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
The African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat has adopted Nigeria’s Public-Private Partnership model to drive a continent-wide 3.1 billion dollar customs modernisation programme. Trade officials announced the agreement following high-level summits in Abuja aimed at eliminating physical trade barriers across member states. The strategy replicates Nigeria’s Trade Modernisation Project, which uses private capital to overhaul…
Five people died in Osun State after rival cult groups engaged in a bloody gun battle across residential neighborhoods. The violence erupted in the Ilesa metropolis, where armed gang members opened fire during a bitter turf dispute. Terrified residents fled for safety as the warring factions exchanged heavy gunfire across public streets. Local police patrols…
The Naira opened the trading week on a stronger footing at the official foreign exchange market, gaining N5.54 against the United States dollar. Official figures from the Central Bank of Nigeria show the local currency strengthened to reverse recent losses. This modest uptick offers brief respite after a period of sustained volatility across the official…
The Nigerian Communications Commission has initiated fresh enforcement proceedings against mobile network operators over persistent service failures. Regulatory officials issued pre-enforcement notices to firms failing key performance benchmarks across voice and data channels. The commission aims to end years of unpunished network drops and unexplained data depletion. Operators now face hefty financial penalties or mandatory…
Osun State police officers released Environment Commissioner Mayowa Adejoorin after keeping him in detention for twenty-four hours. Security forces grabbed the state official on Friday following a violent shooting near an All Progressives Congress rally in Ilesa. Police spokesman Abiodun Ojelabi linked the cabinet member’s arrest to an intercepted Lexus vehicle containing spent ammunition and…
Fresh court documents show Nigeria’s anti-graft agency secretly froze three Osun State government accounts rather than the single bank facility it publicly acknowledged. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission obtained a sweeping ex parte court order in Abuja on August 5th to lock down state money. Investigator affidavits targeted both the state’s primary federal allocation…
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…