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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
A rumour that swept across Nigerian social media this week pushed the Minister of Defence, General Christopher Gwabin Musa (retd.), into a rare public rebuttal on Tuesday, as he stepped out of a closed door meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja to declare that he had no intention…
Yoruba nation activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, says more than 80,000 volunteers have now registered for his Iru Ekun Security Network, a figure that overshoots the 50,000 target the outfit set for itself and places the region’s newest community security experiment squarely within the national conversation on insecurity. In a…
A fresh war of words has broken out between the Federal Government and one of Nigeria’s most vocal online campaigners, after activist Mark Chidiebere Justice, widely known as Justice Crack, publicly rejected an allegation by the Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa, that he coached soldiers to doctor a viral video about their meals. The…
Nigeria’s rank-and-file soldiers now take home a minimum of N100,000 a month, more than double the N49,000 they earned only a couple of years ago, yet the country’s defence chief concedes that the money flowing into the armed forces still falls short of what the war against insurgency and banditry demands. Defence Minister Christopher…
Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (retd.), has drawn a hard line for the country’s security forces, warning that any operative who holds fire while waiting for instructions from above will be treated as a friend of the very criminals he was sent to fight. The minister issued the directive on Wednesday in…
Nigeria’s healthcare crisis has a new battlefront. The Federal Government has announced plans to establish the Armed Forces College of Medicine and Health Sciences (AFCOM&HS), a dedicated military medical institution designed to simultaneously address the country’s catastrophic shortage of doctors and overhaul healthcare delivery within its defence forces a sector that, by official admission, currently…