EMMANUEL PETER ADAYEHI
Executive Summary: Dr Tunji Alausa, the Minister of Education, on Channels Television on 3 November 2026, defended Tinubu and said he graduated with a first class in accounting and that he met his classmates. But his claim was opposite, on News Central on 8 November 2026, by Dr. Adetokunbo Pearse, a former Chicago State University lecturer, said he was Director of the programme from 1985 to 1990, and that when Funsho Williams was looking for information in 1999, it was to him they sent people.
Dedication: To our elders, who taught us to stand for people, to speak the truth, and never to forget where we came from. To the Flamingos, who taught Nigeria that a team that loses its first match can still win the world.
Abstract: This research essay argues that the administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu is, in the writer’s assessment, unfortunate and the worst thing that has happened to Nigeria in recent times, because it has combined record borrowing, subsidy removal, tariff increases, and distribution failure with rising poverty, while presenting price increases as reform. It contrasts that model with Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew, and with the production centred and education centred plans of Mr Peter Obi and Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who, in the writer’s recommendation, Peter Obi and Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwanso have the ability to transform Nigeria come 2027. I congratulate Nigeria’s Flamingos for winning the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Morocco, as it examines, the a contested public debate, the identity and Chicago State University controversy, including the claims made on News Central Television by former lecturer Adetokunbo Pearse, and the contrary confirmation by Chicago State University. Using official data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the Debt Management Office, the World Bank, and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, this essay recommends an Obi-Kwankwaso leadership in 2027, judged by production, education, security, and real wages, not by revenue alone.
1. Introduction: Congratulations To The Flamingos, And A Question For Nigeria
First, congratulations.
On Saturday, 7 November 2026, at the Mohammed VI Football Complex in Rabat, Morocco, Nigeria’s Flamingos defeated Japan 2-1 to win the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup. Awawu Bashiru scored in the 39th minute, Oluebube Umejiaku, who won the Golden Ball as the best player of the tournament, scored in the 47th minute, and Nigeria held on after Japan scored in the 80th minute. Nigeria became the first African nation to win the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, the first African country to hold titles in both the men’s and women’s U-17 categories, and the first team in the history of the women’s competition to lose its opening match, 2-1 to Poland, and still win six consecutive matches to lift the trophy. bb88a61d47e4
The Flamingos defeated defending champions Korea DPR 3-1, Mexico 2-1 in the Round of 16, Venezuela in the quarter final, and Brazil 3-1 in the semi final, before beating Japan in the final. FIFA President Gianni Infantino congratulated Nigeria, saying the triumph was well deserved, and the first African team to ever win a FIFA Women’s U-17 World Cup. d0d147e4
This essay congratulates Coach Akeem Busari, Captain Harmony Chidi, Bashiru, Umejiaku, Azeezat Oduntan, and every Flamingo. You have made Nigeria and the African continent proud, and you have won the Mundial for Africa. You proved that discipline, resilience, and teamwork that transformed a losing start into a world championship. That is the lesson Nigeria’s leaders have failed to learn.
The research question of this essay is simple: if 17 year old girls can transform a 2-1 defeat into a world title in six matches, why can a government with oil, 220 million people, and record revenue not transform poverty into production in three years? The answer, in this writer’s argument, is leadership, institutions, and identity. A government that cannot tell the truth about itself cannot tell the truth about the economy.
2. The Singapore Test: Production First, Price Last
Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, governed an island with no oil, no large market, and no natural resources. He built the Economic Development Board, a disciplined civil service, export led manufacturing, public housing, and anti corruption enforcement. Singapore’s GDP per capita rose from about US$500 in 1965 to about US$13,000 in 1990, and manufacturing rose from 14 percent of GDP in 1965 to 22 percent by 1975.
Nigeria under Tinubu has done the opposite sequence. It has raised price first, and promised production later. That is why Vice President Kashim Shettima’s comparison of Tinubu to Lee Kuan Yew fails. Singapore built power, ports, and skills, then attracted factories. Nigeria is raising electricity, fuel, and transport prices, then asking workers to wait for infrastructure.
Revenue without production is not transformation. It is extraction.
3. Tariffs, Fuel, Wages, And Debt: The Statistics The Worker Feels
On 3 April 2024, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission approved an increase for Band A customers, 20 to 24 hours of supply, from about N68 per kilowatt hour to N225 per kilowatt hour, an increase of more than 230 percent. NERC said it would reduce the 2024 subsidy by N1.14 trillion. Within days, NERC fined Abuja Electricity Distribution Company N200 million for billing lower band customers at the Band A rate. Distribution could not implement its own policy.
Subsidy did not disappear. Federal electricity subsidy obligations reached nearly N1.94 trillion in 2024, and N536.4 billion in the first quarter of 2025 alone.
Petrol rose from about N175 per litre in May 2023, to N617 after subsidy removal, to a peak near N1,030 in October 2024, and to between N1,300 and N1,400 by May 2026, about 643 percent in three years.
In the writer’s poor observation, and in the writer’s exact position: in three years, 16 successive governments borrowed 46 trillion in total, while in just three years Bola Ahmed Tinubu borrowed over 120 trillion and removed the long aged fuel subsidy. The DMO record confirms the direction and the scale, even where public debate uses different totals for fresh borrowing, securitised obligations, or total stock. The worker’s question remains: what did the borrowing buy? Where are the accredited roads, the reliable electricity, the accredited hospitals, the revived industrial layouts, and the rebuilt health care centres?
4. Corruption, in this essay, is a cankerworm eating deep into our fabric, damaging Nigeria’s local and global reputation, making Nigeria a laughing stock, with unaccredited roads, moribund industrial layouts, poor health care, and a country made unsafe by kidnappers, bandits, sea pirates, Boko Haram, and other criminal elements. No serious investor will bring long term capital to a country where contracts are not honoured, land is not secure, and power is not reliable. Corruption is not a moral story. It is an economic cost.
Listen to Dr. Adetokunbo Pearse, a former Chicago University State lecturer people thought would not be in Nigeria, but he is in Nigeria, depositing the truth about the true identity, starting with the name. In the writer’s argument: Dr. Adetokunbo Pearse, a former Chicago you are not Bola Ahmed Tinubu by name, because the record does not settle, and the debate has not ended.
On Sunday, 8 November 2026, News Central Television interviewed Adetokunbo Pearse, a former Chicago State University lecturer and Peoples Democratic Party chieftain in Lagos. Pearse said, in the report: “The fact of the matter is, I know he never attended Chicago State University. He knows that I know. So the man has no integrity.” He added: “I used to be a lecturer at Chicago State University for five years. I was the director of the programme in which Tinubu said he attended at Chicago State University. I was in Chicago State University between 1985 and 1990. When Funsho Williams was looking for information on Tinubu’s record in 1999, it was to me they sent people to come get the information. I had the information.” Pearse also called Tinubu, in that interview, referred to Bola Ahmed Tinubu”professional crook” and said he gave names of schools he never attended. c596
The writer adopts Pearse’s allegation as the core of this section, and states it in the writer’s own words: Dr Tunji Alaosa in the writer’s original draft was a mistaken name. From the News Central report of 8 November 2026, Adetokunbo Pearse former Director of Programme, 1985 to 1990, who says he held the information Funsho Williams sought in 1999. Funsho Williams, the late Lagos governorship aspirant, was murdered in 2006, and his search for the Chicago record in 1999 remains part of the political history of this debate.
The unresolved part, which is why the debate continues in 2026: The university’s records confirm accounting as major, but do not specify a first class classification. The first class claim was made by Minister of Education Dr Tunji Alausa on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, 3 November 2026, when he said: “In accounting, of course,” and said he lived in Chicago for almost 30 years and met Tinubu’s classmates. Tinubu’s INEC Form EC9 for 2027, sighted by Punch, listed a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Chicago State University, awarded with honours on 22 June 1979, and NYSC service in Oyo State from December 1982 to November 1983, but entered “0000” for primary and secondary school qualifications. 60ca81ea
5. Peter Obi, on his official X platform, criticised Alausa after that interview, accusing the Minister of abandoning academic integrity in favour of praising the President, and arguing leaders should be held to high standards of honesty. 4c5b
The writer’s position, and the writer’s recommendation to the reader, is this: a President whose name, age, schools, and certificate have generated a 27 year debate, from Funsho Williams in 1999 to Atiku in 2023 to Pearse and Alausa in November 2026, cannot credibly claim Singapore’s institutional discipline. Singapore built trust in records. Nigeria, under this administration, is still debating the record.
On further allegation in public debate, suggest that Tinubu should be charged for drugs in the United States and at the International Criminal Court, ICC. The writer believes, that political argument, has increasingly affected Nigeria’s international reputation and has been damaged by the persistence of these drug allegations on Bola Ahmed Tinubu, by the 1993 United States civil forfeiture case widely reported in Nigerian debate, and by the failure to fully and publicly settle identity, and the writer calls for full disclosure, of the verdict. Demanding transparency and accountability to the Nigerian people and to public perception and concerns about Nigerians image, honour and reputation.
Our demand linked to 2027: Nigeria needs a leader whose name, record, and certificate do not need a minister to defend them on television in every election cycle.
Recommendation: Why Obi And Kwankwaso Will Transform Nigeria Come 2027
The writer recommends, in the first person, Mr Peter Obi and Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, because of their ability to transform Nigeria, and because of the evidence of their records and their plans, not because of sentiment.
The alliance is real, and it is already formed for 2027. On 28 October 2026, Ibrahim Abdulkarim, Director General of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Presidential Campaign Council, and Emmanuel Peter Adayehi is urging His Excellency former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and other opposition leaders to join the Obi-Kwankwaso alliance, saying Kwankwaso had dropped his presidential ambition to back Obi, and that only a united opposition could defeat the APC. Kwankwaso himself, on Arise TV, and social media platforms Adayehi argues by saying that northern leadership assessment, potential allies and realizing Peter Obi is at the forefront, and that is why they accepted to work together. Both men joined the NDC on 3 May, after leaving the crisis hit African Democratic Congress, and Kwankwaso backed zoning the 2027 ticket to the South as fairness, healing, and national cohesion. The OK Movement, supporting an Obi as President and Kwankwaso as Vice President ticket under the NDC, announced structures in all 36 states and the FCT. 8b2eeb0b1cc9
This is not a 2023 repeat. In 2023, where Obi and Kwankwaso ran separately and split the opposition vote. In 2027, in the writer’s recommendation, they must run together, North and South, youth and grassroots, production and education, or Nigeria will repeat the same division that kept Tinubu in power.
Peter Obi: Production, STEM, and fiscal discipline. In Our Pact With Nigerians: Creating a New Nigeria. Obi and Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwanso set seven priorities, led by security, and by a shift from consumption to production, driven by an agrarian revolution and export oriented industrialisation. Obi prioritises human capital through STEM education, health, and infrastructure, leapfrogging into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, finance for MSMEs, youths, and women, and institutional reform, rule of law, and decisive action against corruption.
Obi’s record in Anambra, cited by the NDC campaign, was selection based on competence, not financial inducement, and fiscal discipline, leaving savings, not debt, at the end of his tenure. That is the opposite of Table 2. Obi’s STEM plan is not a slogan: re-skilling youths in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, a venture capital like fund for young entrepreneurs, incentives for industry, and an apprenticeship system for technical expertise. STEM becomes a factory, a farm, a laboratory, and a job.
Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso: Education as investment, and mass mobilisation. In My Pledges To You his 152 page manifesto, Kwankwaso promised to treat education as investment, not expenditure, to mop up 20 million out of school children in four years, to make WAEC, NECO, JAMB, and NABTEB registration free, to give JAMB results a four year lifespan, and to harmonise scholarships for the less privileged. He stated plainly that examination bodies are not revenue generating agencies, and no Nigerian child shall be denied WAEC, NECO, or JAMB because of inability to pay exorbitant fees. He also pledged to expand security personnel, bringing total armed forces to one million, and to listen to Nigerians on restructuring.
Kwankwaso supplies what Obi needs: the human base. A country cannot run a production economy with 20 million children out of school. Kwankwaso’s Kwankwasiyya movement also supplies what Obi’s youth movement needs: deep grassroots loyalty in Kano and the North, disciplined, organised, and capable of protecting votes, as the NDC campaign claims it has a unique programme to protect votes in 2027. 942d
The five tests for 2027, by which Obi and Kwankwaso must be judged in their first term:
– 1. Real wage: Real wage should come through indexation, lower transport and energy costs, and a living wage, and not through nominal announcements?
– 2. Manufacturing: Manufacturing rise should be below 15 percent towards Singapore’s 22 percent, through agrarian revolution, export industrialisation, and patronage of Innoson Motors and other local manufacturers, instead of importing SUVs?
– 3. Power and distribution: The average tariff fall in real terms should be metering and rise and distribution losses and fall, rather because subsidy is hidden!
– 4. Corruption: The Corruption Perceptions Index move from 26 toward 84, due to poor institutional reform and dismal digital governance
– 5. Poverty and education: Poverty fell from 63 percent, due to out of school children fall from 20 million, because their is no free examinations, skills, MSME finance, and security that allows farming to return.
If those five move by Obi and Kwankwaso is allowed it will transform Nigeria into a new economic hub but their inability will put Nigeria economy into a docile economy and taxation will remain very unprofitable economy and unsuccessful because do not move.
The writer’s verdict on Tinubu: In the writer’s assessment, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his administration are unfortunate, and the worst thing that has happened to Nigeria in recent times, because they have taken a country that the Flamingos proved can win the world, and made it a country where 140 million people are poor, where a worker spends 120 percent of income on food, where debt is N166.79 trillion, and where the President’s own certificate is still debated in November 2026. The Flamingos lost their first match and won the world. Tinubu won an election and lost the trust of the market, the worker, and the world. That contrast is the election of 2027.
7. Conclusion: A New Nigeria, Like The Flamingos
I, Emmanuel Peter Adayehi, share the optimised vision for a better Nigeria contained in the plans of Mr Peter Obi and Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. I recommend them for 2027 because they sequence Nigeria the way Lee Kuan Yew sequenced Singapore, adapted to a federal, 220 million person country: secure the people, educate the people, power the factories, and let workers earn a wage that is real.
Nigerians, we need a change, and prayers from Mecca or Medina alone will not reclaim the land. Prayer must be joined to production, education, and integrity. History beckons Nigeria to write our name in gold, as an epoch making event, through our socio-economic impact on security, and the security of Africa. We have a great role to keep Africa for Africans, for generations yet to come.
Nigeria is the cornerstone of African prosperity, unity in diversity and culture, and the will of progress must be driven by energy, industrialisation, and high capital growth that will secure food security in Africa, for Africa, and greatness in development that will last forever.
Labour must return to independence. Government must return to production. Nigeria must return to its workers, and to its girls who won the world in Morocco. A better Nigeria is possible, and it is optimised when production, education, and integrity are built together. God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and God bless Africa, and beyond that which, as Africans, we yearn for: to liberate Africa from poverty, food insecurity, and corruption. Long live Africa, for Africans.
Congratulations again, Flamingos. You are world champions. Nigeria is proud of you. Africa is proud of you. Now let Nigeria’s leaders learn from you.
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Notes:
Peter Obi tenure as Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi managed and controlled gully erosion through site-specific engineering interventions, state drainage reforms, and national/international advocacy, as documented by FactCheck Africa.
Key Erosion-Control Strategies and Policies
• Road Design and Drainage Mandates: Peter Obi reformed state road construction policy by requiring all new roads to feature engineered drainage systems connected directly to safe water discharge channels, targeting the root cause of urban and rural gully formation.
• NEWMAP Partnership & Funding: He advocated for regional ecological intervention and helped advance the creation of the World Bank-backed Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), personally committing Anambra State’s initial ₦500 million counterpart funding as the first participating state governor.
• Emergency Site Interventions: His administration directly tackled nearly 40 erosion and stormwater management sites across the state, utilizing concrete channels, retaining barriers, and watershed redirection.
8 November 2026, evening, America/Chicago Time: This section is written in the writer’s voice, in the first person, as political assessment. Every factual claim in it is tied to a dated document below. Where a claim is an allegation, a petition, or an investigation, this section says so. Where a court or an investigating body has not made a finding, this section says so. No person in this section is stated to have been convicted, except where a court order is cited by case number.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the writer’s assessment, you have no single shame. That is the writer’s political judgment, not a medical diagnosis, and it is based on the pattern of records set out below. You lie a lot, in the writer’s assessment, little wonder how you run the affairs of your house. Overseas, in the writer’s assessment, based on the documents below, you are seen as a serial liar and as a man linked, by a United States civil forfeiture, to drug proceeds, and that perception, whether you accept it or not, has given a lot of hardworking Nigerians concern. They see Nigeria as a country of particular concern, most importantly because of your corruption record and your alliance with the men named below.
Document: United States v. Funds in Account 263226700 et al., Case No. 93 C 4483, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, verified complaint filed 26 July 1993, affidavit of IRS Special Agent Kevin Moss sworn 20 July 1993, settlement 15 September 1993, dismissal with prejudice 21 September 1993, Decree of Forfeiture by Judge John A. Nordberg, 4 October 1993.
The United States alleged, under 21 U.S.C. section 881 and 18 U.S.C. section 981, that funds in accounts at First Heritage Bank and Citibank in the name of Bola Tinubu, and accounts connected with Compass Finance and Investment Company, represented proceeds of narcotics trafficking, or were involved in financial transactions in violation of 18 U.S.C. sections 1956 and 1957, the federal money laundering statutes. The Moss affidavit tied the investigation to a white heroin distribution network operating in Chicago and Hammond, Indiana, between 1988 and 1991, said to be led by Adegboyega Mueez Akande and Abiodun Agbele, and said more than $1.4 million had been frozen in January 1992.
The settlement provided that $460,000 from First Heritage Bank account 263226700, held in the name of Bola Tinubu, would be forfeited to the United States. The remaining balance in that account, and specified Citibank funds, were released to K. O. Tinubu, and the forfeiture action against the Citibank funds was dismissed with prejudice.
5B.2. Your Alliance With: Femi Gbajabiamila, Dave Umahi, And Wike, With Dates And Documents
The writer’s assessment is that Tinubu’s corruption record is not a single file, but an alliance. The three men below are named because each has a dated American or Nigerian public record, not because of rumour.
1. Chief Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to the President.
Document: In the Matter of Femi Gbaja, No. S06Y0829, Supreme Court of Georgia, decided 26 February 2007. Gbajabiamila, admitted to the Georgia Bar on 29 June 2001 as Femi Gbaja, Bar No. 288330, on his own Petition for Voluntary Discipline, admitted he took $25,000 paid in settlement of a client’s personal injury claim, deposited it in his attorney trust account, and used it for himself, and was suspended from the practice of law in Georgia. That is a court record, not an allegation. The writer’s point is institutional: a President who appoints as Chief of Staff a man with that Georgia record, while preaching anti corruption, tells hardworking Nigerians that loyalty matters more than record.
2. David Umahi, Minister of Works.
Document: BusinessDay investigation, published 25 September 2026, using the federal GovSpend platform. Reinforced Global Resources Limited, owned by Joshua Okoro, who publicly campaigned for Umahi in the 2023 Ebonyi South senatorial election, received N60,078,385,317.43 in 27 payments from the Federal Ministry of Works between 2024 and 2026, under Umahi’s leadership. The company had no traceable federal contracts before Umahi became Minister in August 2023, and its first federal contracts began in April 2024. The report alleged breach of the Public Procurement Act 2007, including disclosure of relationships under Section 16(6)(e). The Human and Environmental Development Agenda, HEDA, called on 27 September 2026 for an independent investigation by the EFCC, ICPC, and Bureau of Public Procurement, and stated plainly that an allegation is not a conviction.
3. Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, and his son Jordan Nyesom-Wike.
Document: Petition dated 11 December 2025, signed by lawyer Hamza Dantani for Safwan Garba and GY Global Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited, reported 20 October 2026 by Arise News, Vanguard, and TheCable, and civil suit CV/008/2026, FCT High Court, Justice Silvanus Oriji, adjourned to 1 December 2026.
The petition alleges Jordan claimed to have his father’s knowledge and approval to facilitate allocation of 60 hectares in Katampe and Guzape, Abuja, 30 hectares each, demanded $2 million to deliver to his father and $100,000 as his personal fee, totalling $2.1 million, paid in cash on 17 October 2025, in the presence of witnesses Adamu Sani and Aliyu Sarki, promised delivery within one month, and failed to deliver. The petition asks the EFCC to investigate fraud, obtaining by false pretences, criminal misappropriation, and conversion, and to prosecute if criminal liability is established.
5B.3. The Family, The London Mansion, And The SUVs: Two Dated Reports, October 2026 And May 2023
Seyi Tinubu, London, $10.8 million, 2 May 2023, Bloomberg.
Bloomberg, based on previously unreported UK company documents filed under new anti money laundering rules, reported that Aranda Overseas Corp, an offshore company in which Seyi Tinubu, then 37, is the main shareholder since June 2011, paid £9 million, $10.8 million, to Deutsche Bank in late 2017 for a private three floor residence in St John’s Wood, north London, with an eight car driveway, two gardens, electric gates, and a gym, 7,000 square feet. The property previously belonged to Kolawole Akanni Aluko, whom the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari accused of fraud and of buying the mansion with embezzled funds, and sought to arrest for an oil trading debt of more than $1.5 billion, and to confiscate the property. The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, OCCRP, on 5 May 2023, linked Tinubu and close associates to at least 20 UK properties, 17 bought by Oladipo Eludoyin, a director of Aranda, between 2004 and 2007, when Tinubu was Governor of Lagos State.
Bloomberg said, in the same report, there was no suggestion President-elect Tinubu was involved in the acquisition. The writer keeps that sentence, because it is the truth of that report. The writer’s argument is about perception and proximity: a son who buys, through an offshore company, a corruption linked mansion that the Nigerian state was trying to seize, while his father campaigns on anti corruption, and while President Buhari visited Tinubu at that same house in August 2021, gives overseas observers a reason to see Nigeria as a country where public office and private wealth are not separated. That is why the writer says you have given Nigeria a bad name internationally.
Oluremi Tinubu, SUVs, October 2026, Punch and Atiku.
On 26 October 2026, APC National Youth Leader Dayo Israel posted, then deleted, a video showing seven brand new 2026 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado SUVs, each estimated at over N150 million, total over N1 billion, presented to selected APC youth leaders to aid election mobilisation, thanking First Lady Oluremi Tinubu for her support. Israel later told The ICIR on 26 October 2026 the vehicles were gifts from anonymous donors, declined to identify the donors, and denied they were funded by government allocations. Atiku Abubakar, on 27 October 2026, through Phrank Shaibu, demanded the Presidency explain where the money came from, whether personal funds, donations, or public resources, what the total cost was, and who authorised it, noting the First Lady holds no elected or executive office.
The writer’s point is not that Oluremi Tinubu personally paid. The writer’s point, with the date and the deleted video, is timing and priority: seven Prados worth over N1 billion for party youth mobilisation, in the same week Nigerians paid N1,300 to N1,400 per litre for petrol, and in the same period SBM Intelligence recorded 7,825 kidnappings and 1,142 deaths between July 2025 and June 2026, with N7.78 billion paid in ransom. A government that can find SUVs for its youth wing, and cannot find ambulances, teachers’ salaries, or security for schools, has, in the writer’s assessment, no shame. That is the insane insecurity situation, and the insane priority situation, in one image.
5B.4. Insecurity: The Statistic That Makes The SUVs Insane
SBM Intelligence, The Capture of the Kidnap Economy August 2026, reported 7,825 Nigerians kidnapped in 1,713 incidents between July 2025 and June 2026, a 66 percent rise from 4,722 in the previous cycle, at least 1,142 killed, including 895 civilians, and N7.78 billion paid in ransom, up from N2.56 billion, with a collection rate rising from 5.35 percent to 34 percent. The North accounted for 93.7 percent of victims. Zamfara recorded 236 incidents and 1,921 victims. A single Boko Haram faction, Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, collected 90 percent of ransom, N7 billion, from 8 incidents, including N5 billion for 416 captives from Ngoshe, Borno, and N2 billion for 315 pupils and staff of St Mary’s School, Papiri, Niger State.
The writer’s conclusion for this section, stated as assessment, is this: Bola Ahmed Tinubu, you have no single shame, because you preside over a country where families pay N7.78 billion to kidnappers, where 140 million people are poor, where your Chief of Staff has a Georgia suspension for $25,000, where your Works Minister’s associate received N60.1 billion, where your FCT Minister’s son faces a $2.1 million EFCC petition, where your son’s firm bought a $10.8 million London mansion linked to corruption, where your wife is thanked for SUVs worth over N150 million each, and where your own 1993 United States file forfeited $460,000 as narcotics proceeds. Each file alone would damage a President. Together, they give Nigeria a bad name internationally and within Africa and the subregion, and they make hardworking Nigerians, in Nigeria and in the diaspora, ashamed to carry a Nigerian passport at a foreign airport, while they work honestly and pay tax.
That is why, in the writer’s recommendation, Nigeria needs Obi and Kwankwaso in 2027, not because they are perfect, as Section 6C already criticises them, but because they have no file of this kind, and because their plans, free examinations, STEM, production, and security, address the worker, the student, and the farmer, not the Prado, the mansion, or the offshore company.
– Bloomberg. (2023, May 2). Seyi Tinubu’s firm bought $10.8m corruption-linked London mansion. Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com
– BusinessDay. (2026, September 25). How Umahi violated procurement law with N60.1bn contracts for loyalist: Reinforced Global Resources received N60,078,385,317.43 in 27 payments, 2024-2026. BusinessDay. https://businessday.ng
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Notes: Mary Habilla’s case and David Umahi, was never proven weather it was a homicide case. No court, no police report, and no autopsy report made public has found that Umahi was ever connected to Mary. The police spokesman later said an autopsy was conducted and the report was ready, but he did not disclose it. The case is unresolved, not proven. I have written it as unresolved.
Close to 240 incompetent police officers will be recommended for compulsory retrenchment.” What is real in Nigeria today Nigeria has about 371,800 police for over 230 million people, 1 officer to 600 to 740 citizens, against the UN benchmark of 1 to 450, and over 100,000 officers are assigned to VIPs. Mass retrenchment for a more competent, skillful police officers in Nigeria will make Nigeria more safer, and with new plans of rationalisation by audit, redeployment, and dismissal for cause, which is lawful, and supervise and acceptable by majority. The mass sack will process iawful guarantee retrenchment as enshrined in our ground norm, as will be recommend.
I will not name six Senior Advocates and two Deputy Inspectors General of police from the following universities, Ahmadu Bello University, University of Jos, Plateau State University, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, and their faiths, a Muslim brother and a senior pastor, but no now that they are working quietly with the incoming administration the two serving DIGs have consented to a more purposeful Nigeria than having to leave in a dangerous country. While the “six Senior Advocates, whose names withheld have drafted their pending plan and will serve the Inspectors General of police with a letter given the real time the Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration is done and dusted.
And Until then, we will not name them in print.