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 Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has announced the end of Foreign Exchange (Forex) sales and new licence approval to Bureau De Change (BDC) operators in the country. Emefiele disclosed this at the end of the Apex Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) two-day meeting in Abuja on Tuesday 27th July…
US lawmakers are holding down an agreed sale of arms to Nigeria, alleging poor human rights records of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government, as the country grapples with multiple security crises. The allegation of the American lawmakers does not correlate with the reality of living in Nigeria, is largely founded on anti-Nigerian propaganda in the social…
The story of Abba Kyari, the Deputy Commissioner of Police and erstwhile head of the Nigerian Police Intelligence Response Team speaks to the fate of all men who are overtaken by hubris, that flaw of character from which tragedies have been written from Sophocles to Shakespeare. Every tragic hero or anti-hero soon begins to create…
Homicides are up by nearly 14 per cent in New York, 22 per cent in Los Angeles and 13 percent in Washington DC in 2021. In fact, the year 2021 has been described as the most deadly year of gun violence in the US in the last two decades. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and…
It has been a long wait for South Africans who have been watching a “political movie”, with former President Jacob Zuma playing the lead role. No matter the outcome, this development is a tribute to South Africa’s judiciary and democracy that a former President and freedom fighter has been imprisoned for trying to evade accountability…
Elections were held in Lagos on Saturday 24 July 2021 to choose new leaders for the 57 Councils in the State; the Councils comprise of 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs). The polls were however met with widespread voter apathy and extremely low turn-out, with many Lagosians only aware of the…
  Born on January 2, 1976, in Zaria, to the ruling class family of the Sullubawa clan, Hadiza Bala Usman ancestry is heavily decorated with royalty. Her father, Yusufu Bala Usman, was the grandson of Sarkin Katsina, Muhammadu Katsina Dikko. Yusufu Bala Usman was a prominent academic and historian, He was the founder of the…
Nigeria loses 138,400 barrels of crude oil per day (about 7% of its total production) to theft, oil spills, or shortage in production, according to a report from the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI).         The NEITI report further said that Nigeria has lost more than 505 million barrels…
In a recent United nations Development Programme (UNDP) Report, which was published on the crisis in the north-east of Nigeria, it was revealed that the conflict in the region could result in the loss of 1.1 million Nigerian lives by 2030, if the current investment deficit in development is not addressed. Since 2009, the devastating conflict…
The move by the House of Representatives to amend the Nigerian Press Council (NPC) Act Cap N128, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1992, has been generating heated reactions from stakeholders in the media industry. The attempt is part of government efforts to curb the spread of fake news and misinformation in the public domain….