By: Abudu Olalekan ILO and UNICEF train Nigerian policymakers to strengthen social protection systems. Learn how capacity-building workshops aim to reduce poverty and build resilience. Last week in Abuja, something big happened. Not the kind of thing you’d see on the news. No drama. No shouting. Just a quiet, two-day workshop where people actually tried…
By: Abudu Olalekan Former Jigawa Governor Sule Lamido – a heavyweight in the party – has flat-out rejected the endorsement of Tanimu Turaki (SAN) as the consensus candidate. He’s not just unhappy; he’s threatening to drag the whole party to court. All this, just weeks before the November 15-16 national convention in Ibadan. The Scene…
By: Abudu Olalekan Game on. EU leaders just blinked. Sort of. They gave the green light for a possible 90% emissions cut by 2040. Big deal? Yeah. But… not really. Not yet. Here’s the messy part. At that big summit Thursday, EU bosses finally hashed out “competitiveness and the twin transition.” Fancy words. Basically: how…
By: Abudu Olalekan Here’s the deal. Nigeria’s weather’s about to get seriously messy, and I mean seriously messy. Our weather folks at NiMet, the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, just dropped the forecast, and it’s a real mixed bag. Dust haze. Rain. Possible, even likely, floods. And get this: it’s all happening back-to-back, from Monday right through…
By: Abudu Olalekan Nigeria’s fight against insurgents? It’s getting messier. Despite bullets flying and bombs detonating, over 500 senior military officers—think Major-Generals, Brigadier-Generals, even Rear Admirals—got the boot under Buhari and Tinubu. And it’s not just a number. It’s a pattern. The tradition’s brutal. New service chiefs come in. Boom. Anyone senior to them, or…
By: Abudu Olalekan Just last Friday. The corridors of power buzzed. President Bola Tinubu suddenly relieved his top military brass. Service chiefs, everywhere. Folks thought: “Coup?” Many whispered it. But here’s the scoop—no coup. Not even close. It all started with a brief statement from Tope Ajayi, the Senior Special Assistant on Media. He said,…
