By: Abudu Olalekan For a while, there were claims making the rounds about a so-called “Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council” — a fake agency that had somehow found its way into Nigeria’s 2026 Federal Government budget. And for a moment, fingers were pointing in the direction of the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi…
By: Abudu Olalekan Time is fast running out for twelve state governors. By the time most of them bow out in 2027, and two of them in early 2028, they’ll be leaving behind a hefty debt bill — about N5.3tn in combined domestic and external obligations. That’s according to findings by Reportersroom, based on data…
By: Abudu Olalekan For the first time in recorded history, 2024 saw the world’s average temperature go above 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels. That alone was enough to raise alarm bells. But climate scientists don’t judge the course of global warming by a single year. Still, the writing was on the wall — we’re clearly…
By: Abudu Olalekan IPOB just dropped a 14-day ultimatum. List and hear Nnamdi Kanu’s appeal or they mobilise a boycott of the 2027 polls. Across the South-East and what they call Biafraland. Mazi Chris Nwaogu, their Head of Directorate of State, said it Monday in a video. Government rushed the conviction then went quiet on…
By: Abudu Olalekan The EFCC just told former Bayelsa governor Timipre Sylva to show up. He’s wanted for that alleged $14.86 million fraud. Spokesman Dele Oyewale said it Monday after Sylva claimed the agency acts like an APC tool, not a real state body. “He has been declared wanted; he should make himself available to…
By: Abudu Olalekan Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian came out Tuesday and said he’d match any US step back toward that June deal meant to stop the fighting. He’s heading to meet Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Kyrgyzstan. The two sides were supposed to talk on the sidelines. Russia and China push this…
