Diaspora
Nigerians are in a Gulf war zone. Nigeria has no consulate to call. If you have family working in Iran, Qatar, or the UAE right now, here’s what the Nigerian government officially knows about how many Nigerians are in the conflict zone: nothing. NiDCOM confirmed...
Diaspora
A war in the Persian Gulf is repricing energy contracts in South London European gas prices jumped 40% in the week following the US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Qatar, which supplies roughly 20% of global LNG, partially shut down production after Iranian strikes on...
Diaspora
Rachel Reeves just cut the benefits 1.3 million disabled UK residents were counting on Rachel Reeves delivered her Spring Statement yesterday. The headline numbers looked stable. Growth forecast at 1.1 percent. Borrowing down. The chancellor said she was on track. But...
Governance
Oyedele diagnosed what was wrong with Nigerian tax. Now he owns the cure. Taiwo Oyedele spent two years inside Tinubu’s Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms doing something rare in Nigerian public life: explaining precisely what was broken and...
Hard News
Eight days of investigation found a man who confessed on X The pattern of Nigerian political violence has a simple structure. Armed men do the work. Street actors take the fall. Principals go home. Eight days after gunmen trailed Peter Obi’s convoy from the...
Energy, Uncategorized
The Strait of Hormuz closed. Nigeria exports oil. The maths cuts both ways. The US and Israel bombed Iran on February 28. Iran responded by effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway through which 20 percent of the world’s daily oil supply...