By: Abudu Olalekan It started online. Then it ended up in a cell. Nura Distin, a journalist in Yobe, says he’s been thrown behind bars because he spoke up about the Managing Director of Yobe Microfinance Bank, Sheriff Almuhajir. The accusation? That Almuhajir was having a romantic thing with Distin’s wife. She works at the…
By: Abudu Olalekan There is finally some news on the 39 pupils and seven teachers taken from their schools in Oyo State. And according to the Chief of Army Staff, things are moving. Lt.-Gen. Waidi Shaibu broke his silence on Saturday. He was in Port Harcourt for an interactive session with media executives, part of…
By: Abudu Olalekan The APC stepped on a rake. Again. Last week, the ruling party dropped it’s revised list of National Assembly candidates for 2027. Sounds routine, right? Except it wasn’t. Names had changed. Winners from the May primaries? Replaced overnight. In their place? New faces. Some of them sitting senators who had originally lost….
By: Abudu Olalekan The Federal Government has come out swinging after two Nigerian nationals were killed in South Africa. They want the authorities over there to investigate. Like, yesterday. Whoever is responsible? They need to face the music. Sunday’s statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wasn’t gentle. Kimiebi Ebienfa, the ministry’s spokesperson, laid it…
By: Abudu Olalekan The DSS means business. And they’re using Omoyele Sowore to prove it. At that book launch in Abuja, DG Ajayi didn’t mince words. Online insults against government officials? That’s going to cost you. He wants the full weight of the Cybercrimes Act brought down on offenders. Their plan is simple: pick a…
By: Abudu Olalekan It was a close one. But the Court of Appeal in Ibadan has spoken: hijab stays banned at UI International School. Back in 2021, a lower court ruled that the school’s ban on hijab violated students’ religious rights. Eleven girls, with help from Muslim Rights Concern, had taken the school to court….
