By: Abudu Olalekan Chief Olu Falae has opened up about how he clinched the Alliance for Democracy (AD) presidential ticket back in 1999—and beat the late Bola Ige while at it. Not many saw it coming. He says that himself. In excerpts from his soon-to-be-released autobiography, The Triumph of Grace, Falae walks through the whole…
By: Abudu Olalekan What was meant to be a cultural celebration in Ozoro, Delta State, has now turned into something else entirely. Something disturbing. Several women — including students — were reportedly stripped and sexually assaulted during the ‘Alue-Do’ festival on Thursday, March 19. By Friday, videos had already spread online. And they were hard…
By: Abudu Olalekan Out of the blue, the COP30 Presidency released its Executive Report. Picture this: a roadmap shaped by those intense discussions in Belém. Not merely an overview, but a window into how they plan to keep climate efforts moving forward. Momentum matters, and this shows where the energy might go next. That moment…
By: Abudu Olalekan If you haven’t noticed prices going up yet. You will. Another wave of price increases is coming, and this one is going to hit almost every single thing you buy. Manufacturers across the country are currently bracing for the biggest jump in production costs we have seen in 18 months, driven almost…
By: Abudu Olalekan Chief Olu Falae has opened up about how he clinched the Alliance for Democracy (AD) presidential ticket back in 1999—and beat the late Bola Ige while at it. Not many saw it coming. He says that himself. In excerpts from his soon-to-be-released autobiography, The Triumph of Grace, Falae walks through the whole…
By: Abudu Olalekan What was meant to be a cultural celebration in Ozoro, Delta State, has now turned into something else entirely. Something disturbing. Several women — including students — were reportedly stripped and sexually assaulted during the ‘Alue-Do’ festival on Thursday, March 19. By Friday, videos had already spread online. And they were hard…
By: Abudu Olalekan Out of the blue, the COP30 Presidency released its Executive Report. Picture this: a roadmap shaped by those intense discussions in Belém. Not merely an overview, but a window into how they plan to keep climate efforts moving forward. Momentum matters, and this shows where the energy might go next. That moment…
By: Abudu Olalekan If you haven’t noticed prices going up yet. You will. Another wave of price increases is coming, and this one is going to hit almost every single thing you buy. Manufacturers across the country are currently bracing for the biggest jump in production costs we have seen in 18 months, driven almost…
By: Abudu Olalekan This is the kind of report that makes you stop scrolling. The 2026 Global Terrorism Index has just been published, and the numbers for Nigeria are about as bad as they could get. Almost everywhere else in the world, terrorism deaths are falling. Fast. Nigeria is moving in exactly the opposite direction….
By: Abudu Olalekan This is not another generic sustainability conference. Lagos State’s Office of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Climate Change and Circular Economy (OCCE) will convene industry leaders, sustainability practitioners and private sector stakeholders for EcoNexus 3.0, and this year the conversation is shifting hard. For the first time, the entire focus…
