Governance
₦218 billion was budgeted for health last year. ₦36 million arrived. The Nigerian budget is not a plan. It’s a press release. Health Minister Muhammad Pate told the House of Representatives this month that his ministry received ₦36 million of its ₦218...
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El-Rufai’s detention tour is almost complete. Still no court date. Nasir el-Rufai is now in ICPC custody. Before that, he spent two nights at the EFCC on N432 billion fraud allegations. EFCC granted him bail. The DSS picked him up immediately on...
Energy
Nigeria is still chasing a power fix it was supposed to finish in 2021. In 2019, Nigeria signed an agreement with Siemens to fix the power grid. The target was 7,000 megawatts of reliable supply by 2021, and 11,000 megawatts by 2023. It is February 2026. Tinubu called...
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Tomorrow is the first election under Nigeria’s new electoral law. Here’s what to watch for. 1.68 million voters in Abuja’s six area councils vote tomorrow for the FCT Area Council elections. It’s a local government election. Low stakes for most...
Governance
37 miners dead in Plateau. The ministry says they didn’t know the gas was lethal. On Wednesday morning, 37 miners went to work at the Kampani Zurak mining site in Wase, Plateau State. Carbon monoxide, lead oxide, and sulphur filled the poorly ventilated...