Governance
Nigeria sent a male senator to a women’s rights summit, replacing its most prominent female legislator The Nigerian Senate’s delegation to CSW70, the UN’s global summit on access to justice for women and girls, currently running in New York...
Governance
El-Rufai has been held for 20 days without charges. He should know exactly how this works. The ICPC is holding former Kaduna governor Nasir El-Rufai without charges. The 14-day remand order that authorised his detention expired on March 5. No charges have been...
Governance
Today the Appeal Court decides whether Nigeria has a functioning opposition going into 2027. Nigeria’s main opposition party has two chairmen, two secretariats, a police-sealed national headquarters, and a crisis so deep that INEC has refused to recognise...
Governance
Onitsha traders woke up to rubble. A court had said wait. At midnight on Saturday, soldiers sealed off Onitsha Main Market. By Sunday morning, shops along Johnson Street were rubble. Over 10,000 shops had been marked for demolition. Traders who rushed to salvage...
Governance
Oyedele diagnosed what was wrong with Nigerian tax. Now he owns the cure. Taiwo Oyedele spent two years inside Tinubu’s Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms doing something rare in Nigerian public life: explaining precisely what was broken and...
Governance
Governors just confirmed NNPC wasn’t sending everything to states Something interesting happened on Monday. Every governor in Nigeria publicly backed Tinubu’s Executive Order 9, which requires oil and gas revenues to be paid directly into the Federation...