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The Big Story
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Dangote Raises Petrol Price Twice in Five Days
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Dangote Petroleum Refinery raised its petrol gantry price twice within five days, moving from NGN1,165 to NGN1,185 per litre on August 21 and then to NGN1,200 per litre on August 26, a combined NGN35 per litre increase in under a week. The refinery's Group Commercial Operations notified customers of the latest NGN15 adjustment on Tuesday night, directing marketers to return existing loading authorisations for repricing before new volume contracts are issued. The coastal delivery price rose alongside it, from NGN1,562,265 to NGN1,582,380 per metric tonne. The increase is notable because it comes despite falling international crude oil prices amid renewed US-Iran talks, and because roughly 30 to 40 percent of the refinery's crude is currently imported, including cargoes from the United States and Guyana, according to Reuters. Marketers have already begun adjusting pump prices in response, and the new gantry price now sits above rates recorded at several major Lagos depots, a development likely to push retail prices higher nationwide. [Daily Trust]
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What Else Is Happening
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Campaign Council List to Be Adjusted, Not Reviewed, Says Presidency
The Presidency said the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council list for 2027 will be adjusted where necessary but denied it has been withdrawn or reviewed wholesale, after reports it had been pulled amid controversy over who was included. Presidential aide Sunday Dare distinguished outstanding subcommittee appointments from a full review. The clarification follows separate criticism from Anambra politician Emeka Onoh, who accused the council of sidelining the South-East ahead of 2027. [Vanguard]
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Tinubu Aide Finds 'Arithmetic Flaw' in Atiku's Subsidy Plan
Presidential aide Sunday Dare said Atiku Abubakar's plan to restore fuel subsidy by selling crude to refiners at preferential prices has an "arithmetic flaw," warning it would blow a hole in the Federation Account and cut allocations to all three government tiers. Dare also warned it could revive fuel smuggling. Atiku has insisted his position on the subsidy "has not changed and will not change," rejecting his own aide's suggestion the reversal would be gradual. [Vanguard]
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Southern, Middle Belt Leaders Vow to Resist Land Grab Under Livestock Policy
A coalition of Southern and Middle Belt leaders, including Afenifere, the Middle Belt Forum, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and PANDEF, vowed to resist a new National Livestock Policy pilot scheme they say would hand community lands in Nasarawa, Plateau, Benue, Southern Kaduna, Taraba and the FCT to Fulani pastoralists. Chairman Oladipo Olaitan said the scheme echoes the rejected RUGA and Cattle Colony proposals, demanding full disclosure of the sites and funding involved. [Guardian]
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NSCIA Demands Urgent Rescue of Borgu Abduction Victims
The Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) demanded an urgent, coordinated rescue of victims still held after last week's mass abduction from mosques in Borgu, Niger State, adding religious-body pressure to the federal rescue operation President Tinubu ordered earlier this week. The intervention keeps scrutiny on a case where residents' own estimate of the missing still far exceeds any number the government has confirmed. [Guardian]
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Market Watch
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The naira strengthened to NGN1,343.59/USD on August 26, a 0.25% appreciation from NGN1,346.98 on August 24, its best showing in over a week. [CBN]
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The NGX All-Share Index slipped to 238,682.92 on August 26, down 0.17% from 239,085.17 on August 24, extending the index's pullback from last month's highs. [NGX Group]
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The value of outstanding commercial paper in Nigeria's capital market has risen 317.4% over three years, from NGN117.32 billion in July 2023 to NGN489.45 billion in July 2026, according to FMDQ Securities Exchange data. Analysts say the trend shows the equities market's rally, up roughly 57% in the first seven months of the year, has not translated into fresh capital for businesses, pushing more companies toward short-term debt instead of new share issuance. [Guardian]
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Quick Hits
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| → Gunmen killed three vigilante members in an overnight attack in Plateau State, the latest in a string of assaults on community security volunteers across Nigeria's Middle Belt region this year. [Daily Trust] |
| → Security forces repelled a bandit attack on Sifawa town in Sokoto State, with an airstrike still underway against the fleeing attackers and several believed killed, though not yet confirmed; two soldiers were injured defending the area's military barracks. [Daily Trust] |
| → The Federal Government appointed a veteran policing scholar to the Presidential Working Group drafting the National Policing Bill, continuing the push toward a dual federal-state policing framework first announced in August. [Alltimepost] |
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On a Lighter Note
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KAI Collective, the Nigerian fashion label founded by designer Fisayo Longe, officially turns 10 years old this year, now stocked alongside British designers and expanding its international reach with the brand's signature Gaia print collection. [Hypebae]
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Why It Matters
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This week has been an unplanned study in what Nigeria treats as urgent. A mass abduction got a presidential rescue order once the death toll became impossible to ignore. A diphtheria outbreak that has now killed dozens of children got no comparable statement. Today the pattern shows up in money instead of bodies: petrol just got NGN35 more expensive in five days, quietly, through a gantry notice most Nigerians will only feel at the pump, while the loudest political fight of the day was two aides trading arithmetic over a subsidy that does not yet exist. Meanwhile a coalition spanning four major regional blocs is warning that a livestock policy could hand away land under the same quiet-notice logic as the petrol price, a decision made in Abuja that will be felt in villages in Plateau and Benue long before anyone there is consulted. None of these stories individually proves bad faith. Together they suggest a government that moves fastest when a crisis is already visible, and slowest when it can still be described as a policy detail. The people paying more for petrol this week did not get a memo either.
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Nigeria Then
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On this day in 1991, Military President Ibrahim Babangida announced the creation of nine new states, including Abia, Delta, Enugu, Jigawa, Kebbi, Kogi, Osun, Taraba and Yobe, reshaping Nigeria's federal map.
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