THREE AGENCIES, THREE DAYS

El-Rufai’s custody shuffle tells you exactly how political prosecution works Here’s the sequence. El-Rufai returned from Cairo on February 12 and security operatives tried to arrest him at the airport. He talked his way out. Four days later, he...

THE MISSING TRILLIONS

CBN can’t account for N3 trillion — N629 billion went to people nobody can name. SERAP has taken the Central Bank of Nigeria to the Federal High Court in Abuja, demanding answers for N3 trillion in public funds the Auditor-General says cannot be...

ARRESTED WITHOUT PAPERWORK

DSS stopped El-Rufai at Abuja airport. No warrant. No letter. Nothing. El-Rufai landed from Cairo yesterday. DSS operatives walked straight up to him in the arrivals hall. They had no warrant. No invitation letter. They seized his aide’s passport anyway. He...

WHEN REGULATORS FLY COVER

Three aircraft incidents in 90 days. Experts say political interference is why. December 14: a Hawker 800XP crash-landed at Kano airport. December 16: a Cessna 172 crashed approaching Owerri. February 11: an Arik Air Boeing 737 carrying passengers from Lagos to Port...

APPROVED DOESN’T MEAN PAID

Contractors blocked the Finance Ministry again. The unpaid debt is why your road stayed unfinished. Contractors gathered outside the Federal Ministry of Finance in Abuja this week and blocked the entrance. Work done. Contracts signed. Nothing paid. The government owes...

Senate rewrites electoral transparency by erasing it

The law now says electronic transmission is mandatory. The same law also says manual results override it when networks fail. Both can’t be true. One of them is a lie waiting to happen in 2027. Tuesday’s Senate session was billed as a reversal. After public...