By: Abudu Olalekan So, here’s the deal. The Federal Government dropped a bombshell on Tuesday. They rolled out a bunch of new incentives to get folks investing in agriculture. The goal? Create a whopping 21 million jobs across the country. Pretty ambitious, right? Vice President Kashim Shettima spilled the beans at the Food and Agriculture…
By: Abudu Olalekan The world’s moving on. Oil? Gas? They’re getting old. Like cassette tapes in an iPhone world. Renewables are here. Solar. Wind. Green energy. It’s not a trend—it’s the new normal. And Nigeria? We’re standing at the edge. One foot in the past, one trying to step forward. Dr Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, head…
By: Abudu Olalekan The political air in Rivers State is thick. You can almost taste the tension. Thursday is the day. The big day. That’s when the state of emergency is set to end, and power is supposed to be handed back. It’s a moment everyone has been waiting for, a return to some kind…
By: Abudu Olalekan It was just another Tuesday at the Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrate Court. The air was thick with the usual humidity and the low murmur of legal proceedings. Just another day. But the case file on the magistrate’s desk told a different story. This one was a little… odd. Two men stood before…
By: Abudu Olalekan So, the top jobs in the civil service are shifting again. President Tinubu has given the go-ahead to find five new Permanent Secretaries. It’s a big deal, honestly. These are the people who really run things behind the scenes. The Office of the Head of the Civil Service, led by Mrs. Didi…
By: Abudu Olalekan It’s 4 p.m. in Ogijo, Ogun State. The sky’s not blue—hasn’t been in months. It’s a murky gray-brown, like someone spilled ash and motor oil in the clouds. A mom yells from her cracked concrete doorway: “Come inside, Jide! Stop digging by the pothole!” That pothole? Filled with slag—crusty, sharp industrial waste…
