Nigeria

Nigeria’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 4.43 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2026, up from 4.23 percent in Q2 2025 and 3.89 percent in Q1 2026.

Baba died. That extraordinary age has not been scientifically verified, and intellectual honesty requires that qualification. But the cultural meaning of Baba does not depend on a laboratory certificate.

Another marital expression that amuses me is: “what God has joined together, let no man put asunder”. The big question is – how many marriages did God join together?

With approximately 90 percent of Nigeria’s workforce operating outside the formal economy, pension coverage for informal workers is almost non-existent.

Nigeria faces a fundamental choice: will its young population become the engine of economic transformation, or will millions of young Nigerians remain trapped between inadequate education, weak skills, unemployment, and poverty? The answer will determine not merely the future of Nigerian youths, but the future of Nigeria itself.

Nigeria’s manufacturing sector is growing, but the latest trade data suggest that the increase in domestic production is not yet large enough to significantly reduce the country’s dependence on imported manufactured goods.

Nigeria has evacuated another 106 citizens from South Africa amid escalating anti-migrant tensions and concerns over xenophobic attacks against Nigerians and other foreign nationals.

The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) has made a public digital postcode finder available, while the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and telecom operators have scheduled October 1 for the start of a free educational-data scheme.

President Bola Tinubu has declared that the era of economic stabilisation is over and promised a new phase of cheaper food, jobs, industrial growth and wider opportunities, saying his administration must now turn economic reforms into tangible improvements in the lives of Nigerians.

ReachOut Nigeria is set to take 100 million copies of Rhapsody of Realities to all 774 Local Government Areas, while providing 200 boreholes in 200 communities, as the initiative marks its 20th edition during Nigeria’s 66th Independence Anniversary.