The Dark Room

On Easter weekend, Nigeria showed exactly how far the darkness reaches. The President flew to Jos to mourn 28 people killed on Palm Sunday. He met their families in an airport departure lounge and left in ten minutes. Not because he didn’t care. Because the...

TEN MINUTES

Monday April 06, 2026 Tinubu flew to Jos to mourn 28 dead. The airport had no electricity. He stayed ten minutes. The chairs in the Yakubu Gowon Airport departure lounge are hard plastic. The overhead lights were on. Outside on the tarmac, a plane was waiting with its...

FIVE WEEKS TWO COURTS ONE MAN

Monday 06 April, 2026 El-Rufai walked into a Kaduna courthouse on April 1 and didn’t walk out. On Wednesday morning, Nasir El-Rufai arrived at the Federal High Court in Kaduna at 9:05am. His bail application was being heard. His legal team argued. The court...

APPROVED DOESN’T MEAN PAID

Monday 06 April, 2026 The ₦70,000 minimum wage has been law for 22 months. Some governors just decided it isn’t. The Nigeria Labour Congress issued a directive on Friday that should be the most routine kind of institutional communication. Workers in states...

BIG MONEY ZERO SAFE

Monday 06 April, 2026 Nigeria spent N33 trillion on security since 2012. Here’s what Nigerians got. Between 2012 and 2026, Nigeria allocated approximately N33 trillion to defence and security. That’s the number. Take a moment with it. N33 trillion....