By: Abudu Olalekan Something big is brewing. A massive showdown. It’s between one of Nigeria’s biggest companies and a powerful union. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN for short, they’ve had enough. And they are not playing games. They have instructed their members, all of them, to just stop working….
By: Abudu Olalekan You know that feeling. You’re on a bus, just trying to get from one place to another. Maybe you’re tired, maybe you’re excited to see family, maybe you’re just staring out the window, watching the world go by. It’s supposed to be a regular trip. A quick journey from Abuja down to…
By: Abudu Olalekan Heat. Thick as ogbono soup.Drums. Thumping through cracked concrete.Mapo Hall. Packed. Sweaty. Breathing the same air as history. There he stood. Oba Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja. Robes heavy with centuries. Crown gleaming.His moment. But before the cheers could even catch fire…He dropped a truth bomb on President Tinubu. “My people sent me a…
By: Abudu Olalekan Silence.Then chaos. Not Hollywood. Not a drill. Real life. Last Thursday night. On the black water near Calabar. Seventeen souls. Just trying to get home.Gone. Snatched off a Sea Express Limited boat by men with guns. How? You ask.Easy. Because these waterways? They’re a labyrinth. Mangroves swallowing sound. Narrow channels where big…
By: Abudu Olalekan President Bola Tinubu steps up. Not to a podium. To us. To Ibadan. To the nation watching shaky phone screens. He clears his throat. Adjusts his agbada. And drops a line that’ll haunt Twitter feeds for days: “Your suffering is a pain of painful a surgery.” Pause.Wait… what? Yeah. That’s right. “Pain…
By: Abudu Olalekan Tuesday. UNILAG campus. Akoka. Sun beating down. Heat hugging the air like a thick blanket. Inside the lecture hall? Quiet. Then—a murmur. Andrew Wilson stepped up. His eyes scanning the room. “Its not just training,” he said. “It’s about leaders who’ll change Africa’s game.” The crowd leaned in. Chambers and associations across…
