There are some very powerful people pulling the strings behind the scenes on this legal issue over airtime lending in Nigeria, trying to stick their straw into a market worth an estimated N400b annually. These people are close to the president, and are wielding tremendous power and distorting the entire economy in ways that would have embarrassed a post-Soviet Russian oligarch in 1994.
I’ve been actively aware of this matter for over two years now and the time may have come to tell the full story of how Idris Saliu Alubankudi, and his brother Shamsudeen Saliu 'Shamz' Alubankudi - both very close to Bola Tinubu and his family - have built one of the biggest and most powerful state corruption enterprises
in the entire history of Nigeria.
These men are attempting to capture the systemically important foundations of the entire Nigerian economy - specifically telecoms and ICT - and turn their 3 year-old corruption enterprise into a sort of Nigerian chaebol. You have never seen anything like it before.
You will be hearing the names 'Idris' and 'Shamz' a lot in the coming few days. Also don’t forget their family name 'Saliu Alubankudi.' It's an important part of the story.
The kidnappings and brutal murder of school children and teachers in Oyo and other states of the federation have absolutely nothing to do with Islam or the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.
The reason our women and school children in Oyo are forced to sleep in the forests for weeks and are ruthlessly tortured by rag-tag militias is not because of Jihad or Islam or whatever nonsense propaganda the media wants you to believe. The real reason is simply because Oyo state is heavily blessed with massive, unmined deposits of Uranium, highly sought-after lithium, pure gold, and rare earth gemstones.
Now, the good people in Oyo State who are the primary victims of this manufactured insecurity, who are forced to sleep in total darkness and depend on highly expensive diesel just to sustain their petty businesses, may not be aware that they have enough uranium buried right under their feet to build nuclear reactors that could comfortably power the entire country for the next three hundred years.
But this local ignorance is completely insignificant in the ruthless geopolitical arena. Nigerians may very well be kept ignorant, but the Western nations who desperately need this uranium to power their massive industrial grids and nuclear submarines are absolutely not ignorant. The struggling youth in Oyo may not care about the raw gold beneath their soil, but the ruthless financial cartels in Dubai and Switzerland who melt, refine, and launder these blood minerals for American dollars are very much interested in them. The educated middle class in Nigeria, who would rather abandon their country and reduce themselves to overworked cleaners, taxi drivers, and caregivers in Canada and the UK instead of violently challenging the oppressors who have captured their state institutions, may very well be ignorant of the existence of huge deposits of lithium scattered all over the country. But the Silicon Valley conglomerates who desperately need these precious stones and rare earth elements for the new Apple M-series neural chips, Tesla electric vehicle batteries, and advanced military microprocessors are very much interested in these minerals. They will do absolutely anything to violently lift it out of the ground in Africa and ship it directly to their high-tech research labs overseas.
This is exactly why whenever there are sudden insecurity challenges such as mass kidnappings, brutal terror attacks on schools, and massacres at worship centers, there are always massive illegal mining activities running quietly in the background shadows. Indeed, in this year alone, almost forty people including heavily funded foreign nationals have been arrested by our local security agencies on strict charges related to illegal mining. Even a massive convoy of seven heavy-duty trucks loaded with raw uranium and lithium ore was intercepted and seized by state security forces just this year alone in Oyo state.
The terror activities are definitely not a holy jihad. They execute these bloody campaigns to install absolute, paralyzing fear in the local population and violently chase them away from their ancestral lands. Once the villages are emptied, these foreign companies and their local political enforcers can then seamlessly move in with their heavy drilling equipment, excavators, and chemical processors to extract these precious stones to power their trillion-dollar corporate empires.
The brainwashed recruits who physically carry out these terror attacks on their behalf may very well tell their traumatized victims that it is a Fulani agenda to Islamize Nigeria. They may very well release highly edited, pre-recorded videos claiming how these terror attacks are done to honor the teachings of Mohammed. But you must understand that these are all carefully constructed psychological operations and cheap propaganda.
What foot soldiers believe they are fighting for is completely irrelevant. Those ideologies are merely fairy-tale stories created to condition them psychologically to sustain the brutal war efforts for their hidden masters. For example, if George Bush had told the American troops the honest truth, that they all needed to go to the desert and die simply so that American defense contractors and oil majors could make an extra hundred billion dollars in corporate profits, they would have all dropped their rifles and badges and immediately renounced their duties. In the worst-case scenario, they would have stormed the White House, dragged the president out of the Oval Office, poured kerosene on him, and lit him on fire. So obviously, this truthful tactic will never work for any empire.
So instead, these gullible American troops were fed the lie that they were fighting a global "terror regime" that was secretly building weapons of mass destruction to wipe out humanity. This total change of narrative is crucial because the soldiers need to see themselves not as disposable, brainwashed tools fighting for corporate profit margins, but as heroic freedom fighters working for global peace and democratic stability. But at the end of the day, when you ignore the political speeches and simply follow the money trail, you get to understand what is truly happening. When Iraq violently fell, their sovereign gold reserves were immediately loaded onto armored trucks and shipped to the US to be deposited securely into the vaults of Citi Bank and the Federal Reserve, the uranium and critical aerospace assets were seized and transported to hidden military black sites, and the massive Iraqi oil fields were forcefully cleared of their local owners and drilling monopolies were permanently awarded to Halliburton, ExxonMobil, and Chevron.
The exact same imperial logic applies to the bandits and terrorists currently ravaging our rural communities. They may very well look you in the eye and tell you that they want to establish a pure Islamic state. But when the indigenous people are successfully uprooted from their resource-rich communities after relentless kidnappings, systemic torture, and public executions, the very same foreign conglomerates that secretly supply these terrorists with their thermal surveillance drones, high-grade military gear, encrypted satellite phones, and untraceable black-market cash quickly move in and start extracting these resources to be shipped overseas.
Wars are never genuinely fought on the superficial grounds of religion or ethnicity. They are, and have always been, ruthlessly fought over land, resources, and money.
In the case of Nigeria, Salafi Wahhabi Islamic ideology is what they use to brainwash and recruit most of the foot soldiers for this neo-colonial imperial plunder of Africa.
There is a new propaganda coming from APC, backed by falsehood, and Nigerians need to pay attention.
They have realised that their tribalistic agenda in the South-West is not stopping Peter Obi. They have realised that it is not stopping Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso either. They have also realised that the OK movement is gaining serious momentum in the North.
So, as usual, they're trying to import the same script to the North by selling falsehood
The new line now is, “Peter Obi issued ID cards to Northerners when he was governor.”
Now let me correct that with facts you can verify for yourself.
Thank God for the internet, brown envelope media houses and Journalists can no longer control the truth the way they used to.
The controversy they are trying to recycle was not about Peter Obi. It happened in Imo State under Rochas Okorocha.
In late June 2014, Rochas Okorocha’s government announced plans to register Northerners resident in Imo State and issue them identity cards. The explanation at the time was security, because of the fear of Boko Haram infiltration after reports of security threats in Owerri.
That was Imo State.
Not Anambra.
Not Peter Obi.
And this is where the propaganda falls apart.
Peter Obi had already completed his tenure as governor of Anambra State in March 2014. By the time this issue surfaced in June 2014, he had already left office.
So even by simple dates alone, the lie collapses.
How do you accuse a man of carrying out a policy in a state he did not govern, months after he had already left office?
That is how propaganda works in Nigeria.
They take a real event, remove the context, change the actor, repeat it loudly, and hope people do not fact-check.
But the National Assembly did not keep quiet.
On July 3, 2014, the Nigerian Senate debated the matter and cautioned Rochas Okorocha against going ahead with the policy. The motion was moved by Deputy Senate Leader Abdul Ningi. The Senate described the move as discriminatory, unconstitutional, and dangerous to national unity.
At the time, Senator Ike Ekweremadu presided over that sitting as Deputy Senate President. Senate President David Mark had also reportedly been briefed on the matter before plenary.
That is the record.
Rochas Okorocha.
Imo State.
July 3, 2014.
Not Peter Obi.
And the caution did not stop there.
On July 6, 2014, the Arewa Consultative Forum also warned against the move. The group said any policy that appeared to single out Northerners could deepen ethnic suspicion and create dangerous division at a time the country was already under security pressure.
So when APC people push that line today, understand what is happening.
This is not about history.
This is not about truth.
This is about political manipulation.
They have seen that Peter Obi and Kwankwaso are gaining ground across regions, especially in the North, and now they want to plant suspicion in people’s minds.
That is the bigger game.
These politicians do not mind doing almost anything to stay in power. One of the oldest weapons in their playbook is division.
Tribal division.
Ethnic division.
Religious division.
They know it works very well on Nigerians.
Once people begin fighting one another, they stop asking serious questions. They stop asking why hunger is rising. They stop asking why insecurity keeps spreading. They stop asking why businesses are shutting down. They stop asking why school fees have become unbearable. They stop asking why people are working harder and living worse.
That is the bigger game.
Keep people divided.
Keep people distracted.
Keep people emotional.
And while citizens are busy fighting themselves, the people responsible for the suffering escape scrutiny.
A hungry Northerner and a hungry Southerner understand the same pain. A parent in Kano struggling with school fees understands the same pain as a parent in Onitsha. A trader in Kaduna battling inflation understands the same pain as a trader in Aba.
@jon_d_doe Even when you don't move to her friend, just ignore her & act like you're not seeing her.
The next time you approach her, she'll act normal.
@UTDKara Did Arteta get to the level is now by chance?
He was given time to work, why don't we try it with Carrick because getting Enrique doesn't seem feasible.