The very first thing I discussed with my Excos was that we must save money. I save money for my Children and I must save for the Children of Anambra state. When we receive FAAC, we remove, Pension, Gratuity, Savings and Salaries then the rest, we can work with. - Peter Obi, NDC Presidential Candidate
“Comrade Phils releases video showing alleged officers in extortion act hours after raising alarm over police extortion network in Old GRA, Port Harcourt; claims motorists are forced to pay ₦100k cash.
Comrade Phils has released a video he says shows members of a police squad allegedly extorting a motorist in Old GRA, Port Harcourt, just hours after he raised concerns about what he described as an extortion network operating in the area. In the video, he identified the deputy team lead of the squad, Officer Okere, as allegedly collecting money from a motorist before releasing the documents of a seized vehicle. According to him, the motorist had all valid and up-to-date vehicle papers but was still detained for hours and pressured to pay before being allowed to leave. He further alleged that the officers operate a “modi operandi” where cash payments are demanded instead of transfers, with negotiations reportedly handled by the team lead, ASP Geoffrey, who then directs payments to Officer Okere. He also claimed the officers operate under a weekly financial target allegedly set by a DPO, which they are expected to meet for vehicle maintenance and returns to superiors.”
-nairadiarytv/IG
The crazy part about this Bokkos attack is that they didn’t stop at attacking Kawei village in Bokkos, according to reports, they also stormed a hospital.
How messed up is that? It’s infuriating.
Next up: mass burials, politicians gathering for condemnations, sympathy speeches, and empty reassurances.
Zero justice. Zero arrests. Life just goes on… until the next one.
This cycle has to end.
" They came with APC governorship candidates of Osun State 'AMBO' bus! It was Saheed Tanfeani APC thugs that shot my SON, 7 of them came."
- A father tells the crowd and Nigerian Police Officers who look helpless and like nothing could be done to APC thugs.
These Police Officers just parked me at Bolade, Oshodi, pointed guns at me, and forced me to transfer N100,000 them. When my bank app showed "exceeded transfer limit", they dragged me to a nearby POS to do it with my card.
They initially demanded 150k each.
They were 4 in number.
These are the names I could copy:
Francis Adekunle
2087495551
Kuda
Friday Ikpe
9136237110
Okay
This is the phone number of the notorious Officer Friday Ikpe 09136237110. I got it from his opay
@PoliceNG@BenHundeyin@Princemoye1
Please my mutuals, if you see this on your TL, help repost or tag other relevant authorities until these criminals are apprehended.
Nigeria's Opposition Has No Clothes: Why the 2027 Election Is a Crisis of Integrity, Not Just a Contest of Power
By Kio Amachree
Nigeria is hurtling toward a crossroads that history will not forgive it for fumbling. The 2027 presidential election, scheduled for January 16, is not simply a rematch. It is a referendum on whether this nation of two hundred and twenty million souls possesses the moral architecture to demand better. And the uncomfortable truth, which no political cheerleader on either side of this contest wishes to speak plainly, is this: the opposition, in its current form, is not the answer Nigeria is looking for. It is merely a different version of the same disease.
Nigeria's opposition coalition has fractured, turning from uneasy cooperation into open rivalry in a split that significantly boosts President Bola Tinubu's chances of re-election. That alone should prompt a moment of national reckoning. When the primary purpose of an alliance is self-preservation rather than national redemption, it does not deserve the presidency.
ATIKU ABUBAKAR: THE GHOST OF CORRUPTION PAST
Let us begin with the man who should have long ago made way for someone untainted by decades of deeply documented scandal. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar carries around his neck the weight of a United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report that is not going away, no matter how many press conferences, coalition summits, or rebranding exercises his handlers orchestrate.
From 2000 to 2008, Jennifer Douglas, a U.S. citizen and the fourth wife of Atiku Abubakar, helped her husband bring over $40 million in suspect funds into the United States through wire transfers sent by offshore corporations to U.S. bank accounts. These are not allegations fabricated by political opponents. They are the documented findings of the United States Senate.
The Siemens dimension adds a further layer of toxicity that cannot be laundered away. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Ms. Douglas received over $2 million in bribe payments in 2001 and 2002 from Siemens AG, a major German corporation, with Siemens already having pleaded guilty to U.S. criminal charges and settled civil charges related to bribery. And then there is the visa question, the ten-year barrier to American soil. In 2004, President Bush barred Atiku and other corrupt politically exposed persons from being issued a visa to the United States.
This is not a man who can run on an anti-corruption platform with a straight face. Nigeria deserves better than to replace one problematic president with another whose own corruption file would fill a courtroom. The $40 million money laundering allegations are not going away. Spin cannot sanitise them. Coalition photo opportunities cannot erase them. The Nigerian voter who believes this does the country a grave disservice.
PETER OBI: THE MISSED OPPORTUNITY
Peter Obi is a more complex case, and a more painful one, because the raw material is better than the execution. He is not corrupt in the brazen, systemic sense of those who have looted Nigeria's treasury. But he has made critical strategic errors that a serious presidential contender in a nation in crisis simply cannot afford.
The self-imposed one-term declaration is perhaps the most puzzling. No serious leader confronting sixty-five years of accumulated dysfunction, collapsed infrastructure, catastrophic insecurity, a hollowed-out oil sector, an education system in ruins, announces in advance that he intends to do it all in four years and then leave. It does not signal nobility. It signals a man fulfilling a personal ambition rather than accepting a national calling. Nigeria is not a bet made at university. It is a nation on fire.
His supporters' tribal ferocity has become a campaign liability. When every critical analysis of Peter Obi is reframed as an attack on Igbo people, you have not built a coalition. You have built a fortress that keeps the undecided voter out. A candidate cannot simultaneously be untouchable to his base and credible to the broader electorate that remains unconvinced.
More troubling still is his silence on the Tinubu-Chagoury nexus, arguably the most politically explosive accountability issue in Nigerian public life. This is Tinubu's Achilles heel, and it is inexplicable that the man who aspires to replace him has said almost nothing about it.
THE CHAGOURY OUTRAGE: NIGERIA'S SECOND-HIGHEST HONOUR FOR A CONVICTED MONEY LAUNDERER
If the Nigerian opposition had a functioning strategic instinct, the events of January 8, 2026 would have triggered the loudest political outcry this country has heard in a generation. Instead, there was near silence.
President Bola Tinubu conferred Nigeria's second-highest national honour, the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, on Gilbert Chagoury, the controversial Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and close ally of the Nigerian leader. The award was not announced through a public ceremony or Presidency statement and only entered public view after billionaire Femi Otedola posted a copy on X.
Let that sink in. Nigeria's second-highest national honour, an award traditionally reserved for vice presidents, Senate presidents, and heads of state, was conferred in secret, with no public announcement, on a man with one of the most notorious corruption dossiers in the country's history.
Court records and investigative reports indicate that Chagoury created accounts in Geneva to move over $120 million from the Central Bank of Nigeria on behalf of the Abacha family. Despite a conviction in Switzerland and repayment of $66 million to the Nigerian government, Chagoury has continued to expand his business operations and benefit from government contracts worth billions of naira.
In 2024, Hitech Construction, a company owned by Chagoury, was awarded the $11 billion Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project without a public bidding process. No competitive tender. No transparency. Billions of dollars of public money flowing to a man whose company employs Nigerians only in menial positions while the senior executive class remains firmly in Lebanese hands. This is the economic colonialism that nobody in the Nigerian political class dares to name, because too many of them are beneficiaries of exactly the same arrangement.
Where is the opposition's formal campaign on this issue? Where is the demand for a full public inquiry into the billions in contracts awarded to Chagoury Group entities under this administration? Where is the speech that connects the Abacha looting, the Swiss conviction, the no-bid highway contract, and this secret national honour into a single devastating narrative that every Nigerian voter can understand and feel in their bones? The silence is not just a strategic failure. It is a moral one.
WHAT NIGERIA ACTUALLY NEEDS
Unity without integrity is merely organised mediocrity. Nigeria does not need another coalition of recycled elites shuffling between party platforms. It needs a leader whose hands are clean, not because they have never been tested, but because they have been tested and held firm.
The country needs someone who will stand before the nation and deliver not a party manifesto but a covenant: an end to tribal politics, not as a talking point but as a governing principle; a security architecture that treats the lives of ordinary Nigerians in Zamfara, Plateau, and Borno as equal in value to those in Ikoyi and Maitama; an oil sector reformed from within, not looted from without; and a foreign investment framework that demands equity and dignity for Nigerian workers, not just Nigerian elites.
This government has proven itself more concerned with the next election than with the survival of the ordinary Nigerian, more at home with corruption than with accountability, more invested in the consolidation of power than in the delivery of governance. Those are not the words of a foreign critic. They are the words the opposition's own leaders used to describe what Nigeria has become under this administration. The question is whether the opposition can look in the mirror and ask the same of itself.
Nigeria is not simply facing a political contest in 2027. It is facing an existential test of whether its democratic experiment, that imperfect, battered structure that has never quite fit the complexity of its people, can produce a leader equal to the moment. The sands are running out. The world is watching. And the ordinary Nigerian, battered by inflation, terrified by insecurity, and exhausted by a political class that has failed them across sixty-five years and every administration without exception, deserves far better than what is currently on offer.
Nigeria needs a leader, not a deal. It needs a statesman, not a survivor. And it needs that person to step forward now.
Kio Amachree is President of Worldview International and writes The Kio Solution, a governance and accountability platform. He is based in Stockholm.
I said Peter Obi is the only Nigerian Politician that is not a thief contesting for Presidency.
You are angry.
What is preventing you from saying your candidate too is not a thief ?
The biggest flex is that Peter Obi is not a thief and you can’t say that about your own candidate 😂
Say it and tag me let’s verify.
Here is a video of how a 14-year old Ezekiel Olapade was killed in Ilobu yesterday. As this video clearly showed, the thug identified by the father of the victim is the one in blue short, shooting directly at people. That was an APC campaign vehicle which they possibly came with.
Tinubu said he inherited a collapsed economy, yet moved from a Mercedes S-Class to a $500,000 Cadillac Escalade, bought a ₦5.09bn presidential yacht, ₦2.9bn SUVs for the Villa, ₦1.5bn for cars for the First Lady’s office, and took delivery of a $100m Airbus 330 jet. Our 2026 budget earmarks ₦9.3bn for presidential travels and ₦28bn for the State House.
How do you declare the economy dead, then fund a luxury convoy on land, sea, and air? That’s not austerity — that’s playing Father Christmas with public funds while Nigerians queue for palliatives.
Are you a governor?
Get one “smart” school to teach primary school students how to build an AI agent
Yes, primary, yes basics. Incorporate this into the curriculum, create a pathway to have this taught also in secondary schools
See what this will create in a decade
THE MAN CALLED PETER OBI
Peter Obi’s foray into politics was not through godfathers or backroom deals, but through a stubborn refusal to accept Anambra as a conquered territory. He dismantled the entrenched cabals that held the state hostage, reclaiming a stolen mandate through the courts after three years of legal battle.
That victory in 2006 was more than personal; it was the first public notice to the Nigerian establishment that power could return to the people. He went on to win re-election, becoming the first Anambra governor to serve two full terms, and he did it by running against the tide of godfatherism that has crippled governance across Nigeria.
As governor, his exploits became a template for fiscal discipline and results. He tackled insecurity in record time, restoring calm to a state once infamous for kidnappings and robberies. Under Obi, Anambra did not owe salaries, pensions, gratuities, or contractors for a single day – a radical act in a system where arrears are normalized.
He took Anambra from 24th to 1st position in WAEC and NECO, investing heavily in returning schools to missions and equipping them. He constructed over 26 bridges, built durable drainage systems that ended yearly floods, and revolutionized healthcare delivery so effectively that he won the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation prize for immunization. Due process was his religion: every project went through competitive bidding, every kobo was accounted for.
His personal conduct indicted the wastefulness of the ruling class without him uttering a word. He refused to allocate a single plot of land to himself throughout eight years as governor. He has not taken a kobo from Anambra State since he left office, no pension, no perks, no severance. He left over ₦75 billion in savings and investments for the state – in cash and liquid assets – at a time his peers were leaving mountains of debt.
He has no house anywhere in Nigeria except his home in Onitsha. He has never been convicted of any corruption, never indicted by any panel, and continues to preach frugality as a governing philosophy, flying economy and insisting that public funds are for public good. This is why Peter Obi remains a symbol of hope and the single biggest threat to the corrupt establishment. Even political opponents like Nyesom Wike have publicly attested to his sterling leadership and prudence with resources.
The establishment fears him because he proves that governance without theft is possible, that budgets can work, and that a leader can leave office poorer than he went in. He exposes the lie that Nigeria is too complex to fix. While others accumulate foreign estates and bulletproof convoys, he carries his own bag and asks a simple question: “Why should the people suffer when the money is there?”
The corrupt establishment judges a man by the size of his convoy; the people judge Peter Obi by the example he set. He is not a saint, but he is a standard. And in a nation exhausted by plunder, a standard is a revolution. That is the man called Peter Obi – the evidence that Nigeria can work if we decide to break the chain of waste, entitlement, and impunity.
I am A.M TEMIDAYO
INEC is intentionally frustrating Nigerians from registering for PVC, collecting their PVC's, or transferring their voters card. From no network, to network failure, to having just one computer, or outright office closure.
It is all intentional and deliberate.
But come to think of it, I have not recently seen or heard any APC chieftain, candidate, or supporter encouraging APC members to go register or collect their voter cards, like the opposition is doing. Especially now that we just have 19 days left.
Well, why should one be afraid of the outcome of the court when his brother is the presiding judge.