What does it take to rebuild lives?
A house alone is not enough. People need safety, dignity, security, and the opportunity to start again.
Together with @Sokoto_Affairs and @KatsinaStateNg, we are helping create the foundations for recovery through the Mass Housing Initiative by providing safe spaces where families can rebuild, communities can heal, and hope can take root once again.
Join us as we mark this important milestone in restoring trust, strengthening resilience, and supporting long-term recovery.
A special thank you to @GERinNigeria for their continued partnership and commitment to sustainable development.
HUNGER CRISIS IN THE NORTH:
The UN this week classified Nigeria as one of the world's largest hunger crises.
35 million Nigerians will face acute starvation between June and August. 6.4 million of them are children.
Nearly all of them live in the North — the region whose groundnut pyramids once fed a continent, whose fadama fields once made the Sahel bloom, whose farmers once exported surplus to West Africa.
That North.
In the very same week, the governors of that North gathered — well-fed, well-dressed, well-connected — and they were unanimously "affirmed" as consensus candidates for 2027 elections.
No debates. No platforms. No accountability. Just voice votes, applause, and pledges to "consolidate ongoing developmental projects."
There is no consensus among the hungry.
There is no affirmation from the starving.
Their hunger is the real primary that matters. And not one of them is running in it.
Now. The good news.
The Federal Government has announced a robust response.
A high-powered committee has been inaugurated to study the situation.
Membership was carefully selected.
Allowances were approved.
A sumptuous lunch was served at the inauguration.
But the people are still hungry.
But, worry not. #Nigeria is on the case.
#Arewa #HungerCrisis
Meet Yusufa, Hafizu and Audu — and their innocent, cheeky smiles.
These pre-teen boys are street beggars I encountered a few days ago in Abuja.
Away from home.
Away from school.
Away from safety, dignity and childhood itself.
They are from Mashi, Katsina State.
Their Local Government Chairman is Salisu Kallah Mashi.
Their representative in the Katsina State House of Assembly is Hon. Sani Bello Mustapha.
Their representative in the House of Representatives is Hon. Majigiri Salisu Yusuf.
Their Senator is Distinguished Senator Nasiru Sani Zangon Daura.
Their Governor is His Excellency Dikko Umaru Radda.
The President of their country is His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Every one of these elected officials swore an oath to protect children like Yusufa, Hafizu and Audu.
To protect their dignity.
To secure their future.
To ensure they have access to education, safety and opportunity.
But because #AlmajiranchiIsChildAbuse, these children have been failed.
Failed by leaders who refuse to enforce Nigeria’s Child Rights Act (2003), which clearly states:
“No child shall be used for the purpose of begging for alms…”
And we, as a society, have also failed them — by normalising this exploitation, looking away, and refusing to hold our leaders accountable.
Child begging is not culture.
It is not tradition.
IT IS CHILD ABUSE.
We must advocate to #BanAlmajiranchiNow.
@officialABAT@dikko_radda@UNICEFNigeria@UNICEFAfrica@UNICEF@NigeriaGov @MinOfInfoNG @FMYDNG @FedMinOfJustice @nassnigeria@PoliceNG @ICPC_PE @officialEFCC
The way people ignore HARAM when it comes to stealing public fund makes you question the sincerity of our faith as Muslims. It is not a contest, as to whom loots more. The fact that others are looting doesn't justify you to do the same. HARAM isn't only on alcohol, pork chops, adultery & fornication, homosexuality & others, because that public fund you loot is HARAM, likely more dangerous than sinning between you and God, because when you sin directly to God, He is more likely to forgive you than when you steal public funds meant for the people.
Prof. P.N. Okeke wrote a textbook that helped millions to understand and pass Physics in secondary school. As a scientist now between the age of 40-45, Okeke has helped you. Someone like him deserves national honors not the thieving politicians often recognised for doing nothing.
"To fill 50 litres of a Corolla car during President Obasanjo’s regime cost ₦3,750. During Yar’Adua’s time, it became ₦3,250. During Goodluck Jonathan’s time, it was ₦4,350. During Buhari’s regime, it was ₦11,900. Now under the current President Tinubu’s regime, to fill 50 litres of a Corolla car is now ₦61,350, and you tell me this man is the hope Nigerians should have for a better future? How d√mb can some of you be?"
-Man reacts
Refusing to remove a compromised INEC chairman sends one message:
“The outcome matters more than the process.”
That’s not democracy. That’s choreography.
A video that has recently gone viral alleges that the @sultan_ofsokoto recently met with President @officialABAT and asked a simple question:
If Nigeria needs a U.S. military base… why must it be in the North?
Now hold that thought.
Because a day or so later, Education Minster, @DrTunjiAlausa, on a UK trip with the President, is announcing below a partnership between his ministry, @NigEducation, and Coventry University to award UK degrees… in Nigeria.
Location? Alaro, Lekki. Lagos.
So let’s get this straight:
One region gets foreign universities.
Another gets proposed foreign military bases.
Opportunity vs occupation.
Books vs boots.
Degrees vs drones.
And no, this isn’t about Coventry University.
That debate can wait.
This is about a pattern.
A pattern where development flows in one direction…
And strategic burdens are shipped to another.
Where Lagos gets foreign universities.
The North gets foreign military bases.
Coincidence? Maybe.
But patterns, when repeated often enough, stop being accidents.
They become policy.
And the real tragedy?
Other #Nigerian regions are too busy with petty politics to notice.
And #Arewa, once the loudest political voice in the room, now watches in silence.
Compromised.
Muted.
Managed.
Docile.
Absent.
#AllahGaMuGareka
🚨 BREAKING:
Iran didn't respond to US bombs with missiles.
They responded with GAME THEORY.
And in doing so, they may have just fired the most dangerous shot at the US dollar in 52 years.
Here's the move most people completely missed: 🧵
(Read this slowly. Share it widely.)
Q: Are you saying definitively that you will not run for president in 2027?
El-Rufai: You never say never in politics; 24 hours is a long time. Even if I tell you I will not run today, tomorrow it can change, because if all the leaders from my party, for instance, come and say, 'Look, Nasir, all those that are running have decided that they will leave it, you run.'
Elrufai on Dadiyata’s case: He is a critic of the Kano government, it was Ganduje that his problem, I don’t even know him. We only got a report of Dadiyata’s existence after his family reported to the police that he was abducted. Three days after Dadiyata’s abduction, a policeman posted from Kano to Ekiti confessed to someone that they were sent from Kano and abducted Dadiyata, and felt bad about it. That is the only thing I know, but it was not a problem for Kaduna State.