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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 Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to 85-year-old South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay on Friday, 9 October, issuing a deliberate defence of global courts against the resurgence of raw power politics. Ms Pillay spent six decades holding heads of state and armed groups accountable across benches at the International Criminal…
The federal government cleared eight months of withheld salary arrears for university workers on Wednesday, 7 October 2026, after campus labour unions threatened a nationwide strike. The Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation disbursed the long-delayed funds to federal institutions following intense pressure from the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic…
The World Bank raised Nigeria’s 2026 economic growth forecast to 4.3 per cent on Tuesday, 6 October, projecting an expansion of 4.4 per cent annually across 2027 and 2028. The multilateral lender published the figures in its October 2026 Africa Economic Update in Washington, linking the upward revision from last year’s 4.0 per cent pace…
Nigeria bid farewell to veteran actor Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs in Lagos on Friday, 2 October 2026, closing the final chapter on one of African cinema’s most commanding screen figures. Family members, acting colleagues, and senior state officials gathered at This Present House in Lekki Phase 1 to honour the thespian, who died on 16 September…
Nigeria will create 1.2 million manufacturing jobs by barring the outward shipment of unprocessed agricultural and mineral wealth, Raw Materials Research and Development Council Director-General Professor Nnanyelugo Martin Ike-Muonso announced in Abuja on Wednesday, 30 September 2026. The council is pushing lawmakers to pass the Raw Materials Research and Development Council Amendment Bill, which establishes…
Nigeria’s pension regulator is steering N300 bn of retirement savings into brick-and-mortar national infrastructure, betting that physical assets can outrun the country’s punishing currency depreciation. Speaking in Lagos on Sunday after a strategic meeting of the Pension Industry Leaders Council, National Pension Commission Director-General Omolola Oloworaran confirmed that fund administrators have already signed off on…
A commercial airliner from Johannesburg touched down at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Thursday night, carrying 105 distressed Nigerian citizens fleeing fresh anti-migrant hostility in South Africa. The passenger manifest listed 82 adults and 23 children who abandoned homes and livelihoods after street mobs renewed violent campaigns against foreign Africans. Public funds…
Donald Trump climbed the green marble rostrum at the 81st United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday and offered Iran total ruin or total submission. In a pugnacious forty-minute address in New York, the American president openly mused whether he should broker an agreement with Tehran or simply wipe the country off the global map. He…
A fierce row over clothes drying erupted inside the Big Brother Naija Season 11 house on Sunday morning, testing the alliance between Oyin and Flora on Day 56. The clash stemmed directly from a Saturday night brawl between Oyin and Bluethopia in the laundry area. What began as an effort by Flora to soothe her…
The Armed Forces of Nigeria rescued 66 kidnap victims, killed scores of insurgents, and arrested dozens of suspected collaborators between 11 and 17 September 2026. Major General Michael Onoja, Director of Defence Media Operations, released the operational summary in Abuja on Friday. The nationwide push spanned five geopolitical zones, targeting forest redoubts and rural highways….