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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 joint tactical strike team tracking Islamic State West Africa Province operatives through the dense forest belt of Owo in Ondo State tracked down and killed the group’s regional operational commander, Abdussamad Ohida, on Sunday, 4 October 2026. The dawn assault combined ground strike forces from the Nigerian Army, the Department of State Services, and…
Gunmen shot two artisanal miners dead near the boundary between Kuru Jenta and Heipang in Plateau State around midnight on Friday, 2 October 2026. The victims, both men from the Heipang District in Barkin Ladi, fell under direct rifle fire while panning for cassiterite and columbite deposits inside an open pit. Deadly violence shadows the…
Gunmen holding nineteen university graduates abducted in Imo State have demanded an extortionate ransom of 950 million naira, setting a strict deadline for desperate families to pay fifty million naira per hostage or lose them forever. The bandits seized the young victims on Thursday, 1 October 2026, after blocking their commercial convoy along the Owerri…
Gunmen intercepted two passenger buses along the Owerri to Onitsha expressway near the Umunoha community in Imo State on Thursday, 1 October 2026, abducting at least 20 National Youth Service Corps members on their way to orientation camps. The young university graduates set out from Ibadan to report for mandatory national service assignments across orientation…
Nigeria will mark 66 years of independence on October 1, 2026, a milestone that invites both celebration and serious reflection. The question, however, is not simply whether Nigerians should wave the green-white-green flag, attend ceremonies or exchange Independence Day greetings. The more difficult question is what, after 66 years of self-government, Nigerians have to show…
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…
A fresh wave of communal bloodshed on the Mambilla Plateau has claimed at least seven lives, leaving 186 livestock slaughtered and over 340 homes in ashes across the Geroji settlements of Mbamnga ward in Taraba State. The confrontation pits agrarian Mambilla residents directly against nomadic Fulani pastoralists in Sardauna Local Government Area, an upland territory…
Gunmen overran Illelar Dawagari village in the Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State over the weekend, abducting nine residents, shooting a farmer, and rustling more than 200 livestock into the northern scrubland. The marauders stormed the agrarian community within Kagara Ward under cover of night, shooting indiscriminately to terrify local households before ransacking mud…
Nigerian troops rescued over 60 kidnapped hostages and arrested 44 suspects during coordinated security sweeps across the country, Defence Headquarters announced on Friday, 25 September 2026. The weekly operational bulletin from Abuja tracks multi-theatre actions that stretch from forest hideouts in the north-west to oil bunkering hubs across the Niger Delta. Military spokesmen present the…
Armed Fulani assailants killed six Kammuku natives during a midnight raid on Tasha-Rimi village in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State on Thursday night. Alhaji Garba Mohammed Bissalla, the village head of the settlement, confirmed that the raiders killed Musa Bahago, his son Hamisu Musa, and four other residents in their homes. The…