By: Abudu Olalekan Tuesday started like any other. Turn in work due that day. Then go back to where he lived. Possibly stop for food before getting there. This had been how Balogun Sultan saw his afternoon unfolding. A student in the second year of his National Diploma at Yaba College of Technology, routine shaped…
By: Abudu Olalekan Even now it feels made up. Almost like a tale told around fires. Yet people lived through it. That day in Sepeteri, deep in Oyo State. Locked up at forty-three, Lateef Suleiman faces charges of killing his older brother – over something he saw while asleep. Not a fight. Not money. A…
By: Abudu Olalekan There are stories that sound like something out of a Hollywood thriller. This is one of them. But it’s real. Traffic cameras. Hacked ones. Planted quietly on the streets of Tehran, giving Israel a live, uninterrupted window into one of its most dangerous adversaries. For years, those cameras sat there, feeding data,…
By: Abudu Olalekan Nigerian naira continues downward slide against US dollar at NFEM, closing at N1,376 per dollar on Monday. Black market rates differ. Get latest forex update. The naira is sliding again. Not exactly news anymore, but Monday’s numbers still sting. Nigeria’s currency continued its downward trajectory against the US Dollar when trading kicked…
By: Abudu Olalekan Tuesday started like any other. Turn in work due that day. Then go back to where he lived. Possibly stop for food before getting there. This had been how Balogun Sultan saw his afternoon unfolding. A student in the second year of his National Diploma at Yaba College of Technology, routine shaped…
By: Abudu Olalekan Even now it feels made up. Almost like a tale told around fires. Yet people lived through it. That day in Sepeteri, deep in Oyo State. Locked up at forty-three, Lateef Suleiman faces charges of killing his older brother – over something he saw while asleep. Not a fight. Not money. A…
By: Abudu Olalekan There are stories that sound like something out of a Hollywood thriller. This is one of them. But it’s real. Traffic cameras. Hacked ones. Planted quietly on the streets of Tehran, giving Israel a live, uninterrupted window into one of its most dangerous adversaries. For years, those cameras sat there, feeding data,…
By: Abudu Olalekan Nigerian naira continues downward slide against US dollar at NFEM, closing at N1,376 per dollar on Monday. Black market rates differ. Get latest forex update. The naira is sliding again. Not exactly news anymore, but Monday’s numbers still sting. Nigeria’s currency continued its downward trajectory against the US Dollar when trading kicked…
By: Abudu Olalekan Wednesday brings the oath-taking for Olatunji Disu, named head of police by President Tinubu. The council backing law enforcement in Nigeria gave its approval first. A cabinet gathering sets the scene for the official handover. Midweek marks the moment. At last, Olatunji Disu takes charge as full-time police chief under President Bola…
By: Abudu Olalekan That Monday in Lagos held a strange weight. A shift hung in the air. Followers of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, known as Shi’ites, moved through city paths. They gathered along Maryland road. Anger shaped their steps. Their demand rose like smoke – denouncing what they saw as the violent killing of…
