By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu THE LEGAL career of Joseph Chukwuma Otteh, whose mortal remains were committed to earth on 20 June 2025, could easily have been different. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife in 1988, very much one of the best students in the set. In […]
By JKNewsMedia NIGERIA’s FIRST Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has urged a nationwide commitment to ending plastic pollution, spotlighting youth as key drivers of environmental change. Marking this year’s World Environment Day under the global theme “Ending Plastic Pollution,” she called for urgent, united efforts to combat what she described a...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA’s PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed that local content, rule of law, and durable infrastructure delivery are the hallmarks of his government, The President also directed an uncompromising compliance to this adherence as he commissioned the first phase of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway...
By Ayomide Olawale, JKNewsMedia Reporter SEVERAL JUDGES of the Federal High Court have been redeployed to new divisions nationwide, following an administrative directive approved by Chief Judge John Tsoho. The new postings, which took immediate effect, are aimed at enhancing efficiency and distributing the judicial workload more evenly across...
By Joke Kujenya ON A grim Monday in Lagos, 19-year-old Timilehin swallowed rat poison and died. Days later, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) admitted to errors in its 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) saying that released results contained some technical errors. Too late, Faith had gone too early fearing th...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu ANAMBRA NORTH senatorial constituency comprises seven Local Government Areas (LGAs). These are: Anambra East, Anambra West, Anyamelum, Ogbaru, Onitsha North, Onitsha South, and Oyi. The contest to represent it in the election to the Senate in 2007 turned out to be memorable for all the wrong reasons. Voting in the elec...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE GOVERNMENT of United Kingdom (UK) has said it is preparing to tighten visa rules for citizens of countries with high rates of overstaying, potentially affecting applicants from Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. An internal assessment by the Home Office identified a pattern of individuals from the...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE THERE IS the saying, to wit, “an elder running in the afternoon: if he is not pursuing something, something is pursuing him” As was wont our practice, we rubbed minds as those of us who were friends and aides sat at table with Governor Ayodele Fayose at Osuntokun House, as the Ekiti […]
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter ABOUT 90 newly qualified medical technicians have bolstered the Nigerian Air Force’s health corps following their graduation from the School of Medical Sciences and Aviation Medicine in Kaduna. The graduates—drawn from the Sundry Medical A1 Upgrading Course 6/2025 and Basic Medical Course 3/2025—com...
By Owei Lakemfa CAN YOU imagine being born 50 years ago with poison in your system; assured that the only remedy is death? That was the fate of about three million Vietnamese who were sprayed herbicides called Agent Orange, specially manufactured by the United States, (US), to ensure the victims were not only exterminated but […]
