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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
Atiku Abubakar’s age has returned to the centre of Nigeria’s 2027 presidential contest, but the more important question may not be whether the former vice president is old enough to lead. It is whether age, experience, health, succession and the ability to build a winning coalition will shape how voters judge his latest bid…
Canada is raising the financial threshold for international students seeking study permits from September 1, adding another hurdle for Nigerians hoping to study in the country as Ottawa continues to reduce the size of its international student programme. From September 1, 2026, a single applicant seeking to study outside Quebec will have to demonstrate…
The death of National Population Commission Chairman, Dr Aminu Yusuf Talban Wushishi, on Friday has come at a particularly sensitive point for Nigeria’s population data system, barely eight months after he assumed office and weeks after the commission expanded nationwide digital registration of births and deaths. Yusuf, who was born on April 15, 1960, in…
Adebayo Adelabu’s decision to abandon any internal appeal or court challenge over the All Progressives Congress governorship nomination in Oyo State has removed one immediate threat to the party’s unity, but it has not erased the political questions raised by the contest. The former Minister of Power announced on August 27 that he would no…
More than N600 billion has reportedly been paid to vulnerable Nigerian households through the Federal Government’s cash transfer programme since 2023, but the latest figures have exposed a less obvious question than whether the money was spent: how many households actually received what government promised, and how should the different beneficiary figures now being…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday appealed for $1.1 billion to complete a $2.1 billion aid plan against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, warning that operations could run out of money just as they need to expand. The programme is 48 per cent funded. “Without additional funding, vital operations will…
The Akwa Ibom State Government has banned the use of ambulances to convey corpses for burial, and says any vehicle used that way, whether government, private or mission-owned, can be impounded. State Commissioner for Health Dr Ekem John announced the measure on Thursday at the monthly media briefing of the Ministry of Information. He was…
The Nigeria Premier Football League has signed a three-year title sponsorship with EuroMatch Group worth $7.5 million, ending almost ten years without a conventional title sponsor. The agreement was unveiled in Abuja on Wednesday, 26 August 2026. League chairman Gbenga Elegbeleye said the Warsaw-based company would pay $2.5 million each season. “Let me announce to…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has named senior federal officials who, it says, processed approvals, opened financial channels and allocated offices for the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, an organisation the Presidency has said never existed. The findings are in the commission’s interim investigation report, ordered by President Bola…
Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria Femi Falana has urged the Federal Government to fully implement the National Health Insurance Authority Act of 2022, describing mandatory health insurance as a right that must be enforced to protect Nigerians from the financial burden of healthcare. Falana spoke on Wednesday in Victoria Island, Lagos,…