By: Abudu Olalekan It happened in a flash. A sharp, stinging slap. And it was all caught on camera. The video, short but brutal, hit the internet and just blew up. It showed a Divisional Police Officer, a man supposed to uphold the law, striking a young man during an arrest. The scene? Ushafa, a…
By: Abudu Olalekan It began with empty pumps. Frustrated drivers. Endless queues. No fuel. Just silence at the station. Then came the grumbling. And finally, action. On a hot Tuesday in Abuja, the House of Representatives couldn’t look away. The showdown between PENGASSAN, the oil workers’ union, and the $20 billion Dangote Refinery had snarled…
By: Abudu Olalekan It was a quiet afternoon in Port Harcourt. Agbo Adoga, just 15, stared at his screen. Heart pounding. Fingers trembling. Then he saw it: 1600. Perfect. Every single point. No mistakes. None. Agbo is the real deal. A Graceland International School prodigy. He just joined a tiny club—kids worldwide with flawless SAT…
By: Abudu Olalekan It’s November in Ibadan. The party’s national convention. A chance to reset and heal. So many eyes on this one. They need unity. They crave consensus. Inside that smoky room, three names kept popping up. Sule Lamido. Former Jigawa State strongman. Ahmed Makarfi. The calm hand from Kaduna. And Tanimu Turaki, SAN….
By: Abudu Olalekan It began as whispers in the dry heat of the northeast. Small towns attacked at dawn. Families torn apart. Soldiers outnumbered. But what started as a local insurgency has now morphed into something uglier—wide, tangled, and burning across borders. Today, insecurity in Nigeria and the broader Sahel isn’t just a story of…
By: Abudu Olalekan The sun in Keffi was stubborn that day. Hot, harsh, unrelenting. Yet inside the modest conference hall, cooled air and sharper words filled the space. Comrade Eche Asuzu, National Coordinator on Climate Change and Just Transition of the Nigeria Labour Congress, sat upright, voice steady but firm. “This time must be different,”…
