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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
The Federal Government spent N6.47 trillion on strategic capital projects between June 2023 and December 2025, with major trunk roads and coastal highways taking the largest share of the funding. An official reform scorecard tracking the deployment of fiscal gains revealed that incremental public spending reached N30.64 trillion during the thirty-month review period. Three flagship…
A sharp exchange over how public money should be spent has pitched President Bola Tinubu against a section of civil society, after the President faulted governors for building flyovers and a youth group swiftly turned the same charge back on him over the Lagos to Calabar Coastal Highway. The row traces to Thursday, July…
A single announcement from the Federal Ministry of Works has once again placed the question of political self commemoration at the centre of national conversation, after the government renamed its flagship coastal road the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Coastal Highway, making it the sixth public facility to bear the President’s name since he…
The Federal Government has renamed the Lagos to Calabar Coastal Highway as the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Coastal Highway, tying the country’s costliest single road project directly to the man whose administration revived it, even as questions over the project’s price tag, procurement and environmental footprint remain unresolved. Minister of Works David Umahi announced…
The Federal Ministry of Works has announced a ban on commercial motorcycles, commonly known as okada, and tricycles, popularly called keke marwa, on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. The restriction, which takes effect this week, was announced in a statement on Sunday by the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Mr Olufemi Dare. Mr…
President Bola Tinubu has declared that the sweeping economic reforms of his administration have shielded Nigeria from fiscal breakdown, stating that decisions taken since May 2023 blocked a daily haemorrhage of N18.4bn previously lost to fuel subsidies and over N8tn drained through foreign exchange arbitrage. The President made the disclosure on Thursday in a…
LAGOS — The Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, has officially fixed May 20, 2026, as the commissioning date for Section One of the landmark Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway. Speaking during a high-stakes inspection over the weekend, Umahi confirmed that the three-kilometre stretch connecting Ahmadu Bello Way to the Lekki corridor is nearing 100% completion….
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared that economic reforms under his administration must begin to deliver clear, measurable benefits to Nigerians, charging federal and state governments to move “beyond dialogue to delivery” following the National Economic Council (NEC) Conference in Abuja. Speaking at the close of the two-day high-level conference held at the State House…
Major opposition parties have criticised President Bola Tinubu over his decision to confer the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) on billionaire businessman and longtime associate Gilbert Chagoury, describing the honour as a symbol of cronyism and a degradation of Nigeria’s national values. The parties, speaking separately on Tuesday, questioned the timing,…