By Joke Kujenya FOLLOWING a recent incident at Lagos airport involving a Dana Air plane, Aviation Minister Festus Keyamo has taken decisive action, suspending the airline’s operations in the country pending a thorough safety audit. The incident on April 23 saw a Dana aircraft skidding off the runway at the Murtala Muhammed International Airpor...
 By Abdulwarees Solanke IN SIZE, Nigeria and Singapore are poles apart. But in strategic eminence in their respective regions, both countries have somewhat similar qualifications. Nigeria is popular as Giant of Africa all over the world just like the tiny Singapore is celebrated as an Asian Tiger globally. Last year Singapore clocked 55, with ...
By Joke Kujenya IN A recent press briefing held in Washington DC, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revealed optimistic projections for Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth. According to Abebe Selassie, Director of IMF’s African Department, the region’s economy is poised to expand from 3.4% in 2023 to 3.8% in 2024, with expectations of fur...
By Joke Kujenya TOWARDS improving service delivery in the Nigerian electrical energy sector, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has instructed all distributors companies (DisCos) to automatically downgrade any Band A feeder that fails to provide a minimum of 20 hours of power supply per day for seven consecutive days. This ...
By Helen Okechukwu, JKNMedia Reporter THE NATIONAL Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), in a decisive move, has called on the manufacturer of Benylin cough syrup, the Johnson & Johnson, over the health complication posed by their product. The call was made after tests found diethylene glycol in the product, which c...
By David Adenekan TO START WITH, no country in the world has floated its local currency the way President Bola Ahmed Tinubu did. As clueless as we might thought former President Mohammadu Buhari was, he refused to float the naira, because of the negative effect on prices of goods and services, hyper-inflation. However, been as […]
By David Adenekan, Columnist TO BEGIN, let’s delve into insights from an interview with Mohammed Irfaan Ali, the esteemed leader of Guyana, a Caribbean nation. Emphatically, not until we have a purposeful and visionary leader who can knock the imperialist with actions that will negate their economic interests, most developing countries, includ...
By Joke Kujenya ADEBOLA Daniel has received an apology from Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), Nigeria, over allegations of discriminatory treatment at one of its outlets. The incident unfolded on March 27, when Daniel shared his experience on social media, detailing how he and his family were reportedly denied entry into a KFC outlet located at [&...
By Helen Okechukwu, JKNMedia Reporter SEQUEL to March 24 general elections in Senegal, Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu, in the wake of Bassirou Faye’s victory as president-elect, has extended his warm congratulations to the victor and his citizens. In a statement issued by Tinubu’s spokesperson yesterday, Anjuri Ngelale, Nigeria’s president ha...
