Samokwe

Proudly Igbo but still a guy who loves Nigeria.

[Samokwe @samokwe]

@VoiceOfTheEast @officialEFCC please investigate this Mark Okoye fellow.

[Samokwe @samokwe]

@Gviev Stupid post. Peter Obi did the right thing to clarify records. And also to send a warning to idiots like you who may think of defaming him.

[Samokwe @samokwe]

@Kene_Nnewi Mark Okoye should be arrested by @officialEFCC and prosecuted.

[Samokwe @samokwe]

@OgarEmmaOwogeka @PeterObi @realkenokonkwo Emmanuel, your rambling doesn't make sense. You succeeded in making zero point.

[Peter Obi Grassroots Mobilization. @PO_GrassRootM]

“INEC officials accepted land from Wike, FCT Minister. How can we expect transparency from them?”

— Dr. Sam Amadi

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

It’s 26 days since Borno kids were taken.
It’s 26 days since Borno kids were taken.
It’s 26 days since Borno kids were taken.
It’s 26 days since Borno kids were taken.
It’s 26 days since Borno kids were taken.

WHY ARE WE SILENT ABOUT THEM?
Borno State children don’t matter????

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

Nigeria Air fraud case: Ex-aviation minister Hadi Sirika rented Ethiopian Airlines plane for three-day show and presented it as the proposed Nigeria Air

~ EFCC tells Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja

[Parallel Facts @ParallelFacts]

In Nigeria, We Have Two Governments: One Collects Taxes, While The Other Collects Ransom, And They Both Make Life Difficult For Nigerians — Isaac Fayose https://t.co/yZR4bFtbpM

[Samokwe @samokwe]

@aonanuga1956 Why are you borrowing so recklessly in the first place?

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

Bandits struck Kabba in Kogi State & moved unspecified number of kids into the bush.

The entire community is in shock.

Meanwhile,
39 Oyo kids are in the bush
42 Borno kids are in the bush

BAT said it’s politics. He said you won’t remove him from power. TO YOUR TENTS, O ISRAEL!

[Tracka @TrackaNG]

N50m was reportedly spent on the Construction of The Magistrate Court and High Court at Erho, Abraka, Delta state in the 2024 Delta state Budget Implementation Report.

We visited this facility and saw that nothing was done. No new construction or renovation of the existing facility.

We met with the court officials from both courts and they asserted that they have not heard of the project and nothing of such was done.
The magistrate also told us that the current benches at the court were provided by the community.

The roofs of some parts of the court are pulling off and the entire compound has been overgrown by bushes.

We call on the office of Gov @RtHonSheriff, @officialEFCC, and the @icpcnigeria to look into this discrepancy and provide the public with details of this project.

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

#NwaMiss, @ObunikeOhaegbu, addresses @realkenokonkwo about the burdens of #LivingInBondageEncore:👇

"Kenneth,

You remain my friend, and nothing has changed in that regard.

However, I must confess that I am shocked by the game of deflection you appear to be playing. Kindly share the full message in issue and also point out specifically where I referred to His Excellency Peter Obi as a criminal.

Please also point out where I wrote that His Excellency @PeterObi asked me to pay a bribe of N10 million.

I challenge you to reproduce any statement from me in which I made such an allegation. Equally, kindly identify where I referred to him as a criminal. If you cannot do either, then you should acknowledge that you are attributing to me words I never used.

I cannot be drawn into any cut-and-join narrative, particularly as His Excellency is already pursuing legal remedies in court. In Nigeria, even persons standing trial for armed robbery are presumed innocent until proven guilty by a competent court of law. That is a fundamental constitutional principle to which I fully subscribe.

Therefore, even if I had hired and paid you to appear on national television and call Peter Obi a criminal, would your professional training and responsibility as a lawyer permit you to do so without regard to the law and the consequences of such a statement?

I thought you said you had proof from me which justified your position. If that is the case, why are you now threatening to deploy information allegedly obtained while serving as Peter Obi's spokesman? Public discourse should be based on facts and evidence, not threats or insinuations.

Blackmail is the weapon of the weak and the desperate; men and women of honour rely on facts, evidence, and the strength of their convictions. But perhaps this has become fashionable in our politics. After all, the Asiwaju-led Federal Government has demonstrated remarkable tolerance for political conversions and reinventions, as reflected in the appointment of individuals such as Reno Omokri and Femi Fani-Kayode to prominent public positions. So, I suppose anything is now possible in our political space.

I wish you the very best.

Obunike Ohaegbu
(Nwa Miss)"

[EFCC Nigeria @officialEFCC]

Alleged N2b Nigeria Air Fraud:   How Sirika Allegedly Used Ethiopian Airlines as Fake Nigeria Air-Witness

The 12th Prosecution Witness, PW12, Christopher Odofin,   in the trial of the former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Abubakar Sirika, on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, told Justice S.C. Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT,  High Court Abuja, how Sirika allegedly passed off an aircraft belonging to Ethiopian Airline as that of the promised Nigeria Air by the government of the late President Muhammadu Buhari.

The decoy aircraft, adorned with the livery of the promised Nigeria Air, found its way on the tarmac of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on May 27, 2023, being three days to the expiration of the tenure of the Buhari government and was flown back to Addis Ababa in the morning of May 29, 2023, being the handover date to the successor government.

Hadi Sirika is facing prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on amended six-count, bordering on alleged abuse of office and misappropriation of public funds to the tune of over N2 billion, alongside his daughter, Fatima Hadi Sirika, son-in-law, Hamma Jalal Sule, and Al Buraq Global Investment Limited.

The contract for the setting up of Nigeria Air was awarded to Tianaero Nigeria Limited, belonging to Gabriel Tilmann, a close associate and friend of the former minister.

Reading from a portion of contract agreement with Ethiopian Airline, the witness, an investigator with Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC said “The aircraft will depart from Addis Ababa (ADD) late evening of May 26, 2023 for it to be positioned early morning of May 27, 2023 at the Abuja (ABV) airport. The aircraft will stay in ABV airport for static display of Nigeria Air livery until May 28, 2023. The aircraft will leave ABV airport early morning on May, 29, 2023. The chartered flight will be operated by the Ethiopian Airline crew in Ethiopian Airline uniform. The Federal Government of Nigeria and Nigeria Air may put together local models who will be in Nigeria Air uniforms to pose for ceremonial pictures. The models may come to Addis Ababa so they may fly with the chartered flight to ABV.”

The witness told the court that the display of the aircraft in Abuja International Airport was deliberately planned to coincide with the end of the first defendant’s tenure as Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development on May 29, 2023 and to pass the aircraft off as the actualization of his promise of the return of Nigeria Air. After the less than 72 hours display of the aircraft, he stated that the Nigeria Air logo was removed from the aircraft and flown back to Ethiopian Airlines in Addis Ababa.

The witness further disclosed that the investigating team was also able to ascertain that Ethiopian Airlines entered into a charter arrangement for the static display of the Nigeria Air livery for a duration of just three days, beginning from May 27 to May 29, 2023 based on information and documents received from the airline following a letter from it, dated June 12, 2023, in response to the EFCC’s request for information regarding Nigeria Air. And that though the purpose of the contract was for the establishment of Nigeria Air, the charter agreement with Ethiopian Airlines was entered on May 24, 2023, five days to the expiration of the defendant’s tenure for just a static display of the Nigeria Air logo on an aircraft.

All the documents tendered in evidence by the prosecution were shown to have been duly signed, authorized, and accompanied by certificates of identification and were not objected to by any of the counsels to the four defendants.
Among the exhibits is a compact disk containing a voice note from the first defendant, Hadi Sirika, marked Exhibit 37, which the prosecution counsel applied to be played in the court at the next adjourned date.

[Kio Amachree @Ivory1957]

I Have Not Forgotten — And Your Silence on the Chagoury Crime Family Is a National Disgrace

By Kio Amachree | Worldview International | The Kio Solution

I have not forgotten. And the fact that you — Nigerians at home and in the diaspora — have done absolutely nothing about Gilbert Chagoury and his criminal family is something I find profoundly disturbing and a total disgrace. A nation of 220 million people, and the collective response to one of the most brazen corruption enterprises in modern African history has been a shrug, a scroll, and silence. That silence is complicity. That silence is cowardice. And I will not share it.

Let me remind you — again — of exactly who this man is, what he has done, what he is currently doing to your country, and why your passivity in the face of it is unforgivable.

A Convicted Criminal Now Controls Nigeria’s Infrastructure

Gilbert Chagoury, the 81-year-old Lebanese-Nigerian businessman and owner of the Eko Hotel, was previously convicted by a U.S. court in 2000 for money laundering.  He was not accused. He was not investigated and cleared. He was convicted. And yet this same man today sits at the very centre of Nigerian state power, collecting billions in public contracts from a president who calls him his closest confidant.

Chagoury was a close associate of military dictator Sani Abacha, who helped his business interests flourish during one of Nigeria’s darkest chapters. After Abacha died in 1998, Chagoury returned an estimated $300 million to the Nigerian government to secure his indemnity from possible criminal charges.  That was not generosity. That was a convicted looter’s associate buying his freedom. Nigeria took the money, closed its eyes, and moved on. You moved on. This is what enabled everything that followed.

What followed was this: Chagoury entered a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations that he made illegal campaign contributions to U.S. presidential and congressional candidates, conspiring to violate federal election laws. He paid a $1.8 million fine.  A man fined by American prosecutors for corrupting American democracy is simultaneously being handed the keys to Nigeria’s infrastructure budget. Does that not make you angry? It should.

The Hezbollah Allegations and the FBI Terrorism Database

This is the part that should have Nigerians in the streets. Instead, most have never even heard it.

Chagoury was barred from entering the United States and his visa request denied based on alleged links with a terrorist group. He was denied entry on grounds that he gave financial support to a Lebanese politician, Michael Aoun, whose party is in political coalition with Hezbollah, designated a terrorist organisation by the United States. 

A 2013 FBI intelligence report, citing raw information from a source, claimed Chagoury had sent funds to Aoun, who transferred money to Hezbollah. The source described Aoun as actively facilitating fundraising for Hezbollah.  Chagoury’s name was subsequently added to a database used to screen passengers for terror links — a linkage he has denied. 

Let that sink in. A man whose name sits in the U.S. terrorism screening database is the same man President Bola Tinubu describes as his partner, his confidant, the man with whom — in Tinubu’s own words — one can “sleep with a still mind.”  Nigeria deserves better than a president who sleeps soundly next to that record.

Thirteen Billion Dollars. No Competitive Bidding. No Accountability.

By 2026, companies linked to Chagoury — particularly Hitech Construction — had secured infrastructure projects valued at over $13 to $14 billion. The most significant is the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, a 700-kilometre project estimated at between $11 and $13 billion, approximately 15.6 trillion naira. 

In 2024, Tinubu awarded Chagoury’s Hitech Construction the $11 billion Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project without competitive bidding. That decision sparked public outrage over lack of transparency, environmental concerns, and the staggering cost at a time of acute economic hardship.  The outrage lasted a news cycle. Then Nigeria moved on. You moved on.

Despite the Chagoury Group’s lack of experience in the port sector, President Tinubu — who had the final say — once again placed his trust in his Lebanese confidant, awarding ITB Nigeria the Lagos ports renovation contract.  The Federal Executive Council’s meeting in February 2025 selected Chagoury Group and its subsidiary ITB Nigeria for the contract. The Minister of Marine confirmed the federal government approved $1 billion for the modernisation of the Apapa and Tin Can Island seaports. 

Tinubu then transferred the lucrative Snake Island port terminal to Chagoury’s ITB Construction Nigeria Limited for 45 years.  Forty-five years. A man convicted of money laundering has just been handed Nigerian sovereign infrastructure for nearly half a century. And you said nothing.

The Diplomatic Shield: St. Lucia, Benin Republic, and the Vatican

How does a man with this record move so freely through the world’s corridors of power? The answer is architecture — the careful construction of diplomatic protection and political proximity.

Chagoury serves as an ambassador to the Vatican for the tiny island nation of St. Lucia. His network of contacts stretches from Washington to Lebanon to the Holy See, and his website shows him photographed with Pope Francis.  He has also served as economic adviser to President Mathieu Kérékou of Benin, and as ambassador to UNESCO.  His wife Rose-Marie Chamchoum has links to Niger Republic. 

This is not a businessman. This is a geopolitical operation wearing a businessman’s suit — embedded across West African governments, Vatican diplomacy, Caribbean diplomatic passports, and French high society. He owns a seven-bedroom hilltop mansion in Beverly Hills, his name is on a gallery at the Louvre and a medical school in Lebanon, and he has received awards for generosity to the Catholic Church.  Philanthropy as camouflage. Prestige as armour.

The Final Insult: Nigeria’s Second Highest National Honour

If everything above did not move you, this should.

In January 2026, President Tinubu awarded Gilbert Chagoury the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, Nigeria’s second highest national honour. There was no official announcement through government channels. The news surfaced through a social media post by businessman Femi Otedola. Reports indicated the award had not been published in the Federal Gazette as required by law. 

The award was given on January 8th — Chagoury’s 80th birthday. Presidency sources confirmed its authenticity but indicated the presidency may not issue a statement on the matter. 

A secret national honour. Bestowed in the dark. On a convicted money launderer. On a man in the FBI terrorism database. On a man whose family business has been handed $13 billion of Nigerian public money without competitive tender. And the Nigerian people — you — have done absolutely nothing.

I Will Not Stop. The Question Is Whether You Will Start.

I write from Stockholm. I have no personal financial stake in this fight. What I have is a conscience, a father’s legacy of integrity in Nigerian public service, and an absolute refusal to normalise what is being done to 220 million people by one family, one president, and one criminal network operating in plain sight.

The Chagoury file is not closed. The SFO has been notified. The NCA has been engaged. The FBI and DEA FOIA litigation continues before a federal judge in Washington. European accountability bodies have been formally petitioned. I am not going anywhere.

But I am one man in Sweden with a Labrador and a laptop. I cannot do this alone. Nigeria cannot be rescued by diaspora writers alone — it must be demanded by Nigerians themselves. Not on social media. Not in WhatsApp groups. In courtrooms, in protests, in editorial rooms, in the National Assembly, in the streets, and at the ballot box in 2027.

The Chagoury family did not seize Nigeria alone. They were handed it, piece by piece, contract by contract, honour by honour, by a leadership class you elected and a citizenry that has grown dangerously comfortable with outrage that costs nothing and changes nothing.

That must end. And it must end now.

Kio Amachree is President of Worldview International and the author of The Kio Solution governance framework. He writes on Nigerian accountability, diaspora engagement, and democratic reform.

[Somto Okonkwo @General_Somto]

“Nigerians, I’m Heartbroken Right Now. My Brother, Who Has Served In The Nigerian Army Since He Was 20 Years Old, Has Died. Now, The Army Told Us They Cannot Bring His Body Home For Us Unless We Pay ₦2 Million. They Said If We Don’t Send The Money, They Won’t Bring Him Back For Burial. My Father Was Also a Soldier Before He Died, And This Situation Is Very Painful For Our Family. I Never Imagined The Nigerian Army Would Deteriorate To This Point.” ~ Lady Reacts 💔🇳🇬

[Samokwe @samokwe]

@BiaPulse An example should be made of him.

[Bia Pulse @BiaPulse]

“₦16 billion naira was allegedly released to Mark Okoye, MD/CEO of the South East Development Commission, for the development of the South East.

According to the allegations, he embezzled the entire sum meant for development. He reportedly rented an office in Abuja for ₦136 million per year, while the remaining billions were spent on partying and enjoyment.

[Samokwe @samokwe]

@kindwest 😅🤣🤣🤣

[Samokwe @samokwe]

@Deicecool @realkenokonkwo 🤣🤣🤣

[Samokwe @samokwe]

@sector00007 @PeterObi You are wrong. The plaintiff has 3 things to show. There was a publication, the defendant spoke or wrote the publication, and the publication exposed him to ridicule. Once he establishes these 3 elements, the onus shifts to the defendant to prove the publication is true.