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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
National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu admitted on Saturday that military operations alone cannot crush armed banditry across north-western Nigeria, calling for sharper intelligence, tight border policing, and community cooperation to stem rural terror. Speaking through Zakari Mijinyawa at an anti-banditry forum in Sokoto, Ribadu acknowledged that bush gangs have progressed from cattle rustling and highway…
Ukrainian long-range strike craft bombed military and logistics hubs across Russia’s Saratov region on Wednesday, 14 October, killing one person and wrecking residential buildings more than one hundred kilometres beyond the international border. Regional governor Roman Busargin confirmed the fatal casualties and structural damage in the industrial Volga River basin as air raid sirens sounded…
African governments maintain barely an eighth of the basic surface weather stations that their people urgently require, leaving nearly a third of the world’s entire climate observation blind spots sitting directly over the continent. Blind skies cost poor farmers their lives. Nigerian Meteorological Agency director-general Charles Anosike warned regional energy ministers and multilateral financiers in…
Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar challenged the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja on Sunday, 11 October, to publish the identities of private firms printing ballot papers for the 2027 general election. The opposition standard-bearer raised alarms over whispers that the electoral umpire awarded major printing deals to Hitech Construction or its affiliate entities, pointing to…
Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike directed the chairmen of Abuja’s six area councils on Friday to enforce a strict “no-work, no-pay” rule against striking school teachers and civil servants. The minister described the industrial action led by the local branches of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Nigeria Union of Teachers as a politically…
West African crude oil sank to its deepest pricing discount in over ten years on Thursday, 8 October 2026, as climbing maritime shipping charges and sluggish industrial demand across Asia crushed bids for regional shipments. Physical traders handling Nigerian and Angolan export grades cut spot offers to historically low levels against Dated Brent after S&P…
Former vice president Atiku Abubakar accused President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday, 7 October 2026, of abandoning domestic food growers while spending scarce foreign cash to bring in grain from abroad. Speaking to party delegates in Abuja, the opposition contender argued that state policies have crushed rural production, exposed farmers to rural gunmen, and turned Nigeria…
Nigeria’s main opposition party marked the country’s 66th Independence anniversary on Thursday, 1 October 2026, by telling a destitute public that collective hope must remain stronger than current economic misery. Party spokesman Jungudo Mohammed released the holiday statement in Abuja, conceding that the republic sits far below its potential while urging citizens to reject despair…
State oil firm NNPC Limited reported a net profit of 7.2 trillion naira on Wednesday, 30 September 2026, marking a 33 per cent jump above the 5.4 trillion naira recorded in the previous financial year. Company executives presented the audited ledger to shareholders during their annual general meeting in Abuja, crediting disciplined cost control and…
Nigeria’s annual fiscal envelope remains far too small to lift more than two hundred million citizens out of grinding poverty, Minister of Budget and Economic Planning Abubakar Atiku Bagudu told lawmakers and civic groups in Abuja on Monday, 28 September 2026. Speaking at a legislative capacity workshop on budget integrity, Bagudu insisted that public fury…