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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 Senate has said there will be no fresh amendment to the Electoral Act 2026 before the 2027 general elections, insisting that the law as it stands will govern the coming polls despite questions raised by a recent Supreme Court judgment. The position was set out by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on…
More than 1,200 candidates cleared to contest Senate and House of Representatives seats in the 2027 general elections list the Senior Secondary School Certificate as their highest educational qualification, according to an analysis of candidate records published by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The review examined the final lists for the National Assembly polls…
A proposed law to place every foreign grant entering Nigeria under a single new regulator has hardened into one of the sharpest civil liberties disputes of the current National Assembly, with rights advocates now threatening to go to court if the bill becomes law. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and the Nigerian…
A cross-party coalition of lawmakers wants Nigeria’s parliament recalled immediately to address an alleged ₦8.83 trillion off-budget spend. The group, calling itself the Save Nigeria Group, sent its demand directly to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and House Speaker Tajudeen Abbas. Official silence on such massive unauthorised spending threatens to gut democratic accountability entirely. Federal coffers…
Nigeria has taken its most decisive step yet toward breaking the federal monopoly on policing. The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the Executive Bill seeking to establish state police forces nationwide. Lawmakers withdrew their own earlier constitutional amendment proposal during plenary to adopt President Bola Tinubu’s executive version instead. The legislative breakthrough follows the…
A parliamentary committee has issued a strict 48-hour ultimatum to federal ministries, departments, and agencies stalling its investigation into a phantom government body. The House Ad-hoc Committee investigating the illicit creation and operational history of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council declared Thursday as the final deadline for recalcitrant civil servants. Committee Chairman Yusuf Gagdi…
The House of Representatives opens a formal inquiry today into how a council that the Federal Government insists never legally existed secured more than N1.3bn in the 2026 Appropriation Act, yet the two men at the heart of the controversy have not been called to testify, raising early questions about the reach and credibility…
A prominent rights group has urged the National Assembly to withdraw a controversial draft data protection law immediately. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project described the proposed legislation as a deceptive backdoor attempt to regulate social media networks. The organisation warned that the bill grants state regulators sweeping powers to censor online expression and shut…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has drawn a sharp line under a legislative delay that has quietly stretched into its fifth month, giving President Bola Tinubu seven days to either sign the Federal Audit Service Bill into law, formally tell the National Assembly why he is withholding assent, or step down from office. The…
Pressure over the phantom Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) has continued to mount inside the National Assembly, with the House of Representatives and the Senate charting opposite courses on how to confront a scandal that has already unsettled the Presidency and drawn President Bola Tinubu into issuing a 30-day investigative order. At plenary…