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GOD BLESS NIGERIA 🇳🇬 AND NIGERIANS. FREIGHT FORWARDING,IMPORT AND EXPORT CLEARANCE.

[Anambra State New Media @AnambraNewMedia]

Peter Obi, where is our Ecological Fund—the core of your recent challenge—where you gave specific details: the account number, the bank, and the branch, and stated categorically that you left over ₦2.13 billion as at the date you handed over on 17 March 2014?

[Naija @Naija_PR]

The biggest risk in this cocaine case may not have been arrest, it was the attempt to solve a temporary money problem with a potentially permanent consequence

NDLEA says a 25-year-old newlywed businessman was arrested at Enugu airport while allegedly attempting to travel to Portugal with 72 wraps of cocaine inside his body. The agency says he later expelled the packets and reportedly told investigators he entered the alleged trafficking arrangement to offset expenses from his recent wedding. These remain allegations; he has not been presented here as convicted.

That explanation, if accurate, carries a wider lesson.

Wedding debt is temporary. But trying to escape it through an extremely high-risk decision can create problems far larger than the original financial pressure: loss of income, legal expenses, disrupted travel, reputational damage and enormous strain on a new marriage.

There was also a danger that had nothing to do with law enforcement. Swallowing drug packets can be medically life-threatening; research on “body packing” shows that a packet can rupture and cause acute cocaine poisoning, while intestinal obstruction is another recognised complication.

That makes the alleged reason particularly striking.

Someone may be trying to recover money spent celebrating the beginning of a marriage, yet the method chosen can potentially threaten health, freedom, livelihood and the marriage itself.

The broader lesson is not really about expensive weddings.

Temporary financial embarrassment is usually cheaper than an irreversible shortcut taken to escape it.

[Anambra State New Media @AnambraNewMedia]

PRESS RELEASE

26th September, 2026

PETER OBI’S DEBTS AND LIES: MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS

Introduction:

We watched the interview by HE Peter Obi, CON, on Arise TV on 24th September, 2026, where he tried to equivocate about the settled matter of his legacy of debts in Anambra

[Rasaq Akorede Olojede @Olojede_25]

Earlier today, I was joined by Hon. Abolore Ariyoh, Vice Chairman of Oriade LCDA, other Executive Members, the Legislative Council and Management Team to monitor the September Environmental Sanitation Exercise.

⏰ 6:30 AM – 8:30 AM
🚛 Immediate waste evacuation
🧹 Community sanitation
🌱 Cleaner surroundings

As we mark the spirit of World Cleanup Day, let’s remember: keeping our communities clean is everyone’s responsibility.
Clean Oriade. Healthy Community. Shared Responsibility.

#OriadeLCDA #CleanerLagos #EnvironmentalSanitation #WorldCleanupDay

[Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT]

Under our Renewed Hope administration, Nigeria remains open to partnerships that deliver meaningful benefits at home and create opportunities for our people.

I welcome the agreement signed in New York by the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake @AlakeDele, and US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau to deepen American investment in Nigeria’s mining sector and help unlock the potential of our mineral resources, estimated at about $700 billion.

From the beginning, we made a deliberate choice to move Nigeria away from simply extracting and exporting raw minerals. We tied new mining licences to local value addition and have worked to attract investment into processing and refining here at home.

That policy is already producing results. New processing plants are being established, billions of dollars in investment commitments have entered the sector, and investor interest in Nigeria’s critical minerals continues to grow.

Our ambition now is to deepen this progress across the entire mining value chain, from exploration and extraction to processing, refining and manufacturing.

At every stage, Nigerians must benefit. Our geologists, engineers and technicians must find work. Our young people must acquire new skills. Local contractors, transporters and suppliers must have opportunities to build businesses. Processing closer to where minerals are found should bring industry, infrastructure and better livelihoods to mining communities.

We are also changing what Nigeria sells to the world. We want to process more here, manufacture more here and export higher-value products.

The agreement with the United States builds on the progress we have already made. We welcome partners who bring capital, technology and expertise and are prepared to create value with us here in Nigeria.

Our mineral wealth must create Nigerian jobs, grow Nigerian businesses and bring greater prosperity to the communities where these resources are found. This is how we turn the reforms we have made into opportunities for every Nigerian.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR
President
@NGRPresident @NigeriaGov

[Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT]

I welcome the commencement of construction of the $12 million Abuja Centre for Entrepreneurship, being developed at the SMEDAN Industrial Development Centre in Idu, Abuja, with support from the Republic of Korea through KOICA @KorEmbNigeria and in partnership with SMEDAN @SMEDANGov and UNDP @UNDPNigeria.

The Centre will support the wider MSME ecosystem by providing workspaces, digital infrastructure, training, incubation and business support for entrepreneurs, start-ups and growing businesses.

It will begin with 500 aspiring entrepreneurs, 400 start-ups and 1,500 MSMEs.

[Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT]

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Across Nigeria, there are people with ideas, skills and the ambition to build businesses of their own.

What often stands between an idea and a viable company is access to the right tools, workspace, technology, training, finance and business support.

When those gaps are closed, businesses have a better chance to survive, expand and employ others.

That is why investments such as this are important to the work we are doing to strengthen enterprise, deepen our digital economy and create more opportunities for Nigerians in every part of the country.

[Rasaq Akorede Olojede @Olojede_25]

ORIADE LCDA YOUTH TECHNOLOGY EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME

I am delighted to announce my sponsorship of a 100% FREE Technology Training Programme for youths and children of Oriade LCDA, in partnership with KODE 10X Technology Solutions Ltd.

This initiative is my commitment to equipping our young people with future-ready digital skills and creating pathways to global opportunities.

AVAILABLE COURSES:
🔹 Cybersecurity
🔹 Frontend Engineering
🔹 Product Design (UI/UX)

HOW TO APPLY:
Visit https://t.co/SvHzEhbLGI, click “Apply Now”, or scan the QR code complete the form, select one course, and submit.

For Enquiries: 08038070884 | 08079010652

Applicants should also indicate their interest at the Office of the Executive Chairman, Oriade LCDA Secretariat.

The future is Tech, and together, we are preparing our youths for it.

[Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT]

The decisions we have taken to reposition Nigeria’s oil and gas sector are beginning to bear fruit.

Since assuming office, I have signed a series of Presidential Directives and Executive Orders to make investment in Nigeria more competitive, reduce the cost and time required to develop projects, provide greater certainty to investors and ensure that our natural resources deliver greater value to our people.

One of those reforms introduced specific incentives to unlock onshore and shallow-water gas projects that had remained undeveloped for years.

Today, we are seeing the result.

AMNI International and TotalEnergies have taken an $800 million Final Investment Decision to develop the Ima Gas Field, discovered in 1973 and left underground for more than fifty years.

For Nigerians, this means work for our engineers, technicians and contractors. It means opportunities for Nigerian businesses, jobs and economic activity in our host communities, and more export earnings for our country.

AMNI, a Nigerian company, holds the majority interest in the project. Around 60% of the development workforce is expected to come from the host communities.

Ima is expected to produce about 350 million cubic feet of gas every day at peak and supply about one-third of the gas required for the expansion of Nigeria LNG.

This is what our reforms are intended to achieve, to move Nigeria’s resources from potential to production and translate them into jobs, incomes and opportunity for our people.

We have more to unlock.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR
President

[Prince Jay Ile Oodua @DPrince_Jay]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo kneels before his mentor, Professor Adeyemi Aderibigbe Ologbenla, the Ile-Ife Prince and Lion of the Giesi Dynasty, during his 100th birthday celebration❤️🦁.

[Anambra State New Media @AnambraNewMedia]

In the video, the then-Speaker of the Anambra State House of Assembly -Rt. Hon. Anayo Nebe-now deceased—not only condemned the Peter Obi-led administration but also branded Peter Obi the governor who dragged Anambra workers “from grace to grass.”

[Presidency Nigeria @NGRPresident]

ICC CASE: AB SUNRISE POWER AND TRANSMISSION COMPANY LIMITED (SUNRISE) V. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA (NIGERIA) V. MR. LENO ADESANYA

An International Arbitration Tribunal under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, today, September 17, 2026, issued an award in favour of our country, rejecting the claims in the arbitration instituted by Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Ltd (Sunrise).

The company had made a claim against the Federal Republic of Nigeria, demanding $680 million as a settlement sum and interest in respect of another arbitration in which it is claiming over $2.7 billion in compensation and interest relating to disputes associated with the development of the 3960mw Mambila Hydroelectric Power Project, located in Taraba State.

This latest decision affirms the Nigerian State's determination not to succumb to predatory and exploitative claims by corrupt local and international entities and their enablers and funders.

On behalf of the Government and People of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I strongly commend the tremendous efforts of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi and the entire team at the Federal Ministry of Justice for their efforts in this matter.

I also commend the FRN defence team, led by Ms Elizabeth Oger-Gross and Mr Tolu Obamuroh, both of Paul Hastings LLP, for their professional and excellent defence of the country.

I commend the patriotism and support of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, and late President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, who testified in the case, which dated back to an illegal 2003 contract to build a 3,050-megawatt hydroelectric plant in Taraba State under a build-operate-transfer model. The Federal Executive Council never authorised the contract.

I thank the other witnesses in this case, including former Ministers Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, and Suleiman Adamu, and the experts, for their active participation in defending Nigeria's interest in the arbitration.

I commend the National Security Adviser for his support and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for its investigation into the case.

I want to assure you that while our country remains committed to partnering with genuine investors and honouring its legal obligations, it will continue to defend all opportunistic claims instituted against our commonwealth strongly.

Today's ICC ruling clears the single biggest legal hurdle that has paralysed the Mambilla hydro power project for years.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

@officialABAT

PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU,
September 17, 2026

[THE TROJAN BEAST @THETROJANBEAST]

MAMBILLA MONEY TRAIL: How a $500,000 Offshore Wire Reached Atiku’s Wife — and What U.S. Senate Bank Records Reveal

By- Ishola Adebiyi I Trojan Beast Investigation

An investigation of records separated by 16 years shows that the controversial $500,000 transaction examined in the Mambilla arbitration was already sitting in U.S. Senate files long before the latest political controversy.

The most important document in tracing the Mambilla payment is not a Nigerian political statement. It is a 2010 report of the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Keeping Foreign Corruption Out of the United States: Four Case Histories. The bipartisan staff investigation reviewed millions of pages of material, conducted more than 100 interviews and issued more than 50 subpoenas, including demands for banking records.

Those records establish something very specific: on January 30, 2003, China Castle Investments sent exactly $500,000 into the personal Citibank account of Jennifer Douglas, who was then married to Nigerian Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.

More than two decades later, that same transaction resurfaced in the International Chamber of Commerce arbitration over the Mambilla hydroelectric project, where Sunrise Power promoter Leno Adesanya acknowledged that he made the transfer through China Castle Investments and said it was an FX transaction conducted for Atiku. The tribunal reportedly rejected the evidentiary basis for that explanation, while stopping short of finding that Atiku himself received a bribe or used his office to procure the contract.

THE U.S. SENATE HAD THE BANK TRAIL IN 2010

The Senate investigation devoted an entire case study to Atiku Abubakar and Jennifer Douglas. It was titled “Abubakar Case Study: Using Offshore Companies to Bring Suspect Funds into the United States.”

The Senate said that between 2000 and 2008, more than $40 million in funds it classified as suspect entered the United States through transactions associated with Douglas and offshore corporations. Nearly $25 million went into U.S. accounts opened by Douglas, while other transfers funded American University-related activities and other accounts. The report also documented Douglas's position that she understood the offshore deposits to be coming from her husband.

The Senate did not say that every dollar in this broader $40 million pool was proven proceeds of corruption. “Suspect funds” was the investigative classification used by the Subcommittee. That distinction is important.

What is not ambiguous, however, is the existence of the China Castle transaction.

The Senate wrote that Douglas received a single wire transfer of $500,000 from China Castle Investments on January 30, 2003. Citibank told Senate investigators that it had no additional information about the company and regarded the transaction as “questionable.” The Senate records further state that China Castle did not appear again in the Douglas-related banking records.

WHAT THE ACTUAL SENATE BANK-RECORD TABLE SHOWS

The Subcommittee compiled a table from banking records obtained from Citibank and other institutions. To avoid reproducing a private account number in full, the personal Citibank account is shown here only by its final four digits.

Originator recorded by SenateDate / periodAmountRecipient identified in Senate records

Siemens AG2001–2002$1,772,644Douglas personal Citibank account ending 6374
China Castle Investments30 Jan. 2003$500,000Douglas personal Citibank account ending 6374
LetsGo Ltd. Inc.Apr. 2003–Oct. 2006$7,424,620Douglas personal Citibank account
LetsGo Ltd. Inc.May 2005–May 2007$5,550,000Douglas/AUN Citibank account
Guernsey Trust Co.Jun. 2006–May 2007$3,049,940Douglas personal Citibank account
Other offshore transfers recorded in the tableVariousAdditional millionsDouglas/AUN and related accounts

The complete Senate chart totals $26,436,869 in offshore-company wires to the U.S. accounts covered by that particular table. Crucially for the Mambilla story, it gives China Castle, the date, the $500,000 amount and Douglas's Citibank account as the destination.

The Senate separately stated that China Castle Investments sent its money from a bank account in Switzerland and that investigators did not know where China Castle itself was incorporated.

That produces a documented banking chain:

China Castle Investments → Swiss bank account → $500,000 international wire → Jennifer Douglas's personal Citibank account in the United States → January 30, 2003.

That part of the trail comes from U.S. Senate banking evidence, not from the 2026 political debate.

WHAT DID JENNIFER DOUGLAS TELL THE SENATE?

This is another important part of the record.

When investigators asked Douglas about China Castle Investments and several other offshore corporations—including LetsGo, Sima Holding and Guernsey Trust Company—her lawyers told the Subcommittee that she had “no personal knowledge of these entities.”

But the response did not end there.

According to the Senate report, Douglas understood that, to the extent those corporations were depositing money into her accounts or an American University of Nigeria-related account, the deposits came from her husband.

That statement is particularly significant today because the 2026 arbitration evidence reportedly supplies information the Senate did not possess in 2010: Leno Adesanya's acknowledgement that he was behind the $500,000 China Castle transfer.

The Senate itself wrote in 2010 that the China Castle payment was troubling because investigators could not determine why a company about which they could find little information had transferred half a million dollars to Douglas.

In other words, Washington had documented the transaction, but not its alleged commercial explanation.

ENTER LENO ADESANYA — 23 YEARS LATER

According to reporting based on a review of the 2026 ICC final award, Adesanya acknowledged the transaction in his evidence.

His position was that he had made the transfer through China Castle Investments as part of a foreign-exchange arrangement for Atiku. The reporting quotes his witness statement as saying he transferred $500,000 “to the Abubakars” through China Castle Investments in early 2003.

That is a remarkable convergence with the older American records.

The Senate independently recorded in 2010 that China Castle wired $500,000 to Douglas on January 30, 2003.

The 2026 arbitration evidence reportedly identifies Adesanya as the person behind that transfer.

Adesanya's explanation was that Atiku supplied naira in Nigeria and received the equivalent $500,000 abroad through the transaction.

Nigeria, on the other hand, argued in the arbitration that the payment was connected to Sunrise's attempt to obtain the Mambilla contract. Sunrise and Adesanya denied that allegation.

THE PROBLEM WITH THE FX EXPLANATION

The tribunal did not simply treat Adesanya's account as established fact.

According to the award as reported, Adesanya said he operated a bureau-de-change business through Moneyline Ventures Limited. He claimed that the $500,000 represented foreign currency purchased for Atiku using naira.

But the tribunal identified major evidentiary gaps.

There was reportedly no contemporaneous bank record establishing Atiku's alleged naira payment to Adesanya; no documented exchange rate; no written instruction from Atiku or an aide directing the conversion; no invoice or receipt establishing the transaction; and no correspondence demonstrating the supposed commercial FX arrangement. Neither Atiku nor Douglas provided testimony corroborating Adesanya's account in the arbitration.

There was another problem.

The company that actually wired the money was China Castle Investments, not Moneyline Ventures.

Adesanya reportedly acknowledged under cross-examination that China Castle itself was not licensed to conduct foreign-exchange transactions and that foreign-exchange dealings did not fall within its stated corporate purposes. The tribunal consequently said evidence that Moneyline possessed a bureau-de-change licence would not by itself explain why China Castle was the entity sending the $500,000.

The tribunal therefore did not accept the evidence as proving Adesanya's claimed bona-fide FX explanation.

NOW PUT THE PAYMENT ON THE MAMBILLA TIMELINE

This is where the transaction assumes considerably greater significance.

Sunrise Power and its Chinese partner had pursued the Mambilla project from 2001.

According to the tribunal chronology reported from the award, Sunrise wrote both President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku in October 2001 about its interest in developing Mambilla. Atiku and his team subsequently met Sunrise and representatives of its Chinese partner on November 13, 2001.

In July 2002, Atiku led a Nigerian government delegation to China. Adesanya was part of that delegation. During the visit, Nigerian officials and Chinese entities signed an understanding covering several power projects, including Mambilla.

Then the timeline narrows considerably.

On approximately January 15–16, 2003, Sunrise presented its tender to a government technical committee.

On January 30, 2003, China Castle sent the $500,000 to Douglas's Citibank account.

On March 12, 2003, the technical committee recommended Sunrise for the Mambilla project.

And on May 22, 2003, then Power Minister Olu Agunloye issued the disputed letter that Sunrise subsequently relied upon as evidence that it had obtained the Mambilla BOT project.

So the documented chronology is:

January 15/16: Sunrise presentation
→ January 30: $500,000 China Castle wire to Douglas
→ March 12: technical committee recommends Sunrise
→ May 22: Agunloye issues disputed Mambilla letter.

Timing alone does not prove bribery. But it explains why Nigeria put the transfer before the tribunal and why the tribunal examined whether Adesanya's claimed FX explanation was adequately supported.

THE SENATE RECORD MAKES THE 2026 EVIDENCE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT

Had the only evidence of the payment emerged during Nigeria's arbitration defence, questions could reasonably be raised about whether it was simply an allegation produced during hostile litigation.

But the U.S. Senate documented the transaction sixteen years earlier.

Its investigators were working from Citibank information and other banking documents. Their report identified the same sender, the same recipient, the same amount and the same date:

China Castle Investments — January 30, 2003 — $500,000 — Jennifer Douglas's personal Citibank account.

Citibank itself had already characterized the China Castle transfer as questionable to Senate investigators.

The Senate further established that China Castle used a Swiss bank account and that Douglas, through counsel, said she understood offshore deposits of this type to originate from her husband.

What the arbitration adds, according to reporting on the final award, is Adesanya's own acknowledgement that he caused the $500,000 transfer and regarded it as a transaction for Atiku/the Abubakars.

That is the key connection between the old American banking investigation and today's Mambilla dispute.

BUT WHAT HAS NOT BEEN PROVED?

There is an equally important evidentiary boundary.

The records reviewed here do not show a $500,000 wire going directly into a bank account in Atiku Abubakar's own name. The documented recipient account belonged to Jennifer Douglas.

Nor did the ICC tribunal, according to reporting on its findings, rule that Atiku personally accepted a bribe.

It reportedly found that the circumstances raised serious questions and that Adesanya had failed to substantiate his foreign-exchange explanation, but it also said the evidence did not establish that Atiku actually exercised his official functions to secure Sunrise's contract.

That distinction should remain clear in any publication.

The evidence supports saying:

“Leno Adesanya's China Castle Investments transferred $500,000 to Atiku's then-wife's U.S. account during the Mambilla procurement period; Adesanya later said the transaction was undertaken for Atiku, while failing to produce contemporaneous evidence substantiating his claimed FX explanation.”

The currently available evidence does not justify turning that sentence into:

“Atiku was proved to have received a $500,000 Mambilla bribe.”

Those are not the same claim.

THE WIDER SENATE MONEY TRAIL

The China Castle transaction was only one small component of what the Senate uncovered.

The Subcommittee's case study said that from 2000 to 2008, Douglas helped bring more than $40 million in funds the Senate classified as suspect into the United States, involving offshore corporations and U.S. financial institutions. The Senate documented approximately $25 million entering accounts opened by Douglas and additional millions going to American University-related and lawyer-controlled accounts.

Its banking table alone showed $26.4 million in offshore-company transfers involving Siemens AG, China Castle Investments, LetsGo, Guernsey Trust Company and Sima Holding.

The Senate also found that Citibank undertook reviews of transactions involving China Castle and LetsGo in 2003 and classified approximately $1.7 million in transfers under review as questionable. Citigroup eventually closed the Douglas-related accounts in 2007 after years of compliance scrutiny.

The Senate's records also show Douglas wrote Citibank in November 2003 describing, among other sources of income, $500,000 per year in maintenance from her spouse. The report noted that the letter did not identify or explain the offshore companies transferring money into her accounts.

THE 2026 MAMBILLA VERDICT

The broader arbitration eventually ended adversely for Sunrise.

On September 17, 2026, Nigeria's presidency announced that an ICC tribunal in Paris had rejected Sunrise's claims relating to the Mambilla project. The government's statement said Sunrise had sought $680 million in connection with a settlement dispute alongside another arbitration involving claims exceeding $2.7 billion.

Independent arbitration database Jus Mundi identifies the proceeding as Sunrise Power and Transmission Company and Leno Adesanya v. Federal Republic of Nigeria, ICC Case No. 26260/SPN/AB/CPB, seated in Paris.

The government's public announcement confirms the result of the arbitration. The detailed account of the $500,000 evidence comes from reporting by journalists who reviewed the final award; the full award itself was not publicly accessible on Jus Mundi when checked.

CONCLUSION: TWO INVESTIGATIONS, ONE $500,000 TRANSACTION

This is what makes the Mambilla money trail unusually significant.

In 2010, the United States Senate documented a $500,000 transfer from an obscure offshore company called China Castle Investments, using a Swiss bank account, into Jennifer Douglas's personal Citibank account on January 30, 2003. The Senate could not determine why China Castle paid her and Citibank considered the transaction questionable. Douglas told investigators through counsel that she understood offshore deposits into her accounts to have come from her husband.

In 2026, during litigation concerning a multibillion-dollar dispute over the Mambilla project, Adesanya reportedly acknowledged that he caused the China Castle payment and said it was a $500,000 transaction for Atiku. His explanation was that it was an innocent FX deal, not a payment connected with Mambilla.

But according to the tribunal findings reported from the award, the documentary trail needed to establish that FX explanation—naira payment records, instructions, correspondence, exchange-rate records and transaction documents—was not produced.

That leaves one central fact beyond serious documentary dispute:

On January 30, 2003, while Sunrise's Mambilla proposal was moving through the Nigerian government, $500,000 moved from China Castle Investments through the international banking system into the U.S. Citibank account of the vice-president's then-wife.

The U.S. Senate bank records prove the transfer occurred.

Adesanya's arbitration evidence reportedly establishes who was behind the transfer and his claimed reason for making it.

What remains distinct—and should not be overstated—is whether that payment was intended to influence an official decision. The tribunal examined that allegation but did not make a finding that Atiku personally received a bribe.

That distinction separates the documented money trail from the allegation about its ultimate purpose.

[Bayo Onanuga, OON, CON @aonanuga1956]

STATEHOUSE PRESS RELEASE:

PRESIDENT TINUBU: THE LIFE OF EVERY NIGERIAN MATTERS, GOVERNMENT WILL NOT TOLERATE MASS DEATHS CAUSED BY OFFICIAL NEGLIGENCE

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday ordered a full and transparent investigation into the deaths of suspected illegal miners detained by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) following enforcement operations around Lt Gen Mohammed Inuwa Wushishi Estate in Minna, Niger State.

President Tinubu said the life of every Nigerian matters and that no citizen should lose his life while in government custody as a result of negligence, abuse, inhumane treatment or dereliction of duty.

The President expressed deep concern over the reported deaths, describing the development as a grave matter that requires urgent investigation and accountability.

“While the Federal Government would continue to combat illegal mining and other criminal activities across the country, enforcement operations must be conducted strictly within the law and with full respect for the dignity and fundamental rights of every person in custody.

“The fact that these individuals were suspected of illegal mining does not in any way remove their right to life, dignity and humane treatment while in government custody. Government will not tolerate mass deaths arising from official negligence, dereliction of duty or failure by public officials to protect the lives placed under their care.

“Where the investigation establishes that any official, through action, abuse or negligence, contributed to these deaths, such an officer must be arrested and prosecuted in accordance with the law. There must be accountability,” the President said.

President Tinubu directed the relevant authorities to ensure that the investigation is comprehensive, transparent and unhindered, covering the circumstances of the arrests, the condition of the detainees when they were taken into custody, the conditions under which they were detained, the number of persons held in the facility, the medical attention provided and the events leading to their deaths.

“ The suspension of officers is only an administrative step and must not substitute for a proper determination of criminal responsibility where the evidence warrants prosecution”, the President said.

He directed the Ministry of Interior and the NSCDC leadership to cooperate fully with all relevant investigative authorities and ensure that no officer interferes with the process or attempts to frustrate the establishment of the truth.

President Tinubu extended his condolences to the families of the deceased and prayed for the repose of their souls.

He also appealed for calm among the families and communities affected by the tragedy, assuring them that the Federal Government would pursue the truth and take appropriate action based on credible evidence.

“We must never allow the pursuit of one form of illegality to create another. The government must enforce the law firmly, but it must also obey the law. The sanctity of human life is non-negotiable,” he said.

Bayo Onanuga
Special Adviser to the President
(Information & Strategy)

September 18, 2026

[Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT]

It was a pleasure to share a private dinner with President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris. @EmmanuelMacron

Our conversation reaffirmed the strong friendship between Nigeria and France, as well as our shared commitment to deepening cooperation and building a mutually beneficial partnership between our two nations.

I thank President Macron for his warm hospitality and friendship.

@NigeriaGov @NGRPresident

[TheCable @thecableng]

REVEALED: Sunrise promoter transferred $500,000 to @atiku’s wife during Mambilla negotiations in 2003

Leno Adesanya, promoter of Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Limited, has told an international arbitration tribunal that the $500,000 he transferred to Jennifer Douglas, now former wife of ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, in January 2003 was part of a foreign-exchange transaction carried out for Atiku.

The payment was made on January 30, 2003 — less than four months before Sunrise was purportedly awarded a build-operate-transfer contract for the Mambilla hydropower project — through China Castle Investments Limited, an offshore company controlled by Adesanya.

https://t.co/4fpl3Q0fj2

[Sholy Nation Sports @Sholynationsp]

📊 Lionel Messi 🆚 Kylian Mbappe in 2026:

🇦🇷 Messi: 33 goals, 17 assists
🇫🇷 Mbappe: 32 goals, 8 assists

Messi is 39 years old! 🐐

[#TheSportsIlluminator 🤝 @RayToluAyo]

The MLS trophies discussion is making me laugh 🤣🤣🤣

A lot of you clearly don't know how MLS works

MLS is not structured like a traditional football league

If you follow the NBA, you will understand the MLS format better

The MLS uses the NBA format

The Major League Soccer (MLS) is a league made up of clubs from both the United States and Canada

30 teams in total
🇺🇸 USA - 27 teams
🇨🇦 Canada - 3 teams

There is no promotion and relegation

🏆 MLS TROPHIES

1. MLS Cup
This is the championship awarded after the playoffs

18 teams qualify for the playoffs
9 from the Eastern Conference
9 from the Western Conference

Teams compete within their respective conferences

The Eastern Conference champion plays the Western Conference champion meets in the MLS Cup final

2. Eastern & Western Conference Championships

Teams in each conference compete through the playoffs to determine the conference champion

The winner of the Eastern Conference receives the Eastern Conference trophy while the Western Conference winner receives the Western Conference trophy

Winning a conference does not mean you have won the MLS Cup

3. Supporters' Shield

This goes to the team that finishes the regular season with the most points, before the playoffs

You can win the Supporters' Shield and still lose the MLS Cup playoffs

The Supporters' Shield is therefore not the MLS Cup

4. U.S Open Cup 🇺🇸

This is the domestic cup competition for clubs in the United States

Canadian MLS clubs do not participate

5. Canadian Championship/Voyageurs Cup 🇨🇦

This is Canada's domestic cup competition, involving Canadian clubs, including the Canadian MLS teams

US teams do not participate

6. Leagues Cup 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽

A tournament involving clubs from MLS and Liga MX (Mexico)

7. Campeones Cup 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽

A super cup style competition between the MLS Cup champion and the Liga MX champion

That is the MLS league breakdown

[Anambra State New Media @AnambraNewMedia]

H.E. Peter Obi, you said you owed no one. You lied. You vowed to quit your 2027 campaign if even one person was shown. Water Corporation staff protested. Records are clear; survivors still testify. Those debts are yet to be fully cleared even today.

The records are clear!

[Soar Africa! @SSE_NGA]

All three Falconets goals against England. ⚽️⚽️⚽️

A performance to build on as they advance into the last eight.

#U20WWC