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TEAM NIGERIA WALKS INTO GLASGOW
Tonight, under the roof of the OVO Hydro, Team Nigeria carries 271 Commonwealth Games medals into a stadium that doesn’t know yet how many more it’s about to hand over. The Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games open tonight, King Charles III and Queen Camilla…
THE QUESTION
What is a warning actually for, if the thing it’s warning you about happens anyway and nobody downstream of the warning has to answer for it? I keep coming back to this. NIHSA named the school. NIHSA named the health centre. NIHSA named the exact river station where…
THE ROUTE THAT CLOSED WHILE THEY WERE STILL WALKING IT
A Nigerian care worker who moved to Coventry in 2023 was one of 28,495 who made it that year. Her younger cousin, applying now, is one of 395 who made it in the first three months of this year. Same route. Same country. Different door entirely. Between 2021 and the…
THE ₦800 BILLION AFTERNOON
The stock market lost ₦800 billion in a single session on Wednesday. If you don’t hold shares, that number can feel like someone else’s news. It isn’t. The Nigerian Exchange All-Share Index dipped 1,241.19 points on Wednesday, a 0.50 per cent drop, closing…
THE WARNING AND THE WORD, PART TWO
Senate President Akpabio told a room of golfers on Wednesday that insecurity would soon be history. That night, bandits took seven people from a village less than a day’s drive from where he was speaking. Godswill Akpabio is at the National Assembly on Wednesday,…
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…
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