The last time Nigeria counted its people was March 2006. That exercise recorded a population of 140 million. Today, estimates put that figure somewhere between 220 million and 270 million — nobody actually knows. That gap is a governance failure that affects your school, your hospital, your road, your electricity supply, and your state’s monthly […]
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In his Children’s Day 2026 message on Wednesday, May 27, the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, wrote on X: “Happy Children’s Day to every child across Nigeria! Today, we celebrate the voices, dreams, and limitless potential of our young people.” He went on to add that “ensuring the safety, protection, and wellbeing of every Nigerian […]
Imagine you want to play a video game. Not just any game, but the biggest, most consequential game in Nigeria. The one that decides who controls your light, your roads, your fuel price, your future. You load it up, excited. Then the screen freezes and a prompt appears: “To continue, purchase the Battle Pass. […]
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Ahead of the 2023 elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said Nigeria had 93,469,008 eligible voters, with 37,060,399 — or 39.65 per cent — young people (aged between 18 and 34). The numbers reflected the enthusiasm many young Nigerians displayed online, especially around the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, raising expectations that the […]
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“In 2024, we [Moniepoint] made a decision that we will no longer hire from any other place than Nigeria. And we chopped the cane in 2025… If you go to Moniepoint’s career website — which you can go and apply if you want to — we have probably maybe 500 vacancies or so. And we […]
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“This will just take us back to what happened in 2023 when we had divided votes by the opposition.” That was how Arise News’ political editor and veteran journalist, Sumner Sambo, reacted to the unravelling of Nigeria’s opposition coalition over the weekend. On Sunday, May 3, 2026, Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the […]
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“We don’t want Africans here [in South Africa] anymore. We’re tired of seeing African migrants moving all over the world, refusing to fix their own countries. We’re making it clear: we don’t want you here,” a South African woman says to a Ghanaian man in a video that went viral on X on Tuesday, April […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed its Nationwide Voter Revalidation Exercise until after the 2027 General Election, stepping back from a plan that had drawn widespread criticism from political parties, civil society organisations, and the public. The commission announced the decision on Friday, April 10, following a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners […]
Read More… from INEC Shifts Voter Revalidation Exercise Until After 2027 Elections
Nigeria’s electoral commission has a register problem. What it doesn’t have, apparently, is a viable plan to fix it. Last Friday, April 3, 2026, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced that everyone who registered to vote between 2011 and 2024 — that’s over 93 million registered voters — would need to revalidate their […]
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As global oil prices rise, Nigeria earns more. At the same time, Nigerians are paying much more at the pump. This is the central contradiction of the past five weeks. Since the outbreak of the United States (US)-Israel war on Iran on February 27, crude prices have crossed $100 per barrel, well above Nigeria’s […]
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Are you even a serious Nigerian politician if you have not started sharing rice? It is that time again. The season of rice. Not exactly as food, but as communication. Rice as governance. Rice as a policy response to the complex socioeconomic challenges facing Nigerians, distributed in markets, photographed, and circulated as proof of […]
There’s a running joke about Nigerians: push them to the wall and they won’t fight back; they’ll dig a hole in it and try to make it through. Some call it cowardice. Others call it resilience. Many Nigerians know it for what it is: survival in a country where the government rarely shows up. […]
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