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 federal government cleared eight months of withheld salary arrears for university workers on Wednesday, 7 October 2026, after campus labour unions threatened a nationwide strike. The Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation disbursed the long-delayed funds to federal institutions following intense pressure from the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic…
Nigerian public servants under the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council have threatened a three-day warning strike starting on Friday, 2 October 2026, unless President Bola Tinubu slashes petrol prices and approves an emergency wage award. The council wants the federal government to force retail pump rates down to 500 naira per litre from current…
Nigerian public sector workers gave the federal government until September 30 to arrest the rapid collapse of living standards across the civil service or face industrial chaos. The Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, representing state workers from major unions, wrote directly to President Bola Tinubu to demand immediate cash interventions and a baseline wage…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged the harmonisation of salary scales and grade structures across Nigeria’s federal and state civil services. Speaking in Yenagoa on Friday, 18 September, during a foundation-laying ceremony for retired permanent secretaries, he argued that identical public duties deserve equal financial reward. He maintained that state workers match their federal peers…
When Nigeria raised its national minimum wage from ₦30,000 to ₦70,000, the increase was presented as a response to a changing economic reality. But two years after the new wage was signed into law, the story across the country is far from uniform. Some states have gone above the national benchmark. Others are paying exactly…
Federal civil servants have demanded an immediate quadrupling of the national minimum wage to N300,000 per month. The Federal Workers Forum lodged the formal petition on Wednesday, 2 September 2026, writing directly to President Bola Tinubu and the leadership of the National Assembly. The letter, signed by National Coordinator Andrew Emelieze and General Secretary Ogundele…
Nearly half of Nigerian households suffered income or job losses over the past twelve months. Fresh survey findings by SBM Intelligence paint a devastating picture of widespread household economic distress. Rising operational costs and soaring consumer inflation have hollowed out family budgets across the country. Small family enterprises and informal wage earners bore the brunt…
Organised labour has reopened its bitter wage fight with the federal government. The Nigeria Labour Congress wants a minimum monthly wage of 500,000 naira for public workers. Union leaders argue that the existing 70,000 naira floor cannot survive relentless inflation. Skyrocketing food prices and soaring transport fares eroded worker buying power completely. High energy tariffs…
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…
The Nigeria Customs Service has announced plans to transition to an annual recruitment model, with the 2026 intake exercise scheduled to open shortly. The shift aims to replace sporadic recruitment drives with a predictable, institutionalised hiring process. Regular recruitment keeps law enforcement agencies fresh and operational. For years, ad-hoc hiring led to severe staffing deficits,…