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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’s food and drug safety watchdog seized and burnt counterfeit consumer goods worth more than N5.3bn across three major commercial centres in seven days. Deputy Director Christiana Obiazikwor confirmed that coordinated raids hit illicit trading hubs and production dens across Lagos, Aba, and Port Harcourt. Dirty syndicates poison markets without remorse. Operatives dismantled over twenty…
The Nigerian equities market snapped a mild losing run on Wednesday, 14 October, adding 104 billion naira in total investor capitalisation as bargain hunters bought beaten-down shares across banking, logistics, and agribusiness counters. The benchmark Nigerian Exchange All-Share Index ticked higher by 0.06 per cent to settle at 247,673.65 points at the close of trading…
Israeli settlers torched a local mosque, burnt an ancient olive grove, and set a motor car ablaze during a dawn raid on the Palestinian village of Mikhmas on Wednesday, 14 October. The arsonists daubed racist Hebrew slogans across Islamic prayer halls and private village homes before retreating under the eyes of state security outposts. Impunity…
The Nigerian Navy intercepted more than 2.25 million litres of stolen crude and illegally refined fuels across the Niger Delta between July and September 2026. Naval spokesman Captain Abiodun Folorunsho told reporters in Abuja on Wednesday, 14 October, that sailors also deactivated 88 illicit cooking camps, 363 dugout storage pits, and 80 metal reservoirs under…
Armed bandits overran the remote farming settlements of Kokani and Kigbira in the Borgu council area of Niger State on Thursday, 8 October, setting mud-brick homes ablaze, killing dozens of defenceless villagers, and driving thousands of terrified peasants into the harsh bush along the Benin Republic border. Deadly violence returns to mock state assurances. Superintendent…
United States President Donald Trump slapped sweeping financial sanctions on the International Criminal Court on Friday, 9 October, just hours after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its peace prize to one of the tribunal’s former judges. Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced the Hague institution as a rogue court and pledged to cut off its…
Crude oil prices rose, and global share indexes fell on Wednesday, 7 October 2026, as escalating attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz renewed fears of widespread energy supply disruptions across the Persian Gulf. Brent North Sea crude climbed towards 106 dollars a barrel while West Texas Intermediate advanced in early Asian trading…
Foreign capital inflows into Nigeria doubled in the first five months of 2026, climbing to 16.41 billion dollars as aggressive central bank rate hikes drew overseas cash into domestic debt markets. The massive inflow represents a sharp 101.8 per cent jump over the 8.13 billion dollars recorded across the same period last year. Hot money…
Gunmen holding nineteen university graduates abducted in Imo State have demanded an extortionate ransom of 950 million naira, setting a strict deadline for desperate families to pay fifty million naira per hostage or lose them forever. The bandits seized the young victims on Thursday, 1 October 2026, after blocking their commercial convoy along the Owerri…
The United States and its coalition partners concluded their twelve-year military mission in Iraq on Wednesday, 30 September 2026, pulling their last combat detachments from federal installations and leaving the central government in Baghdad to stand alone against armed sectarian factions. Western military planners shuttered their sprawling operational headquarters at the Camp Victory complex near…