By: Abudu Olalekan Fog lifts slow over the runway. Boots hit tarmac at Bauchi Airfield. Silence breaks fast – metal shrieks as engines blast through dawn air. One aircraft rolls to a stop. A hundred figures move out. Hands empty. Shoulders heavy with packs. Screens tucked under arms likely. New flights carve paths where few…
By: Abudu Olalekan Flickering ceiling lamps. Monday deep into Tuesday now. Plastic seats sticking to skin at EFCC base in Abuja. Ex-governor Nasir El-Rufai planted there – back straight, eyes flat. Not fighting. Simply worn down. Interrogation dragged through hours. About four hundred thirty two billion naira. The figure hangs like smoke. Too big to…
By: Abudu Olalekan UN Boss Guterres: Time to End Western Sahara’s Colonial Ghost Story Monday morning, UN chamber. Hushed. António Guterres steps up, not in stiff diplomat mode, but like he’s gotta tell us something real. He hits the mic: “This organisation was created as a place where nations can meet as equals, not as…
By: Abudu Olalekan Five European nations just revealed something startling. Two years have passed since Alexei Navalny died. Out of the blue, they point to a new culprit. This time it is not Novichok. It is not polonium either. The substance? Epibatidine. Found in poison dart frogs. A surprise twist nobody saw coming. Frogs from…
By: Abudu Olalekan Fresh off a break, the National Assembly has returned early. Without any heads-up, it was announced Sunday. Session resumes immediately. Politicians are hurrying toward Abuja from everywhere. Something urgent must be unfolding. Rumors say the 2027 presidential vote might shift. It sounds like just talk – yet somehow it doesn’t. The air…
By: Abudu Olalekan Nasir El-Rufai doesn’t do subtle. Never has, never will. So when he started hearing whispers—those specific kind of Abuja whispers that come with documents and dates—about a mysterious package coming into Nigeria, he didn’t just gossip about it at some political salon. No. He put pen to paper. Actually, fingers to keyboard…
