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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
A promise by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to restore petrol subsidy if elected in 2027 has pushed one of Nigeria’s most divisive economic questions back to the centre of national politics, drawing sharp responses from rival presidential contenders and the ruling party. Atiku, now the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, made…
The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has become the only major political party yet to constitute its presidential campaign council, days after the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, unveiled a 108 member team and nearly a week after the electoral umpire formally opened campaigning for the 2027 general election. The delay has thrown a spotlight…
Fourteen years after a landmark panel handed the Federal Government a blueprint to shrink its sprawling bureaucracy, the machinery of state has grown larger rather than leaner, with newly created ministries, commissions and agencies adding at least N1.13 trillion to the cost of running government in the 2026 fiscal year. The figure captures a…
Renewed demands for an independent inquiry into alleged security abuses in the South-East have placed fresh pressure on the Federal Government, as civil society organisations and rights bodies converge on a single message: the region’s unresolved killings, disappearances and detentions must be investigated and those responsible held to account. The Human Rights Writers Association…
Barely 48 hours after President Bola Tinubu unveiled the team meant to drive his re-election, the opposition has opened an early line of attack, with the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, Rabiu Kwankwaso, faulting the composition of the All Progressives Congress campaign structure and urging its Director-General to step aside. In…
More than two years after President Bola Tinubu carved out a dedicated Federal Ministry of Livestock Development to anchor his economic diversification drive, the ministry says it has yet to receive any capital release since 2024, exposing a widening gap between the government’s ambitions for the sector and the money committed to realising them. The…
Barely a week after the All Progressives Congress lost the Osun State governorship election, a group of party stakeholders has petitioned President Bola Tinubu, placing the blame for the defeat squarely on the immediate past governor and Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola. In an open letter dated 18 August 2026 and…
A fresh suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja has pulled the contest for the African Democratic Congress (ADC) governorship ticket in Oyo State deeper into the courts, as three aspirants press competing claims to a nomination that could shape the 2027 race for the Agodi Government House. The latest twist came when…
At least 53 people, most of them women and children on their way to rice farms, have died in the latest boat disaster on Nigeria’s inland waterways, a tragedy in Sokoto State that has again exposed the wide gap between the country’s water safety rules and their enforcement. The boat capsized on Thursday morning…
A fresh massacre in Plateau State has hardened Washington’s position on Nigeria’s status as a Country of Particular Concern, with a United States lawmaker publicly ruling out any removal of the designation just days after both governments met to review the country’s record on religious freedom and security. Representative Riley Moore, a Republican who represents…