Gov. @SeyiMakinde and Bola Ahmed Tinubu's son, @SeyiTinubu, reportedly mobilized elements within the National Association of Nigerian Students (@NANSNIG ) against peaceful Take It Back Movement @tibmovement activists who were demanding an end to insecurity and the safe return of kidnapped school children.
This is exactly how movements grow. The #EndSARS protests gained momentum because Nigerian authorities under @Mbuhari responded to legitimate grievances with hostility instead of addressing the issues being raised.
The priority should be rescuing kidnapped children, securing schools, and protecting lives, not targeting citizens exercising their democratic rights. But they will never learn until it is too late.
#TakeItBack #RevolutionNow
Somebody said Charles Soludo cannot be a fool because he is a professor, he has a first class and was CBN governor.
But we have empirical evidence that being a professor does not cure human beings of foolishness or stupid behaviour especially in Nigeria.
1. Soludo was the fool who introduced useless polymer notes that fade, tear, and break even easier than paper notes. He tried to use the law to force people to bury their loved ones according to his personal preferences even though they were not breaking any laws.
2. Wole Soyinka: "I will audit Tinubu's government after 1 year." 3 years later, silence, while Yoruba people are being slaughtered like sheep by jihadists because of Tinubu's incompetence.
3. All the professors who rig elections for corrupt politicians, then go back and die of a stroke because those politicians could not provide good healthcare, or end up in prison while the politicians sit in the senate.
4. Godwin Emefiele; first class graduate, CBN governor. You would expect that if he wanted to steal, he would steal like someone with common sense.
But he stole like a fool. The fool went and built 700+ housing units in Lokogoma as if he owned Nigeria.
He made a stupid new note monetary policies that caused pain and death to Nigerians.
Now he shuttles between prison and court, clutching a Bible ; a big fool and a hypocrite.
5. INEC chairman Prof. Amupitan got caught supporting the APC and was asked to resign. He then appointed INEC, where he is chairman, to investigate him, and of course found himself innocent, despite evidence showing he owned the Twitter account. Absolute foolishness.
The examples of professors being more foolish than sheep are endless.
So anytime a fool tries to use professorship to gaslight you, especially in Nigeria, tell them to get out.
Bola Tinubu: the man who took the bullet for Nigeria to survive
By Bayo Onanuga
With politicking intensifying ahead of the January 2027 election, opposition politicians have escalated their campaign of misinformation and calumny to diminish the impact and achievements of this administration over the last three years.
Two years ago, when the administration was struggling to deal with the unintended consequences of its historic reforms, the campaign would have made sense. But not anymore, as the administration can rightly claim bragging rights for what it has achieved against all odds and why the international community is applauding it for putting Nigeria irrevocably on the path of growth and development.
The impact of the three-year-old government is best felt at the subnational level - state and local levels. States that hitherto were unable to pay salaries by May 2023, with months of unpaid obligations to their workers and pensioners, are now doing so with ease and dreaming big about infrastructure. In every state I have visited, I have seen this development. Ogun, my state, Oyo, Nasarawa, Enugu, Ebonyi, Kaduna, Kano, Kebbi, Katsina, and others have witnessed development projects spring up, thanks to President Tinubu's re-engineering of the federation's finances and increased allocation to the states. When local councils begin to receive their allocations directly from the Federation Account, the Tinubu effect will ensure that more governance cascades down to the 774 local councils.
State governors who have benefited from this policy have openly admitted that increased allocations have enabled them to bring social and infrastructural development to their states. Many opposition PDP governors who joined the APC did so for this reason—not for the baseless claim that President Tinubu bribed them. Governor Abdulrazak said in December 2024 that his administration embarked on more projects in the first 18 months of Tinubu’s presidency than in his first four years. The Governor of Ebonyi, Nwifuru, who is building iconic underpasses and overpasses in Abakaliki, credited his ambition to President Tinubu. Governor Peter Mbah similarly attested to this, crediting the Naira rain from the centre for his programmes. And Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule, who understands how Tinubu’s financial re-engineering and the end of the subsidy regime have increased the states’ fortunes, said President Tinubu “has taken the bullets for all of them.”
In May 2023, President Tinubu inherited acute petrol scarcity, an unsustainable petrol subsidy regime due to expire in June 2023, multiple exchange rates, arbitrage, and low revenue, with at least 30 states unable to pay workers, let alone fund infrastructure and social projects. Debt servicing consumed 97 per cent of Federal revenue. Additionally, food scarcity and inflation plagued the country as farmers abandoned their fields, recording massive losses amid the currency squeeze introduced by former CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele.
President Tinubu, guided by the Renewed Hope Agenda, wasted no time. He threw the ruinous subsidy out of the window from Day One. Days later, he floated the Naira and ended the artificial fixing of the Naira-to-dollar exchange rate, a system that had enabled well-connected individuals to profit effortlessly. Tinubu declared a food emergency and announced the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms to examine our outdated tax laws, some of which date back to the colonial era. Immediate gains included encouraging dry-season farming, with subsidies and inputs provided for farmlands abutting dams and irrigation sites in at least 14 states.
Even by President Tinubu’s admission, the early months and the first year were tough as the government implemented its programme. The cost of living went up, and businesses claimed the harmonised exchange rate had put them in the red. A few companies even closed shop and left our shores. On the streets, some Nigerians claimed that the policies have left them hungry, a sentiment the opposition still parrots to this day, without any empirical proof. If not sure of the salience of his reforms, President Tinubu would have taken a reverse gear in fright and abandoned all the new reform policies amid the avalanche of attacks from critics and opposition elements in the media. Instead, he persisted.
Two years after the first challenging year, the story has changed for good. However, some opposition elements are stuck in the sentiment of 2023/24, unyielding and adamant about acknowledging the many gains and milestones achieved by the Tinubu administration. But only the blind will fail to admit that this government has taken the country miles away from the state it inherited in 2023.
The stock market is clear proof of the administration’s economic success. In May 2023, Tinubu met the All-Share Index at 53,000 points and the market capitalisation at N30 Trillion. Today, the ASI has risen five times, to a record 250,000 and a market capitalisation of N160 Trillion. Blue-chip companies, including those initially negatively impacted by government policies, are declaring record profits and dividends. Equally, foreign portfolio investors are flocking in to partake in the Nigerian boom. This is not a bubble. It shows that a fundamental paradigm shift has occurred in the economy, all thanks to the Tinubu administration's policy direction.
In recent weeks, I revisited the manifesto and policy ambitions that won us the election. The Tinubu administration has faithfully implemented its Renewed Hope Agenda, striving to resolve in three years the cumulative problems of decades.
Roads that will outlast this generation are being built nationwide. I recently went home to Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, and was amazed that the highway to my town from the Shagamu intersection now has a concrete pavement, thick enough to withstand the traffic of trailers from the West to the East. The most audacious road projects ever undertaken by any administration since independence are the Illela-Sokoto-Badagry and the Lagos-Calabar coastal superhighways. President Shehu Shagari conceived the Sokoto-Badagry highway in the early 80s. Succeeding administrations, afraid of the huge cost, abandoned the road. The Lagos-Calabar has also been on the map for decades, but no leader has ever dared to turn the idea into reality. President Tinubu has proven to be a transformative leader who has decided to turn the roads into reality, adding new roads to our road network for the first time, beyond those we inherited from the colonialists. Myopic critics of the two roads have assailed the Tinubu administration for taking loans to accomplish them. How else could the roads have been built if we rely only on FG’s share from FAAC? Relying solely on federal allocations would mean waiting 50 years or more, with costs ballooning out of reach, as in the metro-rail to nowhere started by presidential aspirant Rotimi Chibuke Amaechi in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. In the states, governors are building roads of similar standards. I saw some of these in Ogun, Kaduna, Ebonyi and Enugu.
As with roads, the Tinubu administration is also investing heavily in rail transportation, with the Kaduna-Kano-Gusau-Maraadi rail network scheduled for completion next year. City rail networks in Kaduna, Lagos, Kano and Enugu have been approved for construction, along with the Lekki-Ibadan rail.
When historians write about the Tinubu administration in 2031, they will not remember it only for audacious road and rail networks, but also for historic reforms. The oil and gas sector is one area in which the administration has impacted the country. Apart from ending the regime of wasteful subsidies, the government has instituted reforms that have made the sector attractive to fresh investment. International Oil Companies(IOCs) that once shunned our country are returning with billions of dollars in investment. Domestic refining and the innovative Naira-for-crude policy are ensuring energy security, thereby avoiding acute scarcity arising from the disruptive war against Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. More recently, the administration enacted a policy requiring the NNPC to remit oil sales proceeds to the Federation account.
Confronted by the administration’s stellar performance, the opposition and media propagandists dredged up a campaign video of the President promising a 24/7 power supply. They distorted his words. What he actually said was: “Whichever way, by all means necessary, you will have electricity, and you will not pay for an estimated bill anymore. A promise made will be a promise kept. If I don’t keep the promise and I come for a second term, don’t vote for me, unless I give you adequate reasons why I couldn’t deliver.”
What the distorters failed to admit was that the Discos, privatised since 2013 by President Goodluck Jonathan, are responsible for delivering power to the end consumers, not the Federal Government. What this government has done in the last three years has been to address the problems hindering the capacity of Discos to deliver, such as bringing Siemens to strengthen the grid, activating idle GENCOs, and planning to clear the N4 trillion legacy debts owed to GENCOs and GASCos, which will encourage new investments in the sector. The government has also massively implemented its metering policy, providing over 2.5 million meters to homes. Recently, the Tinubu administration announced the establishment of GAMCO, the Grid Asset Management Company, which will optimise power supply and activate idle facilities.
One of the administration’s impactful programmes, apart from issuing passports in less than a week, is the introduction of NELFUND and CREDICORP in 2024. While Credicorp is making loans available to civil servants to buy Made-In-Nigeria products, NELFUND, with N282 billion committed so far, has made tertiary education more accessible for our children. About 1.6 million Nigerian students have benefited. Payment of school fees and stipends is assured for the children, and the government has also renegotiated the 2009 ASUU-FG agreement, such that in the last three years, our universities, along with the Polytechnics and Colleges of Education, have been spared the disruptive academic strikes. Let’s give the Tinubu government some slack: a four-year programme is now a four-year programme. He promised it during the campaign and has delivered. The government has also invested in technical schools, offering students pursuing vocational education allowances. In the universities, TETFUND is once again funding research grants for dons willing to pursue ideas that will be useful to our society.
Among impactful programmes, apart from issuing passports in less than a week, are NELFUND and CREDICORP, introduced in 2024. Credicorp makes loans available to civil servants for Made-In-Nigeria products, while NELFUND, with N282 billion committed, has made tertiary education more accessible. About 1.6 million students have benefited. School fees and stipends are assured, and the government has renegotiated the 2009 ASUU-FG agreement, sparing universities from disruptive strikes. Today, a four-year programme in the universities, polytechnics and colleges of education is completed in four years. Technical schools offer allowances to vocational students, and TETFUND is funding research grants to academics.
It has not been all rosy the past three years, especially in the area of making our people safe from the band of bandits and terrorists. While the armed forces have been locked in an asymmetrical war against these heartless elements, neutralising their leaders and foot soldiers in several theatres of conflict, the displaced terrorists are attacking vulnerable areas in some of the states, killing and kidnapping. The government is unrelenting in providing the armed forces, intelligence agencies, and police with the tools they need to wage the war. With support from friendly governments like the US, France, and the UK, there is hope that the menace of kidnappers and their political sponsors will become history. The man who has taken the bullets to make Nigeria survive a fiscal disaster is even more willing to take additional bullets to make all Nigerians safe.
-Onanuga is Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Information and Strategy
This whole thing is surreal.
Atiku Abubakar — banned from the United States for a decade for laundering $40 million, his fourth wife caught taking $1.7 million in Siemens bribes, now running for president with the Butcher of Kaduna on his ticket — just hired a Washington fixer.
The fixer's name is Karl Marx.
I am not making this up. The man Atiku just paid $1.2 million is legally named Karl-Marx Edward Ikemefuna William George Okeke-Von Batten. FARA filing. April 1, 2026. Look it up.
A Nigerian-American Republican fundraiser named after the father of communism. Hired by a longtime Caliphate-aligned Northern strongman. To lobby a Trump White House that just slapped Nigeria with a Country of Particular Concern designation.
Six installments. Twelve months. $1.2 million. Atiku didn't even sign it himself — sent an ADC officer to put pen to paper.
You don't hire Karl Marx if you have a clean record. You hire Karl Marx because Caliphate connections won't get you a meeting with Marco Rubio.
Now — what this means for the narrative war.
Tinubu has DCI Group. Nine million dollars. Atiku has Karl Marx. One-point-two million. Two wings of the same Caliphate. Two competing fixers. Same Washington game.
For political tourists, this looks like a real fight. APC versus ADC. Hatchet versus hatchet.
For the people on the ground — it isn't.
Watch what Atiku attacks. Fuel subsidies. The economy. Tinubu's competence. Tinubu's mandate. Watch what he never attacks. The genocide. The Sultan. The Middle Belt killings. The Sharia constitution. The IDP camps Abuja denies exist. The blasphemy lynchings. The Catholic schoolchildren still missing in Niger State.
He cannot. The moment he does, his Northern base evaporates. So he won't. Ever.
Which means the entire ADC-versus-APC narrative war is a fight over surface things only. Subsidies. Inflation. Cabinet appointments. Who gets the contracts.
For the people fighting actual darkness in Nigeria — the IDPs, the Plateau widows, the Middle Belt pastors, the Igbo families still mourning Kanu — the difference between Karl Marx and DCI Group comes down to three questions.
Who signs the checks.
Who gets bashed online.
Who gets snaps taken with Washington honchoes.
That's the whole fight.
The genocide doesn't get mentioned. The Sultan doesn't get touched. The constitution doesn't get rewritten. The displaced don't get counted. The Butcher of Kaduna stays on the brochure.
We can watch with some grim entertainment as Karl Marx takes whacks at Tinubu over the next twelve months. It will be loud. It will trend. It will not change a single thing for the children buried at Yelewata.
Real opposition doesn't need a fixer. Real opposition has the people.
Atiku doesn't have the people. He has $1.2 million and Karl Marx.
The Plateau widow can't afford a fixer. Neither can the St. Mary's parents.
They don't need one. They need a free election, a new constitution, and self-determination on the ballot.
That fight doesn't cost $1.2 million.
It costs courage.
#EarthShaker
INEC CHAIRMAN AMUPITAN MUST GO.
INEC CHAIRMAN AMUPITAN MUST GO.
INEC CHAIRMAN AMUPITAN MUST GO.
INEC CHAIRMAN AMUPITAN MUST GO.
INEC CHAIRMAN AMUPITAN MUST GO.
INEC CHAIRMAN AMUPITAN MUST GO.
INEC CHAIRMAN AMUPITAN MUST GO.
It seems increasingly clear that @joashamupitan's position at @inecnigeria hangs on less than a thread & has become untenable. The responsible thing for him to do is to re-consider his position & extend thanks to his appointor for the consideration.
When Niger delta militants were active, they never claimed Christianity as their religion and never said they were fighting for Christianity. They clearly told Nigerians they were fighting for oil.
When Boko Haram came, they never said they were fighting for resources. They clearly told Nigerians and the world that they were fighting for Islamic caliphate. That's the difference. One fought for resources, and the other is fighting for religion. It's stupidity to try to lump them together as one.
The Southern Traditional Council Stands as One; We Don't Want to Take Out the South-east; We All Work Together.
We work together with a lot of South-eastern traditional rulers for the betterment of Nigeria. This council is optional; you don't need to join us if you don't want to, but it is a force among traditional institutions.
-Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi
Fellow Nigerians, behold the members of the conference committee constituted by the leadership of the Senate and House of Representatives.
These legislators will harmonize the differences in the electoral bills passed by both chambers. All Nigerians demand is COMPULSORY real-