GOVERNANCE
A bill passes in Abuja. It works its way down through state and local offices until it reaches your paperwork. That’s governance.
THE RESCUE THAT REPEATS EVERY WEEK
Troops rescued 27 more kidnap victims in Sokoto and Zamfara this week. It’s the same operation, with a different number, that ran the week before, and the week before that. Between 20 and 21 July, troops of Operation FANSAN YAMMA rescued 27 kidnap victims in…
THE BILL THAT HANDS SECURITY TO YOUR GOVERNOR
The House passed the state police bill on Thursday. A third of the chamber walked out, saying the Speaker skipped a vote the Constitution requires. Nobody has ruled on whether they’re right. The House of Representatives passed the executive bill establishing state…
THE COMMANDERS THEY ALMOST TRADED
A court sentenced two Ansaru commanders to life on Monday. The DSS says that’s too soft and wants them hanged. A senior DSS official now says the same commanders’ freedom was the price kidnappers set, months ago, for 49 children’s lives. On 15 May, armed men attacked…
THE WARNING AND THE WORD
NIHSA can name the school, the clinic and the market that floodwater will reach next week. Nobody in government can tell you, with that same precision, when the evacuation trucks arrive. In Bauchi State right now, there’s a teacher who has already lived this once this…
WHEN THE STATE ACTUALLY SHOWS UP
Enugu just brought market traders into its health insurance scheme. For once this week, here’s a piece of government reaching someone before the emergency, not after. The Enugu State Agency for Universal Health Coverage signed an agreement this week with the National…
TWENTY SEVEN PEOPLE WHO GOT LUCKY
Troops pulled 27 people out of the hands of kidnappers in Sokoto and Zamfara this week, across three separate operations in two days. It’s a good outcome, and a real one. It also happened after the danger had already started. Troops from Operation FANSAN YAMMA rescued…
THE MINISTER WHO ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE
Reports said Nigeria’s defence minister was about to resign. He denied it in the strongest terms possible and promised to sue whoever started the rumour. What he didn’t do was answer the actual question sitting one story above this one. Christopher Musa, a retired…
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