Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu announced on August 7 that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited will be listed on the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX) as part of a plan to use the capital market to finance a one-trillion-US-dollar economy, framing the NNPC IPO as the centerpiece of a broader reform push

Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu approved salary increases of 30 to 80 per cent for all armed forces personnel on August 4, lifting the annual military payroll to ₦924bn; the increase covers roughly 250,000 officers and soldiers and comes as Nigeria fights concurrent insurgencies in the north-east and north-west

Nigeria's military and police rescued 308 people abducted from Kwara and Niger states on August 5, in what President Tinubu's office called the largest single-day rescue operation ever conducted by Nigerian security agencies; Tinubu directed agencies to intensify early warning systems and community intelligence after the operation

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar said on August 2 that Nigeria's Tinubu administration's defense of its economic record bears no resemblance to the hardship confronting millions of Nigerians; Nigeria's Presidency fired back on August 3, dismissing his N7.98 trillion oil windfall claim as based on outdated data and demanding evidence

A classified intelligence alert from Nigeria's Department of State Services warning of planned major Boko Haram and bandit attacks on officials, pastors, and residents in Michika (Adamawa) and Askira-Uba (Borno) was leaked and published by multiple Nigerian outlets on July 30-31; the Nigerian Army launched an internal investigation into the breach rather than confirming or denying the threat itself

All major party candidates contesting Nigeria's Osun State governorship election on August 15 signed a peace pact on July 30 brokered by INEC chairman, and political parties separately sealed a peace accord under the National Peace Committee chaired by former head of state Abdulsalami Abubakar; the Accord Party then petitioned President Bola Tinubu and the Inspector General of Police over alleged police intimidation of its members in the weeks before polling day

Dangote Cement reported half-year 2026 net profit of roughly NGN638.5-639 billion on July 30, a 23% rise from NGN520.5 billion in H1 2025, on revenues of NGN2.5 trillion; strong Nigerian domestic demand and a 10% increase in production volume drove the result; Pan-African operations reported a profit decline, creating a split performance within Africa's largest cement producer

Exclusive reporting by Nigeria's Premium Times on July 29, 2026 reveals new details from the ongoing trial of six men accused of plotting to overthrow Nigerian President Bola Tinubu in 2025; the alleged mastermind paid millions of naira to Islamic clerics to seek spiritual backing for the coup, and the plotters planned to recruit repentant Boko Haram fighters and Civilian Joint Task Force members to form an armed force

South Africa's Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola delivered a personal message from President Cyril Ramaphosa to Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu in Abuja, as both governments announced joint measures to protect foreign nationals after a wave of anti-immigrant attacks strained bilateral ties.

Peter Obi, the Nigeria Democratic Congress presidential candidate and former Anambra governor, said on July 26-27 that President Bola Tinubu is 'tired' and should be 'allowed to retire' rather than seek a second term in 2027, citing the president's inability to address Nigeria's worsening hunger, poverty and insecurity

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project filed a lawsuit against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company on July 26, asking a court to compel the state oil firm to account for N211 trillion recorded as 'Sundry Receivables' and 'Accrued Expenses' in its 2023 audited financial statements, saying the unexplained entries undermine transparency and public oversight

Nigeria's Independent Corrupt Practices Commission questioned Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, on July 20 over his alleged links to the PFIPC, a fictitious government agency that was funded from Nigeria's national budget; Tinubu himself ordered the ICPC to investigate

Nigeria and Ghana's foreign ministries issued a joint condemnation on July 20 of ongoing anti-immigrant violence targeting African nationals in South Africa, describing the incidents as 'Afrophobic,' and called for the issue to be placed on the agenda of the next African Union summit; the two governments said the attacks undermine the ideals of African unity

Nigeria Revenue Service data published July 8 shows the country's external reserves rose from US$3.99bn to US$50.11bn and federal tax collections rose from ₦12.3tn to ₦28.3tn since President Bola Tinubu took office in May 2023; the Federal Ministry of Industry simultaneously reaffirmed Nigeria's readiness for global energy investment

UTM Offshore signed a 15-year gas supply agreement with NNPC and Seplat in Abuja on July 8, securing 200 million standard cubic feet per day of feed gas for Nigeria's first floating LNG project; the deal is expected to unlock a final investment decision in Q4 2026 for the US$3 billion-plus project, which will produce 1.8 million tonnes of LNG per year

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu directed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to investigate how a fictitious government body secured close to US$1m in public funds, with a full report due within 30 days; civil society groups, opposition politicians and senior lawyers have called for a fully independent inquiry instead

WFP reported a 2-million increase in acutely food-insecure people across nine conflict-affected northern Nigerian states; Borno alone has 3 million in crisis, and WFP can reach fewer than 1 in 8 at-risk people

The University of Zurich's Ethnographic Museum, Museum Rietberg Zurich, and Geneva's MEG handed over 18 looted Benin artefacts at the National Museum in Lagos on June 29, the first transfer under a March 2026 agreement; four Ikom monoliths and a bronze bracelet seized as criminal proceeds were included

Fighters arrived on motorcycles during NECO exams on June 29, shot dead a teacher, and took approximately 50 people; the Army rescued 10; this is the third mass school abduction in northeast Nigeria since May

A three-storey building on Old Ojo Road buckled on June 25 in one of Nigeria's worst structural failures of the year, prompting multi-agency rescue operations overseen by the state governor

Recurring friction between central governments and subnational units over fiscal, police, and legislative authority, reshaping democratic federalism in India, Nigeria, and the United States.

Nigeria's 17-year jihadist conflict in the northeast, led by ISWAP and Boko Haram, has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and entered an escalating phase in mid-2026.

Tinubu's executive bill clears the upper house; 24 of 36 state assemblies must still ratify before governors can run their own forces

Gunmen seized pupils aged 2 to 16 and seven teachers in May; one teacher murdered, the rest still captive in June, amid a wider wave of mass abductions and Middle-Belt killings

A manual vote after the electronic system failed ratified a dual policing structure giving Nigeria's 36 governors power to appoint their own commissioners; two-thirds of state assemblies must still endorse it

81 villagers killed in Gubio on 9 June; 20 soldiers in Monguno and 40+ civilians in Nganzai on 13 June, as critics call the Presidency's 'sign of desperation' framing a cover for a major security failure

Markets and FAAC allocations have surged since the subsidy was cut and the naira floated, but petrol has risen more than fourfold and households are still squeezed

Atiku takes the ADC ticket; Obi and Kwankwaso bolt to the NDC, handing the president two rival challengers instead of one, just as the 2027 race opens