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The UNDP–Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative report released on October 12, 2026, highlights deprivation across health, education, and living standards. It also identifies particularly severe poverty in rural communities and northern Nigeria. According to the report, 113 million Nigerians, or 48.7 per cent of the population, are classified as multi dimensionally poor.

Kaduna came alive on Saturday with the mega rally organised by the governing All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council to officially kick off electioneering for the 2027 general election.

At the January 2026 launch of the Gas Master Plan in Abuja, NNPC Group Chief Executive Officer, Bashir Ojulari, said the investments could expand demand for Nigerian pipeline contractors, fabrication companies, gas-processing equipment suppliers, engineering consultants, maintenance providers and technical workers.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, had alerted the higher authorities to the likelihood of Ebola’s importation into the country. The manner of its entry, the initial reaction to its origin, and where it was detected showed that no adequate proactive measures were taken.

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC-PCC) has raised the alarm over what it described as a coordinated plot by former Vice President and African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and his party to sabotage President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 presidential campaign flag-off in Kaduna on Saturday.

Nigeria's decades-long push for State Police has crossed its most critical constitutional hurdle after 24 State Houses of Assembly approved the amendment establishing a dual policing system, paving the way for its return to the National Assembly and eventual transmission to President Bola Tinubu for assent.

In October, serious security problems have surfaced in software and services that sit quietly underneath websites, apps, developer tools and cloud systems used around the world.

The Central Bank of Nigeria has granted JPMorgan approval-in-principle to establish a merchant bank in the country, marking a potential expansion of the global financial institution’s presence in Nigeria’s financial services market.

The mystery over the source of Nigeria’s first Ebola infection in the current African outbreak deepened on Friday after Switzerland confirmed that the index patient is a Swiss woman married to a member of staff at its embassy in Abuja, but said neither she nor her husband had travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the epicentre of the epidemic.

The CBN reduced its Monetary Policy Rate from 26.5 percent to 23 percent in September, signalling a shift towards a less restrictive monetary policy environment. However, yields on Open Market Operations bills and Federal Government bonds have remained elevated, cushioning the immediate impact of the policy change on banks’ investment income.