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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
Osun State police officers released Environment Commissioner Mayowa Adejoorin after keeping him in detention for twenty-four hours. Security forces grabbed the state official on Friday following a violent shooting near an All Progressives Congress rally in Ilesa. Police spokesman Abiodun Ojelabi linked the cabinet member’s arrest to an intercepted Lexus vehicle containing spent ammunition and…
Yoruba nation activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, says more than 80,000 volunteers have now registered for his Iru Ekun Security Network, a figure that overshoots the 50,000 target the outfit set for itself and places the region’s newest community security experiment squarely within the national conversation on insecurity. In a…
Professor Joash Amupitan, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), warns that rising violence across the country could derail the 2027 general elections. He took this message to the Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu, on Wednesday. The chairman fears that insecurity will crush public trust in the democratic process. It is a blunt admission…
Inspector General of Police Tunji Disu has ordered an immediate nationwide audit of arms and ammunition across all state commands following public outrage over a viral video showing officers shooting a restrained, handcuffed man at close range. The directive came during a meeting with senior officers in Abuja on Tuesday, where Disu mandated all…
Tunji Disu was officially sworn in as the acting Inspector-General of Police on Wednesday, following a decoration ceremony by President Bola Tinubu earlier in the day. The handover took place at the State House, Abuja, where Disu, a career police officer, received his new rank amidst a growing wave of changes within the Nigeria Police…
The Nigerian presidency has a penchant for polite fiction. On Tuesday, the official word was that Kayode Egbetokun, the Inspector-General of Police, had resigned to attend to “family issues.” The reality is more clinical. Mr. Egbetokun was summoned to the Villa on Monday evening and told his time was up. In the language of Abuja’s…