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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
More than 1,200 candidates cleared to contest Senate and House of Representatives seats in the 2027 general elections list the Senior Secondary School Certificate as their highest educational qualification, according to an analysis of candidate records published by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The review examined the final lists for the National Assembly polls…
Vice President Kashim Shettima has said that no more than six of the North’s 19 governors supported President Bola Tinubu’s bid for the ruling party’s ticket ahead of the 2023 election, offering a rare public account of how thin the President’s regional backing was at the time. Shettima made the remark on Wednesday, 16…
The Northern States Christian Elders Forum demanded on Thursday, 17 September 2026, that President Bola Tinubu immediately reverse the latest increase in the pump price of petrol. In a hard-hitting statement signed by its chairman, Elder Sunday Oibe, the socio-religious group warned that repeated fuel price hikes threaten to push millions of struggling families past…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi met behind closed doors with leaders of the African Democratic Congress in Abuja to hammer out an alliance ahead of the 2027 general elections. The high-level parley brings two perennial heavyweights together in an ambitious bid to stitch together a credible opposition challenge…
The Independent National Electoral Commission moved swiftly on Wednesday, 16 September 2026, to quell mounting opposition hysteria regarding the whereabouts of its chairman, Joash Amupitan. Official spokesmen confirmed that the electoral boss travelled outside Abuja on an approved international mission to represent Nigeria at an institutional conference. The clarification directly answers a barrage of questions…
A spokesperson for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election campaign has urged Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike and All Progressives Congress governors to stop trading words in public and channel their energy into mobilising votes for the 2027 election. Ima Niboro, one of the spokespersons of the APC presidential campaign council, made the call on…
The Nigeria Police Force will gather its senior commanders in Owerri, Imo State, from 21 to 23 September for a retreat devoted largely to how the country’s next elections will be policed, a signal that security planning for the 2027 general elections has begun in earnest more than a year before Nigerians return to the…
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…
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…