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 You see it happen all the time. A footballer joins a new club, and everyone holds their breath. Will they live up to the hype? Will they score? Some guys, well, they just get straight to it. They don’t waste any time. And a select few, they hit the century mark faster…
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 Close your eyes. Picture this: a room thick with tension in New York. Not some stuffy conference hall. Real tension. The kind that makes your palms sweat. António Guterres stood there last Friday. UN Secretary-General. Face grim. Words dropping like stones. “The threat is accelerating and evolving,” he said. Not future tense….
