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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
The push to give Nigeria’s states their own police forces moved forward on two fronts on Tuesday. The Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill said it had handed the draft National Policing Bill, 2026, and 29 consequential amendment bills to the Ministry of Justice for review. On the same day, the Ogun, Delta,…
Five men accused of abducting 20 prospective corps members and four other travellers in Imo State were arraigned on Tuesday by the Department of State Services. The arraignment came almost three weeks after the Independence Day attack that left families in Oyo State waiting a week for news of their children. The defendants appeared before…
The Federal Government has confirmed a case of Ebola virus disease in Abuja, bringing Nigeria into a regional outbreak that has infected more than 9,500 people in Central and East Africa since May. The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Ali Pate, said on Tuesday that the patient, a woman who had recently…
Millions of homes and businesses across Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti have been without power since Monday morning after members of the National Union of Electricity Employees shut down operational facilities of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company. The union is pressing for the resolution of welfare and emolument disputes that have lingered since a…
The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has asked the National Assembly to raise the penalty for manufacturing or distributing fake drugs from fines as low as N5,000 to a minimum of N25 million, with prison terms of up to 20 years. The society’s president, Ayuba Tanko Ibrahim, made the case at a press conference in Lagos…
Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele has warned that merely considering a return to petrol subsidy could push the naira to between N3,000 and N4,000 per dollar, triggering capital flight and worsening the cost-of-living crisis. He spoke at a press briefing after the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok, where he said financial markets had…
The Nigeria Customs Service has opened a review window for 397 applicants disqualified from its 2024/2025 recruitment, after protests from candidates who appeared on the final shortlist but were stopped from proceeding to the training college. The Comptroller-General, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, ordered a case-by-case reassessment after meeting some of the aggrieved applicants, according to…
The Federal Government has presented a housing delivery model that mobilises $125 million in private investment without direct funding of construction to African countries, even as Nigeria’s own housing shortage remains unresolved. The model, presented by Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission Director-General Jobson Ewalefoh at a continental forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, targets 100,000 housing…
The Court of Arbitration for Sport will deliver its ruling on Senegal’s appeal against the loss of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations title by the end of November, the Lausanne-based court has confirmed, ending months of uncertainty over who is the rightful African champion. A hearing was held behind closed doors on October…
Peter Obi has moved to contain the fallout from his advice to Nigerians in the United Kingdom, insisting he never asked them to abandon relatives at home and that his message was distorted by political opponents. The Nigeria Democratic Congress presidential candidate made the clarification in a post on his X account on Tuesday, a…