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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
President Bola Tinubu’s insistence that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) remains impartial has run into sharp opposition pushback, with African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain Kenneth Okonkwo warning that a country is in danger when its president becomes the electoral umpire’s public defender. Okonkwo, speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Friday, was reacting…
The Nigerian Army has named General Officers Commanding for four newly created divisions, setting in motion one of the most significant reorganisations of its command structure in more than a decade as the military moves to widen its reach against threats spread across the country. The appointments, contained in a statement issued on Wednesday…
Nigerians seeking United States visas will soon lose the option of routine processing at the American Embassy in Abuja, after Washington announced that the service would be discontinued at the mission and 24 other diplomatic posts across Africa from August 1, 2026. The United States Department of State said the decision forms part of…
Senator Adams Oshiomhole has dismissed Peter Obi’s renewed promise to serve a single four year term if elected president in 2027 as unrealistic and born of desperation, reigniting debate over whether one tenure is enough to reset Nigeria’s troubled economy and security architecture. Speaking on TVC’s Beyond the Headlines, the Edo North senator and…
Nearly three years after her suspension threw a spotlight on alleged financial abuses inside Nigeria’s flagship welfare agency, the former Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programme Agency, Halima Shehu, has publicly rejected claims that she diverted ₦44 billion, insisting she was punished for raising the alarm rather than for any wrongdoing….
Foreign visitors hoping to time their departure from the United States by the expiry date printed on their visas have been told to look elsewhere, as American immigration authorities restate that the real deadline is set at the border, not on the visa. In a public advisory, US authorities reminded travellers that the period…
A decades old United States forfeiture matter that has shadowed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu since his years as a private businessman has been thrust back into the centre of Nigeria’s political contest, this time through the corridors of power in Washington rather than the courtrooms of Abuja. Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C., a Washington based…
President Bola Tinubu’s congratulatory message to Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, the incoming President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), carried more than the usual ceremony. Alongside praise for a historic victory, the President added a pointed instruction: to reach out to her rivals, unify a divided bar, and “make efforts to correct issues that arose during…
Nigeria’s public debt has become the most contested number in the country’s fiscal conversation, and the Federal Government moved on Monday to reclaim the narrative, telling senators that the widely repeated figure of N80 trillion in fresh borrowing under President Bola Tinubu is exaggerated and rooted more in accounting than in new loans….
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday closed one of Nigeria’s most consequential terrorism trials by handing life sentences to two senior commanders of the Ansaru group, only for the Department of State Services to reject the punishment within hours and announce plans to seek a stiffer penalty at the Court of Appeal….