A South-East Nigerian state, capital Abakaliki, formed 1996
Tanzania has 222,057 tonnes of seed cotton in 2025/26 and is pushing to keep more value at home by expanding spinning, weaving and garment manufacturing. The Nyamatara Industrial Zone is under development, with land compensation already paid and infrastructure underway. Government and private sector leaders say investment is needed to unlock domestic processing and create high-value jobs.
NDLEA has arrested a Mexican national, Arturo Carrera Loaiza, at Lagos airport as part of a crackdown on an industrial-scale methamphetamine network. Investigators link Loaiza to a forest-laboratory operation in Ogun and Oyo states and a dismantled Ebonyi facility, with substantial quantities of chemicals and equipment seized.