Economy, Governance
Tuesday 21 April, 2026 Nigeria’s domestic debt just crossed ₦80 trillion. Buried in that number is ₦100 billion the government borrowed from you. From bank accounts and dividends you haven’t claimed yet. The Debt Management Office confirmed it in...
Culture
Tuesday 21 April, 2026 What a veteran actor’s fall and return reveals about how Nigeria treats the people who built its culture His name was already in the credits before most people knew what Nollywood was. Sunday Afolabi played Owo Blow across dozens...
Culture
Tuesday 21 April, 2026 On Sunday, FOLA headlined indigo at The O2 in London. It was his first UK headline show. Bella Shmurda and Shoday came out as guests. For those not tracking the Afrobeats new wave. FOLA’s album catharsis spent 19...
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Monday 20 April, 2026 Nigeria issued warnings this week. The fuel price. The floods. The athlete it failed. Today was supposed to be the day Nigeria’s skies went quiet. Airlines had set April 20 as the deadline. They were flying at a loss. One carrier had...
Archive
THE PERFORMANCE A woman in Peckham watched her son greet his grandmother correctly in every way except the language, and realised the culture she’d been passing down was the performance of it, not the thing itself. SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN A woman on holiday in...