I believe this is too extreme, but how does an arms courier receive the death penalty, while terrorists who massacre innocent people daily are rehabilitated and reintegrated into society?
Make it make sense.
BREAKING NEWS:
The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has unveiled a new internal political policy requiring all its candidates to sign legally binding affidavits committing them to surrender their electoral mandates if they defect from the party after winning office.
You baboons are in the qts talking about “marry a rich partner” or “don’t give birth if you’re not financially ready,” when the real blame should be on the useless government that has failed to provide basic, humane healthcare.
“So many Nigerians are more qualified than I am but they are not on the ballot. Among those on the ballot, I am more qualified.”
-Peter Obi on a Media chat with Rufai Oseni.✍️
Court Dismisses Yahaya Bello's Application Challenging FCT High Court Jurisdiction
The Federal Capital Territory High Court, FCT High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, dismissed an application filed by former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Adoza Bello, challenging the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the N110.4 billion alleged fraud charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Bello is being prosecuted alongside Umar Shuaibu Oricha and Abdulsalami Hudu on a 16-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust and money laundering involving the sum of N110.4 billion.
The application, filed by Bello, sought an order striking out the charge marked FCT/CR/778/2024: Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Yahaya Adoza Bello & 2 Ors, on the grounds that the FCT High Court lacked territorial jurisdiction to hear the matter. He further argued that the proceedings constituted an abuse of court process owing to the pendency of Charge No. FHC/ABJ/CR/98/2024 before the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Opposing the application, prosecution counsel, Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, argued that the application was misconceived and designed solely to delay the trial. According to him, the offences charged are offences under the Penal Code and are therefore properly triable before the High Court of the FCT.
Pinheiro further submitted that the properties allegedly acquired with proceeds of the offences, which form the basis of the charge, are all located within Abuja, thereby vesting the court with the requisite territorial jurisdiction to entertain the matter.
Addressing the allegation of abuse of court processes, the senior advocate maintained that the charge before the FCT High Court is distinct from the one pending before the Federal High Court. He explained that while the case before the FCT High Court principally concerns allegations of criminal breach of trust and conspiracy under the Penal Code, the Federal High Court matter relates to alleged violations of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act.
He argued that the two cases differ both in substance and in law and, therefore, cannot constitute an abuse of court process.
The prosecution also pointed out that the parties in both proceedings are not the same. Whereas Bello is the sole defendant in the charge before the Federal High Court, he is standing trial alongside two co-defendants before the FCT High Court.
In a considered ruling delivered by Justice Maryanne Anenih, the court upheld the submissions of the prosecution and held that it had the necessary jurisdiction to entertain the charge.
The court further ruled that the proceedings before it do not amount to an abuse of court process and consequently dismissed Bello’s application for lacking merit.
Justice Anenih also dismissed a similar application filed by the third defendant, describing it as equally unmeritorious.
Following the dismissal of the applications, the court directed that the trial should continue and the prosecution proceeded to call its 16th witness, Baba Isah Usman Baffa.
Led in evidence by prosecution counsel, Chukwudi Enebeli, SAN, Baffa testified that he is familiar with Sherrif Plaza, Abuja, a commercial shopping complex located at Plot 739 and comprising 276 shops.
He told the court that Ali Bello approached his company with interest in purchasing a shop within the plaza.
According to him, "he came to our office, made enquiries about the shops and indicated interest in buying one. We gave him the prospective form and the requirements. He met the requirements, we gave him an account number and he made the payment."
The witness disclosed that Ali Bello purchased Shop B13 for N66 million. He explained that an initial payment of N40 million was made into the company's FCMB account, while the balance of N26 million was paid subsequently.
“For 1 month, and 9 soldiers:
we were given only 5 pieces of fish.
1 paint of garri
1 paint of beans
A bag of spoiled potatoes
1 liter of palmoil
4 tubers of yam
Few onion bulbs and other mini stuffs…”
- Soldiers lament poor feeding once again!
From the videos we saw, this lady and her late husband were being held with some other kidnapped victims.
Since you engaged the terrorists and they ran away, where are the other victims?
“The issue of taking Kenneth Okonkwo to court wouldn’t have arisen if he had stopped at those allegations. But he claimed he still has more he would expose about me in the future. So I am very happy to take him to court so that he can expose me publicly, alongside other Nigerians. If any of them has any crim!nal allegations against me, they should bring it to court.”
— NDC presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi.
EFCC has reportedly intercepted gold bars worth about ₦4 billion at Aminu Kano International Airport, allegedly linked to former Zamfara Governor Senator Abdul’aziz Yari.
Reports claim the gold was being prepared for export to Saudi Arabia, while investigations are ongoing.
The allegations remain unconfirmed by Senator Yari, who has reportedly not responded to requests for comment.
3000 terrorists reintegrated into the society with no consequence.
These are murderers, kidnappers, violent thugs.
There is something fundamentally wrong with that contraption called Nigeria -
that includes forcefully marrying people with different ideals together.
Ignore Kwara, stay silent about Ondo, keep quiet on Ekiti and Osun, and forget the kidnapped children in Oyo, all because of Bola Tinubu. But when he leaves office and you suddenly find your voice, may the devil blind you.
Today is exactly one month since Borno & Oyo State schoolchildren were kidnapped! ONE WHOLE MONTH, & our children are not back!
They are eighty-one in number, including seven teachers. We lost a teacher in a beheading.
From public outcry to street protests. Then we move on. Please we shouldn’t forget them.
It’s the rainy season in Nigeria, they must be cold. There are mosquitoes, their immune system is not that strong. Then there is acute malnutrition otherwise called kwashiorkor.
There are waterborne diseases as well.
Diarrhea, malaria, acute malnutrition, etc. The children are dealing with all of these elements. Then there is the human factor — trauma in the form of constant trepidation. My paranoia is justified! They risk becoming child brides. Child marriage is not a thing to sweep under the rug.
Who is going to give them the closure they so desperately need? Closure is a psychological support to move on & achieve your life dreams.
I’m sure they have a bucket list, goals or things they want to achieve during their lifetime. I’m sure we have engineers, doctors, teachers, nurses, pilots, architects, etc among them.
This is their formative years. They shouldn’t miss out on a sheltered life; the promise of a better tomorrow. We shouldn’t forget them!
They stay in the bush so that politicians can soirée & party harder. Nigeria is the father that abandoned his children. Please remember them today & say a prayer for them. They remind us that Nigeria is a country of particular concern.
This is heartbreaking. This is solidarity. Children are praying for their friends to be rescued. A mother who is a teacher is crying for help. The significance of “May 15” is not lost on us.
They are our children dealing with adult problems. They shouldn’t become part of an ongoing statistics. I am only pleading.
At this point? Your silence will fail the children. PLEASE LEND YOUR VOICE TO THIS. 💔🙏
The kidnappers of General Rabe released the first video about 2 weeks ago. The army had more than 10days to initiate this special offensive raid to rescue the general. Now that he has been killed, in just two days Army is raiding forest to find the kidnappers.
I am genuinely curious why the Army did not initiate this raid to rescue the general alive. The same Army we have been pleading to raid the forests kidnappers are keeping Borno & Oyo children. Are we waiting for the children to start dying too?
What is this country turning into for Gods sake.
Emeka Ike sues INEC, Wike’s aide over ‘breach of data privacy’, demands N10bn damages
Emeka Ike, a Nollywood actor, has lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Lere Olayinka, media aide to Nyesom Wike, minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), over alleged breach of personal data.
The suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1272/2026, was filed at the federal high court in Abuja on Monday, June 15.
https://t.co/txjie0uUPL
This country is everything Nigeria was in 2014, minus the security issues.
Once you zoom out and see where it is heading and what that means for Africa, you can immediately see why it is under such vicious attack.
We've literally lived through this exact movie before.
LIVE UPDATE: A man at the INEC office has alleged that officials are giving people Death Certificate forms to fill and sign, while presenting them as Voter Registration forms.
We are being asked to fill and sign what is clearly a Death Certificate form, but they are calling it a voters’ registration form,” the man said.🗣️