I welcome the commencement of construction of the $12 million Abuja Centre for Entrepreneurship, being developed at the SMEDAN Industrial Development Centre in Idu, Abuja, with support from the Republic of Korea through KOICA @KorEmbNigeria and in partnership with SMEDAN @SMEDANGov and UNDP @UNDPNigeria.
The Centre will support the wider MSME ecosystem by providing workspaces, digital infrastructure, training, incubation and business support for entrepreneurs, start-ups and growing businesses.
It will begin with 500 aspiring entrepreneurs, 400 start-ups and 1,500 MSMEs.
The decisions we have taken to reposition Nigeria’s oil and gas sector are beginning to bear fruit.
Since assuming office, I have signed a series of Presidential Directives and Executive Orders to make investment in Nigeria more competitive, reduce the cost and time required to develop projects, provide greater certainty to investors and ensure that our natural resources deliver greater value to our people.
One of those reforms introduced specific incentives to unlock onshore and shallow-water gas projects that had remained undeveloped for years.
Today, we are seeing the result.
AMNI International and TotalEnergies have taken an $800 million Final Investment Decision to develop the Ima Gas Field, discovered in 1973 and left underground for more than fifty years.
For Nigerians, this means work for our engineers, technicians and contractors. It means opportunities for Nigerian businesses, jobs and economic activity in our host communities, and more export earnings for our country.
AMNI, a Nigerian company, holds the majority interest in the project. Around 60% of the development workforce is expected to come from the host communities.
Ima is expected to produce about 350 million cubic feet of gas every day at peak and supply about one-third of the gas required for the expansion of Nigeria LNG.
This is what our reforms are intended to achieve, to move Nigeria’s resources from potential to production and translate them into jobs, incomes and opportunity for our people.
We have more to unlock.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR
President
@officialABAT@SenRemiTinubu HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MOTHER OF THE NATION-OUR MUMMY!
On behalf of the Elegant Asiwaju Twins International, we join millions of Nigerians and well-wishers across the globe to celebrate our beloved First Lady, Her Excellency,Senator Oluremi Tinubu, CON.
God Bless your new age ma
Oluremi mi, @SenRemiTinubu
Today, I celebrate the woman who has walked beside me with patience, grace and uncommon courage.
Àwọn àgbà sọ pé, “Ìyàwó rere ni adé ọkọ rẹ̀.” A good wife is her husband’s crown. The Book of Proverbs, which you know far better than I do, also speaks eloquently of the worth of a virtuous woman.
You have given these words true meaning in my life. You have stood by my side through every season.
The burdens that were mine to bear often found their way onto your shoulders. The thoughts I could not put into words somehow found their way to you.
In difficult times, when the future was uncertain, you stayed calm beside me and prayed with me.
Through all these years, you have remained the one who truly understands me.
More often than not, you sense when I need counsel before I ask. There have been nights when your presence alone was counsel enough.
I call you my truest friend and confidante because you speak the truth plainly, even on the days I would rather not hear it.
After a demanding day, you wait until we are alone before telling me what I need to hear. I have always cherished you for that honesty.
Our home bears the lasting imprint of your devotion. Our children and grandchildren have grown beneath the shelter of your prayers. They carry your values of faith and kindness wherever life takes them.
Nigerians know you for your compassion, kindness, generosity of spirit and steadfast faith. I have watched you touch lives quietly and consistently, offering hope and support to those in need.
From the New Era Foundation during our years in the saddle in Lagos to the Renewed Hope Initiative today, your care has reached many young boys and girls, widows, elderly citizens, and women farmers across the country.
Those affected by tuberculosis or any disease at all have found in you a compassionate advocate and a determined champion.
I know the prayers you offer for people whose names you may never know. I also know many whom you have helped without ever meeting them. For you, compassion has never recognised the boundaries of tribe, region or religion.
A long journey teaches a man the true value of a good partner. We have travelled a long road together. I think of the difficult decisions we talked through for hours and the sacrifices no one else saw. Laughter and prayer carried us through many of them.
If life returned me to the beginning, I would choose the same road that led me to you. Through every mile, my heart has always remained at home with you.
I thank you for the life we have built and the love that has held it together.
Happy 66th birthday, my darling Oluremi. I pray that God Almighty will grant you many more years in good health and joy.
May the years ahead bring you the same comfort and happiness you have so freely given to me and many others.
With all my love,
Bola Ahmed Tinubu
President, Federal Republic of Nigeria
September 21, 2026
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In the Renewed Hope Agenda, I promised Nigerians a digital economy that creates opportunities at home and puts our young people at its centre. That thinking led me to establish and chair the Presidential Steering Committee on Digital Free Zones. I directed the Committee to take our free zone framework, created more than three decades ago for a very different economy, and modernise it for the digital economy we are building today.
That work is now taking shape.
Nigeria’s first Digital Free Zone, Itana, is now licensed by the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) and already provides a platform for global and pan-African digital and service businesses to establish and operate in Nigeria.
Companies are showing interest, and the Africa Finance Corporation @africa_finance is backing the $500 million Itana Innovation project, Lagos, which will bring together the ideal policy environment. This innovation campus will serve as a home for startups to build at scale, access capital, and access the ecosystem services needed to help African startups grow and retain more of the value they create on the continent.
BUILDING AFRICA’S NEXT GENERATION OF GLOBAL DIGITAL COMPANIES FROM NIGERIA
Nigeria has the talent, enterprise, and ambition to build companies that can compete anywhere in the world. Our responsibility as a government is to ensure that Nigerians do not have to leave Nigeria or rely on other jurisdictions to realise that potential.
For too long, some of our most promising young entrepreneurs have felt compelled to establish their companies and intellectual property abroad to access global capital and markets. I do not accept that this must remain the case.
I want the next generation of African technology, finance and service companies to be built, headquartered and scaled to the world from Nigerian soil.
It was a pleasure to share a private dinner with President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris. @EmmanuelMacron
Our conversation reaffirmed the strong friendship between Nigeria and France, as well as our shared commitment to deepening cooperation and building a mutually beneficial partnership between our two nations.
I thank President Macron for his warm hospitality and friendship.
@NigeriaGov@NGRPresident
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
Two of THE FOUR have landed in Ghana
Waje and I are here to relax, have fun and connect with our amazing Ghanaian fans
@chiomakpotha@iambisola, we’re not missing you o🤣❤️ See you soon!
THE FOUR
No one fights alone
In cinemas Dec 11
#TheFour#TheFourNoOneFightsAlone
Disagreement is normal, but masking online harassment and abuse as per overzealous supporter, only proves you have nothing of substance to offer the election conversations.
This election cycle, we are meeting your noise with block-for-block discipline and undeniable Renewed Hope impacts, permanently exposing your total emptiness from 2022 all the way to 2031.
This is 2026….have some respectful sense.
Today, I welcomed the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, alongside a high-powered delegation of party leaders to Lagos.
As part of the nationwide consultations for the Tinubu 2027 project, we visited Iga Idunganran to pay homage to the Oba of Lagos, His Royal Majesty, Oba Riliwanu Osuolale Babatunde Akiolu and to seek his blessings and guidance.
This movement is powered by the visionary leadership and bold reforms of His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. His track record continues to inspire our vision for a better Nigeria.
Lagos is the heartbeat of this movement and the support of our traditional institutions gives us the strength to keep pushing forward.
BREAKING
President Bola Tinubu arrives in France and is welcomed by Emmanuel Ayodele Oke, Nigeria's Ambassador to France.
Mr President is currently on a three-week vacation as part of his annual leave, which began on August 30. His first stop was in London, United Kingdom.