Governance
Three things from this week worth keeping. The new Finance Minister is in. Taiwo Oyedele formally took over on Thursday. The reform project he helped design is now fully his to deliver. The election is nine months away. The gap between what the economy looks like...
Football
Manchester City are top of the Premier League. They won midweek. They sit first with games remaining. The title is in their hands for the first time this season. For Nigerian supporters of the club, this week had a specific texture. City were supposed to be in...
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THE WALL THAT MOVED Boko Haram killed twenty people in Pubagu and Mayo-Ladde on Tuesday, six days after killing four soldiers in the same local government area, with the army arriving in both cases after the attack was over. THE GENERALS IN THE DOCK Six people,...
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This is what the Nigerian state looks like up close. Fast, precise, and forceful when protecting itself. Slower, thinner, and often absent when protecting the people inside it. Twenty people killed in Borno. Why the army arriving after tells you everything. Six people...
Governance
Boko Haram killed twenty people in Borno and Adamawa on Tuesday. The army arrived after. Pubagu is a small community in Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State. It sits across a river from Mayo-Ladde in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State. They are...