Category: News

By: Abudu Olalekan Host communities in oil producing communities in Nigeria are being reminded to stop being spectators. The Network Advancement Programme For Poverty and Disaster Risk Reduction is calling for more participation in monitoring and reducing methane emissions in their environment from extractive activities. The NAPPDRR Executive Director, Emem Edoho, urged host communities to…

By: Abudu Olalekan The American Bar Association has had enough. And on Tuesday, they said so publicly. In a statement posted to its website, the ABA came out swinging against what it called a “growing pattern of threats, intimidation and personal attacks directed at our judiciary.” No vague hand-wringing here. The language was pointed. The…

By: Abudu Olalekan Well, this one just got overturned. And honestly? It was coming. The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has set aside a Federal High Court judgment that had ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to deregister the African Democratic Congress and four other political parties. The ruling was unanimous. All three justices…

By: Abudu Olalekan President Bola Tinubu sat down with leaders of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria on Tuesday at the State House in Abuja, and he had a clear message — we’re getting a handle on things. The meeting was led on the bishops’ side by Most Reverend Matthew Ndagoso, Archbishop of Kaduna and…

By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal For years, the story was the same. A bright student. Big dreams. Empty pockets. And then — no university. But the Federal Government says that story is changing. Speaking during a meeting with members of the National Committee for the Advancement of Occupational Therapy, Audiology and Speech and Language Therapy Education,…