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
Soldiers of Operation HADIN KAI have rescued 10 of the 11 National Examinations Council candidates and teachers abducted by suspected ISWAP fighters who stormed a school in Lassa, Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State, while pupils sat for their examinations. The Acting Military Information Officer, Captain Mohammed Goni, said in a statement on…
A member of the United States Congress, Riley Moore, has welcomed the Nigerian Senate’s passage of the constitutional amendment establishing state police, describing the reform as a tool that would help states protect citizens, particularly Christians he says face persecution. Moore, who represents West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives,…
Nigeria moved closer than at any point in its democratic history to dismantling its single, centrally controlled police structure on Wednesday, after the Senate passed a constitutional amendment bill authorising state-controlled police services across the federation. The passage shifts the decades-long debate to the 36 state Houses of Assembly, where at least 24 must…
The Senate on Wednesday passed a constitutional amendment bill clearing the way for the establishment of state police services across Nigeria, marking one of the most consequential security reforms in the country’s history and a decisive break from a policing structure controlled from Abuja since independence. The bill, titled “A Bill for an Act…
A homemade bomb concealed beneath a parked vehicle ripped through a residential street in the Oke Mushin area of Lagos on Monday morning, injuring the car owner and sending shockwaves of fear through a community more accustomed to commercial bustle than security scares. The blast went off around 6 a.m. at 22, Wey Street,…
Commercial motorcycle riders across Abia State’s three main urban centres have until Monday to park their bikes, after Governor Alex Otti approved a fresh prohibition on okada operations within Umuahia, Aba and Ohafia, reviving a restriction that has shaped transport policy in the state since he took office. The State’s Commissioner for Information, Okey…
Peter Obi, the former Anambra State governor and a leading opposition figure ahead of the 2027 election, has declared his readiness to die for Nigeria, arguing that genuine leadership demands the ultimate sacrifice in the face of the country’s worsening security crisis. Obi spoke in a recent episode of the Black Box interview on…
The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Adewole Adebayo, has criticised the Senate’s refusal to investigate military spending despite escalating insecurity, insisting that accountability in defence expenditure must not be traded away under the cover of protecting troop morale. Speaking with journalists in Abuja on Monday, Adebayo questioned the value Nigerians have received from…
Retired Major General Rabe Abubakar has died in the custody of bandits, the Katsina State Government has confirmed, bringing a tragic end to weeks of efforts aimed at securing the release of the former Director of Defence Information. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Dr. Nasiru Mu’azu, announced the development in a…
President Bola Tinubu has tied a significant share of Nigeria’s insecurity to the breakdown of governance at the local level, describing functional council administration as central to national development and stability. The president made the remarks in his Democracy Day address to the nation on Friday, June 12, 2026, marking 27 unbroken years of…
