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The Nigerian state keeps moving. Food banks, consultations, form sales, vote suspensions. The people being moved for are still waiting. The Senate wants to cancel elections in eight northern states. It’s calling this a security measure. The First Lady opened a...
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Nigeria’s politicians met in Ibadan to plan for 2027. The UN released a report about 2026. Those two documents don’t agree on what country they’re describing. Six stories today. Fourteen parties. One declaration. One question nobody answered. 35...
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Four stories about the cost of systems that work exactly as designed. The four stories in today’s Room are about different rooms, different people, different formations. But underneath all of them is the same thing. Something was built carefully. It worked. And...
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Nigeria’s name landed somewhere important this week. The country that produced Fela Kuti and Sade Adu is now the country that produced the first African artists in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The country that produced Taiwo Oyedele now has him running the...
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This is what the Nigerian state looks like up close. Fast, precise, and forceful when protecting itself. Slower, thinner, and often absent when protecting the people inside it. Twenty people killed in Borno. Why the army arriving after tells you everything. Six people...
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Nigeria changed its Finance Minister yesterday. The story started in February. Wednesday 22 April, 2026 The reshuffle memo said “cohesion and synergy.” That’s what Nigerian government memos always say. The actual story started on 25 February. A...