Governance
Monday morning: court grants El-Rufai N100 million bail. Monday afternoon: DSS takes him back. He has been in detention for 91 days. The charges stem from a television interview El-Rufai gave in February. He said he learned about plans to arrest him from a tapped...
Governance
Atiku Abubakar spent $1.2 million to put Washington on notice about 2027. The firm he hired is briefing Trump officials. The audience that matters is in Nigeria. Von Batten-Montague-York filed the contract with the US Department of Justice in March. The mandate:...
Arts
Niniola announced her husband’s death on Wednesday morning. Three sentences on Instagram. The grief was real. So was the revelation. “My husband died.” “God took him.” “God took him. 13 years. 13 f—ing years.” Each...
Governance, The Lens
Nigeria has missed its OPEC oil production quota for nine straight months. The budget was written for different numbers. Nobody is rewriting the budget. Thursday is for the question the week made urgent. This week gave me one I can’t put down. Nigeria’s...
Arts
Before Afrobeats was a genre the world chased, one man was already making it impossible to sit still. King Sunny Adé was playing to packed rooms in Lagos when the word Afrobeats didn’t exist. His Jùjú music was built on talking drums and cascading guitar. A band...
Governance
The APC senatorial primaries are over. The names are familiar. The same political generation that has governed Nigeria since 1999 just selected itself to govern for another cycle. Godswill Akpabio won the Akwa Ibom North West ticket with 121,425 votes. Ahmad...