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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
Lionel Messi scored twice as Argentina beat Benin 3-0 in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, 6 October 2026, bringing down the curtain on twenty-one years of international football. The 39-year-old playmaker converted a first-half penalty and curled home a trademark free kick before eighty thousand emotional spectators at the Estadio Monumental. Genius rarely leaves the stage…
France tore Belgium apart in Brussels on Monday night, 5 October 2026, scoring four unanswered goals to seal an emphatic 4-1 Nations League comeback victory. The visitors conceded an early strike to Lois Openda before Didier Deschamps saw his restructured frontline rip the home defence to ribbons over seventy blistering minutes. Quality depth settles big…
Super Eagles head coach Eric Chelle has conceded that Guinea-Bissau were simply the better side, after Nigeria fell 3-0 in their 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Bissau on Tuesday. The loss, Nigeria’s first of the qualifying series, came only three days after the team had rallied to beat Madagascar 2-1 in Uyo….
Pep Guardiola spent nearly four years telling anyone who asked that Manchester City had done nothing wrong. On Tuesday, an independent commission decided otherwise. The Premier League confirmed on 29 September 2026 that City had been found guilty of almost all of the 115 charges of financial wrongdoing brought against the club in February 2023….
World football governing body FIFA has formally endorsed a comprehensive overhaul of Nigerian football administration following the mass resignation of the Nigeria Football Federation leadership. National Sports Commission Chairman Shehu Dikko confirmed the development on Friday after bilateral talks with FIFA and Confederation of African Football officials in Switzerland. Zurich now prepares to install an…
Nigeria open their qualifying bid for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations against Madagascar at Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo on Friday, 25th Sept., 2026. The Group L clash kicks off at five o’clock in the evening, marking the first competitive fixture of Eric Chelle’s tenure as Super Eagles head coach. The continental football…
Twenty-three players joined head coach Éric Chelle on the grass at Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo on Tuesday evening. The session launched Nigeria’s qualifying run for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations tournament. Captain Wilfred Ndidi and winger Samuel Chukwueze arrived in camp shortly before drills began, bringing the squad close to full strength…
La Liga president Javier Tebas has dismissed suggestions that referees are being directed against Real Madrid, calling the idea an excuse for the club’s poor start to the season rather than an honest reading of its problems on the pitch. Tebas made the remarks on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, responding on social media to…
Paris Saint-Germain came from behind to beat 10-man Marseille 2-1 at the Stade Velodrome on Sunday, claiming their second Ligue 1 win of the season in a Le Classique that swung inside a frantic quarter of an hour. The result lifted the defending champions to sixth on the table with eight points, five behind leaders…
Nigeria’s under-20 women’s football team take on Colombia in the quarter-finals of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Łódź, Poland, on Sunday, 20 September 2026. The Falconets carry the entire weight of African ambition into the tie at Stadion Miejski ŁKS as the continent’s sole surviving representative in the tournament. Head coach Moses Aduku…