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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
The Benue State Police Command has arrested 17 people following a savage mob assault that left officers wounded and another comatose on life support. State Commissioner of Police Cletus Nwadiogbu announced the arrests in Makurdi after operatives tracked suspects tied to the August 30 violence in Adagi along the Jato-Aka-Adikpo road in Kwande Local Government…
President Bola Tinubu has directed Vice President Kashim Shettima to lead Nigeria’s delegation to the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The vice president departs Abuja to take charge of high-level diplomatic talks and deliver the national statement during the general debate. The assignment marks a sudden shift from earlier…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has started drafting a new policy blueprint to drag more citizens into the formal financial net. Governor Olayemi Cardoso announced the birth of the National Financial Inclusion Strategy 4.0 on Wednesday, 16 September 2026, during the launch of the Access to Financial Services Survey in Abuja. Aisha Isa-Olatinwo, who directs…
Nigeria’s headline inflation rate edged down to 15.39 per cent in August 2026, marking a paper-thin decline of four basis points from 15.43 per cent in July. The National Bureau of Statistics posted the figures on Tuesday in its monthly consumer price index bulletin. The slow retreat marks the third straight monthly decline in the…
Armed outlaws in Niger State have beheaded a captive and delivered the severed head to a community leader following the non-payment of a 50 million naira extortion levy. The gruesome delivery represents an escalation in the economic warfare waged by criminal syndicates against agrarian settlements across north-central Nigeria. Rural gangs no longer hide their demands…
Donald Trump publicly ordered Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday to stop long-range drone attacks on Russian diesel infrastructure. The American president delivered the instruction while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Irish Open tournament at his Doonbeg golf links. He insisted that Ukrainian strikes on refineries were causing a severe worldwide diesel…
Maritime security trackers logged a fresh missile strike on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, 13 September 2026. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations reported that a projectile struck a vessel navigating the narrow waterway at dawn. The strike lands twenty-four hours after Saudi Arabia shut down its 1,200-kilometre East-West pipeline following…
Armed assailants killed three pastoralists and slaughtered dozens of cattle during a dawn ambush in Plateau State on Saturday. The assault struck herders tending livestock near Alohom community within the Sabon Gari district of Mangu Local Government Area. Community advocates and pastoralist associations reported that the gunmen opened fire without warning, leaving several cows dead…
Nigerian military aircraft killed more than eighteen insurgents and smashed key supply depots during dawn raids across northern Borno on Friday, 11 September. The Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai directed precision munitions against fortified camps at Tumbunma Baba within the marshy Lake Chad islands. Field reports confirmed that the raids destroyed several permanent structures,…
Vice President Kashim Shettima arrived in New Delhi on Friday to lead Nigeria’s delegation at the 18th BRICS Leaders’ Summit. Representing President Bola Tinubu, Shettima landed in the Indian capital with a senior ministerial team tasked with finding fresh trade, investment, and capital for an economy in transition. The summit convenes at the Bharat Mandapam…