Haruna Sambo

[Nairametrics @Nairametrics]

The United States has called on Nigeria and other African countries that are signatories to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to withdraw from the global war crimes tribunal, describing it as a “flawed institution” that undermines national sovereignty. https://t.co/AbGPJXwtfa

[Paul Ibe @omonlakiki]

Who is fooling who?: Shared as received.

"So, Adeyemi was SSA to Osun governor for about 6 months? So he scammed the state government of about 200 million naira. So, the EFCC arrested him based on a petition from the government. So the EFCC recovered about 180 million naira from Adeyemi. The same efcc chairman months later hosted Adeyemi in his office. 😁😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣😜😜

So Adeyemi had 6 police officers and 2 DSS operatives in his security details. So Adeyemi’s official cars and those of his security officers bore the FGN Presidency as plates numbers 😴 🙄 🤔 😀 😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣.

So Adeyemi was formally invited to be on Shettima's entourage twice on the vice president’s trip abroad 🤣🤣😁😁😜

So the NASS (both the Senate and HOR) nominated members to on Adeyemi’s official trip abroad 🤣🤣😁😁😜😜🫣🫣🫣

Interesting days ahead sha! 🤣😜🤪🤪😃

So Adeyemi had 3 federal civil servants on level 17 (Directors) deployed to his office 🤣😜😁😃🤣😃

So the fake agency had an official website. A working one at that. And the NSA, DSS DG, and communications minister "didn't" know 😃😃🤣😁😁😁😁

So, Adeyemi requested and got approval for his agency to have offices in the 36 states of the Federation. And in federal secretariat in the states 😁😃😃🤣😜🤪

ALL of them; NSA, COS, AGF, DG, Budget Office, SGF can only deceive themselves and those who want to be deceived."

[Haruna Sambo @hsambo11]

@DStvNgCare I want to renew my subscription your Mydstv App is freezing and not responding

[Tracka @TrackaNG]

🚨 N962.83 Billion for SUVs and Empowerment Projects Exceeds the Combined Budget of Seven Key Federal Ministries in the 2026 Budget

Our review of the 2026 FG Budget uncovered another troubling pattern of opaque spending.

🚙 39 SUVs - N15.13 bn
👥 2,579 Empowerment Projects - N947.7 bn
Total: N962.83 bn

This is more than the combined N960.27bn allocation to seven key Federal Ministries:

🏭 Industry, Trade & Investment - N156.8bn
🏘️ Housing - N145.3bn
👩 Women Affairs - N169.39bn
⚖️ Justice - N150.7bn
🐄 Livestock Development - N177.6bn
✈️ Aviation & Aerospace Development - N87.3bn
🪔 Petroleum Resources - N73.1bn

Yet, only 70 of the 2,579 empowerment projects have clearly identified implementation locations.
This raises serious accountability concerns:
📍 How can citizens track projects with no stated location?
🔍 How can oversight institutions verify implementation?
💰 How can taxpayers know who ultimately benefits from these allocations?

The concerns don't end there, these projects are spread across 184 implementing agencies, many of which have no statutory mandate to execute empowerment programmes. Leading agencies 👇
📌 @fedccojiriver - 393 projects worth N127.1bn
📌 National Agricultural Development Fund - 6 projects worth N89.5bn
📌 @Fchdkgombe - 216 projects worth N88.1bn
📌 @officialfccib - 94 projects worth N36.9bn

Let us be clear, there is nothing inherently wrong with empowerment programmes! When well-designed and transparently implemented, they can improve livelihoods, create economic opportunities, and support vulnerable Nigerians.

However, experience over the years has shown that many poorly defined empowerment projects have become vehicles for political patronage, rewarding loyalists rather than delivering broad-based benefits to citizens. When projects have no clear location, no transparent beneficiary selection process, and are assigned to agencies without the appropriate mandate, public confidence is eroded, and accountability becomes difficult.

This concern is even more pressing given that the 2026 Budget is projected to be financed with a deficit of about 46%. At a time when government is borrowing heavily to fund public expenditure, every naira should be directed toward investments with clear development outcomes, measurable impact, and value for money, not opaque allocations that citizens cannot effectively track.

A budget should not only allocate resources, it should also inspire public confidence. Every budget item should have a clear purpose, a defined location, an implementing agency with the legal mandate to deliver it, identifiable beneficiaries, and measurable outcomes.

📄 The comprehensive list of these allocations is available on our website 👉https://t.co/I2JL8eByF7

#Publicfundsmustworkforthegoodofthepeople
#Askquestions

[Tracka @TrackaNG]

Dear Nigerians, here's another question that deserves our collective attention.

The 2026 FG Budget earmarks N22.15 billion for the construction of 106 Palace buildings, with some including furniture and solar installations.

Our review raises serious accountability concerns:
📍 11 Palace projects worth N5.85 billion have no identified locations, making public oversight almost impossible.
📍 None of the 45 implementing MDAs has the statutory mandate to construct palaces.

Among the agencies budgeted to execute these projects are:
• Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (N3.92bn)
• Federal Cooperative College, Ibadan (N3.29bn)
• Sheda Science and Technology Complex (N1.54bn)
• National Cereals Research Institute (N427m)
• Industrial Arbitration Panel (N369.4m)
• National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (N280m)
• Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital, Dawanau (N42m)

At a time of rising debt and limited fiscal space, should the Federal Government fund projects that are largely local in nature, while states and local governments constitutionally exist to address many community-level needs?

This is not about the importance of our traditional institutions. It is about ensuring that public budgets reflect constitutional responsibilities, institutional mandates, and Nigeria's development priorities.

The Federal Budget should not become a vehicle for financing projects outside the constitutional and statutory responsibilities of the institutions implementing them.

Nigeria deserves a budget that is lawful, transparent, and development-driven.

#Publicfundsmustworkforthegoodofthepeople
#Askquestions

Cc;
@NGRPresident
@nassnigeria,
@HouseNGR

[Premier League @premierleague]

Just one month until the first round of fixtures for the 2026/27 Premier League season begins 🏟️👀

[TheCable @thecableng]

BREAKING: Supreme court affirms final forfeiture of properties, $2m linked to Emefiele

The supreme court has affirmed the final forfeiture of properties and $2.045m linked to Godwin Emefiele, former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to the federal government.

In a unanimous judgment delivered on Friday, the apex court overturned the decision of the court of appeal in Lagos, which had nullified the forfeiture order.

https://t.co/mY9kO8SQYu

[Global Pulse @Globalstats_77]

🌍 What Each African Country Is Famous For

🇲🇦 Morocco — Tourism
🇩🇿 Algeria — Natural Gas & Oil
🇹🇳 Tunisia — Olive Oil
🇪🇬 Egypt — Pyramids
🇱🇾 Libya — Oil
🇸🇩 Sudan — Gold
🇲🇷 Mauritania — Iron Ore
🇸🇳 Senegal — Peanuts
🇬🇲 The Gambia — Tourism
🇬🇭 Ghana — Cocoa
🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire — Cocoa
🇳🇦 Namibia — Uranium
🇳🇬 Nigeria — Oil
🇨🇲 Cameroon — Cocoa
🇦🇴 Angola — Oil
🇿🇲 Zambia — Victoria Falls
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe — Tourism
🇧🇼 Botswana — Diamonds
🇿🇦 South Africa — Gold & Diamonds
🇲🇺 Mauritius — Tourism
🇪🇹 Ethiopia — Coffee
🇸🇴 Somalia — Livestock
🇰🇪 Kenya — Wildlife Safari
🇹🇿 Tanzania — Mount Kilimanjaro
🇲🇬 Madagascar — Vanilla

[Middle East Monitor @MiddleEastMnt]

"The Father Emir is gone. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who died on Sunday at 74, was the architect of modern Qatar. But that description, however apt, undersells the magnitude of what he actually achieved. He did not merely modernise a small Gulf state. He rewrote the operating system of sovereignty itself—proving that a nation of barely 300,000 citizens could achieve global indispensability not through armies, but through a brilliantly brutal recalibration of what power actually means in the twenty-first century.

When Sheikh Hamad seized power in a bloodless palace coup in 1995, Qatar was a sleepy backwater, a peninsula that barely registered on the world’s diplomatic radar. Eighteen years later, when he voluntarily abdicated—shattering Gulf tradition in a move as unprecedented as it was wise—he left behind a nation that had become the world’s indispensable interlocutor.

During his reign, Qatar’s GDP increased more than twenty-fourfold. By 2006, it had become the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas. Today, its production capacity stands at 77 million tonnes per annum.

But the numbers are merely the scaffolding. The architecture is what matters.

Sheikh Hamad understood something that larger powers have never quite grasped: in a world of overwhelming military asymmetry, the weak do not survive by matching the strong. They survive by making themselves structurally necessary to the strong. This was not soft power. It was harder than any missile. It was the weaponisation of necessity itself.

Consider the pillars he built. In 1996, he launched Al Jazeera, breaking the state monopoly on Arab media and giving Qatar a voice that reached 60 million viewers from Casablanca to Cairo. In 1995, he established the Qatar Foundation, transforming Doha into an educational sanctuary where Ivy League universities planted their flags and, to date, nearly 10,000 students have graduated across 60 academic programmes."

✍️ Opinion by Kurniawan Arif Maspul

https://t.co/AN364j7GDd

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

The UK has tightened its visa rules, now requiring nationals from 33 African countries to obtain a visa before entering or transiting through the country.

The affected nations are: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

If the agency was indeed fictitious, how did it secure office space within the Federal Secretariat, operate several Central Bank of Nigeria accounts, receive a budgetary allocation exceeding N1.3 billion in the 2026 Appropriation Act, and engage government institutions, development partners, and diplomatic missions before questions were raised about its legitimacy?

#AskQuestions #GetInvolved

[TheCable @thecableng]

EXCLUSIVE: How FG approved recruitment of 300 staff members for ‘fake’ presidential council

The federal government granted a waiver to the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) to recruit 300 members of staff in August 2025, TheCable can report.

Mimi Abu, director, organisation design and development, in the office of the head of the civil service of the federation, conveyed the government’s approval for recruitment in a letter dated August 7, 2025.

https://t.co/P6z7DHDE1F

[AMB. SERAH IBRAHIM @TheSerahIbrahim]

This story is actually insane and nobody is talking about it, and the key witness has apparently died in a hotel fire.

Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi accused Femi Gbajabiamila of collecting ₦400 million from him for a ₦600 million deal for the appointment to become DG of Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), the Chief of Staff was said to have demanded 48% of the agency’s ₦24 billion take-off grant.

Prince Adeyemi said 48% is too much. There was a little disagreement apparently, and on 11 June 2026, Gbajabiamila, in his capacity as Chief of Staff, issued a public statement saying the PFIPC was not an official government body.

Prince Adeyemi wrote a petition to the police and named the middleman who was the witness to everything that happened.

The middle man, who is the key witness to the transaction died a day after that petition.
Prince Adeyemi wrote for the investigation of the man’s mysterious death, and also claimed there are multiple assasinanation attempts on his life.

He also claimed his phone was particularly stolen in one of the attempts and they are refusing to help him track it.

Gbajabiamila claims the company does not exist and that Prince Adeyemi is telling lies, but the 2026 Appropriation Act currently contains a ₦1.3 billion budget allocation for the PFIPC on page 50 and 51.

So how did a “non-existent”agency receive a budget allocation?
The criminality happening under Tinubu is abysmal.
Why is this not making the news?

[Jaafar Jaafar @JaafarSJaafar]

This man (Prince Adeniyi Matthew) created a fake government agency called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, appointed himself as DG, secured office space at the Federal Secretariat, opened a CBN account in its name, got N1,302,978,784 allocation in 2026 budget, summoned ambassadors to meetings, held strategic sessions with ministers, and even represented Nigeria at international conferences.

The audacity is almost unbelievable. Nigeria never runs short of ‘yan iska.

[Jikoo @Shortkickoff80]

@cenbank This is the complete list

[Central Bank of Nigeria @cenbank]

Press Release

CBN Revokes Licenses of 46 Microfinance Banks.

Kindly click the link to see the full list of the affected Microfinance Banks on the CBN website : https://t.co/7HymUKTI5J

#CBN
#PressRelease

[Dr KALU, OON @DrKalu_]

JUST IN!!!
President Bola Ahmad Tinubu I Totally Disagree With You That You Inherited A Dilapidated Nigeria From The Former President Muhammadu Buhari Below Are My Reasons

- Emir Mohammed Sanusi Mohammed
Message to Tinubu.

"How Can A President That Claimed To Have Inherited A Dilapidated Nigeria Be Spending Public Funds Extravagantly As If You Inherited A Rich And Prosperous Country

How Would You Justify The Following Extravagant Spendings Under Your Government

21 Billion Naira To Renovate The Vice President House

70 Billion Naira To The National Assembly Members To Buy SUVs At The Cost 160 Million Naira Per One For Senators And House Of Representatives Members Specifically

4 Billion Naira To Renovate Dodan Barrack Lagos Another 3 Billion Naira To Renovate Aguda House

5 Billion Naira Was Given To Presidential Tax Reforms Committee Of Less Than Twenty People Headed By Taiwo Oyedele With Nothing To Show For It

1.5 Billion Naira To Purchase Cars For Your Wife Senator Oluremi Tinubu Despite The Fact That First Lady Office Is Not Recognised By Our Constitution

300% Salary Increase For The Judges Which Was Speedily Passed By The Insensitive And Irresponsible Senators

5 Billion Naira Was Budgeted For Presidential Fleet Of Cars For President Bola Ahmad Tinubu

5 Billion equally budgeted for Presidential Yatch

225 Billion naira spent on so-called Presidential Jet

90 Billion naira spent on 2024 Hajj pilgrimage

Billions of Naira Was Budgeted For Your Trips Including The Vice President Kashim Shettima To The Detriment Of The Citizens

Every Senator Is Paid 21 Million Naira Monthly

House Of Representatives Are Earning 13.5 Million Monthly All The Increment Was Done By Your Government

15 Trillion Naira Lagos Calabar Coastal Road Was Awarded Illegally To Your Friend A Lebanese Gilbert Chagoury Who Was Repatriated Back To His Country By The Former President Obasanjo

You Have The Largest Ministers Ever In The History Of Nigeria".
©️

[NTANetwork @NTANewsNow]

NCC, CAC ANNOUNCE NEW REQUIREMENT FOR CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDING/OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE OF LICENSED COMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, and the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, have announced a new compliance requirement for changes in the ownership structure of licensed communications companies in Nigeria.

According to a statement by Nnena Ukoha, Director of Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, and Rasheed Mahe, Head of Public Affairs, Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, the requirement is in line with the provisions of Section 90 of the Nigerian Communications Act 2003, Regulation 28(2) of the Competition Practices Regulations 2007, and Regulation 42 of the Licensing Regulations 2019, which empower the NCC to oversee and review transactions affecting licensees and promote fair competition.

The statement explains that, with immediate effect, any proposed transfer of ownership or control of shares in an NCC licensee amounting to ten percent or more of the total share capital, as well as any series of share transfers that cumulatively exceed ten percent of the company’s total share capital, must obtain a Letter of No Objection from the NCC before such changes can be effected and registered with the CAC.

Under the new measure, the CAC will ensure that all applications for changes in shareholding structures involving ten percent or more of the shares of telecommunications companies are supported with evidence of the NCC’s prior approval and consent before registration.

The two agencies say the requirement is aimed at preserving a fair and competitive market structure within the communications sector by preventing direct or indirect anti-competitive practices and strengthening regulatory oversight of significant changes in ownership and control.

They add that the policy will promote transparency, boost investor confidence, provide regulatory certainty, and safeguard the long-term sustainability and stability of Nigeria’s communications industry.

The NCC and CAC reaffirmed their commitment to advancing a transparent, stable and competitive business environment, stressing that both agencies will continue to work together to ensure fair market practices and support the orderly and sustainable development of Nigeria’s communications sector.

[ferizandra @ferizandra]

Pelatih kepala tim nasional Senegal, Pape Thiaw, menjadi topik pembicaraan di Amerika karena pernyataan yang dibuatnya saat konferensi pers, terkait dengan ibadah sholat Jum'at

Wartawan :
"Hari ini ada angin yang sangat kencang di negara bagian New Jersey, dan petugas keamanan menyarankan anggota delegasi untuk tidak keluar demi keselamatan kalian... mengapa Anda tetap keluar untuk menunaikan sholat...?"

Pape Thiaw :
"Apakah ada yang lebih penting daripada sholat? saya rasa itu bukan urusan Anda... kalian takut pada angin, sementara kami takut kepada Allah, Zat yang menciptakan angin... kita datang ke sini untuk sebuah pertandingan hiburan, lantas kita lupa bahwa kita diciptakan untuk menyembah Allah...

Bahkan kalo final Piala Dunia FIFA digelar hari ini dan kami adalah salah satu tim finalisnya, kami tetap akan keluar untuk menunaikan sholat Jum'at, meski itu berarti kehilangan gelar juara...

Jangan ceramahi kami tentang ritual dan kewajiban agama kami..."

#PialaDunia

[Olayinka 🇳🇬🇺🇾 @mickoly]

The correct Tinubu 3 years score card, which translated to FAILURE.

See Before and After, and you also decide if this is not failure.