CUSTODY IS THE PUNISHMENT

Eight days in. No charge. No remand order. A bail application ICPC hasn’t answered. Eight days. No charge. No remand order shown to his lawyers. A bail application filed with the ICPC and left unanswered. El-Rufai’s legal team confirmed this...

THE FIRE AND THE RENOVATION

712 billion naira to rebuild Lagos airport. Yesterday the server room caught fire and burned upward. Six people injured. Fourteen air traffic controllers trapped in the control tower, evacuated by crane. British Airways diverted to Abuja. Lufthansa and Emirates...

FROZEN WITHOUT CHARGES 

A Federal High Court in Abuja ruled this morning that commercial banks must lift blanket post-#EndSARS restrictions placed on customer accounts without fresh court orders. Some of those accounts have been frozen for five years. The customers were never charged with...

NNPC KEPT YOUR MONEY 

For four years, the Federation Account got less than it was owed. A forensic audit is now trying to count what’s missing. Nigeria’s states have been receiving less than their constitutional share of oil revenue since 2021. Not because of leakage. Not...

APPROVED DOESN’T MEAN RELEASED

₦218 billion was budgeted for health last year. ₦36 million arrived. The Nigerian budget is not a plan. It’s a press release. Health Minister Muhammad Pate told the House of Representatives this month that his ministry received ₦36 million of its ₦218...

LICENSED TO DIE

37 miners dead in Plateau. The ministry says they didn’t know the gas was lethal. On Wednesday morning, 37 miners went to work at the Kampani Zurak mining site in Wase, Plateau State. Carbon monoxide, lead oxide, and sulphur filled the poorly ventilated...