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The delayed visit postpones trade and investment announcements, testing Nigeria-France economic diplomacy amid shifting alliances.

Nigeria and other African countries renewed calls for local raw-material processing at the Second African Raw Materials Summit, as a bill requiring 30 per cent value addition returned to President Tinubu for assent.

The House Downstream Committee said domestic refineries supply more than 75% of national petrol with over 25 days of sufficiency, as it passed confidence votes on Tinubu, NMDPRA and Dangote and sought stronger pipeline funding.

President Tinubu's administration and opposition leader Atiku Abubakar have advanced rival plans to lower petrol prices as Nigeria heads toward the 2027 election.

President Bola Tinubu has approved the start of a process to build new eastern and western electricity transmission grids, the Minister of Power said, though the procurement stage has only just begun and no cost or capacity figures have been disclosed.

The discount applies to outstanding statutory fees owed to aviation agencies and is intended to steady carriers facing a sharp rise in Jet A1 prices.