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 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
Christopher Imumolen, factional national chairman of the Accord Party and its presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, has withdrawn from the 2027 presidential contest and declared support for President Bola Tinubu’s bid for a second term, in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, August 5, 2026, and circulated by the News Agency of…
Nine days before Osun State votes for a governor, a single line of instruction to a commercial bank has pulled the state’s finances, its politics and the limits of federal anti graft power into open conflict. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday, August 5, 2026, directed First Bank to place a post…
Gianni Infantino’s decade of near total control over world football has entered its most precarious stretch, with the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, becoming the first sitting head of government from a 2026 World Cup host nation to publicly withdraw confidence in the FIFA president over a shelved plan to sell part of the…
Fresh ground shaking in Nigeria’s capital on Tuesday morning has once again placed the Federal Capital Territory’s quiet but recurring seismic record under public scrutiny, with the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency (NGSA) confirming a light earth tremor that rattled several buildings before dissipating in five seconds. The Seismic Monitoring Station at Utako recorded the…
Three converted penalties, six goals and a night of nervous arithmetic in Rabat have kept Nigeria’s title defence alive at the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, with the Super Falcons beating Egypt 6-2 on Wednesday to finish second in Group C and set up a quarter-final against Cameroon. The result closed one of…
Corporate Nigeria has just closed one of its most profitable six months on record, and the Presidency is claiming credit for it. What the underlying numbers show is a more complicated story of policy, price and timing. The claim came on Wednesday from Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, who…
Three Nigerians are among 25 naturalised Americans whose citizenship the United States Department of Justice is now moving to strip in federal courts, the largest single wave of denaturalisation filings the department says it has ever undertaken. The complaints, filed in various US district courts between July 20 and August 3, 2026, were announced by…
Nearly one in every twelve candidates who sat this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates has ended the season in a state of limbo, with the West African Examinations Council confirming that the results of 167,486 candidates, representing 8.59 per cent of those who sat the 2026 Computer-Based WASSCE, have…
Barely hours after the West African Examinations Council announced the release of the 2026 Computer Based West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates, a document bearing the council’s letterhead, stamps and the signature of its Nigeria National Office head began spreading across WhatsApp groups and social media timelines, naming 50 secondary schools…
Ten additional passport offices across northern and southern Nigeria will have their booklets produced exclusively in Abuja from Monday, August 10, 2026, a shift that triggered fears of a service shutdown and forced the Nigeria Immigration Service into a public clarification on Wednesday. The Service, in a post on its official X handle, dismissed suggestions…