By Joke Kujenya NIGERIA’s FIRST Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has arrived the Umaru Musa Ya’Adua Airport in Katsina to pay her last respects to the late former President Muhammadu Tinubu as the nation paused to honour a statesman whose influence spanned military rule and democratic governance. The late president was buried in Daura...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent GLOBAL TRIBUTES have been pouring in following the death of Nigeria’s former president Muhammadu Buhari, who died in a London hospital at the age of 82 after weeks of medical treatment. News of his passing, announced by his spokesperson Garba Shehu, has sparked a wave of condolence messages fro...
By Owei Lakemfa THE UNITED States, (US) government of President Donald Trump insulted Nigerians by seeking to offload its responsibilities on Venezuelan immigrants on them. The US in regarding the Venezuelan immigrants as some piece of shit, decided to throw them down Nigeria, a country Trump once referred to as a “shit hole”. The schizophren...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent THE REMAINS of former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will be interred at 2.00pm on Tuesday, 15 July, in his hometown of Daura, Katsina State. Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State confirmed the arrangements at the Government House on Monday, shortly after returning from London, where he me...
By JKNewsMedia MAKING A solemn request, Nigeria’s former First Lady as Aisha Buhari has conveyed a personal farewell message left behind by her late husband, former President Muhammadu Buhari. Speaking with calm brevity, she revealed his parting words were a plea for national forgiveness. She recalled his repeated instructions in private momen...
By JKNewsMedia DEATH HAS claimed Nigeria’s former president Muhammadu Buhari at the age of 82 while receiving medical care in a London clinic, according to an official statement from his longtime spokesperson, Garba Shehu. Confirmation of the former leader’s passing came on Sunday afternoon through a brief statement shared on social media pla...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent MORE THAN N460 million earmarked for the inauguration of United States (US) President Donald Trump on 20 January 2025 vanished through a cryptocurrency scam traced to Lagos, as detailed in a civil forfeiture complaint filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Investigators said they i...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NIGERIANS RESIDING in Saint Lucia received renewed assurances from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who for a second day engaged with the community to address issues affecting their stay in the Caribbean nation. President Tinubu met with members of the diaspora on Wednesday at the Windjammer Resort...
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...
