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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
Nigeria spends nearly five times more of its national revenue on servicing external debts than on healthcare and education combined. A damning report by ActionAid International and ActionAid Nigeria revealed the fiscal imbalance on Tuesday. The advocacy group directly accused the International Monetary Fund of pushing hostile policies that deliberately undermine social development. The country…
Widespread insecurity and systemic institutional impunity are actively dismantling fundamental human rights across Nigeria, United Nations rights envoy, Nazila Ghanea, has warned. The international body delivered this critical assessment following an extensive structural review of the country’s domestic security and judicial architecture. The report notes that the state’s inability to protect civilians from non-state armed…
The Nigerian Exchange Limited is dismantling its uniform price-discovery framework to restore liquidity and ease trading bottlenecks in high-priced equities. The bourse plans to revert to a graduated, three-tier volume structure heavily inspired by its 2018 market-microstructure guidelines. This regulatory shift cancels the blanket 100,000-unit requirement implemented in recent years to police equity price adjustments….
The Federal Government launched a national free-to-air digital television platform today to accelerate its long-delayed transition from analogue broadcasting. The project, dubbed FreeTV, promises households across the country access to over 100 channels without a monthly fee. This rollout represents a critical reset of Nigeria’s Digital Switch-Over programme. Previous attempts cost the state over N60…
Nigeria’s sweeping foreign exchange reforms have yet to align the local currency with economic reality. The International Monetary Fund states that the naira trades roughly 25.6 percent below its fair value. According to the Washington-based lender, its Real Effective Exchange Rate model shows that the currency remains heavily undervalued despite recent gains. This persistent gap…
Nigeria recorded a massive 7.55 trillion naira merchandise trade surplus in the first quarter of 2026, despite a mild contraction in total aggregate trade. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that the total value of foreign trade dropped slightly to 34.79 trillion naira from 36.21 trillion naira in the preceding quarter. This positive…
The Federal Government has deployed the first of five emergency flights to rescue citizens fleeing a sharp rise in anti-immigrant violence across South Africa. President Bola Tinubu approved the state-backed evacuation programme after deep hostility toward foreign workers flared into open intimidation and street violence. A commercial Boeing aircraft operated by Air Peace will fly…
The federal government will cover the full cost of repatriating regular and irregular Nigerian citizens fleeing xenophobic violence in South Africa. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the emergency financial waiver on Saturday night following a direct authorization from the presidency. The intervention removes all administrative fees that previously slowed down the evacuation process for…
The National Democratic Congress has initiated a comprehensive nationwide reconciliation process following its highly contentious internal primary elections. Party leadership strongly rejected mounting allegations concerning the deliberate imposition of preferred candidates on local constituencies. The political intervention aims to repair deep internal structural fractures ahead of the upcoming general elections. Disgruntled party loyalists had threatened…
United States President Donald Trump has announced his intention to decouple the conflict in Lebanon from ongoing broader peace negotiations with Iran. Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office, Trump stated that the two conflicts are fundamentally different and should be managed under separate diplomatic tracks. The administration aims to isolate regional proxy skirmishes to…