Entity

Nigeria

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 24 coverage verticals, including Auto, Africa and Energy.

As of 5 Nov 2026Last evidence 5 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • NNPC targets new investments as oil reforms raise Nigeria’s output by 600,000bpd

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • BOI and World Bank’s IFC Sign $50 Million Deal to Finance Nigerian MSMEs: How Your Business Can Benefit

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Nigeria: Kano 2027 - NDC Accuses APC Over Omission of Governorship Candidate As Court Sets Date for Hearing

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • EU Ambassador Warns AI Disinformation Could Undermine Nigeria’s 2027 Elections As Suspected Fake Images Emerge On INEC Register

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • A look at World Bank latest positive report on Nigeria’s economy, by Owaikhena Osikhekha

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

All 6 events and claims involving Nigeria

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 78 mentions on 5 Nov 2026, against 72 on 15 Oct 2026 (+8%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 30 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 28 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 4 Nov 2026.

How well we know this

2,967 documents · 275 publishers · 8% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 5 Nov 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.077: about 92% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 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.

AfricaOilKenyaImmigrationSouth AfricaChinaUnited StatesTinubuUnited Kingdom

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 78 mentions on 5 Nov 2026 with 72 on 15 Oct 2026 (+8%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +20% from 21 Sept 2026 to 5 Nov 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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  "label": "Nigeria",
  "asOf": "2026-11-05",
  "mentions": 811,
  "outlets": 109,
  "domains": 24,
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-11-05T23:35:16.585296+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "history": {
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    "changes": 4
  },
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "811 mentions across 24 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
          "count": 6,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "24 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 18,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 805 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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.

  • NNPC targets new investments as oil reforms raise Nigeria’s output by 600,000bpd

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    could not check

  • BOI and World Bank’s IFC Sign $50 Million Deal to Finance Nigerian MSMEs: How Your Business Can Benefit

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Nigeria: Kano 2027 - NDC Accuses APC Over Omission of Governorship Candidate As Court Sets Date for Hearing

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • EU Ambassador Warns AI Disinformation Could Undermine Nigeria’s 2027 Elections As Suspected Fake Images Emerge On INEC Register

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    could not check

  • A look at World Bank latest positive report on Nigeria’s economy, by Owaikhena Osikhekha

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

    could not check

  • EXCLUSIVE: Ebola: 34-year-old pilot, wife identified as suspected cases who tested negative in North-east Nigeria

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

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Nigeria

Entity.

Evidence
2,967 documents · 275 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 5 Nov 2026
Measured
8% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
5 Nov 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.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.
  • 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

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.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 30 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 28 Oct 2026

  • 30 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 28 Oct 2026

  • 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

4 changes recorded since 28 Oct 2026, newest first.

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