THE POSTPONED COLLAPSE

Monday 20 April, 2026 Nigeria’s airlines didn’t shut down today. They came close enough. Today was supposed to be the day Nigerian skies went quiet. Jet A1 fuel went from N900 per litre at the end of February to N3,300 per litre by mid-April. That is a 267...

THE IMF’S ELECTION-YEAR NUMBER

Monday 20 April, 2026 Nigeria’s debt is improving. Then it gets worse. Right when it matters most. The IMF doesn’t usually time its numbers for maximum inconvenience. It doesn’t have to. The numbers do it themselves. Last Wednesday at the IMF-World...

THE ANNUAL WARNING

Monday 20 April, 2026 Nigeria tells 14,000 communities they will flood. Then waits. Every year, Nigeria announces which communities will flood. Every year, many of them do. The announcement and the flooding coexist without the first preventing the second. Last...

BLOCKED

Monday 20 April, 2026 World Athletics stopped Favour Ofili from leaving Nigeria. Nigeria didn’t give her a reason to stay. Favour Ofili tried to leave. She had reason to. In 2020, she qualified for the Tokyo Olympics. The Athletics Federation of Nigeria failed...

WHAT CALM LOOKS LIKE

Friday April 17, 2026 In Plateau State, the curfew hours have changed. The situation has not. Three weeks after gunmen killed more than twenty people in Angwan Rukuba, Jos North, the Plateau State Government announced on Wednesday that the curfew has been relaxed....