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
The controversy over an alleged N250 million luxury handbag belonging to Margaret Obi has drawn a direct response from her husband, Peter Obi, the Nigeria Democratic Congress presidential candidate, who says his wife runs her own business and that her private spending has nothing to do with his handling of public funds. Obi made the…
Aliko Dangote has renewed his long running argument that Nigeria’s wealthiest citizens are pouring money into private jets and luxury while doing too little to build the factories that create jobs, tying the criticism directly to the productive capacity he says the country needs to escape its economic difficulties. Africa’s richest man made the…
The politics of a public health emergency has broken into the open in Gombe State, where the ruling All Progressives Congress has accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party of turning a diphtheria outbreak into a partisan weapon, even as the disease continues to kill children across northern Nigeria. In a statement issued in Gombe…
Peter Obi has rejected a fresh claim by the Anambra State Government that it is still servicing loans contracted during his time as governor, reopening a long running argument over the state of the finances he left behind in 2014 and injecting a familiar credibility question into the early stages of his 2027 presidential…
Peter Obi has given his consent for the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, to release his academic records, moving to defuse a documentary dispute that has now produced three separate court actions and reopened a wider argument about how far scrutiny of candidates should reach before the 2027 election. In a statement posted on his…
The governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have drawn a firm line against cross party alliances ahead of the 2027 general elections, resolving to back only candidates fielded by their own party. The decision, taken at a closed door meeting in Abuja on Monday, 14 September 2026, marks the clearest…
Nearly six of every ten domestic flights in Nigeria failed to depart on schedule in August 2026, according to figures published by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, a reliability record that has drawn fresh scrutiny of the country’s airlines and the strained operating environment behind the delays. The NCAA’s Summary of Domestic Airline Flight…
The Nigerian Exchange opened the trading week in positive territory on Monday, 14 September 2026, adding about N160bn in value on the same day Aliko Dangote sounded the gong to launch the largest public share offer in the country’s history, an event that has dominated market attention for weeks and continues to shape how investors…
A joint FIFA and CAF delegation opened a two day assessment of the leadership crisis inside the Nigeria Football Federation in Abuja on Monday, holding its first talks with the National Sports Commission chairman, Shehu Dikko, and members of the federation’s federating units as world football’s governing bodies weigh how to return the NFF…
Nigeria’s spending on imported arms and ammunition rose sharply in the first half of 2026, climbing to N55.06bn from N26.95bn in the same period of 2025, a 104.31 per cent increase that arrives less than five months before the country returns to the polls. The figures are drawn from the National Bureau of Statistics foreign…