Mambila Hydro Power Project: "...I almost died reporting the story in 2019 because I wanted to show how unserious our nation is... But it pleases God to give us victory at the court and it has a potential of giving Nigeria over 4,000 megawatt... Mambila is not connected to the national grid but big people in our country has houses there including fmr President Olusegun Obasanjo..." - Babajide Otitoju
FG Investigative Panel on Minna incident where 37 died in NSCDC detention
1. Mr Jonathan Kure, mni, retired Deputy Director-General, Department of State Services, as Chairman
2. Prof. Isa Hayatu Chiroma (SAN), former Director-General of the Nigeria Law School, as Secretary
3. AIG Hosea Hassan Karma (retired)
4. Prof. Olayinka Buhari, Professor of Histopathology and former Chief Medical Director of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital
5. Representative of the Minna Emirate Council
6. Representative of the Niger State Government
7. Alhaji Liman Sulaiman, National Secretary, Miners Association of Nigeria
8. Mr Deji Adeyanju, lawyer and human rights activist
9. Mrs Zainab Suleiman Okino of Blueprint Newspaper
10. Dr. George Agbakahi, Public Affairs Analyst.
APC CAMPAIGN COUNCIL
PRESS STATEMENT
PARIS ICC ARBITRATION COURT RULING: ATIKU ABUBAKAR UNFIT FOR NIGERIA'S PRESIDENCY
Atiku Abubakar, the African Democratic Congress candidate, is unfit to be President of Nigeria because he has once again proven he will compromise Nigeria’s best interests for personal, fiduciary gain.
Abubakar’s legendary corruption reverberated in Paris at the International Arbitration Tribunal under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Hearings in the arbitration filed by Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Ltd (Sunrise) and Leno Adesanya over the stalled 3960mw Mambila Hydroelectric Power Project in Taraba State revealed that Abubakar and former power minister Olu Agunloye worked in cahoots to sign an illegal power contract with Sunrise.
The backdoor signing of the contract in the dying days of then President Olusegun Obasanjo’s first term, when Atiku wielded enormous power, put Nigeria in a serious financial peril, despite President Obasanjo’s objection and reservations at the Federal Executive Council meeting.
Atiku’s greed, however, propelled him to disobey the council and President Obasanjo, months after Leno Adesanya, through an offshore account, China Castle Investment, wired $500,000 to the US Citibank account of his now-divorced wife, Jennifer Douglas. The money arrived in tranches, raising red flags at Citibank and in the United States. The wired money and other suspicious transfers totalling $40 million surfaced in a US Senate investigation into Atiku and other corrupt leaders. In the US Senate report titled Keeping Foreign Corruption out of the United States: Four Case Histories, Jennifer said her husband sent the money. She said she was not familiar with the offshore company that wired the money.
Atiku’s treasonable act, after the Nigerian government declined to go ahead with the illegal contract, led Sunrise and Leno Adesanya to make a claim against the Federal Republic of Nigeria, demanding $680 million as a settlement sum and interest in respect of another arbitration in which it is claiming over $2.7 billion in compensation and interest relating to disputes associated with the development of the Mambilla Hydro Power project.
As the ICC Paris Tribunal concluded: "There is a close connection in time between the moment the USD 500,000 payment was made to the wife of Vice-President Abubakar on 30 January 2003 and the alleged award of the BOT contract to Sunrise on 22 May 2003."
Nigeria fought valiantly to dodge this huge liability, echoing a similar attempt by another rogue company, Process and Industrial Development (P&ID), to extract an $11 billion claim from our country for a phantom gas project in Akwa Ibom that the company did not spend a dime on.
By collecting a $500,000 bribe from Leno Adesanya to approve a Build-Operate-Transfer contract to a company with no scintilla of experience in hydro power generation, Atiku has proven he is one of the enablers of local and international predatory and exploitative entities out to defraud our country.
At the hearing in Paris, Atiku, to avoid embarrassment, chose to stay away to give evidence in support of Sunrise and Leno Adesanya’s specious claim that the $500,000 was a foreign exchange transaction. Although the Tribunal requested Atiku’s witness statement, Adesanya shielded Atiku and Jennifer Douglas by lying. In contrast, President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Muhammadu Buhari went to Paris to defend Nigeria and help stave off a liability that our country can ill-afford to redeem in these lean times.
Again, another politician drags his heritage in the mud.
The ICC Tribunal exposed how former AGF Abubakar Malami secretly struck a corrupt $400M deal with Sunrise Power, bypassed presidential refusal, and betrayed the public trust on the Mambilla project.
They tried to defraud Nigeria over the $2.35bn Mambilla deal.
They knew the claim was false.
$500k was transferred to Atiku’s wife to testify against Nigeria.
Falana took up the case against his own country.
Thank God for Obasanjo, Buhari & BAT Who thwarted their plans.
MAMBILLA CREDIT ALERT BREAKDOWN:
1: Nigeria was awarded $11.82m in legal fees and expenses:
-(a): $2.5m — from ICC escrow
-(b): $9.32m — to be paid directly by Sunrise Power/Leno Adesanya
-(c): The $9.32m attracts 10% compound annual interest until fully paid.
-(d): Plus, Sunrise/Adesanya must bear 75% of the $1.6565m arbitration costs — another $1.242m.
2: Abeg send our money ASAP.
3: EFCC should prosecute Leno Adesanya.
4: CAC, THIS IS THE TIME TO ACT. @cacnigeria1@IshaqHussainiM
-(a): Following the ICC ruling, CAC should immediately examine Sunrise Power’s corporate status and take steps to wind up the company if the statutory conditions are met.
MAMBILLA HYDROPOWER: 1972–2026: from 3,050MW to 1525MW
1: 1972: Mambilla was conceptualised following preliminary feasibility work under Gowon.
2: 1982: Work on the main dam was initiated.
3: 2003: Contract controversies emerged.
4: 2017: FEC approved the construction contract for the 3,050MW project.
5: 2026: After decades of delay and now with Nigeria winning the $3.38bn Sunrise arbitration claims — it is time to move decisively.
6: FG notTinubu should direct Power Minister @JosephOTegbe and @taiwoyedele to engage China Exim Bank and secure the financing needed to finally get Mambilla moving.
7: The longstanding financing structure envisaged 85% Chinese financing and 15% Nigerian counterpart funding.
8: Mambilla must move from decades of promises to actual construction.
9: congratulations to Taraba people, jobs jobs and new hotels dey come.
The reported deaths of scores of suspected illegal miners in NSCDC custody in Minna are deeply disturbing, especially against the backdrop of the earlier killing of an NSCDC personnel who was reportedly shot in the head during an operation at the same illegal mining area more than a month ago. If confirmed, this is no longer simply a question of enforcement it is a grave matter of accountability, security and the value placed on human life.
How can 30 people or even a fraction of that number be locked inside a detention facility and allowed to die without immediate intervention? Was nobody watching them? Were there no guards conducting routine checks? When did they become critically ill, and why was medical assistance apparently not provided quickly enough? These are basic questions that the authorities must answer publicly. A claim of a suspected disease outbreak cannot by itself explain how detainees under state custody could die in such numbers.
The authorities owe the families and the people of Niger State more than condolences and assurances. They owe them answers, evidence and accountability. The deaths must be independently and thoroughly investigated, including the condition of the detainees when they were arrested, what they ate or were exposed to, the detention conditions, the medical response and the exact timeline of events.
As we write this, protests and unrest are reportedly spreading across Minna, silence and vague explanations will only deepen public anger.
Nigerians deserve to know exactly what happened.
@official_NSCDC@OfficialDSSNG
FG not Tinubu has disbursed N18.96 billion to settle outstanding Back-end Computation arrears owed to 3,958 eligible pensioners of the PHCN under the Defined Benefit Scheme.
2: Nigeria failed our parents and guardians but Tinubu don make them laugh again. We are sorry.
BREAKING: Nigeria wins arbitration case against Sunrise Power
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, France, has ruled in favour of Nigeria in the $2.35 billion award sought by Sunrise Power over the Mambilla hydropower project.
BREAKING :- The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, France, has ruled in favour of Nigeria in the $2.35 billion award sought by Sunrise Power over the Mambilla hydropower project.
The tribunal also directed Sunrise and its promoter to refund Nigeria’s legal fees of $11.8 million.
BREAKING: Nigeria wins arbitration case against Sunrise Power
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, France, has ruled in favour of Nigeria in the $2.35 billion award sought by Sunrise Power over the Mambilla hydropower project.
The award was issued today, TheCable understands.
https://t.co/NfWpfEYIMT
Addresses of Chinese stores in SW states:
1. Lagos — Palms Mall, Oniru, VI
2. Ibadan — Palms Mall, Ring Road
3. Ogun — Palms Mall, Ota
4. Osun — Shop in Ibadan
5. Akure — Oba Ile Road (Not major)
6. Ekiti — Coming soon.
Update: Chinese items are VERY cheap. Shop there!
ICC CASE: AB SUNRISE POWER AND TRANSMISSION COMPANY LIMITED (SUNRISE) V. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA (NIGERIA) V. MR. LENO ADESANYA
An International Arbitration Tribunal under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, today, September 17, 2026, issued an award in favour of our country, rejecting the claims in the arbitration instituted by Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Ltd (Sunrise).
The company had made a claim against the Federal Republic of Nigeria, demanding $680 million as a settlement sum and interest in respect of another arbitration in which it is claiming over $2.7 billion in compensation and interest relating to disputes associated with the development of the 3960mw Mambila Hydroelectric Power Project, located in Taraba State.
This latest decision affirms the Nigerian State's determination not to succumb to predatory and exploitative claims by corrupt local and international entities and their enablers and funders.
On behalf of the Government and People of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I strongly commend the tremendous efforts of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi and the entire team at the Federal Ministry of Justice for their efforts in this matter.
I also commend the FRN defence team, led by Ms Elizabeth Oger-Gross and Mr Tolu Obamuroh, both of Paul Hastings LLP, for their professional and excellent defence of the country.
I commend the patriotism and support of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, and late President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, who testified in the case, which dated back to an illegal 2003 contract to build a 3,050-megawatt hydroelectric plant in Taraba State under a build-operate-transfer model. The Federal Executive Council never authorised the contract.
I thank the other witnesses in this case, including former Ministers Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, and Suleiman Adamu, and the experts, for their active participation in defending Nigeria's interest in the arbitration.
I commend the National Security Adviser for his support and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission @officialEFCC for its investigation into the case.
I want to assure you that while our country remains committed to partnering with genuine investors and honouring its legal obligations, it will continue to defend all opportunistic claims instituted against our commonwealth strongly.
Today's ICC ruling clears the single biggest legal hurdle that has paralysed the Mambilla hydro power project for years.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU,
September 17, 2026