The SDP candidate's newly launched blueprint promises to revive three state refineries that have failed every restart attempt for over a decade, cap petrol at N200 a litre while Nigeria's own largest refinery has been raising prices in step with global crude, and hit an electricity figure roughly thirteen times the country's actual peak output, all inside a single presidential term. Weeks earlier, discussing the same number with a different audience, he described it as a target for 2050.
13 September 2026
A new documentary by writer and linguist Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún will revisit Onitsha Market Literature, the short-lived pamphlet trade that flourished around Nigerian independence and left behind an unlikely archive of popular writing.
12 September 2026
The Northwest ADC Governorship Candidates' Compact commits seven separate campaigns to a ₦110,000 minimum wage, 21 new specialist hospitals and a regional drone network. Several of the states involved only recently, and reluctantly, met the far smaller ₦70,000 wage they are already legally required to pay.
10 September 2026
Two named security programmes, 5,000 AI-enabled cameras for Plateau and 2,000 forest guards split between Plateau and Oyo, were announced within six weeks of each other in 2026 as direct responses to mass killings and a mass abduction. The candidate attacking Tinubu over both programmes has not yet explained how a drone would function as his own Minister of Defence.
31 August 2026
The president's fullest recorded 2023 remarks on power tied a second term to ending estimated billing, with one condition attached that keeps disappearing whenever the opposition quotes it back to him.
17 August 2026
For 73 years, the Federation of Ngwa Students has taken Ngwa culture into Nigerian institutions of higher learning. Its chapters have also become places where students find community, practise politics and, at times, reproduce the divisions of the society they came from.
10 July 2026