GOVERNANCE
A bill passes in Abuja. It works its way down through state and local offices until it reaches your paperwork. That’s governance.
WHO INVESTIGATES THE AIR FORCE?
Nigeria’s safety investigation bureau says it can look into the Ondo crash only if the military asks. The president has told the Air Force to do the investigating. On Monday the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau published a statement about a crash it is not…
32 ON A ROUTINE FLIGHT
A Nigerian Air Force ATR-42 went down at Igbokoda on Monday, and all 32 on board are reported dead. The Air Force will release the names once families have been told. At 9:13 a.m. on Monday, air traffic controllers lost contact with a Nigerian Air Force plane flying…
THREE KINDS OF FARE CUT
On 19 September, the President listed places where he said fares are lower. The examples come from different arrangements, and the figures are government-reported. The President’s list of lower fares doesn’t describe one thing. It describes at least three. TNL has…
THE PRESIDENT SET THE DATE. THE STATES HOLD THE LEVER.
President Tinubu set 1 October as a target for lower transport fares and says state governments hold the levers. A driver at Abuja’s Area 1 Motor Park told Leadership that operators there had received no directive. On 19 September, President Tinubu said the fare from…
THE FIVE-DAY CLOCK
Washington can ask Nigeria for health specimens and the data attached to them. The agreement Nigeria signed sets a five-day window to start sending. The window sits in a specimen-sharing agreement signed in Abuja on 19 December 2025, which took effect on 18…
THREE COUNTRIES, THREE ANSWERS
Ghana rejected a US health compact. Kenya’s court fight runs to 30 October. Nigeria signed in December and is being asked what it signed. “It was humiliating,” President John Mahama said. He was describing a US health compact Ghana rejected, speaking at the…
NIGERIA CAN NAME THE COMMUNITIES AT RISK. NOBODY CAN SAY HOW MANY GOT OUT.
Nigeria’s hydrological agency identified the communities, schools and health facilities inside the forecast flood-exposure area before the water arrived. What the public record shows is what officials were preparing to do. It doesn’t show how many people were actually…
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