Governance
The EFCC came to verify a medical report. They brought masks, teargas, and armed backup. Now Akwa Ibom’s only cardiothoracic surgeon is under arrest and the hospital is on strike. The thing to understand about what happened at the University of Uyo Teaching...
Business, Economy
A bag of cement cost N9,000 in December. It now costs N13,000. That increase will reach you even if you aren’t building anything. The price of a 50kg bag of cement has hit N13,000 in parts of Nigeria following fresh price adjustments by Dangote Cement and...
Governance
The APC screening committee cleared every Wike-aligned candidate in Rivers and rejected every candidate backed by Fubara. Fubara walked out. He said nothing. The APC’s Rivers State House of Assembly screening last week cleared all 29 sitting lawmakers aligned...
Governance
Today is Leah Sharibu’s birthday. She has spent the last nine years in ISWAP captivity for refusing to convert to Islam. She is the only Dapchi girl who was never returned. On 19 February 2018, ISWAP attacked Government Girls’ Science and Technical College...
Governance, The Lens
Three things from this week worth carrying into the weekend. The man who’s still missing. Saleh Mamman was sentenced to 75 years in prison on Wednesday for stealing ₦33.8 billion meant for Nigeria’s hydroelectric power projects. He wasn’t...