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
Kenya recorded its second fatal Ebola infection on Saturday, testing the state’s capacity to contain its first domestic outbreak of the haemorrhagic disease. The health ministry confirmed that the victim, a 65-year-old woman, caught the virus from an infected male relative who arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo before dying in Nairobi on 5…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has opened an inquiry into commercial lenders that refuse to pay hard currency to their own depositors. Officials in Abuja stepped in after thousands of retail customers reported steep withdrawal caps, fabricated cash shortages, and deliberate delays at bank counters across Lagos and other major commercial hubs. Bankers hoard notes…
Three out of four Nigerians now own a smartphone, up from 64 per cent in 2023. A joint study by KPMG and Orange Group Nigeria, sampling 13,251 consumers across 12 cities, documents this shift towards web-enabled handsets. Cheap handheld devices and an overwhelmingly youthful populace drive this rapid consumer migration away from legacy feature phones….
Four informal miners, including three women and a man named Mallam Fahad Aliyu, died on Tuesday afternoon when an unstable tin excavation pit collapsed on them in the Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State. The accident occurred around twenty past two along a riverbank in the Tangur community, trapping the workers beneath several tonnes…
The Nigeria Police Force freed nine kidnap victims and arrested several criminal suspects during a coordinated 24-hour sweep across multiple states on Friday, 18 September. The quick-response operations targeted violent gangs across rural transit routes, farming communities, and regional hubs. Operatives seized illicit firearms, ammunition, and dangerous weapons while storming remote camps to retrieve captive…
West African governments are accelerating the rollout of the ECOWAS National Biometric Identity Card to dismantle chronic border friction across the region. Seven member states have deployed the card to replace obsolete paper documents, migration officials confirmed at a workshop in Lagos on Wednesday, 16 September 2026. The participating nations include Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Benin,…
Nigerian mobile network operators have rolled out 8,526 new network sites across the country, completing 70 per cent of their industry rollout pledge. The Nigerian Communications Commission disclosed the milestone in an official communiqué following its 110th board meeting in Abuja. The total represents a sharp jump from the roughly 5,000 sites recorded at the…
The United Nations General Assembly thought it was fixing geography when it voted to ditch 16th-century European cartography, but it bought a diplomatic storm instead. On 4 September, the global assembly voted overwhelmingly to promote the Equal Earth map projection over the old Mercator model. The African Union spent months pushing for the change to…
Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission approved the initial public offering of Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals on Friday, 4 September 2026, clearing the path for a historic N2.15 trillion capital raise. The corporate regulator cleared the firm to issue 4.1 billion ordinary shares at N525 each, while registering its existing pool of 120.13 billion ordinary…
When Nigeria raised its national minimum wage from ₦30,000 to ₦70,000, the increase was presented as a response to a changing economic reality. But two years after the new wage was signed into law, the story across the country is far from uniform. Some states have gone above the national benchmark. Others are paying exactly…