
Olatunji Ololade
Associate Editor at The Nation
Multiple Award-winning Journalist, Multimedia Specialist, Editor
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2 weeks ago |
thenationonlineng.net | Olatunji Ololade
To walk the trails of Hurti today is to plod through ash and blood. It is to inhale the silence of a town stripped of laughter and homesteads where children’s voices once echoed, until they got choked forever by gunfire. Hurti, that rustic hamlet cradled within Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State, was not the first, nor, ominously, the last.
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3 weeks ago |
thenationonlineng.net | Olatunji Ololade
Life becomes breathtaking for once, and only once, everyday, for Aliyu Salisu. Just before dusk, while he is perched on the rail tracks of Galadima, in the bowels of Maiduguri, Borno State. Out there, in the sweltering heat, he tastes the unprecedented cool of ‘Ice.’ He sees for the umpteenth time, the city’s limitless possibilities and his place amid the urban sprawl.
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3 weeks ago |
thenationonlineng.net | Olatunji Ololade |Gbenga Bada |Alao Abiodun
It will be near impossible to forget in a hurry the night change-makers and impactful Nigerians were celebrated recently by the Hallmarks of Labour Foundation (HLF). Keeping faith with the established tradition of excellence that has defined previous editions, the annual award event celebrates distinguished Nigerians who have lived up to expectations, for their exemplary leadership.
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1 month ago |
thenationonlineng.net | Olatunji Ololade
Even vultures do not feast on their young. Yet in Hurti, Nigeria nourished on the blood of her children. The narrative is bloodcurdling: severed throats of innocent children, salty tears of sorrowing mothers, and decapitated fathers who bled out. The victims’ fates invoke the mindless grief of a nation too brutalised to feel empathy. Yet Hurti’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. The horror that befell the hamlet on April 2nd is no accident of history.
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1 month ago |
thenationonlineng.net | Olatunji Ololade
How a hamlet’s pain became Nigeria’s shameThe terror of moving on: Child survivors of genocide spiral in throes of trauma – PsychiatristAt least 52 children, adults murdered across Bokkos council, 1,820 displacedCulprits will be prosecuted – President Tinubu, NSA RibaduThere was no pity on the edge of the blade that butchered the Mangut boys. There was no mercy in the heart that furnished the knife.
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