Tobi

Writer, Lawyer, Innovation Consultant,
Security and policy consultant.
Unrepentant believer in a better Nigeria.

[Plateau Militia Asian girl🌟 @CatiaKyen]

Terrorists took turns raping a 52-year-old mother in front of her two children. They recorded it and posted the video online.

We aren’t resilient people, we’re just cowards.

[Tobi @zeegenius]

@saratu Wld b a great fit actually

[Oluwaseyi @seewhat_isaw]

Proud to have been accredited by FIFA to cover the FIFA World Cup. Here is a call to media houses and sports brands, I’m open to working and collaborating. I’ll be on ground providing updates, exclusive content, and conducting interviews Please reach out via [email protected]

[Nigerian Bar Association @NigBarAssoc]

BAIL CONDITIONS SHOULD NOT UNDERMINE THE ESSENCE OF BAIL

In recent times, we have observed with growing concern a disturbing trend in the administration of criminal justice in Nigeria, where courts and law enforcement agencies, including the Nigeria Police Force, EFCC, ICPC, and other security agencies, increasingly impose bail conditions that are excessive, impractical, and difficult to satisfy. The frequent insistence on sureties who are senior civil servants of specified grade levels, coupled with demands for landed properties of extraordinary value, has in many cases transformed bail from a mechanism for securing attendance at trial into a tool of pretrial detention. The consequence is that many persons who are constitutionally presumed innocent and have ostensibly been granted bail remain incarcerated because the conditions attached to their release are beyond their reach. This troubling development undermines the constitutional right to personal liberty, weakens the presumption of innocence, and defeats the very essence and purpose of bail within our criminal justice system.

We consider it necessary to reiterate that bail is a constitutional safeguard designed to secure the attendance of an accused person at trial while preserving his or her liberty pending the determination of guilt or innocence. It is neither a punishment nor a mechanism for imposing pre-trial incarceration by indirect means. The law is settled that bail conditions must be reasonable, practical, and capable of being fulfilled by the accused person.

The Supreme Court, in Suleman & Anor v. Commissioner of Police, Plateau State (2008), emphasized that the object of bail pending trial is to grant pre-trial freedom to an accused person whose appearance in court can be secured through appropriate conditions. Bail is not intended to create insurmountable obstacles that make release impossible.

We are particularly concerned by the increasing tendency to impose conditions that are disconnected from prevailing economic realities and often impossible to satisfy. Conditions requiring sureties who are serving civil servants on specific salary grades, ownership of landed properties of extraordinary value, or other burdensome requirements effectively convert the grant of bail into a denial of bail.

Of particular concern is the continued insistence in some cases on sureties who must be senior civil servants, often on Grade Levels 16 or 17, and who must own properties worth hundreds of millions of naira. Such conditions have been strongly criticised by the appellate courts.

In Dasuki v. Director-General, State Security Service & Ors (2019) LPELR-49182 (CA), the Court of Appeal unequivocally condemned the practice of involving serving public officers as a mandatory category of sureties. The Court observed that such requirements are unknown to civilised legal systems and run contrary to public service regulations. The Court further noted that expecting a public servant on Grade Level 16 to own property worth N100 million would not only be unrealistic but could also conflict with public service rules and anti-corruption objectives.

The Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, is equally clear on this issue. Section 165(1) provides that while the grant and conditions of bail are within the discretion of the court, such conditions must not be excessive. Judicial discretion, though wide, must always be exercised judiciously, reasonably, and in a manner consistent with constitutional guarantees.

We therefore restate that bail conditions must be tailored solely to ensure attendance at trial. They must never serve as instruments of punishment prior to conviction. Conditions that cannot be met amount in substance to a refusal of bail and contribute directly to pre-trial detention and congestion in correctional facilities.

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[-valar morghulis- @eldivine]

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In your email include the name of your company, the location and what it does.

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[Tobi @zeegenius]

Alleged $2b debt saga : Nestoil wins at Supreme Court https://t.co/Qz1UpRGOhg

The AI pandemic extends even to news writing now. this is most certainly written by AI. and does it deliver value to us? Questionable

[❗️ @Drealad0nis]

Three weeks ago, my 23-year-old neighbor was kidnapped on her way to Kontagora in Niger State.
While in captivity, the bandits repeatedly raped her taking turns sleeping with her night after night. Still, they kept bargaining with her father over the phone, demanding ransom even as they violated her.

Her father fought with everything he had. He hustled day and night, borrowed from everyone, took loans, sold whatever he could determined to bring his daughter home.
When he finally gathered the full amount, he called the bandits and begged them, ‘Please, give the phone to my daughter. Let me speak to her. I want her to know I’m coming for her.’
They gave her the phone.
In a broken, traumatized voice, she told her father: ‘Dad, do not suffer yourself looking for the money. They have been sleeping with me. I’m traumatized. I can’t forgive myself. Even if I’m released, I’ll kill myself. Don’t bother paying the ransom.’
Those were the last words she ever spoke to him.
While her father was still holding the phone, he heard the gunshot. He heard his daughter being killed. Moments later, the bandits sent pictures of her remains to him, a final act of cruelty.
A 23-year-old girl. My neighbor. Someone’s daughter, someone’s sister, someone’s friend gone in the most horrific way possible.
This is not just one story. This is the nightmare too many families are living in Niger State and across Nigeria. Young women snatched on the roads, violated, used as bargaining chips, and discarded like nothing.
Living in Nigeria has become truly scary. You wake up, you step out, and you don’t know if you or your loved ones will return home. The fear is constant. The pain is constant. And too often, justice never comes.

Rest in peace to my neighbor.

[BUNDA HASHIRA🐆🪭 @cindythehashira]

tried to shoot on the streets of lagos today and egbon adugbo is telling me @burnaboy gave them $18k (25,020,000) sometime in January and @burnaboy i need you to know you’re part of the issues we have in this country cause them no gree collect my fifteen thousand hard earned naira, later you’ll carry you mic and sing about this country.

and @jidesanwoolu are you aware that to even take pictures or videos WITH MY PHONE at Freedom park i have to pay 40,000 nigerian naira for 10mins!!? what nonsense???????! why’re you the governor if you can’t completely obliterate the atrocities happening in your state????!

CAUSE TELL ME WHY TF A YOUNG CREATIVE CANT EVEN DO SHIT IN LAGOS?? 30 seconds cover wey i wan shoot for that matter.

@jidesanwoolu gather your street boys and give them an association, or pack them to sambisa forest to fight the war against insecurity cause you’re draining the life of the people and youths in this country, we NO LONGER HAVE ANY FREEDOM! and one day when i see you i’ll speak my mind.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Riding high 🏆

[Premier League @premierleague]

Premier League champions once more 🎉

🔴 @Arsenal

[GRIM @grimshub]

🚨| 🔥💣 Josh Kroenke caught on Camera chanting and celebrating form the open top bus Arsenal coronation trophy Parade.😍🏆♥️🤍

HE'S LOCKED IN.🔒

[Sir J (J9) @SirJarus]

For the first 7 years of my career, while building my career as a young 9-5'er, many people within my family and friends saw me as "stingy".

But deep down me, I was sure I was not. They were only overrating my financial capability.

[Bet9ja: The home of #betBOOM! 💣 @Bet9jaOfficial]

These Arsenal fans are getting TOO confident 😬

[Tobi @zeegenius]

@Tbabz__ @bigbrutha_ Counsel. You know what he means. In Nigeria. That's ironically how u can wnd up in jail

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

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[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

One of the biggest failures of our education system is that we have convinced society that intelligence is more important than character.

I have never seen a child sent to prison because he scored F9 in Mathematics or dragged to court for failing English Language.

But I have seen children grow into adults who ended up in prison because of bad behaviour.
Because they lacked discipline.
Because they could not control anger.
Because they had no empathy.
Because greed consumed them.
Because nobody truly developed their character.

Yet, every day, we terrorize children over grades as if exam scores are the final measurement of human success.

A child comes home with low marks and the entire house becomes tense.
Parents panic.
Teachers threaten.
Society mocks.

But when that same child lies, bullies others, cheats, lacks compassion, disrespects people, or shows signs of dangerous behaviour, many people ignore it because “at least he is doing well academically.”

That is the tragedy.
Education was never supposed to be only about IQ.

True education has always stood on three pillars:
Character.
Discipline.
Learning.

And somehow, we abandoned the first two and became obsessed with only the last one.

We are producing brilliant minds with broken values.
People who can solve equations but cannot manage emotions.
People who can build apps but cannot build integrity.
People with degrees but without conscience.
And then we act surprised when corruption destroys a nation.

Corruption is not an academic failure.
It is a character failure.

A country does not collapse because people cannot calculate.

A country collapses when people entrusted with power have no discipline, no empathy, no moral foundation, and no fear of destroying the future of innocent people.

Some of the most dangerous people in society are highly educated.

That should force us to reflect deeply.

Maybe our schools should spend more time teaching emotional intelligence.
Teaching empathy.
Teaching self-control.
Teaching honesty.
Teaching dignity of labor.
Teaching integrity even when nobody is watching.

Because the child who learns discipline may survive failure.
But the child who learns only how to pass exams may someday become successful without values and that is dangerous for any society.

The painful truth is this:
A nation can recover from poor grades.

But recovering from a generation raised without character may take decades.

We must stop raising children only to pass exams.

We must start raising human beings.

[Rufybaba @Rufyb]

The other day, we celebrated a credit rating upgrade by the international credit agency, S&P. The events over the past few days just explains how the government (across all arms and tiers) make one step forward and two steps backwards.

A country does not become a $1 trillion economy simply because oil prices rise or because GDP numbers look bigger on paper.

A trillion-dollar economy is built when millions of people can safely learn, work, move, invest, build companies, transport goods, and plan for the future with confidence.

Industrial economies are built on efficient movement:

of people
of goods
of raw materials
of labour
of capital

Insecurity disrupts all of them.

[Ewgi @Ssaasquatch]

Can’t believe I’m saying this, but it looks like I won’t be able to make Budapest anymore.

If you’re an Arsenal fan and need my ticket reassigned to you, hit me up. My ticket value is $7k, but I’m happy to let it go at a concession. Pls RT

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

We will need your support towards the trip to ROME for International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale.

The total cost of the trip is €32,500 (N52,942,500)

We have already spent N21,249,893 which is transparently available on our public ledger https://t.co/qbnMfdtY93

We still need N31,692,607 between today and June 6th.

You can make your donations here https://t.co/hHNaohSBul

Giving our children opportunity to compete with 154 other countries is an experience that will inspire millions of other children to work hard, knowing that education is rewarding.

Gradually, we will be the greatest workforce in Africa within 10 years.

[Global Executive Dialogue @GlobalExecD]

First Lagos. Then Abuja. Now Enugu.

With less than 3 million Naira join Nigeria’s most consequential minds to bridge ideological divides and forge national solutions.

Date: 7–10 June, 2026
Venue: Wells Royale Hotel, Enugu
📞 [phone]

Access: Strictly by qualification