Friday, 17 April 2026
Nigerian airlines threatened to suspend all flights from April 20 after Jet A1 jumped from ₦900 to ₦3,300 per litre in six weeks, while global crude rose only 30%.
Tinubu announced ₦3.3trn to settle power sector debts last week, but generation fell to 3,345MW from 5,000MW in 2025, and industry figures put the real debt at ₦12trn.
Nigeria buried Brigade Commander Oseni Braimah at Maimalari Cantonment on April 15, killed in Benisheikh on April 9, with neither the President nor Vice President at the ceremony.
Reform UK named Nigeria in plans to ban visas from reparation-demanding countries, three weeks after Nigeria signed a deal with Britain to speed up deportations of Nigerians without legal status.
Jet A1 rose 300% while global crude rose 30%, electricity generation fell after the ₦3.3trn announcement, and diesel stayed out of reach three years into Nigeria's deregulation programme.
Fela Kuti and Sade Adu became the first African artists in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, forty years after it was founded and twenty-nine years after Fela's death.
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