Guns & Roses

[Kemisola @Stainlesz05]

Peter Obi speaks about his issues with Kenneth Okonkwo.

[Felix @felixherbt]

My respect for Peter Obi has doubled.

He did a full one-hour-plus interview with Seun without mentioning Tinubu’s name or discussing Keyamo and the airport saga. He went straight to national issues: making roads safe for motorists, agriculture for all, and improving the economy for everyone.

Peter is their nightmare.

[Peoples Gazette @GazetteNGR]

2027: Tinubu should focus on his health; he can’t do more, says ex-SGF Babachir Lawal https://t.co/vWSh0gwiMz

[Peoples Gazette @GazetteNGR]

Your drug trafficking case punishable by death in China, Atiku fires back at Tinubu
https://t.co/zkwFpS19rs

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

PRESS STATEMENT

PENALTY FOR DRUG RELATED OFFENCES IN CHINA IS DEATH- ATIKU REMINDS TINUBU

Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has described as a monumental own goal the Presidency's attempt to invoke China in attacking him, saying the comparison has only exposed President Bola Tinubu to even greater public scrutiny.

In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku said it was ironic that while the Presidency has been busy parading the United States Government's routine reply to its diplomatic correspondence as though it were a love letter, a trophy and a certificate of innocence rolled into one, its spokesman carelessly introduced China into a conversation where the comparison immediately rebounds against his own principal.

"It takes a peculiar kind of unintelligence for a spokesman to set out to drag an opponent before a hypothetical Chinese court, only to end up dragging his own principal into the dock.

"Perhaps the spokesman did not realise that the maximum penalty under Chinese law for the most serious drug trafficking offences is death. Having chosen China as his benchmark, he unwittingly invited Nigerians to examine the very standard he thought would embarrass Atiku Abubakar.»

"The facts are neither complicated nor disputable. Atiku Abubakar has never been indicted or convicted by any court in Nigeria or anywhere else in the world for corruption, narcotics offences or, indeed, any criminal offence whatsoever. That is an incontrovertible matter of public record.

"If, however, the Presidency insists that China is now the standard by which public accountability should be measured, Nigerians are equally entitled to ask what the Chinese authorities would have done in a case involving $460,000 forfeited to the United States Government in a civil forfeiture proceeding concerning funds alleged to be connected to narcotics trafficking and money laundering.

"China is renowned for its uncompromising approach to narcotics-related offences and public accountability. It is not a jurisdiction where the forfeiture of suspicious proceeds ordinarily marks the end of official scrutiny. More often than not, that is where scrutiny begins.

"And since the Presidency has elected to make China the reference point, let us go a step further. The Tinubu administration should acquaint itself with the Chinese criminal justice system's uncompromising treatment of corruption, abuse of public office and the misappropriation of state resources.

"Not in China would a President sign into law a national budget immersed in scandals, padding and duplicitous appropriations. Not in China would a President look the other way while a senior presidential aide faces grave allegations of creating a fake government agency. Not in China would a government campaign on Renewed Hope only to deliver renewed hardship to its citizens. These are precisely the reasons the Presidency should have been more circumspect before invoking China.

"That is precisely why the Presidency's argument has collapsed under the weight of its own contradiction. By invoking China, its spokesman has unwittingly invited Nigerians to apply the very standard he thought would embarrass Atiku Abubakar.

"Indeed, President Tinubu may wish to reflect on whether a spokesman who so casually drags his own principal into such an avoidable comparison has truly served his interests. A media adviser is employed to protect his principal from political landmines, not to march him straight into one.

"The Presidency should also stop brandishing the United States Government's reply to its diplomatic correspondence
Signed:
Phrank Shaibu
Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication to Atiku Abubakar, Vice President of Nigeria (1999–2007) and Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

25th July, 2026

[Peter Akah @Peter4Nigeria]

No amount of Rice, agbado and kulin kulin can buy this kind of Love❣️

This can only be GRACE❗️

Everywhere he goes Peter Obi @PeterObi brings Joy, Compassion and Hope for a Brighter Future ❗️

Continuously proving why he remains the Hope for Nigerians in 2027❗️

OBI in OGOJA/YALA 🎤🇳🇬😍

[Daily Post Nigeria @DailyPostNGR]

Tinubu has lost his soul’ – Babachir Lawal
https://t.co/bykkbTTyXk

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

director of the Department of State Services (DSS), says the appointment of Isa Pantami as minister of communications and digital economy by former President Mohammadu Buhari raised national security concerns and exposed weaknesses in Nigeria’s security vetting process.
Amachree made the assertion in ‘DSS @40: My Journey Behind the Shield’, a memoir chronicling his four decades in Nigeria’s intelligence service.

[Harry Da Diegot @trigottista]

Yorugbas no even hungry like this under GEJ before dem put am for coffin

[aloy ejimakor @AloyEjimakor]

I ENDORSE THIS … Long overdue.

Ironsi’s 60th memorial to hold in Abia State

The family of the late Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigeria’s first Military Head of State, has concluded plans to hold his 60th memorial anniversary in Umuahia, Abia State on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.

The family will also hold a memorial mass for his wife, Lady Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, on Sunday, August 2, 2026.

According to his son, Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi, in a statement signed and released by him today (Sunday), the event will be held at the Aguiyi-Ironsi Tomb Site in Umuahia and will feature a wreath-laying ceremony.

“The anniversary provides an opportunity for the nation to honour the memory, leadership, and sacrifices of a distinguished Nigerian patriot whose contributions to national unity and development remain enduring.

“The Memorial Mass of Her Excellency Noble Lady V.N. Aguiyi-Ironsi will hold on Sunday, 2nd August, 2026 at St. Theresa Catholic Church, Afara-Ukwu, Umuahia, Abia State. Time: 10:00 am”, the statement said.

Thomas, who was a former Minister of State for Defence and Minister of Defence, noted that President Bola Tinubu, Abia State Governor Alex Otti, and other notable Nigerians are expected to grace the occasion.

Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi died on August 23, 2021, at the age of 97, at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia. She was born on November 21, 1923.

Aguiyi-Ironsi was born on March 3, 1924, and was assassinated on July 29, 1966, during the July counter-coup.

A Nigerian military officer who served as the country’s first Military Head of State, Ironsi assumed office during the ensuing chaos following the January 15, 1966 military coup.

He was assassinated by a group of military officers from the Northern Region led by Murtala Muhammed.

[Isi Kote Ebu @Isikotebuogbaya]

Nnamdi Kanu is now causing big problems for Nigeria...

BIG PROBLEMS !

[Esther Umoh @EstherUmoh10]

The women of Ogoja came by to welcome HE Peter Obi to their town.

[Savour By Meire @savourbymeire]

Good Food Deserves Commendation

Savour By Meire - Port Harcourt’s Fine Dinning Destination !

[Sahara Reporters @SaharaReporters]

Schools Will Never Work In Nigeria If Government Officials Send Their Children Abroad For Degrees And Your Money Is Paying The Bills, By Daniel Nduka Okonkwo | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/oEfoDTzwMy

[Femi Obaf @OBAF4U]

4 years snap-shot of Daniel Bwala

[Harry Da Diegot @trigottista]

Yorugbas are tweeting that Geh-Geh is Igbo? 😂

I never see tribe wey dumb like this.

[CHUKS 🍥 @ChuksEricE]

Umuada (Community Women) in Isiagu Carry Man in a Wheelbarrow as They Set to Punish Him for Allegedly Repeatedly Ass@ulting His Wife.

[aloy ejimakor @AloyEjimakor]

Tinubu’s US fund forfeiture is a moral question, not criminal

By ALOY EJIMAKOR

Tinubu’s US fund forfeiture raises moral question but it’s not criminal. I know this for sure, because I trained and practiced law in the US for several years, during which I represented a handful of Africans (mostly Nigerians and Cameroonians) in similar forfeiture proceedings. And barring a few, the rest forfeited some money but lived happily ever after as un-convicted persons.

To be sure, under U.S. law, the distinction between a criminal conviction and a civil asset forfeiture is foundational and statutorily distinguished from each other.

The certified record of the pertinent proceedings in the Tinubu case show that the 1993 forfeiture of $460,000 from bank accounts linked to President Tinubu was strictly a civil in rem proceeding, not a criminal in personam conviction.

Strictly governed by 18 U.S.C. § 981, civil forfeiture targets property based on its connection to alleged unlawful conduct, rather than establishing personal criminal liability. It is under this law that the US government (in United States v. Funds in Account No. 263226700 et al., No. 93 C 4483 (N.D. Ill.) filed a CIVIL complaint directly against the Tinubu funds or bank accounts, thus resulting in a compromised settlement without a judicial finding of guilt.

Contrast with the very next provision, to wit: 18 U.S.C. § 982 which specifically deals with CRIMINAL forfeiture and thus requires a finding of guilt and a personal conviction. Truth be told, this is not what happened in the Tinubu matter.

But even in the US, the matter was controversial until 1996 when, in United States v. Ursery, 518 U.S. 267 (1996), the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that civil in rem forfeitures are civil, non-criminal remedial actions against property, distinct from criminal punishment which is considered in personam. It was under this principle that the Tinubu funds were considered property, connected to alleged unlawful conduct, but sans criminal liability.

While critics are free to leverage the underlying allegations of narcotics proceeds to argue moral turpitude or fitness for public office, the legal reality remains distinct, and that is: Tinubu was never charged, tried, or convicted of a crime. Therefore, conflating his civil asset forfeiture with a criminal guilt misinterprets statutory mechanics and the binding judicial precedents on point.

And this is just an unbiased restatement of the black letter law, not any support for President Tinubu. After all, his men harshly detained me for several days in October last year for allegedly participating in the #FreeNnamdiKanu protest, for which I am still on trial that comes up on 31st July.

#AloyEjimakor.

[Guns & Roses @AnonymousFace07]

@MadridXtra The magician

[Guns & Roses @AnonymousFace07]

@MadridXtra @TeleFootball Since Real Madrid can't pay him let him join Arsenal, it's win win for everyone.