Philemon Audi

THE BIBLE READER.
THE PREACHER.
THE DEEP THINKER.
THE ENTREPRENEUR.

[Tracka @TrackaNG]

🚨 N962.83 Billion for SUVs and Empowerment Projects Exceeds the Combined Budget of Seven Key Federal Ministries in the 2026 Budget

Our review of the 2026 FG Budget uncovered another troubling pattern of opaque spending.

🚙 39 SUVs - N15.13 bn
👥 2,579 Empowerment Projects - N947.7 bn
Total: N962.83 bn

This is more than the combined N960.27bn allocation to seven key Federal Ministries:

🏭 Industry, Trade & Investment - N156.8bn
🏘️ Housing - N145.3bn
👩 Women Affairs - N169.39bn
⚖️ Justice - N150.7bn
🐄 Livestock Development - N177.6bn
✈️ Aviation & Aerospace Development - N87.3bn
🪔 Petroleum Resources - N73.1bn

Yet, only 70 of the 2,579 empowerment projects have clearly identified implementation locations.
This raises serious accountability concerns:
📍 How can citizens track projects with no stated location?
🔍 How can oversight institutions verify implementation?
💰 How can taxpayers know who ultimately benefits from these allocations?

The concerns don't end there, these projects are spread across 184 implementing agencies, many of which have no statutory mandate to execute empowerment programmes. Leading agencies 👇
📌 @fedccojiriver - 393 projects worth N127.1bn
📌 National Agricultural Development Fund - 6 projects worth N89.5bn
📌 @Fchdkgombe - 216 projects worth N88.1bn
📌 @officialfccib - 94 projects worth N36.9bn

Let us be clear, there is nothing inherently wrong with empowerment programmes! When well-designed and transparently implemented, they can improve livelihoods, create economic opportunities, and support vulnerable Nigerians.

However, experience over the years has shown that many poorly defined empowerment projects have become vehicles for political patronage, rewarding loyalists rather than delivering broad-based benefits to citizens. When projects have no clear location, no transparent beneficiary selection process, and are assigned to agencies without the appropriate mandate, public confidence is eroded, and accountability becomes difficult.

This concern is even more pressing given that the 2026 Budget is projected to be financed with a deficit of about 46%. At a time when government is borrowing heavily to fund public expenditure, every naira should be directed toward investments with clear development outcomes, measurable impact, and value for money, not opaque allocations that citizens cannot effectively track.

A budget should not only allocate resources, it should also inspire public confidence. Every budget item should have a clear purpose, a defined location, an implementing agency with the legal mandate to deliver it, identifiable beneficiaries, and measurable outcomes.

📄 The comprehensive list of these allocations is available on our website 👉https://t.co/I2JL8eByF7

#Publicfundsmustworkforthegoodofthepeople
#Askquestions

[Philemon Audi @AudiPhilemon]

Absolutely

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

If you told anyone at the beginning of 2023 that Danladi Umar, @aamalamiSAN, & @elrufai will all be in judicially-sanctioned administrative detention in #Nigeria, the person cld have pronounced you mad, & justifiably too.

But here we are.

The terrible thing about about supporting injustice is the precedent you gloat at because it afflicts your enemy can come back to ensnare you.

Power is transient & - for those abusing it today - No condition is permanent.

https://t.co/bcilMTJfo2

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

If you told anyone at the beginning of 2023 that Danladi Umar, @aamalamiSAN, & @elrufai will all be in judicially-sanctioned administrative detention in #Nigeria, the person cld have pronounced you mad, & justifiably too.

But here we are.

The terrible thing about about supporting injustice is the precedent you gloat at because it afflicts your enemy can come back to ensnare you.

Power is transient & - for those abusing it today - No condition is permanent.

https://t.co/bcilMTJfo2

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Theologian JD Hall on the corrupting lie of Christian Zionism.

0:00 What Is Christian Zionism?
2:50 What Is Dispensationalism?
20:40 What Is Jesus Christ's Role in Dispensationalism?
26:26 Who Killed Jesus?
35:45 The Scofield Bible and How Dispensationalism Was Used for Political Gain
42:42 How Zionism Took Hold in the West
45:31 How Does the Secular State of Israel Fit Into This Theology?
47:25 Israel's Persecution of Christians
53:19 What Is the Muslim View of Jesus?
58:45 Israel's Propaganda Campaign on Christians
1:10:04 Israel's Evil AI Targeting Programs
1:14:23 Is Modern Judaism the Jewish Religion of the Old Testament?
1:21:08 What Are Mike Huckabee's Motives?
1:24:22 Are Christians Waking Up?
1:39:16 Can Christians Support War in Iran?

[Philemon Audi @AudiPhilemon]

So very terrible 😭😭

[usman @secmxx]

This are the people kidnapped from Ariko village in kachia lga of kaduna state.. They have been in captivity by bandits for 78 days now and the bandits are demanding ₦1 billion ransome and 35 bikes, some of the victims are dead already and a pregnant woman in the group gave birth 2 weeks ago....the terrorist is bold enough to post ransome videos on TikTok..... No bandit or terrorist deserves a second chance...

[usman @secmxx]

This are the people kidnapped from Ariko village in kachia lga of kaduna state.. They have been in captivity by bandits for 78 days now and the bandits are demanding ₦1 billion ransome and 35 bikes, some of the victims are dead already and a pregnant woman in the group gave birth 2 weeks ago....the terrorist is bold enough to post ransome videos on TikTok..... No bandit or terrorist deserves a second chance...

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk broke down in an interview and said "I wish my dad was a better person." What his father did while Elon was building SpaceX is something most sons would never recover from.

While Elon was pouring everything into making humanity multiplanetary, his father was talking behind his back. Selling family secrets. Contradicting Elon publicly. Claiming credit for his success.

Then the incest story about Jana broke. His stepdaughter. The children. The revelations that made global headlines.

Elon addressed it once. Barely. He said his father was a terrible man who had done terrible things. He said he tried to give his father the benefit of the doubt for years and was proven wrong every time.

Then in one interview the composure cracked. He said quietly that he wished his father had been better. Not angrily. Sadly. The way someone speaks about a wound that never fully closed.

He built SpaceX to reach Mars. He built Tesla to fix energy. He built Neuralink to fix the brain. But he can't fix the one relationship that shaped him before any of those companies existed.

The man who solves impossible engineering problems cannot solve the simplest human one. How to have a father who loves you without destroying you.

Some problems don't have engineering solutions. Some wounds just stay open. And sometimes the man building the future is still bleeding from the past.

[Philemon Audi @AudiPhilemon]

King of malice, no de cries on post cast like others @frankedoho I had learned from you Sir.

[ⁿᵉʷˢ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. @RobertKennedyJc]

@SenWarren All those years in Congress and you have fixed nothing! You need to leave!

[Sola 🇨🇦 @SolaTheAnalyst]

The last time I was in Lagos I paid to enter a beach in Lekki.

Not a resort. Not a water park. A beach.

Sand. Water. A coastline that existed long before any of us were born.

Someone bought it. Fenced it. Put a gate on it. Now you pay to touch the ocean.

What kind of government sells its people access to nature?

Happy Democracy Day. 🇳🇬

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

@BafanaBafana You left your best attackers at home. 😭😭😭

[Bia Pulse @BiaPulse]

A notorious Islamic Fulani killer kidnapper, allegedly arrested by the Nigerian Police, was spotted live on TikTok.

Did the police release him as a ‘repentant terrorist’ or was he quietly bailed and allowed to walk free?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It wasn’t.

With rare exception, colonies were unprofitable, meaning more was spent building infrastructure like roads, railways, buildings, etc. than was exported.

And look at places like Singapore and Hong Kong. Both were colonies for a long time and yet they are extremely prosperous.

[Philemon Audi @AudiPhilemon]

True

[Coinvo @Coinvo]

ELON MUSK: "I don't believe Africa's poverty is caused by colonialism."

[Steven Kefas @SKefason]

Ignorance kills faster than cancer and many Nigerians are ignorant of their history. They think what is happening in the country is banditry and criminality 😆😆😆😆

[Steven Kefas @SKefason]

Have you been to the far North? There are prostitutes there too. They put on long veils and that is the difference.

[Maye Musk @mayemusk]

When you were young, I called you my encyclopedia, because everything you read you remembered. That’s a talent you cannot learn. Proud mom.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@aaditsh Hardware is hard

[Philemon Audi @AudiPhilemon]

Actually

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

These are all common sense!