By Joke Kujenya NURSES ACROSS Nigeria are raising urgent concerns about the hostile work environments and excessive workloads they face in government health facilities. These challenges, they argue, are driving many professionals out of the field and jeopardizing patient safety. At a media briefing organized by the Nursing Group Administrators...
By Joke Kujenya NIGERIAN MILITARY School (NMS) cadets have been urged to embrace and emphasize the importance of discipline, hard work, loyalty, and patriotism in the discharge of their services to the nation. Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), addressed...
By Joke Kujenya NIGERIA’s FEDERAL government has reconstituted the governing councils of public tertiary institutions, a move confirmed by Folasade Boriowo, head of media at the Federal Ministry of Education. This development comes nearly a year after the National Universities Commission (NUC) dissolved the councils of all federal universities...
By Joke Kujenya THE NIGERIA Police Force has acknowledged the incident of a recently resurfaced video on social media, confirming its occurrence in 2020. The Police notes that it has put the spotlight on a street altercation involving two police officers, Cpl Ozimaede Aidonojie and PC Salubi Stephen, from the Ebele Divisional Police Headquarte...
By Joke Kujenya THE FEDERAL Government and Nigerian states have agreed to form a joint committee to unlock and maximize the potential of the solid minerals sector. This decision emerged from a meeting between the Nigerian Governors’ Forum and Dele Alake, Minister of Solid Minerals Development. Segun Tomori, Media Aide to the Minister, stated t...
By Joke Kujenya PRESIDENTS BOLA Tinubu of Nigeria and Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal, yesterday, held discussions focusing on regional security, democratic governance, and economic development in the West African continent. The two leaders emphasized the urgent need for a unified approach to combat terrorism, banditry, human trafficking, and...
By Joke Kujenya, JKNMedia Reporter EMIRATES AIRLINES announced on Thursday the resumption of its services to Nigeria, effective October 1, 2024, coinciding with Nigeria’s Independence Day anniversary. The airline will use its Boeing 777-300ER aircraft to operate a daily service between Lagos and Dubai. The suspension of Emirates’ Dubai-Lagos f...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNMedia Reporter THE FEDERAL Government of Nigeria has announced an ambitious goal of generating 10,000 megawatts through the Sustainable Power and Irrigation Project for Nigeria (SPIN) in partnership with the World Bank. The project aims to maximize the use of existing storage facilities for both irrigation and hydropo...
By Joke Kujenya LABOUR UNIONS, encompassing the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), abruptly exited the ongoing minimum wage negotiations with the Federal Government on Wednesday. This development followed the FG’s proposal of a new minimum wage of N48,000, an offer labour representatives derided as ‘ri...
By Olaide Ajibola, JKNMedia Reporter THE FEDERAL Executive Council (FEC) has given its nod to the establishment of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) aimed at securing funds for the ambitious rollout of 90,000 kilometers of fiber optic cables nationwide. This expansive project, revealed by Bosun Tijani, Minister of Communications and Digital Econ...
