By: Abudu Olalekan A halt lands on fresh private universities, polytechnics, and teacher colleges – lasting half a dozen years. The move aims at lifting current schools into better shape. Focus shifts to deepening standards instead of spreading thin. Existing campuses get room to grow stronger now. Six years without new entries lets resources settle…
By: Abudu Olalekan A bullet ended the fugitive’s run deep inside Warake Woods. Four captives walked free that same morning. Gunfire cracked before dawn near Ujemen creek. One attacker fell, weapons scattered in wet leaves. Another pair of hands cuffed behind a back by noon. Trees stood quiet after days of whispered threats. Boots returned…
By: Abudu Olalekan Tuesday started like any other. Turn in work due that day. Then go back to where he lived. Possibly stop for food before getting there. This had been how Balogun Sultan saw his afternoon unfolding. A student in the second year of his National Diploma at Yaba College of Technology, routine shaped…
By: Abudu Olalekan Even now it feels made up. Almost like a tale told around fires. Yet people lived through it. That day in Sepeteri, deep in Oyo State. Locked up at forty-three, Lateef Suleiman faces charges of killing his older brother – over something he saw while asleep. Not a fight. Not money. A…
By: Abudu Olalekan There are stories that sound like something out of a Hollywood thriller. This is one of them. But it’s real. Traffic cameras. Hacked ones. Planted quietly on the streets of Tehran, giving Israel a live, uninterrupted window into one of its most dangerous adversaries. For years, those cameras sat there, feeding data,…
By: Abudu Olalekan Nigerian naira continues downward slide against US dollar at NFEM, closing at N1,376 per dollar on Monday. Black market rates differ. Get latest forex update. The naira is sliding again. Not exactly news anymore, but Monday’s numbers still sting. Nigeria’s currency continued its downward trajectory against the US Dollar when trading kicked…
