Man like me🇳🇬

when you come closer

[StatiSense @StatiSense]

📊 AFRICA BIGGEST GOLD RESERVES (TONNES) — Q2 2026

Country — Gold( Share of Reserves)

1 🇩🇿 Algeria — 173.56t ( 33.7%)
2 🇪🇬 Egypt — 129.67t ( 32.0%)
3 🇿🇦 South Africa — 125.53t ( 21.9%)
4 🇳🇬 Nigeria — 21.54t ( 5.4%)
5 🇲🇦 Morocco — 22.12t (5.4%)
6 🇲🇺 Mauritius — 12.42t (14.6%)

#Statisense
(World Gold Council, 2026)

[StatiSense @StatiSense]

📊 TOP 12 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS NIGERIA EXPORTED THE MOST — Q1 2026

Product — Export Value

1 🍫 Superior quality cocoa beans — ₦596.90B
2 🌱 Sesamum seeds — ₦153.78B
3 🌱 Soya beans (excluding seeds) — ₦129.27B
4 🥜 Cashew nuts, in shell — ₦119.76B
5 🌱 Flours and meals of soya beans — ₦53.20B
6 🍫 Natural cocoa butter — ₦41.69B
7 🥜 Cashew nuts, shelled — ₦16.69B
8 🦐 Other frozen shrimps and prawns — ₦14.30B
9 🌸 Other cut flowers & flower buds — ₦12.23B
10 🥥 Crude shea (karite) oil — ₦9.14B
11 🌱 Soya beans seed — ₦5.20B
12 🌿 Turmeric (curcuma) — ₦4.06B

Nigeria’s agricultural exports were led by superior-quality cocoa beans, which recorded an export value of ₦596.90 billion in Q1 2026.

#StatiSense
(NBS)

[StatiSense @StatiSense]

📊 TOP COUNTRIES NIGERIA IMPORTS THE MOST GOODS FROM — Q1 2026

Country — Value of Imports

1 🇨🇳 China — ₦5.10T
2 🇺🇸 United States — ₦2.81T
3 🇮🇳 India — ₦992.87B
4 🇩🇪 Germany — ₦390.35B
5 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates — ₦222.47B

China dominated Nigeria’s import sources, supplying 37.42% of all imports in Q1 2026, while the United States accounted for 20.60%. Together, the two countries supplied nearly 58% of Nigeria’s total imports.

#Statisense
(NBS)

[Global Statistics Wire @stats_wire]

African countries that trade the most with other African nations by values

1. 🇿🇦 South Africa : $41.15B
2. 🇨🇩 DR Congo : $14.40B
3. 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire : $10.34B
4. 🇺🇬 Uganda : $9.58B
5. 🇲🇦 Morocco : $9.54B
6. 🇪🇬 Egypt : $9.31B
7. 🇿🇲 Zambia : $9.26B
8. 🇳🇬 Nigeria : $9.02B
9. 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe : $7.78B
10. 🇳🇦 Namibia : $7.40B

South Africa leads by a clear margin, but the real competition sits just below several countries are locked in a tight race for influence across African markets.

[StatiSense @StatiSense]

WORST GOVERNED COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD — 2026

Country — Grade | Index Score
1 🇦🇫Afghanistan — E | 5.8
2 🇾🇪Yemen — E | 6.2
3 🇲🇲Myanmar — E | 6.4
4 🇹🇲Turkmenistan — E | 7.7
5 🇳🇮Nicaragua — E | 9.9
6 🇸🇩Sudan — E | 10.1
7 🇱🇾Libya — E | 11.2
8 🇹🇯Tajikistan — E | 12.7
9 🇷🇺Russia — E | 13.8
10 🇨🇩DR Congo — E | 16.0

All 10 countries received the lowest possible governance grade (E – “Very Poor”). Afghanistan ranked last globally, while Sudan, Libya and DR Congo were the only African countries in the world’s bottom 10.

#Statisense
(World Economics)

[Pubity @pubity]

Nigerian Americans are some of the most educated people in the US.

64% of US children born from Nigerian immigrants have at least a Bachelor's degree, roughly double the US average.

[Man like me🇳🇬 @WISDOMB47323945]

Now tell me how many starving family in Nigeria you're feeding with this your update.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Nigeria alone had 4 million more births than the entire EU last year! https://t.co/CuQ3B8YHks

[TheCableIndex @thecableindex]

Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt account for 90% of Africa's billionaire wealth (2026)

Africa's 23 billionaires list:
1. Aliko Dangote 🇳🇬: $28.5bn
2. Johann Rupert & family 🇿🇦: $16.1bn
3. Abdulsamad Rabiu 🇳🇬: $11.2bn
4. Nicky Oppenheimer & family 🇿🇦: $10.6bn
5. Nassef Sawiris 🇪🇬: $9.6bn
6. Mike Adenuga 🇳🇬: $6.5bn
7. Naguib Sawiris 🇪🇬: $5.6bn
8. Patrice Motsepe 🇿🇦: $4.3bn
9. Mohamed Mansour 🇪🇬: $4.0bn
10. Michiel Le Roux 🇿🇦: $3.8bn
11. Issad Rebrab & family 🇩🇿: $3.6bn
12. Koos Bekker 🇿🇦: $3.6bn
13. Jannie Mouton & family 🇿🇦: $2.7bn
14. Strive Masiyiwa 🇿🇼: $2.1bn
15. Mohammed Dewji 🇹🇿: $2.1bn
16. Christoffel Wiese 🇿🇦: $1.9bn
17. Youssef Mansour 🇪🇬: $1.8bn
18. Othman Benjelloun & family 🇲🇦: $1.7bn
19. Aziz Akhannouch & family 🇲🇦: $1.6bn
20. Yasseen Mansour 🇪🇬: $1.4bn
21. Samih Sawiris 🇪🇬: $1.4bn
22. Anas Sefrioui & family 🇲🇦: $1.3bn
23. Femi Otedola 🇳🇬: $1.3bn

Total: $126.7bn

Net worths are based on the Forbes Africa billionaires list, July 2026 snapshot

<Forbes Africa, TheCableIndex>
#TheCableIndex

[TheCableIndex @thecableindex]

Without Lagos, Rivers and the FCT, here is what the geo-political zones contributed to the VAT pool and received in H1 2026 (Jan-Jun)

1. South-west
Contributed: N348bn
Received: N288.70bn (82.96%)

2. South-south
Contributed: N320.54bn
Received: N274.44bn (85.62%)

3. North-west
Contributed: N205.52bn
Received: N384.56bn (187.11%)

4. North-east
Contributed: N152.82bn
Received: N285.70bn (186.95%)

5. North-central
Contributed: N119.87bn
Received: N279.09bn (232.82%)

6. South-east
Contributed: N79.27bn
Received: N230.89bn (291.28%)

<FAAC, TheCableIndex>
#TheCableIndex

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

Nigeria Airforce STRIKES TERRORIST STRONGHOLDS IN NORTH-WEST

[tweet oracles @OraclesTweet]

@NigeriaStories @princeolawealth Now watch this video.
These are not men. These people are animals.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

A Nigerian 🇳🇬mum based in South Africa 🇿🇦 confronts ‘28-year-old’ South African man for attempting to drag her 10-year-old daughter into his apartment.

[StatiSense @StatiSense]

📈 NIGERIAN STATES WITH THE HIGHEST IGR PER CAPITA — 2024

(Internally Generated Revenue per Person)

1 🟣 Lagos — ₦51,840
2 🟣 Ogun — ₦21,491
3 🟤 Rivers — ₦21,233
4 🟤 Delta — ₦12,018
5 🟠 Kwara — ₦11,942
6 🟤 Edo — ₦11,374
7 🟤 Bayelsa — ₦9,467
8 🟠 Nasarawa — ₦8,748
9 🟣 Ondo — ₦8,336
10 🟣 Ekiti — ₦7,585
11 🟢 Enugu — ₦6,686
12 🟤 Cross River — ₦6,329

🟠 NC 🟢 SE 🟤 SS 🟣 SW

The average resident of Lagos generated about 2.4× more IGR than the average resident of Ogun, the second-highest state on the list.

#Statisense
(State Performance Index, 2025)

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

Made in Nigeria 🇳🇬 weapons on display at SAHA Expo 2026 in Istanbul, Turkey

[TheCableIndex @thecableindex]

How Nigeria’s most applied-to universities matched applications with admissions in the 2025 JAMB exercise

1. University of Ibadan (9.3%)
Applicants: 47,571
Admitted: 4,430

2. University of Lagos (15.7%)
Applicants: 58,645
Admitted: 9,179

3. Lagos State University (21.3%)
Applicants: 70,080
Admitted: 14,893

4. Federal University Oye-Ekiti (21.7%)
Applicants: 52,108
Admitted: 11,327

5. Nnamdi Azikiwe University (27.9%)
Applicants: 51,487
Admitted: 8,604

6. University of Benin (32.9%)
Applicants: 45,868
Admitted: 15,077

<JAMB, school reports, TheCableIndex>
#TheCableIndex

[Thibos🍯 @_Msindazwe_]

These are the leaders you chose South Africa 😂🤣 Empty airheads

[TheCableIndex @thecableindex]

South-south states received the highest total gross allocation by geo-political zones (Feb 2026)

1. South-south: N221.21bn
2. ⁠South-west: N144.89bn
3. ⁠North-west: N124.62bn
4. ⁠North-central: N100.70bn
5. ⁠North-east: N92.70bn
6. ⁠South-east: N78.34bn

Total: N762.47bn

<NBS, FAAC, TheCableIndex>
#TheCableIndex

[we love ghana @weloveghana042]

Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma’s comments are worrying and show ignorance, especially when Ghana is currently hosting 3,194 South Africans. The Africans being targeted today are the same people who helped fight for South Africa’s freedom.

Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, slams the South African activist over her remarks.

[Thegrandmaboy @TheGrandmaBoy]

Winnie Mandela: We owe much of our freedom in South Africa to Nigeria. On behalf of South Africa, thank you, Nigeria. 🇿🇦 🇳🇬

Nelson Mandela’s wife thanks Nigeria for their help during the apartheid.

[TheCableIndex @thecableindex]

Nigeria’s economy hits $2.39 trillion in purchasing power parity (2026)

1. Egypt 🇪🇬: $2.53trn
2. Nigeria 🇳🇬: $2.39trn
3. South Africa 🇿🇦: $1.06trn
4. Algeria 🇩🇿: $915.8bn
5. Ethiopia 🇪🇹: $530.8bn
6. Morocco 🇲🇦: $457.5bn
7. Kenya 🇰🇪: $430.3bn
8. Angola 🇦🇴: $417.2bn
9. Tanzania 🇹🇿: $317.6bn
10. Ghana 🇬🇭: $314.6bn

PPP measures how large an economy is when adjusted for cost of living, showing what money can actually buy within a country

<IMF, TheCableIndex>
#TheCableIndex