I have followed with deep sorrow and mounting concern the reports surrounding the death of Miss Mary Habila, a 26-year-old Nigerian from Nok, Southern Kaduna, who died on June 27, 2026, within the private residence of the Honourable Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, in Uburu, Ebonyi State.
First, I extend my heartfelt condolences to the Habila family. No family should have to mourn a daughter taken in the prime of her life while also fighting simply to learn the truth of how she died.
But condolences are not enough. Nigerians deserve answers, and it is on this score that the Tinubu administration has failed, comprehensively and disgracefully.
Consider the facts that are not in dispute. A young woman died in the residence of a serving Federal Minister. For nearly two weeks, neither the Minister, nor the police, nor any arm of government said a word to the Nigerian people. It took the courage of Sahara Reporters to bring this death into public view. Three weeks after her death, no autopsy has been performed. No cause of death has been established. The investigation remains domiciled in the very state where the Minister served two terms as Governor and where his influence is beyond question.
And through all of this, silence from the Presidency. Silence from the Federal Executive Council. Silence from the Inspector-General of Police. Silence from the National Assembly. Not one word. Not one directive. Not one gesture to assure Nigerians that the life of Mary Habila matters to this government.
Instead, the Minister has been permitted to manage the narrative of a death that occurred under his own roof: issuing statements through his personal aides, deploying his private lawyers to correspond with the police, and continuing his official duties as though nothing has happened, while civil society groups, youth organisations, and the family’s own community cry out for an independent inquiry.
Let me be clear: I make no pronouncement on anyone’s guilt or innocence. That is precisely the point. Only a credible, independent, and transparent investigation can establish the truth, and it is the refusal of the Federal Government to guarantee such an investigation that constitutes the scandal before us.
A government’s first duty is the protection of life. Where a life is lost in circumstances touching a high official of state, the burden on government to act transparently is at its heaviest.
President Tinubu’s administration has instead treated this tragedy as an inconvenience to be waited out. If the death of a young Nigerian woman in a Minister’s residence cannot stir this government to act, then Nigerians must ask: whose life, exactly, does this government value?
I therefore demand the following: One, President Bola Tinubu must direct the Honourable Minister of Works to step aside immediately, pending the conclusion of investigations. This is not a punishment; it is the minimum standard of public accountability in any serious democracy. No official under this cloud should preside over a federal ministry as though it were business as usual.
Two, the Inspector-General of Police must immediately transfer the investigation from the Ebonyi State Command to Force Headquarters, with the involvement of independent forensic experts. No investigation conducted in the shadow of the Minister’s home-state influence can command public confidence.
Three, a full, independent, and internationally credible autopsy must be conducted without further delay, with the findings made public. The stalemate over the post-mortem, three weeks after this young woman’s death is an indictment of every institution involved.
Four, the family of Mary Habila must be protected from any pressure, inducement, or intimidation, and must be guaranteed unfettered access to the facts of their daughter’s death.
Fake Agency With 300 Workers, N24bn Take off Grant and N1.3bn budgetary allocation:
This is what made it easy...
* President is Yoruba
* Chief of Staff is Yoruba
* CBN Governor is Yoruba
* Minister of Finance is Yoruba
* Minister of State for Finance is Yoruba
* Accountant General of the federation is Yoruba
* Auditor General of the federation is Yoruba
* Senate Committee Chairman on Appropriation is Yoruba
* House Committee Chairman on Appropriation is Yoruba
* The DG of the FAKE AGENCY is Yoruba
* The DG of the FAKE AGENCY accused the Chief of Staff Gbaja who is also Yoruba
* The President Tinubu who is Yoruba is expected to investigate the matter with the following Yoruba
× DG DSS is Yoruba
× Chairman EFCC is Yoruba
× Chairman ICPC is Youba
× Chairman NIA is also Yoruba
× IG of Police is Yoruba.
The case will be Amala and Ewedu, all of them will swallow it with Coca-Cola..
*This Yoruba mediocrity MUST END in 2027*😂
You know what shook me when I was Muslim?
Psalm 22. A song written by King David a thousand years before Jesus.
It opens: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” The exact words Jesus cried from the cross.
But it keeps going, and it describes a scene David never lived:
“They have pierced my hands and my feet.”
“All my bones are out of joint.”
“I can count all my bones — people stare and gloat over me.”
“They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.”
David was never crucified. Crucifixion didn’t even exist in David’s time. It wouldn’t be invented for centuries.
So how does a man describe death by piercing hands and feet, and soldiers gambling for his clothes, a thousand years before it happened to Jesus exactly as written?
You know what really rattled me?
This was a photograph taken a thousand years early.
Pierced hands and feet. Gambling for the garments. Mocking crowds. Bones out of joint from hanging.
Every detail, at the foot of the cross, fulfilled.
Islam told me to doubt the crucifixion.
David described it in HD ten centuries before it happened.
You can’t erase an event that was prophesied in that much detail.
THE PAPER PRESIDENCY: NIGERIAN CIVIL SOCIETY TAKES TINUBU'S FORGED CREDENTIALS BACK TO COURT AHEAD OF 2027
A mounting legal challenge threatens to reopen the most damaging question hanging over Nigeria's head of state — whether the man who holds the nation's highest office was ever constitutionally qualified to seek it
By Kio Amachree | Worldview International
ABUJA/LAGOS — The walls may finally be closing in on a lie that Nigerian democracy has carried like a wound since 2023.
The Centre for Reform and Public Advocacy, CFRPA, has filed suit at the Federal High Court in Kano — case number FHC/K/CS/312/2026 — seeking the disqualification of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from contesting the 2027 presidential election over allegations of certificate forgery. The suit names Tinubu, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and Chicago State University as defendants.
The action is precise in its accusations and devastating in its documentation.
The plaintiff alleges that Tinubu presented forged academic certificates from Chicago State University and a fake National Youth Service Corps discharge certificate to INEC during the 2023 elections. The CFRPA further contended that Tinubu never attended Government College Lagos as claimed, noting that the school was not established until 1974, four years after Tinubu allegedly graduated from it.
The timeline alone should have ended this candidacy before it began.
The group further alleged that the primary and secondary school certificates being paraded by President Tinubu, and claimed to have been used to secure clearance for the 2023 election, are invalid on their face.
INEC'S DEAFENING SILENCE
The formal petition was dated June 19, 2026, and was received at the INEC Abuja headquarters that same day. The petitioners asserted that their legal offensive is backed by concrete evidence that entered the public domain during an international legal battle — foundational documents formally obtained through a rigorous American court discovery process executed in late 2023.
When no response came, the group went to court.
The group charged the INEC chairman, as a Professor of Law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, to use his wealth of experience to resolve the lingering issue surrounding Tinubu's eligibility to contest the 2027 presidential election, citing the legal implications of forged certificates under Section 137(1)(j) of the 1999 Constitution, as well as Section 285(14), which vests in the Commission the power to disqualify ineligible candidates.
INEC did not act. The courts now must.
WHAT THE AMERICAN COURT UNEARTHED
In 2023, a United States federal court, in the matter of In Re Application of Atiku Abubakar, Case No. 23 CV 05099, presided over by the Honourable Nancy L. Maldonado, directed Chicago State University to release Tinubu's academic records. Upon release of those records, investigators found that Tinubu had made false entries on his CSU admission form, claiming he attended Government College Lagos in 1960 and graduated in May 1970, when Government College Lagos was established in 1974. The records also revealed a forged University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate General Certificate of Education dated 1970.
This is not allegation. This is documented court evidence from an American federal proceeding.
On this basis, the CFRPA also dispatched parallel statutory demands to the Director-General of the NYSC, requesting an immediate formal public disclaimer declaring the discharge certificate being paraded by the presidency as an illegitimate document, and to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, to ensure the executive branch was aware of the brewing constitutional crisis.
THE PRAYERS BEFORE THE COURT
The relief sought by the plaintiff is sweeping: a judicial declaration that Tinubu's Chicago State University certificate is forged; an order directing INEC to disqualify him from the 2027 presidential election; a directive to Chicago State University to strike his name from its records; and a perpetual injunction restraining INEC from uploading Tinubu's name as a presidential candidate.
These are not symbolic demands. They are constitutional imperatives.
THE FRAUD THAT DEMOCRACY SWALLOWED
I have written about this for years. From Stockholm, from the pages of Vanguard and Sahara Reporters, in formal submissions to the FBI, the DEA, the UK Serious Fraud Office, the NCA, INTERPOL, Europol, and the European Parliament, I have documented, chapter and verse, why Bola Tinubu's ascent to the Nigerian presidency represents one of the most audacious acts of institutional fraud in the history of African democracy.
He got away with it in 2023. He will not get away with it in 2027.
Nigerians are already reacting. Some remain sceptical of the judiciary's independence. As one citizen put it bluntly, it looks like the people going to court do not know that the courts also sing on your mandate we shall stand. That cynicism is earned. But it is not the final word.
The legal record is now public. The CSU documents are in evidence. The Cambridge certificate is exposed. The NYSC discharge is disputed on the record. Government College Lagos did not exist when Tinubu claims it shaped him. Each of these threads, individually, raises disqualifying questions under the Nigerian Constitution. Together, they constitute a pattern of deliberate, systemic identity fraud spanning decades.
WHAT MUST HAPPEN NOW
The Federal High Court in Kano must do what the Supreme Court refused to do in 2023, look squarely at the evidence and apply the law without fear or favour. Section 137(1)(j) of the 1999 Constitution is unambiguous: a candidate who presents forged documents to INEC is constitutionally ineligible. Full stop.
INEC's Chairman, a Professor of Law, has a professional and constitutional obligation that transcends political convenience. The Commission cannot look away again.
And if the courts fail once more, the diaspora will not be silent. The international advocacy record that has been built over the past two years, in Washington, London, Brussels, Stockholm, and beyond, ensures that this time, there is nowhere left to hide.
A nation cannot heal around a lie. Nigeria's democratic future demands the truth.
Kio Amachree is President of Worldview International and publisher of Letters from Stockholm on Substack.
President Trump's statement over the weekend declaring that the United States has "largely ended the slaughter of great Christian populations" in Nigeria is alarming. It is dangerous. And it is patently false.
The strikes were real. Credit where it's due — no president before Trump hit Nigeria's jihadists at all. The Christmas Day strike on Sokoto and the May 16 strike that killed the world's number-two ISIS commander were real blows.
But the group doing most of the genocidal killing was never touched.
The Fulani militias — the armed networks that have burned more than 20,000 churches, slaughtered families in the night, and driven twelve million people from their ancestral land — have not been struck. They are forces operating under the protection of the Caliphate structure, loyal to the same ruling elite that has been running this jihad since 1804. They are fully intact, still in the field. And by every visible measure, the situation has not improved — it has gotten worse.
Not just the killing. The government deception. The incompetence, corruption and complicity. The government that denies the existence of millions of displaced people. The Islamic supremacist now rewriting the national school curriculum for fifty million children in what he calls “intellectual jihad.” The Fulani militia commanders who have never faced a courtroom, a drone, or a consequence of any kind.
Now look at the timing.
A ginned-up diaspora "gala" in Washington last week -- days before Trump's disturbing pivot -- became a de-facto Tinubu campaign rally. His people worked the room, the “cooperation” between the US and Nigerian governments was celebrated. Contrary voices were silenced. People wined and dined and gave each other awards to celebrate who-knows-what in the middle of an ongoing genocide. Tinubu's own spokesman was hailed as an “honored guest” and closed the evening at the microphone with an extended infomercial for the corrupt administration.
Days later, President Trump announced the genocide is largely over.
That is not a coincidence. That is a play.
Tinubu just learned he faces no backlash for backing off. Trump learned that the self-appointed voice of the diaspora celebrates his partnership with Tinubu and their “accomplishments.” That is a green light — the movement strategically silenced at the exact time to ensure Washington filed Nigeria under “problem solved.”
It worked. And if it sticks, the results will be catastrophic.
I believe there is still hope to bring this back into the spotlight, to compel Trump to act, but there’s not much time.
Look at what moved Trump the first time: In September, Bill Maher raised the issue of the Nigerian Christian Genocide on national television. Ted Cruz loudly made it a Senate matter. And then days later Trump threatened Country of Particular Concern designation.
Next, my October 14 press conference in Abuja generated billions of impressions and triggered an emergency Senate session. The resulting outcry moved the needle. Days later, Trump promised to come “guns-a-blazin.”
Now the voices have gone soft, become complicit, absorbed into DCI’s swamp -- and immediately Trump talks as if he’s turning away.
These are not coincidences. It’s loud public outcry that forced the issue and compelled action.
We need that outcry again right now, louder than ever.
If President Trump has "accomplished" his mission in Nigeria, then his mission was never about stopping the genocide or saving Christians.
We know better. He can do better. But only if we get loud enough that he has to. Right now.
#EarthShaker
The morning after, it should be crystal clear to all Nigerians irrespective of party affiliations that Justice Peter Lifu is a threat to our Democracy. Apart from being saddled with the contrived cases against the ADC, he is also presiding over the cases of NDC and APM all aimed at deregistering the opposition parties. Any government that abhors opposition parties is intentionally creating room for chaos and anarchy. Like the Court of Appeal said yesterday, Justice Lifu is a misfit to the judiciary and is not qualified to sit at a beer parlour bench!
Da farko, duk wanda yake da kishin Najeriya ba zai yi shiru kan matsalar rashin tsaro da ke addabar ƙasa ba, kuma ba zai hana wasu bayyana damuwarsu a kai ba. Rashin tausayi da fifita son rai ko zama karen en siyasa , da fifita son rai fiye da muradun al’umma ba abin alfahari ba ne. Ka kasance mai kishin ƙasarka, ka daina fifita siyasa a kan gaskiya, sannan ka ji tsoron Allah a cikin duk abin da kake yi @kahuturarara
Meet the Sultan Who Financed Terror, Locked Nigeria as an Islamic State, and Gave Virtually All of Nigeria’s GDP to Fund Global Jihad
Ibrahim Dasuki spent ten years chairing a branch of the most notorious terror-financing bank in modern history. Then he took the throne. Then he sealed the deal.
From the article:
On November 28, 1989, in the brand-new federal capital city of Abuja, the Organization of the Islamic Conference convened a joint meeting of its major allied bodies. The Islamic Council of London. The OIC itself. And a newly founded entity called the Islam in Africa Organization. The conference issued a communique that reorganized the Republic of Nigeria.
It designated Abuja as the permanent headquarters of the Islam in Africa Organization — the OIC’s African expansion arm. It committed Nigeria to transforming a national political party into a National Islamic Party. It rectified Nigeria’s full membership in the OIC, which had been secretly granted three years earlier by then-military head of state Ibrahim Babangida without the approval of his Supreme Military Council. It thanked the government and people of Nigeria for “generously” donating US$21 billion to the Islamic Development Fund of the OIC. It called on the federal government to implement all OIC policies and programs to demonstrate that Nigeria was “truly an Islamic nation.”
The man presiding over the Sokoto Caliphate at the moment of the declaration was eleven months into his reign. His name was Ibrahim Dasuki.
And before he was Sultan, he was a banker.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE: https://t.co/DX1X2LYyrK
It is increasingly evident that Nigeria’s democracy, and indeed the integrity of the 2027 general elections is in serious jeopardy. Democracy itself is now facing an existential threat. However, I do not want to believe that the judiciary, long regarded as the last hope of the common man, would align with the ruling APC in any effort that could undermine or destroy our democratic foundations. -AA
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has uncovered a desperate and sinister plot allegedly being orchestrated by powerful figures within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to pressure the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) into recognising a certain Nafiu Bala as the National Chairman of the ADC.
This brazen attempt to undermine and destabilise the opposition ahead of the 2027 general elections is reportedly being driven by an APC governor in collaboration with a senior security official based in Abuja, as part of a plot to impose President Tinubu on Nigerians as the sole presidential contender in 2027.
This is US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio
He appeared on the news today with the ash on his forehead.
We're really proud of these crop of leaders who are confident in expressing their Catholic faith
It is now obvious how intentional Trump is about rededicating America to God. ☺️
In the midst of the rot that aches the heart of those who genuinely care about Nigeria, I want to celebrate a fellow compatriot- Barrister Mike Igini.
Mike Igini was part of the many years of @inecnigeria Reforms. I believe he joined INEC in 2010 as a Resident Electoral Commissioner and was known as a person of strong moral construction and professional integrity who resisted political pressure and bribery attempts during elections.
Stories recount political actors trying unsuccessfully to influence his decisions, and he reportedly replying that his job was to “count votes, not money.”
I enjoyed his interview on @channelstv with @seunokin last night and with the @ARISEtv team this morning as he made the strongest case yet for a clause that makes real time electronic transmission of results into IREV from the polling unit mandatory.
If Democracy and Good Governance mattered to our politicians, Barrister Mike Igini, an outstanding former Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) @inecnigeria would have long led that beleaguered institution.
He would have built up citizens’ trust and confidence in the institution after the catastrophic 2023 elections.
Why do you think the lawmakers of @nassnigeria are trenchantly opposed to Transparency in our elections?
They detest the idea of people with Character, Competence and Capacity like Mike Igini ever taking over institutions of Governance in the 3 Arms of Government.
Nigerian politicians want the country to keep sinking for as long as they are okay.
A selfish lot that do not care about even their own personal Next Generation who would ultimately fall into penury as their parents’ corrupted wealth will surely make themselves wings and fly away according to the Bible.
We must never lose hope that Nigeria will surely Become.
Grateful to fellow citizens like Barrister Mike Igini.
There are still many Good Ones like him among us. ✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾
Names and Contacts of Members the House and Senate Harmonization Committee sitting tomorrow 16th Feb❗️
My Country People Let no one rest until they agree on doing the right thing❗️
They are expecting your calls and messages 🔥
Mandatory Real-Time Electronic Transmission of Results ❗️
2027 = OUR VOTES MUST COUNT❗️
#ElectoralReform
PLEASE RETWEET AND BE THERE❗️
Tomorrow @SituationRoomNg and @ActionAidNG with all Civil Society organizations lead the Charge to the National Assembly to Demand #ElectoralReform
Nigerians this is our Final Push to protecting our Rights to Free and Fair Elections, Come out and Demand❗️
Time: 8am
Venue: National Assembly Complex Abuja
Mandatory Real-Time Electronic Transmission of Results ❗️
Today, I am proud to introduce the Nigeria Religious Freedom and Accountability Act of 2026 with Rep. Chris Smith.
The U.S. is a Christian nation. As such, we must stand with persecuted Christians around the world.
Our legislation will build upon the momentum of President Trump designating Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern and the recent US-Nigeria security framework agreement.
That cock-eyed provision on Electoral Transmission that the @NGRSenate just passed is an insult on the collective intelligence of Nigerians.
In a functioning democracy, the Elected can NEVER be greater than the Collective Will of those who elected them.
Never.
The Senate President and his collaborators are brazenly giving Nigerians a heads-up that our votes will not count because that vexing clause they passed is their loophole to RIG the 2027 elections.
Again, kudos to the lawmakers @HouseNGR that boldly passed a Bill which legally mandates electronic transmission of polling units results in real time with this simple and HONEST text:
Clause 60(3): “INEC shall electronically transmit election results from polling units to the INEC Result Viewing Portal in real time and such transmission shall be done simultaneously with the physical collation of results.”
We salute our members of the Nigerian House of Representatives for totally aligning with the Citizens’ quest for Electoral Transparency.
The REAL-TIME question is whether the Akpabio-led Senate is ready for the Nigerians who have run out of patience with their shenanigans.
The answer is in the hands of the Senators.
It is not wise to play with fire.
Transparency is always better. ✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾