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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
Kano State has recorded the highest number of candidates who obtained at least five credits, including English Language and Mathematics, in the 2026 Senior School Certificate Examination, according to state-by-state figures announced by the National Examinations Council. NECO’s registrar, Professor Dantani Wushishi, said Kano returned 74,413 candidates who met the benchmark, ahead of Lagos…
Nigeria’s pension regulator is steering N300 bn of retirement savings into brick-and-mortar national infrastructure, betting that physical assets can outrun the country’s punishing currency depreciation. Speaking in Lagos on Sunday after a strategic meeting of the Pension Industry Leaders Council, National Pension Commission Director-General Omolola Oloworaran confirmed that fund administrators have already signed off on…
President Bola Tinubu’s administration has opened formal talks with the World Bank for three separate credit lines totalling 1.5 billion dollars, even as Nigeria’s sovereign debt burden reached an all-time peak of 166.79 trillion naira at the end of June 2026. Official loan schedules prepared in Washington show that the proposed financing splits into three…
African nations forfeit billions of dollars each year by shipping raw farm produce overseas instead of processing harvests at domestic factories, agricultural policymakers and financiers warned at the Agriculture Summit Africa in Abuja on Thursday, 24 September 2026. The continent holds two-thirds of the world’s uncultivated arable land, yet governments squander over 100 billion dollars…
Gunmen overran Illelar Dawagari village in the Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State over the weekend, abducting nine residents, shooting a farmer, and rustling more than 200 livestock into the northern scrubland. The marauders stormed the agrarian community within Kagara Ward under cover of night, shooting indiscriminately to terrify local households before ransacking mud…
Nigeria’s naira opened trading on Monday, 28 September 2026, pegged near 1,327.72 naira to the US dollar at the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market. The spot rate maintains the narrow band established late last week after the central bank closed Friday’s formal window at 1,329.51 naira. Currency dealers in Lagos and Abuja watch these figures…
President Bola Tinubu remains entirely sound in health and will return home this week after a month of official leave in Europe, his media adviser Bayo Onanuga confirmed on Sunday. The presidency launched this firm defence to swat away mounting public anxiety over the head of state’s extended absence from the federal capital. Modern digital…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has demanded an immediate upward review of the national minimum wage, accusing President Bola Tinubu of driving millions of working citizens into acute destitution through unchecked market reforms. A statement released on Sunday by his campaign communications chief, Phrank Shaibu, warned that galloping inflation has made the statutory 70,000 naira…
Russian guided bombs smashed through a residential apartment block in Kharkiv early on Monday, 28 September 2026, wounding 22 people, including six children, only hours after weekend barrages claimed eight civilian lives nationwide. The deadly aerial offensive stretched across regional capitals from Sumy and Odesa to Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy counted more…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has opened an inquiry into commercial lenders that refuse to pay hard currency to their own depositors. Officials in Abuja stepped in after thousands of retail customers reported steep withdrawal caps, fabricated cash shortages, and deliberate delays at bank counters across Lagos and other major commercial hubs. Bankers hoard notes…