THE TRIAL OF NIGERIA’S OIL MONEY

What Diezani bought at Harrods is where Nigeria’s infrastructure budget went At Southwark Crown Court in London this week, prosecutors submitted more evidence in the bribery trial of Nigeria’s former petroleum minister. The details are worth sitting with...

WHEN PROTECTION COSTS $28,000

The HIV drug arriving this month is free everywhere except America This is not a typo. Lenacapavir is arriving in Nigeria in March. It’s a twice-yearly HIV prevention injection. Clinical trials showed it provides near-total protection against HIV infection. The...

1.1 MILLION PLATES

Kano fed more people in 10 days than most states do in a year In the first 10 days of Ramadan, Kano State’s feeding programme served over 1.1 million residents across eight metropolitan local government areas. 115 centres. 1,000 food packages each, daily. The...

THE PAPER ESCAPE

Nigeria’s new electoral law just preserved the oldest trick in the rigging handbook Nigeria now legally mandates electronic transmission of election results. That’s the headline. Here’s what the law actually says. Section 60(3) of the Electoral Act...

THE OPTIONAL ELECTION

Tinubu signed the Electoral Act days before the FCT polls. Here’s what Saturday looked like. Result sheets tampered with. A polling unit with 5,000 registered voters where only 14 were declared eligible. A curfew that blocked civil servants from reaching their...

THE SOUND NIGERIA BUILT WITHOUT ASKING PERMISSION

1.4 billion listening hours in one year. Average age: 26. Spotify’s five-year Nigeria data dropped yesterday. Streaming up 163.5% on average every year since 2021. Afrobeats up 5,022%. Gospel and Praise up 5,499%. Amapiano up 10,330%. Indigenous language...