ELEVEN DAYS 

Friday April 10, 2026 Nigeria’s public hospitals are one broken promise from shutting down again. This is the pattern. Nigeria’s resident doctors go on strike. The government makes an assurance. The doctors suspend. The assurance sits in a document...

THE HOSPITAL GATE

Tuesday April 07, 2026 The government signed a deal. Then it scrapped it. Today, the gates close. The last time Nigeria’s resident doctors walked out, it took 29 days and a signed agreement to bring them back. That agreement said the government would implement...

NIGERIA’S 2027 ELECTION IS ALREADY IN WASHINGTON

Tuesday April 07, 2026 Atiku has hired a US lobbying firm for $1.2 million to fight a Nigerian election in American policy circles When Nigerians vote in 2027, the contest will have been running in Washington DC for at least a year before the first ballot is cast....

FIVE WEEKS TWO COURTS ONE MAN

Monday 06 April, 2026 El-Rufai walked into a Kaduna courthouse on April 1 and didn’t walk out. On Wednesday morning, Nasir El-Rufai arrived at the Federal High Court in Kaduna at 9:05am. His bail application was being heard. His legal team argued. The court...

APPROVED DOESN’T MEAN PAID

Monday 06 April, 2026 The ₦70,000 minimum wage has been law for 22 months. Some governors just decided it isn’t. The Nigeria Labour Congress issued a directive on Friday that should be the most routine kind of institutional communication. Workers in states...

THE KING WHO WASN’T A KING

Part Two: The Street What KuGompo looked like on 30 March 2026 and the thirty years of pressure behind it This is Part Two of a three-part investigation. [Read Part One: The Word first.] Before the march, there was already a field of pressure that had nothing to do...