President Muhammadu Buhari said his administration released a bailout of N1.64 trillion to states and local governments between 2015 and 2017 as part of measures to stabilise the polity.

Multilateral trade between Nigeria and European Union (EU) member states stood at 19.9 billion Euros in 2016, Fillippo Amato, the Union's Head of Trade and Economic Sector, has said.

Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has opened the door towards a potential recall for Nigeria AFCON 2013 hero Sunday Mba.

The Nigerian senior men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, have reached the quarterfinals of the 2017 FIBA Men’s AfroBasket Championship in Tunisia despite83-77 loss to DR Congo. The game against the Congolese, played on Sunday, was the Nigerian men’s third game and their first defeat in the tournament.

The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) says it may suspend its ongoing nationwide strike if it gets evidence of payment of salary arrears. This followed a meeting between the leadership of NARD and representatives of the Federal Government which started on Wednesday and ended in the early hours of Thursday the Federal Secretariat in Abuja.

Amnesty International in a press release on Tuesday said that more than 223 people have been killed in Boko Haram attacks in the country’s North-east since April, 2017. According to data compiled by Amnesty International, most of the attacks which were mainly suicidal in nature, carried out by women and girls forced into the act occurred in Borno.