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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
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has launched a blistering critique of President Bola Tinubu’s economic claims, insisting official statistics conceal widespread hardship. In a statement issued by his media aide Phrank Shaibu, the opposition leader argued that the macroeconomic recovery narrative collapses in the face of shuttered factories and hollowed-out family budgets. Polished charts do…
Nigeria’s opposition leaders have broken into bitter factions over plans to present a single candidate against President Bola Tinubu in 2027. Fresh feuds erupted after former President Olusegun Obasanjo moved to broker a joint ticket between Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso. Obasanjo’s political aides insist the former general personally engineered the alliance to build a…
The window for voter registration is rapidly closing across the country. The Independent National Electoral Commission has reminded citizens that the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration exercise ends this Sunday, July 26. Electoral officials emphasized that no further deadline extensions will be granted ahead of upcoming off-cycle polls and future general elections. The commission urged eligible…
The Federal Government has paid N333 billion to clear verified legacy debts owed to eight electricity generation companies. The cash disbursement covers 17 individual power plants across the country under the Presidential Power Sector Financial Reforms Programme. State administrators finalized the payout to relieve severe illiquidity across the domestic power value chain. The transaction completes…
The Nigeria Revenue Service has given large companies until 31 July to adopt electronic invoicing fully. Failure to integrate with the new digital platform carries steep financial and operational penalties. Taxpayers with annual revenues above N5 billion must route all transaction invoices through the state system. The directive cements a sweeping tax modernisation effort launched…
The federal government has filed a ten-count criminal charge against three men accused of kidnapping schoolchildren and teachers in Oyo State. The prosecution filed the case at the Federal High Court in Abuja following a sweeping counter-terrorism investigation. The state accuses the defendants of terrorism, kidnapping, concealment, incitement, and running illegal mining operations. Department of…
A combined force of military and police personnel has rescued four school kidnapping victims in Kogi State. The rescue occurred just hours after their abductors demanded a ten-million-naira ransom. The victims include the principal of Government Secondary School, Olowa, a National Examinations Council official, and two female candidates. Gunmen had snatched them on Tuesday evening…
The Senate Public Accounts Committee has ordered the external auditors of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to explain over 210 trillion Naira in unreconciled accounts. Lawmakers gave the independent audit firms exactly seven days to defend the financial statements they certified. The sheer scale of the unexplained figures threatens to overshadow the state oil…
President Bola Tinubu has declared that the state will bring the perpetrators of the Oriire school abductions to full justice following a successful military extraction. In an official briefing from Abuja, the president confirmed that a joint security operation successfully neutralised several terrorists and apprehended eight suspects. The tactical raid ended a tense 56-day captivity…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a legal challenge by Air Peace Limited, ruling that the consumer protection agency has the explicit right to investigate airline ticket pricing. Justice Binta Nyako declared that the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission acted squarely within its legal mandate when it demanded internal pricing data from…