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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
The controversy over an alleged N250 million luxury handbag belonging to Margaret Obi has drawn a direct response from her husband, Peter Obi, the Nigeria Democratic Congress presidential candidate, who says his wife runs her own business and that her private spending has nothing to do with his handling of public funds. Obi made the…
The latest monthly oil market report from the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) registers a modest drop in Nigerian crude production: a loss of 5,000 barrels per day, sliding the country down to 1.50 million barrels per day. It marks the second straight month of declines, a quiet admission that the…
Aliko Dangote has renewed his long running argument that Nigeria’s wealthiest citizens are pouring money into private jets and luxury while doing too little to build the factories that create jobs, tying the criticism directly to the productive capacity he says the country needs to escape its economic difficulties. Africa’s richest man made the…
Nigeria earned 249.7 billion naira from solid mineral exports during the first six months of 2026, marking an increase of 113.53 billion naira over the previous year. Fresh trade data from the National Bureau of Statistics shows that outbound shipments expanded by over eighty per cent in value compared with the same period in 2025….
The politics of a public health emergency has broken into the open in Gombe State, where the ruling All Progressives Congress has accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party of turning a diphtheria outbreak into a partisan weapon, even as the disease continues to kill children across northern Nigeria. In a statement issued in Gombe…
Peter Obi has rejected a fresh claim by the Anambra State Government that it is still servicing loans contracted during his time as governor, reopening a long running argument over the state of the finances he left behind in 2014 and injecting a familiar credibility question into the early stages of his 2027 presidential…
Peter Obi has given his consent for the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, to release his academic records, moving to defuse a documentary dispute that has now produced three separate court actions and reopened a wider argument about how far scrutiny of candidates should reach before the 2027 election. In a statement posted on his…
The governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have drawn a firm line against cross party alliances ahead of the 2027 general elections, resolving to back only candidates fielded by their own party. The decision, taken at a closed door meeting in Abuja on Monday, 14 September 2026, marks the clearest…
The United States has publicly acknowledged deploying weapons in orbit, revealing a major shift in space warfare as Washington, Beijing and Moscow compete for strategic advantage beyond Earth. For decades, the United States, Russia and China have developed technologies capable of disrupting, disabling or potentially destroying satellites without publicly acknowledging that weapons were already positioned…
Nearly six of every ten domestic flights in Nigeria failed to depart on schedule in August 2026, according to figures published by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, a reliability record that has drawn fresh scrutiny of the country’s airlines and the strained operating environment behind the delays. The NCAA’s Summary of Domestic Airline Flight…