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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
The African Democratic Congress has moved to tighten its grip on legal representation, barring all state chapters and officials from handling any court matters on the party’s behalf and directing that every legal process be channelled to its National Headquarters in Abuja. The decision reflects growing unease within the opposition party over how…
by Fatima Zahra Yahaya When the system designed to protect the poor becomes the very thing people fear most. On 6th January 2026, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie lost her 21-month-old son at a Lagos private hospital. She accused the hospital of criminal negligence, alleging that after sedating her child, the anaesthesiologist switched off his oxygen and…
The killing of a retired general in captivity has pushed the Senate to draw a firm line against one of Nigeria’s longest-running counter-insurgency tools, with lawmakers demanding that captured terrorists be prosecuted rather than resettled, even as the Army announced the surrender of two senior Boko Haram commanders barely a day before the resolution….
Pressure on the Presidency over the widening PFIPC scandal has taken a sharper turn, with Paul Ibe, Media Adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, insisting that President Bola Tinubu’s order for an anti-graft probe means little unless the officials at the heart of the matter step aside first. Ibe, in a post on…
A fresh political storm has gathered around the 2026 budget after former Vice President Atiku Abubakar accused President Bola Tinubu of presiding over what he called a deliberate pattern of budget manipulation, following disclosures that an education agency created to rescue millions of out-of-school children was loaded with billions of naira for road construction…
Nigerians living outside the country now have a clearer path to renewing their passports from home, following the release of an updated step-by-step guide by the Nigeria Immigration Service for its Contactless Passport Application System. The Service published the revised process on its official X handle on Tuesday, urging citizens in the diaspora to…
Nnani Adaobi Marian was a day away from receiving the medical degree she had spent six years earning. She never made it to the ceremony. The 23-year-old, a graduate of Kharkiv National Medical University in eastern Ukraine, died on Sunday, July 5, 2026, in a hospital in Germany, weeks after Russian bombs tore through…
Ali Modu Sheriff has drawn a firm line under the 2027 succession debate, telling former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to abandon any hope of returning to the presidency next cycle and instead hold his ambition until 2031. The former Borno State governor and All Progressives Congress chieftain argued that power must remain in the South…
The bitter feud between the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila, and the self-styled director-general of a disputed government council took a fresh legal turn this week, with the presidential aide threatening to drag his accuser to court over allegations that range from bribery to murder. Through his lawyers, Pinheiro LP,…
Cristiano Ronaldo walked off the pitch at the home of the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night knowing there would be no more World Cups, no more grand entrances on football’s biggest stage. Spain saw to that, grinding out a 1-0 win over Portugal in a round of 16 tie that took almost the full 90…