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Jordan, a lawyer, made the denial while being cross-examined by counsel to the claimants, Hamza Dantani, before Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja.

Market capitalisation opened at ₦163.530 trillion but closed at ₦163.104 trillion, representing a ₦426 billion decline.

Wike made the declaration while receiving members of the Association of Apo Mechanic Village, who visited him in Abuja to seek the intervention of the FCT Administration over the proposed relocation of their workshops.

Speaking on “The Role of the Media in Building a Future-Ready Financial System”, Chima said Nigeria’s financial system was fundamentally different from the one financial journalists covered a decade ago, pointing to banking recapitalisation, tax reform, fintech innovation and the rapid expansion of digital financial services.

Nigeria’s banking sector has emerged from its latest recapitalisation exercise with a stronger capital foundation, but the completion of the exercise marks the beginning of another phase of reform rather than the end of the process.

The case centres on whether Chinda validly defected from the PDP to the APC in accordance with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, before taking part in the APC governorship screening and primary that produced him as the party’s candidate.

The discovery was made after investigators found that seven of 39 cocaine bricks seized during a drug raid in 2019 were missing from the evidence stored at the High Court in Suva, the capital.

The rankings, released on September 30, 2026, include 29 Nigerian universities, compared with 24 in the 2026 edition. Nigeria has the largest number of ranked institutions in sub-Saharan Africa.

Gold recovered some ground on Wednesday, September 30, but remained on course to lose more than 5% for the month as expectations of higher US interest rates weighed on demand.

A flydubai passenger aircraft travelling from Dubai to Tel Aviv was diverted to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after an emergency unfolded aboard the plane, with an Israeli official saying the incident followed a fight between the pilots rather than a hijacking.