By: Abudu Olalekan A heavy silence now hangs where voices once rose loud and raw across the water lanes of Makoko. Months of uncertainty, sparked by looming bulldozers near the shoreline, finally folded into stillness after lawmakers stepped in. Sogunro saw its narrow paths tremble beneath constant threat, each dawn bringing fresh anxiety instead of…
By: Abudu Olalekan He spoke Tuesday, saying many once considered to lead Iran have passed away. The American president questioned if Reza Pahlavi, living outside Iran, holds enough support inside the nation. Doubts came up again about the former royal’s influence. Names that mattered before are now gone, he noted. Thoughts turned to what comes…
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…
