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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
Nigeria’s segment of the stock market reserved for young, fast-growing companies has recorded its strongest year yet, a performance that is changing how ambitious businesses think about raising money. The NGX Growth Index, which tracks companies listed on the Growth Board of Nigerian Exchange Limited, rose 257.81 per cent in 2025, climbing from 7,762.86…
More than two years after President Bola Tinubu carved out a dedicated Federal Ministry of Livestock Development to anchor his economic diversification drive, the ministry says it has yet to receive any capital release since 2024, exposing a widening gap between the government’s ambitions for the sector and the money committed to realising them. The…
Millions of Nigerians now need their fingerprints to sit an examination, open a bank account or collect a national identity number. For a small number of citizens whose fingerprints never formed, that requirement has turned ordinary transactions into a recurring struggle, a problem brought back into public view by a young woman’s account of living…
A widening anti corruption inquiry into fictitious government bodies has met a firm rebuttal from George Buchi Nwabueze, who maintains that the office at the centre of the latest scandal is a legitimate special project domiciled in the Presidency since 2010, and not the fake federal agency the authorities have described. Nwabueze, National Coordinator…
The death of Taiwo Hassan, the veteran actor known to millions of Nigerians simply as Ogogo, has drawn tributes across the film industry and renewed attention to the fragile support available to ageing entertainers who fall seriously ill. Hassan died on Sunday, 23 August 2026, at the age of 66, after a battle with…
Barely a week after the All Progressives Congress lost the Osun State governorship election, a group of party stakeholders has petitioned President Bola Tinubu, placing the blame for the defeat squarely on the immediate past governor and Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola. In an open letter dated 18 August 2026 and…
A fresh suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja has pulled the contest for the African Democratic Congress (ADC) governorship ticket in Oyo State deeper into the courts, as three aspirants press competing claims to a nomination that could shape the 2027 race for the Agodi Government House. The latest twist came when…
Australia has become the first country to attach a fixed price to big technology companies that refuse to pay for journalism, a shift that Nigerian publishers and regulators are following closely as they press a parallel case against the same firms at home. The Australian Parliament passed the News Bargaining Incentive on Thursday, 20…
At least 53 people, most of them women and children on their way to rice farms, have died in the latest boat disaster on Nigeria’s inland waterways, a tragedy in Sokoto State that has again exposed the wide gap between the country’s water safety rules and their enforcement. The boat capsized on Thursday morning…
The naira has entered one of its calmest stretches since Nigeria floated the currency in 2023, holding within a narrow range against the dollar even as a gap between the official and parallel markets persists. The relative stability marks a sharp departure from the turbulence that followed the exchange rate reforms of the past…