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
Private petroleum depots across Nigeria pushed wholesale petrol prices to a record 1,900 naira per litre on Friday, 9 October, gutting the state oil company’s recent price-cut announcement within hours of its release. Wholesale tank farm operators in Port Harcourt raised loading fees by up to 170 naira, forcing retail filling stations across the Niger…
The Nigeria Customs Service intercepted two forty-foot containers carrying illicit drugs worth ₦3.67bn at the Tin Can Island Port in Lagos on Friday, 9 October. Port command spokesman Oscar Ivara confirmed that officers seized over 1.2 tonnes of narcotics during joint physical examinations with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Smugglers now disguise synthetic narcotics…
Professor Fatiu Arogundade warned on Thursday, 8 October 2026, that roughly 25.4 million adult Nigerians now live with overt or covert chronic kidney disease. The vice chancellor of the Federal University of Medicine and Medical Sciences in Abeokuta delivered this grim epidemiological appraisal during an academic lecture, noting that an unrecorded health disaster currently guts…
Houthi insurgents unleashed ballistic missiles and explosive drones against Aden International Airport on Wednesday, 7 October 2026, while firing a long-range weapon toward the Saudi capital of Riyadh. One projectile struck near the main runway just minutes before a commercial flight from Cairo planned to touch down, forcing air traffic controllers to divert the airliner…
A joint tactical strike team tracking Islamic State West Africa Province operatives through the dense forest belt of Owo in Ondo State tracked down and killed the group’s regional operational commander, Abdussamad Ohida, on Sunday, 4 October 2026. The dawn assault combined ground strike forces from the Nigerian Army, the Department of State Services, and…
Non-communicable ailments accounted for 74 per cent of all human mortality in 2023, according to fresh Global Health Estimates that the World Health Organisation published in Geneva on Saturday, 3 October 2026. The figures reveal that eight of the ten leading causes of death worldwide now stem from chronic conditions such as stroke, heart disease,…
Nigeria’s electoral umpire enrolled more than 9.32 million young citizens during its 2026 continuous voter registration exercise, unveiling the tally in Abuja on Wednesday, 30 September, alongside nine celebrity ambassadors from the film, music, and comedy sectors to mobilise new voters. Speaking through national commissioner Rhoda Gumus at the investiture ceremony, commission chairman Joash Amupitan…
Nigeria has expanded its financial safety net to shield ninety-eight per cent of bank depositors from catastrophic bank collapses, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation Managing Director Thompson Oludare Sunday announced in Abuja on Thursday, 1 October 2026. The corporation raised its maximum insurance cover tenfold from 500,000 naira to five million naira for commercial bank customers…
United States President Donald Trump gathered the architects of the artificial intelligence boom at the White House on Tuesday, 29 September 2026, to sign a voluntary accord that pledges industry self-policing instead of binding statutory regulation. Joined by House Speaker Mike Johnson, the president secured signatures from tech heavyweights including Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei,…
African nations forfeit billions of dollars each year by shipping raw farm produce overseas instead of processing harvests at domestic factories, agricultural policymakers and financiers warned at the Agriculture Summit Africa in Abuja on Thursday, 24 September 2026. The continent holds two-thirds of the world’s uncultivated arable land, yet governments squander over 100 billion dollars…