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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
Two weeks after the Nigerian Postal Service switched on the National Digital Alphanumeric Postcode System, Nigerians can now search for their homes on a government map and retrieve an 11-character code tied to the exact building where they live. The system, launched nationwide on October 1, is the Federal Government’s latest attempt to solve…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given political parties until October 24, 2026 to challenge the omission of their candidates from the final list for the 2027 governorship elections. The commission says it left out parties that failed to submit membership registers, applying a Supreme Court judgment that made the requirement binding. The…
Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe has confirmed that the body is considering a return to a two-year Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), barely 10 months after he announced that the tournament would move to a four-year cycle. The possible reversal has sharpened questions about his leadership, with claims surfacing this week that…
Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa has ordered the fumigation of the Igbokoda River and the distribution of nose masks and health kits to residents, nine days after a Nigerian Air Force aircraft plunged into the waterway and killed all 25 people on board. The directive was announced on Wednesday in a statement signed by…
Ukrainian long-range strike craft bombed military and logistics hubs across Russia’s Saratov region on Wednesday, 14 October, killing one person and wrecking residential buildings more than one hundred kilometres beyond the international border. Regional governor Roman Busargin confirmed the fatal casualties and structural damage in the industrial Volga River basin as air raid sirens sounded…
The Nigerian naira opened trading at 1,332.47 to the United States dollar on the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market on Wednesday, 14 October, whilst informal currency dealers across Broad Street in Lagos and Wuse Zone 4 in Abuja sold physical notes to retail customers at 1,375 naira. Parallel market desks never run dry. Central Bank…
Nigeria’s Public Complaints Commission received 1,281,984 administrative petitions over the past two years, resolving 716,688 grievances while leaving more than half a million citizens waiting for redress. Chief Commissioner Honourable Bashir Abubakar unveiled these figures in Abuja ahead of the first Nigerian Ombudsman Conference, pointing to the numbers as proof of renewed public trust. Broken…
The Nigerian Navy intercepted more than 2.25 million litres of stolen crude and illegally refined fuels across the Niger Delta between July and September 2026. Naval spokesman Captain Abiodun Folorunsho told reporters in Abuja on Wednesday, 14 October, that sailors also deactivated 88 illicit cooking camps, 363 dugout storage pits, and 80 metal reservoirs under…
Federal food and drug regulators smashed an illicit beverage manufacturing ring at the Lagos Trade Fair Complex on Tuesday, 13 October, seizing counterfeit spirits and adulterated wines valued at over two billion naira. Operatives from the Investigation and Enforcement Directorate of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control uncovered more than twenty…
As a deadly, vaccine-resistant Ebola strain spreads rapidly across Central Africa, health experts question whether Nigeria’s surveillance systems and isolation facilities are prepared for a potential breach. A distraught Congolese woman stands inside a clinical observation post in Ituri province, recalling the precise moment she wiped away her husband’s feverish vomit with her bare hands….