This Week in Nigeria — Current Affairs Digest

Latest Developments (2026)

• 26 October 2026 Ebola: index patient and husband evacuated to Switzerland; outbreak could be declared over by 7 December — Coordinating Minister of Health Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate said the Abuja index patient, now stable and conscious, was flown to Switzerland with her husband (contact 53) on 26 October. If no new confirmed or probable case emerges, the 42-day countdown (twice the 21-day incubation period) ends on 7 December 2026, subject to NCDC and WHO validation. A suspected case in Rivers State tested negative. (Leadership)
• 24 October 2026 Tinubu flags off APC's 2027 presidential campaign in Kaduna — President Bola Tinubu opened his re-election campaign at Ranchers Bees (Kaduna Township) Stadium with Vice-President Kashim Shettima, Governor Uba Sani, SGF George Akume and APC chairman Nentawe Yilwatda. He blamed hunger and poverty on the opposition, ruled out restoring the petrol subsidy and asked for a second term at the 16 January 2027 presidential election. (Premium Times)
• 24 October 2026 State police: 25 State Houses of Assembly approve the Sixth Alteration Bill, crossing the two-thirds threshold — Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila, chairman of the Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill, said 25 of the 36 state assemblies (24 needed) have approved the 2026 Constitution (Sixth Alteration) Bill already passed by both chambers of the National Assembly; Lagos, Ondo, Ebonyi, Kogi, Niger, Borno, Bauchi, Jigawa, Katsina, Kano and Sokoto have not. The Clerk to the National Assembly must authenticate the resolutions before the bill goes to the President for assent; the National Policing Bill and 29 consequential bills are due back from the Justice Ministry by 30 October. (ThisDay)
• 20 October 2026 Nigeria confirms its first Ebola case since 2014 in Abuja — Coordinating Minister of Health Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate announced one laboratory-confirmed case of Ebola virus disease in the FCT: a woman who arrived from Uganda, fell ill on 7 October and is isolated in a private hospital. 44 contacts are being traced by NCDC, the FCT health secretariat, WHO and Africa CDC. The NCDC hotline is 6232. Nigeria last recorded Ebola in Lagos in 2014. (Premium Times)
• 16 October 2026 Tinubu nominates four INEC national commissioners and two RECs ahead of the January 2027 polls — Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga named Prof. Mustapha Aliu (North West, replacing Abdullahi Zuru), Bashir Muhammed Umar (North Central, replacing Muhammad Adamu), Oluwatoyin Babalola (South West, replacing Cornelius Ajayi) and Dr Bala Bila (North East, reappointed) as national commissioners, with Dr Samuel Akinleye (Ekiti) and Zahradden Sanusi (Jigawa) as Resident Electoral Commissioners. All six are subject to Senate confirmation. (Premium Times)