Governance
The WHO declared the Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda a global health emergency on Sunday. Nigeria has no confirmed cases. The NCDC has activated its preparedness framework. Those two sentences have a history together. A 59-year-old man in northeastern DRC developed...
Governance
The senator Yahaya Bello is most likely to face in 2027 has spent the last year fighting two battles at once. One in public. One the Senate did not want to hear. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan won the Kogi Central Senate seat in 2023. She was the first woman elected to...
Governance
Nigeria has spent twelve years and thirty million dollars announcing that schools are safe. The forest disagrees every time. On Friday morning, gunmen arrived at Baptist Nursery and Primary School in Oriire Local Government Area, Oyo State. They came during lessons....
Governance
When the Nigerian state waited nine days to confirm the deaths of seventeen officers at a counter-terrorism training school, it was making a choice. The choice is worth naming. Seventeen police officers died at the Nigerian Army Special Forces School in Buni Yadi,...
Economy
Three global rating agencies have now upgraded Nigeria in twelve months. The same weekend, the country confirmed seventeen dead officers and eighty-seven kidnapped students. Both things are the official record. S&P Global Ratings raised Nigeria’s sovereign...
Economy, Diaspora
The CBN has rewritten the rules on how Nigerians send, receive, and move money across borders. The fourth edition of the forex operational manual takes effect June 1. Here is what it actually changes for you. The Central Bank of Nigeria published its fourth edition...