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[Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso @KwankwasoRM]

This week, I have observed with deep concern two notable media appearances: one by my brother, Mr. Peter Obi, and the other by the family of Malam Nasir El-Rufai.

In his interview with Mr. Chude Jideonwo, Mr. Obi voiced serious worries about his personal safety and the adverse impact his role as an opposition leader has had on his businesses. Even more troubling was the Federal Government’s response, which resorted to personal insults and derogatory language instead of the restraint and maturity expected of a democratic administration.

Let me state clearly: like every Nigerian, our presidential candidate and all of us deserve the full protection of the state, not ridicule for raising legitimate concerns.
Democratic leadership requires fairness, justice, and restraint.

A government entrusted with protecting citizens should not dismiss or mock credible calls for help from any individual, including Mr. Peter Obi.

On the other hand, it was distressing to watch the wives of Malam Nasir El-Rufai publicly express the family’s anguish over his prolonged detention.
Regardless of political affiliation, Malam El-Rufai, like every Nigerian, is entitled to due process and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty by a competent court. The continued delay in granting him bail through what many perceive as stringent and unreasonable conditions is deeply concerning. As an unconvicted citizen, he deserves a fair and expeditious trial, while his health and that of his family are adequately safeguarded.

I therefore join well-meaning Nigerians in urging the Federal Government to handle these matters with transparency, accountability, and justice. These issues must not be weaponised to settle political scores.

For our democracy to truly thrive, every citizen; young or old, regardless of ethnicity, religion, or political persuasion must receive equal and equitable treatment under the law from the government that exists to protect us all. - RMK

[Chude @Chude_ND1]

Femi Falana stated that Ali Modu Sheriff, the former governor of Borno State, founded Boko Haram. He was arrested in Cameroon over his links to the group, but the Nigerian government stepped in and negotiated his release. Falana challenged Sheriff to sue him if the claims are untrue.

[Bro. Bonaventure @EBona69]

This guy @seunokin is everything a journalist should not be.
Once a politician enters the studio, the only question he throws up is about Peter Obi.
Imagine having Ali Modu Sheriff, a man that has a lot of Boko Haram allegations hanging on his neck, and the only question you are asking him is about Peter Obi.
Anyways, since Wike revealed that they are on his payroll, I don't see him as a journalist.

Kudos to @ruffydfire and the other few professional journalists in Nigeria.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Worsening Leadership Crisis in the Country Now Evident

The ultimate cost of uncompassionate leadership, as evident in the country today, is turning citizens’ frustration into deep, volatile resentment. It is even more traumatising when the leader presiding over that collapse demonstrates clear incapacity and a lack of compassion.

The government and people of Oyo State, more than 50 days after the abduction of the schoolchildren without any tangible effort toward their rescue, should rightly feel bitter and abandoned.

Since this unfortunate incident, I have spoken publicly about it twice, including appealing directly to the kidnappers to release the children. I also called the Governor twice to assure him of my solidarity, understanding that this issue is not just an Oyo problem but a Nigerian tragedy.

On Friday, July 3, I decided to travel to Ibadan with Prof. Pat Utomi to express solidarity with the Governor, as more than 50 days had elapsed without the rescue of the children and with numerous others still being held captive across the country.

During our two-hour meeting, I shared my experience in addressing insecurity as Governor of Anambra State. I recalled how President Olusegun Obasanjo, and later Presidents Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, would personally call us several times whenever we faced major security challenges.

But, to my utmost shock, I discovered that, contrary to my assumption that they had been in regular communication over the matter, Governor Seyi Makinde had not received a single call from President Bola Tinubu.

I remember the only case of a school kidnapping during President Goodluck Jonathan’s era - the Chibok girls. It drew local and international attention. Even though the security agencies provided almost daily updates on their efforts, Nigerians and the rest of the world were outraged that it took President Jonathan over two weeks to call the then State chief Executive.

I vividly recall that the current President, Bola Tinubu, led a team of vocal critics who called for President Jonathan’s immediate resignation over the incident, citing his delay in calling the state governor. That call for IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION should actually be the case in this matter.

Today, under President Tinubu, there have been more than 13 school kidnappings, yet the President has found it difficult to call the affected state’s chief executive after more than 50 days (over 7 weeks). This is outrageous. I suspect the same may also have been the case in other school kidnapping incidents.

I cannot imagine any issue more important than the lives of our kidnapped children, their teachers, and the many other Nigerians being held captive across the country. It is now an indisputable fact that governance has completely collapsed under this administration.

The situation reflects a total lack of capacity and compassion, compounded by glaring insensitivity.

Amid such an apparent display of incompetence, the President should either resign or, at the very least, abstain from seeking re-election for the sake of our dear country. This call is patriotic, not political. A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[HABIBU YUSUF SODANGI @HabibaIdri40129]

The Fulani who are killing you are the same people who instill hatred of the Igbo in you, telling you that they are Biafrans. Has any Igbo person ever come into your home, killed you, or raped your women?
Instead, it is the Fulani—who tell you that you are one people and brothers—who are killing you and raping your women. Then their leaders appear in the media and shift the blame onto you, claiming that you provoked them first and that they only took up arms in retaliation.
If you are Hausa, know that you have no greater enemy than the Fulani. It is the Fulani who kill you, displace you from your homeland, and steal your wealth, leaving you trapped in extreme poverty.

Then a Fulani group worst than Boko Haram will emerge they will seize our farmland rape our women kill our people and their master will protect defend and even arm them because their sole agenda is to enslave us forever.
Those who cannot see it now will soon see it.
MAZI NNAMDI KANU

[Obiasogu David @afrisagacity]

Mr Peter Obi. Well done for being thoughtful enough to state the latest atrocious corruption scandal rocking Tinubu’s government.

But like the opinion I shared when Atiku released a statement too, this is a lazy opposition tactic.

Beyond dropping a long-form tweet, mobilize your media arsenal against the government. Send out your spokespersons to the “big screen” stations. Activate your social media teams - rain down fire and brimstone.

We have reached the point where and when the opposition must show intense force, and make the seat so hot and hard for this APC government to relax!✍️

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Grand Corruption: Nigeria’s Greatest Threat.

The recent report from the IMF consultation further raises concerns about the scale of grand corruption under the Tinubu government. The IMF now reveals that about N8.83 trillion in expenditure undertaken in 2025 is not reflected in the budget. This expenditure is not budgeted and is therefore not under legislative oversight or administrative scrutiny. This is horrible.

N8.83 trillion is as follows:

1.About 2% of our GDP.

2.Over 35% of Nigeria’s 2025 N23.96 trillion capital project budget. In fact, the amount is more than the actual released capital funding for 2025.

https://t.co/Hta3LViCB8 is more than the entire combined budget for education (N3.52 trillion) and health (N2.38 trillion).

If such an amount is properly used and accounted for, it could transform Nigeria’s public health and education sectors. It could create hundreds of cottage industries that can provide jobs for thousands of graduates and build a solid foundation for economic development. But we cannot account for it. This is not an isolated incident.

This is a pattern of grand corruption that has become part of this administration.
We have a lot to worry about regarding the state of corruption under President Tinubu. The sort of corruption that is ingrained in total disregard of elementary rules of public finance management poses a grave danger to national security and the stability of the Nigerian state. The capture of the Nigerian state and the plunder of its resources are actions that undermine the basis of state stability and deepen poverty and state failure.

This recent revelation proves that the APC government is grossly corrupt, incompetent, and insensitive. With the growing poverty and the urgent need for significant upgrades to social and physical infrastructure, a responsible and responsive government would ensure that N8.83 trillion is prudently utilised to address these gaps. But not the Tinubu administration.

A few days ago, I called on President Tinubu to resign from office for incompetence, lack of capacity, lack of compassion, and failure to improve on his campaign promises. Some people thought perhaps the call was excessive. But with the daily revelations of pervasive corruption in this administration and its total lack of commitment to the welfare and security of Nigerian citizens, the only reasonable action is for President Tinubu to resign from office. The collapse of elementary forms of due process under Tinubu and the increased evidence of rampant looting of Nigerian public finances reinforce the need for greater accountability. It is now time for Nigerian citizens to rise within the law and hold this administration to account.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Parallel Facts @ParallelFacts]

Former President Biden Once Refused White House Meeting With Tinubu Over Narcotics History — US Firm https://t.co/Jwq7trjHDp

[Sahara Reporters @SaharaReporters]

Former Texas Mayor Accuses Nigeria's Richest Pastors Of Enriching Themselves, Prioritising Private Jets While Displaced Christians Suffer | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/19qSsY0oi8

[Jegede Damilola | Operations & Project Manager @jedaar_official]

@PeterObi It would be great if we can use our skill set to push most of the information he's putting out (especially the ones addressing issues and way forward in Nigeria) - videos, flyers, AI etc.....

We can do better - JEDAAR 💪🏽

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

My Vision for a Productive and Prosperous Nigeria

Today, being the 1st of July, 2026, I wish to humbly recall that when I decided to contest for the office of President of Nigeria, I pledged to place Nigeria on the path of unity and national transformation. Now, as the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, I will, in the coming weeks and months, provide insights into the roadmap that I am confident will help curb abuse in government, halt the decline in the quality of life of Nigerians at all levels, and usher in an era of unity, peace, sustained progress, and prosperity.

This vision is anchored on a commitment to unity, inclusion, social justice, equity, and the freedom of every citizen to pursue lawful dreams.

Central to this proposed roadmap are significant reforms in education and healthcare, which are at the core of human capital development.

Robust human capital is indispensable infrastructure for national progress. It serves as the fundamental capital upon which daily life, economic expansion, and the delivery of essential public services depend.

These are foundational areas that we must reform with energy and determination if we are to reap the demographic dividend of our youthful population.

From the outset of my presidency, we will establish a task force dedicated to drastically reducing the menace of out-of-school children. We will place greater emphasis on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to support our drive for massive industrialisation, anchored on our agricultural endowments and value addition across value chains organised around industrial parks to be located in development zones across the geopolitical regions of the country.

Funding and improving the equipment of TVET institutions, through partnerships among government, the private sector, and social entrepreneurs such as faith-based educators, will facilitate apprenticeship opportunities in the private sector, similar to the German dual education system.

The situation in which unemployment remains high while Nigerian entrepreneurs establish businesses elsewhere because skilled labour is scarce must be confronted decisively. Doing so is essential for the common good and for facilitating our transition from a consumption-driven economy to a production-driven one.

Character and civic education, emphasising the values that foster trust - an essential ingredient for enterprise and leadership - as well as shared national values, will receive significant attention within the tripartite approach to governance that we propose.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

BREAKING: Federal government has reduced import levy on new vehicles 🚗 into Nigeria 🇳🇬 from 20% to 10% and that of used vehicles from 15% to 5% in order to ease cost of vehicle importation. The reduction takes effect today.

[Parallel Facts @ParallelFacts]

Pastor Adeboye Is The Wolf Among Sheep Jesus Warned Christians About — American Missionary Barbir Blasts RCCG G.O. For Exonerating Tinubu From Nigeria's Soaring Insecurity And Genocide https://t.co/C11DXH6y3Z

[Queen Bee 👑 🐝 @RealQueenBee__]

For my mental health, I'll stop listening to this man

The first day Tinubu was sworn in he canceled the money that was used to import petrol

Some people made Naira to start going down, if not that people joined me in prayer $1 would've been N10k -Adeboye

[Mike Arnold @MikeArnoldTruth]

President Trump's statement over the weekend declaring that the United States has "largely ended the slaughter of great Christian populations" in Nigeria is alarming. It is dangerous. And it is patently false.

The strikes were real. Credit where it's due — no president before Trump hit Nigeria's jihadists at all. The Christmas Day strike on Sokoto and the May 16 strike that killed the world's number-two ISIS commander were real blows.

But the group doing most of the genocidal killing was never touched.

The Fulani militias — the armed networks that have burned more than 20,000 churches, slaughtered families in the night, and driven twelve million people from their ancestral land — have not been struck. They are forces operating under the protection of the Caliphate structure, loyal to the same ruling elite that has been running this jihad since 1804. They are fully intact, still in the field. And by every visible measure, the situation has not improved — it has gotten worse.

Not just the killing. The government deception. The incompetence, corruption and complicity. The government that denies the existence of millions of displaced people. The Islamic supremacist now rewriting the national school curriculum for fifty million children in what he calls “intellectual jihad.” The Fulani militia commanders who have never faced a courtroom, a drone, or a consequence of any kind.

Now look at the timing.

A ginned-up diaspora "gala" in Washington last week -- days before Trump's disturbing pivot -- became a de-facto Tinubu campaign rally. His people worked the room, the “cooperation” between the US and Nigerian governments was celebrated. Contrary voices were silenced. People wined and dined and gave each other awards to celebrate who-knows-what in the middle of an ongoing genocide. Tinubu's own spokesman was hailed as an “honored guest” and closed the evening at the microphone with an extended infomercial for the corrupt administration.

Days later, President Trump announced the genocide is largely over.

That is not a coincidence. That is a play.

Tinubu just learned he faces no backlash for backing off. Trump learned that the self-appointed voice of the diaspora celebrates his partnership with Tinubu and their “accomplishments.” That is a green light — the movement strategically silenced at the exact time to ensure Washington filed Nigeria under “problem solved.”

It worked. And if it sticks, the results will be catastrophic.

I believe there is still hope to bring this back into the spotlight, to compel Trump to act, but there’s not much time.

Look at what moved Trump the first time: In September, Bill Maher raised the issue of the Nigerian Christian Genocide on national television. Ted Cruz loudly made it a Senate matter. And then days later Trump threatened Country of Particular Concern designation.

Next, my October 14 press conference in Abuja generated billions of impressions and triggered an emergency Senate session. The resulting outcry moved the needle. Days later, Trump promised to come “guns-a-blazin.”

Now the voices have gone soft, become complicit, absorbed into DCI’s swamp -- and immediately Trump talks as if he’s turning away.

These are not coincidences. It’s loud public outcry that forced the issue and compelled action.

We need that outcry again right now, louder than ever.

If President Trump has "accomplished" his mission in Nigeria, then his mission was never about stopping the genocide or saving Christians.

We know better. He can do better. But only if we get loud enough that he has to. Right now.

#EarthShaker

[Mobilisingnigerians™ @mobilisingniger]

This is numbers of motorcycle moving Lithium earth minerals from (Daba) Old Oyo National Park to Kishi or Igbeti, and each of this Okada riders charge 12000naira per bag, the individuals acting like a union for the motorcycle rake about 20-50million naira while those working for the union daily take home is 200,000naira.

The whole illegal mining stuff is a cabal and a organised crime.

[HABIBU YUSUF SODANGI @HabibaIdri40129]

To those Fulani threatening me or claiming that I was sponsored by Christians, Jews, Berom, or Kataf, you should know that it was Fulani who killed my brother, Jamilu Tanimu, and Karima. It was Fulani who kidnapped my brother's two daughters, Naja'atu and Aisha. It was Fulani who shot my grandfather, Musa Imam, leaving him crippled. It was Fulani who killed my intimate classmate and seatmate, Badamasi Ibrahim. It was Fulani who kidnapped many of my siblings and friends, displaced my village for a long time, and made my village poorer than ever before.

It was not Christians, Berom, Kataf, or Jews. It was Fulani who caused these problems for my family and for many Hausa people in general.

I will never love those who committed these acts of terrorism against my family. Even now, if I step into my mother's room, I will see Asmau, the daughter of my younger brother, Jamilu, who was killed by Fulani terrorists.

This is my true life story. These are my views and my opinions. I can't love my enemies and Fulani are my true enemies

[Queen Bee 👑 🐝 @RealQueenBee__]

No body was mentioned, but some people will still feel offended by this.

[Aisha Yesufu @AishaYesufu]

Mr Tinubu had the audacity and temerity to ask President Jonathan who was legitimately elected to resign but he, shouldn’t be asked to resign?

[Hamma @HAHayatu]

Dangote needs competition in his oil business, if not we shall keep buying fuel expensive.

Since other refineries cannot work and compete, is ok to allow imports to be the competition.

Today Brent Crude is $69 and Dangote gantry price is still 1175. Last time crude was $70, gantry was less than 800 per litre.