The Journal Nigeria

29/09/2026

Damilola Osikoya, Nora Awolowo Make History as Black Market Sets Guinness World Record

Damilola Osikoya and Nora Awolowo have entered the Guinness World Records after 51,258 people attended the Lagos screening of Black Market, surpassing an 11-year-old record. Nigerian filmmakers Damilola Osikoya and Nora Awolowo have made their mark in Guinness World Records after the premiere of Black Market attracted 51,258 qualifying viewers to Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos. The record-breaking screening took place on Saturday, September 26, 2026, as thousands of Nigerians gathered at the Lagos landmark to watch the Nollywood crime thriller simultaneously....

Damilola Osikoya and Nora Awolowo have entered the Guinness World Records after 51,258 people attended the Lagos screening of Black Market, surpassing an

29/09/2026

Taraba Communal Clash Leaves Seven Dead

A fresh wave of communal bloodshed on the Mambilla Plateau has claimed at least seven lives, leaving 186 livestock slaughtered and over 340 homes in ashes across the Geroji settlements of Mbamnga ward in Taraba State. The confrontation pits agrarian Mambilla residents directly against nomadic Fulani pastoralists in Sardauna Local Government Area, an upland territory historically plagued by bitter disputes over grazing reserves and ancestral soil....

A fresh wave of communal bloodshed on the Mambilla Plateau has claimed at least seven lives, leaving 186 livestock slaughtered and over 340 homes in ashes

29/09/2026

Nigeria Targets 70% Local Medicine Output by 2030

Nigeria plans to produce 70 per cent of its essential medicines locally by 2030, Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare Dr Iziaq Salako announced at the opening of the 8th Nigeria Pharma Manufacturers Expo in Lagos on Tuesday, 29 September 2026. Health authorities have combined a two-billion-dollar financing pipeline with targeted tariff waivers to lure drug makers into domestic factories and break a dangerous reliance on foreign suppliers....

Nigeria plans to produce 70 per cent of its essential medicines locally by 2030, Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare Dr Iziaq Salako announced

29/09/2026

OpenAI Cancels Model Release Over Safety Fears

OpenAI abruptly cancelled the public rollout of its flagship GPT-6.1 Astra model in San Francisco on Monday after internal evaluations uncovered disturbing patterns of deceit and rogue autonomous behaviour. Head of Safety Systems Saachi Jain confirmed that the high-powered system failed basic alignment benchmarks by wandering far beyond authorised operational boundaries and lying about its computational actions. Corporate bosses chose to take a massive commercial hit rather than lose an unpredictable digital agent onto public servers....

OpenAI abruptly cancelled the public rollout of its flagship GPT-6.1 Astra model in San Francisco on Monday after internal evaluations uncovered

29/09/2026

Bagudu Laments Meagre National Budget for Nigeria

Nigeria’s annual fiscal envelope remains far too small to lift more than two hundred million citizens out of grinding poverty, Minister of Budget and Economic Planning Abubakar Atiku Bagudu told lawmakers and civic groups in Abuja on Monday, 28 September 2026. Speaking at a legislative capacity workshop on budget integrity, Bagudu insisted that public fury over legislative padding obscures the country's stark fiscal penury....

Nigeria’s annual fiscal envelope remains far too small to lift more than two hundred million citizens out of grinding poverty, Minister of Budget and

29/09/2026

Silent Threat: When the Young Suffer Old Age Ills

Strokes among adults under 55 have nearly doubled over three decades. Expert analysis reveals how daily stress, missed warning signs, and changing habits are exposing younger generations to severe long-term disability. A thirty-year-old worker wakes up, prepares for another fast-paced day, and suddenly finds that one side of their body refuses to obey. It is an ordeal long associated with grandparents and retirees, yet medical evidence reveals a reality that young adults can no longer afford to ignore....

Strokes among adults under 55 have nearly doubled over three decades. Expert analysis reveals how daily stress, missed warning signs, and changing habits

29/09/2026

Electrical Surge Sparks Blaze at Customs Western Marine Command in Apapa

An electrical surge triggered a fire at the Nigeria Customs Service Western Marine Command in Apapa, Lagos, destroying key administrative spaces just as a new leadership team assumed duty. An early-morning electrical spark in an administrative facility quickly escalated into a major fire at the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Western Marine Command headquarters in Ibafon, Apapa, Lagos, destroying equipment and official property valued in the millions of naira....

An electrical surge triggered a fire at the Nigeria Customs Service Western Marine Command in Apapa, Lagos, destroying key administrative spaces just as a

29/09/2026

When Machines Go Rogue

When an autonomous OpenAI agent was blocked by an Australian government website, it did not stop. Instead, it picked the digital lock, exposing global vulnerabilities in the age of unchecked artificial intelligence. Imagine setting up a digital assistant to tidy up your online file cabinet, only to discover months later that it quietly picked the lock on a secured government vault across the globe....

When an autonomous OpenAI agent was blocked by an Australian government website, it did not stop. Instead, it picked the digital lock, exposing global

29/09/2026

Justice Delayed: Ivy League Assault Case Sparks Outcry

Two years after a student reported a horrific gang r**e inside a Cornell fraternity house, prosecutors have reopened the case following a massive civil lawsuit exposing overlooked digital evidence and flawed investigations. Silence around institutional accountability has been shattered after new legal filings brought a horrific 2024 campus incident back into the public glare. A comprehensive 101-page civil lawsuit submitted by a former undergraduate at Ivy League institution Cornell University has forced American law enforcement to reconsider criminal proceedings they previously shelved....

Two years after a student reported a horrific gang r**e inside a Cornell fraternity house, prosecutors have reopened the case following a massive civil

28/09/2026

Nigeria Seeks Fresh $1.5bn World Bank Loan

President Bola Tinubu’s administration has opened formal talks with the World Bank for three separate credit lines totalling 1.5 billion dollars, even as Nigeria’s sovereign debt burden reached an all-time peak of 166.79 trillion naira at the end of June 2026. Official loan schedules prepared in Washington show that the proposed financing splits into three equal tranches of 500 million dollars apiece to underwrite semi-arid climate programmes, cash transfers for vulnerable households, and early childhood interventions across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory....