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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 Independent National Electoral Commission moved swiftly on Wednesday, 16 September 2026, to quell mounting opposition hysteria regarding the whereabouts of its chairman, Joash Amupitan. Official spokesmen confirmed that the electoral boss travelled outside Abuja on an approved international mission to represent Nigeria at an institutional conference. The clarification directly answers a barrage of questions…
Peter Obi marked his 65th birthday on Sunday by turning a football result into a political statement, seizing on Spain’s victory at the 2026 FIFA World Cup to press his familiar argument that competent, well supported young people are the answer to Nigeria’s troubles. The presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress for the 2027…
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…
Peter Obi has returned to the argument that has defined his political brand for close to a decade, that Nigeria’s fortunes turn on the quality of the people who govern it, choosing this time a policy forum in the German capital to press the case ahead of the 2027 general election. The presidential candidate…
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has waved off the notion that Peter Obi represents any real danger to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election prospects, declaring on Tuesday that the former Anambra State governor “cannot even face” him, let alone the president, as the jostling for the 2027 presidency sharpens. Speaking during an interview…
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has dismissed as fabricated a viral video suggesting that its officers endorsed Peter Obi’s presidential bid, saying the footage was manipulated to push a false political narrative and that an investigation into its origin is underway. In a statement issued on Monday by the command’s spokesperson, Superintendent Josephine Adeh,…
A senior aide to President Bola Tinubu has moved to play down the political weight of Peter Obi ahead of the 2027 general elections, declaring that the former Anambra governor cannot repeat his 2023 upset victory in Lagos and no longer unsettles the administration. Sunday Dare, Special Adviser to the President on Media and…
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, has renewed his call for the release of detained Indigenous People of Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu, declaring that there is no justification for his continued detention. Obi made the remarks during an interaction with Nigerians in Washington, D.C., in a video that has been…
Nigeria’s prominent pro-Peter Obi political movement has moved to protect its identity and institutional integrity, publicly rejecting what it described as rogue elements attempting to operate parallel structures under its name and erode public confidence in its leadership. The Obidient Movement, in an official statement released on Thursday and signed by its National Coordinator,…
Nigeria’s electoral commission drew widespread condemnation from opposition parties, civil society organisations, and the Obidient movement before abruptly suspending publicity preparations for a nationwide voter revalidation exercise it had announced just days earlier, exposing deepening anxieties over the integrity of the country’s electoral system less than a year to the 2027 general elections. The Independent…