Campaigning is legal from today. Between now and 16 January, Nigerians will be promised a great deal. A short guide to reading what is coming.

Ahead of campaigning opening, the presidential candidates and party leaders signed a National Peace Accord pledging issue-based campaigns and rejecting violence, hate speech and ethnic or religious incitement. The document has no enforcement mechanism.

INEC's timetable named Wednesday 19 August as the day campaigning could legally begin for the presidential and National Assembly elections. Nigeria now has just under five months of open politics before it votes.

Nigeria's external reserves have climbed above $52.5 billion, their highest level in 17 years, giving the country nearly a year of import cover and beating the CBN's own target for 2026.

Air Peace has launched two new multi-city routes linking Lagos to Bamako, Conakry, Douala and Libreville, part of a push to make Lagos the connecting hub for travel across West and Central Africa.

Nigerian tech founders have until August 19 to apply for the iDICE Startup Bridge Growth Lab, a Bank of Industry programme offering up to $350,000 per startup to twelve early-stage companies across the country's six geopolitical zones.

GITEX Nigeria returns for a second edition from August 31, splitting a four-day programme between an Abuja government summit and a Lagos tech expo, built around Africa's projected $1 trillion AI opportunity.

MTN Nigeria marked 25 years of operations this month with a half-year profit up 70.6%, a ₦1.6 trillion network investment, and a fresh reminder of how much infrastructure sabotage still costs the industry.

Africa Finance Corporation led a $2.5 billion equity raise for Dangote's refinery this week, oversubscribed 3.7 times over, as the company confirmed plans for a retail-focused October IPO.

Nigeria's stock market hit a record ₦160.42 trillion on Monday, then shed ₦3.8 trillion over four sessions — its steepest weekly pullback since June, even with the index still up 55.91% for the year.

Flutterwave is acquiring a bank in East Africa, CEO Olugbenga Agboola has confirmed, the clearest sign yet that Nigeria's fintech giant intends to become a continental banking player.

A pre-election survey predicted a blowout above 55 percent, but Adeleke won with 51.9 percent instead. Here is what turnout, the LGA map and a collapsed third-place bid actually decided in Osun.

Atiku Abubakar flew into Osogbo to headline the ADC's campaign finale for governorship candidate Najeem Salaam, then raised his own doubts about INEC's technical readiness, a personal bet that stretches beyond Osun toward 2027.

Adeleke's win drew a phone call from Tinubu, a gracious message from the man who backed his rival, and no public word yet from Oyebamiji. What Sunday's reactions say about Osun, and about 2027.

INEC declared Ademola Adeleke winner of a second term as Osun governor on Sunday, with 511,067 votes to Bola Oyebamiji's 444,815. Here is the full record: the numbers, the margin and what happens next.

A new Osun survey found 84.39% of voters say they would reject vote-buying, even as 62.53% of their households went without enough food last month, a gap between stated principle and lived hardship, published as Saturday's vote count continues.

On the eve of Osun's election, INEC clarified that its IReV portal is only a viewing platform, not a collation system — a technical distinction that could become central to any dispute over Saturday's result.

President Tinubu ordered "maximum security" for Saturday's Osun poll, calling it a dress rehearsal for 2027, as more than 25,000 personnel deployed statewide following rival claims of 18 campaign-related deaths.

A magistrate's court in Abuja has ordered police to investigate Senator Francis Fadahunsi over his viral "kill" remarks against Accord Party members in Ilesa, as the NHRC separately demands his suspension and arrest.

Police arrested a sitting Osun lawmaker and 146 suspected "electoral mercenaries" on election day, as separate pre-dawn incidents saw residents foil an alleged ballot-materials snatching and seize a firearm from an alleged party operative.