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Tuesday February 24, 2006 Today the Nigerian state got caught making deals it refuses to explain. A helicopter delivered $7 million to Boko Haram. A former governor has been held for eight days without charge. An election ran under a law signed four days before the...
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Saturday’s election results are in. The new rules worked exactly as written. The first election under the new Electoral Act happened on Saturday. APC won five of six FCT area councils. Turnout was 15%. INEC uploaded 93% of results to IReV by Sunday afternoon. By...
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Nigeria promised. Nigeria budgeted. Nigeria did not pay. Today’s edition is about the distance between what this country announces and what it actually does. The health ministry received ₦36 million of a ₦218 billion budget. The power grid Tinubu is still asking...
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Ramadan began this morning. It already rewrote an election law. Today is the first day of Ramadan. And it’s already inside everything. The Electoral Act that passed today was shaped by Ramadan. The 2027 election date that moved was moved because of Ramadan. The...
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1 THE POISON LETTER El-Rufai walked into the EFCC this morning. Yesterday he accused the government of importing poison to kill him. The letter names the substance — thallium sulphate, colourless, odourless, tasteless — and claims the opposition intercepted the...
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ARRESTED WITHOUT PAPERWORK El-Rufai landed from Cairo yesterday. DSS operatives walked straight up to him in the arrivals hall. They had no warrant. No invitation letter. They seized his aide’s passport anyway. Read More → THE WIPEOUT Yesterday,...