Today makes it a week since we lost our beloved Mother (Maimuna). Nothing could've ever prepared us for a day like this.
ุงููููููู ูู ุบูููุฑูููููุง ููุฑูุญูู ูููุง ููุณูุงูููููู ููู ุงููุฌููููุฉู
O Allah, forgive her and have mercy on her and make her dwell in Jannah.
Please pray for her.
I just saw this heartbreaking video of a young lady diagnosed with cancer who is trying to raise money for chemotherapy on TikTok.
I've sent a token and am sharing it on X in case anyone else is willing to help. I don't know her but I hate cancer so much that I want her to survive it.
Her TikTok handle is olami915.
Like every other human the man is fallible. And he has his faults, plenty sef. Again as a leader he also shares in the fault which is natural. So, If I get you correctly, are you saying the man approved of it?
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63 days on and weโre still waiting for word on 42 schools children abducted in Borno state. We refuse to allow this to just die down and we refuse to let those innocent children become another set of numbers on Nigeriaโs insecurity statistics! Enough is enough @officialABAT !!!
โโThe continued imprisonment of outspoken politician and Tinubu critic shines a spotlight on โlawfareโ in Nigeria, writes El-Rufaiโs wife. โFor 150 days, Nasir El-Rufai has been detained. Nigeriaโs partners must speak up.โ Nigeriaโs friends must understand that this case is larger than Nasir @elrufai. It is about whether a citizen can fall out with power and still be protected by law. It is about whether courts will be places of justice or theatres of intimidation.โ
Written by courageous mother, Aunty @AsiaAhmad El-Rufai. https://t.co/3zo1M7OVqu
โFor 150 days, Nasir El-Rufai Has Been Detained. Nigeriaโs Partners Must Speak Upโ
By Asia Ahmad El-Rufai
I write today not as a politician, lawyer or diplomat, but as a wife, a mother and a Nigerian woman asking that the country my husband served for so many years remember its own conscience.
On the 150th day of Mallam Nasir El-Rufaiโs detention, I ask readers outside Nigeria to pause over what that number means. One hundred and fifty days is not a legal phrase. It is five months of missed meals, missed prayers, missed proper mourning of his deceased mother, missed family conversations, interrupted medical care and moments we can never recover.
My husband is no stranger to controversy or public scrutiny. He has spent more than two decades in public life - as head of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, minister of the Federal Capital Territory and governor of Kaduna State. He has been praised, criticised, loved and opposed. That is democracy. But what is happening to him today is not democracy, and it is not accountability. It is punishment before trial.
Arrest Without Warning And Dignity
For 150 days, our home has existed under a cloud that does not lift. There was the attempted airport interception, when security officials seized his passport without a warrant and assaulted his aide in public view. There was the sudden invitation, his voluntary appearance before the authorities, and the promise of bail that existed on paper but not in freedom. There was the night he was moved between locations without warning and without the dignity of allowing his family to know where he was being taken.
I still remember the helplessness of hearing that he had fallen gravely ill in custody, bleeding from his nose and mouth, while those responsible for his welfare were reluctant to provide the care any person deserves. I remember the anxiety of trying to get his medication to him and wondering whether officials would accept it. These are not abstract violations.
They are the moments that chip away at a familyโs resolve and hope. Behind every headline about โchargesโ and โinvestigationsโ, there is a family waiting, praying and trying not to imagine the worst.
Justice Cannot Be Selective
Let me be clear: I do not ask that my husband be placed above the law. No public official should be immune from scrutiny. If the state believes it has evidence, let it be presented before an impartial court, openly and fairly. But justice cannot be selective. It cannot be pursued through overlapping charges, repeated detention, impossible bail conditions, and public humiliation designed to persuade the nation of guilt before a judge has heard the case.
Recent public commentary has warned that Nigeria (among other African countries) is drifting from accountability into lawfare - the use of legal processes, judicial procedures and state institutions as political weapons. The concern is not whether former officials may be investigated; they can and should be. The concern is whether the law is being applied neutrally or deployed against those who have fallen out of political favour.
My husbandโs case has become a test of that distinction. His political rupture with President Bola Tinubuโs ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and his refusal to surrender his independent voice should not make him a target for indefinite punishment or detention disguised as prosecution.
The legal architecture surrounding him is bewildering even to trained observers: multiple charges in different courts, overlapping allegations, shifting statutory theories and duplicated claims arising from the same alleged events. If one application for bail is made and the conditions are met, another accusation can be filed the next day. If one judge must consider freedom, another process can be used to delay it.
This is how judicial procedure becomes premeditated punishment. This is how we have arrived at 150 days of unjust detention.
Ignore the messenger. But this is the truth. As a Nigerian, I don't understand it either. Who exactly is supposed to make your country better?
We would rather preoccupy ourselves with ethnic and religious intolerance than unite and demand for good governance.
Who is supposed to fight for all those services in Nigeria when you ran away to Canada like a true Nigerian Japa coward๐ค? Canadians don't need you there, you are needed in Nigeria๐ฎ๐ฎ
"No gree for anybody o!"
"If I were a bandit, you wouldn't be standing here," she fired back.
A Hausa/Fulani woman stood up for her dignity after security operatives ordered everyone to come out for a search.
When one of the officers allegedly said, "That one is Yoruba, not Fulani. Don't search her," she perceived the remark as disrespectful and responded by defending both her dignity and that of her community.
Lt General Victor Malu warned years ago. Look how he was shut down with "God Forbid". See Nigeria and insecurity today.
I hope this tribunal chairman is still alive to witness what the army general warned about over twenty years ago