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Dangote made the comments during an interview with The School of Hard Knocks, where he described wealth rankings as a distraction and pointed specifically to the value of his refinery.

Nigeria has formally brought the recurring xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks against Africans and other nationals in South Africa before the African Union, urging continental leaders to take decisive steps to protect Africans and strengthen peaceful coexistence across national borders.

FTSE Russell’s decision to return Nigeria to its Frontier Market framework on September 21 paves the way for foreign index-tracking capital to return to local equities. The Central Bank of Nigeria pulled over N4.7 trillion from commercial banks...

Nigeria recorded a record $947 million in remittance inflows through International Money Transfer Operators in July 2026. The figure leaves the country just $53 million short of the CBN’s $1 billion monthly remittance target. IMTO inflows reached $3.8...

NDLEA operatives intercepted 47,200 pills of Captagon, popularly known as the ‘Jihadi drug’, concealed inside blocks of Ghanaian bathing soap at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The agency also recovered 3.9 million tablets of Tramaking and Tapentadol,...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will on Sunday depart Abuja for Europe to begin a three-week vacation as part of his annual leave, the Presidency has announced.

The organisations, in a joint open letter dated August 29, 2026, warned that the Bill could have far-reaching consequences for civil society organisations, independent media, religious and humanitarian organisations, professional associations and other private entities that receive foreign grants, donations, technical assistance or development funding.

This was disclosed by the Director-General of the Kano State Centre for Disease Control(KNCDC), Prof. Muhammad Adamu Abbas during an interactive session with Journalists in Kano on Saturday,

The decision, according to a source familiar with the matter, is aimed at ensuring that Sowore is able to participate fully in the electioneering process without the pending court proceedings constituting an impediment to his political activities.

Major political parties and their leaders, on whom rests the success of the much -anticipated G100 conference on the coalition of opposition political parties against President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general poll, are singing discordant tunes, few hours before the gathering at the Yar’Adua Civic Centre in Abuja on Monday, August 31, 2026.