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The Naira opened the trading week on a stronger footing at the official foreign exchange market, gaining N5.54 against the United States dollar. Official figures from the Central Bank of Nigeria show the local currency strengthened to reverse recent losses. This modest uptick offers brief respite after a period of sustained volatility across the official…
Omoyele Sowore has pledged to restore Nigeria’s petrol subsidy if he wins the presidency. The African Action Congress politician argues that removing the price cushion has driven millions of citizens into deep economic distress. His declaration directly challenges the central economic policies of the current administration. President Bola Tinubu scrapped the decades-old support program in…
A prominent African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain, Dele Momodu, has thrown his weight behind Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party for the August 15, 2026 governorship election, a cross-party endorsement that lays bare how far Nigeria’s opposition coalition project has drifted from the unity it once promised ahead of 2027. Momodu,…
Nigerian students seeking to turn business ideas into funded ventures now have a fresh window of opportunity, as the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) formally opened applications for the 2026 edition of its entrepreneurship initiative, NANSInnovate, at a time when the country’s swelling population of unemployed graduates has become one of its most…
Nigeria’s tertiary education system left more than 700,000 approved admission spaces unfilled in 2025, even as millions of candidates competed for places, according to a new policy report that challenges the widely held assumption that the country’s admission crisis is primarily about insufficient capacity. The report, titled “The Admissions Gap: Who Gets into Nigeria’s…
Nigeria’s fractured opposition is once again attempting to do what it has failed to do since 2015: agree on a single candidate strong enough to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in a presidential election. A coalition of civic actors under the G-100 platform has set August 18, 2026 for an opposition unity…
A single clause tucked inside a wide-ranging road safety bill has set off one of the sharpest public debates in Nigeria this year, pitting lawmakers seeking to curb distracted driving against religious bodies who see a threat to a practice older than the Fourth Republic itself. The Senate on July 17, 2026 passed the…
Trading data released by the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) for the week of 3 to 7 August 2026 shows that a small cluster of stockbroking firms continues to control the bulk of activity on the bourse, a pattern that mirrors the broader concentration already visible across Nigeria’s equities market this year. According to the…
In the second quarter of 2026, the Manufacturers CEO Confidence Index, published by the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, climbed 3.4 points to reach 52.1. This reading pushes the benchmark back above the 50-point threshold separating contraction from expansion, recording the highest sentiment level in over two years. The Director-General of the association, Segun Ajayi-Kadir, observed…
A senior official of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) has advocated for the widespread adoption of Computer Based Testing (CBT) as the primary strategy to eliminate examination malpractice, specifically targeting the phenomenon of unverified “miracle centres” that threaten the integrity of public examinations. Timothy Manga, an official with the WAEC office in Makurdi, Benue…
