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 GOLD FROM SHANGHAI
Four Nigerian schoolkids went to their first ever Spelling Bee World Cup. They came home with gold. Nigeria has never sent a team to the Spelling Bee World Cup before this year. Not once. The competition has been running internationally for years, and until 2026, no…
THE MOLE PROBLEM
A presidential aide admitted terrorists may have people inside Nigeria’s security agencies. The opposition wants to know who, and what happens to them. Daniel Bwala did not plan to make news. He was a guest on a podcast, The Link Up with EchoRoom, fielding a…
THE ACCOUNT NOBODY USED
The Central Bank opened two foreign currency accounts for a government agency that was never legally established. They sat there for a year before anyone in government noticed. In July 2025, the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation wrote to the Central…
THE QUEUE THAT SHOULDN’T EXIST
Marketers have stopped loading fuel at Dangote Refinery over a dollar pricing dispute. Four days later, pump prices are already moving and nobody in government has said a word. Oyewole Akanni has four truckloads of petrol sitting at the Dangote Refinery gate in Lekki….
THE WAGES THAT WERE ALREADY APPROVED
The government already agreed to pay civil servants more money months ago. Many of them are still waiting for it to show up. Labour leaders under the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council met in Osogbo recently and came out with a warning for state…
WHAT GOT BUILT IN A WEEK
While Nigerians in South Africa wait months for a compensation answer, Tinubu built an entire new regulatory structure for crypto in the space of one signature. On 17 July, Tinubu signed the Presidential Executive Order on Virtual Assets Coordination, and it took…
THE COUNCIL AND THE COMPENSATION
Nigeria evacuated thousands of its citizens from South Africa this year. It then asked Pretoria to compensate them for what they lost. Pretoria said no. The word the government used was insensitive. Femi Falana stood up on Sunday and said something that should have…
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