https://sagire.online/topic/nigeria/ Articles and notes about Nigeria. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 03:40:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/938a76e2/https://sagire.online/wire/938a76e2/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 01:22:00 -0300Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu asked the Senate to approve fresh external borrowing of $7.7 billion, equivalent to N10.79 trillion, to part-finance the 2026 budget deficit, in a letter dated October 26, 2026 read by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, replacing an earlier $20.3 billion request, with emphasis on Eurobond issuance, at the budget exchange rate of N1,409 to the dollar, under a plan with N18.4 trillion in domestic borrowing and a deficit estimated at about N31.4 trillion.NigeriaEconomy https://sagire.online/wire/7dd1fd2e/https://sagire.online/wire/7dd1fd2e/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 23:24:00 -0300The Niger State government said it is deploying resources to rescue 15 female Islamiya pupils abducted by bandits over the weekend, while the school’s proprietor insists that no concrete steps have been taken on the ground. Aminu Abubakar Bako said that no government official had visited the community and that the bandits had demanded a ransom of 100 million nairas. The bandits called on Monday, saying the pupils were still safe but warning that their safety could not be guaranteed if the payment was delayed.NigeriaPublic security https://sagire.online/wire/10cea191/https://sagire.online/wire/10cea191/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 23:24:00 -0300The national president of the Nigeria Union of Mining Workers (NUMW), Musa Adamu Nasiru, told the inquiry commission that six of the miners who died in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) were registered members of the union. The president of the Niger Miners Association, Abdulrazak Yusuf Mohammed, told the same commission that he was informed that 65 people were in detention, that only 17 survived and that forty-eight died in custody. In Niger State, thirty-seven people accused of illegal mining died in NSCDC custody, according to Nigerian authorities.NigeriaHuman rightsPublic security https://sagire.online/wire/40547d84/https://sagire.online/wire/40547d84/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:23:00 -0300Aliko Dangote on Wednesday broke ground for a planned fuel storage site in Namibia, which will serve as a fuel distribution hub in southern Africa, in an OilPrice report based on Bloomberg’s reporting. The project, expected to cost $2.5 billion, includes a fuel depot outside the main port of Walvis Bay and a 1,700-kilometer pipeline to bring fuels to Botswana and South Africa, and potentially to other countries. “We want to heavily invest so that most of the landlocked countries will be able to access petroleum products at a cheaper price,” Dangote said at the event. The initial public offering of a minority stake in Dangote’s refinery could raise as much as $2.1 billion if the company exercises its greenshoe option.NigeriaEnergySouth AfricaAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/9d17585e/https://sagire.online/wire/9d17585e/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:22:00 -0300Recent discoveries of methamphetamine laboratories in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Mozambique have fueled concerns that Africa is becoming a significant production hub for synthetic drugs. In Nigeria, an operation in Ogun State led to the arrest of 10 suspects, including three Mexican nationals whom the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said had been brought into the country to help manufacture the drug. The agency’s chairman, Mohamed Buba Marwa, said officers seized more than 2.4 metric tons of methamphetamine, precursor chemicals and other materials with an estimated international market value of about $363 million.NigeriaAfricaDrug trafficking https://sagire.online/wire/e7877725/https://sagire.online/wire/e7877725/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 08:23:00 -0300Total oil and gas output at Nigeria's state company rose to 3.04 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in September, up from 3.01 million the previous month. Revenue came in at 3.4 billion dollars (4.608 trillion naira), in line with the months after March, when the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz crisis hiked international oil prices. The state company attributed the increase to the restart of the Obodo oilfield in mining license OML 150, and said output remains constrained by equipment failures, subsurface issues, flowline leaks, community protests and storage and export infrastructure constraints.NigeriaOilEconomy https://sagire.online/wire/cf633d5d/https://sagire.online/wire/cf633d5d/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:24:00 -0300Sheikh Yahaya Masussuka, an Islamic cleric respected in Katsina, was shot dead by two armed men on a motorcycle outside his home in Dutsin-Ma, northern Nigeria, last week. The group Ansaru claimed responsibility for the killing in a four-minute video obtained by Nigerian newspaper Premium Times, in a report republished by AllAfrica.NigeriaPublic securityConflict https://sagire.online/wire/98c929d8/https://sagire.online/wire/98c929d8/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 01:20:00 -0300Health authorities in Nigeria confirmed on Monday that the two suspected Ebola cases investigated in the country’s northeast tested negative after two rounds of testing, with both people isolated while teams carried out contact identification and laboratory testing.NigeriaGlobal health https://sagire.online/wire/8088ac06/https://sagire.online/wire/8088ac06/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:22:00 -0300Health authorities in Nigeria are investigating two suspected Ebola cases in the country’s northeast, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said on Saturday. The two individuals have been isolated while officials carry out contact identification, listing and laboratory testing, the agency said in a post on X.NigeriaGlobal healthHealthAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/acd34074/https://sagire.online/wire/acd34074/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 01:23:00 -0300Nigeria’s military said troops backed by air support repelled attacks by Islamist fighters on military positions in the northeastern Borno and Yobe states and killed 48 insurgents, according to Reuters. In the same military statement, one soldier was killed and two others wounded during the counteroffensive, and troops seized 52 firearms from the ISWAP fighters, according to Xinhua.NigeriaConflictAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/c9ad77f1/https://sagire.online/wire/c9ad77f1/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:23:00 -0300At least 62 people were killed in a gun attack attributed to armed criminals locally known as “bandits” in northeastern Nigeria, the country’s emergency agency said on Tuesday, according to the Times of India. According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the gunmen attacked Binnari community in the Karim-Lamido local government area of Taraba State on October 24.NigeriaPublic securityAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/f8d8a5f3/https://sagire.online/wire/f8d8a5f3/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:24:00 -0300A Swiss woman being treated for Ebola in Nigeria was medically evacuated to Switzerland with her husband on Monday, according to the Associated Press (AP). According to AP, with the evacuation Nigeria currently has no Ebola cases, and the country will continue following 52 contacts while Switzerland takes over the patient’s care and monitors her husband.NigeriaSwitzerlandGlobal health https://sagire.online/wire/eea33192/https://sagire.online/wire/eea33192/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:24:00 -0300Nigeria's minister of health and social welfare, Muhammad Pate, confirmed that the country's Ebola index patient has been evacuated to Switzerland, according to AllAfrica. The patient is a 42-year-old Ugandan-born woman who lives in Abuja and returned from Uganda on 3 October, in Nigeria's first Ebola case in more than a decade. The evacuation came six days after the country confirmed the case.NigeriaGlobal healthHealth https://sagire.online/wire/0b2c72a5/https://sagire.online/wire/0b2c72a5/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:22:00 -0300Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention placed 53 contacts under watch and approved an emergency payment of N100,000 per person weekly to support people placed in isolation or quarantine as part of efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in the Federal Capital Territory.NigeriaGlobal healthHealth https://sagire.online/wire/a31cdd54/https://sagire.online/wire/a31cdd54/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:22:00 -0300Police in Taraba state said unknown gunmen raided the village of Binnari in northeast Nigeria on Friday, killing at least 10 people, looting shops and setting houses ablaze, the BBC reported. Police said they recovered 10 bodies with gunshot wounds and warned the death toll could still rise as officers kept searching the nearby bush. Survivors who spoke to Agence France-Presse (AFP) said they had counted at least 20 dead. Amnesty International's Nigeria director, Isa Sanusi, told the BBC that bereaved families the organisation spoke to said up to 50 people had died, and that the initial funeral had 37 people.NigeriaConflictPublic securityAfrica