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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 family of late Afenifere patriarch Reuben Famuyide Fasoranti announced in Akure on Thursday, 22 October 2026, that his funeral service and final interment will take place on 17 December at St David’s Cathedral, Ijomu. The centenarian statesman died peacefully at his Ondo State residence on Tuesday, 20 October, closing a century of principled public…
Pa Reuben Famuyide Fasoranti, the centenarian patriarch of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation Afenifere, died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 100 on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, at his Akure residence, drawing swift national tributes from former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, and President Bola Tinubu. Old political titans exit the…
Specialist naval divers and air crash investigators pulled fresh mechanical debris from the swampy crash site of a Nigerian Air Force ATR 42-500 transport aeroplane in Igbokoda, Ondo State, on Wednesday, 14 October. Multi-agency salvage teams deployed orbital radar scans, mud dredging pumps, and acoustic hydrographic sweeps across the coastal creek to retrieve critical flight…
Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa has ordered the fumigation of the Igbokoda River and the distribution of nose masks and health kits to residents, nine days after a Nigerian Air Force aircraft plunged into the waterway and killed all 25 people on board. The directive was announced on Wednesday in a statement signed by…
Nigeria’s constitutional eight year tenure limit for governors has again come under judicial interpretation after a ruling of the Federal High Court in Akure barred Lucky Aiyedatiwa from contesting the 2028 governorship election in Ondo State. Justice Toyin Bolaji Adegoke, who presided over the case, ruled that allowing Aiyedatiwa to seek another term after…
Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has asserted that no terrorist attacks have occurred in the state since the June 2022 massacre at Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, characterising recent violent incidents including the killing of a traditional ruler as isolated criminal acts rather than coordinated terrorism. The governor made these claims…
Violence erupted Tuesday at the Ondo State secretariat of the All Progressives Congress in Akure, leaving several party leaders injured and heightening tensions ahead of crucial ward congresses. Armed men stormed a pre-congress stakeholders’ meeting, assaulting the state chairman and other officials. The disruption occurred barely 24 hours before the party’s scheduled congress across 203…