Reporters Room

By: Abudu Olalekan At just 21 years old, Vanessa Obiadika literally almost worked herself to the bone. Like, she actually lost weight. Why? The sheer pressure of trying to survive Lagos State University (LASU). But it paid off. Today, she is a First-class graduate in Mass Communication. And she didn’t just bury her head in…

By: Abudu Olalekan Look, the internet never sleeps. Lately, social media has been on absolute overdrive. Alot of people online think President Bola Tinubu is going to be handcuffed the moment he steps off the plane in the United States for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). But let’s cut through the noise. It is…

By: Abudu Olalekan Let’s be honest. The 2027 elections are still a long way off. But if you listen closely, the drums of war are already beating. Politicians are already spitting fire. It’s gotten so bad that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Nigeria Police Force are finally stepping in. They’ve promised to…

By: Abudu Olalekan For a while, there were claims making the rounds about a so-called “Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council” — a fake agency that had somehow found its way into Nigeria’s 2026 Federal Government budget. And for a moment, fingers were pointing in the direction of the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi…

By: Abudu Olalekan Time is fast running out for twelve state governors. By the time most of them bow out in 2027, and two of them in early 2028, they’ll be leaving behind a hefty debt bill — about N5.3tn in combined domestic and external obligations. That’s according to findings by Reportersroom, based on data…

By: Abudu Olalekan For the first time in recorded history, 2024 saw the world’s average temperature go above 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels. That alone was enough to raise alarm bells. But climate scientists don’t judge the course of global warming by a single year. Still, the writing was on the wall — we’re clearly…