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...
Governance
Thursday 02 April, 2026 INEC had three weeks. It moved the day after Kwankwaso joined the opposition. The Court of Appeal delivered its ruling on 12 March. INEC read it. Filed it. Then continued doing exactly what it had been doing before the ruling arrived. On 24...
Governance
Thursday 02 April, 2026 El-Rufai walked out of court. DSS was already parked at the door. The vehicles were there before the hearing started. DSS operatives had positioned around the Federal High Court in Kaduna before former Governor Nasir El-Rufai arrived at...
Governance
Thursday 02 April, 2026 What is the Nigerian state actually fast at? INEC had the Court of Appeal order in hand on 12 March. It did nothing for twenty days, engaged the ADC at a political parties meeting, monitored its NEC session. Then Kwankwaso defected on 30 March....
Governance
The CBN just won a global prize for reform. The reform is real. So is the gap between the metric and the market. The Central Bank of Nigeria was named Central Bank of the Year 2026 by the Central Banking Awards Committee in London last week, at the 13th annual...
Governance
A UK transparency law just revealed what Nigeria’s secrecy structures were built to hide Nigeria’s elite wealth has always had an exit. For decades, the exit was legal, invisible, and thoroughly unremarkable to everyone inside the system. What changed this...