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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
President Bola Tinubu ordered the immediate release of more than 300 containers of vital electricity equipment stranded at Nigerian ports for up to two years. Minister of Power Joseph Tegbe revealed the executive directive during an energy briefing in Abuja, exposing how entrenched administrative inertia sabotages national infrastructure. Maritime agencies, customs authorities, and port operators…
Nigeria approved a ₦45.8 billion biosecurity project on Wednesday to monitor infectious diseases at five major international airports. The Federal Executive Council sanctioned the 20-year public-private partnership with Biohealth Consortium during a meeting led by President Bola Tinubu. Minister of Health Muhammad Ali Pate announced that the deal targets Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt, and…
Organised labour flatly rejected the Federal Government’s proposed ₦70,000 temporary monthly wage award on Wednesday, dismissing the six-month stipend as an insult to struggling households. The Trade Union Congress insisted that stopgap palliatives cannot fix the structural damage caused by soaring inflation and currency devaluation. Union leaders demanded an immediate, permanent overhaul of baseline public…
Nigeria plans to raise its power generation capacity to 70,000 megawatts by 2030. Minister of Power Joseph Tegbe announced the target at an energy summit in Lagos on Tuesday. The plan sounds impressive on paper, but state officials struggle to wheel 5,000 megawatts across the national grid today. Paper plans mean little to businesses that…
The Federal Government approved a ₦70,000 monthly transport allowance for federal public servants on Tuesday to quiet mounting industrial anger. Labour leaders threatened a nationwide strike before signing the conciliation agreement in Abuja with Minister of Labour Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi. The temporary intervention runs for six months starting in November, handing individual workers a total…
Nigeria crossed a historic constitutional threshold on Friday, 23 October 2026, when twenty-four state houses of assembly formally endorsed the Constitution Sixth Alteration Bill to establish a dual policing system across the federation. Chief of Staff to the President and chairman of the Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill, Femi Gbajabiamila, confirmed in…
Nigeria pushed back sharply against the World Bank on Sunday after the multilateral lender claimed debt servicing consumed 124% of federal revenue during the first half of 2026. The Federal Ministry of Finance issued a statement in Abuja faulting the bank’s arithmetic, arguing that foreign economists compared mismatched ledgers by stacking sub-national external obligations against…
Revenue collected by Nigeria’s electricity distribution companies rose from N218.16 billion in the first half of 2018 to about N1.2 trillion in the same period of 2026, an increase of roughly 450 per cent. Over the same eight years, total electricity supply grew by just 4.8 per cent, from 16,861 gigawatt-hours to 17,668GWh, according to…
Millions of Nigerian households marked World Food Day on Friday by cutting daily meals as rocketing staple prices outpace family earnings across the country. Official data and field reports show that macroeconomic shocks, currency devaluations, and soaring diesel costs have pushed basic staples far beyond the reach of ordinary wage earners. Empty pockets empty dinner…
The International Monetary Fund has advised Nigeria and other African governments to channel savings from subsidy reforms towards targeted social protection for vulnerable citizens amid rising living costs. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the Nigerian government to ensure that savings from subsidy reforms are directed towards social protection programmes for poor and…