Energy
Petrol hit N1,300 per litre in Abuja. A war you didn’t start is paying for it. Last week, petrol in Abuja was N880 per litre. This week it’s N1,300. Dangote Refinery raised its gantry price to N1,175 per litre and cited crude crossing $110 per barrel....
Governance
Windsor Castle. £746 million. And a gap in the schedule nobody mentions. This one is more complicated than it looks. The state visit is real and it matters. Tinubu arrives in London today for a two-day visit — the first by a Nigerian president since Ibrahim Babangida...
Diaspora
Class 2 National Insurance ends April 6. You have three weeks. If you’ve been living and working in the UK and paying voluntary National Insurance contributions from abroad to build your UK state pension — this is a deadline you can’t miss. From April 6,...
Security
ISWAP attacked a state capital before sunrise. This is what a security vacuum looks like. Maiduguri isn’t a frontline village. It’s a city of over a million people, the capital of Borno State, the administrative and commercial heart of the northeast. When...
Security
They went to pick cashew after the rain. Gunmen came with cattle and opened fire. It rained overnight in Ojantele, Apa LGA, Benue State, on the night of Friday March 13. Rain knocks cashew nuts from the trees. So in the morning, women and young people from Ojantele...
Diaspora
Nigerians are trapped across the Gulf. Other countries evacuated their citizens. Nigeria said wait for the airspace. Nine days. That’s how long one Nigerian family was stuck in Qatar, watching the situation unfold on their phones while other governments...