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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
Nigeria’s major regional blocs have converged on a single demand ahead of the 2027 elections, that anyone seeking the presidency should open up their past to public examination. The call, however, runs into a constitutional standard that sets a far lower bar than the groups appear to want, and into a live controversy already…
The death of veteran actor Taiwo Hassan, the Yoruba film star known to millions as Ogogo, has done more than plunge Nollywood into mourning. It has again exposed a pattern that Nigeria’s health authorities have struggled for years to break, with prominent citizens falling to cancers that are frequently detected too late to treat. Hassan…
Millions of Nigerians now need their fingerprints to sit an examination, open a bank account or collect a national identity number. For a small number of citizens whose fingerprints never formed, that requirement has turned ordinary transactions into a recurring struggle, a problem brought back into public view by a young woman’s account of living…
The death of Taiwo Hassan, the veteran actor known to millions of Nigerians simply as Ogogo, has drawn tributes across the film industry and renewed attention to the fragile support available to ageing entertainers who fall seriously ill. Hassan died on Sunday, 23 August 2026, at the age of 66, after a battle with…
The formal accession of Nigeria to the World Energy Council and the simultaneous inauguration of its National Member Committee in Abuja mark a renewed diplomatic posture in the international energy arena. Chaired by Waltersmith Petroman Oil Chairman Abdulrazaq Isa, with former Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited executive Bala Wunti as Chief Executive Officer, the new…
Major pan-African telecommunications operators have entered into commercial agreements and conducted technical trials with low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite providers to deploy direct-to-cell services and satellite-backed cellular backhaul across the continent. Commercial partnerships involving operators like MTN, Airtel, and constellation managers such as SpaceX’s Starlink and Eutelsat OneWeb mark a strategic shift in African network architecture….
A viral clip of Afrobeats star David Adeleke, better known as Davido, playfully needling Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike with the taunt that he had won and “beat” the minister’s side has become the lighter face of a swift political thaw in Osun State, where a bruising campaign has given way to a…
Atiku Abubakar has placed insecurity and the removed petrol subsidy at the centre of his 2027 campaign, promising a rapid security overhaul in his first 100 days in office and vowing to reverse one of President Bola Tinubu’s signature economic reforms, a stance that has already provoked firm pushback from the Federal Government. Speaking…
The Osun State Government says it will establish a ₦500 million Election Violence Victims Endowment Fund to support verified victims and bereaved families from the August governorship poll. Governor Ademola Adeleke announced the fund on Wednesday, 19 August, in Osogbo, shortly after receiving his certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission for…
Governor Ademola Adeleke’s Special Adviser and Spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, has pushed back against suggestions that Osun State residents were blindsided by the governor’s endorsement of President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election bid, insisting the endorsement predates Adeleke’s own victory at Saturday’s governorship poll. Rasheed made the clarification on Arise Television on Tuesday, responding to questions…