By: Abudu Olalekan The controversy over the 2026 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) WASSCE results for school candidates is only getting worse, after an official of the exam body raised fresh claims of glitches and irregularities. In a video that’s now gone viral, Olanrewaju Fadehan, the Head of Examinations at the WAEC office in Anambra,…
By: Abudu Olalekan Tension has been building in Ajogbo Akia, Ogun State, over claims of farmland destruction, criminal intimidation and suspected land grabbing. For a while now, residents – together with their traditional leadership – have been raising the alarm over the activities of those they believe are land grabbers. And with those concerns gaining…
By: Abudu Olalekan A routine family trip to Walmart ended with immigration agents taking Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo into custody while her six-year-old daughter sat in the car. That was on July 11, outside a store near Fort Bliss, Texas. Villafranca-Trejo has since been deported to Honduras, leaving her husband, Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez,…
By: Abudu Olalekan It was supposed to be a panel discussion. Lawyers, policy talk, a bit of intellectual back and forth. Instead, Port Harcourt got a shouting match. The Nigerian Bar Association’s annual conference in Rivers State turned into something closer to a campaign rally gone wrong on Monday, as three men chasing the same…
By: Abudu Olalekan Ijebuland has been without a king since July 2025. That’s a long time for a throne that mattered so much, to so many, for 65 straight years. Now the matter has landed in court. The Fusengbuwa Ruling House in Ijebu-Ode has sued Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun, the Awujale kingmakers and five…
By: Abudu Olalekan Somewhere out there, a stranger clicks a link on Telegram. The page looks clean. Says it’s raising money for orphans, or maybe school fees for displaced kids up North. He donates $100. Feels good about it too. That money, according to Nigeria’s Financial Intelligence Unit, may well end up buying fuel for…
