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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
Surging fuel bills and vanishing formal payrolls have trapped millions of employed Nigerians in severe poverty, reducing the legal minimum wage to a paper fiction across the country on Monday, 12 October. Even salaried workers now spend their entire earnings on basic transport and plain bread, leaving families destitute despite holding steady jobs. Real earnings…
Nigeria’s headline inflation rate rose to 15.93 per cent in May 2026, the third straight monthly increase in the annual rate, as the organised private sector pinned the worsening trend on Middle East tensions, rising energy costs, insecurity and import bottlenecks. The Consumer Price Index report released by the National Bureau of Statistics on…
Foreign capital flows into Nigeria’s manufacturing sector plummeted by 50.7 per cent quarter-on-quarter to 152.27 million dollars in the first quarter of 2026. The latest Capital Importation Report from the National Bureau of Statistics reveals a severe cooling of investor appetite for domestic industrial production. This sharp drop from the 308.93 million dollars recorded in…
Nigeria’s trade sector attracted $65.79m in foreign capital in the first quarter of 2026, a 91.31 per cent rise from the $34.39m recorded in the same period of 2025, even as inflows moderated after a strong second half of last year. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics’ capital importation report showed the year-on-year…
Nearly two-thirds of Nigerians are demanding a reduction in borrowing costs ahead of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting scheduled for May 19 and 20, 2026, according to the apex bank’s own survey data. The CBN’s April 2026 Inflation Expectations Survey Report, released by its Statistics Department under the Economic Policy…
Nigeria’s nascent battle against inflation faces a fresh assault from global energy markets, despite a marginal dip in headline figures. Data for February 2026 shows inflation eased to 15.06% year-on-year, down from 15.10% in January. While this appears positive compared to the 26.27% recorded a year ago, the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise…
The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise has warned that Nigerian businesses face mounting existential threats from the current surge in global energy prices, driven by escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East that have pushed crude oil to $100 per barrel and refined fuel above N1,000 per litre. In an advisory note…