THE APOLOGY SCRIPT

The Power Minister’s two-week promise expires today. This is what accountability looks like when there are no consequences. Two weeks ago, Minister of Power Adebayo Adelabu stood before cameras in Abuja and did something unusual for a Nigerian...

THE SIGNAL WAS ALREADY THERE

The Wigwe story broke this week like a revelation. The Pandora Papers offered the same map in 2021. Every Monday, The Money Lens looks back at the previous week. The question it asks is always the same. What was the signal before the damage arrived? This week’s...

THEY MOVED THE MONEY

The CBN just restructured how diaspora remittances reach Nigeria. Here’s what it means for the naira. And for the person waiting at home. Every month, Nigerians abroad send money home. Not because they have to. Because someone is depending on it. School fees....

THE JUDGE HE WANTS GONE

El-Rufai asked the presiding judge to step aside. The NJC petition exists. The judge proceeded anyway. The constitutional right to challenge a biased judge exists for every Nigerian in pre-charge detention. El-Rufai is the first person most Nigerians have heard of who...

FOURTEEN DAYS

The power minister put a deadline on his own promise yesterday. The grid has 16 plants offline. Babatunde Adelabu promised power recovery “within 14 days” yesterday. That clock started March 24. April 7 is the date it expires. Here’s where...

THE HANDSHAKE AND THE HANDCUFFS

Tinubu signed a £746m port deal in London. He also signed the deportation agreement. Last week Nigeria’s president stood at Windsor Castle, dined with King Charles, shook hands with Keir Starmer, and came home with what the presidency called a...