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TWO GOLDS FROM NAIROBI
Nobody was watching this tournament. Nigeria won it anyway. Team Nigeria came home from the 2026 NFL Flag Africa Continental Championship in Nairobi with two titles. The women’s senior team beat Egypt 27 to 18 in the final. The under 13 co-ed team went unbeaten…
THE LENS
We saw it. Did you? On Friday, the foreign ministers of Nigeria and Ghana met on the sidelines of an ECOWAS gathering in Liberia. They did the thing governments do when they want to be seen responding without actually committing to anything. They condemned the…
THE WAGES THAT WERE ALREADY APPROVED
The government already agreed to pay civil servants more money months ago. Many of them are still waiting for it to show up. Labour leaders under the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council met in Osogbo recently and came out with a warning for state…
THE NUMBER THAT MOVED AND THE ONE THAT DIDN’T
Nigeria’s headline inflation rate fell last month. The number that decides what a family actually eats went the other way. Nigeria’s annual inflation rate eased to 15.91 percent in June, down slightly from 15.93 percent in May. That’s the first decline since February,…
WHAT GOT BUILT IN A WEEK
While Nigerians in South Africa wait months for a compensation answer, Tinubu built an entire new regulatory structure for crypto in the space of one signature. On 17 July, Tinubu signed the Presidential Executive Order on Virtual Assets Coordination, and it took…
THE COUNCIL AND THE COMPENSATION
Nigeria evacuated thousands of its citizens from South Africa this year. It then asked Pretoria to compensate them for what they lost. Pretoria said no. The word the government used was insensitive. Femi Falana stood up on Sunday and said something that should have…
THE COOKBOOK THAT MADE HISTORY
Ozoz Sokoh just became the first Nigerian cookbook author to win a James Beard Award. Sokoh’s debut book, Chop Chop, won the 2026 Emerging Voice in Books honour at the James Beard Foundation Awards. It’s one of the most prestigious recognitions in food writing…
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