IT’S A CELEBRATION!
Today, we celebrate a man whose voice has reached nations, whose ministry has raised generations and whose life continues to point people to Christ.
Happy Birthday to our father and leader, Bishop David Oyedepo!
We celebrate you today and always.
Drop your birthday wishes and prayers for Bishop in the comments!
The Former Governor of Plateau State wanted us to supply vehicles and we delivered vehicles, but they wanted me to inflate invoices of vehicles of 40,000,000 Million to 80,000,000 Million. Have you heard that any Senator or House of Assembly came to buy vehicles from us?
—Dr Cosmas Maduka
ON THE ANAMBRA DEBT QUESTION
I have remained silent over the past few days because I have been grieving the loss of my very dear elder brother and friend, Chief Okey Ezeibe. However, the time has come for me to address some of the matters that have occupied public discussion in recent days.
I respectfully urge everyone to concentrate on the existential challenges confronting Nigeria and the hardships endured by its citizens, rather than on the needless distractions that have become widespread in our politics.
I wish to assure the public that I have no disagreement with my dear elder brother, Governor Soludo, or with any governor in Nigeria. I am not seeking the office of governor in any state, and I will not seek that position again, even if the Constitution is amended.
Accordingly, I appeal to governors to support whichever presidential candidate they choose while also permitting and assisting other presidential candidates and contenders for other offices to campaign freely and without interruption in their states. Ultimately, voters should be allowed to determine whom they wish to serve them.
Regarding the multilateral funding inaccurately described as “debt owed by Peter Obi” in Anambra State, I wish to state unequivocally:
As Governor of Anambra State, I did not approach any financial institution to borrow funds or issue a bond on behalf of the state. Indeed, at his farewell ceremony, the then Director-General of the DMO, Abraham Nwankwo, appointed me chairman and declared that, during his 10 years in office, I was the only state governor who had not approached him for a loan facility.
When I left office, the Anambra State Government owed no unpaid salaries, gratuities, or pensions. Neither did it owe any contractor or supplier who had completed work that the government had verified and certified.
Regarding development financing from the World Bank, these are concessionary development-support funds secured by the Federal Government for states selected by it to address specific needs. Repayment is spread over 25 to 30 years.
The Anambra State Government must therefore differentiate among three separate figures: the total amount approved for the multiyear development program; the amount Anambra State actually drew during my tenure; and the funding balance outstanding when I handed over on 17 March 2014.
The government has combined these distinct categories, added them together, and described the resulting US$123.77 million as “loans left by Peter Obi.” That is an incorrect application of public-sector accounting.
The eight facilities identified were primarily World Bank and IFAD development programs negotiated by the Federal Government, with participating states receiving access to the funds through subsidiary arrangements. They were not conventional commercial loans that I personally secured during my tenure.
This does not suggest that Anambra had no repayment responsibilities; rather, each facility must be examined in light of its approval, effectiveness, drawdown, and repayment record.
The clearest contradiction appears in the government’s own figures. It states that the original facilities amounted to approximately US$123.77 million and that US$92.35 million remained outstanding in June 2026. However, the DMO’s published records showed Anambra’s total external debt at approximately US$18 million when I began my tenure in March 2006, about US$30 million in March 2014, when I left office, and approximately US$45.15 million as of 31 December 2014, nine months after my departure.
The Anambra State Government must therefore clarify how a state whose recorded external debt was about US$30 million in March 2014 and US$45.15 million in December 2014 could supposedly have inherited US$123.77 million from Peter Obi, who left office in March of that same year.
Assuming the False Narrative That I Left $123.7 Million Owed, I Left Over $150 Million That Was Earning About $10 Million - Obi
If they had kept the money I left and used only the income from it, they would have finished paying it now, with the initial capital of $150 million still remaining. Assuming they chose to just leave the $150 million, as of June 2026, when the loan amount to their claim was $92.3 million, the money I left, the compound, and the interest accrued would have been about $335 million.
Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate, NDC
Rufai Oseni this morning: Even if one accepts the loans Anambra is now listing against Peter Obi, the foreign-currency assets he left behind were enough to clear that debt stock.
Peter Obi has consistently maintained that he left office without outstanding salaries, pensions, gratuities, or unpaid obligations to contractors whose projects had been duly executed and certified.
Rufai’s analysis provides further context to that position and raises an important question about how we define and assess “debt” in this case.
Simply saying, “Peter Obi left Anambra in debt,” may not tell the whole financial story.
Obi’s case has never been that Anambra had no loan agreements on the books. It is that he settled due obligations — salaries, pensions, gratuities and certified contractor claims — and left a positive net position.
🎥 : Arise TV
Netanyahu reminded the UN what October 7 actually was.
Thousands of Palestinian terrorists stormed into Israel from Gaza. There was not a single Israeli in Gaza that day. They went house to house and slaughtered 1,200 people. They live streamed the murders. They raped women and then killed them. They burned babies in front of their parents.
These were the same neighbors who had jobs in Israel and whose children were driven to Israeli hospitals for cancer treatment. That is who they are. The Palestinians are a culture of death and hatred. But Israel did not collapse. It rose and fought.
Welcome home beloved 105 citizens of Nigeria who have just safely arrived from South Africa.
We are grateful to God for helping us make your safe return possible.
We shall continue to pray for you as the Government continues with what remains to ensure you reunite with your families.
God bless you all.
This is why Peter Obi is the man many politicians will never be. I was at the Obidient Office when he almost broke down in tears narrating the attacks and betrayal.
That other lady could recognize his integrity enough that he refused to trade the interest of the people for whatever that other drunk had to offer.
It is a plus for my principal. And if this was not reason enough for her to continue to support him, then that other lady always was there for her pocket.
That other lady wants Peter Obi to sell something for power. I wonder what she has sold to be where she is... Your guess may be as terrible as mine.
NB: Picture attached is merely for illustrative purposes.