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Here's everything that happened in Nigeria in the last 12 hours. The Oyo State Police Command paraded a child trafficking syndicate responsible for the tragic deaths of six children in captivity, successfully rescuing 17 others across three states after a 3-year-old vanished during an Oyo town masquerade festival. Aliko Dangote officially signed registration documents in Lagos for a historic 2.2 trillion

naira initial public offering of 4.1 billion ordinary shares aiming to expand refinery capacity and allow ordinary citizens to purchase corporate equity stakes. A building collapsed in Abuja's Wuse Zone 4 on Monday evening just hours after being officially sealed by the Federal Capital Territory Administration triggering a multi-agency emergency rescue operation to search the debris

for victims. Nigeria's gross foreign exchange reserves surged to 54.13 billion dollars marking the second highest level in national history after rising significantly from 32.29 billion dollars recorded in May 2023 according to official Central Bank data. The National Bureau of Statistics reported that Nigeria's merchandise trade surplus jumped 66% to 12.59 trillion naira in the second quarter of

2026 driven by 27.02 trillion naira in total exports despite heavy fuel import costs. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control revealed that Chinese counterfeiters have established illicit local manufacturing plants within Nigeria prompting immediate facility closures, criminal arrests, and 64 recent judicial convictions. Nigeria spent 952.15 billion naira on imported petrol during

the second quarter of 2026, highlighting a heavy reliance on foreign fuel despite expanding domestic refining capacity and an ongoing market disputes between local refiners and importers. The Federal Ministry of Works is considering terminating a 25-year Benin-Asaba Expressway highway concession, accusing the private operator of slow, substandard construction, poor traffic management, and breaching critical