Entity

Nigeria

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 4 coverage verticals, including Business, World Wires and Weather Climate.

As of 20 Oct 2026Last evidence 19 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • AfDB invests $750,000 to support women entrepreneurs in Nigeria

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Nigeria’s Oil Demand Drops 30% As Middle East War Disrupts Supplies – IEA

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Nigeria: Atiku Launches 'Ask Aa' Platform, Says It Received 1,000 Questions in 30 Minutes

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Nigeria: 2027 - Spanish Group, Fact Check Nigeria Train Journalists On Indigenous-Language Reporting

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Nigeria Exceeds OPEC Crude Production Quota For 5th Consecutive Month

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 6 events and claims involving Nigeria

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 62 mentions on 20 Oct 2026, against 83 on 29 Sept 2026 (-25%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 10 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 19 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

2,069 documents · 222 publishers · 7% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 19 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.069: about 93% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Nigeria

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

AfricaWhatsAppUnited StatesSouth AfricaChinaTinubuKenya
  • Africa · 991 shared documents
  • Oil · 392 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Lagos · 336 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • WhatsApp · 277 shared documents
  • United States · 265 shared documents
  • South Africa · 264 shared documents
  • China · 256 shared documents
  • Immigration · 255 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Tinubu · 253 shared documents
  • Kenya · 241 shared documents

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 62 mentions on 20 Oct 2026 with 83 on 29 Sept 2026 (-25%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +114% from 5 Sept 2026 to 20 Oct 2026, between 5 and 91 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Nigeria, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Nigeria yet. Ask about Nigeria

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/abfde8bcdad20e6f42671e00 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name nigeria.

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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-20T15:58:08.126485+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
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  "coverageTrend": "fading",
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  "whereFrom": {
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      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 550 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
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  }
}

The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Nigeria

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • AfDB invests $750,000 to support women entrepreneurs in Nigeria

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Nigeria’s Oil Demand Drops 30% As Middle East War Disrupts Supplies – IEA

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Nigeria: Atiku Launches 'Ask Aa' Platform, Says It Received 1,000 Questions in 30 Minutes

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Nigeria: 2027 - Spanish Group, Fact Check Nigeria Train Journalists On Indigenous-Language Reporting

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Nigeria Exceeds OPEC Crude Production Quota For 5th Consecutive Month

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Allan Gray favours Nigerian stocks over South Korea’s Kospi

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    could not check

Walk the record from Nigeria

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Nigeria

Entity.

Evidence
2,069 documents · 222 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 3 Sept 2026, last seen 19 Oct 2026
Measured
7% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
20 Oct 2026
16 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (6)

  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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Watch this

What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Nigeria, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 10 Oct 2026.

Ask about NigeriaWatch Nigeria

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 20 Oct 2026.