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15/07/2026

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14/07/2026

What does it mean to come from a place that has shaped so much, yet struggles to fully value its own contributions? 'Nigeria in the World' sits with that question.

Our latest issue, Nigeria in the World, explores how Nigeria moves through the world and how the world, in turn, shapes and misreads Nigeria. Across Africa, Asi

13/07/2026

The Last Days of Abuja's City of Metal ⚡️

Since the 1980s, the mechanics and traders of Apo Mechanic Village have built Abuja's informal engine from scratch, and rebuilding every time the city told them to move.

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They have been displaced four times and each time, they rebuilt. Now another relocation looms. Over 11,000 shop owners have paid for a spot in the proposed new site. More than a year later, no allocation has been made and the mechanics and traders who built the Abuja’s informal engine confront another uncertain future.

Read the full story via the link in our first comment.
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✍️: S. A. Anselm and Terna Iwar
🎨: Photography by Terna Iwar / THE REPUBLIC.
🔍: Ijapa O, Peace Onafuye, Wale Lawal; Editors

13/07/2026

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11/07/2026

Our latest print issue, 'Nigeria in the World', follows the movements of people, cultures and beliefs across borders—tracing the connections, contradictions, ambitions and afterlives that shape what it means to be Nigerian today.

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Explore Nigeria in the World (May–July 2026), a 64-page issue on Nigeria’s global influence across culture, politics, migration, and identity, featuring essays, interviews, and fiction from leading writers.

10/07/2026

A Bird in Flight ⚡️

'Ever since the dashing new physics teacher had joined the township school, the form four girls had taken to clumping together in the corridors, breaking into juvenile giggles whenever he sauntered past, asking to pat his afro or try on his rimless spectacles. What it was, really, they agreed, was his nose. Such a nose—pompous, prominent—would look ugly on a lesser man.

But there was something about the young teacher’s face that gave him a certain into-leyana, like a man who knew how to do. And out of all the girls in form four, he had chosen her, seventeen-year-old Unathi—gangly legged, with only slight mounds for breasts and a pimply face—for his affections.'

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, edited by our fiction editor Chigozie Obioma ().
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📝: Novuyo Tshuma
🎨: Illustration by Kingsley Chibueze / THE REPUBLIC.
🔍: Ijapa O, Peace Onafuye, Wale Lawal; Editors

10/07/2026

Good News ⚡️

In today’s , Novuyo Tshuma writes about a brilliant teenage girl whose ambition collides with love, family expectations and the limits placed on daughters.

A story about gender, desire, sacrifice and the quiet cost of being told that your brilliance would matter more if only you were a boy.

Edited by our fiction editor Chigozie Obioma ().
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📝: Novuyo Tshuma
🎨: Illustration by Kingsley Chibueze / THE REPUBLIC.
🔍: Ijapa O, Peace Onafuye, Wale Lawal; Editors

09/07/2026

For Moses E. Ochonu, the controversy goes far beyond a comment about akara or corn. He argues that it reflects a broader political and economic narrative, one that recasts poverty as an individual problem to be solved through hustle, while shifting attention away from the state's responsibility to create jobs, build industries, and expand economic opportunity.

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Read the full story via the link: https://rpublc.com/story/2026/07/07/economics/sinister-side-of-oluremi-tinubu
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✍️: Moses E. Ochonu
🎨: Photo Illustration by Dunsin Bankole / THE REPUBLIC.
🔍: Peace Onafuye, Wale Lawal; Editors