By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal It’s chaos out west. A wildfire’s swallowing up Mount Underwood, right above the city of Port Alberni in British Columbia. Nearly 20,000 people are on high alert. Smoke chokes the sky. The fire’s out of control. No one knows yet if the city itself will have to evacuate. Russ Wetas, 69,…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal Here’s the scoop. The Federal Government just slammed the brakes on creating new federal universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education—for seven whole years. Why? Because there are just too many schools with barely any students, stretched resources, and falling academic standards. It’s like building more houses when half the ones standing…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde did something special on Thursday. He named a new housing estate after the late Prince Olaide Akinremi Jagaban, the APC lawmaker who represented Ibadan North until he passed away in July 2024. The place? The Prince Olaide Akinremi Jagaban Government Reserved Area, right along Dominion University…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal So here’s the deal. On Wednesday, a split US appeals court gave the Trump administration the thumbs-up to slash billions from foreign aid programs. It wasn’t a clean sweep—2 judges said yes, 1 said no—but it’s a win for Trump’s plan. Remember, a lower court had told Trump to put that…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal Abuja. Tuesday. The rain had barely stopped when the city’s conference hall began to fill. Suits, traditional attires, name tags swinging as people moved from one coffee table to another. Conversations—some loud, some in whispers—were all about one thing: climate change. Sen. George Akume, Nigeria’s Secretary to the Government of the…
By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal Picture the year’s end: beaches swept, bins overflowing, a quiet cough in the clinic. Then a receipt you never saw—$80 billion in public cash nudging industry to make more brand‑new plastic. That’s what Eunomia, with the Quaker UN Office and support from Minderoo Foundation, found. We fund the start of the…
