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
Lagos lost a prominent private figure with the sudden passing of Anthony Adeniyi Adeosun. The sixty-two-year-old businessman died on Wednesday in Lagos State after an active career in private enterprise. He was the husband to former finance minister Kemi Adeosun. The Adeosun family announced his death through a formal statement on Thursday morning. His passing…
A landmark wage deal threatens to divide Nigeria’s public university system. Fifty-seven state-owned universities face acute instability as sub-national governments ignore a federally negotiated 40 per cent salary increase for academics. The national agreement promised sweeping pay rises and fresh allowances for university lecturers. Only ten state-owned institutions currently honour the higher pay structure. Thousands…
Artificial intelligence now powers fifty-five per cent of all cybercrimes across Africa as digital fraud turns into an automated global industry. A fresh report from INTERPOL shows continental losses more than doubled to four hundred and eighty-four million dollars over two years. Rapid mobile expansion gives internet fraudsters access to over one billion new victims…
Masked Israeli settlers have launched a fresh wave of arson attacks across the occupied West Bank, torching mosques, vehicles, and farmland. The assailants stormed Palestinian villages overnight, hurling Molotov cocktails at religious sites and setting private property ablaze. Residents and emergency crews fought the flames to prevent destruction. Slogans in Hebrew scrawled across charred walls…
A Greek-operated air defence battery deployed in Saudi Arabia intercepted two ballistic missiles on Saturday. Houthi militants launched the projectile barrage from Yemen towards critical oil refineries in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu. Saudi Civil Defence authorities issued emergency siren warnings to residents before the US-made Patriot battery neutralised the incoming threat in…
Nigeria’s manufacturing sector has issued a grim warning regarding persistent domestic price pressures. The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria stated on Friday that food and core inflation will not ease without fundamental structural reforms. Association Director-General Segun Ajayi-Kadir warned that high energy tariffs, foreign exchange scarcity, and extortionate interest rates continue to cripple production. Factory owners…
The Federal Government has secured guilty pleas from three terrorism suspects linked to the kidnapping of students and teachers in Oyo State. Prosecutors brought the men before the Federal High Court in Abuja on fresh terrorism charges. The defendants admitted guilt on several counts involving kidnapping, arms possession, and terror financing. Their sudden confession hands…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 26.5 per cent following its latest Monetary Policy Committee meeting in Abuja. Central Bank Governor Olayemi Cardoso announced the unanimous hold decision on Tuesday after evaluating lingering domestic risks and global geopolitical market shocks. The apex bank prioritised exchange rate stability and…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has intercepted 1.63 million pills of high-strength tramadol smuggled through a West African transit corridor. State narcotics agents seized the massive haul of 250mg opioids from two long-distance trailers during coordinated operations along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The vehicles carried the illicit stock inside specially altered compartments welded beneath their…
India has successfully launched its first privately built orbital rocket into space from the state-run Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The four-stage Vikram-1 vehicle, developed by aerospace startup Skyroot Aerospace, successfully reached low-Earth orbit on Saturday morning. This maiden test flight makes India only the third country in the world with domestic private orbital…