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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…
THE NUMBER
$52.02 billion. That’s where Nigeria’s foreign reserves stood as of Monday, the highest level in years. It’s a strong number, and a real one. It’s just not the number that decides what your transfer is worth this week. Nigeria’s external reserves climbed to $52.02…
THE GAS PRICE THAT NEVER REALLY CAME DOWN
The government promised a crackdown on cooking gas hoarding back in June. Prices did ease a little after that. They’re still nowhere near where they were before, and households across the country are still cooking less, buying smaller quantities, and going back to…
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…
THE MEN WHO CAME HOME
Nigeria arrested seven suspected terrorist commanders the moment they landed from Hajj. Every institution that could explain how they left the country in the first place is either passing the question along or refusing to answer it. The arrivals hall at Umaru Musa…
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…
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