Governance
Wednesday April 08, 2026 Nigerian political power doesn’t retire. It rests, then it finds a new body. Yusuf Buhari, the only son of the late former president Muhammadu Buhari, formally declared his intention to contest the House of Representatives seat for the...
Security
Wednesday 08 April, 2026 On April 4, ISWAP attacked the Nganzai Divisional Police Headquarters in Borno State. Not a road ambush. Not a farm raid. A police station. The kind of building that represents, in the most basic physical terms, the state’s presence in a...
Diaspora
Wednesday April 08, 2026 From May 1, the money you send home changes at the receiving end. The Central Bank of Nigeria issued a circular on March 24 directing all international money transfer operators: Western Union, Ria, MoneyGram, and every other IMTO operating in...
Economy
Wednesday 08 April, 2026 Petrol cost N699 a litre on January 1. It costs N1,275 today. Dangote’s refinery adjusted its price nine times between January and the end of March. Six of those were increases. Three were reductions. Every single movement tracked one...
Governance
Wednesday 08 April, 2026 The World Bank published a development report on Nigeria yesterday. It contains a number that deserves more attention than it will get. Forty percent of Nigerian children under five are stunted. One hundred and ten per thousand die before...
Diaspora
Tuesday April 07, 2026 Nigeria’s public hospitals closed this morning. The government signed a deal. Then it didn’t. Today is the day the resident doctors walked out. Not because nothing was offered. Because something was offered, signed, and then quietly...