By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal The courtroom was quiet for a moment on Wednesday morning. Lawyers shuffled documents. Court officials moved in and out. At the centre of it all sat activist and publisher Omoyele Sowore, waiting to hear what would happen next in a legal battle that has continued to draw public attention. By the…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal It was a quiet Saturday night in Surulere. Then the tip-off came in. By the time operatives of the Lagos State Police Command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit moved in, an unregistered MAN diesel truck was already loaded and ready to go. Inside it? Sacks. Dozens of them. Stuffed with military camouflage uniforms. By…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal London was grey. A bit humid. But inside the packed halls of Climate Innovation Forum, the mood felt charged. Murat Kurum, Turkey’s environment minister and president-designate of COP31, stepped up with a message that was simple, almost blunt: electrify everything. And do it faster. He wasn’t speaking in abstract climate jargon….
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal A major shift may be coming to Nigeria’s security architecture. On Wednesday, the Senate took a significant step toward changing how policing works across the country. After a lengthy debate and clause-by-clause consideration, lawmakers voted in favour of a constitutional amendment bill that seeks to establish state police services alongside the…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal The courtroom was quiet for a moment on Wednesday morning. Lawyers shuffled documents. Court officials moved in and out. At the centre of it all sat activist and publisher Omoyele Sowore, waiting to hear what would happen next in a legal battle that has continued to draw public attention. By the…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal It was a quiet Saturday night in Surulere. Then the tip-off came in. By the time operatives of the Lagos State Police Command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit moved in, an unregistered MAN diesel truck was already loaded and ready to go. Inside it? Sacks. Dozens of them. Stuffed with military camouflage uniforms. By…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal London was grey. A bit humid. But inside the packed halls of Climate Innovation Forum, the mood felt charged. Murat Kurum, Turkey’s environment minister and president-designate of COP31, stepped up with a message that was simple, almost blunt: electrify everything. And do it faster. He wasn’t speaking in abstract climate jargon….
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal A major shift may be coming to Nigeria’s security architecture. On Wednesday, the Senate took a significant step toward changing how policing works across the country. After a lengthy debate and clause-by-clause consideration, lawmakers voted in favour of a constitutional amendment bill that seeks to establish state police services alongside the…
By: Abudu Olalekan Still, people respond in different ways to the taking of fifty older villagers from Magamin Diddi in Zamfara’s Maradun area. This happened weeks ago when they supposedly traveled toward a bandit hideout aiming for calm. Their goal was talk, not conflict – yet they vanished along the way. Some now question whether…
By: Abudu Olalekan Governors want clearer power under the constitution to handle safety where they govern, since discussions about forming state-level police forces are moving again. Fresh debate rises as leaders seek more control, backed by renewed interest in dedicated local law enforcement units across regions. From notes of a top-tier gathering arranged by the…
