IN CONCLUSION OF MY VISIT TO SOKOTO STATE
Yesterday, 29th September, in continuation of my two-day visit to Sokoto State, I had extensive consultations and discussions with various groups from across the state on insecurity, out-of-school children, endemic poverty, youth unemployment, drug prevalence, and other issues affecting our people in this part of the country.
My final engagement was a visit to the Ramin Kura IDP Camp in Sokoto North LGA, within the Sokoto metropolis, which is currently housing over 1,000 internally displaced persons.
During my tour of the facility, I found it particularly distressing to see Nigerians crammed into makeshift shelters and thatched rooms, with some rooms housing as many as 10 persons. The camp also lacks adequate toilet facilities, a primary healthcare centre, and even a basic school for the children.
I have always insisted that as long as even one Nigerian lives in an IDP camp, we are all internally displaced. Therefore, the government of today must work assiduously to make the temporary accommodation for our dear citizens living in these camps comfortable, while ensuring that all the underlying security issues that created these conditions in the first place are resolved, to enable them to return to their ancestral homes.
This is my 12th visit to IDP camps across Nigeria, and, just like in the others, I am committing to continuously supporting these Nigerians for as long as it takes.
This is why I continue to say that the President’s and political office holders’ holidays must be within Nigeria, so that they can see first-hand the difficulties faced by these fellow Nigerians, whose vulnerability has been worsened by the failure of government to prioritise critical areas of development.
Let me seize this opportunity to again call on the government and the relevant agencies to immediately look into the plight of these citizens and address their pressing needs.
A New Nigeria is POssible and will be OK.
Disturbing video shows an altercation that happened yesterday between DSS operatives and a graduating student at the Federal College of Education, Ekiadolor, with students alleging that the operatives wanted to k!ll him.
But why was he arrested, and why are people trying to apply pressure on the operatives in a way that could make the suspect resist arrest? And why were there no leaders from the school management present to intervene or stop the operatives from carrying out what students alleged was an illegal arrest within the school environment?
I don't think they can just come without an invitation from the school authorities or acting on intelligence. Either the student in question is under watch, there is a perceived security threat, or they were invited by the school authorities.
Whichever one it is, they should have acted professionally... and carry out their duties without causing unnecessary assault.
I arrived a bit late for my flight in Abuja this afternoon because of an unusual roadblock mounted by the military and the police in anticipation of Tinubu’s return.
I just arrived in Lagos and this is the kind of madness that is going on at the Lagos airport.
How can the busiest airport in the commercial capital of a country be put on lockdown for hours because an absentee President is on his way back to the country.
The whole of Lagos will be on lockdown for a man whose disastrous regime has ushered in nothing but terrible policies, mass poverty and corruption.
Bayo Onanuga announced that Tinubu will be landing in Lagos later in the evening.
Why subject citizens and foreigners to this long horrendous treatment when Tinubu’s plane is not even on the ground yet?
Is this the best way to protect him?
Is there no better way to manage presidential movement in this country?
Only God knows when I’ll get to my destination today.
I’m so disgusted.
Twice in recent weeks, Obafemi Hamzat and the APC have given us insight into how they see you.
In August: can't afford rent? Move back in with your parents.
This week: Lagos traffic is "not a problem, it's just a lifestyle."
Daily soul-crushing traffic is not a lifestyle. It is governance failure.
Vast numbers of Lagosians leave home before 5am and get back after their children are asleep. They lose hours of work, money on fuel and fares, time, health and wellbeing they will never get back. That is a cost to every household and every business in this state.
Housing, public transportation and traffic are closely related problems. You cannot fix one without planning for the others. But the first step to fixing them is to acknowledge them.
This government has ignored the pains of Lagosians for years. This is just the latest example. Lagos needs a government that acknowledges problems and uses its resources to solve them, not one that celebrates them.
Inefficiency is not culture, it’s failure
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Mr Macaroni that I was on my own ranting here about how the month of May was ALWAYS unfortunate for me, and how it already started with ‘Gbese’ as I accidentally damaged someone’s Lexus with my truck while trying to come out of a tight space, and he entered my DM to ask for the total cost of the damage on both cars to handle. Had to beg him to forget my own truck for me to fix. Sent me 600k just like that.
I was in a restaurant when I received that money, and I shed a few tears. Honestly not because I couldn’t afford it, but because I have hardly been a beneficiary of financial help in my life.
Also gave me and my wife $1k each as his birthday gift to us that same year.
Lost count of the times he dashed my workers wads of mint Naira while we were designing his house.
He’s my own celebrity abeg!
Love you Debo 🖤
BREAKING: We've given the Governor of @cenbank , Mr Olayemi Cardoso, and the CBN seven days to account for US$6.23 million in allegedly diverted or unaccounted-for election funds and over ₦1.63 trillion in other public funds, or face appropriate legal action.
The grave allegations are documented in Volume II of the Auditor-General of the Federation’s 2023 Annual Report, published on 7 August 2026. The Auditor-General states that the findings variously cover the period from January to December 2023.
The funds comprise over ₦1.25 trillion in unrecovered CBN intervention loans to state governments; ₦116.18 billion in unrecovered loans to distressed and liquidated banks; ₦262.86 billion disbursed under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme; and US$6.23 million in payments linked to an alleged fraudulent election-funding request purportedly made by former President Muhammadu Buhari.
We urged Mr Cardoso and the CBN to account for over ₦1.25 trillion in intervention loans to states, and ₦116.18 billion in loans to distressed and liquidated banks, and disclose the details of the beneficiaries, amounts disbursed, and any recovery measures.
We also urged him and the CBN to account for the ₦262.86 billion disbursed under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme, including the names and number of beneficiaries and participating ‘Anchors,’ amounts disbursed, utilisation, monitoring arrangements, and any recovery measures.
We urged him and the CBN to account for the US$6.23 million reportedly ‘spent following a purported request for election funding by former President Muhammadu Buhari’, and publish the findings of the internal investigation into the alleged fraud, including measures taken to recover the funds and establish responsibility.
The accountability of public institutions, including the CBN, is a crucial pillar of Nigeria’s constitutional democracy.
The magnitude and nature of these findings require urgent, independent and transparent action, as they raise fundamental questions about the custody, expenditure, accounting, safeguarding and recovery of public resources.
These findings by the Auditor-General raise serious concerns about the management and accountability of public resources and potential violations of the Nigerian Constitution 1999 (as amended), national anti-corruption laws and Nigeria’s obligations under the UN Convention against Corruption.
Read more: https://t.co/t4qroyegCn
Mr Macaroni has questionable character. Is he generous, yes, but his integrity is shaky. The first award I did ever attend, I did meet Mr. Macaroni, and he was very polite, and welcoming.
Now here's the problem, he is a hypocrite and has been caught lying; And these are the parts people choose to ignore. Tacha once lied about meeting Mr. Macaroni for the first time, which was an obvious lie because I saw them exchanging pleasantries weeks before she ran into him again, and he (Macaroni) encouraged the obvious lie by not correcting her. That speaks volumes. As a matter of fact, I was attacked for calling out the bvllshit.
On the hypocrisy part, he was very quick to call-out the APC's incompetence and that of most opposition parties, however, the day Peter Obi's faced serious backlash from Obidients, Macaroni stayed mute despite being active. As a matter of fact, he almost never critiques Obi's questionable even before 2026.
The act of generosity should be just as important as his integrity. No offense.