Nigeria is developing a financing route that could allow small businesses to raise cash against verified unpaid invoices, helping them fund operations while waiting for customers to settle their bills.
Nigeria has entered the final months of 2026 with stronger external and domestic buffers, but the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says a tougher global environment could still disrupt the improvement.
Nigeria recorded more than 18.8 million domestic and international air passengers in 2025, representing an 11.9 percent year-on-year increase and making the country Africa’s fourth-largest aviation market.
Nigeria’s $300 million Distributed Renewable Energy Fund has reached commercial launch, creating a financing vehicle to expand electricity supply through systems such as mini-grids and standalone solar installations.
Nigeria is set to renew its campaign for permanent representation on the United Nations Security Council as Vice-President Kashim Shettima leads the country’s engagements at the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Nigeria has officially returned to FTSE Russell’s Frontier Market classification, effective from the opening of trading on September 21, ending a three-year period in which the country was classified as Unclassified.
Africa Gas Transport Company Limited (AfricaGTC), backed by Dutch clean-energy company, Energy Ventures B.V., is set to harness flared gas in Nigeria, which has long posed environmental and economic challenges, into a useful resource.
SAM DIALA highlights Nigeria’s troubling situation and argues that the country can no longer afford to treat environmental sustainability as an afterthought.
Nigeria will, on Monday, September 21, return to the FTSE Russell Frontier Market universe, ending a three-year period in which its equities were excluded from the global index provider’s frontier-market classification.
Faruku Musa Haruna and other farmers in Kumfada used to pool their money to buy plastic sheets, trapping enough water to irrigate small patches of land. They wanted to keep farming after the rains, but their ambitions depended on how much water they could save.