Governance
The government raised the cost of the fuel that makes your lights come on. It still owes the people who made them come on last time. Here’s the situation at your circuit breaker right now. Nigeria generates more than 75 percent of its electricity from...
Uncategorized
The man who ran Nigeria’s legal machinery for eight years is now inside it. Abubakar Malami was Nigeria’s Attorney-General from 2015 to 2023. That is not a biographical footnote. It is the context without which the current EFCC proceeding doesn’t...
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25,000 Nigerian graduates did everything the system asked. The system has no mechanism to finish what it started. They studied. They got accredited degrees from recognised universities in the Republic of Niger. They obtained clearance from Nigeria’s Federal...
Diaspora
Nigerian-owned property was burned in South Africa. The Nigerian government told Nigerians to hide. On March 24, an Igbo community in KuGompo City in the Eastern Cape installed Solomon Ogbonna Eziko as their community leader, under the title “Igwe Ndigbo Na...
The Lens
Three things from this week worth carrying into the Easter break The first signal is energy. Nigeria raised the gas price for power companies on April 1. That price goes into a system the government owes ₦6.5 trillion and has paid barely 3.7 cents of every naira...