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Tuesday 14 April, 2026 The Air Force bombed a market. Two colonels are dead. Your petrol costs 12% more than it should. On Saturday, Nigeria’s Air Force killed over a hundred people at a weekly market along the Borno-Yobe border. The military called it a...
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Monday 13 April, 2026 The peace talks failed. The blockade started. Nigeria is earning the difference. The Islamabad talks were supposed to be the exit. They lasted 21 hours and ended Saturday without a deal. By Sunday morning, Trump had announced a US Navy blockade...
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Sunday 12 April, 2026 Four stories this Sunday. All of them about the private thing. Today’s edition is The Room. It is about what people hold that nobody else can see. A daughter came home from university with a nose stud and called it hers. A wife took the bus...
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Saturday, 11 April 2026 Seven Nigerians. One room. What you see depends on what you brought in. There is a room everyone enters. You know the feeling before you know what it is. The month doesn’t add up. The effort is real. The number is smaller than it should...
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Friday April 10, 2026 The US pulled its staff from Abuja. Here’s the map they were reading. Nigeria’s government said this week that the country is safe. The US State Department said it was pulling non-emergency embassy staff from Abuja because of a...
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Thursday 09 April, 2026 Three decisions made elsewhere reshaped Nigeria’s week overnight. Yesterday, two things happened in the same twelve hours, and neither happened in Abuja. A ceasefire between the US and Iran sent oil prices crashing 15%. At almost exactly...