THE KING WHO WASN’T A KING

Part Three: The Pattern Why this keeps happening and what it actually costs to be visible This is Part Three of a three-part investigation. [Read Part One: The Word] and [Part Two: The Street] first. The research on xenophobia in South Africa is not ambiguous. What is...

THE KING WHO WASN’T A KING

Part One: The Word What Igwe Ndigbo actually means and the one fact from February 2025 that almost nobody reported A note before you read. This piece was reconstructed entirely from what is publicly available online — news reports, diplomatic statements, official...

Friday 03 April, 2026

THE PRICE OF DARKNESS  Nigeria raised the gas price for power companies on April 1, into a sector the government owed ₦6.5 trillion and settled just 3.7 percent of last year. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S PROPERTIES  The EFCC filed for permanent forfeiture of 57...

Thursday 02 April, 2026

THE TIMING IS THE STORY  INEC sat on a Court of Appeal order for three weeks, then acted within 24 hours of Kwankwaso’s defection, freezing the ADC’s recognition the day the coalition became most dangerous. THREE AGENCIES, ONE MAN  El-Rufai’s bail...

The Cost of Everything

Friday April 03, 2026 The Nigerian state keeps raising prices it can’t afford to pay for itself. There’s a pattern in today’s edition that doesn’t need much unpacking. The government raised the gas price for power companies on April 1. It still...