Nigeria

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.

The Federal Government has secured 653 convictions in the ongoing mass trial of terrorism suspects before the Federal High Court, with 1,060 suspects brought forward for the latest phase of the exercise.

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.

Nigeria has launched a 10-year capital market roadmap and a national savings strategy aimed at mobilising domestic and foreign investment to support its ambition of building a $1 trillion economy by 2030.

The United Kingdom and Nigeria have agreed on new measures to tackle visa fraud, strengthen border security and improve cooperation on migration, justice and security.

The United Nations has expressed confidence in Nigeria’s capacity to contain its newly confirmed Ebola Bundibugyo case, pledging support as health authorities intensify contact tracing and surveillance to prevent further spread of the deadly virus.

African startups raised about $2.16 billion between January and September 2026, with Nigeria reclaiming the continent’s top funding position for the first time since 2022.

Nigeria is preparing to add an artificial intelligence interface to its national education-data system, allowing officials to query government records in ordinary language instead of relying only on dashboards and manual analysis.

Meta has been ordered to pay $25 billion after a New Mexico jury found that Facebook misled consumers about privacy, control of personal data and related platform practices.

The Government of Mexico has formally approved the appointment of Reno Omokri as Nigeria’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Mexican States, ending an eight-month diplomatic limbo over his posting.