Governance
Three signals from this week worth carrying into the weekend. The courts gave the opposition its leaders back. PDP and ADC both have recognised leadership structures again after yesterday’s Supreme Court rulings. What they don’t have is a strategy, a...
Governance
The Supreme Court delivers its ruling on the ADC and PDP leadership disputes today. Whether that ruling saves either party in time for 2027 is a different question entirely. Nigeria’s opposition has been in a slow-motion collapse for months. The African...
Governance
The Supreme Court rules today. But INEC’s deadline for party membership registers is May 10. Winning in court and making it to 2027 are not the same thing. INEC set May 10 as the deadline for political parties to submit their membership...
Governance
This week, the Nigerian state responded. To the courts. To South Africa. To the deadline. The question is what it took to make it respond. The ADC had to petition the Chief Justice of Nigeria before the Supreme Court found time. Two Nigerians had to be killed in South...
Governance
Eight states are too dangerous for campaigning, according to some senators. They were not too dangerous to elect the people who left them that way. The Nigerian Senate is considering suspending political campaigns in eight northern states ahead of the 2027 elections....
Governance
The First Lady flew to Borno on Monday. She brought a food bank. The hunger was already there. On Monday, Oluremi Tinubu unveiled the North-East rollout of the National Community Food Bank Programme in Maiduguri. She stood in front of the cameras at a primary...