By: Abudu Olalekan Things got messier on Wednesday at the House of Representatives probe into the shadowy Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Walson-Jack, sat before lawmakers and basically admitted it — her office dropped the ball. No proper due diligence. No thorough checks. Just…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal With the August 15 governorship election around the corner, the Imole Campaign Council of Governor Ademola Adeleke is accusing the police of sweeping up opposition supporters in what it calls a political crackdown. According to the council, no fewer than 86 members of the Accord Party were arrested in recent days…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal It started like many election-season rumors do. A neatly designed graphic. Clean dates. Confident claims. And suddenly, timelines were shifting — at least on social media. But the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says, not so fast. The commission has disowned a campaign timetable for the 2027 general elections currently making…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal The Federal Government says it isn’t folding its arms. Not this time. After days of tension and fear following fresh xenophobic attacks in South Africa, Abuja has moved to both count the losses and demand accountability. A compensation process is now in motion, officials say, starting with a newly designed form…
By: Abudu Olalekan Things got messier on Wednesday at the House of Representatives probe into the shadowy Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Walson-Jack, sat before lawmakers and basically admitted it — her office dropped the ball. No proper due diligence. No thorough checks. Just…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal With the August 15 governorship election around the corner, the Imole Campaign Council of Governor Ademola Adeleke is accusing the police of sweeping up opposition supporters in what it calls a political crackdown. According to the council, no fewer than 86 members of the Accord Party were arrested in recent days…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal It started like many election-season rumors do. A neatly designed graphic. Clean dates. Confident claims. And suddenly, timelines were shifting — at least on social media. But the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says, not so fast. The commission has disowned a campaign timetable for the 2027 general elections currently making…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal The Federal Government says it isn’t folding its arms. Not this time. After days of tension and fear following fresh xenophobic attacks in South Africa, Abuja has moved to both count the losses and demand accountability. A compensation process is now in motion, officials say, starting with a newly designed form…
By: Abudu Olalekan Host communities in oil producing communities in Nigeria are being reminded to stop being spectators. The Network Advancement Programme For Poverty and Disaster Risk Reduction is calling for more participation in monitoring and reducing methane emissions in their environment from extractive activities. The NAPPDRR Executive Director, Emem Edoho, urged host communities to…
By: Abudu Olalekan The American Bar Association has had enough. And on Tuesday, they said so publicly. In a statement posted to its website, the ABA came out swinging against what it called a “growing pattern of threats, intimidation and personal attacks directed at our judiciary.” No vague hand-wringing here. The language was pointed. The…
