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
On a supermarket shelf, two similar products compete for attention. One was manufactured in Nigeria. The other came from abroad. The Nigerian product may be cheaper and may have travelled a shorter distance. Buying it could support local jobs. Yet the imported alternative, with polished packaging and a familiar name, can still feel like the…
For an industry built around something as old as the written word, publishing has spent much of the last two decades learning how to survive change. The book is no longer confined to a printed page. A manuscript can move from a writer’s computer to an editor, designer and digital marketplace without ever passing through…
The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence has arrived in Nigeria. It has. AI tools are already within reach of Nigerian students, entrepreneurs, professionals, businesses and public institutions. The more difficult question is what happens after the technology arrives. Does it actually change how people work? Does it make businesses more productive? Can it…
There is something deeply absurd about Nigeria boasting that it has the cheapest electricity tariff among 14 African countries when millions of Nigerians still have to buy petrol and diesel to produce the electricity they are supposedly paying for. According to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Nigeria’s average allowed end-user electricity tariff was just…
According to the World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects published in June 2026, the ongoing conflict in the Middle East has sent shockwaves through international markets, particularly by precipitating sharp increases in energy prices. This development reverberates across the globe, contributing to a projected slowdown in global growth to 2.5 percent for the year….
Public health clinics across Nigeria are witnessing an alarming exodus. Low-income patients managing chronic conditions, from HIV and tuberculosis to non-communicable diseases, are increasingly turning away from public hospitals to seek refuge in prayer camps, traditional healing homes, and informal patent medicine stores. This flight is the direct outcome of a severe contraction in foreign…
For decades, Nigeria’s steel industry has symbolised a promise repeatedly made but rarely fulfilled. The country has the raw materials, a large domestic market and a clear need for industrial steel, yet the ambition to build a self-sustaining steel industry has remained elusive. The Federal Government’s latest move to revive the dormant Delta Steel Company…
The dispute over the Nigeria Democratic Congress governorship ticket in Plateau State has moved beyond an internal party disagreement. With the 2027 election calendar advancing, the controversy is becoming a test of whether the relatively new opposition platform can convert its national political profile into a coherent structure at state level. The immediate issue…
Nigeria’s premier fast-moving consumer goods manufacturers and industrial conglomerates have made an aggressive retreat from commercial banking halls, turning instead to domestic debt markets on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) and FMDQ Securities Exchange. As a result of maximum lending rates exceeding 30 percent due to relentless monetary policy tightening by the Central Bank of Nigeria…
The disclosure by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) regarding the nationwide operations of an illegal, self-styled federal “Made-in-Nigeria” agency marks a disturbing milestone in the erosion of public administration. Operating under the name “National Brands Development and Made in Nigeria Special Project Office,” this fictitious parastatal was discovered soliciting funds from subnational governments, leasing…