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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
President Bola Tinubu’s administration has opened formal talks with the World Bank for three separate credit lines totalling 1.5 billion dollars, even as Nigeria’s sovereign debt burden reached an all-time peak of 166.79 trillion naira at the end of June 2026. Official loan schedules prepared in Washington show that the proposed financing splits into three…
Governor Chukwuma Soludo has escalated his feud with Peter Obi by publishing official memos that detail N363.38m in unpaid salary arrears inherited from the former governor. The records, released on Friday, 25 September 2026, by the Anambra State New Media Office, show financial approvals for staff, pensioners, and next of kin from two scrapped state…
Cameroonian police launched an international manhunt on Wednesday for Kedi Samuel Kenechukwu after detectives discovered a mummified human corpse buried on property tied to his religious ministry in Yaoundé. The Nigerian cleric abandoned his mission and went into hiding once gendarmerie units began excavating a compound in the Nkoabang district of the capital. The gruesome…
A surgeon sitting behind a Toumai console at Redeemer’s Health Village in Ogun State removed a cancerous kidney from a patient lying inside an operating theatre in Abuja on Saturday. The three-hour procedure spanned roughly 500 kilometres across Nigerian airspace. Professor Obi Ekwenna-Davis, a transplantation specialist and co-founder of RoboMed Global, directed the right radical…
The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority ordered Air Peace on Monday, 21 September 2026, to draw up a compensation package for passengers after an inquiry proved the airline sent false flight alerts. Human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong blew the whistle at Terminal One of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos when his 6:45 am flight to…
The United States State Department has approved a potential $2.68bn military sale to reinforce Ukraine’s battered air defences, according to a formal congressional notice issued on Friday. The transaction marks an important operational shift in Western security assistance. Rather than dipping into shrinking American stockpile reserves, Washington is helping Kyiv buy custom hardware and modernisation…
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has raised its processing wait times for Nigerian citizens seeking study permits and visitor visas. The revision, published on 16 September 2026, pushes the standard study permit review period from nine weeks to ten weeks. Nigerians seeking ordinary visitor visas must now wait 87 days, while super visa applications require…
Donald Trump declared on Thursday, 17 September 2026, that the United States is rapidly approaching the end of its military confrontation with Iran. Speaking to reporters as he stepped off Air Force One, the American president asserted that Washington and Tehran are now engaged in direct negotiations to halt the hostilities. The claim represents a…
 The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission announced on Tuesday that the country plans to supply 70 per cent of Africa’s gas demand by lifting domestic production. Commission Chief Executive Gbenga Komolafe outlined the target in Abuja as part of a wider strategy to exploit the continent’s shift toward cleaner transition fuels. Nigeria sits on…
The Nigerian naira opened the trading week at 1,326.84 to the American dollar on the official window on Monday, 14 September 2026. Central bank records show that the spot rate held steady near the 1,326.52 recorded over the weekend at the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market. Street traders in Lagos, Abuja, and Kano quoted the greenback…