By: Abudu Olalekan When a delegation of traditional rulers from Oyo State visited the Presidential Villa on Thursday, they went to show some appreciation. But President Bola Tinubu had a lot more to say about how those school kids from Oriire were actually rescued. It turns out the government didn’t just refuse to pay ransom….
By: Abudu Olalekan Things got messier on Wednesday at the House of Representatives probe into the shadowy Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Walson-Jack, sat before lawmakers and basically admitted it — her office dropped the ball. No proper due diligence. No thorough checks. Just…
By: Abudu Olalekan Host communities in oil producing communities in Nigeria are being reminded to stop being spectators. The Network Advancement Programme For Poverty and Disaster Risk Reduction is calling for more participation in monitoring and reducing methane emissions in their environment from extractive activities. The NAPPDRR Executive Director, Emem Edoho, urged host communities to…
By: Abudu Olalekan The American Bar Association has had enough. And on Tuesday, they said so publicly. In a statement posted to its website, the ABA came out swinging against what it called a “growing pattern of threats, intimidation and personal attacks directed at our judiciary.” No vague hand-wringing here. The language was pointed. The…
By: Abudu Olalekan Well, this one just got overturned. And honestly? It was coming. The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has set aside a Federal High Court judgment that had ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to deregister the African Democratic Congress and four other political parties. The ruling was unanimous. All three justices…
By: Abudu Olalekan President Bola Tinubu sat down with leaders of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria on Tuesday at the State House in Abuja, and he had a clear message — we’re getting a handle on things. The meeting was led on the bishops’ side by Most Reverend Matthew Ndagoso, Archbishop of Kaduna and…
