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
Motorists and job seekers navigating Nigeria’s tightening documentation regime now have a clearer roadmap, following fresh guidance from the Nigeria Police Force on how to secure a Police Character Certificate and a Tinted Glass Permit through its digital portal. The guidelines, published on the Police Specialised Services Automation Project platform known as POSSAP, allow…
A combative pledge by President Bola Tinubu to “wrestle” his rivals ahead of the 2027 general election has drawn a sharp rebuke from former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, reigniting a bitter contest over the state of Nigeria’s economy and the direction of the country’s public finances. Tinubu had, during an audience with the leadership…
The Nigerian Army has named General Officers Commanding for four newly created divisions, setting in motion one of the most significant reorganisations of its command structure in more than a decade as the military moves to widen its reach against threats spread across the country. The appointments, contained in a statement issued on Wednesday…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board will on Friday close one of the longest and most consequential chapters in its history, as its Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, formally transfers power to his successor, Professor Segun Aina, at a ceremony in Abuja. The board confirmed that the handover holds on Friday, July 31, 2026, from…
A British university lecturer sacked for referring to his female students as “females” has run out of legal options, after an appeal court upheld his dismissal in a case that sharpens the long running debate over where academic freedom ends and workplace misconduct begins. Russell Cherrington, a senior film studies lecturer at the University…
Barely two weeks to Osun State’s governorship election, the arrest of the Secretary to the State Government, Teslim Igbalaye, alongside five other persons has triggered a fierce standoff between the Nigeria Police Force and the administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke, sharpening anxieties over the neutrality of security agencies in the August 15 poll. The…
Renewed profit taking swept through the Nigerian Exchange on Wednesday, erasing about N648bn from the value of listed equities and halting the brief recovery that had lifted the market only a day earlier. The benchmark All Share Index shed 0.41 per cent to close at 246,980.17 points, down from 247,984.55 points at the open,…
Nigerians seeking United States visas will soon lose the option of routine processing at the American Embassy in Abuja, after Washington announced that the service would be discontinued at the mission and 24 other diplomatic posts across Africa from August 1, 2026. The United States Department of State said the decision forms part of…
Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has credited a deliberate public communication strategy for helping Nigeria secure the landmark Paris Club debt relief that cleared roughly 30 billion dollars in obligations during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Okonjo-Iweala made the remarks on Wednesday in Abuja at the public presentation of…
Households across Nigeria pulled back sharply from bank borrowing in 2025, pushing consumer credit into its first annual contraction in six years as punishing interest rates reshaped how Nigerians and their lenders approached debt. Figures contained in the Central Bank of Nigeria’s 2025 Annual Report and Statement of Accounts show that outstanding consumer credit…