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@vanguardngrnews Nigerian passport holders can access 45 countries without obtaining a visa before travelling, according to reports on the latest Henley Passport Index, which places Nigeria 92nd in its October 2026 global ranking.

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Nigeria’s inflation rate drops to 14.63%

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Nigeria’s headline inflation rate has dropped to 14.63 percent in September 2026, down from the 15.39 percent in August.

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The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared N2.428 trillion among the Federal Government, state governments and local government councils as revenue accrued to the Federation Account and proceeds from Value Added Tax (VAT) for September 2026.

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BREAKING: Nigeria’s inflation rate drops to 14.63%

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Nigeria’s headline inflation rate has dropped to 14.63 percent in September 2026, down from the 15.39 percent in August.

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FAAC shares N2.428trn among FG, states, LGs

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📊 DISCOS BY METERED CUSTOMERS IN NIGERIA — AUGUST 2026

Disco — Active customers | metered customers

1 🟣 Ibadan — 2.57m |1.52m
2 🟣 Ikeja — 1.35m | 1.19m
3 🟠 Abuja — 1.43m | 1.18m
4 🟢 Enugu — 1.69m | 887k
5 🟤 Port Harcourt — 1.12m | 795k
6 🟤 Benin — 1.17m | 755k
7 🟣 Eko — 690k | 619k
8 🔴 Kano — 819k | 351k
9 🟠 Jos — 831k | 312k
10 🔴 Kaduna — 560k | 237k
11 ⚫ Yola — 514k | 201k

Total — 12.75m active customers | 8.05m metered customers

Metering rate

1 🟣 Eko — 89.64%
2 🟣 Ikeja — 87.74%
3 🟠 Abuja — 82.62%
4 �� Port Harcourt —71.00%
5 🟤 Benin — 64.41%
6 🟣 Ibadan — 59.23%
7 🟢 Enugu —52.40%
8 🔴 Kano — 42.84%
9 🔴 Kaduna — 42.8%
10 ⚫ Yola — 39.15%
11 🟠 Jos — 37.60%

Total metering rate —63.10%

🟠 NC ⚫ NE 🔴 NW 🟢 SE 🟤 SS 🟣 SW

Eko recorded the highest metering rate in August 2026 with 89.64%

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States with Highest Poverty Rates (2026)
State -% of Population

1 🔴 Sokoto -88.3%
2 🔴 Kebbi -84.6%
3 ⚫ Yobe -84.2%
4 🔴 Jigawa -84.0%
5 🔴 Zamfara -75.7%
6 ⚫ Borno -69.0%
7 🟠 Niger — 69.0%
8 ⚫ Bauchi — 68.8%
9 🟢 Ebonyi — 66.6%
10 🔴 Katsina — 66.3%
11 ⚫ Gombe — 65.1%

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The Killing of Dr Rogers Stewart, 16th November 1905, at Mbaise, Igbo land.

The victim was Dr Rogers Stewart. He was not a soldier. He was a British medical doctor drafted to help the British combat malaria in Southern Nigeria. He was stationed in Owerri area.

How it happened:

On 16 November 1905, he tried to travel by bicycle from Owerri to Calabar. There were no proper roads. He took a wrong turn onto the hostile Owerri to Bende road, heading through Udo into Ezinihitte, in what is today north Mbaise, Imo State.

At that time, the District Commissioner for the area was H M Douglas, a man hated by the people of Ahiara and Ezinihitte because he was ordering them to supply labour and palm produce and to submit to native courts. The people of Ahiara under their leaders had rejected his orders, saying it was a direct attack on their political and economic power.

When Stewart appeared on a bicycle in European dress, the people in Etiti and Ezinihitte divisions mistook him for Douglas. The bicycle was strange. Some thought it was a white man machine that could run back to Owerri to report.

He was captured alive. They did not kill him immediately. They displayed him around the market places of Etiti and Ezinihitte as a trophy, to show they had captured the white commissioner.

He was then taken to the Afor Ukwu market of Onicha Amairi in Ahiara. There they killed him. His bicycle was tied to a tree by people of Onicha Amairi, as the story is told, to prevent it returning to Owerri to report his death.

After killing, they severed his limbs and shared them amongst Mbaise clans as a mark of combined grievance and oath of unity against the white man. Some accounts recorded by Ekechi and Geary in 1927 say he was decapitated and parts consumed as fetish protection from the control of the white man.

Only his skull and some bones were eventually retrieved by British troops and sent to Calabar for burial.

What followed:

On 7 December 1905, Douglas ordered the Ahiara Expedition to punish the murder. The military action was led by Major Hugh Montague Trenchard, later known in the East as the greatest destroyer of towns.

The Ahiara indigenes had learned of the attack and dug trenches around the village. When the British attacked on 7 December, the defence was so strong they had to retreat.

The British brought stronger reinforcements with Maxim guns and launched a second brutal attack, defeating them. Many natives were massacred, villages wiped out, homes and crops destroyed. The British destroyed the Afor Ukwu market where Stewart was killed and jailed the village leaders.

This case is why the whole operation was called the Bende Onitsha Hinterland Expedition of 1905 to 1906, which was the largest British expedition in Eastern Nigeria since the Aro Expedition of 1901 to 1902.

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🇳🇬 WHICH STATES HAVE THE HIGHEST MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY RATES? — 2026

State — % of Population

1 🔴 Sokoto — 88.3%
2 🔴 Kebbi — 84.6%
3 ⚫ Yobe — 84.2%
4 🔴 Jigawa — 84.0%
5 🔴 Zamfara — 75.7%
6 ⚫ Borno — 69.0%
7 🟠 Niger — 69.0%
8 ⚫ Bauchi — 68.8%
9 🟢 Ebonyi — 66.6%
10 🔴 Katsina — 66.3%
11 ⚫ Gombe — 65.1%
12 ⚫ Taraba — 62.2%

🟠 NC ⚫ NE 🔴 NW 🟢 SE

Sokoto recorded the highest rate at 88.3%, followed by Kebbi at 84.6%. Eleven of the 12 states are in Northern Nigeria, with Ebonyi the only southern state on the list.

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(OPHI: Global MPI Country Briefing, 2026)

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10 states with the biggest increases in registered voters between 2023 and 2027

1. Kano
2027: 6,570,276
2023: 5,921,570
Increase: 648,706

2. Sokoto
2027: 2,633,113
2023: 2,172,056
Increase: 461,057

3. Jigawa
2027: 2,807,811
2023: 2,351,298
Increase: 456,513

4. Lagos
2027: 7,488,633
2023: 7,060,195
Increase: 428,438

5. Osun
2027: 2,327,784
2023: 1,954,800
Increase: 372,984

6. Edo
2027: 2,865,263
2023: 2,501,081
Increase: 364,182

7. Katsina
2027: 3,876,051
2023: 3,516,719
Increase: 359,332

8. Ogun
2027: 3,037,981
2023: 2,688,305
Increase: 349,676

9. Kaduna
2027: 4,662,640
2023: 4,335,208
Increase: 327,432

10. Oyo
2027: 3,588,111
2023: 3,276,675
Increase: 311,436

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Honduras sumido en la miseria en la pobreza por los políticos

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Top 10 states with highest population of registered voters (2026)

1. Lagos - 7,488,633
2. Kano -6,570,276
3. Kaduna - 4,662,640
4. Katsina - 3,876,051
5. Rivers-3,736,434
6. Oyo -3,588,111,
7. Delta - 3,525,988.
8. Benue- 3,057,225,
9. Ogun- 3,037,981.
10. Bauchi -3,012,547

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Confirmed: Burna Boy becomes the first Afrobeats artist to pass 2 billion streams across all credits in 2026 today.

Source:
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Top 10 Countries with Highest Poverty Rates
① 🇸🇸 South Sudan -82.3%
② 🇲🇬 Madagascar -75.2%
③ 🇨🇫 CA Republic -68.8%
④ 🇲🇿 Mozambique — 65.0%
⑤ ����🇳 Honduras — 60.1%
⑥ 🇿🇲 Zambia -60.0%
⑦ 🇸🇿 Eswatini -58.9%
⑧ 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone — 56.8%
⑨ 🇳🇬 Nigeria — 56.2%
⑩ 🇨🇩 DR Congo -56.2%

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2. Omah Lay – Clarity Of Mind
1. Asake – M$NEY

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The 10 best Afrobeats albums of 2026 so far

10. Johnny Drille – Before The Morning Light
9. Straffitti – GBED$$$
8. Adekunle Gold – Fuji Xtra
7. Falz – Break Time
6. Joeboy &amp; Wizard Chan �� Agba Romantic
5. Ema Onigah – ITEM VII
4. Wizkid &amp; Asake – REAL, Vol. 1