By: Abudu Olalekan The story usually starts the same way. A farmer in the field at dusk. A child walking to the toilet outside. A young singer heading home after a rehearsal. Then a sudden sting on the leg. Or foot. Or hand. At first, it looks small. Then it becomes everything. In Nigeria, this…
By: Abudu Olalekan The numbers came first. Cold. Precise. Seventy‑four thousand, three hundred and fifty‑two police officers. Promoted in less than a year. From January 2025 till now. That’s not a small office memo. That’s a serious shake‑up. The Nigeria Police Force didn’t just drop the figure and walk away. On a quiet Sunday, the…
By: Abudu Olalekan It was a small book launch. Quiet venue. Few carefully picked guests. But the message that came out of that room was anything but small. Rep. Sam Onuigbo sat there, flipping through the pages of a new book, “Blue Economy: Gateway to a Sustainable Future,” written by Dr. Chika Chukwudi. He looked…
By: Abudu Olalekan It started like most viral moments do.Quietly. Then everywhere at once. On Tuesday, social media lit up with a short video clip showing a man believed to be Senator Adams Oshiomhole in what looked like a relaxed, private moment — chatting casually while massaging a woman’s feet resting on his lap. No…
By: Abudu Olalekan The story usually starts the same way. A farmer in the field at dusk. A child walking to the toilet outside. A young singer heading home after a rehearsal. Then a sudden sting on the leg. Or foot. Or hand. At first, it looks small. Then it becomes everything. In Nigeria, this…
By: Abudu Olalekan The numbers came first. Cold. Precise. Seventy‑four thousand, three hundred and fifty‑two police officers. Promoted in less than a year. From January 2025 till now. That’s not a small office memo. That’s a serious shake‑up. The Nigeria Police Force didn’t just drop the figure and walk away. On a quiet Sunday, the…
By: Abudu Olalekan It was a small book launch. Quiet venue. Few carefully picked guests. But the message that came out of that room was anything but small. Rep. Sam Onuigbo sat there, flipping through the pages of a new book, “Blue Economy: Gateway to a Sustainable Future,” written by Dr. Chika Chukwudi. He looked…
By: Abudu Olalekan It started like most viral moments do.Quietly. Then everywhere at once. On Tuesday, social media lit up with a short video clip showing a man believed to be Senator Adams Oshiomhole in what looked like a relaxed, private moment — chatting casually while massaging a woman’s feet resting on his lap. No…
By: Abudu Olalekan It started quietly. Too quietly.A letter. Written in Hausa. Polite in tone. Almost reassuring.That letter would later become the final warning Woro never survived. Tuesday’s massacre in Woro, a remote farming community in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State, was not chaos unfolding by chance. It was planned. Timed. Executed with…
By: Abudu Olalekan Blue Economy Nigeria. That phrase keeps popping up. Everywhere. It isn’t just a buzzword anymore. It is real. Actually, it is the only way forward for us. I was there in Abuja last Thursday, February 5, 2026. The air felt different. Heavy with hope. We gathered to watch Dr. Chika Ethel Chukwudi…
