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 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
High-growth aggressive pension funds delivered single-month investment returns exceeding 20 per cent in September, according to figures released by the National Pension Commission on 29 October 2026. PenCom Director-General Omolola Oloworaran announced the performance metrics during the launch of National Pension Week in Abuja. Equities and high-yielding money market assets drove the surge in retirement…
Nigeria plans to raise its power generation capacity to 70,000 megawatts by 2030. Minister of Power Joseph Tegbe announced the target at an energy summit in Lagos on Tuesday. The plan sounds impressive on paper, but state officials struggle to wheel 5,000 megawatts across the national grid today. Paper plans mean little to businesses that…
The Federal Government approved a ₦70,000 monthly transport allowance for federal public servants on Tuesday to quiet mounting industrial anger. Labour leaders threatened a nationwide strike before signing the conciliation agreement in Abuja with Minister of Labour Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi. The temporary intervention runs for six months starting in November, handing individual workers a total…
Insurgent ranks in north-eastern Nigeria are splitting as joint military pressure breaks their command structures. General Dagvin Anderson, chief of US Africa Command, told reporters in Lagos on 26 October 2026 that Islamic State defections surged over 200 per cent. The sharp rise follows a combined American and Nigerian strike in May that killed Abu-Bilal…
Nigeria arranged to fly its index Ebola patient out of Abuja on Monday morning for treatment abroad as public health teams scrambled to contain the rare Bundibugyo outbreak. The 42-year-old woman arrived from Uganda weeks ago and married a Swiss citizen before falling ill in the federal capital. Flight plans reveal fragile local isolation capacity….
Nigerian troops freed more than 70 kidnap victims and seized a wanted terror kingpin in Mokwa town during coordinated nationwide raids this past week. Major General Michael Onoja confirmed on Sunday that soldiers also recovered 10 million naira in extortion cash following a sweep through Kano’s Falgore forest. Forest hideouts offer dwindling safety. The operations…
Nigeria crossed a historic constitutional threshold on Friday, 23 October 2026, when twenty-four state houses of assembly formally endorsed the Constitution Sixth Alteration Bill to establish a dual policing system across the federation. Chief of Staff to the President and chairman of the Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill, Femi Gbajabiamila, confirmed in…
The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board will open its official recruitment portal on 28 October 2026 to enlist fresh personnel across Nigeria’s four interior paramilitary services. Board Secretary Major General Abdul Malik Jibril announced the sixteen-day application window in Abuja on Thursday, fixing 13 November as the final deadline for all electronic…
The World Health Organisation pledged emergency medical gear, laboratory materials, and field epidemiologists to Nigeria on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, after federal health authorities confirmed the country’s first imported case of Ebola disease inside a private hospital in the Federal Capital Territory. Viruses ignore sovereign borders with ruthless ease. Coordinating Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate…
Global energy markets face their worst disruptions yet as the widening war involving the United States, Israel, and Iran threatens international sea lanes, Qatar warned on Monday, 19 October. Qatari Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told delegates at the Global Security Forum in Doha that world consumers must brace for severe…