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
Barely ten months after Nigeria escaped one of the world’s toughest financial watchlists, its own intelligence unit has warned that the groups behind the country’s insecurity are quietly rebuilding their money pipelines online, using crowdfunding appeals, women’s bank accounts and the SIM cards of dead people to stay ahead of the banks. The warning…
A widening anti corruption inquiry into fictitious government bodies has met a firm rebuttal from George Buchi Nwabueze, who maintains that the office at the centre of the latest scandal is a legitimate special project domiciled in the Presidency since 2010, and not the fake federal agency the authorities have described. Nwabueze, National Coordinator…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency intercepted 1.49 tonnes of imported synthetic cannabis valued at over N4.4 billion at Apapa Port and Lekki Deep Sea Port in Lagos. Operatives uncovered the contraband in two separate maritime containers loaded from the Port of Laem Chabang in Thailand. Agency spokesman Femi Babafemi confirmed the development in an…
Nigeria has taken its clearest step yet towards treating attempted suicide as a health emergency rather than a crime, with the Federal Executive Council approving an amendment to the National Mental Health Act that would end more than a century of colonial-era punishment for people in psychological distress. The Coordinating Minister of Health and…
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…
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…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has rejected a bail application from a jailed former civil servant serving twenty-four years for corruption. Garba Mohammed Dukku wanted freedom while challenging his conviction for diverting three hundred and nineteen million naira in public funds. The appellate court ruled that the former finance director failed to prove any…
The federal civil service remains an elaborate cash machine for fraudsters. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has uncovered nine hundred and eight suspected ghost workers across fifty government agencies. Anti-graft agents recovered nearly nine hundred and forty-two million naira in stolen salary payments. The Nigeria Police Force topped the list of…
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…
The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the remand of three Mexican nationals and seven Nigerian accomplices following the discovery of an industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency arraigned the ten defendants on an 11-count charge bordering on illegal drug manufacturing, chemical diversion, and international narcotics trafficking. The anti-graft agency values…