THE COST OF STAYING

The system rewards compliance until the moment it reveals what compliance actually cost. Today’s edition arrives on a Sunday. Which means the stories that have been building across the week land with their full weight at once. Two serialised stories. One...

The Money and the Map

Two investigations this Saturday. One question underneath both of them. Today’s Bridge publishes two investigations at once. One follows a man called Ola into a chief’s waiting room with a folder full of soil reports, a letter from a Dutch university, and...

THE DAY THE STATE WENT TO COURT FOR ITSELF

Two courtrooms opened in Abuja today. One is trying a man who called the President a criminal. The other is trying 36 officers who allegedly wanted to end his government entirely. Both proceedings are happening with as little public visibility as the state can...

THE NUMBER THEY QUOTE AND THE LIFE YOU LIVE

Nigeria’s economy is growing. The government has numbers to prove it. Workers are saying they can no longer afford the bus fare to earn those numbers. Both things are true at the same time. The ₦70,000 minimum wage is already losing. Here’s what that tells...

THE GAP

Nigeria’s economy grew faster than it has in a decade. Your prices are at a 16-month high. Both things are true at the same time. That’s today. The Senate said revoke it. The president said no. The economy is growing. Your prices aren’t. What MTN is...

THE ACCOUNT

Nigeria’s political system keeps breaking the people who try to use it. Meanwhile the people who used it to break others are only now sitting in court. Both things are happening this week. A bank chairman went to Kuje. Here’s what he did with your money....