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A four-state Nigerian programme plans to bring AI-assisted maternal healthcare into facilities where specialist manpower is thinnest.

Bayer raised its full-year 2026 profit forecast, with shares up about 3.6%, as crop-science and healthcare demand prove resilient across markets.

Novo Nordisk beat third-quarter expectations and raised its 2026 sales outlook on obesity drug demand, with shares up about five percent.

IDEXX Laboratories jumped 20 percent after third-quarter revenue of $1.21 billion beat estimates and the company raised 2026 revenue and earnings guidance.

Revenue and gross margin improved while inventories and receivables expanded, making collection performance central to sustaining the growth.

Nigeria’s maiden National Pension Week opened on Monday, October 26, with the National Pension Commission spotlighting PenCare, its retiree healthcare programme, and the Minimum Pension Guarantee initiative designed to lift incomes for low-income retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme.

The bank announced an N20 billion facility for private healthcare providers, with eye-care businesses a named priority, at an Abuja roundtable where the minister of state for health pushed blended finance and impact bonds.