Entity

Nigeria

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 23 coverage verticals, including Auto, Africa and Energy.

As of 24 Oct 2026Last evidence 24 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Ebola: Swiss government says Nigeria’s patient likely contracted virus in Uganda

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

  • Nigeria’s Dangote group buys stake in Kenya’s oil pipeline network

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

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

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • FAAN increases airport surveillance following confirmed Ebola case in Abuja

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

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

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 8 events and claims involving Nigeria

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 99 mentions on 24 Oct 2026, against 79 on 3 Oct 2026 (+25%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 13 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 23 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

2,306 documents · 235 publishers · 8% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 24 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.075: 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.

AfricaOilWhatsAppImmigrationKenyaSouth AfricaUnited StatesChinaTinubu

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 99 mentions on 24 Oct 2026 with 79 on 3 Oct 2026 (+25%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +80% from 9 Sept 2026 to 24 Oct 2026, between 5 and 99 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.

  • Ebola: Swiss government says Nigeria’s patient likely contracted virus in Uganda

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

    single source

  • Nigeria’s Dangote group buys stake in Kenya’s oil pipeline network

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

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

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • FAAN increases airport surveillance following confirmed Ebola case in Abuja

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

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

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

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

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Nigeria: Only Three Women Out of 76 Were Invited to Key APC Presidential Campaign Meeting

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • African health ministers to hold Ebola crisis talks as Nigeria confirms first case

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Nigeria

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Nigeria

Entity.

Evidence
2,306 documents · 235 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 24 Oct 2026
Measured
8% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
24 Oct 2026
18 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (8)

  • 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.

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

Markets materially about Nigeria

Markets whose question is about Nigeria or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Nigeria and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 13 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 24 Oct 2026.