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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 Ambassador-designate to Mexico, Reno Omokri, has stated that there is no criminal FBI record linking President Bola Tinubu to criminality, distinguishing between the existence of agency records and a formal criminal record. Speaking on the City Boy Movement Podcast in Abuja on Tuesday, Omokri said an FBI record should not automatically be interpreted as…
West Africa is advancing regional electricity integration through more than 4,000 kilometres of high-voltage transmission lines that now link the power grids of 15 countries, according to the World Bank. The infrastructure, developed under the West African Power Pool, has enabled cross-border electricity trade that currently accounts for about eight per cent of the…
A renewed row over the place of religion in Nigeria’s politics has flared as the 2027 campaign gathers pace, after human rights lawyer and activist Deji Adeyanju accused opposition presidential candidate Peter Obi of reviving the faith based mobilisation that shaped the bitter 2023 contest. Adeyanju, in a post on his verified social media account…
More than nine months after a Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced Nnamdi Kanu to life imprisonment for terrorism, the appeal he filed against that judgment has still not been listed for hearing, a delay that has now pushed the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to threaten a total boycott of elections across the…
Iran has accused the European Union of surrendering its claim to an independent foreign policy, opening a fresh diplomatic rift as the United States widens the largest economic offensive it has ever directed at Tehran. The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, said on Monday that the bloc could no longer present itself as…
A Federal High Court decision expected in October has placed the internal processes of political parties and compliance with electoral rules at the centre of a fresh legal debate ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 general elections. The case before the Federal High Court in Ibadan concerns the All Progressives Congress, APC, primary election for the…
The dispute over the Nigeria Democratic Congress candidates for the 2027 Anambra State House of Assembly elections has shifted from political accusation to a question that can potentially be settled by electronic records, as the Independent National Electoral Commission says its candidate nomination system contains an audit trail capable of showing how the disputed…
Human rights lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi’s description of social media personality Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, as the “hope of the common man” has reopened a wider question about public confidence in Nigeria’s justice system, particularly as the activist’s appearance at the Nigerian Bar Association’s 66th Annual General Conference generated…
President Bola Tinubu’s latest attempt to stop the release of US investigative records has revived a three decade old controversy, but the legal dispute now centres less on whether a 1993 forfeiture occurred and more on whether records from an American law enforcement investigation can be withheld under US privacy and investigative exemptions. Tinubu,…
Nigeria’s transmission network now has an infrastructure capacity of 54,995 megawatts across 333 transmission lines, according to the Transmission Company of Nigeria, but the figure needs to be viewed against the much smaller amount of electricity the country actually generates and delivers to consumers. The latest disclosure by TCN General Manager, Operations, Godwin Aguiyi, has…