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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
Former Kogi State governor Ibrahim Idris died in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 20 September 2026, at the age of 77. Incumbent Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo has declared a three-day period of state mourning and ordered flags flown at half-mast across public buildings. The state government announced that it will bear the full cost of…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi met behind closed doors with leaders of the African Democratic Congress in Abuja to hammer out an alliance ahead of the 2027 general elections. The high-level parley brings two perennial heavyweights together in an ambitious bid to stitch together a credible opposition challenge…
Social Democratic Party presidential candidate Adewole Adebayo says he would find a place in his cabinet for Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, but only on one condition: that the minister says a great deal less in public. Speaking in an interview with Symfoni, Adebayo offered an assessment that resists the…
The debate over Nigeria’s political future ahead of the 2027 presidential election has intensified after Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate Adewole Adebayo rejected comments by former Labour Party vice-presidential candidate Datti Baba-Ahmed suggesting that none of the major contenders seeking to replace President Bola Tinubu would significantly improve the country. Adebayo argued that Baba-Ahmed’s…
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde, former Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi, and former Osun State Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola met former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his Abeokuta residence to map strategy for the 2027 general elections. The closed-door consultation underlines growing unease within opposition circles over the direction of the country under President Bola Tinubu. Cross-party…
Twenty three years after the Alliance for Democracy lost five of the six states it controlled in the South West, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reopened one of the Fourth Republic’s most contested political arguments, rejecting claims by former Ogun State Governor, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, that he deceived Yoruba political leaders ahead of the…
A decades old United States forfeiture matter that has shadowed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu since his years as a private businessman has been thrust back into the centre of Nigeria’s political contest, this time through the corridors of power in Washington rather than the courtrooms of Abuja. Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C., a Washington based…
The New Nigeria People’s Party has declared a decisive turn in its protracted internal war, announcing that the Independent National Electoral Commission has restored its original logo on its portal and affirmed the National Working Committee headed by Dr Major Agbo, even as the party uploaded a placeholder presidential candidate ahead of the…
Fresh cracks have emerged within the Peoples Redemption Party ahead of the 2027 general elections following the resignation of the party’s National Vice Chairman (South West), Wolimoh Olajide Epe, who accused the party of lacking national relevance and pursuing a regional agenda. Epe announced his resignation in a letter addressed to the party’s National…
The Nigeria Democratic Congress moved its most closely watched internal arrangement from the realm of political rumour into documented commitment on Monday, when its vice presidential candidate, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, confirmed that presidential candidate Peter Obi has signed a written agreement to serve only one four year term and hand power back to the…