By: Abudu Olalekan They left home with backpacks. Not knowing. Not even imagining. Now, days later, 327 children are still missing in Kebbi and Niger states, and nobody can really say where they are or what comes next. Parents wait by dead phones. Teachers stare at empty desks. The fear is thick. And it’s spreading….
By: Abudu Olalekan Exclusive: Finance Ministry invites 50 Nigerian senators and reps for Trump-era US policy training, as terror attacks rise. Critics call it a misstep in crisis times. It started with a quiet memo. Slipped into the halls of power. From the Ministry of Finance. Dated November 17, 2025. Fancy reference: FMF/HMS/CORRS/01/VOL.1/112. Addressed straight…
By: Abudu Olalekan UNICEF reveals 47% of Nigerian kids below poverty line, facing hunger, no school, and more. Report launched in Abuja highlights progress but urges action for the future. Picture this. A little girl in a dusty village, maybe in the North-East, staring at an empty bowl. She’s seven. Should be in school, learning…
By: Abudu Olalekan Bandits demand N100m ransom per victim after attacking a church in Eruku, Kwara State. Relatives speak out on the terrifying ordeal during a thanksgiving service. Security concerns rise in border community. It was supposed to be a night of joy. You know, the kind where folks gather to give thanks after dodging…
By: Abudu Olalekan Nnamdi Kanu won’t be walking free anytime soon. On Wednesday, Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja handed down a life sentence to the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). It was a moment that’d been building for days. And honestly? It was heavy. The judge…
By: Abudu Olalekan The gavel fell. And just like that, Nnamdi Kanu’s fate hung in the balance. An Abuja Federal High Court convicted the fiery IPOB leader on three terrorism charges Thursday, ruling that his radio broadcasts, sit-at-home orders, and calls for violence crossed the line into terror. Presiding Judge James Omotosho didn’t mince words—Kanu’s…
