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NCDC to Pay Quarantined Ebola Contacts ₦100,000 Weekly

KEY POINTS NCDC will pay quarantined or isolated individuals ₦100,000 weekly to cover essential expenses. Health officials are monitoring 53 primary contacts linked to Nigeria’s confirmed Ebola case. One contact who reported feeling unwell tested negative, while investigations continue. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control...
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INEC Yet to Set Date for Corrected 2027 Candidates’ List

KEY POINTS INEC has not set a date to publish its corrected candidates’ list for the 2027 elections. The commission is reviewing complaints, corrections and court orders following a Supreme Court judgment. Accord Party’s Olawepo Hashim was still missing from INEC’s online list at...

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Nigerian investors gain N5.5 trillion as banks, industrial stocks rally

KEY POINTS Nigerian stock investors gained 5.5 trillion naira last week as the All-Share...
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Dangote offers to build East Africa a refinery matching his Lagos plant

Aliko Dangote has offered to build a refinery in Tanzania matching his 650,000-barrel-per-day Lagos plant, with Kenya and Uganda already in talks on the project.
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Otedola’s FirstHoldCo surges 32 percent to lead Nigerian bank stocks

Femi Otedola's FirstHoldCo has surged 32 percent in a month to leave GTCO, Zenith, Access and UBA behind as Nigeria's best-performing tier-one bank stock.
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BOI, RMRDC sign MoU to boost Nigeria agric value chain

Bank of Industry and RMRDC have signed a memorandum of understanding to add value to Nigerian raw materials and keep more wealth inside the economy.
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FirstBank sponsors GTR West Africa 2026 in Lagos this week

FirstBank has signed on as a sponsor of Global Trade Review West Africa 2026, a two-day Lagos conference pulling together 450 delegates from 15 countries.
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Nigeria exports 55.39m barrels as Dangote chases feedstock

Nigeria exported 55.39 million barrels in the first two months of 2026 as the Dangote refinery scrambled for feedstock and leaned on imported crude.
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Cosmas Maduka deepens Asia Star electric bus partnership

Cosmas Maduka, founder and president of Coscharis Group, is deepening his partnership with Chinese bus manufacturer Asia Star following the delivery of 20 Coscharis electric buses to the Abia State government, the first batch of a broader rollout targeting public transport in southeastern Nigeria.
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Segun Ogunsanya launches CycleFlow to unlock MSME financing

Segun Ogunsanya, former group chief executive of Airtel Africa, has launched CycleFlow, an IFC-backed supply chain finance platform targeting $25 billion to $30 billion in annual financing for Nigeria's micro, small and medium enterprises.
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Dangote lines up advisers for pan-African refinery IPO

Aliko Dangote has appointed three financial advisers to lead a pan-African initial public offering of Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals Fze, targeting listings across multiple African exchanges in what analysts project will become the largest equity offering in African stock exchange history.
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Taiwo Afolabi appoints son LAX to SIFAX Logistics

Taiwo Afolabi, the Nigerian billionaire who chairs SIFAX Group, appointed his son Damilola Afolabi, known professionally as LAX, as executive director of SIFAX Logistics on April 10, the same day the Afrobeats singer turned 33.
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Presidency Clarifies ₦3.3tn Debt Settlement Plan for GenCos

KEY POINTS The Presidency clarified that the ₦3.3 trillion GenCos debt settlement approved by...
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Williams commissions Tetracore CNG station in Benin City

KEY POINTS Dr. Olakunle Williams commissioned Tetracore Energy Group's new CNG station in Uwusan,...
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NCDC to Pay Quarantined Ebola Contacts ₦100,000 Weekly

KEY POINTS NCDC will pay quarantined or isolated individuals ₦100,000 weekly to cover essential...
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INEC Yet to Set Date for Corrected 2027 Candidates’ List

KEY POINTS INEC has not set a date to publish its corrected candidates’ list...
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NCDC Investigates Second Suspected Ebola Case in Nigeria

KEY POINTS NCDC says it has identified two Ebola cases, comprising one confirmed infection...
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Fulani leaders seek ranches and 30% of agriculture budget for livestock ministry

Nigeria’s pastoralist coalition wants 30% of the agriculture budget for the livestock ministry, pilot ranches in all six zones and gazetted grazing reserves.