By: Abudu Olalekan The Lagos State House of Assembly has backed plans to establish state police, while calling for a clearer division of powers between state and federal authorities. Speaker Mudashiru Obasa raised the issue on Tuesday during plenary, as lawmakers reviewed the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Sixth Alteration) Bill, 2026. The…
By: Abudu Olalekan Lagos State plans to present global investors with climate investment opportunities worth between $25 billion and $50 billion at COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye. The announcement came on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in a statement by Titilayo Oshodi, the governor’s special adviser on climate change and circular economy. Oshodi said the Lagos Climate…
By: Abudu Olalekan The Lagos State House of Assembly has backed plans to establish state police, while calling for a clearer division of powers between state and federal authorities. Speaker Mudashiru Obasa raised the issue on Tuesday during plenary, as lawmakers reviewed the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Sixth Alteration) Bill, 2026. The…
By: Abudu Olalekan Lagos State plans to present global investors with climate investment opportunities worth between $25 billion and $50 billion at COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye. The announcement came on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in a statement by Titilayo Oshodi, the governor’s special adviser on climate change and circular economy. Oshodi said the Lagos Climate…
By: Abudu Olalekan Two arrests. Two separate cases. And in one of them, investigators are talking about more than $2.4 million moving around as suspected criminal proceeds. INTERPOL says two suspects have been arrested in Nigeria as part of different cybercrime investigations, including an international investment fraud scheme and a large-scale phishing operation. The arrests…
By: Abudu Olalekan Somebody isn’t following the rules at the border. And the National Security Adviser’s office has noticed. The Federal Government has ordered security agencies, hospitals and every other relevant authority to tighten up Ebola screening at the country’s entry points, after the Office of the NSA flagged reports that approved protocols were being…
By: Abudu Olalekan Will the rain come this year? And if it comes, will it be enough? For many Nigerian farmers, that is not a climate conference question. It is real life. The same goes for the parent wondering if a flooded road will stop their children from getting to school, or the worker struggling…
By: Abudu Olalekan President Bola Tinubu and All Progressives Congress leaders will be in Kaduna on Saturday. Campaign flag-off. Re-election bid. And the message is simple: the North matters. Why? The numbers. The North has 56.01 million of Nigeria’s 103.43 million registered voters. That’s 54.2 per cent. More than half. In a presidential election, that…
