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The Nigerian stock market on Thursday traded 2.87 billion shares worth N33.99 billion in 34,725 transactions.

Eighty-three Nigerian returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, aboard a South African Airways flight from Johannesburg on Wednesday.

Beninese music icon, Angélique Kidjo, has become the first African musician to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Dr. Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, says that the Commission is consulting widely with stakeholders in the industry on the idea for a domestic crude oil and gas swap to reduce cost and increased products availability.

The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Abhishek Singh, says that India and Nigeria are deepening strategic partnership across trade, investment, defence, energy, healthcare, agriculture and technology, with bilateral trade climbing to about $9 billion in the 2025–26 financial year.

The former Beninese President, Mr. Patrice Talon, was elected President of the Senate on Thursday, the first Upper House in the country’s recent history, following the establishment of the bureau of the new institution created by the constitutional revision of December 2025.

Nigeria is scheduled to host the maiden investors’ summit, tagged “Nigeria NOW! Global Investors Expo,” to showcase credible investment opportunities and strengthen partnerships across key sectors of the Nigerian economy and development.

Nigeria and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have called for stronger African control of mineral resources through value addition, regional cooperation, data sovereignty and strategic financing.

The Extraordinary Summit of the African Union in Accra, Ghana has resolved to advance the continent’s health agenda, focusing on ending AIDS and tuberculosis by 2030, reducing maternal mortality and boosting local pharmaceutical manufacturing.

A Brussels Airlines flight from Accra to Lomé had to return back shortly after takeoff on Monday evening due to a technical problem.