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Nigeria’s pension industry has opened 2026 with a formidable expansion, as total assets hit N28.04 trillion by the end of January. This represents a 22.64% increase from the N22.86 trillion recorded the previous year. The industry added N580 billion in value in a single month, a growth spurt driven by both consistent contributions and robust…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has issued a high-priority public health advisory following an uptick in Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) risks. This warning specifically targets states within the “African Meningitis Belt” during the current peak of the dry season. Health officials warned that the disease can progress with lethal speed, often proving…
A desperate exodus is underway across the Middle East as the United States-Israeli conflict with Iran grounded commercial aviation. Tens of thousands of travellers are stranded following the cancellation of over 23,000 flights since Saturday. Airspace closures have funneled the remaining traffic through a few strained hubs in Dubai, Riyadh, and Muscat. Panic is rising…
Augustine “Jay-Jay” Okocha, the Nigerian football icon widely regarded as one of the most gifted midfielders of his generation, has spoken candidly about the full arc of his time at Paris Saint-Germain, describing a tenure marked by brilliant football, unexpected leadership, deep personal bonds, and the persistent frustration of falling short of the silverware…
Nigeria is attempting to pivot from a raw materials exporter to a value-adding industrial power. Delivering a keynote address at the Nigeria–German Economic Forum in Dortmund this week (March 3–5, 2026), Steel Development Minister Shuaibu Abubakar Audu said the country needs European partners to fix its broken industrial chain. The government wants to stop shipping…
The United States government has temporarily relaxed its economic sanctions against Russia to allow a consignment of Russian crude oil and petroleum products, currently stranded aboard vessels at sea, to be sold to India, the Treasury Department announced on Thursday. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a Russia-related general licence titled…
Technology company Google has expanded language support for its Artificial Intelligence powered search features to include Yorùbá and Hausa, a development the company says will allow more Nigerians to interact with advanced search tools in their native languages. The announcement was disclosed in a statement on Thursday by Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager…
Nigeria’s Senate Committee on Public Accounts has intensified its oversight of the nation’s oil sector by summoning three former top executives of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to address audit queries revealing N210 trillion in unaccounted funds between 2017 and 2023. The committee, led by Senator Aliyu Wadada from Nasarawa West, issued the…
Nigeria’s electricity generation has collapsed below the 4,000-megawatt (MW) mark as a persistent gas shortage chokes the nation’s thermal power plants. The Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) confirmed on Thursday that total grid output slumped to 3,940MW by 5:00 a.m., forcing widespread load shedding across all distribution networks. Within a three-hour window on Thursday morning,…
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has pledged to prioritise the Nigerian market as a surge in Middle Eastern hostilities sends global energy prices into a tailspin. In a statement released this week, the firm confirmed it is absorbing a portion of rising costs to shield domestic consumers from the full impact of the crisis. While benchmark…
