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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
Armed outlaws in Niger State have beheaded a captive and delivered the severed head to a community leader following the non-payment of a 50 million naira extortion levy. The gruesome delivery represents an escalation in the economic warfare waged by criminal syndicates against agrarian settlements across north-central Nigeria. Rural gangs no longer hide their demands…
Armed bandits seized six Islamic clerics along the Dakko to Damri road in Zamfara State on Saturday morning. The preachers were travelling to Talata Mafara to attend a mass prayer gathering convened by former governor Abdul’aziz Yari. The planned assembly aimed to bring thousands of clerics together to pray for peace and President Bola Tinubu’s…
Armed assailants killed three pastoralists and slaughtered dozens of cattle during a dawn ambush in Plateau State on Saturday. The assault struck herders tending livestock near Alohom community within the Sabon Gari district of Mangu Local Government Area. Community advocates and pastoralist associations reported that the gunmen opened fire without warning, leaving several cows dead…
Nigerian military aircraft killed more than eighteen insurgents and smashed key supply depots during dawn raids across northern Borno on Friday, 11 September. The Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai directed precision munitions against fortified camps at Tumbunma Baba within the marshy Lake Chad islands. Field reports confirmed that the raids destroyed several permanent structures,…
Armed raiders killed four mobile police officers and eight local farmers during a dawn assault on Ayilamo community in Benue State on Friday. More than two hundred gunmen crossed from neighbouring Taraba State along the Alufu corridor to storm the agrarian settlement in Logo Local Government Area. Eyewitnesses reported that the attackers set residential houses…
Nigeria’s top police officer has reopened an old wound about citizen oversight and street-level impunity. Inspector-General of Police Olatunji Disu warned the public against the indiscriminate filming of officers, claiming the practice demoralises personnel and disrupts delicate security operations. Human rights groups, opposition politicians, and the Nigerian Bar Association quickly pushed back against any official…
Armed bandits killed five people and seized 27 villagers during nighttime raids across farming settlements in Kaduna State on Monday, 7 September 2026. Gunmen struck rural outposts in Giwa and neighbouring districts, turning quiet homesteads into open hunting grounds. In Tunburku, assailants shot two community elders, Alhaji Surajo and Alhaji Ado, while another resident, Ayyuba…
Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps rescued 15 trafficked minors who were sold for N2 million each across southern states, corps spokesman Babawale Afolabi confirmed on Friday, 4 September 2026, in Abuja. The criminal operation targeted destitute farming families in the Kokona local council area of Nasarawa State under the pretext of…
At least twenty-three insurgents died during fierce fighting between rival Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province factions in the Sambisa forest on Thursday, 3 September 2026. The lethal clash erupted around the Chingolo axis of Bama Local Government Area as Boko Haram gunmen ambushed advancing ISWAP units. Hours later, Boko Haram fighters struck…
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents ambushed the campaign motorcade of Mustapha Gubio, the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Borno State, along the Kareto-Damasak road on Thursday, 3 September 2026. Gunmen detonated an improvised explosive device before firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifles into the long column of civilian vehicles and police escorts. A joint detachment…