About 31.8 million Nigerians have been estimated to face acute hunger and malnutrition this year as food prices have continued to sour. A statistic made available by Cadre Harmonise for the year 2024 report revealed that the surge in the prices of staple food have continue to skyrockets following the removal of fuel subsidy and the continued activities of banditry that have denied many farmers access to their farmlands.

President Bola Tinubu has appointed new heads for Nigeria's National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the Department of State Services (DSS), following the resignation of previous heads.

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, (NARD), has embarked on a seven-day warning strike over the abduction of their colleague, Dr Ganiyat Popoola, a registrar in the Department of Opthalmology at the National Eye Centre, Kaduna and has been in kidnappers' den for eight months. This development was made known by the President of NARD, Dr Dele Abdullahi, during a virtual meeting held on Sunday with the National Executive Council.

Following the renewed pogrom unleashed by bandits in villages across Niger state, the State Government has called on the Nigerian Army to deploy more troops to the affected communities in the state placed under siege by bandits. The call followed an unabated attacks on several local governments areas in the state that have succumb to faith as residents either get killed or abducted on daily bases.

Worried by the humanitarian food crises that has hit the lake Chad region of Nigeria, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Mali, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has disclosed its intension to convene a high-level ministerial donor conference with the support of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) come October 26, 2024.

The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) on Friday issued a public warning over the rising water levels in River Niger. This was revealed by the NIHSA director-general Umar Mohammed in a statement that floodwaters from these countries are gradually moving towards Nigeria, starting with Kebbi. According to NIHSA, the development is attributed to upstream activities in Niger and Mali, with reports from the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) in Niamey, Niger Republic.