THE ANNUAL WARNING

Monday 20 April, 2026 Nigeria tells 14,000 communities they will flood. Then waits. Every year, Nigeria announces which communities will flood. Every year, many of them do. The announcement and the flooding coexist without the first preventing the second. Last...

THREE DAYS

Friday 17 April, 2026 Nigerian airlines have a Monday deadline. The government has been notified. It has not responded. On Monday, April 20, three days from today, Nigerian domestic airlines may suspend all operations. The Airline Operators of Nigeria issued that...

THE SHUTDOWN NOTICE

Thursday 16 April, 2026 Nigeria’s fuel marketers have priced domestic airlines out of the sky. Monday is the deadline. What is happening to Nigerian aviation fuel prices in 2026? On February 28, a litre of Jet A1 cost Nigerian airlines ₦900. On April 15, it cost...

APPROVED DOESN’T MEAN FIXED

Thursday 16 April, 2026 The government announced ₦3.3trn to fix Nigerian electricity. Generation has fallen since. Nigeria’s power sector has a ritual. An announcement arrives. A figure is named. Officials say the cycle that has been running for a decade is...

THE EMPTY EYE

Wednesday 15 April, 2026 Nigeria paid $460 million for cameras to watch Abuja. This week, the company that installed them admitted it doesn’t know if they still work. In 2010, the Federal Government borrowed $460 million from China’s Exim Bank and handed...

STUDYING THE PROBLEM

Monday 13 April, 2026 Tinubu asked ministers to “look into” fuel price mitigation on Friday. The TUC named a specific plan weeks ago. These are not the same thing. There’s a specific moment that tells you how Nigerian governance responds to crises....