By: Abudu Olalekan Imagine this. Dark skies over the North Sea. Jets screaming across the waves. Sirens wailing in the distance. It’s not some Hollywood thriller. Nope. It’s NATO’s big annual nuclear drill, Steadfast Noon, firing up come Monday. Alliance boss Mark Rutte dropped the news Friday. Tensions? Sky-high. Russia’s been poking the bear—er, the…
By: Abudu Olalekan The clock in Washington ticked down. A digital display on social media showed the final seconds to midnight over the stark image of the Capitol building. It felt like a scene from a movie. But this was real. And then, just like that, it happened. The US government began shutting down. Yeah,…
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….
By: Oluwaseun Lawal The earth shook hard in eastern Afghanistan at exactly just some minute before midnight. It was a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit, which was followed by multiple aftershocks. Homes collapsed. Families were trapped. More than 800 people lost their lives, Taliban officials say. The quake rattled buildings from Kabul all the way to Islamabad…
By: Oluwaseun Lawal Something strange happened as Ursula von der Leyen’s plane was about to land in Bulgaria. The GPS system on her plane suddenly stopped working. Yep, GPS jamming. And fingers are pointing at Russia. At least, that’s what the European Commission said on Monday. Bulgarian officials suspect Moscow’s behind it. But here’s the…
By: Oluwaseun Lawal Sirens. Smoke. A city jolts awake. There’s 19 dead, four children, after Russian missiles and drones slammed into Kyiv on Thursday, carving a crater that tore an apartment block almost in two. Washington says the barrage undercuts ceasefire efforts, even as Moscow talks peace with one hand and keeps firing with the…
