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…
By: Abudu Olalekan The Presidency hit back at Peter Obi for asking Tinubu to resign, calling it childish and an unworthy distraction. Here’s what really went down. Peter Obi asked President Bola Tinubu to step down. And the Presidency? They weren’t having any of it. On Monday, they brushed off the call from the Nigerian…
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…
By: Abudu Olalekan The Presidency hit back at Peter Obi for asking Tinubu to resign, calling it childish and an unworthy distraction. Here’s what really went down. Peter Obi asked President Bola Tinubu to step down. And the Presidency? They weren’t having any of it. On Monday, they brushed off the call from the Nigerian…
By: Abudu Olalekan It was chaos in Igboho, Oyo State yesterday. The good kind. People were out in the streets singing, dancing, shouting — you name it. Why? Because a kidnapped family had just been released. A pregnant woman, her children and her sibling. The same ones that had had the whole town holding its…
By: Abudu Olalekan Well, it’s official. Governor Biodun Oyebanji is going back for a second term. Before dawn broke on Sunday, INEC spoke up following a lengthy count at its base along Iyin Road in Ado-Ekiti. Truth is, hardly anyone who saw it thought otherwise. Up stepped Prof. Adenike Oladiji, the Vice Chancellor at the…
By: Abudu Olalekan It’s been a few days since the June climate talks (SB64) wrapped up in Bonn on June 18. And the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group on Climate Change isn’t exactly happy about how it went. Not even close. They’re worried. As climate impacts pile up around the world — from brutal floods…
