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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 National Identity Management Commission has denied that Nigeria’s national identity database was hacked, describing a video circulating online as a recycled and previously disclaimed claim from 2024. In a statement signed by its Head of Corporate Communications, Kayode Adegoke, and posted on the commission’s X handle on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, NIMC called the…
Osun State’s 30 local government councils have not received their statutory allocations from the federation for more than 16 months, an interruption that has stalled routine spending at the tier of government closest to residents. An analysis of Federation Account Allocation Committee records shows that about N216 billion meant for the councils was not…
Petroleum product and commodity imports through Lagos ports fell sharply in the first three weeks of September 2026, according to shipping position data from the Nigerian Ports Authority. Total tonnage stood at 1,470,109 metric tonnes for the period, down 38.6 per cent from the 2,392,354 metric tonnes recorded in August. The NPA figures were…
A federal judge has ordered the administration of President Donald Trump to immediately restore White House access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico, days after reporters from the three outlets were barred from the premises. US District Judge Timothy Kelly granted a 14 day temporary restraining order early on Thursday, 24 September 2026, in…
Argentine President Javier Milei told the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, that the world body has become a “useless organisation”, accusing it of sheltering a bureaucracy that has drifted far from the purpose for which it was founded. Milei made the remarks in New York during the general debate of…
Nigeria’s national grid had 5,403.3 megawatts available for distribution as of 8.07pm on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, according to the daily load allocation schedule from the National Control Centre in Osogbo. Of that, 4,379.07MW went to the country’s 11 distribution companies, with the balance set aside for other approved uses. The schedule listed 1,024.18MW…
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has described the N712 billion reconstruction of Terminal 1 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos as a plan to turn the country’s busiest international gateway into a modern, passenger-centred airport. He spoke on Tuesday in Abuja at the opening of the 35th Airports…
Stanley Nwabali has marked his return to the Super Eagles by revisiting the moment that made his name, sharing a video of his penalty shootout heroics from the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations as Nigeria prepare to open their 2027 qualifying campaign. The Chippa United goalkeeper posted the clip on Snapchat, showing his saves…
Accord Party presidential candidate Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has said his late father deliberately concealed his Hausa and royal Yauri heritage from him for almost three decades, a disclosure he made in a statement and set out in his forthcoming autobiography. Olawepo-Hashim, a grandson of the 40th Seriki of Yauri, said his father, Alhaji Hashim Abdullahi…
Nigeria’s Ima gas field, discovered in 1973 but left untouched for more than five decades, has finally secured a Final Investment Decision, with AMNI International and TotalEnergies committing $800 million to bring it into production. The two partners announced the decision on Tuesday, 23 September 2026, clearing the way for one of the country’s…