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TWN News Sunday October 2026

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TWN NEWS TWN News Your weekly Nigerian news digest. Week ending Sunday, 25 October 2026 NGX All-Share Index 247,222.27 (down 0.13% on the week)     Market capitalisation ₦160.52 trillion     Year-to-date return 58.87%     Dangote Cement ₦1,111.00 (up 10% on Friday)     First HoldCo ₦144.10 (up 10% on Friday)     Fidelity Bank up 14.01% on the week     Oil & Gas Index 6,035.77 (down 2.55%)     Banking Index 2,515.47 (down 0.67%) In Loving Memory of Mr. Jelili Koleosho Called to rest on Friday, 16 October 2026 This week, the TWN News family pauses to honour a dear friend. Mr. Jelili Koleosho left us on Friday, the 16th of October, and the space he leaves among those who knew him cannot easily be filled. Friends like him are not measured in headlines. They are measured in the warmth of a greeting, the steadiness of a presence and the memories we now hold close. We are gra...

TWN Sunday 18th October 2026

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TWN NEWS Weekly news from around Nigeria · Week ending 18 October 2026 NGX ASI 247,707.13 ▲0.01%  |  Market cap ₦160.83trn  |  Inflation 14.63%  |  Petrol ≈₦1,355/L (Lagos)  |  Lassa fever deaths 268 in 2026 SPECIAL REPORT The Plastic Pollution Crisis: Nigeria Must Find Alternatives Nigeria produces about 2.5 million tonnes of plastic waste a year , and an estimated 81% is handled improperly. Lagos alone is put at around 870,000 tonnes. NESREA's 2026 regulations make producers responsible for end-of-life products and require PET packaging to contain at least 25% recycled content by January 2028. Recycling helps, but Africa must also invest in real alternatives: refillables, paper and plant-fibre packaging, and reusable bags made at home. Economy 1 Economy Inflation eases to 14.63% in September The National Bureau of Statistics says headline inflation slowed to 14.63% in September from 15.39% in August. Food inflation stood at 19.59% year on...

Sun 11 Oct 2026

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TWN NEWS Weekly Nigerian news digest • Week ending Sunday, 11 October 2026 NGX ASI 248,042.50 ▼ 0.82% Market cap ₦161.05T ETRANZACT ▲ 10% ₦12.10 ARADEL ▼ 10% ₦1,377.00 Breadth: 10 up / 10 down / 81 unchanged Fitch outlook on Nigeria: positive Super Eagles 3-3 Russia Lagos Rush is live on TWN Hit the ₦6,000 shift quota before LASTMA clamps you. Pick an Okada or a Keke, load up on passengers and bags, beat the lights, and duck into a SOBO alley when the heat rises. Our game of the week, playable right here. Start shift ▶ Top Stories POLITICS 1 Nation mourns Air Force crash in Ondo A Nigerian Air Force ATR-42 on a routine Benin City to Lagos flight crashed near a naval base in Igbokoda, Ilaje LGA, on Monday 5 October. Early reports put the dead at 32; one later report says the Air Force clarified the toll as 25, so figures differ. President Tinubu declared three days of national mou...

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TWN Week ending 4th October 2026

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Weekly Nigerian news digest  |  Week ending Sunday, 4 October 2026 NGX ASI 250,808.27 (-0.52% for the week)  |  Market cap N162.84trn  |  Year to date +61.17%  |  MPR 23%  |  Naira about N1,328/$  |  September PMI 56.4  |  Nigeria at 66 Africa must unite or perish Dr. Kwame Nkrumah said it in Addis Ababa on 24 May 1963. Today those words still echo in our hearts, and we have no choice but to unite, because we are perishing already. Until Africans see each other as one, the divisions planted by outside influence over generations will keep undermining our economies, stability, peace and development, and the progress that could be taking shape right now. TWN News wishes Nigerians and all African people could realise the power of unity and oneness. The invisible shackles of colonial and prejudicial mentality are still ruining Nigeria and Africa. People must come together to defeat the real en...