By Kofoworola Fakeye, JKNewsMedia Reporter ON TUESDAY, President Bola Tinubu inaugurated the Presidential Working Group (PWG) on the National Policing Bill (NPB) to prepare the legal framework for implementing state police across Nigeria. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the President, represented by his Chief of Staff, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, ina...
By Joke Kujenya AS EARLY as about 8.00am on Saturday, 20 June 2026, voting has been underway across Ekiti State as residents cast ballots in the governorship election holding across all 16 local government areas. JKNewsMedia.com reports that polling units opened earlier in the day under the supervision of the Independent National Electoral Co...
By Babafemi Ojudu WHEN GENERAL Yakubu Gowon’s military government announced a transition programme in the late 1970s, many politicians began preparing for the return to civilian rule. Among them was Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Awolowo did not wait for the starting gun before thinking about the race ahead. Years earlier, he had looked into the futu...
By JKNewsMedia PREPARATION FOR the 2027 governorship election in Ogun State gathered momentum as the All Progressives Congress (APC) confirmed Mrs. Kudirat Abiodun Balogun as its Deputy Governorship candidate. JKNewsMedia.com reports that Mrs Balogun will run alongside the party’s governorship flag bearer, Senator Solomon Olamilekan Ade...
By JKNewsMedia CALLS FOR Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi to seek residence elsewhere have come from the party’s Delta South Senatorial Candidate, Dr Austin Orette. Speaking in Owhelogbo, Isoko North Local Government Area, Orette said Obi had moved into a burning house and should leave the party. “M...
By Koforowola Fakeye, JKNewsMedia Reporter WORSENING INSECURITY crisis, ongoing counterterrorism operations and renewed security investments shaped Nigeria’s Democracy Day message as the country marked 27 years of uninterrupted civilian rule on 12 June, alongside reflections on national unity, governance and reforms. JKNewsMedia.com reports t...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE HOUSE of Representatives has passed the state police bill following a plenary session on Thursday presided over by the Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas. JKNewsMedia.com reports that two hundred and eighty-eight lawmakers voted in support of the bill, while four voted against it, a day after members debated t...
By Kowoforola Fakeye, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE ALL Progressives Congress (APC) has picked Hon Damilola Sonayon-James as its Deputy Governorship Candidate for the 2027 Lagos State Governorship Election, pairing her with Governorship Candidate, Dr Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, for the 2027 election in Lagos State. JKNewsMedia.com reports that Sonayon-J...
By Tunde Rahman The recent abduction of schoolchildren in Ahoro-Esiele Community, Orire Local Government Area of Oyo State, remains deeply distressing. On May 15, 2026, heartless kidnappers abducted 38 schoolchildren, killing one teacher in a heinous assault on our nation’s security and educational system. The Nigerian Union of Teachers and s...
By Emeka Monye IT WAS Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, who gave democracy one of its most enduring definitions: government of the people, by the people, for the people. The phrase is short, almost plain. But it carries a radical idea at its core — that legitimacy in politics comes not from […]
