Israel-Based Covert Team Worked On Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Election
The 2015 Nigerian presidential election was a battleground for Western disinformation industry.
This investigation by Manisha Ganguly shows how a covert, Israel-based team—known as ‘Team Jorge’—was actively working to manipulate the outcome behind the scenes.
Using a sophisticated arsenal of over 30,000 automated bots, they orchestrated a massive propaganda campaign to distort reality and influence voters.
This is another reminder that Africa is in an information war and we must interrogate every narrative especially when it's coming from the West.
Look at what the dude who spoke toward the end of this video said.
“So I am a Muslim, just like President Traoré. But as has been said, before being a Muslim, I belong first and foremost to a family. I belong to a community. I am a Samo, and that is a community in Burkina Faso. And we have our cultural practices. We also have our indigenous practices.”
Many Nigerian Muslims can learn from that.
The notion that a woman should be the sole inheritor of her husband’s property if he dies without a will, and the tagging of his parents as evil because they want a share of their son’s estate will never make sense to me and it's also unfair.
I believe that when a man dies without a will, two factors should be considered in the allocation of his estate. One, investment. Two, legacy.
On investment, whoever invests more should get a larger allocation. It is more often than not the case, especially in Nigeria, that parents who raise a son who dies at 38, for example, have for the first 30 years of his life (before marriage) made more financial, emotional and spiritual investments than a wife that he married for say the last 8 years of his life.
Imagine selling all your property and borrowing money to send your son abroad then he gets a good job, acquires some property, gets married, and dies in five years, then you're said to be evil because you also want a share of the property he left behind.
Many of our fathers and mothers did not have clothes on their backs because they invested everything they had in us, and the married ones here can testify that no woman is making such sacrifices for them. To then tag parents as evil for wanting a share of their son’s estate if he dies early but without a will is unfair to them.
If it is the case that the wife has made significantly larger financial and other investments in the man before his demise, then it is only fair that she gets a larger proportion of his estate.
On legacy. The other portion of a dead man’s estate should go towards the sustenance of his legacy. His children are his legacy, and if it is ascertained that the children are truly his, then it should go towards the raising of those children. And the mother should be the custodian of the resources because nobody can raise the children better than she can.
If those children do not belong to him, then no dime of his money or property should go to them. They should instead be raised on the resources of their real father.
This is fair to the dead man, his wife, and his parents.
@theekachi You may need to check through the cause, could be work stress, relationship, financials or boredom. You just need a shift in mindset, rest and new hobby maybe to kick start again.
This is completely false.
The massive $30 billion Paris Club debt was never cancelled on a silver platter. To secure that debt relief deal in 2005, Nigeria was forcefully compelled to create the NEEDS programme and unconditionally adopt the core tenets of the Washington Consensus. This is the exact, structural reason why Nigeria completely failed to industrialize, why our manufacturing capacity was decimated, and why our critical social infrastructure, public healthcare, primary education, and electricity grids remain severely, catastrophically underfunded to this very day. 1/6
Your comparison is flawed. This is what you compare
Scenario A - 2023 - 2027 without the reform
Scenario B - 2023 - 2027 with the reform.
Comparing a static 2023 baseline against a dynamic 2023 - 2027 trajectory, is wrong, a fantasy at best. A true evaluation requires comparing two active trajectories: Scenario A (The No Reform) versus Scenario B ( The Reform Path )
Assuming that the position in 2023 will remain static without any intervention is an economic fallacy. There is a reason why economists use dynamic and predictive models when evaluating policy shifts.
Without the reforms, we would have printed N80trn in addition to the N30trn printed.
What do you think would happen to the value of the Naira when CBN continues to print money?
What about FAAC and payment of salaries and wages by states? Most states would be bankrupt.
We would have defaulted on our debt obligations.
What about our foreign reserve and the ability to meet our import demands? Scarcity of common goods. More Naira chasing scarce imports? Hyperinflation. You think inflation would remain static?
What would happen to FX? FPI and FDI would have dried up. Remittances would not come in through official channels; black market speculators would have taken over the system.
Dangote and BUA were going to Abuja to queue for FX. What do you think would be the fate of other manufacturing firms who are unable to access FX to buy raw materials and machinery? Job losses?
Oh, you think petrol would be freely available? Where and how will NNPC get the product and pay for the subsidy? Or do you think Dangote will buy crude at $110 and sell petrol at N170?
How can you say reforms have not resulted in Job creation? Are you tracking the figures?
Point me to your data source please.
I muted this tweet because I was tired of the back and forth it was generating.
Fair point on my methodology, may be. However, your assertion that we would have printed N80trn is even more flawed since we only printed N23trn in ~6 years prior to 2022. You can't create a figure and assert it as self-evidently true.
And that "it might have been worse without reform" doesn't erase the fact that Nigerians are measurably poorer than in 2023.
You are right, FAAC allocations have increased significantly, fx rates have been unified, and fuel is available. This is expected since subsidies on both fuel and fx have been removed.
These were some of the objectives of the reforms. And it is good that they worked as planned.
However, household incomes have fallen over the same period of the reforms.
Inflation was 34% by Q2 2024, 23% at some point in 2025, and is still high at ~ 16% today. (CBN Inflation data, Jan 2003 to Jun 2026). The significant drop was largely due to a rebase exercise in 2025
Again, a recent World Bank report stated that poverty has been rising- 56% in 2023, 61% in 2024, and 63% in 2025.
And Dr. I would have been much happier if things were better than they are, but I’ll try to say things the way they are.
Thanks.
My assertion is not flawed and N80trillion is a fair estimate if you understand Nigeria's finances.
1. 2023 minimum wage bill was N4.99trn. With doubled minimum wage and pension liabilities we are looking at additional N6trn yearly. 2023 - 2026 ( N 18trn - 20trn ).
States would also need cash to be injected as bailout to pay salaries via ways and means. Look at the FAAC increase and compare it to 2023.
2. Look at our revenue from oil taxes and customs, if we evaluate at N460 instead of the market rate, calculate the suppressed revenue deficit - that's another N20trn deficit.
3. Look at fuel subsidy levels in 2023. We were inching close to N7trn annually. With Iran war, and crude at $100 per barrel, subsidy would be at least N15trn per annum.
4. Interest on debt, previous ways and means and new debt. Estimate that as well.
At 97% debt service-to-revenue ratio, tell me how the budget would be funded. The entire 2025 budget of N54trn would have been funded from ways and means.
At this point the CBN would be forced to introduce N1,000,000 notes and N50,000 note to buy bread. Economics don't answer to emotions.
Your statistics on world bank poverty estimates is another discussion. It's 2022 data extrapolation and less than 30,000 homes were surveyed. Read the methodology again.
Having 20,000 pounds in cash and uninvested is stupidity. Boasting about having that is moronic. It shows that you are bereft of ideas.
A former client was making 4m pounds profit a month in the UK in 2009, and the money multiplied as investments and growth because he has smarter bankers. His business has now grown 4 times through acquisitions.
Your average Nigerian businessmen thinks having cash is wealth in a place with high inflation. Their banker prefers them to keep it as cash as they can lend it to smarter people. Wealth manifested as cash is idiocy.
Between 2021 and 2025, Nigeria increased security spending from ₦1.5 trillion to ₦6.57 trillion. In 2026, security again received the largest allocation in the federal budget: ₦5.41 trillion.
While presenting the budget, President Tinubu said and promised: “We will invest in security with clear accountability for outcomes — because security spending must deliver results.”
To now say, "The security situation is what it is…” is difficult to reconcile with that commitment.
When security consistently receives the largest share of public funds, citizens deserve measurable outcomes, not appeals to resignation or suggestions that insecurity is inevitable.
So where is the disconnect? In our report Nigeria’s Security Crisis and the Politics of Budgeting, we followed the money, examined the institutions and tracked the trends.
Here's what we found 👉 https://t.co/8e0skAPo8x
When I say that I respect CR7’s accomplishments more, I know what I said.
I have never seen Messi excel in other leagues, or in a system not playing to his strengths. I’ve seen Ronaldo excel in damn near every league that exists, and in every style of play.
The FGN reforms are good
It was expedient to remove subsidy on PMS and $
The problem is they removed subsidy then went to sleep, no palliatives, no cushion
As we type are these fleets of electric buses moving about helping commuters reduce transport cost?
There is even talk of removing power bands meaning power costs go up
Food nko? Has security improved to make food supply increase?
It’s like you have a car, you drive your kids 10km to school, then your salary is reduced, so you tell your kid to walk 10km to school because you can’t afford PMS but you turnaround and you buy a second car to add to your first that only you uses
Second car? Salary reduced? Yes, it’s what it is
At 23 years of age in his prime, Benjamin Mendy was playing for Manchester City which happened to be amongst the best clubs in the world. His career took a downhill in 2021 after multiple women accused him of rape.
• Man City stopped paying him
• He lost endorsement deals and brands collaboration
• He was denied bail and spent months in prison for a crime which was still on investigation
• His reputation and image was tarnish
14th of July 2023 Benjamin Mendy was cleared of all rape and attempted rape accusation but unfortunately the damage has already been done.
Man City sold him out to lorient a French side in Ligue 1. From there, he moved to Zurich Switzerland and to Pogoń Szczecin in Poland and to Pogoń Szczecin II a lower division. All these happened within three years.
His career never remained the same after the false accusation which equally affected his finances that he had to sell his World Cup trophy replica at auction for €𝟓𝟒,𝟎𝟎𝟎 because he's now broke all because a group of women wanted to financially exploit him for being a footballer.
Despite the court proving him innocent of all accusation, till date, the media hasn't released the face of the women who falsely accused him of rape. So at the end of the day, these women will end up getting married, having children and living their life like nothing happened and guess who end up losing? Benjamin Mendy!
Another day to remind you if you let your false accusers walk free after ruining your reputation, career and future, you're a FOOL.
If the court of law won't give you justice, take justice upon your hands and destroy those who aimed at destroying you.
The game might be brutal but it's still fair.
The 2016/17 UEFA Champions League season will forever be remembered as the ultimate testament to the contrasting philosophies, styles and narratives of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
It was a campaign split into two halves: the group stage belonged to Messi's breathtaking brilliance, while the knockout rounds witnessed the greatest clutch goalscoring run in Champions League history from Cristiano Ronaldo.
In the 2016 group stage, Messi looked untouchable.
He opened the campaign with a hat-trick against Celtic, followed it with another hat-trick against Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, and continued dismantling defenses across Europe.
By the end of the group stage, Messi had already scored an astonishing 10 goals, leading the competition comfortably.
Meanwhile, Cristiano Ronaldo looked unusually quiet.
Real Madrid finished second in their group behind Borussia Dortmund, and Ronaldo—already the competition's all-time great—had scored just 2 goals in six group-stage matches.
The media began writing him off.
Many pundits openly questioned whether the 31-year-old Ronaldo had entered the decline of his career and suggested his days of deciding Europe's biggest games were over.
Then Zinedine Zidane changed everything.
Recognizing Ronaldo's age, Zidane introduced a revolutionary rotation policy, resting him in several domestic matches to preserve him for the Champions League.
He also transformed Ronaldo from an explosive winger into a devastating penalty-box forward.
When the knockout rounds started, everything changed.
Barcelona survived the historic 6-1 comeback against PSG, with Messi scoring once to move to 11 goals.
But in the quarter-finals, Juventus completely shut Barcelona down.
Messi couldn't score over the two legs, and Barcelona were eliminated.
His Champions League campaign ended with 11 goals.
With Messi out, Ronaldo exploded.
Despite trailing Messi by nine goals entering the latter stages, Ronaldo produced arguably the greatest knockout run the competition has ever seen.
Against Bayern Munich, he scored twice in Munich before completing a hat-trick in the return leg at the Bernabéu.
Against Diego Simeone's Atlético Madrid—the best defensive side in Europe at the time—Ronaldo delivered another unforgettable hat-trick in the first leg to practically send Madrid to the final.
Then came Juventus.
The same Juventus side that completely neutralized Messi.
The same Juventus side led by Gianluigi Buffon that had conceded only 3 goals throughout the competition before the final.
Ronaldo scored twice in the Champions League final as Real Madrid won 4-1.
Across just five knockout matches against Bayern Munich, Atlético Madrid and Juventus, Ronaldo scored 10 goals.
He finished the competition with 12 goals, overtaking Messi after trailing him by nine earlier in the season.
Real Madrid became the first club in the modern era to successfully defend the Champions League.
Ronaldo won another Champions League Golden Boot, another Champions League title, and later the 2017 Ballon d'Or.
For me, this season perfectly summarizes the difference between the two.
Messi dominated the earlier rounds.
Ronaldo dominated the biggest rounds.
And when football's biggest nights arrived, Cristiano Ronaldo produced one of the greatest clutch performances the Champions League has ever seen.
Let me give you two instances, and as someone in the maritime industry, I’ve seen this firsthand:
Do you know why international-going ships don’t take bunkers (buying HFO—heavy fuel oil or MGO—marine gas oil) from Nigeria when they visit our ports? Instead, they sail to places like Gabon, Ivory Coast, Senegal, or Europe to buy. It’s because when they buy from Nigerian vendors, the fuel is often mixed with water and other liquids just to pad the volume. And this isn’t good for the ship engines.
Now let’s talk about ship chandlers who supply provisions, particularly food. If you order 200kg of garri or goat meat for instance, they’ll bring 150kg and invoice you for 200kg, hoping you won’t bother weighing it because it’s a vessel and time is tight.
This isn’t about de-marketing Nigeria; this is simply the reality of what they do.