beneficiary and multiple first-place winner.
Its abrupt end following his demise closed a chapter that had opened doors for many young minds, including mine.
May Almighty God grant eternal repose to your soul. Rest on, my General.
Today marks 28 years since the passing of General Sani Abacha. While history may judge leaders through different lenses, I remember him with gratitude for the opportunities created through the Maryam Abacha National Quiz Competition, a platform from which I proudly emerged as a..
1. Atiku Abubakar is broke (full stop).
2. He was financially decimated by Buhari, who wanted to ensure he would no longer have a large war chest to fund an election.
3. Buhari achieved this through Hadiza Usman, who frustrated Intels, a company co-owned by Atiku.
4. In 2021, Atiku sold his shares in Intels and used the money to run in the 2023 PDP primary election. Gov. Wike made sure Atiku spent big in PDP primaries by paying $30,000 per delegate.
5. Atiku who was fully extorted, needed a sitting governor to open his state treasury to co-fund his 2023 campaign, and Gov. Okowa came in handy.
6. Records show that Gov. Okowa borrowed N30,000,000,000 from three banks, Zenith Bank, UBA, and Access Bank. That was the money used for Atiku’s presidential campaign in 2023.
6b. EFCC records shows that Okowa could not show which project swallowed the last minute loan he took from 3 banks in 2022 using Delta state allocation as security.
7. Atiku’s remaining businesses, like America a university of Nigeria, Adama Beverage Limited, Gotel Communications, and Prodeco Nigeria Limited, cannot provide Atiku with the funds needed for the 2027 election, so he's looking for another “Okowa.” Sadly, that option is now limited.
8. Atiku has 25 voracious children waiting for food to be ready. Potential 25 Seyi Tinubu’s. Can Nigeria survive it? No!
9. Bottom line is: what we've seen Tinubu do will be child’s play compared to what Atiku will do if he becomes president.
10. A man who’s badly financially decimated and damaged, who has sold many assets and liquidated numerous businesses in his quest for the presidency, will first recover his investments before doing anything else.
11. If Tinubu, with Lagos treasury in his hands, is still hustling and scavenging the nation like a hungry vulture, imagine what Atiku will do.
12. Peter Obi remains Nigeria’s only real option. He's not broke. He's not hungry. He will not thief up your money.
13. This cannot be said about Atiku and Tinubu.
14. May God save us from Atiku and Tinubu.
@ Lawrence Ibe
Dangote has done three things in the last 72 hours that the Nigerian government could not do in 60 years.
He cut aviation fuel to N1,650 per litre, slashed diesel and aviation fuel prices at ex-depot level, and filed a lawsuit to stop NNPC and private marketers from importing fuel that his refinery is already producing in surplus.
Now the oil marketers are crying monopoly.
Let us be honest about what monopoly means in this context. For 60 years, a cartel of fuel importers held Nigeria hostage, collecting $10 billion annually in subsidy, keeping state refineries deliberately broken, and charging Nigerians premium prices for refined crude they sent abroad themselves.
Nobody called that a monopoly. Nobody filed a lawsuit about market stability when ordinary Nigerians queued for fuel in an oil producing country for decades.
One private refinery starts cutting prices, increasing supply, and going to court to enforce a law that already says imports are only permitted when local supply is insufficient, and suddenly the marketers have discovered the language of competition and consumer protection.
The law is clear. The Petroleum Industry Act only permits fuel imports when domestic supply cannot meet demand. Dangote’s refinery is supplying over 90% of Nigeria’s daily petrol consumption. The legal basis for those import licences does not exist. He is not asking for a favour. He is asking for the law to be applied.
The marketers built their business model on Nigeria’s inability to refine its own oil. That inability has been solved by one man with private capital. Their business model is obsolete and their objection is not about market stability. It is about market access to a rent they no longer deserve.
Regarding the OpenAI case, the judge & jury never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality.
There is no question to anyone following the case in detail that Altman & Brockman did in fact enrich themselves by stealing a charity. The only question is WHEN they did it!
I will be filing an appeal with the Ninth Circuit, because creating a precedent to loot charities is incredibly destructive to charitable giving in America.
OpenAI was founded to benefit all of humanity.
Sometimes I wonder: with our nation’s vast air, land, and maritime defence architecture, how do a handful of so-called bandits and extremists still succeed in destabilizing Nigeria? How can forces that even our military school cadets could outmatch continue to trouble a great