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 […]
A currently serving National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member posted to one of the Southwest states in Nigeria, JUMMIA EMMANUEL, JKNewsMedia Reporter, recounts her daily experience as water vanished, power failed and snakes crept into living spaces after she and some colleagues were unable to travel to their home states and remained at their ...
By Joke Kujenya PERSISTENT VIOLENCE against women and girls continues to undermine human rights, equality and development, with speakers warning that global efforts remain far from meeting agreed targets at a session co-hosted by CeHDI, Women Deliver Conference 2026, IPPF, ARROW, WGNRR, APCAT Media and CNS. At a SHE & Rights session held d...
. . .As bandits deploy a drone in Kogi, attacks continue in many northern states. By Ogalah Dunamis, Premium Times THE FAINT mechanical buzz that drifted across Ejiba, a community in Yagba West Area of Kogi State, sometime between 8 and 9 a.m. on Sunday, was unusual enough to make residents look up. In this […]
She set out to collect the certificate that would seal her academic journey. Instead, Temitope Akinwale, then 25, now 33, found herself fighting for survival in a swampy forest, blindfolded, terrified, and praying through four days of captivity, as she recounts her traumatising ordeal to JKNewsMedia Reporter, HELEN OKECHUKWU. FAINT TRACES of ...
Joke Kujenya JOYCE EYABA, 39, lives in a small rural town in Potiskum, Yobe State, in the northeastern part of Nigeria. For years, sharing with jknewsmedia.com, she said she has endured repeated physical and emotional abuse from her husband, which often left her with bruises hidden under long sleeves and silent nights spent worrying about [&h...
By Taiwo Obe I AM Elder Ubong Obot. I am an elder of The Apostolic Church. I am from Ikot Akpabin in Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Poor background, breadwinner-mum’s death I am from a poor family with my mother, Elsie Bassey Obot, a strong businesswoman, as the backbone. She used […]
