By: Abudu Olalekan Two arrests. Two separate cases. And in one of them, investigators are talking about more than $2.4 million moving around as suspected criminal proceeds. INTERPOL says two suspects have been arrested in Nigeria as part of different cybercrime investigations, including an international investment fraud scheme and a large-scale phishing operation. The arrests…
By: Abudu Olalekan Somebody isn’t following the rules at the border. And the National Security Adviser’s office has noticed. The Federal Government has ordered security agencies, hospitals and every other relevant authority to tighten up Ebola screening at the country’s entry points, after the Office of the NSA flagged reports that approved protocols were being…
By: Abudu Olalekan Will the rain come this year? And if it comes, will it be enough? For many Nigerian farmers, that is not a climate conference question. It is real life. The same goes for the parent wondering if a flooded road will stop their children from getting to school, or the worker struggling…
By: Abudu Olalekan President Bola Tinubu and All Progressives Congress leaders will be in Kaduna on Saturday. Campaign flag-off. Re-election bid. And the message is simple: the North matters. Why? The numbers. The North has 56.01 million of Nigeria’s 103.43 million registered voters. That’s 54.2 per cent. More than half. In a presidential election, that…
By: Abudu Olalekan President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has a question. A big one. Why are all our medical professionals moving overseas? He asked it on Thursday at the State House in Abuja. He had just received an Honorary Fellowship from the West African College of Physicians, WACP. The award came with a serious conversation about…
By: Abudu Olalekan The numbers coming out of the National Emergency Management Agency are not easy reading. Flooding in Nigeria has now killed 245 people and forced more than 214,000 others out of their homes, and the agency itself is warning that the hard part may still be ahead. According to NEMA’s flood dashboard, 673,350…
