THE REFINERY WAS SUPPOSED TO CHANGE THIS

Wednesday April 08, 2026 Nigeria paid N699 per litre for petrol on January 1. It’s paying N1,275 today. The distance between those two numbers is not a policy failure. It’s a war in a region Nigeria has no part in, filtered through a market mechanism that...

THE SON COMES HOME

Wednesday April 08, 2026 Nigerian political power doesn’t retire. It rests, then it finds a new body. Yusuf Buhari, the only son of the late former president Muhammadu Buhari, formally declared his intention to contest the House of Representatives seat for the...

FOUR OFFICERS, ONE STATION, ONE NIGHT

Wednesday 08 April, 2026 On April 4, ISWAP attacked the Nganzai Divisional Police Headquarters in Borno State. Not a road ambush. Not a farm raid. A police station. The kind of building that represents, in the most basic physical terms, the state’s presence in a...

YOU WILL STILL SEND DOLLARS. YOUR FAMILY WILL NOW GET NAIRA.

Wednesday April 08, 2026 From May 1, the money you send home changes at the receiving end. The Central Bank of Nigeria issued a circular on March 24 directing all international money transfer operators: Western Union, Ria, MoneyGram, and every other IMTO operating in...

N699 to N1,275. NINE WEEKS.

Wednesday 08 April, 2026 Petrol cost N699 a litre on January 1. It costs N1,275 today. Dangote’s refinery adjusted its price nine times between January and the end of March. Six of those were increases. Three were reductions. Every single movement tracked one...