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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 Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma returned to Freetown on Sunday, 6 September 2026, after spending more than two years living in Nigeria. His flight home brings a quiet close to a bitter political standoff that once threatened to tear his country apart. Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan saw his old friend off in…
President Bola Tinubu will take the rostrum at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, marking his return to the world body’s principal diplomatic theatre. The Nigerian head of state will speak as the tenth speaker during the morning session on the second day of the high-level General Debate….
An Israeli drone fired a missile into a motorcycle near Nabatieh on Friday, 4 September 2026, killing two men and shattering the fiction of a regional ceasefire. The strike hit close to Kfar Reman by the Ali al-Taher ridge, an elevated outcrop that Israeli commanders claim to hold. Paramedics carried the dead to a nearby…
Nigerian Exchange Group started corporate baseline climate assessments on Friday, 4 September 2026, pushing listed firms to document their actual carbon footprints under its N-Zero initiative. The exercise tests corporate readiness across carbon accounting, emissions risk, and transition planning. Group chief executive Temi Popoola warned company directors that global investors now attach strict green conditions…
A Washington lobbying firm hired by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar claimed on Wednesday that intermediaries tied to President Bola Tinubu offered its founder a $3m bribe in London. Von Batten-Montague-York said an unnamed emissary tried to buy an immediate halt to its American advocacy campaign regarding historical drug-forfeiture files. The firm’s director, Karl Von…
Nigeria’s agricultural sector expanded by 4.39 per cent in the second quarter of 2026, nearly doubling its previous growth pace despite widespread rural insecurity. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics shows the sector outpaced its 2.82 per cent expansion recorded in the corresponding quarter of 2025. The surprise rebound helped push broader national economic…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency intercepted a massive narcotics shipment worth N6.2 billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Sunday, 30 August 2026. The haul contained 47,200 pills of Captagon, a potent synthetic stimulant widely known as the Jihadi drug, alongside 3.9 million illicit opioid tablets. Agency spokesman Femi…
Kidnapping syndicates extorted N7.78 billion in cash payments across Nigeria between July 2025 and June 2026, according to a report by SBM Intelligence. The Lagos-based geopolitical research consultancy documented 1,713 separate kidnap incidents involving 7,825 victims within the twelve-month cycle. Total ransom payments more than tripled from the N2.56 billion recorded in the previous annual…
American diplomats warned the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, 25 August 2026, that Iran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz will deepen acute food insecurity across Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. United States Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs, Ambassador Jennifer Locetta, told the Council in New York that maritime obstructions in the Persian Gulf…
Israel handed over its first consignment of fully equipped ambulances, modern medical devices, and mobility aids to Nigeria at the Port of Ashdod on Wednesday, 26 August 2026. Nigerian Ambassador Agatha Ufochukwu received the cargo alongside representatives from Israel’s Ministry of Health and the national emergency service Magen David Adom. The shipment will head to…