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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
The Nigeria Police Force has moved to soften the fallout from the Inspector General of Police’s remarks on citizens filming officers, insisting that Olatunji Disu is not opposed to the practice itself but to what the Force describes as its misuse for social media entertainment. The clarification, issued on Saturday, 12 September 2026 by…
Africa’s largest ever share sale opens to the public on Monday, 14 September 2026, when Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE begins accepting subscriptions for 4.1 billion ordinary shares priced at N525 each, a transaction that could raise about N2.15 trillion, or roughly 1.6 billion dollars, if fully taken up. The offer closes on 13…
The naira closed the week of 12 September 2026 at its strongest level against the United States dollar in more than two years, extending a recovery that has taken the currency from record lows in early 2024 to the firmest official rates since before the Central Bank of Nigeria floated it in June 2023….
Barcelona have offered the clearest account yet of why they walked away from a permanent deal for Marcus Rashford and spent heavily on Anthony Gordon instead, with sporting director Deco saying the England winger simply fitted Hansi Flick’s system better than the Manchester United forward who had spent the previous season on loan at…
The European Union has asked the Kogi State Government for 50 hectares of land, with a Certificate of Occupancy, to serve as the operational base for a proposed water transport corridor linking Lagos and Ikorodu with Ajaokuta, a request that now sits before the state’s approval process. The request was made on Friday in Lokoja…
Nigeria’s Federal Government has fixed 1 October 2026 as the start date for a scheme that will give students in public senior secondary schools and public tertiary institutions 100 megabytes of free internet data every day to reach approved educational websites and learning platforms, with about five million learners expected to benefit in the…
When TikTok permanently removed Carter Efe’s main account on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, it erased a following of more than 5.6 million and upwards of 158 million accumulated likes. The enforcement notice circulated online by the creator’s followers gave the same reason the platform gives thousands of Nigerian users every quarter: repeated violations of…
A 39-year-old Nigerian-born businessman is in custody in Ireland after being stopped at Dublin Airport on a British arrest warrant, in a case that centres on one of the largest single invoice redirection frauds so far disclosed against an Australian mining company. Edwin Omokhuale was detained by officers of An Garda SÃochána on Wednesday afternoon,…
Nigeria’s active telephone subscriptions stood at 195,108,814 in July 2026, against 150.26 million in July 2016, an increase of about 44.85 million lines, or roughly 29.8 per cent, over ten years. The figures come from the monthly industry statistics published by the Nigerian Communications Commission, the sector regulator that collates subscriber data from licensed…
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has raised the price of petrol sold to its customers to N1,350 per litre, up from N1,265, with the new rate taking effect on Saturday, September 12, 2026. The increase was communicated in a circular issued late on Friday by the refinery’s Group Commercial Operations department, which also revised the coastal delivery…