What's happening in Gaza is now almost entirely absent from the top international headlines. But Israel is still killing Palestinians and their babies are freezing to death. We can't afford to stop talking about that.
The Federal Government must come clean with Nigerians.
The quiet appointment of Xpress Payments Solutions Limited as a new TSA collecting agent is not an administrative decision, it is a dangerous resurrection of the Alpha Beta revenue cartel that dominated Lagos State during and after the Tinubu years. That model created a private toll gate around public revenue and funnelled state funds into the hands of a politically connected monopoly.
What we are witnessing now is the attempt to nationalise that same template, moving Nigeria from a republic to a private holding company controlled by a small circle of vested interests.
To introduce such a policy in the middle of a national tragedy, while Nigerians are mourning loved ones lost to the deepening insecurity crisis, is not only insensitive, it is a deliberate act of governance by stealth. When a nation is grieving, leadership should show empathy and focus on securing lives, not on expanding private revenue pipelines.
This latest move raises fundamental questions:
Why was this appointment rushed and smuggled into the public space without consultation, stakeholder engagement, or National Assembly oversight?
What value does Xpress Payments add that existing TSA channels do not already provide?
Who truly benefits from this? Nigeria or an entrenched political network?
This is not reform. This is state capture masquerading as digital innovation.
Let me be clear:
Nigeria does not need more middlemen between citizens and their government revenue. What we need is greater transparency, stronger institutions, and a tax system free from political capture.
I therefore call for the following:
1. Immediate suspension of the Xpress Payments appointment pending a public inquiry;
2. Full disclosure of the contractual terms, beneficiaries, fee structures, and selection criteria;
3. A comprehensive audit of TSA operations to prevent the creeping privatisation of revenue collection;
4. A legal framework, not executive shortcuts, that prohibits the insertion of private proxies into core government revenue systems;
5. A national security priority shift, recognising that a country under assault cannot afford economic governance conducted in the shadows.
Nigeria’s revenues are not political spoils. They are the lifeblood of our national survival, especially at a time when insecurity is tearing communities apart.
The government must abandon this Lagos-style revenue cartelisation and return to the path of transparency, constitutionalism, and public accountability. -AA
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Another day, another hearing, another appeal but still the same old outcome; a loss for FSV Mainz 05.
Regular defeats on the football pitch clearly aren’t enough for the board of the club so they keep coming back for more losses in the German courts !
I am grateful to the German courts for serving justice and seeing through the baseless and nonsensical claims of the club.
Let me be clear, the statement from the serial losers FSV Mainz 05 following their latest defeat is as deluded as their entire dealings and proceedings against me. I have never had, nor will I ever have, any consensus with any person or organisation which seeks to silence those standing for justice and humanity. My values can never align with any organisation whose values and convictions are to blindly stand with those accused of flagrantly breaching International law and perpetrating genocide.
No one is above the law.
Let this latest victory send a loud and clear to message to the warmongers, their accomplices and the deluded board members of FSV Mainz 05; you cannot, and will not, silence the voices of the Palestinians and their advocates. Viva Palestina !!!
Even as someone who has monitored terrorist groups closely for many years, this video shook me deeply. It brought tears to my eyes this early morning.
This man’s village in Zamfara State was attacked by bandit terrorists who abducted 53 people after setting many houses and shops ablaze.
After collecting ₦50 million in ransom with a promise to release the abductees, they freed only 18. The remaining 35 - apparently starved and tortured for days - were then forced at gunpoint into a horrifying ritual. Each was handed a knife and compelled to slaughter another: A killed B, then C killed A, and D killed C and so on. Anyone who refused was shot on the spot by the repugnant terrorists.
As if that was not enough, the attackers returned to the village and set it on fire again. This man lost 88 bags of processed rice, along with more unprocessed ones. Overnight, he went from being one of the wealthiest in his community to a destitute. He said even the clothes he wore were given to him. He now has nothing to eat.
And this is happening in a country with a president, governors, and ministers. A country with an army, police, and intelligence agencies. A country with a legislature, judiciary, and traditional rulers. A country that prides itself on religiosity and democracy.
This is 21st-century Nigeria - where citizens are abandoned to barbarism.
I am exhausted.
About democracy and Western values
France gathered 400 Muslim scholars and decapitated them with machetes; during the occupation of Chad in 1917.
When France entered the Algerian city of Laghouat in 1852, it killed two-thirds of its population and burned them alive in a single night.
Between 1960 and 1966, France conducted 17 nuclear tests in Algeria, resulting in an unspecified number of casualties, between 27,000 and 100,000. The effects persist to this day.
When France left Algeria in 1962, they had left more mines than the entire Algerian population of that time: 11 million mines.
France occupied Algeria for 132 years. The French exterminated one million Muslims in the first 7 years after their arrival and 1.5 million in the last 7 years before their departure.
French historian Jacques Gorky estimated that the total number of people killed by France in Algeria, from its arrival in 1830 to its departure in 1962, was 10 million Muslims. That is French historian not Arab.
France occupied Tunisia for 75 years, Algeria 132 years, Morocco 44 years and Mauritania 60 years.
When France entered Egypt during its famous campaign, French soldiers entered mosques on horseback and raped women in front of their families. They drank alcohol in the mosques and turned part into stables for their horses.
Finally, today claim Islam is a religion of terrorism. So it's western colonial imperialism who in 450 years killed befwen 500 millions and 1 billion of people.
Strange to see some people boasting about Western civilization and even defending it, forgetting all of its dark history.
This is France, remind them of their history.
From SlavicFreeSpirit
There we have it, ladies and gentlemen.
To all those who dismissed the supposedly outlandish accusations of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza over the last year, the real motives and objectives are now in open plain sight for us all to see and hear.
Will we continue to play deaf, dumb and blind to the pre-planned slaughter and displacement of the Palestinian people including hundreds of thousands of children?