By Olivia Ambrose, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIAN TEACHERS have been lauded as the “quiet architects of great nations” by First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, who urged them to embrace innovation as the government ramps up efforts to revamp education across the country. Delivering the keynote address at the National Teachers’ Summit 2026, theme...
By Joke Kujenya THE NIGERIAN Meteorological (NiMeT) Agency has predicted dust haze across the country from Wednesday to Friday, the agency said in a release on Tuesday in Abuja. JKNewsMedia.com reports that NiMet forecast moderate dust haze with horizontal visibility between 2 and 5 kilometres over the northern region on Wednesday. It also an...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NIGERIA’s FORMER Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has appeared at Southwark Crown Court facing five counts of accepting bribes and one count of conspiracy to commit bribery, prosecutors said. The court heard that between 2011 and 2015, Alison-Madueke allegedly received m...
By NAN AN INTERNATIONAL NGO, Save the Children International (SCI), says no fewer than 1,683 learners were abducted in Nigeria between 2014 to 2022, 184 killed, while about 25 buildings were destroyed. Mogbonjubade Adesulure, the Digital Media and Communication Specialist, Save the Children Nigeria, disclosed this in a statement in Katsina on ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent AIMING FOR a $5 billion trade volume, Türkiye and Nigeria reaffirmed the target on Tuesday as discussions moved forward during President Bola Tinubu’s state visit in Ankara. JKNewsMedia.com reports that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said talks on the trade target had already commenced, s...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent COCERNS OVER a brief stumble by President Bola Tinubu during a ceremonial reception in Türkiye have been addressed by the Nigerian Presidency, which said the incident was caused by a poorly laid surface and not by any health issue. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the Presidency said Nigeria’s...
By Joke Kujenya BRIEF DISTRUPTION marked a ceremonial welcome in Ankara on Tuesday when President Bola Tinubu slightly slipped and fell during a parade organised for his reception in the Turkish capital. The incident occurred as the Nigerian leader walked alongside Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and joined the guard of honour. JKNewsM...
By Eniola Olatunji reporting for Patmos Media Line The Nigerian federation Tuesday woke up to the news of her new senior Men’s football Captain, 29-year-old Wilfred Ndidi who lost his father a retired Military Officer, Ndidi Sunday to a tragic auto accident the Tuesday morning. Reports say the old military man who hails from Umunede […]...
By Sunday Dare ON MONDAY this week President Bola Ahmed Tinubu departs for a two-day official visit to the Republic of Türkiye. The stated agenda—military cooperation and trade partnership—is precise. But the subtext is broader: Nigeria is recalibrating its partnerships toward countries that combine strategic geography, industrial depth, secu...
By Owei Lakema THE LAST fortnight has been a-washed with stories marking the sixtieth commemoration of the January 1966 coup that terminated the First Republic. But as usual, a lot of it are myths that had been promoted to the status of history. So, I decided to emerge from the bomb-resistant bunker of my knowledge […]
