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Wednesday 22 April, 2026 37. That is the number of days Taiwo Oyedele served as Minister of State for Finance before being elevated to run the full ministry. He was sworn in on 16 March. He was appointed Finance Minister on 21 April. Thirty-seven days is not...
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Monday April 20, 2026 We saw it. Did you? On Friday afternoon, Nigerian fuel marketers were already calculating how fast the price would fall. Iran and the United States had agreed a ceasefire. The Strait of Hormuz was reopening. Brent crude dropped around 9 per...
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Friday, 17 April 2026 One. Monday April 20 is three days away. That is the date Nigerian domestic airlines have said they will suspend all operations if the price of Jet A1 fuel is not addressed. The letter went to the President, the Aviation Minister, and the Civil...
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Wednesday 15 April, 2026 The peak price Dangote’s petrol reached this month. A ceasefire announcement about Iran brought it back down by ₦75. That swing is what deregulation actually means. For a few days this month, Dangote Petroleum Refinery’s ex-gantry...
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Tuesday 14 April, 2026 Bola Tinubu, 71, at Yakubu Gowon Airport, Jos. “You have no light here. I fly out in ten minutes.” On April 2, President Tinubu flew to Plateau State to console families of the people killed in the Palm Sunday massacre at Angwan...
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Monday 13 April, 2026 The signal that was visible before the Iran war arrived: why Dangote was never going to protect you from this. The Dangote Refinery was supposed to change the story. When Tinubu removed the fuel subsidy on May 29, 2023, the argument went like...