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The petrol fire on our roof (opens the original)
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On Thursday, 10 September, 2026, I bought petrol worth ₦90,259 for my car. Eight days later, on Friday, 18 September, the vehicle flashed its annoying yellow warning light. I fed it another ₦30,000 worth of petrol. By Tuesday, 22 September, four days later, the tank was empty again. I refilled it with ₦91,137. What I bought was not luxury. I bought movement, the means to go to work and return home. It is crazy. I present myself here as the primary exhibit in this trial of pain. I have the receip
Can religion free El-Rufai? (opens the original)
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Is Nasir El-Rufai’s problem because he is a Muslim? Even he would say it is not so. There was this statement from the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) issued in the middle of last week. The NSCIA said it had initially regarded the El Rufai matter as a “standard judicial process” but now suspects an “underlying religious bias.” The NSCIA statement came on the heels of a withering anti-El-Rufai interview granted a television station by the Minister of Defence, General Christoph
Clerics, politicians, and election money (opens the original)
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Chief S. L. Akintola, post-independence Premier of the Western Region, knew that when money entered politics, trust could develop wings. There is a story of how he once sent two trusted associates to some people in the Ondo area. The message they carried was accompanied by money. The emissaries went and returned with assurances that both message and money had been safely delivered. Days later, Akintola called the same men and gave them another consignment of money for the same people. Again, the
FAAC soup for sick states (opens the original)
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I cooked this piece’s title from Alice Urquhart Fewell’s ‘Soups for the Sick’ published in 1920. I went for it after I found William Bascom’s ‘Yoruba Cooking’ (1951) very inadequate for my lessons on what has been happening in the kitchen of Nigeria since the current chef took over. President Bola Tinubu met the 36 states broke, sick and malnourished. He thought of what to do. His diviners whispered the solution in his ear. They took him into the kitchen and showed him how it is done. And he did
Tinubu, Atiku, Ige and a 1998 story (opens the original)
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There is an old Nigerian joke about Noah and the Ark; author unknown. God warned Noah that a flood was coming and gave him six months to build an ark. But this Noah was a Nigerian. Before he could cut the first plank, Nigeria happened to him. “And the Lord spoke to Noah and said: ‘I will give you six months to build Me an Ark. At the end of six months, I will send rain to cover the entire earth and destroy all bad people. However, I want to save a few good people, and the animals, two of every k
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