By Joke Kujenya FOR MANY Nigerians, cancer does not announce its arrival with a funeral bell. It begins quietly, in a pain that refuses to disappear, a lump discovered almost by accident, unexplained weight loss, persistent fatigue or a medical examination that suddenly changes the direction of a life. JKNewsMedia.com reports that that is how...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia A CENTENARIAN, Esther Ogunmabo, has been arrested for selling skunk in Ilisan, Ogun State, as the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives intercepted cocaine concealed in edible cassava fufu and seized Loud worth more than N4.4 billion at the Apapa and Lekki ports in Lagos. JKNewsMedia.com report...
By Elizabeth Osayande, Vanguard Newspaper LAGOS — Lagos State has become the first state in Nigeria to establish an Alternative Secondary School for Girls. This was disclosed in a statement by the Public Affairs Officer, Lagos State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (MBSE), Elias Oladipo. The First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tin...
By Babafemi Ojudu I WAS sixteen when I left secondary school. My father believed that education should be followed immediately by responsibility. A young man, in his view, had to begin to work, earn something and learn to fend for himself. He therefore found me a job in the old Ondo State Civil Service, and […]
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter SWIFT IMPLEMENTATION of the Nigeria-China Aquatic Products Protocol (NCAPP) has been urged to drive higher exports, boost foreign exchange earnings and create stronger opportunities for Nigerian businesses. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the protocol, according to a statement issued, concluded after nearl...
By Joke Kujenya BY THE time the morning began at the oncology ward of a Lagos teaching hospital, the waiting area was already crowded. JKNewsMedia.com reporter observed that patients sat beside relatives on plastic chairs, holding thick folders filled with laboratory results, referral letters and prescriptions. Some told the reporter that the...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter A 48-YEAR-OLD businessman has been arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, while attempting to board a flight to New Delhi, India, with 1.550kg of cocaine concealed in his bag. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said Nwankwo Innoce...
By Olayinka Oyegbile Newspapers – both online and physical – have become dead; no one wants to read them again, because they are filled with shallow pro-government stories. IT IS not in doubt that journalism around the world is undergoing tremendous changes and threat: technology, dictatorship, problems of funding and self-inflic...
By Joke Kujenya, Fellow, Naija Cancer Watch TO THINK that, in this current age and times, people still uphold myths about a global condition as cancer beats one’s imagination. Yet, misinformation surrounding the disease continues to shape how some Nigerians understand its causes, treatment and prognosis, sometimes with serious consequen...
With Rimamnde Shawulu 308 ABDUCTEES are free. But Nigeria recorded an estimated 5,091 violent deaths in just three months. Between August 2 and 5, the country saw relief in Kwara and Niger states, another deadly village attack in Sokoto, and a disturbing security problem around illegal mining in Taraba. The questions behind the headlines are [...
