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Petrol prices continue to worry families and motorists in Nigeria as transport costs put pressure on household budgets. In Abuja, the Nigerian capital, petrol prices remain a key concern for consumers hoping for lasting relief.
Twenty teams from every region, a monthly wage of about $300 for selected players and a promise of 1,000 jobs. How it fits with the football federation is unclear.
Nigeria’s National Orientation Agency (NOA) launched a nationwide campaign in Abuja on October 15, 2026, to mobilise citizens ahead of the 2027 general elections. The initiative urges Nigerians to reject voter apathy, vote-buying and electoral violence while promoting peaceful and credible elections.
The trainees, backed by the EU and IOM, leave with the tools to start businesses in the trades they learned.
Three in four working women in sub-Saharan Africa work in farming and food. In Enugu, solar cold rooms and greenhouses are being built for 500 young farmers, most of them women.
Prices rose 14.63% in the year to September, down from 20.98% a year earlier. Food prices fell month on month, and the naira firmed to ₦1,333 to the dollar.
After Kenya, Botswana and Ethiopia, the $1.6bn refinery IPO is heading to the Egyptian Exchange. The offer now closes on 27 October.
Access, Zenith, UBA, GTCO, First HoldCo and others move to a positive outlook after Nigeria's own outlook improved. Their ratings stay at B.
At Wuse Market in Abuja’s Wuse district, customers are complaining bitterly about rising food prices, with one onion reportedly selling for as much as ₦500. Traders say families are struggling to afford basic food items, as the same amount of money now buys far less than before.
The third GYMFEST, at The Dome in Lekki on 7 November, follows two editions that drew more than 400 athletes from over 20 schools.
Newswatch will present Dele Giwa's Granite Journalism, edited by Ray Ekpu, in Lagos on 19 October, the anniversary of its founding editor's killing.
Even with 414,000 of its own people displaced, Mali has taken in refugees, among them 86,000 from Burkina Faso in one region alone, and passed a new law on statelessness.
With a World Bank fisheries project more than 80% spent, Liberia's fisheries authority says the next step is private investment that keeps the sector's value at home.
The Abia Industrial Innovation Park at Owaza has a new managing director, and Governor Alex Otti says several companies want in.
Phones already on the networks are safe, the regulator says. New devices must now be verified before they can connect, to keep out counterfeits.
Kristalina Georgieva says a $2.2bn programme is ready and Senegal's case will test whether the reformed G20 debt framework works. Dakar hopes for a first payment in November.
Mary-Brenda Akoda, a Google DeepMind scholar trained at Imperial College, plans to launch GenMRI in Nigeria and Britain next year. It works on the scanners hospitals already have.
More than 13,000 primary health centres will now benefit, and about 90,000 prisoners are being brought into health insurance.
From a Lagos rail line to a fertiliser plant and a data centre powered by flare gas, the portfolio presented in Bangkok could create about 367,000 jobs, the government says.
Sworn in before Senegal's president, the judges from Benin, The Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria and Togo will each serve a single four-year term.
Entertainment Week Africa will fund standout companies from its Deal Room when it returns to Lagos in November.
Most senators backed treating it as a medical emergency. Senate President Godswill Akpabio said survivors should still face jail.
Heads of national boundary commissions met in The Gambia to speed up the marking of frontiers, as the regional bloc pushes freer movement across them.
The Nigerian payments company's revenue more than doubled in six months, with lending now earning more than payments. Loan losses are rising too.
A Central Bank of Liberia team visited Nigeria's insurance regulator after 50 Nigerian insurers raised about N720 billion in new capital.
The fund sees 4.3% growth next year, but says rising prices are hurting households and calls for targeted cash support.
Proptiva Africa has put approvals, photo evidence, messages and payments for a property project into one login. Here is how the pieces fit together.
Nine-month revenue more than doubled to $22.5 billion as the Lekki refinery moved from start-up into full commercial running.
Toni Payne and Uchenna Kanu scored twice each as Nigeria won 7-0 on aggregate in qualifying for the 2028 Olympics.
In Torla, in northern Côte d'Ivoire, a herder and his partner, a vegetable grower, used to compete for the same water. A rebuilt dam changed that.
The pipeline's regulator briefed the region's new infrastructure commissioner. The line was set up by Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo to supply power stations.
The information minister says the conversion programme has drawn $2.5bn in private money. Drivers still face a high upfront cost and too few filling stations.
Half of 14,000 babies would go without the hepatitis B vaccine for their first six weeks. Africa's public health agency opposes the US-funded study.
A judge has rejected a hospital operator's attempt to stop the coroner's inquiry, ruling that an inquest is a fact-finding exercise in which nobody is on trial.
Ministers meeting in Lomé adopted three regional plans: to protect donkeys by 2030, and to control foot-and-mouth disease and bird flu from 2027.
Nearly one in four confirmed patients has died, up from fewer than one in five last year. Health officials blame late arrival at hospital and the cost of treatment.
The electoral commission's final list for the state assembly shows two men standing for both the PDP and the APM. Fewer than one candidate in ten is a woman.
Users in four states have struggled to load or upload videos since mid-September. Civil society groups want to know whether someone ordered it.
Human Rights Watch documents forced HIV tests, leaked medical records and lawyers too afraid to take cases, weeks before Dakar hosts the Youth Olympics.
Two neighbours, two very different programmes under the same name. What an Extended Credit Facility is, and why the sums differ tenfold.
Vets from across the region have adopted a shared online system for reporting outbreaks of diseases that cross borders with the herds.
Officials spent five days at four border posts with Benin and Ghana, timing the queues and asking traders and drivers what really happens.
Moussa Kaka vanished in Niamey on 31 August. The justice minister has now said he is detained, without saying on what charge.
At least 22 people are feared dead after gunmen attacked a convoy heading to a weekly market in Bukkuyum. The army and police have yet to comment.
At a town hall in Bomi County, the mines minister said the test is how much value stays in the country, and floated a gold refinery and a state mining company.
Marking the International Day of the Girl, Oluremi Tinubu said protecting girls is an economic priority and asked for action, not statements.
The state emergency agency reports damage in seven local government areas after prolonged heavy rain and is telling riverside communities to move.
Fifty specialists from across the country trained in Accra to run the operations rooms that coordinate a response when disease strikes.
The agency kept the rating at B but says reforms to the naira and interest rates are working, and that reserves have reached $54.9 billion.
The number forced from their homes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger has more than doubled in six years. The UN refugee agency has a quarter of the money it needs.
After studying Ethiopia's approach, all 36 state governors also resolved to declare a nationwide nutrition emergency.
The Securities and Exchange Commission says the online investment platform is not registered and that anyone who uses it does so at their own risk.
The state says it will go from under 1,000MW to more than 3,000MW, using smart meters, private plants and its new powers to regulate electricity.
A report blamed substandard imported parts and poor supervision for two substation fires that cut power to the capital for days.
Isa Pantami in Gombe and Ladi Adebutu in Ogun are missing from the final list for February's elections. INEC has given no reasons.
The Eli Adewole Foundation pairs education and business grants with mentorship and skills training. Its argument is that money alone rarely gets a young person from potential to progress.
President Faye is mediating for ECOWAS. Guinea-Bissau's own electoral commission says conditions for the election are not in place.
The Law Reform Commission and the Millennium Challenge Corporation have begun reviewing the law. Legislators are pressing for stronger local content rules.
On Pan African Half Hour, Jay Adewole argues that the country's problem was never a shortage of talent or resources. It is the absence of systems that outlast the people in charge.
The Naija Concierge matches clients with vetted drivers, errand runners and inspectors it calls Gigsters, and pays them through the app. It is betting that trust is the thing Lagos logistics has been missing.
Proptiva Africa gives property owners abroad a team on the ground in Lagos, Abuja and Accra, and a portal where every update is photographed and time-stamped.
A media researcher argues that the country's institutions were built for a slower kind of lie, and that they must be ready before the campaign, not after the first crisis.
A presidential skills programme has graduated its first 700 young people in Oyo State, with laptops, sewing machines and make-up kits to start work.
The former Kaduna governor has been held since February. Judges said he showed no new facts to justify bail. His trial is due to begin on Monday.
Twenty young Nigerians on their way to national service were abducted on 1 October and released a week later. Parents say they paid. The police say they know of no payment.
Rosemary Adukwu was seized near the Enugu-Anambra border. Her family says the kidnappers did not contact them for almost a week.
Gerald Folley Smith and four others have been sent to Monrovia Central Prison over a $317 million seizure. The indictment names 18 people.
Nigeria were held for 45 minutes by a Comoros side that scored 30 goals in the previous round. The second leg is on Tuesday.
The 38-month deal still needs approval by the fund's board. The IMF expects Niger's economy to grow by about 7% this year.
More than 3,000 people are on death row in Nigeria, which will reach ten years without an execution in December.
Sending $200 through a traditional service costs about $17. Stablecoin services charge between 0.5% and 2%, and Nigeria now accounts for most of sub-Saharan Africa's inflows.
Human Rights Watch says the case, and the unexplained detention of a veteran journalist, show the military government tightening its hold on what can be said.
The ACReSAL programme, which restores degraded land in the semi-arid north, counts 4.4 million direct beneficiaries. Supporters want additional financing to extend it.
Nigeria host both legs in Ikenne, starting on Friday evening, without Asisat Oshoala and four other regulars. Only two African teams will reach the 2028 Olympics.
The presidency says NNPC stations will give up their retail margin as crude passes $100 a barrel. It insists this is not the return of the subsidy.
Former vice president Jewel Howard-Taylor is among those named in what a Monrovia newspaper calls the largest narcotics case in the country's judicial history. The allegations have not been proven.
Bolaji Alonge's photographs of the New Afrika Shrine sit beside Lemi Ghariokwu's original artwork on a limited vinyl release of 1,000 copies.
At this year's memorial, the traditional ruler of Asaba said his people are ready to forgive but want a sitting Nigerian president to say sorry for the killing of more than 1,000 civilians in 1967.
Officers found the animals caged and hidden in sacks at a waterside in Abeokuta. The suspects fled, and the pangolins have gone to a conservation group for release.
Taiwo Oyedele warns that a return to the subsidy could push the naira towards ₦3,000 to the dollar. The government says it will offer targeted relief instead.
The electoral commission has told the military-led transition that conditions for the vote meant to restore civilian rule have not been met. The decision on a delay rests with the transitional president.
Senegal beat Morocco 1-0 on the pitch in January, then lost the final by forfeit after a walk-off. Arbitrators in Lausanne must decide which result stands.
The 73-year-old returned to the Black Stars in September and lasted a month, after qualifying defeats to Ivory Coast and Gambia.
The aircraft came down in mangrove swamp near Igbokoda in Ondo State. The flight recorders have not been found and President Tinubu has declared three days of mourning.
The former president said accountability must start with those at the very top, and admitted the institutions her own government built have not ended graft.
The activist, wanted in Benin after backing a failed coup, said he was a diplomat for Niger. The court found no evidence he was ever accredited in South Africa.
The northern town fell to rebels in April. Analysts call its recapture, with Russian support, a symbolic win for the military government rather than a decisive one.
At least five people have died after four days of torrential rain. Schools will now open on 12 October, and more rain is forecast.
Accra has asked India to support its application as it looks to widen its economic and diplomatic partnerships, the foreign minister says.
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