FG Budgets N22.15B To Build Palaces
Nigerians are reacting with outrage after the public accountability organisation Tracka revealed that the 2026 Proposed Budget set aside N22.15 billion for the construction of 106 royal palaces across the country.
The organisation found that billions of naira meant for traditional palaces appeared to be routed through unrelated agencies including the Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and even the National Institute for Cancer Research.
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We are in the 7th month of 2026 and the FG hasn't even began implementing the 2026 budget 😂!
What am I even saying?
They haven't implemented the 2024, 2025 nor 2026 budget.
But you tell me to Relax that Tinubu is fixing Nigeria?
You must be on Colos!
How do you realize a Record Breaking IGR
Then go ahead on a Record Breaking borrowing spree
Only to deliver a Record Breaking "nothing to show"?
FAILURE! FAILURE!! FAILURE!!!
The skyrocketing price of food and fuel is pushing millions of Nigerians into extreme poverty. When will the Tinubu administration provide actual relief instead of policies that just burden the masses?
"Renewed Hope" or renewed hardship? A bag of rice costs more than the minimum wage, and fuel prices keep rising. This administration's economic policies are completely disconnected from the reality of average Nigerians.
Currency & Economy
The continuous float and freefall of the Naira has destroyed small businesses and wiped out savings. We need structural economic reforms, not just trial-and-error policies from the Central Bank.
Trading the Naira has become a daily nightmare for businesses. Inflation is unchecked, and the Tinubu government's approach to fixing the economy clearly isn't working.
Infrastructure & Power
Despite constant promises and tariff hikes, the national grid keeps collapsing. Nigerians are paying more for electricity they rarely ever see.
We cannot drive a modern economy on generators and broken roads. The current administration needs to move past rhetoric and actually fix Nigeria's failing infrastructure.
Governance & Public Spending
While asking citizens to tighten their belts and endure the economic hardship, the government continues to allocate billions to luxury SUVs and renovating official residences. The hypocrisy is deafening.
True leadership requires sacrifice from the top. You cannot demand patience from struggling citizens while the presidency’s budget for luxury items remains untouched.
Security Concerns
Economic reforms mean nothing if people don't feel safe in their homes or on the highways. The administration needs a more decisive, transparent strategy to tackle insecurity across the country.
Banditry and kidnappings are still disrupting daily life and farming communities. The government must prioritize restoring basic safety alongside its economic agenda.
INEC hasn’t told us about its staff that gave a political aide details of Emeka Ike
U see they have abandoned the matter just like they will abandon Adeyemi matter soon
They told us subsidy was dead and buried, but NNPCL’s latest financial statements revealed ₦7.1 trillion was quietly spent as an "energy security expense". Meanwhile, citizens are paying over ₦1,200 at the pump. The opacity in our public finance architecture is exactly why public trust has completely evaporated
Can u see they changed the name to energy security expense Hahahaha
It is subsidy ooo
The news of the abduction of a school principal, students, and a NECO official in Kogi State while the students were writing their examination is both heartbreaking and deeply troubling. That innocent children can no longer go to school, study, or sit for a national examination without the fear of criminal violence is a stark reminder of how far insecurity has eroded the sanctity of our educational institutions and the safety of our citizens. This is happening at a time when education is our most needed asset for development and growth.
Our schools must never become theatres of fear; they should symbolise hope and the promise of a better future, not terror and uncertainty.
I call on the relevant security agencies to act with urgency, deploy every available resource, and ensure the safe and unconditional rescue of all those abducted. At the same time, government at all levels must take deliberate steps to strengthen security around our schools and restore public confidence in our education system.
My thoughts and prayers are with the affected families, the school community, and the people of Kogi State. We cannot continue to normalise these recurring tragedies. A nation that cannot guarantee the safety of its children is mortgaging its future.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
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
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
That report from the IMF should tell you that Prince Mathew Adeyemi wasn't lying.
These guys are evil.
That's why we have hardly seen the CBN annual reports.
Everything is now secret.
Tinubu has to leave so this corruption will be exposed.
All of a sudden, supposedly yoruba elders that usually call out Obidients and Peter Obi are all quiet on this Gbajabiamila fraud...
#Gbajagate
Tomorrow, they will tell us not to question our leaders and we don't have respect for older ones.
Useless elders that stole the future of the younger ones..
Unfortunate c0wards!
Awon oloriburuku gbo gbo!
I don’t understand why Nigerians even remotely think @officialabat Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, @femigbaja , was acting alone in taking a N400million bribe to create a fake government agency. Come on!
Do you guys not know @femigbaja's history in Atlanta, where he was stealing his client’s money as a lawyer? And @officialABAT himself lived in Chicago, where his past was tied to drug-trafficking and a major forfeiture case.
So, please, spare me the nonsense that @officialABAT suddenly discovered he had a thief beside him! Do you seriously think Tinubu doesn’t know Gbaja? Birds of the same feather don’t need introductions.
The real question is not whether Tinubu knows what Gbaja is capable of. The question is whether the entire @officialABAT government is not a racket.
Why are people attempting to buy the line thrown by @aonanuga1956 that the agency does not exist but a handwork of a fraudster? A government Spokesman is here clearly lying to protect the Chief of Staff implicated in selling appointments and orchestrated fraud in national budget. The implications of this is huge for Nigeria international standing.
Who will blame Boris Johnson for saying that 'Nigeria is fantastically corrupt.'
Tinubu-APC has further pushed Nigeria to becoming a pariah state because they want to protect the main operator in their emi-lokan criminal empire.
Nigerians are not fooled.
Do you know what it means for a foreign ambassador to go to a FEDERAL building and visit a FEDERAL official?
The embassy would have done its homework
1. Is he a fraudster? No, EFCC cleared him
2. Does he have Presidential backing? Yes, his organisation is listed not just in the FEDERAL budget but in the PRESIDENCY allocation in the Federal Budget
3. Is this a case of federal approval, federal budget, or impersonation? No, hehosted seminars in the FEDERAL capital attended by FEDERAL officers
The error made here was the President’s spokesman getting involved. Or now makes this a conspiracy.
Next time you go to the embassy with VALID “official documents” and they are rejected, don't complain
1.3 billion naira released to a fake agency in Nigeria but 36 million was released to the Ministry of Health.
They prioritize stealing over your well-being.
The APC.