By: Oluwaseun Lawal A name on a list. Then another. And another. In a sweeping update released on February 10, the United States Department of the Treasury, through its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), placed eight Nigerians on its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List — better known as the SDN List. The…
By: Oluwaseun Lawal That familiar visa sticker on your passport? It’s about to disappear. From February 25, 2026, Nigerians applying for UK visit visas will no longer receive the physical vignette pasted inside their passports. Instead, the United Kingdom will issue electronic visas — eVisas — as part of its shift toward a fully digital…
By: Oluwaseun Lawal It used to be routine. Last Saturday of the month. 7 a.m. No movement. Just brooms and buckets. That exercise might be coming back. Lagos State Government says the suspended monthly environmental sanitation could resume on or before March. The Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, dropped the hint on…
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…
