Economy
Nigeria now owes the World Bank’s concessional arm $18.7 billion. A new $500 million loan is being processed. Nigeria is the World Bank’s third-largest IDA borrower as of December 2025. The figure is $18.7 billion, up from $16.8 billion a year...
Diaspora
Canada announced new pathways this week. It’s also deporting 974 Nigerians. Canada’s immigration system can hold two things at once, and it wants you to see only one of them. This week, IRCC announced new Express Entry categories for...
Governance
₦218 billion was budgeted for health last year. ₦36 million arrived. The Nigerian budget is not a plan. It’s a press release. Health Minister Muhammad Pate told the House of Representatives this month that his ministry received ₦36 million of its ₦218...
Energy
Nigeria is still chasing a power fix it was supposed to finish in 2021. In 2019, Nigeria signed an agreement with Siemens to fix the power grid. The target was 7,000 megawatts of reliable supply by 2021, and 11,000 megawatts by 2023. It is February 2026. Tinubu called...
Governance
37 miners dead in Plateau. The ministry says they didn’t know the gas was lethal. On Wednesday morning, 37 miners went to work at the Kampani Zurak mining site in Wase, Plateau State. Carbon monoxide, lead oxide, and sulphur filled the poorly ventilated...
Diaspora
UK switches to eVisa for Nigerian applicants in five days. Here’s what changes. From February 25, the UK stops issuing physical visa stickers to Nigerian applicants. Everything moves to a digital eVisa accessed through a UKVI online account. The application...