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Southeast Becomes 2027 Battleground as Tinubu Backers Rally 5,000 in Anambra
A pro-Tinubu group used an Anambra town hall to pitch infrastructure, education loans and the South East Development Com...
NDLEA Seizes N4.4bn in Thai 'Loud' at Lagos Ports, Arrests 101-Year-Old Dealer
Nigeria's drug agency reports its first maritime interception of Thai-sourced synthetic cannabis at Apapa and Lekki, alo...
Nigeria's CPPE: Reversing Economic Reforms Would Hit FX Stability and Investor Confidence
The private-sector lobby CPPE says Nigeria's economic reform scorecard shows stronger revenues, reserves and GDP growth,...
Osun Government Calls for Post-Election Reconciliation and End to Partisan Policing
Commissioner Kolapo Alimi urges political actors to move past election tensions, warning that fresh crises at local coun...
ADC and APM Attack Tinubu's 2027 Campaign Team Over Credibility Questions
Two opposition parties say the new APC campaign council includes figures with unresolved corruption questions and lacks ...
West Africa: Five Entrepreneurs Turning Local Gaps Into Businesses
From Ghanaian appliance retail to Nigerian gyms and Ivorian cashew processing, these founders are building ventures arou...
Nigeria's upstream regulator weighs petroleum swap to boost local refinery crude supply
Nigeria's NUPRC is considering a domestic petroleum swap to cut crude delivery costs to local refineries, as Q2 2026 dom...
Nigeria's Falling Inflation Fails to Restore Household Purchasing Power
Headline inflation dropped sharply to 15.51% in H1 2026, but most Nigerians still grapple with high prices as past surge...
Nigeria’s Digital Birth Registration Reaches 6,000 Wards – 2,800 Still Cut Off
On Africa CRVS Day, the National Population Commission revealed that digital birth registration is live in roughly two-t...
‘We Saw Death and Suffering’: 163 Nigerians Freed After Six-Month Jihadi Captivity
Kidnapped in February from the village of Woro, over 160 women and children were rescued in what the president called th...
Nigeria’s 33-Year Vaccine Gap Spurs Dangote’s Medical Sovereignty Push as Local Biologics Take Shape
NAFDAC confirms Nigeria has produced no human vaccines since 1993, while Aliko Dangote urges industrial-scale healthcare...
HillCrest Agro-Allied Lists N11.73bn Commercial Paper on FMDQ Exchange for Rice Mill Expansion
Nigerian rice miller HillCrest Agro-Allied Industries has secured quotations for N2.42bn Series 1 and N9.31bn Series 2 C...
Boycott Backlash Clouds Tyla’s Lagos Detty December Show, Highlighting Tour Promotion Risks
Social media calls for a boycott over xenophobia threaten South African star Tyla’s scheduled Lagos concert, exposing fi...
How FCCPC’s airtime lending crackdown wiped out nearly three-quarters of MTN Nigeria’s fintech revenue
MTN Nigeria’s soaring half-year profit masked a 72% collapse in fintech revenue after regulators forced it to suspend ai...
Nigeria Exempts Fully CNG and Electric Vehicles from Import Duty, VAT
The Nigerian government has waived import duties and VAT on fully CNG, LPG and electric vehicles to cut transport costs ...
Elohor Aiboni Appointed Shell Nigeria’s First Female Country Chair, Succeeding Marno de Jong
Shell Nigeria celebrated the handover to Elohor Aiboni, the first woman to lead its operations, as outgoing country chai...
BOA bets on digital tech, e-wallets to boost farmers’ access to finance
Nigeria's Bank of Agriculture has deployed core banking, mobile channels and smart POS terminals to digitize lending and...
Africa Bangladesh Trade Summit to Open in Abuja This October
The ABBF-organised event in Abuja on 6–7 October 2026 aims to connect businesses from Bangladesh and Africa, with a focu...
Nestlé Nigeria to transfer water business into global joint venture with Platinum Equity
Nestlé Nigeria will move its water operations into Peranel, a 50:50 global venture between parent Nestlé S.A. and privat...
Honda takes women farmer empowerment drive to northern Nigeria
Honda Manufacturing Nigeria Limited donates farming equipment and provides training to 10 female farmers in Abuja, advan...
Nigeria Aims to Triple Cashew Output to 1m Tonnes by 2036
The country’s national cashew association has unveiled a roadmap targeting 1 million tonnes of production and 50% local ...
Asaba Private Jet Crew Still in DSS Custody Over Runway ‘Security Breach’
Aviation minister Festus Keyamo confirms the crew of a US-registered Bombardier Challenger that landed on a road near As...
Nigeria’s Insurance Recap Deadline Ends; Industry Awaits NAICOM’s Compliant List
Nigeria’s year-long insurance recapitalisation programme closed today without a single merger, as firms raised nearly N3...
NASD Launches Nigeria’s First Regulated Digital Securities Platform
Nigeria’s NASD OTC Securities Exchange goes live with a blockchain-based platform for tokenised securities, with the fir...
How insecurity turned Nigeria's national parks from shared treasures into feared no-go zones
The abduction of schoolchildren in Old Oyo National Park exposed a deep crisis: citizens see protected areas not as heri...
How Nigeria Governed Its Way into Debt: From 1970s Oil Boom to Borrowing Trap
Decades of treating temporary oil wealth as permanent income, widespread corruption, and weak institutions turned a hist...
Imo State Fuses Roads, Cargo Air Hub and Digital City to Reboot South-East Economy
From massive road reconstruction and an expanded cargo airport to a digital skills city assembling 1,000 phones daily, I...
The Price of Time: How Institutional Delay Strangles Nigeria’s Economy
Time is a nation’s only truly equal resource, yet Nigeria systematically wastes it in ports, courts, and public approval...
Twenty-five years after GSM, Nigeria’s telecoms fight to protect the network
Vandalism, fibre cuts, soaring energy costs and regulatory hurdles are forcing operators to shift focus from expansion t...
AMCON to Divest NTEL Stake as Debt Recovery Surges 64% in H1 2026
The Nigerian bad bank recovered N165bn in the first half of 2026, a 64% jump, and confirmed plans to sell telecom firm N...