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Nigeria

News coverage about Nigeria accounts for 0.659% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is up 4.7% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -0.32 — mildly negative.

NG · NGA · Africa · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.659%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+4.7%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-0.32
mildly negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Nigeria coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.66% on 2026-08-200.000.501.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Nigeria coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.32 on 2026-08-20+20-2May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (11/day latest)

Protest events located in Nigeria: 87 days, latest 11.00 on 2026-08-200.00100200May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Diplomacy (191/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Nigeria: 87 days, latest 191.00 on 2026-08-200.0025005000May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (44/day latest)

Coercive events located in Nigeria: 87 days, latest 44.00 on 2026-08-200.0010002000May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Nigeria, counted daily from GDELT's event stream (protests: root 14; diplomacy: 04–05; coercion through mass violence: 17–20).

Coverage origin: local vs international

Over the last two weeks, 69% of the coverage about Nigeria came from outlets based in Nigeria — the rest was written from abroad (20,651 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Nigeria from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 63.58 on 2026-08-200.0050.0100Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Nigeria produced by domestic outlets, computed daily across GDELT's English and translated streams. Outlet home countries are mapped per news domain (GDELT source-country data); articles from unmapped outlets are excluded from the denominator. A very low share during major events can mean the story is being told about a place rather than from it.

Most-mentioned places

  • Abuja (43)
  • Lagos (40)
  • Osun (16)
  • Kano (14)
  • Ibadan (12)
  • Osogbo (11)
  • Tinubu (7)
  • Calabar (5)
  • Enugu (5)
  • Port Harcourt (5)
  • Ilorin (5)
  • Sokoto (4)

Places named in coverage about Nigeria on 2026-08-20 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Nigeria

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$290.8B
World Bank, 2025
Population
237.5M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
26.2%
World Bank, 1960
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
0.6%
World Bank, 2024

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
6,663
best estimate
Civilian deaths
1,866
within the above
Recorded events
1,258
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-08-01..2026-07-31, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
3,544,519
within the country
Refugees abroad
478,150
originating from Nigeria
Refugees hosted
123,848
from other countries
Asylum seekers
18,192
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

Coverage share measures articles published by Nigeria-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).