By Joke Kujenya TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2024, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will travel from Lagos, Nigeria, to Pretoria, South Africa, to attend the inauguration of President Cyril Ramaphosa. Ramaphosa’s inauguration follows his re-election for a second term as President of South Africa which came after a deal between his party, the African Nat...
By Joke Kujenya NIGERIA’s NATIONAL Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported that in the first quarter of 2024, the country exported electrical energy worth N58.65 billion to several African nations. This export constituted 2.62% of the total goods imported from Nigeria by the continent noting that he primary recipients of this electrical ...
By Joke Kujenya IN FUNDING to support Nigeria’s economic stabilization and reform initiatives, the World Bank has approved $2.25 billion loan. The package includes $1.5 billion for the Nigeria Reforms for Economic Stabilization to Enable Transformation (RESET) Development Policy Financing Programme and $750 million for the Nigeria...
By Martins Oloja AFTER WATCHING all the shenanigans, peccadillos, frills and thrills of the strange Democracy Day June 12, 2024, last week, I had wanted to write on the inconclusive list of ‘Heroes of Democracy” President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s historians drew up and made public on May 29, 2024. I wanted to deconstruct the list, […]
By Joke Kujenya FOLLOWING A court mandate, MultiChoice, the company behind DStv and GOtv, has rolled back its recent subscription price hikes. This decision comes in the wake of a legal ruling that found the earlier price increases to be unwarranted, which had led to a significant exodus of subscribers, especially in Nigeria. The company [&hel...
By Joke Kujenya MARKING AN increase of 0.26 percentage points, Nigeria’s headline inflation rate has climbed to 33.95% in May 2024, up from 33.69% in April 2024. Contained in the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report of May 2024, it says that on a year-on-year basis, this rate is 11.54 percentage points higher than the […]
By Joke Kujenya A STERN WARNING has been issued to the public following a recent cholera outbreak affecting multiple states across Nigeria by the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA). In a press briefing held in Abuja on Friday, June 14, 2024, NBMA Director General Dr. Agnes Asagbra highlighted the urgent need for caution as the [&helli...
By Joke Kujenya, JKNMedia Reporter THE UNBREAKABLE unity of Nigeria has been reaffirmed by President Bola Tinubu. He made the assertion at the 25th Democracy Day Anniversary Dinner held at the State House Conference Centre in Abuja, on the night of Wednesday, June 12 night to honour the heroes of Nigeria’s long struggle for democracy, [&...
By Bola BOLAWOLE LAST WEEK, I published here the first part of “One year later, what value has Tinubu added to our lives?” with a promise to publish part two here today. In the midst of that came a critical dimension to the lingering strike by Labour. With Labour still flexing muscles and the Government […]
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNMedia Reporter IN A VIRAL video of his fall at Eagle Square, Abuja, during the Democracy Day celebration on Wednesday morning, President Bola Tinubu has humorously described the incident as his “dobale” for democracy. The video, which quickly spread across social media, captured the moment Tinubu stumbled ...
