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Thursday 16 April, 2026 Nigeria buried a Brigadier General yesterday. It was a ceremony the Commander-in-Chief did not attend. Brigadier General Oseni Braimah was buried on Wednesday at the Maimalari Cantonment Cemetery in Maiduguri, with full military honours. He was...
Diaspora
Thursday 16 April, 2026 Reform UK wants to ban Nigerian visa applications. Nigeria just signed a deportation deal with the UK. Both things happened in the same month. Three weeks ago, Nigeria signed an agreement with the United Kingdom that allows the UK to deport...
Energy
Thursday 16 April, 2026 If deregulation was supposed to fix Nigerian energy, what exactly has it fixed? Something happened this week that is worth sitting with. Nigeria spent years building the case for removing energy subsidies. The argument was real. Subsidies were...
Culture
Thursday 16 April, 2026 Fela Kuti and Sade Adu just became the first Africans in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Nigeria made both of them possible. Nigeria also tried to destroy one of them. The announcement came on Monday. Fela goes in under Early Influence. Sade...
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Wednesday 15 April, 2026 Nigeria borrowed $460m for Abuja’s security. The cameras don’t work. The loan does. Nigeria borrowed $460 million from China in 2010 to put surveillance cameras across Abuja. This week, the company that installed them told...