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Business
By the end of 2025, more than two years into President Bola Tinubu’s administration, Nigeria’s reported public-debt stock had grown by an amount nearly matching what accumulated under his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, over eight years in office — a compression that has reignited debate over the pace, composition, and true drivers of the country’s borrowing. According to Debt Management Office (DMO) figures, Nigeria’s total public debt stock rose from N87.38 trillion at the end of…
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Data Intelligence
The collapse of maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has moved beyond a conventional shipping disruption, becoming a major test of global energy security. According to vessel-tracking data from Kpler, just seven commodity ships transited the vital waterway on Thursday, down from 14 the previous day and sharply below the 31 commodity-ship crossings recorded over the comparable weekend before the latest escalation. Crucially, the latest tracking data recorded no large crude carriers or LNG…
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Data Intelligence
Ask almost any Nigerian which language their country speaks most, and the answer comes fast: Hausa. It is repeated in newspaper explainers, cited in government country-guidance documents used by foreign asylum officials, and stated as settled fact across the internet. The trouble is that almost none of the sources making this claim are actually measuring the same thing — and Nigeria’s own government has not run a census that records language or ethnicity since 2006.…
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Data Intelligence
Only 7.92 million babies were born in China in 2025 — the lowest number since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949, and a 17 percent collapse from the 9.54 million recorded just the year before. According to figures released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics, the national birth rate fell to 5.63 births per 1,000 people, the lowest ever logged. Deaths, meanwhile, climbed to 11.31 million, meaning China’s population contracted for a fourth…
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Africa
REDEMPTION CITY, Nigeria — Along the sprawling expanse of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the world’s largest single-venue Christian gathering entered its final stretch today, ahead of Sunday’s closing ordination and thanksgiving service, as millions of worshippers gathered for the 74th Annual Convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). Running from August 3 to August 9 under the official theme “Mountain Movers,” focused on spiritual warfare, faith, breaking generational barriers, and divine intervention over long-standing…
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Data Intelligence
F ive theatres, one unmistakable direction. Across the Middle East, the Indo-Pacific, the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, and NATO’s eastern flank, military infrastructure is being built, expanded, contracted, or reformatted at a pace that outstrips most public tracking. Iraqi officials this year confirmed what American reporting had already surfaced: Israel has quietly operated two undisclosed military outposts in Iraq’s Al Anbar desert since late 2024, used to support strike operations against Iran during the…
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Data Intelligence
Quantitative security intelligence tracking unconstitutional changes of government across Africa reveals that while military takeovers have followed clear spatial patterns, the continent’s fragile political architecture is splitting into distinct operational models. Historical datasets confirm that Africa has endured approximately 220 recorded coup attempts since 1950, with 109 resulting in successful regime changes as of the most recent comprehensive historical tallies. West Africa remains the global epicenter of praetorianism, accounting for roughly 47 percent of all…
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Data Intelligence
Thousands of doctors from around the world, including large numbers from Africa, are preparing for the next sitting of the United Kingdom’s Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board examination, the gateway for international medical graduates seeking to practise medicine in the UK. The General Medical Council runs PLAB 1 four times a year, with sittings in February, May, August, and November, held at test centres across the UK as well as in Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Egypt,…
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