By: Akinde S. Oluwaseun Just hours after dusk, it happened. Not on some backroad. Not in a market crush. But right there — his own porch, under the weak glow of a single bulb. The lawmaker, representing Pankshin South in Plateau’s assembly, was grabbed. Dragged off. Gone. By gunmen. AIT says it was from his…
By: Akinde S. Oluwaseun It was supposed to be a chill hangout — just a bunch of uni execs swapping stories under the Idado sky. But for Damilola Balogun, a 400-level education student and soon-to-be president of UNILAG’s education students’ association, it turned into something else. Thursday afternoon, the waves were whispering danger. Locals were…
By: Abudu Olalekan Let’s get real. Body image struggles? They hit different after childbirth. Nollywood star Uche Ogbodo knows this too well. The actress just dropped a truth bomb: She got a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) for her mental health. Not for fame. Not for men. For herself. “I Didn’t Recognize Myself Anymore”Three C-sections. Three…
By: Abudu Olalekan The numbers don’t lie. And they’re brutal. Between 2000 and 2024, 7,646 Nigerians applied for asylum in Sweden. That’s two decades of desperation, hope, and—for most—rejection. The Breakdown: Who’s Fleeing?The data from Sweden’s Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) tells a grim story. 2000-2021: 6,783 applications2022: 2882023: 2002024 (so far): 375But here’s the kicker—88% of…
By: Abudu Olalekan India’s war on drugs just got real. And the numbers? Brutal. Last year, 660 foreign nationals were arrested for drug trafficking. Out of these, a staggering 106 were Nigerians. That’s right—Nigerians made up the second-highest group after Nepalese (203 arrests). The data, straight from the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), also showed Myanmarese…
By: Abudu Olalekan Night-time TV, harsh studio lights, one blunt guest. That was Thursday. Nyesom Wike, now lord of Abuja’s boulevards, faced the Politics Today cameras and—without clearing his throat—fired a broadside at folks begging ex-president Goodluck Jonathan to run again in 2027. “They’re stoking trouble,” he snapped. No fancy euphemism. Just trouble. He knows…
