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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
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi met behind closed doors with leaders of the African Democratic Congress in Abuja to hammer out an alliance ahead of the 2027 general elections. The high-level parley brings two perennial heavyweights together in an ambitious bid to stitch together a credible opposition challenge…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar launched a fierce attack on President Bola Tinubu on Monday, 14 September 2026, demanding a forensic audit of federation revenue as petrol pump prices touched 1,470 naira per litre. The African Democratic Congress presidential candidate accused the administration of running an organised system of grand larceny behind opaque deductions from…
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur returned to the red earth of Adamawa State on Sunday morning. Mourners laid the former Peoples Democratic Party national chairman to rest at his family residence in Fadde-Sanda, along Abuja Road in Yola. The Chief Imam of Modibbo Adama Central Mosque, Alhaji Ahmadu Bobboi, led the Islamic funeral prayers at ten-fifty. Pallbearers…
Iraq shut three major border crossings with Iran on Saturday after a drone strike struck a vital Saudi Arabian oil pipeline. Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi took the emergency step following joint intelligence findings from Baghdad and Riyadh confirming that the drones took off from Iraqi territory. The targeted pipeline transports crude across Saudi Arabia…
Armed raiders killed four mobile police officers and eight local farmers during a dawn assault on Ayilamo community in Benue State on Friday. More than two hundred gunmen crossed from neighbouring Taraba State along the Alufu corridor to storm the agrarian settlement in Logo Local Government Area. Eyewitnesses reported that the attackers set residential houses…
A quarter of a century after hijacked planes shattered Lower Manhattan, New York marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks under heavy security and bitter political division. Relatives of the dead gathered on Friday morning at the National September 11 Memorial plaza to read aloud the names of the 2,977 people who perished…
Armed bandits killed five people and seized 27 villagers during nighttime raids across farming settlements in Kaduna State on Monday, 7 September 2026. Gunmen struck rural outposts in Giwa and neighbouring districts, turning quiet homesteads into open hunting grounds. In Tunburku, assailants shot two community elders, Alhaji Surajo and Alhaji Ado, while another resident, Ayyuba…
Gunmen shot dead Mallam Nasiru Marafa, the Bursar of the National Open University of Nigeria, as he travelled back from Gusau on Sunday, 6 September 2026. The university registrar, Oladipo Ajayi, confirmed the killing in a formal statement issued from the Abuja headquarters on behalf of the governing council and management. The murder cuts short…
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents ambushed the campaign motorcade of Mustapha Gubio, the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Borno State, along the Kareto-Damasak road on Thursday, 3 September 2026. Gunmen detonated an improvised explosive device before firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifles into the long column of civilian vehicles and police escorts. A joint detachment…
The Kaduna State Police Command seized 332 fake $100 bills, nine homemade firearms, a pump-action rifle, and two stolen vehicles in raids across the state on Wednesday, 2 September 2026. State Police Public Relations Officer Mansir Hassan told reporters in Kaduna that coordinated operations by patrol teams and tactical squads broke several criminal rings. The…