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 has failed the United States’ fiscal transparency test for a second consecutive year, but the latest assessment is less about whether the country has a budget than about what citizens can actually see, verify and track after public money is appropriated. The US Department of State’s 2026 Fiscal Transparency Report assessed 139 governments…
A fiscal argument over how ₦12.8 trillion is parked inside Nigeria’s 2026 budget has hardened into one of the sharpest personal confrontations of the pre 2027 political season, with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar accusing the Presidency of trading disclosure for insults, and the Presidency accusing him of exporting a domestic quarrel to Washington….
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has allowed almost five months to pass without acting on the Federal Audit Service Bill, one of the most consequential public finance reforms to reach his desk in years, leaving the legislation stranded between passage and law and reviving old doubts about the depth of official commitment to accountability. The…
The Federal Government has moved to shut down a fast spreading narrative that it quietly spent trillions of naira outside the approved budget, insisting that reports crediting the claim to the International Monetary Fund misrepresent what the Fund actually said. The pushback came on Sunday in a statement from the Minister of Finance and…
An admission from the International Monetary Fund that Nigeria left public spending worth about two per cent of its Gross Domestic Product out of recent budget records has handed the opposition fresh ammunition, with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar now demanding that President Bola Tinubu’s government account for money he insists “somebody spent” and…