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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
More than 267 billion naira in basic education intervention funds sat idle in government accounts as of August, while seventy per cent of Nigerian primary school pupils cannot read a single sentence of simple text. Universal Basic Education Commission head Dr Aisha Garba, represented by director Maryam Sani Dangaji, delivered that grim indictment in Abuja…
Pope Leo XIV announced to thousands gathered in Saint Peter’s Square on Sunday, 11 October, that he will undergo thoracic surgery in Rome this week to excise a recently detected nodular lesion on his lung. The 71-year-old pontiff disclosed the impending operation directly to the faithful after reciting the midday Angelus prayer, describing the growth…
The United Nations Development Programme and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative reported on Monday, 12 October, that acute global poverty rose for the first time in sixteen years to reach 1.2 billion people. Researchers counted 51.5 million more individuals trapped in compounding deprivation compared with the previous year, erasing a decade and a…
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck a commercial gas tanker south of the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, 9 October, triggering an inferno in the vessel’s propulsion system and escalating an undeclared naval siege. Iranian state media identified the stricken carrier as the NV Sunshine, asserting that naval units attacked the craft because it navigated…
The International Monetary Fund warned finance ministers gathered in Washington on Thursday, 8 October 2026, that global public debt will soon breach one hundred trillion dollars and climb relentlessly towards one hundred per cent of world economic output before the present decade draws to a close. Multilateral lenders urge finance chiefs across both advanced and…
Donald Duke, the former governor of Cross River State, pledged on Wednesday, 7 October 2026, to bring the retail price of petrol down to 300 naira per litre if voters elect him president next year. Speaking on national television, the politician argued that current market prices crush low-income households whose entire monthly minimum wage of…
Nigeria Customs Service officers at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport arrested a male traveller named Adam Musa Adam after discovering 265,000 dollars in undeclared physical greenbacks hidden inside his luggage . The passenger landed in Kano aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight from New Delhi before border inspectors uncovered the hidden foreign currency during routine arrival…
A 25-year-old labourer died on Wednesday, 30 September 2026, when an ageing commercial property caved in during an unapproved demolition at Otolo-Nnewi in the Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The victim, identified by authorities as Bakeru Iwal, was clearing out internal fittings when an upper masonry deck suddenly fractured and buried him…
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued an open letter to American citizens on Tuesday, urging voters to remove Donald Trump’s congressional allies in the November midterm elections as the United States military packed its final kit bags to leave neighbouring Iraq. The twenty-six-page manifesto calls on the American public to throw out violent leaders, reject…
Russian guided bombs smashed through a residential apartment block in Kharkiv early on Monday, 28 September 2026, wounding 22 people, including six children, only hours after weekend barrages claimed eight civilian lives nationwide. The deadly aerial offensive stretched across regional capitals from Sumy and Odesa to Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy counted more…