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Friday 10 April, 2026 THREE THINGS TO CARRY INTO THE WEEKEND One. The US has 23 Nigerian states on its “Do Not Travel” list. Nigeria’s government says the advisory is unbalanced. The attacks that triggered it happened this week. Both things are...
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Tuesday April 07, 2026 The man who ended the last strike. The man who had to start this one. Less than a year ago, Dr. Shuaibu Ibrahim was on the other side of this. He was the NARD Secretary-General who signed the communiqué suspending the 2025 nationwide...
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Monday 06 April, 2026 What last week’s signal looked like before the massacre arrived Last week, the headline numbers from Nigeria looked like recovery. Reserves at $50.45 billion, the highest in 13 years. Inflation falling for eleven consecutive months,...
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Three things from this week worth carrying into the Easter break The first signal is energy. Nigeria raised the gas price for power companies on April 1. That price goes into a system the government owes ₦6.5 trillion and has paid barely 3.7 cents of every naira...
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Three things from this week worth more thought than they got. This week produced more signal than noise. Here are three things to carry into the weekend. One. The remittance rule and who it actually protects. The CBN’s new directive requiring all IMTOs to route...
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₦900 TO ₦2,500. What the figure does not say. Jet A1 aviation fuel more than doubled in 30 days. The number isn’t the Iran war. It’s the architecture. Before February 28, Jet A1 aviation fuel sold for ₦900 to ₦995 per litre at Nigerian airports. This week...