It is shocking that the lawless and incompetent @OfficialDSSNG would file a counter-motion in a Nigerian court claiming it is detaining a Nigerian citizen simply because he made an unsavory comment about Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a war criminal.
Even the state of Israel would not arrest, let alone detain, an Israeli citizen for making such a post. As I have long said, the DSS has gone, far beyond useless!
I am delighted to learn that Professor Khalilullahi Uthman Gbodofu of the University of Ilorin has been honoured with the 2025 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding, presented by the Crown Prince of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad Al Thani, in Doha.
For a scholar from Ilorin to be recognised on such a prestigious global platform confirms what we have always known—that our home remains a centre of intellectual excellence and that our academics can compete favourably with their peers anywhere in the world.
I congratulate Professor Gbodofu and his family on this well-deserved honour. May Almighty Allah (SWT) continue to guide his path and bless his efforts. Ameen.
Even Gaza’s donkeys are more useful than all these Muslim and Arab countries. While those countries only bray, Gaza’s donkeys actually do more than just bray.
Dear Mr. President,
While you are away enjoying your well-deserved vacation, this weekend, 102 Nigerians were killed in Borno, Edo, Katsina and Sokoto.
Of course, this is just a minor inconvenience — nothing worth cutting your trip short over.
Sorry to disturb you, Sir.
According to a 2018 report by the Auditor-General's Office, the Nigerian Police Force has lost 178,459 firearms, including 88,078 AK-47 rifles. That is enough to start an insurgency or war.
Where are the missing firearms? We broke it down here.
#HumAngleAccountabilitySeries
ADC Press Statement
For Immediate Release
July 13, 2025
Welcome Back, Mr. President – But Where Have You Been?
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has challenged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to tell Nigerians where he has been for five days since the end of the BRICS Summit in Brazil.
The President, who returned in the early hours of Sunday, had been missing from public view since the end of the Summit in Brazil without any official explanation as to his whereabouts.
The full statement read:
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) extends a weary welcome to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for finally returning to the country five days after the end of the 2025 BRICS Summit which held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Since the summit ended on Monday, July 7th, all the other world leaders who were in attendance returned home, briefed their citizens, and got back to work. But our President? He only reappeared in Abuja in the early hours of Sunday, July 13—without a word, without a briefing, or any explanation as to why his return to the country had been delayed.
A whole five days is significant in the life of a country, especially a country like ours battling with several existential challenges of insecurity and a tottering economy that has made life increasingly difficult for the majority of Nigerians. The President was not on holidays, he was on official duty. We therefore cannot wish those five days away and we demand a clear explanation for them.
The ADC also notes with concern that this disdain for accountability around the President’s overseas trip has become a distinct hallmark of this administration.
In January 2024, a so-called “private visit” to France turned into a two-week disappearance. No photos, and no statements from our President.
In April 2024, President Tinubu travelled to the Netherlands, and then to Riyadh, for the World Economic Forum. The summit ended on April 29th, 2024, but there was not a word from him until May 8th, 2024. Those were nine days of unexplained vacuum.
In August 2024, President Tinubu flew to China via Dubai. After his engagements in Beijing, he vanished from public view on September 5th, and mysteriously surfaced in London on September 11th. He was missing for six days—no explanations, no letter transmitted to the National Assembly, just silence.
And in the same August 2024, the President also embarked on yet another “brief work stay” in Paris. He remained incommunicado for three days, then quietly returned, as if the nation does not deserve to know.
Each episode of Mr. President’s mysterious disappearances has sparked all manners of speculations and rumours that are not only unhealthy to the polity, but also endangers Nigeria’s perception in the eyes of the world.
We urge Nigerians to take note. A president that disappears without explanation cannot be trusted to be present to solve the crises that we face. A President that vanishes without accountability has no moral authority to demand sacrifice from citizens. Most importantly, a ruling party that makes excuses for these serial disappearances has nothing but contempt for the people it governs and has no regard for accountability.
Signed:
Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi
Interim National Publicity Secretary
African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Spokesman of the Coalition.
Wike just said on @channelstv that @atiku "betrayed Abiola." That's a big fat lie. Atiku stepped down for Abiola to clinch the ticket of SDP. The history is well documented. Where was Wike in 1993? He was likely at a Motor Park in Port Harcourt learning his craft on how to be an agbero.
My acceptance speech as the Interim National Secretary, of the African Democratic Congress, ADC - the party platform adopted by the National Opposition Coalition Group - Tuesday, 1st July, 2025
We’re not here to play politics. We’re here to build a future.
ADC Coalition is more than a political movement,it’s a gathering of minds committed to real change.
We ask the hard questions. We build real solutions.
We’re not moved by hype we’re moved by purpose.
Coalition of Unity. Not a party. A people.
Let’s reason. Let’s rise. Let’s rebuild.
Arise and shine, Nigeria.
#adc #coalitionofunity #nigeriapolitics #weleadwithsense
Two years is too long to calculate the political maneuver in Nigeria politics. The yesterday's gathering of some coalition members to declare a platform (ADC) as a political party was a successful one. But then, the people should also know, it is not yet uhuru.
The coalition is still In talks and yet to declare it final move. The coalition will still follow due processes and register a new political party, against all odds to challenge the sabotage from the ruling party.
Either in our party the PDP or any movement to unseat the ruling party under the leadership of Bola Ahmed Tinubu count me in, APC shouldn't go beyond 2027.
May the coalition succeed.
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Are the instruments used for tracking criminals in Nigeria being misused to target social media critics instead? It is disheartening to see how these individuals appear to operate with impunity.