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Tinubu is at Windsor. Maiduguri just buried 23 people. Yesterday evening, just after people broke their fast, four bombs went off in Maiduguri. Monday Market. The Post Office. Kaleri. The gate of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. One eyewitness says...
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N58.47 trillion passed today. The assumptions expired three weeks ago. Nigeria’s Senate passed the 2026 budget today. N58.47 trillion. Named, with a straight face, the “Budget of Consolidation, Renewed Resilience, and Shared Prosperity.” The...
Energy
Petrol hit N1,300 per litre in Abuja. A war you didn’t start is paying for it. Last week, petrol in Abuja was N880 per litre. This week it’s N1,300. Dangote Refinery raised its gantry price to N1,175 per litre and cited crude crossing $110 per barrel....
Governance
Windsor Castle. £746 million. And a gap in the schedule nobody mentions. This one is more complicated than it looks. The state visit is real and it matters. Tinubu arrives in London today for a two-day visit — the first by a Nigerian president since Ibrahim Babangida...
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Ramadan ends tonight or tomorrow. Nigeria kept going. Today is likely the final day of Ramadan. The crescent gets sighted tonight or tomorrow — the Sultan of Sokoto makes the call — and then it’s Eid. One hundred million Nigerians have been fasting through a...