By: Abudu Olalekan Thursday. 11:40 AM. Awka. Sun beating down. Then—boom. Just gone. Like sandcastles washed by tide. No warning. Just dust. Panic everywhere. People running. Screaming. My heart sank watching it. The building? Behind the State House of Assembly. Off Ekwueme Square. Still under construction. Roofing stage. Workers on top. Suddenly, nothing. Just rubble….
By: Akinde S. Oluwaseun He vanished. Not with a bang. Not with a chase. Just… gone. Olumide Adebiyi Adediran—aka Kevin. Eric. Maxo. Edward. The list goes on. A man with too many names and too many lies. Back in 2001, he walked into a bank in Champaign, Illinois. No big deal. Except the check? Fake….
By: Akinde S. Oluwaseun Just hours after dusk, it happened. Not on some backroad. Not in a market crush. But right there — his own porch, under the weak glow of a single bulb. The lawmaker, representing Pankshin South in Plateau’s assembly, was grabbed. Dragged off. Gone. By gunmen. AIT says it was from his…
By: Akinde S. Oluwaseun It was supposed to be a chill hangout — just a bunch of uni execs swapping stories under the Idado sky. But for Damilola Balogun, a 400-level education student and soon-to-be president of UNILAG’s education students’ association, it turned into something else. Thursday afternoon, the waves were whispering danger. Locals were…
By: Abudu Olalekan Let’s get real. Body image struggles? They hit different after childbirth. Nollywood star Uche Ogbodo knows this too well. The actress just dropped a truth bomb: She got a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) for her mental health. Not for fame. Not for men. For herself. “I Didn’t Recognize Myself Anymore”Three C-sections. Three…
By: Abudu Olalekan The numbers don’t lie. And they’re brutal. Between 2000 and 2024, 7,646 Nigerians applied for asylum in Sweden. That’s two decades of desperation, hope, and—for most—rejection. The Breakdown: Who’s Fleeing?The data from Sweden’s Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) tells a grim story. 2000-2021: 6,783 applications2022: 2882023: 2002024 (so far): 375But here’s the kicker—88% of…
