DuchKay

Accountant. Farmer. Just following the trend

[Anders @Ameenu_Kutama]

Reported total cost is 83 billion naira. Coastal highway is 15 trillion naira.

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

Former VP is an RCCG pastor.
The first lady is an RCCG pastor.
EFCC chairman is an RCCG pastor.
Tinubu is in bed with Pastor Adeboye.
INEC Director of ICT is an RCCG pastor

APC National Youth leader is an RCCG pastor.

INEC Director of ICT refused to swear with the Holy Bible. He attested that only 31% of results had been uploaded before Yakubu’s Manhood fraudulently declared Tinubu as the winner.

RCCG has always been part of the problem. They are the religious cult of the APC.

Do not allow anyone to gaslight you. 🚩🚩

[Bro. Bonaventure @EBona69]

The visually impaired woman who prayed passionately for Governor Alex Otti during the commissioning of Kingdom Hall Street may be on the verge of receiving help.

An Eye Surgeon at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, after seeing the video, indicated interest in knowing the cause of her visual impairment.

In fact, he specifically requested a means of contacting her, and after making inquiries, I was able to obtain her family’s contact details. Although we are still engaging with the family.

The doctor’s interest is to ascertain the nature of the visual challenge and see what can be done to provide a solution to whatever may be responsible for it.

Sometimes, life has a way of rewarding sincere gestures in the most unexpected ways.

A woman stepped out to pray for a Governor out of a grateful heart, and today, her own story is already attracting the attention and intervention she never asked for.

Miracle Chukwunenye
June 3, 2026.

[Azlannnn @Shaibu_AO]

I gave up on Nigeria the day my elder brother and his squad were set up by the very people they were risking their lives to protect.

These were the brave men who defended the forests of Kogi State day and night against kidnappers. They were among the most fearless operatives in the state. Their mere presence was enough to make criminals flee.

When a nation destroys its own heroes, it will live to regret it forever.

The dead are resting in peace, but the living are left to carry the pain. Keep resting, my brother, because even those still alive are no longer living in peace.

You died fighting for a safer Nigeria, believing your sacrifice would mean something. Sadly, many Nigerians have become prisoners of fear, unable or unwilling to stand up for their rights, hoping that someday a miracle will come and save them.

Your sacrifice will never be forgotten. Your courage will never be erased. Rest on, warrior. The pain remains, but so does your legacy.

Sam Musa

[🦉 🧘🏽‍♂️spiRituaL🧘🏽‍♂️ @spiRiituaL]

Last year in December, I made a phone call to the NHS because I believed I had something meaningful to contribute.

A few months later, I was invited to a meeting.

After completing the necessary checks with @valerian247 and the onboarding process, I had the opportunity to present an idea focused on the early detection of patient deterioration… an early-warning system designed to identify risks before they become emergencies.

After I finished speaking, there was a brief silence.

In those few seconds, I could tell they were seeing the same big picture I was seeing.

“We would love to work with you on this.”

Since then, it has been a journey of putting together the right team, building the structure, and turning an idea into something that can make a real difference.

Almost 3AM, I am still awake at this hour brainstorming, knowing fully well that I have meetings lined up today from 11am to 4pm.

Some opportunities come with applause…Others come with responsibility.

This one came with both… But the game is the game, we gonna deliver.

[Erimus @HeDontMakeNoise]

Peter Obi made it very easy to defend him.
Good name is priceless

[UK Footy Bible @UKFootyBible]

When Thomas Tuchel signed with PSG in 2018, he moved into a beautiful house in the city of Paris. He and his wife hired a Filipino woman to take care of and do the household chores. This woman dedicated most of her time, even working extra hours, to serving Tuchel and his wife. She was always very professional and always available for the Tuchel family.

Over time, a stronger bond was formed, and one day, Thomas and his wife reflected on the fact that if this woman worked so hard, it was because she really needed to. One day, she told them that her son had a heart condition. They were surprised and agreed to fund an expensive operation to save their worker’s son's life. The operation was a complete success, and the boy can now enjoy a better quality of life. But that’s not all... As Tuchel saw his job threatened and his dismissal from PSG looming, he asked his worker what her greatest dream in life was.

She replied that her biggest dream was to return to the Philippines and build a house where she could retire with her family, whom she missed so much. Thomas Tuchel was dismissed by PSG and joined Chelsea, but before leaving, he did not forget his cleaning lady and offered her a villa in the Philippines where she now lives with her family. Immense RESPECT to Thomas Tuchel for this magnificent gesture.

[Sola 🇨🇦🇳🇬 @SolaTheAnalyst]

Back home I tried to teach my wife how to drive.

First lesson. Five minutes in. She said no. I said no.

I just knew that was a failed venture. 😂

When we got to Canada I did not even try. Enrolled her in a driving school. Nobody asked questions.

Best $800 I ever spent in Canada. 🇨🇦

Yesterday she drove my daughter and I to daycare in Toronto.

I sat in the back seat and just looked out the window.

Somehow I thought about that first lesson in Nigeria.

Men who successfully taught their wives or girlfriends how to drive. How did you do it? 😭

Ladies why can’t your partner teach you how to drive? I really want to know 🤲🏾

[Harmless @HarmlessHQ]

This app is a very slippery place especially if you're dealing with Obidients. Those guys are too active.

One APC boy pushed a propaganda that a retired Anambra deputy governor was kidnapped and killed in 2013.

Now, Obidients replied that the killer was apprehended and jailed but Tinubu came and released him from jail.

And that was how that propaganda ended. 😂😂

[Kio Amachree @Ivory1957]

When the Sick Choose Their Disease: Nigeria’s Tribal Addiction, Its Stolen President, and the Slow Death of a Nation That Once Had a Soul

A Fighter’s Lament — On Traitors, Cowards, Beheaded Teachers, Kidnapped Toddlers, and the Lebanon Connection That Is Bleeding Africa’s Giant Dry

There are traitors everywhere in Nigeria. The sheer rottenness of so many Nigerian souls is beyond comprehension. A mathematics teacher named Michael Oyedokun was beheaded on video by terrorists who also kidnapped children as young as two years old from their classrooms in Oyo State. The economy is in free fall. Security no longer exists. Politicians openly rob the country in broad daylight — and then come out to defend and celebrate a man who has no legitimate right to call himself President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

A man who stole his own name.

A man who is, without any doubt in my mind, an American intelligence asset.

A man not even Yoruba — born in Guinea — who was arrested for narcotics on American soil, whose sealed DEA and FBI files remain hidden from the Nigerian people by the very institutions sworn to protect democracy. A man who has done nothing for Nigeria except hand a $13 billion coastal highway contract — without competitive tender — to a Lebanese businessman convicted in Switzerland for laundering the stolen wealth of Sani Abacha. Gilbert Chagoury. A man on the U.S. terrorism screening database. A man whose son sits in a BVI offshore company structure with Ronald Chagoury Jr. while British taxpayers carry £746 million in export finance exposure.

And yet Nigerians come out to support him.

I have spent months fighting for a country and a people I love — producing evidence, filing formal submissions to the SFO, the NCA, the FBI, the DEA, the UN, INTERPOL, and every accountability body that will listen. I have received death threats. I have watched the case of my cousin Ibisiki Amachree — an INEC electoral worker shot dead by a Nigerian Army soldier in 2019 — go unaddressed by every head of state I have petitioned. I have written thousands of words in the hope that truth, relentlessly told, eventually breaks through.

But it is getting very hard to fight for people who have no desire to be saved.

Because the disease that is killing Nigeria is not only Tinubu. It is tribalism. A sickness so deep, so consuming, so expertly weaponised by those in power, that millions of Nigerians will defend a man they know is corrupt, unqualified, and illegitimate — simply because they share an ethnic identity with his political brand. Or because he has bought them. Or because they have simply given up thinking for themselves.

Toddlers are being kidnapped. Teachers are being beheaded on video. The naira is worthless. Hospitals have no drugs. The roads are death traps. And the response from the political class — and from far too many ordinary Nigerians — is silence, deflection, or worse: loyalty to the thief.

Some have said Nigeria can only be saved now by a strong hand — a leadership so decisive and so uncorrupted that it imposes order by will where institutions have failed. Perhaps. But even that scenario breaks on the same rock. Tribalism would consume a dictatorship just as it has consumed every democracy Nigeria has attempted. It is not a political problem. It is a moral one. And no government can legislate morality into a people who have abandoned it.

What keeps me going is memory. The Nigeria I knew. The Nigeria my father — Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree QC, Nigeria’s first Solicitor-General, first African UN Under-Secretary-General — served with his entire life and reputation. A Nigeria that had dignity, ambition, and the genuine promise of greatness. That Nigeria existed. I saw it. I lived in it. And I refuse to accept that it is gone forever.

This evil called Tinubu must be ripped out of the Nigerian body — completely, permanently, and without mercy at the ballot box in 2027. And those who enabled him, defended him, profited from him, and betrayed their own people for him must be held to account before history, before the law, and before God.

I will keep fighting.

But Nigeria — you need to decide whether you want to be saved.

Kio Amachree is President of Worldview International and a longtime advocate for Nigerian governance accountability and democratic reform.

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[Ada @adanonso_]

Growing up, whenever my mother travelled, my father would become the moodiest man alive. He would barely eat.

He would be walking around the house looking like Nigeria’s economy had personally offended him.

As a child, I used to wonder, “What kind of love is this?”

Then there was my mother. If my dad travelled, she suddenly forgot she had her own room. One night she sneaked into my brother’s room.

My brother turned in his sleep and accidentally kicked her. My mother immediately beat his leg and told him to lie down properly.

The next night, Oga locked his door.

She tried the same thing with me. Same result.

By the time she got to my two younger sisters, they had already heard the stories and locked their doors before she could sneak in.

Come and see a grown woman begging her own children to open their doors. I laughed at these people for years.

Years!!!

I kept wondering what kind of attachment would make two adults behave like this.

Fast forward to today. I am on vacation. My husband is sleeping beside some of my clothes because they still smell like me.

I am counting down the days until my flight home.

And suddenly my parents behaviour then are beginning to make perfect sense.

God forgive me for judging them 😊😊😊

[Kio Amachree @Ivory1957]

NO ONE IS ABOVE A FEDERAL JUDGE: THE CLOCK HAS RUN OUT ON THE FBI, THE DEA, AND THE FICTION THAT IS BOLA TINUBU

When the full weight of the U.S. federal judiciary descends, no president, no lobbyist, no intelligence asset handler can break its fall

By Kio Amachree | Worldview International

Let us be absolutely clear about where we stand today.

Judge Beryl A. Howell of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia set a final, unambiguous deadline: the FBI was ordered to complete full disclosure of all non-exempt records related to Bola Ahmed Tinubu by June 1, 2026.  That date has now passed. The question every Nigerian — and every honest observer of American jurisprudence — must ask is this: did they comply? And if they did not, what comes next?

The answer to the second question is not complicated. It is not subject to diplomatic negotiation, backroom dealing, or the intervention of any political figure — including the President of the United States. What comes next, if the FBI and DEA have failed to honour that order, is contempt of court. And contempt of a federal judge in the District of Columbia is not a press statement. It is not a reprimand. It is the full, terrifying machinery of the American judicial system bearing down on the agencies and the individuals responsible — with sanctions, financial penalties, and in extreme cases, incarceration. No lobbyist can walk into Judge Howell’s courtroom and make that go away. No executive order dissolves a contempt finding. No foreign head of state, no matter how many millions he has spent on Washington influence operations, has standing to intervene in a federal FOIA case in which he is the subject.

This is the law. This is America. And this is precisely why Tinubu is terrified.

A Pattern of Contemptuous Delay

Judge Howell has already made her frustration unmistakably clear. In her sharp ruling of February 3, 2026, she criticised the FBI and DEA for repeated delays and tactics that have frustrated compliance throughout this long-running FOIA case — a lawsuit filed in June 2023, stemming from requests first submitted in 2022, brought by transparency advocate Aaron Greenspan with the assistance of Nigerian investigative journalist David Hundeyin. 

The record of obstruction is extraordinary. The FBI, which was meant to submit an updated report in May 2025, delayed for months until January 2026, then requested yet another extension to February — a motion that drew the direct ire of the court. Judge Howell’s own words condemn the agencies: “Defendant FBI has produced no records, despite initially anticipating completion of searches by August 1, 2025 — later pushed to September 1, 2025; production to begin by December 1, 2025 — later pushed to January 23, 2026 — and pushed again, with minimal explanation, to February 13, 2025.” 

“Similar to the current posture of the DEA in this case,” the judge added, “the FBI has provided no reliable end date for the processing and production of responsive records.” The judge ordered the DEA to provide a Vaughn index explaining the basis for redacting 50 pages and withholding a further 172 pages of Tinubu’s records — and directed the agency to submit sworn affidavits, page by page, accounting for every document sent out for consultation, every expected timeline, and every step taken to accelerate the process. 

This is a federal judge demanding sworn testimony from the nation’s premier law enforcement agencies about why they have been lying to her court. That is not a minor procedural skirmish. That is a judge who has concluded that the agencies before her have been acting in bad faith.

The Asset Who Became a Liability

Now let us say clearly what too many commentators have danced around.

Bola Tinubu has travelled freely in and out of the United States continuously since 1993, including during the period when he was formally the subject of a drug trafficking investigation that resulted in the forfeiture of $460,000 to the U.S. government — an admission, in law, of the proceeds of crime. Under normal circumstances, that record alone would have triggered Customs and Border Protection flags at every port of entry. It did not. He was waved through. Repeatedly. For thirty years.

There is only one credible explanation for that: protection. Deliberate, institutional, intelligence-community protection. That is what an asset relationship provides. The CIA and its associated agencies have a long and well-documented history of cultivating political figures in the developing world — individuals who can be managed, directed, and leveraged for strategic purposes, and who in exchange receive a degree of insulation from accountability that ordinary citizens never receive. The list of such figures who were later discarded when they became politically inconvenient is not short. Manuel Noriega. Saddam Hussein. Mobutu Sese Seko. When they ceased to be useful — or when the cost of protecting them exceeded the strategic benefit — the apparatus that shielded them was withdrawn, and the files were opened.

Tinubu is now at that inflection point.

He has governed Nigeria for over two years and has failed by virtually every measurable standard. The economy is in a state of managed collapse. The currency has been debased. Ordinary Nigerians are hungrier, poorer, and more desperate than they were before he took office. He has shown himself to be a man whose health is visibly failing, whose cognitive engagement with governance is episodic at best, and whose tenure has been defined by the enrichment of a small circle of cronies — chief among them, the Chagoury network, which has extracted billions in no-bid infrastructure contracts from the Nigerian treasury while the population starves.

At what point does the protection of this man become a strategic liability for Washington?

The Cash, the Condos, and the Questions No One in New York Was Permitted to Ask

One of the most revealing windows into the architecture of impunity that has surrounded this family is the documented property acquisitions of Tinubu’s daughters in New York — acquisitions that, in any other context, would have triggered immediate scrutiny under the Bank Secrecy Act and U.S. anti-money laundering statutes.

Property records show that Zainab Abisola Tinubu acquired a deluxe condominium at 55 Berry Street, Brooklyn, for $2,150,000 in 2014, when she was 25 years old. Her sister Habibat acquired a deluxe apartment at 255 Hudson Street, New York, for $2,400,000 when she was just 22. Both transactions were paid for entirely in cash, with no mortgage — despite the fact that neither daughter had any verifiable employment or known source of income at the time of acquisition. 

Habibat, known publicly as Oyinda, was a fresh graduate of music from Berklee College of Music in Boston at the time she paid $2.4 million in cash for a Manhattan luxury apartment. 

Let that register. A 22-year-old, freshly graduated, with no employment history, no business record, no disclosed inheritance, walks into a New York real estate transaction and pays over two million dollars in cash. And no one asked a single question.

This is not a failure of the system. This is the system being deliberately switched off for a protected subject and his family. The questions were not asked because someone, somewhere, had ensured they would not be.

That protection has a cost. And the bill is coming due.

What Cannot Be Undone

Here is what Tinubu, his legal team in Abuja, his lobbyists in Washington, and his enablers in the Nigerian press cannot reverse: the public record.

Judge Beryl A. Howell is the same federal jurist who supervised the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and the grand jury proceedings arising from the January 6th assault on the United States Capitol.  She is not a judge who is unfamiliar with the application of political pressure to federal proceedings. She is not a judge who has blinked in the face of it before. She will not blink now.

The Nigerian authorities reportedly attempted to appeal the court order, but since Nigeria was not a party to the litigation, it lacked the legal standing to do so.  The Tinubu administration’s Attorney General has no locus standi in a Washington federal court. His lobbyists have no standing. His intelligence-community protectors — if they choose to intervene — would be placing themselves in direct conflict with a sitting federal judge in the District of Columbia, an act that would generate its own explosive legal and political consequences.

The June 1 deadline has passed. The files exist. The court has ordered them released. If they have not been released, then the FBI and DEA are in contempt — and the judge has already demonstrated that she is prepared to demand sworn testimony, impose sanctions, and drag responsible officials into open court.

No Trump. No loyalist appointee. No Abuja directive. No lobbying firm. None of them can insert themselves between a federal judge and the enforcement of her own order without consequences that would dwarf the original controversy.

Time to Cut Him Loose

The pattern is familiar to any student of American foreign policy. The asset who becomes a scandal. The client who becomes a liability. The protected figure who can no longer be protected without the protector becoming implicated in the same crimes.

Noriega was useful until he wasn’t. Saddam was useful until he wasn’t. The apparatus that had sustained them was withdrawn, the record was allowed to surface, and history moved on.

Bola Tinubu is not a competent leader. He is not a healthy leader. He is not an honest leader. He presides over a nation of 220 million people who deserve governance defined by accountability, transparency, and the rule of law — none of which he is capable of providing. The 2027 election cycle is approaching. The international accountability architecture around his administration — court proceedings, FOIA litigation, SFO submissions, UN Special Rapporteur filings, OFAC and FinCEN intelligence packages — is tightening by the month.

The calculation for Washington is straightforward: the cost of continued protection now exceeds any conceivable strategic return. The cover has blown. The court record is public. The world is watching.

It is time to cut him loose.

The fury of a federal judge, once fully ignited, recognises no diplomatic immunity, no sovereign courtesy, and no intelligence community favour. Judge Howell’s courtroom is sovereign American territory. And in that territory, the law is the only currency that matters.

The clock ran out on June 1st.

Kio Amachree is President of Worldview International, Stockholm. He writes on Nigerian governance, accountability, and the rule of law.

#TinubuFiles #JudgeHowell #FBIDEAContempt #NigeriaAccountability #WorldviewInternational #JusticeHasNoFriends #CutHimLoose #Nigeria2027 #FOIACase #TinubuMustGo

[Kio Amachree @Ivory1957]

The Clock Has Expired. Where Are The Files? America Must Not Become Tinubu’s Shield.

By Kio Amachree | Worldview International | June 3, 2026

Two days. That is how long the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration have been in defiance of a binding order from one of the most formidable federal judges in the United States of America.

June 1, 2026 was not a suggestion. It was not a courtesy deadline extended by a patient magistrate in a minor procedural matter. It was a hard, court-ordered disclosure date set by United States District Judge Beryl A. Howell of the District of Columbia — the same jurist who presided over the Mueller grand jury and the January 6th proceedings — directing both agencies to release all non-exempt records relating to the 1990s narcotics investigation in which President Bola Ahmed Tinubu stands as a documented subject. The FBI had produced not a single record, despite initially promising completion by August 2025, with deadlines repeatedly shifted with minimal explanation.  And now, two days past the final, absolute, no-more-extensions deadline — silence.

The Nigerian people, and indeed all of Africa, deserve to know: Why?

The Boulos Question

I will say plainly what many are whispering. The presence of Massad Boulos — Lebanese-Nigerian businessman, Trump son-in-law, and now Senior Adviser to the President of the United States for Arab and African Affairs — at the centre of U.S.-Nigeria relations is a matter of profound concern that can no longer be politely ignored.

Reports have emerged suggesting that Boulos, who enjoys deep roots in Nigeria through decades of business interests there, may have played a role in moderating U.S. criticism of the Tinubu administration.  He met Tinubu in Paris to discuss economic and security partnerships, with the U.S. State Department conveying Trump’s strong interest in deepening engagement with Nigeria as a cornerstone of U.S. relations with Africa.  Meanwhile, Tinubu conferred Nigeria’s second-highest national honour, the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, on Gilbert Chagoury  — a man with a Swiss money laundering conviction and U.S. deferred prosecution agreement — in what reads as a message to certain quarters about where loyalties lie.

I do not make accusations lightly. But the Lebanese commercial networks that have operated in Nigeria for over a century, that have been woven into the political fabric of this administration, and that now have a direct line to the Oval Office through a Trump family connection, represent a nexus of influence that must be scrutinised openly. Boulos reportedly maintains connections with influential Lebanese political figures, including an ally of Hezbollah.  These are not peripheral associations.

The question being asked in diplomatic and accountability circles is unavoidable: Is Lebanese commercial and political influence being deployed to shield a Nigerian president from American judicial transparency?

The Judiciary Will Not Be Broken

Those engineering this delay — whoever they are, at whatever level of government — have made a catastrophic strategic miscalculation. They have apparently not observed what the American federal judiciary has been doing in recent weeks.

Just days ago, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponisation fund,” ordering that no further action be taken to set up or operate it while legal arguments are heard.  This is an administration that commands the most powerful executive apparatus on earth. The courts stopped it anyway. The judiciary in Trump’s America is not an instrument of the executive. It is, increasingly, the only functioning democratic check on executive overreach — and it has demonstrated repeatedly that it will not yield.

Judge Howell does not issue ultimatums she does not intend to enforce. She has already described the agencies’ conduct as constituting unreasonable delays  and rebuked them publicly in language that left no room for misreading. Contempt of court proceedings are not a distant threat. They are a legal mechanism that plaintiff Aaron Greenspan’s team can file any morning. When that motion lands on Judge Howell’s desk, sworn affidavits will be demanded from FBI and DEA leadership explaining — under oath, with personal legal exposure — why a federal court order was ignored.

No political handler, no foreign lobbyist, and no presidential adviser can walk into that courtroom and make that liability disappear.

A Message to Washington

Let it be recorded clearly: Nigeria is not a banana republic. It is the largest economy and the most populous nation on the African continent. Its diaspora spans every major financial, academic, scientific, and cultural institution in the Western world. Its people are among the most educated, entrepreneurial, and politically conscious on earth.

To treat the legitimate accountability demands of 220 million Nigerians as an inconvenience to be managed through diplomatic backchannels — to slow-walk court-ordered document releases while Nigerian families struggle under the weight of a cost-of-living catastrophe, a devalued currency, and a president whose financial history remains deliberately obscured — is not a diplomatic strategy. It is an insult.

The American government should understand this with absolute clarity: if certain parties are using the machinery of Washington to protect a sitting Nigerian president with documented ties to the narcotics trade, the long-term damage to U.S. credibility across Africa will be irreparable. The continent is watching. The 2027 Nigerian election cycle is approaching. And the historical record being written right now will not be kind to those who chose to protect power over principle.

The files must be released. The court order must be honoured. And every day of further non-compliance adds another stone to the foundation of contempt proceedings that will ultimately force the issue into open court — with all the international visibility that entails.

The clock did not stop on June 1st. It is still running.

Kio Amachree is President of Worldview International, a Stockholm-based diaspora advocacy platform, and an independent accountability journalist. He writes without political sponsorship or party affiliation.

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[Roland @rolandgavince]

I resigned from a government job with a pension, health insurance, and a guaranteed salary on a Wednesday afternoon. My mother did not speak to me for two weeks. My colleagues thought I was having a breakdown. My father said: "At least wait until you are married." I submitted the letter anyway.

The job was suffocating me in the most comfortable way possible. It was stable enough that leaving felt irrational and safe enough that staying felt like a slow disappearance. I had spent four years watching the clock from 8 a.m., doing work that required nothing of me, collecting a salary that paid my bills and quietly killed my ambition.

The first six months after I quit were terrifying. I freelanced and pitched. I heard "no" more times than I could count. I watched my savings shrink every month and had several 3 a.m. conversations with myself about whether I had made the worst decision of my life.

In month eight, something shifted. A client referred me to another, who referred me to three more. I started earning more in two weeks than I had in a month at the government job. More importantly, I woke up every morning actually wanting to work. That feeling alone was worth everything I had risked.

Two years later, I run a small agency with four people working with me. My mother now tells people her daughter owns a business—the same woman who did not speak to me for two weeks. Security is important, but a life that requires you to shrink every day is its own kind of poverty.

Calculate the risk. Then jump.

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

No crude oil
No gas
No gold
No lithium
Small population to tax

Yet, consider what has been achieved.

Just a President committed to serving his people.

He could have built an airport, but I digress.

[The Way of Jerz @TheJerzWay]

She built a 7-figure coaching business from London.

HMRC took 45%.
Then they audited her for "lifestyle inconsistencies."
Then they froze her accounts for 6 weeks.

She didn't owe anything. They just wanted to check.

She moved to Dubai last month.
Setup Malta nondom as backup.
Restructured through a Panama SA + Foundation.

The UK lost a taxpayer. And they'll never get her back.

Governments don't lose citizens. They push them out.

[Inibehe Effiong @InibeheEffiong]

Today is one of those humbling and remarkable moments in my professional career.

I had the great honour and privilege of leading the legal team of my mentor, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, at the High Court of Lagos State at the commencement of trial in his libel suit against one Princess Banke Oniru.

In 2024, the Defendant made a post on X against the Claimant in respect of the monies given to victims of the Lekki Toll Gate/#EndSARS massacre in Lagos State.

It was also exciting having to lead the first witness to give his evidence-in-chief.

The witness is also a renowned human rights lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Olumide Fusika, SAN.

For those who may not know, Falana SAN is my lead counsel in my appeal before the Court of Appeal in Calabar in which I am seeking to set aside my 2022 committal to one-month imprisonment for alleged contempt of court.

Fusika, SAN is also a member of my legal team at the Court of Appeal, Calabar.

Meanwhile, hearing in my appeal is fixed for September 28, 2026.

The libel suit between Femi Falana V. Princess Banke Oniru has been adjourned to 19th June, 2026 for either the cross examination of the Claimant’s first witness or for continuation of trial.

History will vindicate the just.

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

📸 This photo of Luis Enrique, José Mourinho and Pep Guardiola gets better and better with every passing season.

But who's the fourth guy, walking to the right of them?

🟦🟥 Well, that's Carles Busquets, who turns out to be quite an important figure in the Barcelona history.

Not only is he the father of Sergio Busquets – he is a former goalkeeper who was part of the club for 9 years as a player.

In fact, Busquets played a key role in reshaping how goalkeepers were viewed in modern football and what was expected of them. While Carles wasn't regarded as the most reliable shot-stopper, he was exceptional with the ball at his feet - something that was essential to Johan Cruyff's philosophy, which demanded that goalkeepers contribute to build-up play.

As a result, Busquets was hugely influential in popularising the concept of the sweeper-keeper, helping to redefine the position and paving the way for the modern goalkeeper's role in football.

[Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso @KwankwasoRM]

PRESS STATEMENT

Our attention has been drawn to a message currently circulating on social media falsely claiming that we are planning a protest over the rising insecurity in the country.

We do not support any action that could lead to the breakdown of public order or the destruction of lives and property. As responsible leaders, we remain committed to peaceful and constructive approaches in addressing national challenges.

As committed democrats, we firmly believe that the ballot box remains the most legitimate and effective way to express grievances and seek change. Our party, the NDC, is confident of securing a resounding victory in the upcoming elections through peaceful democratic means.

The general public is therefore advised to disregard the false message and ignore those peddling such disinformation.

Signed,
Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, PhD, FNSE
Former Governor, Kano State
NDC Vice Presidential Candidate

[WTF @mrwtffacts]

In Turkey, a young boy hit 200 lbs at just 5 years old, all because his brain never got the “I’m full” signal.

He ballooned to 70 lbs by 18 months, 121 lbs by age 3, then 200 lbs by 5.

The boy could barely walk and ended up on a ventilator.

Then, Turkish doctors stepped in… with daily metreleptin injections (the missing hormone).

After years of successful treatment, he’s now aged 11 and back down to a fit and healthy 90 lbs after an incredible 110 lb transformation.

Medicine just gave him his childhood back 💊