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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
Gunmen overran Illelar Dawagari village in the Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State over the weekend, abducting nine residents, shooting a farmer, and rustling more than 200 livestock into the northern scrubland. The marauders stormed the agrarian community within Kagara Ward under cover of night, shooting indiscriminately to terrify local households before ransacking mud…
Armed raiders killed four mobile police officers and eight local farmers during a dawn assault on Ayilamo community in Benue State on Friday. More than two hundred gunmen crossed from neighbouring Taraba State along the Alufu corridor to storm the agrarian settlement in Logo Local Government Area. Eyewitnesses reported that the attackers set residential houses…
Armed bandits killed five people and seized 27 villagers during nighttime raids across farming settlements in Kaduna State on Monday, 7 September 2026. Gunmen struck rural outposts in Giwa and neighbouring districts, turning quiet homesteads into open hunting grounds. In Tunburku, assailants shot two community elders, Alhaji Surajo and Alhaji Ado, while another resident, Ayyuba…
Kidnapping syndicates extorted N7.78 billion in cash payments across Nigeria between July 2025 and June 2026, according to a report by SBM Intelligence. The Lagos-based geopolitical research consultancy documented 1,713 separate kidnap incidents involving 7,825 victims within the twelve-month cycle. Total ransom payments more than tripled from the N2.56 billion recorded in the previous annual…
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has strongly condemned the killing of about 170 people in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State, describing the attack as clear evidence of a collapse of national security under the administration of President Bola Tinubu. In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the opposition…