Nigeria, June 23 -- When Israel launched Operation Rising Lion in the early hours of 13 June, most Nigerians were asleep. The footage came in fragments - precision airstrikes, sirens over Tel Aviv, defiant chants in Tehran. Within hours, Iran responded with Operation True Promise III, unleashing waves of drones and missiles toward Israeli positions. It was dramatic, brutal, and all too familiar: another chapter in the long, looping narrative of Middle Eastern conflict. But the shockwaves didn't stop at the borders of Iran or Israel. They travelled through global oil markets, diplomatic corridors, and geopolitical nerves - and in their wake, Nigeria began to feel the tremors.

By the end of that first week, crude oil prices had jumped shar...