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Worries As Oil Price Crash, Low Production Threaten Nigeria’s 2025 Budget

Nigeria Week Ahead: Equities sink, Oil surpasses $100, CPI in focus

By Matthew Anthony Oil prices spiked to just above $120 over the weekend as escalations of the Israel -US-Iran war intensified, with key energy installations targeted. As a result, major oil suppliers are due to meet shortly to open the tap of

March 10, 2026

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Nigeria Week Ahead: Equities Sink, Oil Surpasses $100, CPI in Focus

By Matthew Anthony, Senior Market Analyst – Africa Oil prices spiked to just above $120 over the weekend as the escalation of the Israel–US–Iran conflict intensified, with key energy installations reportedly targeted. As a result, major oil suppliers are expected to meet

March 9, 2026

Opinion·Politics

The Bwala Interview and the Limits of Political Damage Control

In a recent interview on Al Jazeera’s Head to Head programme, Daniel Bwala, media adviser to Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, found himself defending his boss against criticisms he once publicly made. At several points, he denied proven evidence that was glaring

March 9, 2026

Survey: 65.8% Respondents Want Interest Rate Cut As CBN Holds MPC Meeting

Opinion

CBN and Interest Rate Dynamics

By Arize Nwobu Interest rate is the cost of money and one of the major macroeconomic variables which determine the dynamics, direction and health of an economy. Other major macroeconomic variables are, exchange rate, inflation rate, unemployment rate, imports and exports and

March 9, 2026

Opinion·Sports

21km Dusted: Today I Chased Miles, Not Speed

By Osita Chidoka Today in for the first time since 2022, I ran 21 km in 2 hours 53 minutes, at a pace of 8:10 per km, keeping my average heart rate at 137 bpm. It meant slowing down deliberately (running and

March 8, 2026

Opinion·Sports

At 54, Approaching 55, I Have Begun to Rethink What Fitness Means

By Osita Chidoka For years, I wore speed like a badge of honour. Six-minute kilometres. Heart racing drenched in sweat. The satisfaction of outrunning my younger self. Ten years of data — sleep, heart rate, labs — all said I was “fit.”

March 8, 2026

Insights·Opinion

In Nigeria, A Judge is Not Above or Beyond Investigation

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged….” Bible, Matthew 7:1-2 (NKJV) In the first six months of 1986, Nigeria’s Supreme Court delivered two judgments with far reaching consequences

March 8, 2026

Opinion

From Ransom to Rampage: Ngoshe, Borno Attack highlights scale of Nigeria’s Security Failure

In the early hours of Wednesday, the Ngoshe community in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State was plunged into chaos as suspected Boko Haram and ISWAP insurgents launched a coordinated assault, leaving the town reeling. Eyewitnesses and local officials report that

March 7, 2026

Opinion

What FCT, Rivers, Kano Reveal About 2027 Elections

By Sheriff P. Bulus Local elections often act as a political weather forecast of future occurrences. They don’t necessarily announce the future; they give a hint. Under INEC’s revised timetable, the 2027 general elections are still about a year away.

March 6, 2026

Aba Power Unveils Own Mass Metering Programme Without Prepayment

Opinion·Power

Tinubu’s Voodoo Electricity Bills

By Emmanuel Nnadozie Onwubiko One of the subsectors of the national economy that the president Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government has failed to revive from its hitherto moribund status is the electricity power. Nigeria has had energy poverty as one of the severest

March 2, 2026

Odinaku Criticises Prof Bako's Inaugural Lecture On Igbos In History Of Intergroup Relations In Kano

Insights·Opinion

Remembering Ambakina Moses Jitoboh

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Ambakina Moses Jitoboh died suddenly on 28 December 2025. He was born on 1 June 1970 to a father from Trofani, in Sagbama Local Government Area of Nigeria’s Bayelsa State. Jitoboh’s death occurred in the week before he

March 1, 2026

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Opinion

Nigeria Week Ahead: Equities sink, Oil surpasses $100, CPI in focus

Nigeria Week Ahead: Equities Sink, Oil Surpasses $100, CPI in Focus

The Bwala Interview and the Limits of Political Damage Control

CBN and Interest Rate Dynamics

21km Dusted: Today I Chased Miles, Not Speed

At 54, Approaching 55, I Have Begun to Rethink What Fitness Means

In Nigeria, A Judge is Not Above or Beyond Investigation

From Ransom to Rampage: Ngoshe, Borno Attack highlights scale of Nigeria’s Security Failure

What FCT, Rivers, Kano Reveal About 2027 Elections

Tinubu’s Voodoo Electricity Bills

Remembering Ambakina Moses Jitoboh

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