Entity

Nigeria

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 33 coverage verticals, including Africa, African Economy and AI Inference Infrastructure.

As of 28 Oct 2026Last evidence 28 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Africa: Nigeria's First Ebola Patient Is Diplomat's Wife Who Holidayed in Uganda - Africa CDC

    Reported event · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Africa: Nigeria's Youth Athletes Intensify Abuja Camp Ahead of Dakar 2026 Youth Olympics

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • WHO declares Nigeria Ebola-free after infected patient’s evacuation

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Swiss Ebola patient in Nigeria evacuated to Switzerland as authorities monitor 52 contacts

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Uganda imposes 21-day Ebola quarantine, continues investigation into Nigeria’s case

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

All 11 events and claims involving Nigeria

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 85 mentions on 28 Oct 2026, against 66 on 7 Oct 2026 (+29%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from watch to flagged on 28 Oct 2026 (2 changes recorded since 16 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 27 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

2,555 documents · 247 publishers · 8% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 28 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.077: about 92% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 3 receipts 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.

AfricaOilImmigrationKenyaWhatsAppSouth AfricaUnited StatesChinaTinubu

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 85 mentions on 28 Oct 2026 with 66 on 7 Oct 2026 (+29%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +29% from 13 Sept 2026 to 28 Oct 2026, between 5 and 141 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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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.

  • Africa: Nigeria's First Ebola Patient Is Diplomat's Wife Who Holidayed in Uganda - Africa CDC

    Reported event · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Africa: Ebola - Africa CDC Seeks Full Travel History of Nigeria's Patient to Trace Source of Infection · reported by two · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 2 separate publishers
    • Africa: Nigeria's First Ebola Patient Is Diplomat's Wife Who Holidayed in Uganda - Africa CDC · reported by two · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 2 separate publishers

  • Africa: Nigeria's Youth Athletes Intensify Abuja Camp Ahead of Dakar 2026 Youth Olympics

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • WHO declares Nigeria Ebola-free after infected patient’s evacuation

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Swiss Ebola patient in Nigeria evacuated to Switzerland as authorities monitor 52 contacts

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Uganda imposes 21-day Ebola quarantine, continues investigation into Nigeria’s case

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Nigeria's Tinubu launches re-election campaign as economic pain tests support

    Reported claim · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    single source

  • Nigeria: 'Poverty Will Go' - Full List of Tinubu's 2027 Promises As APC Flags Off Campaign in Kaduna

    Reported claim · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Nigeria’s Ebola case sparks travel dispute, Switzerland denies patient visited Congo

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • South Sudan, Ethiopia and Rwanda rank among world's fastest-growing economies in 2026, outpacing Nigeria, South Africa, China and the US

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Nigeria: Ebola Health Alert - Confirmed Case in Nigeria & Public Guidance

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Nigeria: Nigeria's Ebola Case - Experts, Africa CDC Worry Over Late Detection, Contact Tracing

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

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Nigeria

Entity.

Evidence
2,555 documents · 247 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 28 Oct 2026
Measured
8% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
28 Oct 2026
22 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

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

2 more headlines counted but not shown: no source link on file

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 28 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 25 Sept 2026

  • 28 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 25 Sept 2026

2 changes recorded since 16 Oct 2026, newest first.

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