By: Oluwaseun Lawal It was supposed to be another shoot day. Lights. Camera. Routine. Instead, it ended in silence. Two members of a Nollywood production team were found dead inside a parked vehicle at a filming location in Lekki Phase 1. The Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID Yaba, has now taken over the case,…
By: Oluwaseun Lawal They say the pain did not end when the headlines faded. A group identifying itself as the Coalition of Terror Victims in Kaduna State has asked for a full-scale investigation into alleged human rights violations said to have occurred during the eight years Nasir El-Rufai governed the state, from 2015 to 2023….
By: Oluwaseun Lawal The ballot is cast by hand. Counted by hand. Signed in ink. But what happens next, that’s where the real fight is. At a technical session on the Electoral Act amendment convened by ActionAid Nigeria in Abuja, senior lawyer Femi Falana made his position clear — lawmakers must remove ambiguity and make…
By: Oluwaseun Lawal The message was blunt. No sugarcoating. Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, says someone needs to tell Peter Obi plainly — this is not the Southeast’s turn to produce Nigeria’s president. Speaking during an inspection of the ongoing reconstruction of the 56-kilometre Aba axis of the Enugu–Port Harcourt Expressway, Umahi warned that political…
By: Oluwaseun Lawal The sky will be watched closely on Tuesday evening. Very closely. The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, who also serves as President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, has asked Muslims across the country to begin searching for the new moon of Ramadan 1447 AH on February 17, 2026….
By: Oluwaseun Lawal It was a public show of confidence. Clear. Direct. President Bola Tinubu, speaking in Yola on Monday, praised his National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, saying he is doing an “excellent job” steering Nigeria’s fight against banditry and terrorism. The president made the remark while inaugurating projects executed by the Adamawa State Government….
