Nigeria

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.

The Super Eagles begin their road back to continental relief this week and the numbers say it will be tighter than the names on paper suggest.

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.

Nigeria is often described, casually and sometimes cruelly, as having a “people’s problem.” The phrase is usually invoked to explain everything from poor governance and low productivity to corruption and social disorder. But this framing is misleading. Nigeria’s challenge is not a failure of individual Nigerians.