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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
Gunmen holding nineteen university graduates abducted in Imo State have demanded an extortionate ransom of 950 million naira, setting a strict deadline for desperate families to pay fifty million naira per hostage or lose them forever. The bandits seized the young victims on Thursday, 1 October 2026, after blocking their commercial convoy along the Owerri…
Portugal’s national team has lost a large number of Instagram followers in the hours after captain Cristiano Ronaldo walked out of the squad’s training camp, with trackers putting the drop anywhere between several hundred thousand and more than a million within a single day. The fall followed Ronaldo’s abrupt departure from the camp in Copenhagen…
Nigeria bid farewell to veteran actor Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs in Lagos on Friday, 2 October 2026, closing the final chapter on one of African cinema’s most commanding screen figures. Family members, acting colleagues, and senior state officials gathered at This Present House in Lekki Phase 1 to honour the thespian, who died on 16 September…
A growing number of young workers in the United Kingdom are walking away from their workplace pensions, choosing cash in hand now over savings they will not touch for decades, as rent, debt and daily costs squeeze household budgets. The shift is being driven by affordability rather than carelessness, according to accounts from the…
The English Football Association has said the finding that Manchester City broke the Premier League’s financial rules carries implications for the integrity of the game, while stopping short of saying what action it might take. In a statement on Friday, the FA said it was carefully considering the decision and its implications and would…
Ellie Reeves KC MP has been sworn in as Attorney General for England and Wales, and Andy Slaughter MP as Solicitor General, at a ceremony on Thursday, 1 October 2026 at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. The Attorney General’s Office announced the swearing in in a statement published the same day. The two…
Argentina will not be able to permanently retire the No. 10 shirt in honour of Lionel Messi, as FIFA squad regulations stand in the way of the tribute, according to a report by GOAL.com. The Argentine Football Association had wanted to take the number out of circulation for good once Messi stepped away from…
Opposition leaders have pushed back hard against President Bola Tinubu’s Independence Day declaration that Nigeria has entered an “age of prosperity”, insisting that the prices Nigerians pay for food, fuel and transport tell a different story from the one told at Aso Rock. In his 1 October address marking the country’s 66th anniversary, Tinubu…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited spent about N27.76 trillion running its business in 2025, a sum equal to roughly 80 per cent of the N34.52 trillion revenue the group reported for the year. The figure, drawn from the company’s 2025 audited financial statements, has put fresh attention on the cost structure of Nigeria’s…
Reality television star Josephina Otabor, known as Phyna, knocked out actress Nkechi Blessing Sunday in the fourth round of a celebrity boxing contest in Lagos, while streamer and skit maker Oderhohwo Joseph Efe, known as Carter Efe, beat rapper Darlington Okoye, known as Speed Darlington, in the men’s bout on the same card. The…