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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
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, has said he would moderate petrol pump prices across the country if elected president in 2027 by removing corruption from the subsidy system and improving domestic refining arrangements. Speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Thursday, 10 September 2026, Obi stated: “We’ll moderate fuel…
The clinic on Rama 1 Road in Bangkok’s Pathum Wan district had a file on Igho Ubiribo going back to 2024. By the time Thai health inspectors walked through its doors on 7 September 2026, that file recorded five separate procedures on the same patient, the last of which preceded his death by a matter…
A single social media post that told Nigerians to pull their money out of one of the country’s largest payment platforms has ended in an arrest, three seized phones and an open police file. The Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre says it arrested Hafsat Abubakar, 27, on September 4, 2026, in connection with a…
Barcelona midfielder Rodri has publicly apologised to Valencia and their captain José Gayà after television cameras appeared to catch him describing the club as “very weak” from the substitutes’ bench during a La Liga fixture at Mestalla. The apology came on Wednesday night at the Spotify Camp Nou, minutes after Barcelona opened their Champions…
A man who allegedly presented himself online as the personal assistant to Nigeria’s examinations chief is in police custody, and investigators say the bank account he used to collect money belonged to a relative who had been buried weeks earlier. The Nigeria Police Force says the suspect, Nwogba Arinze, was picked up on August 27,…
Peter Obi has returned to the most contested question of Nigeria’s last presidential election, alleging that the man who presided over it was not neutral. Speaking in an interview with ARISE News, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress said Mahmood Yakubu, who chaired the Independent National Electoral Commission through the February 2023 poll,…
Social Democratic Party presidential candidate Adewole Adebayo says he would find a place in his cabinet for Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, but only on one condition: that the minister says a great deal less in public. Speaking in an interview with Symfoni, Adebayo offered an assessment that resists the…
The Nigeria Democratic Congress says it wants ordinary Nigerians, not wealthy financiers, to pay for its 2027 campaign, a proposition that will be tested against an electoral law that now permits a single donor to give as much as N500m. Speaking on Arise News’ Prime Time on Wednesday, the party’s national leader, Senator Seriake Dickson,…
The naira opened trading on Thursday, September 10, 2026, at about ₦1,322.72 to the United States dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market, holding close to its strongest official level in two years while dealers in the unregulated parallel market continued to quote the currency considerably weaker, at roughly ₦1,380 to buy and ₦1,390 to…
Nigeria’s upstream oil and gas regulator has told investors holding flare gas sites that their awards are not permanent entitlements. Companies that cannot show real progress within a year of receiving an award risk losing it. The warning came from Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, Commission Chief Executive of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, during a…