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The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
Nigerian military jets bombed an Islamic State West Africa Province enclave at Badu village south of Gudumbali in Borno State over the weekend, killing more than forty fighters alongside a senior field commander. Defence headquarters confirmed on Monday, 12 October, that the air component of Operation Hadin Kai launched the strike after surveillance spotted armed…
Western and Asian governments warned their citizens on Monday, 12 October, to avoid travelling to Saudi Arabia after five deadly missile and drone strikes hit commercial aviation hubs within a single week. Australia and New Zealand joined the United States, Britain, Canada, Japan, and South Korea in urging their nationals to scrap non-essential journeys and…
Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar took aim at the Federal Government on Friday, 9 October, dismissing President Bola Tinubu’s temporary thirty-day petrol discount as an insincere political stunt designed to hoodwink voters before the 2027 general election. Speaking in Abuja during the inauguration of the African Democratic Congress presidential campaign council, Mr Abubakar demanded to know…
Over one thousand northern Islamic scholars gathered in Abuja on Thursday, 8 October 2026, to demand that President Bola Tinubu abandon his re-election bid for 2027. The clerics issued a direct communique after days of deliberations on the economy, the exodus of skilled professionals, and the endless slaughter across the northern hinterland. Pious patience in…
Islamic scholars and pilgrimage monitors in Nigeria have urged Saudi security agencies and the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria to clamp down on pilgrims who record and broadcast irreverent videos inside the holy precincts of Makkah and Madinah. Prominent clerics raised the alarm in Abuja and Kaduna following an influx of viral social media clips…
A Nigerian Air Force ATR-42 transport plane crashed near a naval forward operating base in Igbokoda, Ondo State, on Monday morning, killing all thirty-two personnel on board. The twin-engine turboprop had left the ancient city of Benin on a routine operational transit flight to Lagos before it suddenly plummeted into the swampy waters of the…
Nigeria’s electoral commission on Monday expanded its national voter roll past 103 million citizens after concluding a three-phase registration drive that captured 10.7 million fresh applicants. Commission chairman Joash Amupitan told party delegates in Abuja that technical staff scrubbed the database with an automated biometric system to purge duplicate entries and ghost names. Bloated registries…
Gunmen shot two artisanal miners dead near the boundary between Kuru Jenta and Heipang in Plateau State around midnight on Friday, 2 October 2026. The victims, both men from the Heipang District in Barkin Ladi, fell under direct rifle fire while panning for cassiterite and columbite deposits inside an open pit. Deadly violence shadows the…
President Bola Tinubu told a weary nation on Thursday, 1 October 2026, that his economic reforms had finished their foundational work and opened a new era of shared prosperity. Delivering his national broadcast from Abuja to mark Nigeria’s 66th Independence Day anniversary, the head of state firmly rejected mounting calls to bring back consumer fuel…
Nigerian public servants under the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council have threatened a three-day warning strike starting on Friday, 2 October 2026, unless President Bola Tinubu slashes petrol prices and approves an emergency wage award. The council wants the federal government to force retail pump rates down to 500 naira per litre from current…