By: Abudu Olalekan Dark night in Ngoshe. Gwoza, Borno State. Terrorists strike. Boko Haram. Again. They hit a military base first—82 Division Task Force Battalion. Guns blazing. Then storm the community. IDP camp too. Women snatched. Kids gone. Soldiers down. Chief Imam killed. Brutal. Hearts sink. Word spreads fast. Vice-President Kashim Shettima—Borno boy himself—reacts quick….
By: Abudu Olalekan President Bola Tinubu just rolled out a fresh squad of diplomats. Sixty‑five names, sixty‑five countries, a whole new diplomatic roster for Nigeria. The news landed on a Friday that felt like any other in Abuja—traffic jam, hawkers shouting, a few bored journalists scrolling on their phones. Yet the announcement carried a weight…
By: Abudu Olalekan A heavy silence now hangs where voices once rose loud and raw across the water lanes of Makoko. Months of uncertainty, sparked by looming bulldozers near the shoreline, finally folded into stillness after lawmakers stepped in. Sogunro saw its narrow paths tremble beneath constant threat, each dawn bringing fresh anxiety instead of…
By: Abudu Olalekan A bullet ended the fugitive’s run deep inside Warake Woods. Four captives walked free that same morning. Gunfire cracked before dawn near Ujemen creek. One attacker fell, weapons scattered in wet leaves. Another pair of hands cuffed behind a back by noon. Trees stood quiet after days of whispered threats. Boots returned…
By: Abudu Olalekan Tuesday started like any other. Turn in work due that day. Then go back to where he lived. Possibly stop for food before getting there. This had been how Balogun Sultan saw his afternoon unfolding. A student in the second year of his National Diploma at Yaba College of Technology, routine shaped…
By: Abudu Olalekan Even now it feels made up. Almost like a tale told around fires. Yet people lived through it. That day in Sepeteri, deep in Oyo State. Locked up at forty-three, Lateef Suleiman faces charges of killing his older brother – over something he saw while asleep. Not a fight. Not money. A…
