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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
A promise by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to restore petrol subsidy if elected in 2027 has pushed one of Nigeria’s most divisive economic questions back to the centre of national politics, drawing sharp responses from rival presidential contenders and the ruling party. Atiku, now the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, made…
The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has become the only major political party yet to constitute its presidential campaign council, days after the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, unveiled a 108 member team and nearly a week after the electoral umpire formally opened campaigning for the 2027 general election. The delay has thrown a spotlight…
Secondary schools across Nigeria will lose the freedom to upload and amend students’ Continuous Assessment scores at will from the 2026/2027 session, following the Federal Government’s release of new operational guidelines that tie every candidate’s records to a national identity trail and fixed national deadlines. Under the guidelines, examination bodies including the West African…
Nigeria Stakes $50bn Offshore Bet On New Deep Water Tax Order Nigeria is pinning fresh hopes on its deep offshore fields to lift crude output and shore up strained public finances, after President Bola Tinubu approved a tax incentive that the upstream regulator says could draw as much as $50 billion in investment and add…
The sentencing of a young man in the American Midwest to more than a decade behind bars has quietly become a reference point in one of the most difficult questions facing law enforcement today: what happens when criminals treat artificial intelligence as a co conspirator, and the machine’s memory later helps convict them. Deron…
The death of veteran actor Taiwo Hassan, the Yoruba film star known to millions as Ogogo, has done more than plunge Nollywood into mourning. It has again exposed a pattern that Nigeria’s health authorities have struggled for years to break, with prominent citizens falling to cancers that are frequently detected too late to treat. Hassan…
Fourteen years after a landmark panel handed the Federal Government a blueprint to shrink its sprawling bureaucracy, the machinery of state has grown larger rather than leaner, with newly created ministries, commissions and agencies adding at least N1.13 trillion to the cost of running government in the 2026 fiscal year. The figure captures a…
Renewed demands for an independent inquiry into alleged security abuses in the South-East have placed fresh pressure on the Federal Government, as civil society organisations and rights bodies converge on a single message: the region’s unresolved killings, disappearances and detentions must be investigated and those responsible held to account. The Human Rights Writers Association…
Jose Mourinho has cast himself as the loudest defender of Vinicius Junior, accusing rival players and supporters of bullying the Brazil forward, in an intervention made all the more striking because the same manager was among his sharpest critics only months ago. Mourinho made the accusation after Real Madrid opened their La Liga campaign…
Barely 48 hours after President Bola Tinubu unveiled the team meant to drive his re-election, the opposition has opened an early line of attack, with the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, Rabiu Kwankwaso, faulting the composition of the All Progressives Congress campaign structure and urging its Director-General to step aside. In…