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
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
The controversy over a Federal High Court judgment that briefly threatened the legal existence of five political parties has moved beyond the parties themselves. It has become a test of a more fundamental question in Nigeria’s justice system: what happens when a lower court is accused of proceeding despite an order from a superior court…
Kaduna has emerged as one of the clearest tests of whether President Bola Tinubu can significantly improve his standing in Northern Nigeria before the 2027 presidential election, after Governor Uba Sani predicted that the President could raise his 2023 vote share in the state from 29 per cent to between 70 and 80 per cent….
The Federal Government spent N6.47 trillion on strategic capital projects between June 2023 and December 2025, with major trunk roads and coastal highways taking the largest share of the funding. An official reform scorecard tracking the deployment of fiscal gains revealed that incremental public spending reached N30.64 trillion during the thirty-month review period. Three flagship…
The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, 25 August 2026, a nationwide public holiday to mark Eid ul Mawlid. Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo announced the directive in an official notice issued through the ministry’s permanent secretary, Dr Magdalene Ajani. The annual observance commemorates the birth of the Prophet Muhammad and gives public servants a mid-week…
A private warning that Ibrahim Babangida allegedly gave Olusegun Obasanjo about Atiku Abubakar more than two decades ago has resurfaced at a striking moment, just as Atiku mounts his seventh attempt at Nigeria’s presidency and his first under the African Democratic Congress ahead of the 2027 election. The account comes from a new book by…
The Federation Account Allocation Committee has disbursed a record 3.007 trillion naira to Nigeria’s three tiers of government for July. The disbursement marks an 18 per cent jump from the 2.551 trillion naira shared the previous month. Financial chiefs gathered in Owerri, Imo State, to divide the swollen federation purse. Higher petroleum profits, company taxes,…
The presidential candidates of the Accord Party, African Action Congress and Social Democratic Party have agreed to form a joint political alliance ahead of the 2027 presidential election, marking the latest in a series of opposition realignments aimed at presenting a unified challenge to President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress. Dr Gbenga…
The Capacity Institute has published Nigeria’s inaugural Capacity Index, scoring the country 54.2 out of 100 for institutional execution. The report ranks the nation as a structurally constrained execution system. Policymakers routinely draft ambitious economic plans only to watch them stall during implementation. Weak inter-agency coordination continues to undermine state interventions across critical sectors. Execution…
The Federal Government has paid N333 billion to clear verified legacy debts owed to eight electricity generation companies. The cash disbursement covers 17 individual power plants across the country under the Presidential Power Sector Financial Reforms Programme. State administrators finalized the payout to relieve severe illiquidity across the domestic power value chain. The transaction completes…
The United States has stepped in to finance the technical architecture for a small-scale liquefied natural gas plant designed to rescue northern Nigeria’s stranded industrial sector. The US Trade and Development Agency signed an agreement to grant 1.22 million dollars to Powergas Nigeria Limited to conduct a comprehensive feasibility study. The proposed facility will sit…