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...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu is expected to arrive back in Nigeria today following a 19-day “working visit” to Europe, a trip that drew heavy criticism from opposition leaders as insecurity escalated across parts of the country. The President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, con...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA’s PRESIDENCY found itself at the centre of renewed controversy after the government acknowledged errors in a recently published list of appointments, which was meant to address accusations of ethnic favouritism. The list, released in response to mounting criticism that President Bola T...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter NIGERIA’s PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu departs for Paris, France, today on a vital working visit aimed at assessing his administration’s mid-term performance and refining strategic plans ahead of his second anniversary in office. The retreat is to provide the President with an opportunity to ev...
By Salihu Moh. Lukman UNFOLDING EVENTS in Kano following the reinstatement of His Royal Highness Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the 16th Emir of Kano on Thursday, May 23, 2024 by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf is, to say the least, very alarming. The way and manner politics is being played, is not only recklessly insensitive to […]
By Helen Okechukwu, JKNMedia Reporter AMIDST a storm of political turmoil, the National Working Committee (NWC), of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has dismissed a purported list of Caretaker Committee members circulating on social media and certain national dailies. The Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, spearheaded this declaratio...
