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🌡️ COUNTRIES MOST AT RISK OF HEAT-RELATED DEATHS FROM SUPER EL NIÑO (September 2026 – February 2027) Country — Additional Heat-Related Deaths 1 🇳🇬 Nigeria — 31,400 2 🇮🇩 Indonesia — 19,300 3 🇸🇩 Sudan — 17,500 4 🇮🇳 India — 15,800 5 🇧🇷 Brazil — 13,300 6 🇨🇩 DR Congo — 10,000 7 🇳🇪 Niger — 10,000 8 🇹🇩 Chad — 7,900 9 🇵🇭 Philippines — 6,500 10 🇸🇸 South Sudan — 5,600 Nigeria tops the list, with 31,400 additional heat-related deaths projected during the six-month period, more than any other country listed. Indonesia ranks second with 19,300, followed by Sudan with 17,500. #StatiSense (Climate Impact Lab)

📊 🇳🇬 WHICH STATES RECEIVED MORE FROM VAT POOL THAN THEY CONTRIBUTED — SEPTEMBER 2026? State — VAT Contributed | VAT Allocation Received (%) 1 🟤 Cross River — ₦1.06bn | ₦7.56bn (715.68%) 2 🟢 Ebonyi — ₦1.49bn | ₦7.22bn (485.75%) 3 🟠 Benue — ₦2.19bn | ₦8.58bn (391.02%) 4 🟢 Abia — ₦2.48bn | ₦7.82bn (314.95%) 5 🟤 Delta — ₦2.94bn | ₦8.66bn (294.34%) 6 🟣 Osun — ₦2.83bn | ₦8.24bn (291.28%) 7 🟣 Ekiti — ₦2.72bn | ₦7.60bn (279.19%) 8 🟢 Anambra — ₦3.61bn | ₦8.85bn (245.38%) 9 🟢 Imo — ₦3.55bn | ₦8.69bn (245.15%) 10 🟠 Nasarawa — ₦3.01bn | ₦7.35bn (243.91%) 11 🟢 Enugu — ₦3.50bn | ₦8.28bn (236.23%) 12 ⚫ Bauchi — ₦4.01bn | ₦9.21bn (229.82%) 13 🔴 Kaduna — ₦4.54bn | ₦10.16bn (223.96%) 14 🟣 Ondo — ₦3.86bn | ₦8.46bn (219.30%) 15 🔴 Zamfara — ₦3.98bn | ₦8.38bn (210.58%) 16 ⚫ Taraba — ₦4.03bn | ₦7.82bn (194.23%) 17 🟠 Niger — ₦4.65bn | ₦8.93bn (191.83%) 18 🟣 Ogun — ₦4.63bn | ₦8.79bn (189.94%) 19 🟠 Kogi — ₦4.52bn | ₦8.50bn (188.14%) 20 🔴 Kebbi — ₦4.55bn | ₦8.48bn (186.49%) 21 🔴 Sokoto — ₦4.96bn | ₦8.84bn (178.24%) 22 🟠 Plateau — ₦4.78bn | ₦8.49bn (177.81%) 23 ⚫ Yobe — ₦4.70bn | ₦7.97bn (169.64%) 24 ⚫ Adamawa — ₦5.28bn | ₦8.59bn (162.71%) 25 🔴 Kano — ₦8.98bn | ₦13.05bn (145.32%) 26 🟤 Edo — ₦7.30bn | ₦9.04bn (123.81%) 27 🔴 Jigawa — ₦9.18bn | ₦10.09bn (109.98%) 28 🔴 Katsina — ₦11.12bn | ₦11.35bn (102.09%) ⚫ NE 🔴 NW 🟠 NC 🟣 SW 🟢 SE 🟤 SS In September 2026, 28 of Nigeria’s 36 states received more in VAT allocations from FAAC than they contributed to the VAT pool. Cross River recorded the highest ratio, receiving ₦7.56bn against its ₦1.06bn contribution. #StatiSense (FAAC)

🌍 TOP 10 MOST PUNCTUAL GLOBAL AIRLINES — SEPTEMBER 2026 Airline — On-Time Arrival Rate (%) 1 🇨🇳 Hainan Airlines — 92.71% 2 🇲🇽 Aeroméxico — 89.67% 3 🇸🇬 Singapore Airlines — 87.33% 4 🇰🇷 Korean Air — 86.01% 5 🇪🇸 Iberia — 85.62% 6 🇨🇦 WestJet — 85.31% 7 🇭🇰 Cathay Pacific — 84.92% 8 🇩🇰 Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) — 84.68% 9 🇺🇸 Delta Air Lines — 82.52% 10 🇨🇱 LATAM Airlines — 81.58% Global flight cancellations fell by 20.3% in September 2026 compared with August, while on-time arrivals among the leading airlines averaged 86.04%. However, Hainan Airlines' top punctuality ranking came with a lower flight completion rate (98.09%) than fourth-ranked Korean Air (99.87%), showing that punctuality and flight reliability are not always the same. NOTE: Rankings cover Cirium's global airline category for September 2026. Flights arriving within 15 minutes of schedule are considered on time. Completion rate measures the proportion of scheduled flights operated. #Statisense (Cirium, September 2026)

🌍 AFRICA’S COUNTRIES WITH THE HIGHEST TRAVEL & TOURISM JOB CREATION GROWTH — 2025 VS 2026 (Country — Jobs Created | YoY Growth) 1 🇳🇬Nigeria — +335,000 | +10.3% 2 🇪🇹Ethiopia — +120,000 | +3.5% 3 🇹🇿Tanzania — +74,000 | +4.5% 4 🇿🇦South Africa — +63,000 | +3.0% 5 🇰🇪Kenya — +58,000 | +3.3% 6 🇪🇬Egypt — +55,000 | +1.8% 7 🇲🇼Malawi — +51,000 | +7.0% 8 🇲🇬Madagascar — +49,000 | +5.4% 9 🇨🇮Côte d’Ivoire — +43,000 | +3.9% 10 🇲🇦Morocco — +43,000 | +2.9% 🇳🇬Nigeria leads Africa in projected travel and tourism job creation, adding 335,000 jobs between 2025 and 2026, nearly three times 🇪🇹 Ethiopia’s 120,000, the second-highest increase. 🇲🇼 Malawi ranks seventh by the number of jobs added but records the third-highest growth rate among the listed countries, at 7.0%. #StatiSense (WTTC)

🇳🇬 WHICH STATES GOT BACK LESS THAN THEY CONTRIBUTED TO THE VAT POOL — SEPTEMBER 2026? State — Contributed | Received (%) 1 🟣 Lagos — ₦280.59bn | ₦68.62bn (24.45%) 2 🟤 Rivers — ₦81.24bn | ₦25.39bn (31.26%) 3 🟠 FCT — ₦34.89bn | ₦13.62bn (39.05%) 4 🟣 Oyo — ₦27.85bn | ₦14.67bn (52.67%) 5 🟤 Bayelsa — ₦15.11bn | ₦9.74bn (64.46%) 6 🟠 Kwara — ₦11.47bn | ₦9.39bn (81.85%) 7 ⚫ Borno — ₦12.78bn | ₦10.72bn (83.83%) 8 ⚫ Gombe — ₦9.32bn | ₦8.94bn (95.92%) 9 🟤 Akwa Ibom — ₦10.07bn | ₦10.02bn (99.51%) ⚫NE 🔴NW 🟠NC 🟣SW 🟢SE 🟤SS Lagos contributed ₦280.59bn to the VAT pool in September but received ₦68.62bn (24.45%), the widest gap of any state at ₦211.97bn. #Statisense (FAAC)

🌍 TOP 10 MOST PUNCTUAL AIRLINES IN THE MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA — SEPTEMBER 2025 Airline — On-Time Arrival Rate (%) 1 🇯🇴 Royal Jordanian — 95.39% 2 🇰🇼 Kuwait Airways — 91.82% 3 🇸🇦 Flyadeal — 91.51% 4 🇿🇦 Safair — 90.61% 5 🇴🇲 Oman Air — 89.60% 6 🇧🇭 Gulf Air — 87.67% 7 🇸🇦 Saudia — 87.16% 8 🇶🇦 Qatar Airways — 86.01% 9 🇿🇦 South African Airways — 85.23% 10 🇦🇪 Etihad Airways — 83.76% Royal Jordanian operated every scheduled flight in September 2025 while achieving 95.39% on-time arrivals. Oman Air recorded the largest punctuality improvement among the month's five regional leaders, rising by 9.93 percentage points from August. NOTE: The ranking covers eligible airlines in Cirium's Middle East & Africa category for September 2025. An on-time arrival means reaching the gate within 15 minutes of schedule. The completion factor measures the proportion of scheduled flights operated. #Statisense (Cirium, 2025)

🇳🇬 TOP 12 NIGERIAN YOUTUBE CHANNELS BY SUBSCRIBERS — 2026 YouTube Channel — Number of subscribers 1 MarkAngelComedy — 9.62M 2 Agbaps Shorts — 9.38M 3 Rema — 5.71M 4 Nathaniel Bassey Main — 5.11M 5 SamSpedy — 4.69M 6 CKay — 4.39M 7 RuthKadiri247 — 4.13M 8 Official Flavour — 4.13M 9 Skinnycomics — 4.04M 10 Uchenna Mbunabo TV — 3.91M 11 Channels Television — 3.84M 12 Kizz Daniel — 3.76M MarkAngelComedy leads with 9.62M subscribers, followed by Agbaps Shorts at 9.38M. Comedy, music, Nollywood entertainment, and news feature prominently in Nigeria's YouTube landscape. #StatiSense

🇳🇬 TOP 12 NIGERIAN YOUTUBE CHANNELS BY TOTAL VIEWS — 2026 YouTube channel — Total views 1 Agbaps Shorts — 7.94B views 2 ePianoh — 7.03B views 3 Rema — 2.68B views 4 MarkAngelComedy — 2.57B views 5 CEO MASTERPIECE — 2.32B views 6 CKay — 1.93B views 7 SamSpedy — 1.84B views 8 Channels Television — 1.83B views 9 Skinnycomics — 1.79B views 10 Kizz Daniel — 1.66B views 11 Official Flavour — 1.64B views 12 Ayra Starr — 1.64B views #StatiSense

🍲🌍 WEST AFRICAN FOOD FESTIVAL (WAFFEST) HOST COUNTRIES Year — Host country: 2018 — 🇬🇭 Ghana 2019 — 🇬🇭 Ghana 2020 — No edition confirmed 2021 — 🇱🇷 Liberia 2022 — 🇬🇭 Ghana 2023 — 🇳🇬 Nigeria 2024 — 🇹🇬 Togo 2025 — 🇬🇭 Ghana 2026 — 🇬🇲 The Gambia Ghana has hosted WAFFEST four times, while Nigeria, Liberia, Togo and The Gambia have also hosted once. #Statisense

👫 GENDER GAP IN NIGERIAN POVERTY — 2025🇳🇬 Gender — poverty rate: Males — 63.7% Females — 64.3% Women in Nigeria are slightly more likely to be poor than men, a modest 0.6-point gap, suggesting poverty here cuts across gender lines more evenly than it does across education or age. In Male, 63 in every 100 are considered to be poor while 64 in every 100 female are considered to be poor. #Statisense (World Bank)

🇳🇬THE NORTH EAST HAS NEVER PRODUCED A PRESIDENT OR MILITARY HEAD OF STATE SINCE INDEPENDENCE IN 1960. Name (Tenure) — Zone (Years served) 1 🟢 Nnamdi Azikiwe (1963–1966) — South East (3 years) 2 🟢 Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi (1966) — South East (6 months) 3 🟠Yakubu Gowon (1966–1975) — North Central (9 years) 4 🔴 Murtala Mohammed (1975–1976) — North West (6 months) 5 🟣 Olusegun Obasanjo (1976–1979) — South West (3 years) 6 🔴Shehu Shagari (1979–1983) — North West (4 years) 7 🔴Muhammadu Buhari (1983–1985) — North West (1 year, 7 months) 8 🟠Ibrahim Babangida (1985–1993) — North Central (8 years) 9 🟣Ernest Shonekan (1993) — South West (3 months) 10 🔴Sani Abacha (1993–1998) — North West (4 years, 8 months) 11 🟠Abdulsalami Abubakar (1998–1999) — North Central (11 months) 12 🟣Olusegun Obasanjo (1999–2007) — South West (8 years) 13 🔴Umaru Musa Yar’Adua (2007–2010) — North West (2 years, 11 months) 14 🟤Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (2010–2015) — South South (5 years) 15 🔴Muhammadu Buhari (2015–2023) — North West (8 years) 16 🟣Bola Ahmed Tinubu (2023–Present) — South West (3 years, as of October 2026) ⚫North East — Has never produced a Nigerian President or military Head of State since independence in 1960. TOTAL TIME IN POWER BY ZONE 🟣South West — approximately 14 years, 3 months 🔴North West — approximately 18 years, 3 months 🟠North Central — approximately 17 years, 11 months 🟢South East — approximately 3 years, 6 months 🟤South South — approximately 5 years Note: Tenures are approximate and rounded. Totals combine civilian and military leadership periods, including separate terms served by the same individual. Tinubu’s tenure is ongoing. #StatiSense

📺 NOTABLE TV SHOW GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 1 Meet the Press (1947–present) — Longest-running TV show, first broadcast in November 1947. 2 Guiding Light (1937–2009) — Longest-running soap opera across radio and television. 3 The Midnight Club (2022) — Most scripted jump scares in a single TV episode, with 21. 4 Game of Thrones (2015) — Largest TV drama simulcast, broadcast simultaneously across 173 countries and territories. 5 The Chosen (2026) — Most translated season for a streaming series, with Season 1 available in 125 languages. 6 Stranger Things (2025–2026) — Most in-demand TV show worldwide, with demand 103.6 times the global average. 7 IT: Welcome to Derry (2025) — Most in-demand debut for a TV show, reaching 88.3 times average demand. 8 Heated Rivalry (2025–2026) — Most in-demand romantic drama TV show, at 45.7 times average demand. 9 SpongeBob SquarePants (2025–2026) — Most in-demand children's TV show, at 47.6 times average demand. 10 The Voice (US) (2025–2026) — Most in-demand reality TV show, at 37.6 times average demand. #Statisense (Guinness World Records)

🇳🇬 NIGERIA’S BIGGEST CEMENT CLINKER EXPORT MARKETS — 2025 (Top Destination Countries by Export Value) 1 🇨🇲Cameroon — $31.34 million 2 🇬🇭Ghana — $10.09 million 3 🇳🇪Niger — $6.61 million 4 🇨🇮Côte d’Ivoire — $3.69 million 5 🇧🇯Benin — $2.21 million 6 🇬🇦Gabon — $672,330 7 🇧🇫Burkina Faso — $577,290 8 🇹🇬Togo — $317,720 Nigeria exported approximately $55.49 million worth of cement clinker in 2025, equivalent to about 1.14 million tonnes. Cameroon was Nigeria’s largest destination, accounting for approximately 56.5% of the total export value listed. West and Central African markets remain important destinations for Nigeria’s cement clinker exports. #StatiSense (WITS)

👶🌍 TOP 12 AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY BIRTH RATE — 2026 Country — Births per 1,000 people: 1 🇨🇫 Central African Republic — 44.7 2 🇹🇩 Chad — 42.2 3 🇸🇴 Somalia — 41.2 4 🇳🇪 Niger — 40.2 5 🇨🇩 DR Congo — 39.8 6 🇲🇱 Mali — 38.8 7 🇦🇴 Angola — 36.3 8 🇹🇿 Tanzania — 33.9 9 🇲🇷 Mauritania — 33.2 10 🇺🇬 Uganda — 33.1 11 🇧🇯 Benin — 32.6 12 🇨🇲 Cameroon — 32.4 . . 16 🇳🇬 Nigeria — 31.8 The Central African Republic recorded Africa’s highest birth rate at 44.7 births per 1,000 people. Nigeria ranked 16th, with 31.8 births per 1,000 people. #Statisense (WPR)

👶🌍 TOP 12 AFRICAN COUNTRIES WITH THE LOWEST BIRTH RATES — 2026 Country — Births per 1,000 people: 1 🇲🇺 Mauritius — 8.9 2 🇨🇻 Cape Verde — 12.0 3 🇹🇳 Tunisia — 12.6 4 🇸🇨 Seychelles — 13.2 5 🇱🇾 Libya — 15.8 6 🇲🇦 Morocco — 15.8 7 🇩🇿 Algeria — 17.3 8 🇿🇦 South Africa — 17.8 9 🇩🇯 Djibouti — 20.4 10 🇪🇬 Egypt — 20.5 11 🇸🇿 Eswatini — 22.9 12 🇱🇸 Lesotho — 23.1 Mauritius had Africa’s lowest birth rate at 8.9 births per 1,000 people, followed by Cape Verde at 12.0 and Tunisia at 12.6. #Statisense (WPR)

🌍 TOP AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY FDI INFLOWS — 2025 💰 Country — FDI Inflows 1 🇪🇬Egypt — $15.45 billion 2 🇬🇳Guinea — $7.76 billion 3 🇲🇿Mozambique — $5.69 billion 4 🇳🇬Nigeria — $4.01 billion 5 🇪🇹Ethiopia — $3.80 billion 6 🇺🇬Uganda — $3.36 billion 7 🇲🇦Morocco — $3.34 billion 8 🇰🇪Kenya — $3.20 billion 9 🇨🇮Côte d’Ivoire — $2.03 billion 10 🇬🇭Ghana — $1.91 billion Nigeria ranked 4th in Africa for foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in 2025, attracting approximately $4.01 billion. Egypt led the continent, followed by Guinea and Mozambique. FDI inflows represent investments received from foreign investors, including investments in businesses and other productive assets. #StatiSense (UNCTAD)