Projects in Lagos, Campaign in Kaduna Amid Insecurity: What Will Tinubu Promise Now?
By Mohammed Bello Doka
11 October, 2026.
On December 3, 2023, a Nigerian Army drone struck Tudun Biri in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing at least 85 civilians who had gathered for a religious celebration. Among the dead were women, children, and the elderly. President Bola Tinubu did not visit. On September 2024, another military airstrike hit Giwa Local Government Area, killing at least 24 more civilians in what the military called a mistaken targeting of bandits. President Tinubu did not visit. In September 2025, bandits descended on Kachia Local Government Area and abducted 152 people in a single operation. President Tinubu did not visit. In July 2025, windstorms and heavy rainfall devastated five local government areas, displacing 6,172 people and killing six. President Tinubu did not visit. In August 2024, bandits attacked communities in Kajuru Local Government Area, killing four, injuring three, and abducting thirty-seven. President Tinubu did not visit. In September 2025, floods submerged parts of Zaria Local Government Area, affecting 476 people. President Tinubu did not visit.
Now, after three and a half years of blood, tears, and silence, the APC has chosen Kaduna as the launchpad for its 2027 presidential campaign. The same Kaduna where 85 people were buried in a mass grave after a Nigerian drone bombed them. The same Kaduna where 152 people were carted away into forests by bandits while the president was in Lagos commissioning buses. The same Kaduna where communities have been orphaned by airstrikes, emptied by kidnappings, and drowned by floods. What exactly is Tinubu coming to tell the people of Kaduna? What is he coming to promise again?
Since May 29, 2023, President Tinubu has visited Kaduna exactly twice. The first was a one-day working visit in June 2025 to commission a vocational training institute, a 300-bed specialist hospital, and 100 CNG buses, most of which were state government projects. The second was a private visit in September 2025 to attend a wedding and condole with the widow of a former president. Two visits in three and a half years. Not one of those visits was to console the victims of Tudun Biri. Not one was to visit the families of the 152 abducted in Kachia. Not one was to assess the damage in Giwa after another military misfire. Not one was to stand with the flood victims in Zaria. Not one was to confront the bandits in Kajuru. Instead, he flew to Kaduna for a wedding, shook hands, took photographs, and flew back to Abuja.
Compare that to his attention to Lagos. In Lagos, Tinubu has commissioned the first 30 kilometres of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, a project estimated at over one trillion naira. In Lagos, he has rehabilitated the Third Mainland Bridge at a cost of 43 billion naira and built a 2.5 billion naira CCTV monitoring centre. In Lagos, he inaugurated the Red Line Rail, a 37-kilometre project costing over 135 million dollars. In Lagos, he commissioned CNG infrastructure in Ojota, part of a 100 billion naira national rollout, with four major projects in a single day. In Lagos, the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road, a project inherited from Buhari, was revoked and re-awarded at a higher cost, while the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway received 43 billion naira for phase two. Lagos is where the president's heart beats. Kaduna is where his promises go to die.
Don’t give me the camera because I want one. Give it to me because I’ll use it.
A wedding is more than pretty shots. It’s the shaky hands, the mother holding back tears, the first look, the unplanned laugh, the moment everyone finally lets go.
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the deepest lesson we learn from surah maryam is that at times, you may feel so lonely and helpless that you wish you could just simply disappear, but seeking refuge in Allah is the only way to overcome even the darkest of moments
A lady in Nigeria is going around helping businesses get visibility and documenting the whole process on TikTok.
I swear, she’s going to make good money from this.
I also hope Nigerian SaaS platforms start partnering with her to help these businesses become more tech-savvy, use the right platforms, and even hire people to manage their digital presence.
There’s a real opportunity here.
Men low-key yearn more intensely than women do. Read men’s poetry or listen to their love songs. In traditional art history, women are the muses.
Many modern women are unfamiliar with male yearning because they provide men with nothing to yearn for.
Excellence by exposure.
That is why I can never understand anyone who has been abroad, or who lives abroad and encourages the retrogression in Nigeria. It is witchcraft.
You know better. You should want better
When you hear the adhan, remember those in the graves who wish for one more sujud or istighfar. Their chance is gone. While you are alive, don’t waste yours!!
O Allah, forgive Umar Abba and elevate his station among those who are guided.Send him along the path of those who came before, and forgive us and him,O Lord of the worlds. Enlarge for him his grave shed light upon him in it.