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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
The chairman of Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State, Blessing Albert Ebhodaghe, has warned commercial drivers that they risk being barred from a motor park if they wear caps or materials belonging to any party other than the ruling All Progressives Congress. The warning was captured in a video that spread on social…
The governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have drawn a firm line against cross party alliances ahead of the 2027 general elections, resolving to back only candidates fielded by their own party. The decision, taken at a closed door meeting in Abuja on Monday, 14 September 2026, marks the clearest…
Kenneth Okonkwo, spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, has argued that a broad opposition coalition remains the only realistic path to defeating President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election. Speaking in an interview with Ibeju Upgrade Media on Thursday, Okonkwo dismissed the prospects of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria…
The most prominent figures in Nigeria’s opposition were absent when six parties gathered in Abuja to begin building the united front they say is needed to unseat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general elections. The empty chairs revived the oldest question in the country’s opposition politics: whether its leaders can place a common…
The proposal by a pro President Bola Tinubu support group for Peter Obi to withdraw from the 2027 presidential race and support the incumbent has opened a larger question about the political arithmetic of the Southeast, and whether an alliance between the region and the Southwest can realistically alter the succession calculations ahead of…
The renewed drive to unite Nigeria’s fractured opposition behind one candidate for the 2027 presidential election is running into resistance from the very leaders it seeks to bring together, even as its chief promoter insists the project remains alive. Salihu Lukman, a former Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum and former National Vice Chairman…
Paid Mascots , The Transactional Face Of Nigeria’s 2027 Campaign Paid mascots parading pro-Tinubu banners across Abuja have become an early and telling image of Nigeria’s 2027 campaign season, which opened formally on 19 August after the Independent National Electoral Commission lifted its embargo on public campaigns for the presidential and National Assembly elections. Figures…
Nigeria’s 2027 general election entered its most consequential phase on Wednesday, with the official commencement of presidential and National Assembly campaigns coinciding with a National Peace Accord signed a day earlier by candidates who remain divided over whether the pact can actually restrain the violence that has already trailed the electoral cycle. Under the…
The Allied Peoples Movement has declared that the outcome of Saturday’s Osun State governorship election is a warning that President Bola Tinubu could lose the 2027 presidential election to the party’s candidate, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State. The party said the victory recorded by the opposition in Osun, one of the states where…
Afrobeats superstar David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has celebrated the re-election of his uncle, Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke, following the Independent National Electoral Commission’s declaration of the governorship election results. The singer took to his X account on Sunday morning to share his reaction to the outcome of the poll, posting a…