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President Bola Tinubu has expressed deep concern over the growing trend of unconstitutional changes of government in West Africa, warning that such actions threaten the democratic progress and stability the region has painstakingly achieved. Speaking at the official launch of the ECOWAS Golden Jubilee in Accra, Ghana, on Tuesday, Tinubu—represented by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bianca Ojukwu—reaffirmed Nigeria’s unwavering commitment to democratic principles, good governance, and regional unity. He emphasized that the resurgence of military coups, which have gripped parts of the region since 2021, undermines the fundamental values of democracy, rule of law, and peace. Between 2020 and 2024, West and Central Africa witnessed nine coup attempts, with Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Niger falling under military rule. ECOWAS responded by suspending the affected countries and imposing sanctions in a bid to restore civilian governance, but tensions eventually led to the withdrawal of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso from the bloc. Despite the strain, President Tinubu used the occasion to advocate for reconciliation and reintegration of the estranged member states. He stressed that this milestone anniversary should be a time to renew unity and shared responsibility. “It is a time to strengthen the bonds that tie us together through shared values, collective responsibility, and a common vision for a prosperous region,” he said. Calling for constructive engagement, Tinubu urged ECOWAS to remain open to dialogue with the junta-led countries while implementing sweeping reforms to enhance the bloc’s credibility and institutional strength. “There is an urgent need to implement bold, comprehensive reforms that will enhance our institutions’ effectiveness, relevance, and credibility to meet the challenges of today and the future,” he concluded.

Tinubu Warns Against Coup Resurgence in West Africa Calls for Reconciliation

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President Bola Tinubu has expressed deep concern over the growing trend of unconstitutional changes of government in West Africa, warning that such actions threaten the democratic progress and stability the region has painstakingly achieved. Speaking at the official launch of the ECOWAS Golden Jubilee in Accra, Ghana, on Tuesday, Tinubu—represented by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bianca Ojukwu—reaffirmed Nigeria’s unwavering commitment to democratic principles, good governance, and regional unity. He emphasized that the resurgence of military coups, which have gripped parts of the region since 2021, undermines the fundamental values of democracy, rule of law, and peace. Between 2020 and 2024, West and Central Africa witnessed nine coup attempts, with Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Niger falling under military rule. ECOWAS responded by suspending the affected countries and imposing sanctions in a bid to restore civilian governance, but tensions eventually led to the withdrawal of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso from the bloc. Despite the strain, President Tinubu used the occasion to advocate for reconciliation and reintegration of the estranged member states. He stressed that this milestone anniversary should be a time to renew unity and shared responsibility. “It is a time to strengthen the bonds that tie us together through shared values, collective responsibility, and a common vision for a prosperous region,” he said. Calling for constructive engagement, Tinubu urged ECOWAS to remain open to dialogue with the junta-led countries while implementing sweeping reforms to enhance the bloc’s credibility and institutional strength. “There is an urgent need to implement bold, comprehensive reforms that will enhance our institutions’ effectiveness, relevance, and credibility to meet the challenges of today and the future,” he concluded.

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NSA Ribadu: Tinubu Inherited ‘Extremely Bad Government’, Urges Support Amid Benue Killings

NSA Ribadu: Tinubu Inherited Extremely Bad Government Urges Support Amid Benue Killings

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The National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, has said that President Bola Tinubu’s administration inherited a deeply troubled government, especially in terms of insecurity. Ribadu made the remarks on Tuesday during a visit to Benue State, where he sympathized with the government and people following the recent killings of over 72 individuals by suspected herdsmen. Condemning the attacks, Ribadu urged residents of Benue to support the Tinubu administration and avoid politicizing the crisis, noting that cooperation would enable the federal government to restore peace in the region. “Our Armed Forces are doing well, but it’s impossible to deploy soldiers or police to every hamlet,” he said. “We inherited an extremely bad government. Things have improved, and we’re working to address these lingering issues. Give us a chance and stop politicizing the killings.” In response, Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, described the situation as tragic, saying the state has suffered continuous attacks and devastating loss of lives since 2011. According to reports, Benue and Plateau States have witnessed a surge in deadly violence in recent weeks. In the latest attack, gunmen stormed Afia community in Ukum LGA on Tuesday, killing 11 people and injuring many others.

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Six Months After Rivers Emergency Declaration: What Lies Ahead?

President Tinubu, Fubara in Secret Meeting in London

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Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu met with Rivers State Governor Sim Fubara, whom he suspended on 18 March, according to The Africa Report. Two aides to the president confirmed to The African Report that the meeting took place in London last week, shortly after Tinubu left Paris. The meeting, it was learnt, was at the insistence of Governor Fubara, who has been desperate to return to office since the president declared a state of emergency in oil-rich Rivers State. “It is true. Governor Fubara held a private meeting with the president last week. Fubara has promised to make some compromises. Negotiations are ongoing, but from all indications, his suspension will be lifted before the six-month deadline,” said an adviser to the president who wished to remain anonymous because he was not authorised to speak to the press. Another presidential aide said Fubara is also open to joining the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to ingratiate himself with the president and then obtain cover. “If Fubara joins the APC, it means the president’s chances of winning Rivers State are much higher,” he said. It was also learnt that Fubara’s estranged godfather, Nyesom Wike, was not part of the meeting and was uncomfortable with such meetings taking place behind his back. However, Tinubu is expected to broker a meeting between Fubara, Wike, and the Rivers State lawmakers to find a lasting solution to the crisis in the state. The president had on 18 March declared a state of emergency in Rivers State for six months, just hours after two oil pipelines exploded. Security officials traced the explosion to a longstanding feud between Governor Fubara and 27 state lawmakers who are loyal to Wike, the current minister of the Federal Capital. The state lawmakers had, at Wike’s prodding, resolved to impeach the governor for constitutional breaches, including the alleged bombing of the state parliament building. With Nigeria relying on oil receipts for about 60% of government revenue and 90% of its foreign exchange, the Tinubu administration decided to declare a state of emergency to save the state from descending into anarchy. He followed up by appointing former naval chief Ibok-Ete Ibas as the sole administrator of Rivers State with full powers to act as governor. Since Fubara’s suspension, however, there have been weekly protests in Rivers State and cases instituted in court, but the governor has been criticised for not taking a tougher stance. In his Easter message, Governor Fubara called on the people of Rivers State to continue to support Tinubu.

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Peter Obi Was Packaged By The Elite, He Had 10 Suvs In His Convoy - Sowore

Peter Obi Was Packaged By The Elite, He Had 10 Suvs In His Convoy – Sowore

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During an interview on Noble Nigeria hosted by Noble Eyisi, Sowore explained his principled stance on not aligning with political godfathers in order to win power. Human rights activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) Omoyele Sowore has said he refuses to compromise his values for political gain, warning that Nigeria has become “a burial ground for good- intentioned people” where evil is more likely to thrive than virtue. During an interview on Noble Nigeria hosted by Noble Eyisi, Sowore explained his principled stance on not aligning with political godfathers in order to win power. ‘Peter Obi Was Packaged by the Elite’. On the subject of Peter Obi, Sowore was unflinching. He described the former Anambra State governor as a “packaged” candidate promoted by the elite to hijack the energy of the #EndSARS movement. “After #EndSARS, the youth were ripe for power. But the elites knew they had to insert someone they could talk to,” Sowore claimed. “So they gave them Obi, and it was all packaging.” According to Sowore, Obi is not the revolutionary some people think he is. Sowore also accused Obi’s supporters of waging an aggressive information campaign and using social media to silence dissenting voices. “Obi was portrayed as the face of the youth struggle, but it was a tyranny of the minority,” he said. “Even Wole Soyinka told me he almost fell for it up to a point. He said I was almost endorsing this guy. And then he woke up one day and his name was all over, and he said he was asking, what did I do wrong? What did I do wrong? It turns out they just picked on him for no reason. And even though he didn’t participate in the election, he became the most ridiculed person after the election. That was what got him upset. And he said, ‘Oh, if this is my last assignment on earth, I’m going to let people know who you people are.” Recounting his own encounters with Obi, Sowore shared personal stories of what he described as hypocrisy and stagecraft. “When we were running for election, I noticed something about him. If Peter wants to take a private jet, he will go and enter through commercial place and greet everybody. You think?. And then they will bring a vehicle and put him to go to the private jet area,” he said. He narrated how Obi would then switch to the VIP lounge for a private jet. “I was actually expecting that he was driving Innoson motors,” he said. “Peter Obi had nothing less than 10 big Toyota SUVs waiting for him. And I was telling myself, why do you have to lie? So why do you have to cover up for this? Nobody’s going to be upset with you that you are a presidential candidate if you have a convoy. “But look at this trajectory, and that packaging is his style. And if you want to get away with finding out, then he’ll send his people after you.” “I knew him and he knew that I knew him. But there were guys who were against him in those days who didn’t have the courage to come out again, because they were afraid of the backlash, and they did a fantastic job of scaring everybody,” he said. Sowore narrated how Obi once publicly praised him for helping him become governor, but later allowed his associates to smear him and novelist Okey Ndibe with false accusations. “They printed posters in Anambra calling us gay partners,” he recalled. “That’s when I knew he endorses those rabid online attacks.” “Information Warfare Worse Than Military Rule” Sowore warned that the political atmosphere in Nigeria had become dangerously intolerant, comparing the media manipulation around Obi’s rise to tactics seen during the civil war and military rule. “But there were guys who were against him (Obi) in those days who didn’t have the courage to come out again, because they were afraid of the backlash, and they did a fantastic job of scaring everybody,” he said. He added that many of the youth leaders from EndSARS had been co-opted or silenced, naming popular activists and entertainers who allegedly supported the elite’s plan.

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Wike's Aide Fires Back At Falana

Wike’s Aide Fires Back At Falana: How Many Major Cases Did You Win To Become SAN

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Self-appointed human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has been challenged to list the number of major cases he won and what he has done for the development of the legal profession that qualified him to become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), apart from being an “arrangee and errand lawyer.” Lere Olayinka, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, who threw this challenge in a statement on Monday, said “it is funny and ridiculous that in the mind of Falana, only those who have handled cases in trial court or appellate court are lawyers, and that a lawyer must have handled cases in trial or appellate court to be qualified for appointment as a Life Bencher.” Olayinka, who said the FCT Minister got his membership of the Body of Benchers on merit, having contributed immensely to the advancement of legal education, asked; “Apart from going on television to make noise, what has Falana contributed to the legal profession? Even the SAN that he got, was it not an afterthought? Was it not years after his mates had gotten SAN? He said; “As Governor of Rivers State, Wike, was instrumental to the establishment and infrastructural development of the campus of the Nigerian Law School in Port Harcourt, which is the best centre for legal education in Nigeria today. He also played major roles in the development of facilities at the Yenagoa campus of the Nigerian Law School by constructing a state-of-the-art 1,500 capacity hall and 200-bed male and female hostels, among other interventions. “Now that he is FCT Minister, he is constructing a 10-unit housing quarters for the Nigerian Law school, Bwari, Abuja. He has also provided operational vehicles to the school to improve its operation. “The question is; what has Falana done for the legal profession? Even in Ekiti State, where he is from, he has not contributed anything. “The Bar Center in Ado Ekiti was built by Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) while the one in Ikere Ekiti was built by Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN). Also, Aare Afe Babalola has been sponsoring Nigerian Bar Association annual lecture for years and has been assisting lawyers in Ekiti with medical treatments in his Ado Ekiti teaching hospital. What has Falana done? Nothing! “Did Falana not fail as a politician when he went to Ekiti to contest for governor and failed woefully?” Olayinka, who counselled lawyers like Falana to stop misleading their clients, pointed out that he (Falana) lied onNational Television by saying that the Supreme Court judgment on Rivers State “had nothing to do with who is the authentic Speaker of the House” when the issue of defection of the 27 members of the House of Assembly was determined by the Supreme Court. “It was on the basis of the Supreme Court judgment that Justice Emmanuel Obile of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt dismissed the suit filed by the Labour Party against the alleged detection, saying that the Supreme Court’s ruling had finalized the issue of defection. “But Falana went on television to lie and deceive his client that the Supreme Court didn’t rule on the defection. “The same Falana said three members of the Rivers State House of Assembly can carry out legislative functions despite the provision of Section 96 (1) of the 1999 Constitution that ‘The quorum of a House of Assembly shall be one-third of all the members of the House.’ “If as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, you could tell your client that Section 96 (1) of the Constitution of Nigeria is useless and in a House of Assembly of 32 members, three can sit, questions need to be asked as to how exactly you qualified as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria,” Olayinka said.

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North Will Back Tinubu Again in 2027 – Governor Sule

Fola Badmus06 mins

Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule yesterday declared that the North would not waver in its support for the re-election of President Bola Tinubu in 2027. The North, the governor insisted, would not pander to the whims and caprices of a few who want to equate their personal interest with that of the majority of the people of the region. Governor Sule spoke on a day the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare, said Tinubu would be re-elected comfortably regardless of “the volume of armchair theories and political conspiracies” by opponents. The President’s performance ‘will clear the path,” Dare said. Speaking at the 2025 Nzeh Mada Festival in Akwanga, Akwanga Local Government Area of the state yesterday, Gov. Sule said it had become imperative for the North to work towards the actualisation of Tinubu’s return in 2027. According to him, supporting the President’s re-election would be a fulfillment of the promise the region’s leaders made ahead of the 2023 general elections. Sule, who doubles as Chairman, North Central Governors Forum, said the North is not known for reneging on its promise. He urged North’s stakeholders to disregard the agitation of a few politicians who are bent on causing confusion in the polity on account of their failed personal ambition. He said the same politicians were among the region’s leaders who sold Tinubu’s candidacy to the people in 2023. He said: “Some politicians will always create confusion if they fail to get what they want or achieve their targets. “As a junior governor then, some of the older governors told us that the best person for the presidency was Bola Ahmed Tinubu. “They told us Tinubu can transform Nigeria the same way he made Lagos an epicenter of business and commerce. “It was a challenging period but we worked hard to bring Tinubu into office. “Today, the same people, because they couldn’t get what they were looking for, are criticising Tinubu; that he is the worst President Nigeria has ever produced. “Well, whether he is the good, the bad or the ugly, by the grace of God, we are bringing back Bola Ahmed Tinubu to continue as president of Nigeria.” He said the North made a firm commitment that having been in the presidency for eight years, the South should have its turn. “So, we cannot do the contrary. We cannot say something today and say another tomorrow. “So, we have to be patient and support the President to do his eight years in office,” he noted. Only last Wednesday, prominent members of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) bloc in the All Progressives Congress (APC) pledged their support for the Tinubu administration and its policies. They also pledged loyalty to the APC. Former Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, the only elected CPC governor; former Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari, who was House of Representatives Speaker, and Minister of Education in the Muhammadu Buhari Administration, Alhaji Adamu Adamu, signed a communiqué after a meeting of the CPC bloc, along with 20 others. It was in reaction to the switch by former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, a member of the CPC bloc, to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) last month. Similarly, the North Central Renaissance Movement (NCRM) has expressed support for Tinubu ahead of the 2027 polls. Chairperson of the movement, Prof. Nghargbu K’tso, during a visit to Governor Sule in Lafia on Friday, also advocated that the North Central Zone should produce the President after 2027.

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Atiku Slams Tinubu Over Insecurity Accuses President of Indifference Amid Rising Violence

Atiku Slams Tinubu Over Insecurity Accuses President of Indifference Amid Rising Violence

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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has issued a scathing criticism of President Bola Tinubu over the escalating insecurity in Nigeria, describing the current administration as “utterly incapable” and lacking the competence to address the country’s security crisis. In a statement posted on his verified Facebook page, Atiku expressed deep concern over the federal government’s perceived indifference to the ongoing violence, particularly in the Logo and Gbagir communities of Ukum Local Government Area in Benue State. According to Atiku, the rising insecurity has become a daily tragedy for many Nigerians, yet the Tinubu administration continues to show no urgency or empathy. He accused the president of being absent during a time of national trauma, saying that Nigerians are left to suffer and mourn without leadership or meaningful response from the federal government. “Leadership demands presence,” he wrote, criticizing Tinubu for prioritizing foreign trips over the lives of citizens at home. To support his point, Atiku referenced international examples of responsive leadership, including former U.S. President Barack Obama, who cut short a diplomatic visit in response to a domestic crisis, and South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, who returned home during an electricity emergency. He also recalled how former President Goodluck Jonathan returned from abroad following a deadly bomb blast in Abuja, highlighting that responsible leaders prioritize national emergencies. Atiku condemned what he described as Tinubu’s “governing in absentia” and said that even if the administration cannot solve the security challenges, it should at least show empathy. “If Tinubu cannot deliver safety and dignity to Nigerians, the very least he can do is pretend to care — regardless of ethnicity, religion, or political affiliation,” he stated. His comments reflect growing frustration not only from the opposition but also, he claimed, from members within the ruling party who privately admit their concerns. He concluded by offering condolences to the government and people of Benue State, pledging to continue speaking out against the government’s failures. “Nigeria is bleeding. Nigerians are dying. The president is nowhere to be found,” Atiku said, urging all Nigerians to hold the government accountable for the safety and well-being of its citizens.

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North Central APC Forum Applauds CPC Bloc for Rejecting Opposition Coalition Against Tinubu

North Central APC Forum Applauds CPC Bloc for Rejecting Opposition Coalition Against Tinubu

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The North Central All Progressives Congress (APC) Forum has commended the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) bloc, led by former Nasarawa State Governor Tanko Al-Makura, for rejecting a proposed opposition coalition aimed at challenging President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election bid. In a statement released on Friday, Forum Chairman Saleh Zazzaga praised Al-Makura’s leadership, emphasizing that the CPC bloc’s decision reinforces the North Central region’s unwavering support for President Tinubu and the APC. Zazzaga highlighted Al-Makura’s commitment to the Renewed Hope Agenda and the party’s principles. ​ The Forum also reiterated its stance against forming alliances with the North-East and North-West geopolitical zones, citing past experiences of marginalization during former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. They expressed concerns over the current coalition efforts led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and ex-Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, asserting that such alliances do not serve the broader interests of the North Central region. Emphasizing the importance of unity within the APC, the Forum expressed confidence in President Tinubu’s leadership and the party’s prospects in the upcoming 2027 elections. They urged all party members to remain steadfast and avoid distractions from opposition coalitions.

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