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[Felix @felixherbt]

Nigerians, pay attention.

INEC has refused to disclose the voters' register, hiding the total number of registered voters to cook fake numbers.

Section 19(1) of the Electoral Act 2026 requires the voters’ register to be displayed at every registration area and online.

Why is INEC not obeying its own rules? Why is the voters' register not displayed on the INEC website? @inecnigeria

[West Africa Weekly @WestAfricaWeek]

INEC's new AI Division moves election verification from citizens with phones to an algorithm nobody can audit, smoothing out fake numbers and rubber-stamping results behind a digital wall no court can crack. Then comes the loophole: when real rigging footage leaks, they call it an AI deepfake, and the opposition has to prove otherwise. You cannot subpoena a source code. This is not election technology, this is a permanent power vault.

[Obiasogu David @afrisagacity]

I have just received sad news.💔

The landlord of the building where the NDC has an office in Alimosho, Lagos State has directed the NDC Chairman in the LGA to pull down the ONLY party banner hung in front of the office.

According to the NDC officials in the LGA, some men, who identified as APC officials, threatened the Landlady that she risked the building being demolished, if she refused to take down the banner by tomorrow, Tuesday.

The landlord had sent the building’s Caretaker, an elderly woman, earlier today to bring down the banner. Fortunately, the NDC officials were having a meeting in the office at the time she arrived. They jointly resisted her move, insisting that the banner would stay up.

After several minutes of prolonged chaos and tiresome back-and-forth, the woman soft-pedaled and resorted to pleading with them. It was then that she revealed the Landlord had received threats of demolition if the banner stayed up.

The NDC officials pointed out that banners belonging to other people were also hung across the building and the owners were not being threatened to pull them down.

They insisted that they'd not remove the banner. The Caretaker left angrily, but not without repeating her threat that the banner must go down by tomorrow. As I type, the situation remains the same.✍️

@PeterObi @KwankwasoRM @iamHSDickson @Drmopaul @AishaYesufu

[Griv @malife01]

@ShehuSani Softening ground for the News of release of Deathrow crim!nals by FG.

[Ife Salako @ifesalakooffice]

The sermon for today.

Happy Sunday.

Ire o✌🏾

[Osarogie Ogbonmwan @Osarogieee]

Just like someone asked, what exactly does Nigerias President do all day, week, month? Asides receiving guests? He gives no media chats, doesn’t visit troubled states, FEC meetings don’t even happen, doesn’t attend international conventions etc, so what really does he do?

[ARISE NEWS @ARISEtv]

Every Member of the House of Assembly Who Agrees to Forfeit His Ticket for the APC Candidate is Currently Being Given N50 Million, and the House of Reps Will Be Given N200 Million With a Car - Galadima

President Tinubu and all his governors are afraid of contest; they want to win unopposed. A lady at the Carlton Hotel, Asokoro, is currently sharing money, and the DSS is protecting the place.

Buba Galadima, Nigeria Democratic Congress Stalwart

[JezebelReborn🧙‍♀️ @JezebelReborn]

“Once a political system has been corrupted right from the top to the lowest ranks of the bureaucracy . The problem is almost impossible to solve without a revolution”——Singapore’s former PM Lee Kuan Yew on corruption

[Gossip Mill Nigeria @GossipMillNaija]

This is a Must watch!!! Every Single Nigerian needs to watch this and Reshare it Massively! Every one needs to see What APC Has done to Nigeria in the last 11years!

[TheRAVEN 𓅃 @askAbureson]

Wahala do burst for Warri🤣🤣🤣

Youths who were supposed to come out to do 5KM Independence Day Run. After gathering to run at PTI JUNCTION came to meet the organizers sharing "Soft Nigeria" Polo with Tinubu face hidden in it.

Now the Youths are aggrieved that they were deceived and started tearing the polo and are planning in boycotting the independence day ruu. 🤣🤣🤣

They are chanting "OBI OBI OBI" 🤣🤣🤣

SHERIFF go done tire by now🤣🤣🤣

@Morris_Monye @EstherUmoh10 @MamaPee__ @EmirSirdam

[Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso @KwankwasoRM]

This brings back fond memories of our many road trips across Nigeria in 2022–23 —especially the night we spent sleeping in our cars at a fueling station in the forest outside Kaiama, Kwara State.

His Excellency Peter Obi and I are still agile and fully ready for the task ahead. Are you? - RMK

[Shama @sham_travis19]

1 October 2026

[YabaLeftOnline @yabaleftonline]

“Peter Obi said he's ready to give you better life, you said no, he's not your tribe, even though you're finding it very difficult to afford a daily meal. All the loan apps know you as a customer, many of you have turned to beggars" — Actor Laide Olabanji

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Nigeria at 66: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Fellow Nigerians,

Today we mark the sixty-sixth anniversary of our independence. It ought to be a day of celebration and thanksgiving to God Almighty for the gift of life and for the immense blessings He has bestowed on our nation—our diversity, our abundant human and natural resources, our vast agricultural potential, and the relative absence of devastating natural disasters.

It should also be a day of appreciation and patriotism: a day to remember our founding fathers and all those who made selfless, and in many cases supreme, sacrifices for the birth, survival and growth of our dear nation. We must acknowledge the efforts of past and present leaders who have laboured, however imperfectly, to build a better Nigeria.

Yet independence anniversaries must never be reduced to mere celebration. They are moments for honest national reflection. We must look back, examine where we stand today, and ask ourselves whether we are moving in the direction our founding fathers envisioned.

In national planning and strategy, every serious nation must continually ask three fundamental questions:

Where are we today?
Where do we want to be?
How do we get from where we are to where we want to be?

These questions are especially urgent now. Despite the enormous promises made by the APC-led government in 2023, our nation continues to face deepening challenges across virtually every critical sector of national life.

Today we stand before the world as a nation:

With an extraordinarily large population living in poverty and severe hardship; over 140M

With one of the largest populations of out-of-school children in the world; over 18M

Where insecurity, terrorism, banditry and kidnapping continue to threaten lives and livelihoods, just recently 37 young Nigerians in their productive age lost their lives

Where millions of Nigerians struggle with hunger and food insecurity; over 40M Nigerians will be in extreme hunger by the end of 2026.

With unacceptably high rates of infant and maternal mortality; Nigeria today is the worst place to be born.

Where youth unemployment and underemployment remain alarmingly high; over 35M

Where drug abuse and substance misuse increasingly threaten our young population; today 14% as against global average of 6%

Where life expectancy remains among the lowest globally, today 54 years against global average of 74 years

And the list goes on.

This reality demands serious, sober and honest reflection. Socrates taught that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” By the same principle, an unexamined nation cannot successfully chart its future. We must therefore ask ourselves: Are we cursed, or have we become the curse through the choices we have made and the failures we have tolerated?

The answer cannot be that Nigeria is cursed. We are a nation immensely endowed and blessed. Our greatest problem is not a lack of resources; it is the failure to convert our enormous resources into human development, productivity, security and shared prosperity.

Only yesterday, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso and I returned from a two-day visit to Sokoto State. We held extensive consultations with people from different parts of the state on insecurity, out-of-school children, poverty, youth unemployment, drug abuse and other challenges confronting our people.

In concluding the visit, we went to the Internally Displaced Persons camp at Ramin Kura within Sokoto metropolis. What we saw was deeply troubling. Thousands of women and children live in deplorable conditions, displaced from their homes and deprived of the basic necessities of life. Many of the children have no access to education. Mothers and children have limited access to basic healthcare. These are Nigerians who should be living in their communities, going to school, farming their land, conducting their businesses and contributing to the economy. Instead, they live as displaced persons in their own country.

[Esther Umoh @EstherUmoh10]

The OK movement Cordinator for AkwaIbom state has been arrested by the AkwaIbom state police while marching peacefully on the streets of Uyo. Tear gas is being fired at Peter Obi supporters in AkwaIbom as we speak.

[Parallel Facts @ParallelFacts]

“They Are Looking for Me” — EKSU Student Raises Alarm as APC, Tinubu Government Threaten Her to Delete Post Exposing ‘Fake’ Renewed Hope Laptop Initiative Where Students Got Rice Instead https://t.co/XH6YrFQTfi

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I bought fuel yesterday in Toronto, Canada, at $1.7999 CAD per litre, and it cost about $98.95 CAD to fill up my tank. This should ideally last me about a week or more.

Now, the minimum wage in Canada is $17.95 CAD per hour, which means someone who works an average of 8 hours a day will earn $143.60 CAD before tax. A day's salary is enough to fuel his or her car for 2–3 weeks. This means that even one of the lowest earners in Canada can afford to own and drive a car daily without the cost of fuel becoming an overwhelming burden. Public education for children is also free and of high quality.

In Nigeria, fuel is about ₦1,300 per litre. It would cost about ₦88,000 to fill up a similar tank. The minimum wage in Nigeria is ₦70,000 per month. This means that an entire month's minimum wage cannot even fill the tank once.

A minimum-wage earner in Nigeria cannot realistically afford to own, fuel, and maintain a car. The same person still has to afford food, rent, children's education, healthcare, electricity, transportation, and other basic necessities. The list goes on.

In fact, even a bank manager in Nigeria earning ₦1 million monthly could still struggle to maintain a decent standard of living after covering these basic expenses.

This is one reason poverty is so widespread in Nigeria. The cost of basic living is simply too high relative to what the average person earns.

You don't just have an income problem in Nigeria. You have an affordability problem.

For millions of Nigerians, simply living a decent life has become too expensive and increasingly impossible.

[Oloye. @Ol0ye]

Not being able to trace the ancestry of your president is a national security risk.

Having a president who can be blackmailed with his criminal past is a national security risk.

[YabaLeftOnline @yabaleftonline]

"Awolowo and Jakande gave us free education and healthcare and didn't see it as an achievement, but you see student loans as an achievement" - Actor Laide Olabanji speaks out.

[J. C. Okechukwu @jcokechukwu]

INTERESTING 🇬🇭 Why Ghana flagged and declined to sign the new USA Health Compact Agreement.

President John Mahama has disclosed that Ghana flagged several issues in the health compact proposed by the U.S. as a replacement for USAID funding, and for that reason, he said, the decision to dump it was pretty fast and easy.

African countries that have signed or finalized these bilateral memorandums of understanding (MOUs) include:
•Angola
•Botswana
•Burkina Faso
•Burundi
•Cameroon
•Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
•Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
•Eswatini
•Ethiopia
•Kenya (implementation partially frozen by court challenges)
•Lesotho
•Liberia
•Madagascar
•Malawi
•Mozambique
•Niger
•Nigeria
•Rwanda
•Senegal
•Sierra Leone
•South Sudan
•Uganda

Note: Additional agreements may roll out or face potential domestic legal challenges.