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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
Workers in the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation are preparing for a fresh assets and liabilities declaration exercise after the Code of Conduct Bureau requested an updated nominal roll of personnel across the office. The directive is contained in an internal circular issued on 28 August 2026 by the Director of Administration, Office…
Nigeria’s Ambassador-designate to Mexico, Reno Omokri, has stated that there is no criminal FBI record linking President Bola Tinubu to criminality, distinguishing between the existence of agency records and a formal criminal record. Speaking on the City Boy Movement Podcast in Abuja on Tuesday, Omokri said an FBI record should not automatically be interpreted as…
The Nigerian equities market extended its bullish run on Tuesday, 1 September 2026, adding N1.22 trillion to investors’ wealth as strong buying interest across key sectors pushed the benchmark index higher. The NGX All-Share Index rose by 0.77 per cent, or 1,883.24 points, to close at 246,082.63 points. This lifted the year-to-date return to…
Nigeria has recorded 1,035 confirmed cases of Lassa fever and 252 deaths across 23 states and 117 local government areas in the first 33 epidemiological weeks of 2026, according to the latest situation report from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. The case fatality rate stands at 24.4 per cent, higher than…
West Africa is advancing regional electricity integration through more than 4,000 kilometres of high-voltage transmission lines that now link the power grids of 15 countries, according to the World Bank. The infrastructure, developed under the West African Power Pool, has enabled cross-border electricity trade that currently accounts for about eight per cent of the…
The most prominent figures in Nigeria’s opposition were absent when six parties gathered in Abuja to begin building the united front they say is needed to unseat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general elections. The empty chairs revived the oldest question in the country’s opposition politics: whether its leaders can place a common…
A renewed row over the place of religion in Nigeria’s politics has flared as the 2027 campaign gathers pace, after human rights lawyer and activist Deji Adeyanju accused opposition presidential candidate Peter Obi of reviving the faith based mobilisation that shaped the bitter 2023 contest. Adeyanju, in a post on his verified social media account…
More than nine months after a Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced Nnamdi Kanu to life imprisonment for terrorism, the appeal he filed against that judgment has still not been listed for hearing, a delay that has now pushed the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to threaten a total boycott of elections across the…
Iran has accused the European Union of surrendering its claim to an independent foreign policy, opening a fresh diplomatic rift as the United States widens the largest economic offensive it has ever directed at Tehran. The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, said on Monday that the bloc could no longer present itself as…
Nigeria’s economy recorded its strongest quarterly expansion in recent periods as improved activity in services, agriculture and oil production pushed real Gross Domestic Product growth to 4.43 per cent in the second quarter of 2026, although analysts warned that weaker industrial performance remains a major obstacle to broader economic recovery. The latest figures from…