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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
The Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu, has ordered state police commands across the country to treat all cases of mob violence and extrajudicial killings as murder. In a public address broadcast on official police channels on Tuesday, 25 August 2026, the police chief warned that the force will no longer view street lynchings as spontaneous…
Iran promised swift retaliation on Tuesday, 25 August 2026, after the United States widened economic sanctions to choke Tehran’s remaining foreign revenue. United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled measures against 60 individuals, entities, and vessels on Monday. The new rules threaten to shut foreign banks out of dollar clearing if they maintain commercial ties…
Fourteen years after the landmark Stephen Oronsaye Committee recommended a sweeping cull of federal parastatals, the Nigerian government has effectively abandoned its promises of administrative austerity. Official spending figures reveal that newly created ministries, departments, and agencies have added at least N1.13 trillion to the federal budget in 2026 alone. Rather than reducing the cost…
Nigeria’s fragmented opposition parties are tearing at each other ahead of a planned summit to pick a consensus presidential challenger. Factional leaders within the Peoples Democratic Party, the Labour Party, and the African Democratic Congress have publicly disowned the coalition talks. Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde hosted preliminary parleys at the Government House in Ibadan…
Iran has branded forthcoming United States economic sanctions a declaration of war against all sovereign nations. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei issued the warning after Washington announced sweeping secondary sanctions designed to isolate Tehran completely. The dispute escalated after Donald Trump declared that the White House views the Strait of Hormuz as American territory….
Nearly three-quarters of humanity now browses the internet, yet Africa remains largely offline. Fresh data from the International Telecommunication Union shows that barely 36 per cent of Africans use the web today. That stark gap persists even as the global online population crosses the six billion mark. Digital development talk routinely ignores this basic reality….
Iran has threatened to shift to a fully offensive military posture in the Strait of Hormuz if peace talks with the United States fail. A senior official in Tehran warned that armed units will strike to break the American naval blockade within weeks. The ultimatum marks the formal collapse of a sixty-day truce agreed in…
The Nigerian Exchange has pulled back its planned rollout of a revised equities pricing framework just hours before its scheduled start on Monday. Officials blamed the sudden pause on ongoing talks with market players. The bourse had planned to replace its uniform trading volume threshold with a tiered structure based on share prices. That blueprint…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has thrown open its Open Market Operations to retail investors for the first time in seven years. The move removes the rigid ban that previously restricted these high-yielding debt auctions exclusively to commercial lenders and foreign portfolio managers. Monetary chiefs are scrambling to mop up excess cash as pre-election spending…
A fatal Houthi missile attack on a cargo vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait killed four crew members and wounded five others. Yemen’s internationally recognized government confirmed that three ballistic missiles struck the Tanzania-flagged commercial ship Tihamah as it carried food supplies through the narrow waterway. The dead included three Pakistani sailors and one Indonesian…