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
Given the declaration on January 23 and 30, 2020 by the World Health Organisation’s International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee on COVID-19, ‘all countries should be prepared for containment, including active surveillance, early detection, isolation and case management, contact tracing and prevention of onward spread of COVID-19 infection, and to share full data with WHO,’…
Appreciated from its experiential and sociological dimensions, illusion signifies the occurrence of an erroneous or misjudged perception or understanding of an experience. It is the other side of truth or reality, especially a faulty reality that that emanates from poor judgement, prejudice, or a laid back mental attitude. Modern history is replete with examples of…
The military is a thing and place of pride – a national pride! Watching many military parades, the men in starch-embalmed uniforms often command from the on-looking public a temptation to join the ranks of the marching soldiers. The army, and indeed the entire military of Nigeria, has been at such commanding heights of national…
Nigeria is one of the countries that drive the wheel of the continent’s economic viability. Nigeria boasts of over 80% of the region’s revenue and a larger share index of the market made possible by a population that guarantees a viable Return on Investment, ROI, and a robust consumption of goods from all parts of…
The military of any nation is not a sheer ‘outpost’ for men in uniforms looking out for distress situations to intervene in. As a composite architecture of the armed forces and all its constituting elements, the military is indeed a strategic national guardian entrusted with security matters connected with lives and property within the geographic…
The Nigerian military is ranked 4th in Africa by Global Firepower (GFP), a world military ranking platform. The country has a military human power of 120,000 personnel, which is a total of 0.1% of a population of over two hundred million people. Yet, Nigeria has a population in which 43,000,000 people are generally considered fit…
Professor Yima Sen, Director General of the Northern Elders’ Forum, Nigeria, speaks on issues relating to the war against insurgency and insecurity in the North, and the topical question of political zoning in Nigeria, in a conversation with Udu Yakubu. Udu Yakubu: Recently, the Northern Elders’ Forum asked President Muhammadu Buhari to dwell less on…
Femi Morgan Ondo State is a contested hotbed of political campaigns. It is the only oil producing state in South West Nigeria. This means it receives the revenue perks and derivatives that is accrued to states in the Niger Delta region. No wonder many have jousted to become the party flagbearer of the prominent parties…
From the Editor-in-Chief Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Journal! This publication emerges, and strategically so, at a time when nations and societies are submerged in an overabundance of seeming unavoidable distractions, disruptions and interruptions of diverse shades and colours. Yes, colours indeed! With many sociopolitical developments emerging and playing out almost at the…
For many Nigerians, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, is a silent and powerless anti-corruption agency, while the EFCC is the bolder and more active on the Nigerian landscape. The ICPC is interested gaining tangible results by working undercover to earn landmark prosecution, while protecting the identity of the whistle-blower from…
