When a Government Declares War on the Truth
President Donald Trump of America recently described Nigeria as “a now disgraced country.” The painful reality is that Nigeria’s challenges continue to deepen. Each passing day reveals deeper signs of decline, especially when a government becomes increasingly intolerant of truth and hostile to those who speak about the suffering of the people.
The Catholic Church has never functioned as an opposition party in Nigeria. Across military regimes and successive democratic administrations, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has maintained a principled voice on national issues and the nation’s conscience, commending governments when they deserved commendation and speaking the truth whenever national conscience demanded it. Its interventions are driven by a moral obligation, rooted in Christian social teaching, to defend truth, justice, and the common good.
The same applies to Nigeria’s major religious organisations. Bodies such as Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), the Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria (SCSN), the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), and the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) have repeatedly raised concerns over economic hardship, inflation, and insecurity. Living among the people, religious leaders often encounter the suffering of citizens firsthand. They speak because they witness families struggling with rising food prices, unemployment, and the fear created by kidnappings and insecurity.
As leaders, we should be gracious enough to listen to people and organisations that speak the truth to us and genuinely criticise us when things are not going in the right direction. As Governor, I had the opportunity of working with a very strong Council of Traditional Rulers, led by the Obi of Onitsha, and religious bodies that consistently criticised me and offered suggestions. This contributed greatly to our success in Anambra State, especially in critical areas like education and health.
Against this background, the attacks on the CBCN, and especially on His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, are deeply troubling. Even in 1998, when Pope John Paul II visited Nigeria and told General Abacha some hard truths, including about the incarceration of Chief Moshood Abiola, nobody vilified him.
During the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV in Rome, to demonstrate his purported commitment to and respect for the Catholic Church, President Bola Tinubu arrived in Rome days before the event, ahead of most other visiting dignitaries, including Catholics such as the U.S. Vice President, JD Vance. He participated in the liturgy, queued with other world leaders to greet the Holy Father, and displayed deep respect for the moral authority of the Church. Back in Nigeria, however, that posture has now changed completely.
What is playing out today also reveals how political leaders sometimes exploit religion and ethnicity to divide the people. Even when it was obvious that the CBCN was speaking on issues affecting Nigerians across religious and ethnic boundaries, aides to the President immediately reduced it to a “religious affair.” The question is: are insecurity, poverty, inflation, unemployment, and hardship problems exclusive to a particular faith? Do these challenges recognise religious or tribal boundaries?
The bishops merely expressed what millions of Nigerians experience daily: insecurity has worsened, poverty is deepening, inflation is crippling families, businesses are struggling, and hope is fading. These are realities echoed by religious leaders across the country, to whom successive governments gave thanks and promised to look into their observations.
Rather than address these concerns or explain the measures in place to ameliorate them, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s aides and supporters responded with vicious attacks, particularly against Cardinal John Onaiyekan, with little regard for his age, stature, and accomplishments.
"Not Christian but Catholics "
Dividing Nigerians through ethnic and religion is not enough, you now want to divide Christians now..
From top to bottom in that presidency, may devil take everyone of you.
PETER OBI VS BOLA TINUBU
Schools attended as published by INEC:
Peter Obi:
1. St. Augustine's Primary School, Anambra, 1973
2. Christ the King College, 1978
3. University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1984
Bola Tinubu:
1. Primary School - EMPTY
2. Secondary School - EMPTY
3. Higher School - B. Sc 1979
Nigerians, over to you 🤣🤣🤣
Who noticed that he's no longer claiming to have worked at Deloitte?
He has also entirely dropped the claim of attending Govt College Ibadan.
Ekperima.
HOW WE MUST APPROACH THE 2027 ELECTIONS.
After they count the votes in the polling units, we are all escorting the votes to the collation centres.
The INEC officials will not drive off and we will now go there. No!
We will escort the votes with a convoy. The INEC officials’ vehicle will be in the middle.
When we get there, all our agents from all the polling units in that ward, gather yourselves and start collating with your Form EC8A.
Once they are done collating inside, the collation done inside must match the one collated outside. If it doesn’t match, don’t sign the ward’s Form EC8B.
Na then dem go know say we no dey joke.
If Form EC8B corresponds with Form EC8A, we all move to the local government. We collate all our local government results ourselves while they collate theirs. Form EC8C (Local Government) must be the same as Form EC8B (Ward).
If e no correspond, all of us go sit down for that local government. Nobody dey comot.
If it corresponds, we move to the state collation. Here, we need ten times the crowd.
Form EC8D (State) must match Form EC8C (Local Government).
Dem no born their papa well to misbehave once dem look outside see who dey wait them.
Then comes the national collation.
All roads must lead to Abuja!
#OccupyAbuja
The national results must match what we have collated at the state level. If not, #OccupyAbuja #OccupyAirport.
Nobody leaves.
This is why everybody must dedicate one week to the 2027 election.
Whether you get PVC or not, join the convoy to the collation centres.
The election is not over when voting ends.
It is over only when every figure declared matches every figure recorded from the polling units to the national collation.
This is the fight of our lives.
Rig and D!e
-General Snow
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“For 50 days the President did not call the Oyo Governor. Me? I will be there in 2 days. Is the bush not in Nigeria? Everybody in that bush will come out. Every-body! And it’s time to start parading the people they arrest, why are they always hiding them?”
— Peter Obi
I earned $120K a year working for Shell in 2012.
Ten years and multiple promotions later, in 2022, that figure has doubled to $240K a year.
In 2023, I stumbled on an internal, confidential, document that showed the salaries of my superiors.
I saw that even if I were promoted multiple times again, the best I could hope for in another 10 years was another doubling to around $480K a year.
This may sound crazy saying it out loud but that wasn’t cutting it for me.
I simply didn’t want the next 10 years to be a repeat of the last 10.
I wanted geometric progression, not an arithmetic one.
On my 40th birthday, in 2023, I was asked to make a wish as a blew the candles on my birthday cake.
“Get the hell out of Shell,” I quietly whispered. Months later, I was out.
In 2024, my businesses grossed $500K; in 2025, they did $1M - geometric progression.
It required me to be delusional about my abilities, to bank on the faithfulness of God and to trust that inner voice that always nag at me that I could be more, I could do more and I could have more.
Hunger and the Insensitivity of Mr. President
I watched with deep concern the statement made by President Bola Tinubu to the Catholic Bishops who visited his office, that there has always been hunger in Nigeria, even before he was born.
While it is true that hunger has been a part of human life and has existed in our country for decades, such a statement appears insensitive to the plight of the millions of Nigerians who face worsening economic hardship today. More importantly, we must focus on the facts and the measurable outcomes of governance.
Before the present administration assumed office in 2023, an estimated 17 million Nigerians were facing acute food insecurity, primarily caused by insecurity, armed conflict, widespread banditry, and devastating floods. Today, less than three years later, that number has risen to about 35 million Nigerians. Instead of improving the situation, the crisis has worsened significantly under the current administration.
The same trend is evident in poverty. Before this government took office in 2023, Nigeria’s extreme poverty was estimated at 87 million people. Current projections suggest that this number is approaching 140 million people, making Nigeria home to the largest population of people living in extreme poverty anywhere in the world.
No one disputes that this administration inherited serious challenges. However, leadership is measured not by the challenges inherited but by the results achieved. The government must honestly acknowledge that its response has fallen far short of what the situation demanded, with millions more Nigerians pushed deeper into poverty and hunger.
The combination of persistent insecurity, poor economic management, fiscal indiscipline, wasteful public expenditure, and inadequate investment in productive sectors has compounded the suffering of ordinary Nigerians.
A responsible government must prioritise investment in education, healthcare, agriculture, security, and small businesses while pursuing policies that create jobs, expand production, and lift people out of poverty. That remains my commitment to the Nigerian people.
A New Nigeria is Possible. PO
I once came LAST in class.
My teacher embarrassed me in front of everyone. The class laughed.
Today, I’m a First Class Accounting graduate from Babcock University and a Chartered Accountant.
This is proof that your beginning doesn’t determine your ending.
@drealbigvirg You go post nonsense come dey call am ragebait. If na Elon money you dey find post your nonsense in peace, no come dey defend am. That's your price
"This is the hardest and most difficult time in Nigeria. Hardship is everywhere. When former President Goodluck Jonathan was in office, people were shouting. Now that this time has come, they are quiet. Even preachers are quiet. They spoke during Jonathan's time. Can you compare Jonathan's time with now?"
— Pastor David Ibiyeomie speaks on the current state of the nation.