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
Nigeria has opened a nationwide digital register for citizens aged 15 to 35, hoping to map its vast army of jobless young people. Minister of Youth Development Ayodele Olawande unveiled the enrolment scheme in Abuja to build an integrated census of skills, trade vocations, and academic credentials across all 774 local government areas. The state…
Nigeria’s annual fiscal envelope remains far too small to lift more than two hundred million citizens out of grinding poverty, Minister of Budget and Economic Planning Abubakar Atiku Bagudu told lawmakers and civic groups in Abuja on Monday, 28 September 2026. Speaking at a legislative capacity workshop on budget integrity, Bagudu insisted that public fury…
An electrical surge triggered a fire at the Nigeria Customs Service Western Marine Command in Apapa, Lagos, destroying key administrative spaces just as a new leadership team assumed duty. An early-morning electrical spark in an administrative facility quickly escalated into a major fire at the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Western Marine Command headquarters in…
The Federal Government has placed 24 states and the Federal Capital Territory on alert for flooding between 27 September and 10 October 2026, following forecasts of heavy rain, saturated soil, rising river levels and increased surface runoff. According to the advisory, the warning came from the National Flood Early Warning Systems Centre, which sits under…
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday fixed 13 October to hear an application by Atiku Abubakar seeking to amend his suit challenging President Bola Tinubu’s eligibility to contest the 2027 presidential election. Justice Inyang Ekwo set the date, saying it would allow the parties to regularise their court processes. He acted after…
A commercial airliner from Johannesburg touched down at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Thursday night, carrying 105 distressed Nigerian citizens fleeing fresh anti-migrant hostility in South Africa. The passenger manifest listed 82 adults and 23 children who abandoned homes and livelihoods after street mobs renewed violent campaigns against foreign Africans. Public funds…
Three out of four Nigerians now own a smartphone, up from 64 per cent in 2023. A joint study by KPMG and Orange Group Nigeria, sampling 13,251 consumers across 12 cities, documents this shift towards web-enabled handsets. Cheap handheld devices and an overwhelmingly youthful populace drive this rapid consumer migration away from legacy feature phones….
Argentine President Javier Milei told the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, that the world body has become a “useless organisation”, accusing it of sheltering a bureaucracy that has drifted far from the purpose for which it was founded. Milei made the remarks in New York during the general debate of…
Accord Party presidential candidate Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has said his late father deliberately concealed his Hausa and royal Yauri heritage from him for almost three decades, a disclosure he made in a statement and set out in his forthcoming autobiography. Olawepo-Hashim, a grandson of the 40th Seriki of Yauri, said his father, Alhaji Hashim Abdullahi…
Nigeria still sells petrol cheaper than the United States, Ghana, and South Africa despite the pain that deregulation inflicts on domestic households, according to Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Heineken Lokpobiri. Speaking on television on Tuesday night, Mr Lokpobiri placed the average domestic retail pump price at 1,430 naira per litre, contrasting that level…