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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
Nigeria’s fish import bill dropped to about N167.91 billion in the second quarter of 2026, down 14.8 per cent from the N197.17 billion spent in the same quarter last year, according to figures in the latest Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics report from the National Bureau of Statistics. The report, which tracks six fish categories,…
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency began live testing of a centralised digital platform on Monday, 21 September 2026, aiming to deliver location-specific climate data to farmers and pastoralists. The initiative, dubbed the NiMet Data Hub, reached an advanced Minimum Viable Product stage following technical collaboration with the International Livestock Research Institute and Crea2Solutions. Project partners launched…
Africa has officially overtaken Asia as the continent with the highest number of hungry people for the first time in modern history. The United Nations’ annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report revealed on Tuesday that 309 million Africans suffered from undernourishment last year. While global hunger fell for a third…
Nigeria’s food price situation took another difficult turn in March 2026, with official government data showing sharp increases in the cost of staple food items, even as independent market checks suggest a significant gap between bureau figures and what consumers are actually paying. The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, in its Selected Food Price…
Nigeria’s Senate has approved a suite of laws to fix a broken food system and stop the drain on foreign reserves. The centrepiece is the National Food Reserve Agency Bill, which creates a formal network of grain silos to manage supply shocks. By storing staples when they are cheap and releasing them during lean seasons,…
The United States has formally reactivated its Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) to deepen agricultural trade ties with Nigeria. The initiative, managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, provides essential credit guarantees to Nigerian banks and importers, reducing the risk associated with purchasing U.S. agricultural inputs. This move marks a strategic shift in U.S. diplomatic…
A sharp concentration of global hunger is placing Nigeria at the centre of a worsening food crisis, with new data showing that a significant share of the world’s most food-insecure populations are clustered in a small group of countries affected by conflict and economic shocks. The latest Global Report on Food Crises, compiled by…
The Cocoa and Coffee Farmers Alliance Association of Africa has revealed that the continent captures less than 10 per cent of the estimated 120 billion global chocolate market, even though African farmers produce approximately 70 per cent of the world’s cocoa beans. The disclosure underscores persistent structural inequities in the global cocoa value chain,…
Nigeria discards roughly 38 million tonnes of food each year, the highest volume of any African nation, according to data disclosed by the European Union during this year’s International Zero Waste Day commemoration in Abuja. The staggering figure has prompted urgent calls from the EU, Federal Government, and United Nations Industrial Development Organisation for…
The World Bank has approved a $500m credit to repair Nigeria’s underperforming agricultural sector. This fresh injection of capital from the International Development Association targets the chronic low productivity that plagues smallholder farmers. Dubbed the AGROW project, the scheme aims to turn subsistence plots into commercially viable businesses. It arrives at a time of deep…