Thursday, 21 May 2026
Nigeria signed N690.8 billion in road contracts this week while OPEC confirmed the active rig count fell 41.7 per cent in a single month, from 17 rigs to 12.
A Federal High Court granted El-Rufai N100 million bail on Monday in his national security case, and DSS re-arrested him the same afternoon in contradiction of existing court directives.
Atiku Abubakar's US lobby firm Von Batten-Montague-York publicly briefed Trump officials on alleged political intimidation in Nigeria, citing El-Rufai's 91-day detention and threatening Global Magnitsky sanctions ahead of 2027.
Afro-house singer Niniola announced her husband Michael Ndika's death on Wednesday, revealing a 13-year marriage she had publicly denied just seven months earlier.
Nigeria missed its OPEC oil production quota for the ninth straight month in April, producing roughly 1.4 million barrels per day against a budget benchmark of 1.84 million.
King Sunny Adé's Jùjú music transformed Nigerian live performance from seated orchestras into the participatory form that seeded Afrobeats, as traced in a Guardian Nigeria feature this week.
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