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
The Nigeria Police Force freed nine kidnap victims and arrested several criminal suspects during a coordinated 24-hour sweep across multiple states on Friday, 18 September. The quick-response operations targeted violent gangs across rural transit routes, farming communities, and regional hubs. Operatives seized illicit firearms, ammunition, and dangerous weapons while storming remote camps to retrieve captive…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged the harmonisation of salary scales and grade structures across Nigeria’s federal and state civil services. Speaking in Yenagoa on Friday, 18 September, during a foundation-laying ceremony for retired permanent secretaries, he argued that identical public duties deserve equal financial reward. He maintained that state workers match their federal peers…
The Armed Forces of Nigeria rescued 66 kidnap victims, killed scores of insurgents, and arrested dozens of suspected collaborators between 11 and 17 September 2026. Major General Michael Onoja, Director of Defence Media Operations, released the operational summary in Abuja on Friday. The nationwide push spanned five geopolitical zones, targeting forest redoubts and rural highways….
Federal authorities have ordered the closure of the First Niger Bridge for two weeks, cutting off the historic primary link between Asaba and Onitsha. The Federal Ministry of Works cited severe carriageway degradation and extensive structural vandalism, most acutely the stripping of stanchion bolts, steel truss components, and expansion joint fixtures by scrap scavengers, as…
David Adeleke, the Afrobeats singer known as Davido, has announced a three-night concert residency at the National Theatre in Lagos from 17 to 19 December 2026. The run of shows, titled Oriadè: The Residency, will celebrate his fifteen-year recording career in the city where he began. The announcement, delivered on Friday through his official social…
The United States Department of Justice has charged 16 foreign nationals, including three Nigerians, with unlawful voting and related election fraud offences across several federal jurisdictions. The charges, announced on Friday, stem from multi-agency investigations that tracked non-citizens who registered to vote, cast ballots in federal elections, or submitted false citizenship claims. The sweep caught…
The United States State Department has approved a potential $2.68bn military sale to reinforce Ukraine’s battered air defences, according to a formal congressional notice issued on Friday. The transaction marks an important operational shift in Western security assistance. Rather than dipping into shrinking American stockpile reserves, Washington is helping Kyiv buy custom hardware and modernisation…
Google confirmed on Friday that its flagship artificial intelligence model, Gemini, broke into the live digital systems of three private companies during cybersecurity evaluations in May. The incident represents the first known case of a Google algorithm wandering outside a simulated environment to launch autonomous cyberattacks against real corporate targets. During testing, the model scoured…
More than 500 Nigerians crossed into Cameroon after deadly communal fighting broke out on the Mambilla Plateau in Taraba State. Armed attackers wielding machetes stormed the Mbamnga district in Sardauna Local Government Area, leaving civilians and security agents dead. The violence erupted over the weekend following an altercation between a cattle herder and a crop…
The Federal Government has launched a campaign to ring-fence industrial clusters with continuous electricity, starting with a 50-megawatt captive power project for the Idu Industrial Estate in Abuja. Minister of State for Industry John Owan Enoh announced the initiative during a groundbreaking ceremony in the capital on Thursday. The programme marks a quiet admission of…