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You Moved Abroad to Earn More. But Are You Building a Future?
Migration teaches you how to earn. Nobody teaches you how to turn income into freedom. I know a man who got the email in the back of a car. Not at a desk, not at home waiting by the door, but in the back seat with the driver up front and the city going past the window…
THE LIFT THAT OPENS 76 YEARS OF HISTORY
Team Nigeria’s medal chase begins today in Glasgow. The first lift belongs to a woman who’s already broken the world record once. Para powerlifting opens the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games today, the first time in the Games’ history that a Para sport has delivered…
WEEKEND BRIEF
Three things from this week worth carrying into the weekend. 1. The naira held. The question is why it feels like it hasn’t. The CBN kept its benchmark interest rate at 26.50 per cent this week. The naira strengthened slightly to close near ₦1,375 to the dollar,…
THE CENTRAL BANK IS COUNTING ON YOUR TRANSFER
The CBN wants diaspora remittances to nearly double to a billion dollars a month by December. It’s the same money it once treated as a side effect of migration, now built into the national plan. CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso announced in Lagos this week that the…
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…
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