By JKNewsMedia BANKLY’s STRUGGLE to maintain liquidity and serve customers reliably has prompted a significant intervention from C-One Ventures Platform, which has agreed to acquire the Nigerian microfinance bank’s licences, technology, and key operational assets. The deal marks a critical juncture for the embattled fintech, once hailed for d...
By Joke Kujenya AS WORLD Malaria Day marked its April 25, 2025, observance yesterday, millions of lives around the world hung in the balance. Mosquito nets sway limply over worn mattresses in the small community of Ayobo, Ipaja, in a semi-remote Lagos State, where Hafsat Musa, 29, clutches her three-year-old daughter. Just weeks ago, Hafsat, ...
By Kelen Okechukwu, JKNewsMedia Reporter TEACHER EDUCATION in Nigeria is set for a major transformation as Federal Colleges of Education (FCOEs) begin awarding bachelor’s degrees alongside the National Certificate in Education (NCE) from September 2025. This shift follows the 2023 passage of the Dual Mandate Act, allowing FCOEs to offer both ...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE WORLD Bank has forecast a troubling increase in poverty levels in Nigeria over the next five years, projecting a rise of 3.6 percentage points by 2027. The projection, revealed in the Bank’s latest Africa’s Pulse report, comes during the ongoing Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fu...
By Joke Kujenya ON HOSPITAL wards in Ogbomoso, Osun State, Nigeria—where the realities of HIV and malaria overlap daily—scientists have uncovered new insights into how Plasmodium falciparum behaves in immunocompromised individuals. New research has revealed that malaria parasites found in people living with HIV (PLWH) show unexpectedly low ge...
By Bola BOLAWOLE RITA, BOB Nesta Marley’s widow, says who feels it knows it but in Nigeria, the reverse is the case! Here, who feels it does not know it and who does not feel it knows it! The lyrics of “Who feels it (Knows it)”, recorded in 1980 but released in 1981 goes thus: […]
By Joke Kujenya THE NIGERIA government has issued a stark warning for 2025, forecasting severe floods across 30 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The 2025 Annual Flood Outlook (AFO) released by the Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation predicts that coastal and riverine regions, especially in the South-South, are at ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA’s BUSINESS community are grieving the loss of Chief Pascal Gabriel Dozie, the renowned entrepreneur and banker who passed away at the age of 85. The founder of Diamond Bank and the pioneer chairman of MTN Nigeria, Chief Dozie’s death on 8th April 2025 marks the end of an era […]
By Joke Kujenya An individual posing as “Dr. Adams Bello, the alleged director in charge of the Empowerment Fund at the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment”, has been reported running a scam on social media. Using the mobile number 08104364395, the fraudster has been deceiving Nigerians into believing they are enga...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter AT THE Border Security Summit in London, Nigeria’s Interior Minister, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, stressed the importance of increased collaboration and data sharing among countries in the Sahel and West African regions to address border security challenges. Speaking on the sidelines of the summit, which ga...
