folded her in half every month was simply part of being a girl. When her period arrived, she missed classes, avoided friends and spent hours curled up in bed, clutching her stomach, she said while narrating her monthly experience to JKNewsMedia.com. Adults [&h...
By Housing Staff writers A WAVE of public frustration is cresting across Lagos as residents intensify calls on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to take decisive action against what many now describe as a “runaway rental market.” From the mainland to the island, tenants say the cost of keeping a roof over their heads has surged beyond […]
First published on January 14, 2015, by The Nation Newspapers. RESIDENTS OF Idimu-Shasha-Akowonjo live in utter darkness. They only had interjections of ‘light flashes’ supplied by the Bolounpe Power Station in the last 10 years. Since then, life and business in the areas have been one long stretch of slow and dreary darkness and stillness, [...
By Emmanuel Muna, Premium Times “She said, ‘Emy, don’t panic, but a snake has bitten me. I’m on my way to the hospital…” KINGSLET NWANGENE, a close friend of Abuja-based musician Ifunanya Nwangene, has narrated the singer’s harrowing final hours following a snakebite. Ifunanya, also known as Nanyah, was popularly known as Nanyah_music and fo...
By Suleiman TAJUDEEN IT IS hard to believe people are still living in Maraban Babu, a community in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State, where the day looks grey and the night terrifying. Yet it is home to nearly five thousand residents who have nowhere else to go. A visitor is likely to choke […]
