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
Nigeria’s under-20 women’s football team take on Colombia in the quarter-finals of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Łódź, Poland, on Sunday, 20 September 2026. The Falconets carry the entire weight of African ambition into the tie at Stadion Miejski ŁKS as the continent’s sole surviving representative in the tournament. Head coach Moses Aduku…
Across commercial hubs and gated residential communities in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, and Ibadan, a quiet infrastructure divorce is underway. Commercial clusters, private housing estates, and small manufacturing firms are systematically disconnecting their primary operations from the national grid. Spurred by relentless grid collapses, steep distribution company (DisCo) tariff revisions, and the erratic delivery of…
Fresh economic disclosures on subnational finance reveal an enduring paradox of the Nigerian federation. States endowed with vast deposits of critical minerals, lithium, tantalite, gold, lead, zinc, and rare-earth elements, continue to record near-negligible figures for internally generated revenue (IGR). From the lithium-heavy corridors of Nasarawa and Kwara to the goldfields of Osun and Zamfara,…
Physical books are finding new life among younger readers despite the rise of e-books, audiobooks and smartphones. Here is why readers are returning to print. In a world where an entire library can fit inside a smartphone, physical books are making an unlikely comeback. For a growing number of readers, turning a page is becoming…
Discover how 30-second “micropractices” – from desk yoga to deliberate laughter – are helping overworked professionals reduce stress, lower cortisol, and boost productivity without disrupting their busy workdays. Picture a high-stakes remote conference call where, instead of dry corporate reporting, an investigator sits before a laptop monitor engaging in deliberate, forced laughter. The face contorts,…
Recently, Dangote Refinery has stood as one of the most ambitious industrial projects ever undertaken in Africa, requiring enormous capital and a level of private-sector commitment rarely seen on the continent, from its 2013 announcement through more than a decade of construction to its 2024 startup. Now it’s entering a different phase entirely. On September…
Official statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics and the Central Bank of Nigeria present an apparent monetary achievement. Foreign exchange volatility has receded, the naira has found relative equilibrium against major trading currencies, and core inflation measures have shed several percentage points from their previous peaks. Yet across the retail markets of Dawanau in…
Nigeria’s capital market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission, has cleared the procedural pathway for the Dangote Petroleum Refinery to offer 4.1 billion ordinary shares at N525 each. The transaction, expected to yield gross proceeds exceeding N2.1 trillion on the Nigerian Exchange, marks the largest equity flotation in African capital market history. Order books…
When a New York museum paid a fortune for an ancient vase, it exposed a global underground network of night thieves, elite smugglers, and prestige institutions profiting from stolen history. Late one morning in the mid-1970s, near the ancient Italian town of Cerveteri, a television crew stepped over freshly churned earth to inspect a hole…
The leadership of Jehovah’s Witnesses announced on Friday, 18 September 2026, that members may now receive treatments derived from donated blood, softening a doctrinal ban that has shaped the denomination’s identity for eight decades. Under the revised guidance issued by the faith’s Governing Body in New York, the movement’s 9.2 million adherents worldwide can accept…