About 3,000 Borno State trainees have graduated from nine vocational institutes, earning federal government praise and N100,000 entrepreneurship grants apiece to launch productive careers.

Dangote Refinery has raised its ex-depot petrol price by N100 per litre, citing a 26 percent surge in Brent crude prices from the Middle East conflict, while absorbing a fifth of the cost increase itself.

Nigeria's Finance Ministry has pushed back against claims that capital projects are stalling, citing N11.7 trillion in 2025 capital spending and rising federal revenue as evidence of fiscal correction, not collapse.

President Tinubu has appointed Senator Jimoh Ibrahim as Nigeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, even as a N69.4 billion court judgment against him remains unsettled and hundreds of former workers await wages courts awarded years ago.