Customs Boss Pledges Support for $1tr Economy
Comptroller-General of Customs Adewale Adeniyi says the Nigeria Customs Service is committed to supporting Nigeria’s…
Customs Boss Pledges Support for $1tr Economy
Comptroller-General of Customs Adewale Adeniyi says the Nigeria Customs Service is committed to supporting Nigeria’s ambition of building a $1 trillion economy through trade facilitation, revenue generation and border management. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, has pledged the support of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) towards achieving Nigeria’s ambition of building a $1 trillion…
Nancy Isime Announces Executive Producer Debut
Actress and media personality Nancy Isime has announced her debut as an executive producer, marking a new chapter in her career in the Nigerian film industry. Nigerian actress and media personality Nancy Isime has announced her first film project as an executive producer. Isime shared the news on social media, describing the move as…
West African Crude Trades at Decade-Low Discount
West African crude oil sank to its deepest pricing discount in over ten years on Thursday, 8 October 2026, as climbing maritime shipping charges and sluggish industrial demand across Asia crushed bids for regional shipments. Physical traders handling Nigerian and Angolan export grades cut spot offers to historically low levels against Dated Brent after S&P…
IFC Commits $24.3m to Nigerian Cancer Care
The International Finance Corporation pledged 24.3 million dollars on Thursday, 8 October 2026, to expand diagnostic clinics and specialised oncology centres across Nigeria. The private lending arm of the World Bank Group channels this long-term financing into a joint venture with the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority to broaden modern cancer treatment beyond the gilded private…
IHVN Tasks Media to Boost PrEP Awareness
The Institute of Human Virology in Nigeria called on journalists on Thursday, 8 October 2026, to dismantle pervasive public stigma and spur the uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV across the federation. Health authorities gathered editors in Lagos alongside delegates from the National Agency for the Control of AIDS to arrest an alarming trend of…
Naira Shows Resilience Against African Currency Slump -World Bank
The World Bank declared on Thursday, 8 October 2026, that the Nigerian naira weathered regional foreign exchange turmoil far better than several continental peers during the second quarter, limiting its maximum depreciation to just 2.6 per cent while punishing sell-offs battered currencies across the African continent. Currency markets across twenty-two sub-Saharan nations outside the CFA…
IMF Warns as Global Debt Nears 100%
The International Monetary Fund warned finance ministers gathered in Washington on Thursday, 8 October 2026, that global public debt will soon breach one hundred trillion dollars and climb relentlessly towards one hundred per cent of world economic output before the present decade draws to a close. Multilateral lenders urge finance chiefs across both advanced and…
Arogundade Warns, 25.4m Nigerians Face Kidney Disease
Professor Fatiu Arogundade warned on Thursday, 8 October 2026, that roughly 25.4 million adult Nigerians now live with overt or covert chronic kidney disease. The vice chancellor of the Federal University of Medicine and Medical Sciences in Abeokuta delivered this grim epidemiological appraisal during an academic lecture, noting that an unrecorded health disaster currently guts…
Industrial Sector Facing Imminent Collapse- MAN
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria warned on Thursday, 8 October 2026, that the nation’s industrial engine faces imminent collapse despite cheerful headline output figures from official statistical bureaus in Abuja. Association director-general Segun Ajayi-Kadir cautioned that nominal national economic expansion of 4.43 per cent merely masks a catastrophic decline across real factories, where industrial sector…
Northern Clerics Tell Tinubu to Drop Ambition
Over one thousand northern Islamic scholars gathered in Abuja on Thursday, 8 October 2026, to demand that President Bola Tinubu abandon his re-election bid for 2027. The clerics issued a direct communique after days of deliberations on the economy, the exodus of skilled professionals, and the endless slaughter across the northern hinterland. Pious patience in…