By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent COMMITMENT BY all stakeholders is required to make peace permanent in Rivers State, Governor Siminalayi Fubara has said in his first statewide broadcast on resumption of official duties following the expiration of the six-month emergency rule. The Governor commended President Bola Tinubu for hi...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter FORMER SPEAKER of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Professor Ali Ahmad, has slammed the relocation of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp from Yikpata in Edu Local Government Area to Ilorin, describing the decision as a “national disgrace” and evidence of what he called a collapse...
By JKNewsMedia RIVERS STATE Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, will deliver a statewide broadcast at 6.00pm this evening to appreciate stakeholders for their roles in restoring peace across the state and to reaffirm his administration’s commitment to stability and development. The Governor disclosed the plan on Friday after returning to Port Harcou...
By Comrade Gerald O. Katchy MILITARY INTERVENTIONS in Africa are no longer the exception; they are fast becoming a pattern. In many countries the arrival of juntas is greeted with hope for reform. But soon enough, the bright promises of “restoring order” darken into mechanisms that ensure rulers remain seat-tight: constitution-tweaks, delayed...
By Owei Lakemfa ONE OF the major challenges of Nigeria since colonial times had been corruption. But President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has now proclaimed its death. Corruption is gone! Futuristic laser technology must have been used to carry out such a comprehensive and professional operation on corruption in the body polity of Nigeria. So sophisti...
By Owei Lakemfa THE WORLD has in the last three months witnessed 80th anniversary victory parades, military displays, and street, garden, town hall, club and pub parties. They began in several European countries on May 5 and ended in Vietnam this Tuesday, September 2, 2025. These victories, 80 years ago, are separate, but interrelated. One [&...
By Olufemi Soneye When a Canadian federal court recently declared Nigeria’s two largest political parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as terrorist organizations under Canadian law, it wasn’t just an immigration decision. It was a political earthquake with consequences that could...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia THE NATIONAL Assembly gallery remained off‑limits to accredited journalists on Thursday, when President Bola Tinubu addressed a joint session for Democracy Day. Despite valid accreditation, reporters from leading outlets as The Nation, The Guardian, Vanguard, TVC News, Punch, News Central and ITV were all re...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE THERE IS the saying, to wit, “an elder running in the afternoon: if he is not pursuing something, something is pursuing him” As was wont our practice, we rubbed minds as those of us who were friends and aides sat at table with Governor Ayodele Fayose at Osuntokun House, as the Ekiti […]
By Joke Kujenya TOUCHING DOWN in Abuja on Monday evening, President Bola Tinubu returns to the country following an extended 19-day absence, from his private visits to France and the United Kingdom (UK) that were officially described as a “working visit.” The president arrived at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airpo...
