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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
Over one thousand northern Islamic scholars gathered in Abuja on Thursday, 8 October 2026, to demand that President Bola Tinubu abandon his re-election bid for 2027. The clerics issued a direct communique after days of deliberations on the economy, the exodus of skilled professionals, and the endless slaughter across the northern hinterland. Pious patience in…
Donald Duke, the former governor of Cross River State, pledged on Wednesday, 7 October 2026, to bring the retail price of petrol down to 300 naira per litre if voters elect him president next year. Speaking on national television, the politician argued that current market prices crush low-income households whose entire monthly minimum wage of…
Nigeria’s electoral commission on Monday expanded its national voter roll past 103 million citizens after concluding a three-phase registration drive that captured 10.7 million fresh applicants. Commission chairman Joash Amupitan told party delegates in Abuja that technical staff scrubbed the database with an automated biometric system to purge duplicate entries and ghost names. Bloated registries…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has scheduled a national stakeholders’ meeting and world press conference for Tuesday, 6 October 2026, to mark 100 days to the 2027 general elections and set out how far its preparations have gone. In a statement issued on Sunday, the commission said the event would run from 10am at the…
Nigeria’s electoral umpire enrolled more than 9.32 million young citizens during its 2026 continuous voter registration exercise, unveiling the tally in Abuja on Wednesday, 30 September, alongside nine celebrity ambassadors from the film, music, and comedy sectors to mobilise new voters. Speaking through national commissioner Rhoda Gumus at the investiture ceremony, commission chairman Joash Amupitan…
Nigeria’s main opposition party marked the country’s 66th Independence anniversary on Thursday, 1 October 2026, by telling a destitute public that collective hope must remain stronger than current economic misery. Party spokesman Jungudo Mohammed released the holiday statement in Abuja, conceding that the republic sits far below its potential while urging citizens to reject despair…
Nigeria’s fractious opposition parties have opened high-stakes negotiations to adopt a single consensus candidate to challenge President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election. Chieftains across the Peoples Democratic Party, the Labour Party, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party met in Abuja on Wednesday under the umbrella of the G-100 opposition summit to hammer out…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has demanded an immediate upward review of the national minimum wage, accusing President Bola Tinubu of driving millions of working citizens into acute destitution through unchecked market reforms. A statement released on Sunday by his campaign communications chief, Phrank Shaibu, warned that galloping inflation has made the statutory 70,000 naira…
Nigeria’s Supreme Court has delivered a sharp blow to the loose bookkeeping of the country’s political machines ahead of the 2027 polls. On Thursday, a seven-member panel led by Justice Adamu Jauro allowed an appeal filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission against a lower appellate ruling that had dismantled key sections of the Electoral…
Governor Chukwuma Soludo has escalated his feud with Peter Obi by publishing official memos that detail N363.38m in unpaid salary arrears inherited from the former governor. The records, released on Friday, 25 September 2026, by the Anambra State New Media Office, show financial approvals for staff, pensioners, and next of kin from two scrapped state…