Machiavelli

It is better to be feared than loved. If you cannot be both #Machiavellian

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Waking up after yesterday 🕺

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

Do this to protect yourself from heat this period. Watch and share!

[SportsDokita (Odogwu ☝️) @Sports_Doctor2]

I'm 💯 % for Peter Obi Presidency !

Pass it on !

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

An Open letter to the President of the Senate

[Manjul Vic🦅 @VictorManjul]

You fit just stroll enter one football viewing center, bar or lounge for TARABA, make you go Jam Peter Obi for there dey follow people talk.😂🔥

As for me, campaigning for, and ensuring that Peter Obi becomes Nigeria’s president is a matter of LIFE and DEATH⚠️‼️

#NigeriaWillBeOk
#2027RigandDie

[Sani Suleman Isah @sani_suleman_]

This petrol matter what should we do cause it is immoral how do we bring down this petrol price?

Watch till the end!

[Machiavelli @Machiavellian00]

@AramideOyekunle Hello Aramide,
I am interested.

[KAA @KAA_Truths]

A FIVE-STAR HOTEL IN ABAKALIKI: WHO WILL SLEEP IN IT?

Recently, I thanked the Governor, @FrancisNwifuru for reviving the 11-storey building that Ebonyi's first civilian governor, Sam Egwu, started and abandoned about 20 years ago. I pleaded that it should become a tech hub, managed privately, to train our youths.

Few days ago I learned that the government is converting the former trade centre into a 5-Star State Owned Hotel.

I searched for the budget. I couldn't find the contract sum anywhere in public reporting. A state with N17.18 billion in annual internally generated revenue is building a five-star hotel, and the public doesn't know what it costs.

So let's ask the question the government should have asked: who will sleep in it? Let me run a quick analysis using history and the challenges of other 5 Star Hotels in other states.

1. People point at Transcorp Hilton as the model. But look at why it works. It's a 670-room hotel at the centre of the federal capital, home to many of Nigeria's affluent citizens and foreign expatriates. Abuja has the presidency, the ministries, the National Assembly and the embassies. That's the demand that fills Transcorp Hilton.

And here's what Transcorp itself did outside Abuja. It bought the 146-room Metropolitan Hotel in Calabar in 2010. In 2024, it sold 100 per cent of it, saying its focus was now on Abuja and Lagos.

Read that again. Nigeria's most successful hotel company looked at a state capital, ran a hotel there for over a decade, and walked away. If Transcorp couldn't make Calabar work, what makes Ebonyi think it can make Abakaliki work?

Even in Port Harcourt, an oil city with a far bigger economy and population than Abakaliki, Transcorp, has spent 18 years planning without opening because they are not sure of the market. Meanwhile, it sold its Calabar hotel to focus on Abuja and Lagos. Private investors are cautious about five-star hotels outside Nigeria's biggest markets, yet Ebonyi's government is building one with public money.

2. Akwa Ibom built its own five-star hotel in 2007. It brought in Le Meridien, an international brand, to run it. Despite its location and facilities, the hotel performed poorly for years. By March 2017, the state government owed the operators N394 million, and had failed to fund the hotel's operating accounts. The brand pulled out in December 2017.

Akwa Ibom is an oil-rich state. If it couldn't sustain a government-owned five-star hotel, how will Ebonyi, the state with the second-lowest IGR in Nigeria?

3. Cross River built Tinapa at a cost of $450 million, including a plush 242-room hotel. Ten years later, it was a ghost town and a symbol of monumental waste, with the hotel desperately empty. When AMCON took it over in 2013, it absorbed N18.5 billion in Tinapa's debts.

Last year, I and my team reached a partnership agreement with the Cross River government to use part of the abandoned facilities there for the production of Big Brain Naija, but we backed out and chose a different place in Abuja after seeing the huge amount it would cost us to refurbish the facility.

Cross River is one of the states with the highest number of tourists sites, yet it failed. Is there any meaningful tourism site in Ebonyi?

4. ENUGU'S HOTEL PRESIDENTIAL was Built in 1963. It was the pride of the East. Then it was shut for nearly two decades, at times reduced to a grazing field for cattle. Why did it die? Not for lack of customers, but because of mismanagement and unsustainable debt. Government officials used the facility with impunity, lodging guests for days and weeks without paying.

That's what happens to government-owned hotels in Nigeria. They become free lodging for officials and their guests.

Let talk about EBONYI'S OWN TRACK RECORD:

We don't need to look far. In July 2025, the Ebonyi government terminated the private company managing the Ebonyi Shopping Mall and placed it under a Senior Special Assistant to the Governor.

So when this

[Aisha Yesufu @AishaYesufu]

Peter Obi and Kwankwaso are in NDC. Know the logo. #PeterObiIsInNDC #VoteNDC https://t.co/1w4CHVwQlJ

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

God bless everyone here and their extended families

As you have given, you will receive

[Machiavelli @Machiavellian00]

@Arsenal My favorite 💗 The Arsenal player of all time 🎈🎈🥳😘

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

This is an impressive analysis of the brainless approach to the subsidy removal done by the Tinubu government.

Wow. May God bless this man.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Protecting Every Vote. Winning 2027. Together.

My fellow Nigerians at home and abroad,

Over the past months, wherever I go and in your many messages, two questions keep coming up: How will our votes be protected in 2027? And how will we win?

These are fair questions, and you deserve direct answers.

This Sunday, I will answer you directly, and more importantly, listen to you. I will join you for A New Nigeria Global Digital Townhall. We will speak plainly about protecting every vote and the path to victory.

But this is not only about speaking to you. It is about listening to you. I want to hear your concerns, your insights and your strategies. This movement has always been built by you, and your ideas will shape what we do next.

Sunday, October 4, 2026
7:00 PM WAT/GMT | 2 PM EST | 12 PM MST
Attendance is by registration: https://t.co/tBtGQWtcun

Let us continue this conversation together. A New Nigeria is POSSIBLE. -PO

[Machiavelli @Machiavellian00]

@ChuksEmma947401 Hello,
Please, I'm interested.

[J. C. Okechukwu @jcokechukwu]

IGWE Orizu of Nnewi (The oldest Monarch in Nigeria today) was told to let someone from his family first marry an OSU before the people can believe his abolition exercise and what he did next was one for the history books.

Watch & Share 🔥🔥🔥

[KAA @KAA_Truths]

Once you refuse to support evil, they tag you Obidient. Such an honor. Obidients should be proud that the name is now used to describe those who are standing up against wickedness in high places in this country and PO should be appreciated as the Boss of millions of defiant Nigerians.

[Machiavelli @Machiavellian00]

@EBL2017 This Autistic demon of a footballer is very petty, and I LOVE IT!! 😌😌

[KAA @KAA_Truths]

Over 1 Trillion Naira budget allocation for INEC and over 200 Billion Naira of that money is meant for digital infrastructure, yet, INEC’s accreditation devices runs on an outdated Android 10 system Google abandoned years ago. Even their website runs on cheap security.

Earlier today I read Martins Uwakwe's post and dug deeper, and what's going on is alarming.

What started as one flagged link has turned into a documented mess. Martins, an AI governance researcher, found roughly 28 casino and gambling articles published directly on INEC's official website, inecnigeria. org, not adverts, not outbound links, actual pages hosted on INEC's own domain. Content ranged from "instant casino France" promotions to Czech-language gambling explainers, dressed up as normal blog articles.

But there’s something bigger that should worry every Nigerian more than the casino spam itself: most of these pages were published under the WordPress author name "Ajuma Achor." That name traces back to someone who once worked at Interra Networks, the tech vendor that has handled contact-centre and web services for INEC. Her own LinkedIn suggests she left that company years ago. Which means one of two things is true: either an old, unmonitored publishing account has been sitting open and exploitable on INEC's website for who knows how long, or someone who still has access is actively using it, possibly for paid SEO placements. Both possibilities are frightening.

A credential that can quietly publish dozens of gambling pages is a credential that could, in principle, publish a fake results announcement on election night.

And it's not just the main site. voters.inecnigeria. org, a subdomain that should be strictly about voter information was also compromised, at one point serving Russian-language content before it too went down.

It gets worse when you zoom out. This discovery came just weeks after INEC's own ICT director publicly confirmed that the Commission's core accreditation devices, the machines that verify voters at polling units are still running on Android 10, an operating system Google stopped actively supporting years ago.

So we are not just talking about a hacked blog. We are talking about an election body whose public website has an open backdoor and whose accreditation hardware runs on outdated, harder-to-patch software, all inside the same window of time, 142 days before the 2027 general elections.

Since this information has been trending since today, INEC is predictably trying to clean up. Which means, they don’t even have a team that monitors what’s going on there. 

The "clean-up" so far has been embarrassingly patchy.

The original casino article link now returns an Error 404 but it's archived on the Wayback Machine, so the evidence isn't going anywhere.

Instead of properly removing the compromised pages, several of them have simply been stripped down to blank "Uncategorised" headers. The infected pages are still live, just gutted, which tells you this is a rushed patch job, not a real security response.

No public statement yet from INEC on how the breach happened, how long it's been going on, or whether anything beyond public web pages was touched.

But beyond INEC. A July report on an Indonesian-linked gambling syndicate found similar casino content quietly planted across roughly 20 government websites in 16 African countries - Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, South Africa and more.

On Nigeria's Federal High Court website, researchers found an even sneakier version: the site looks completely normal to a regular visitor, but if you land on it from a gambling-related Google search, it serves you a casino page instead. And this isn't old news.

I checked the Kogi State Internal Revenue Service website myself just now, and a casino article is still live on it as I write this post.

Continue 👇🏾

[KAA @KAA_Truths]

The interview with the spokesperson of the President, Mr. Daniel Bwala is now live. Full video pinned on my profile

[EBL @EBL2017]

Just in case you forgot, here is a reminder why Mikel Arteta and Arsenal are so special tactically.

Arsenal work within a positional play model, but the team have been together for so long that it is barely identifiable. Combine that with the defensive prowess?

WOW!

THREAD! 🚨