THE SILENCE TAX

Sports, Football

1. THE NIGERIAN Michael Kayode has started every Premier League match for Brentford this season. Thirty-four starts. Nearly three thousand minutes. The most consistent performer in a backline that has outperformed almost every projection this year. He is 21 years old,...

THE WORKAROUND NATION

INSIDE NIGERIA, Two Worlds

Eventually the workaround stopped being temporary. He’s been cutting hair on the same street in Yaba for eleven years. For most of those years, his day started the same way. Fire up the generator. Wait for the fuel smell to clear. Check how much diesel was left...

The Money and the Map

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Two investigations this Saturday. One question underneath both of them. Today’s Bridge publishes two investigations at once. One follows a man called Ola into a chief’s waiting room with a folder full of soil reports, a letter from a Dutch university, and...

Friday, 08 May 2026

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CALLING THE PRESIDENT A CRIMINAL  A Federal High Court ruled Friday on Sowore’s no-case submission in his DSS cyberstalking trial for calling Tinubu a criminal, testing whether the Cybercrimes Act covers political speech. CLOSED DOORS, 36 OFFICERS  The court...

THE NUMBER THAT LIES

The Bridge

Part Four. What Would Actually Have to Change Three parts ago, we started with a simple question. Nigeria is earning more from oil. So why is Grace buying rice in cups? By now you know the answer is not simple. You know the number she hears on the news is not the...