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Peter Obi Is Sick After 1 State Town Hall Meeting. I Wish Him Quick Recovery. “It's just exhaustion and we are trying to calm him down to take a sleep ” — Dr. Sam Omale, NDC Deputy Campaign Spokesperson, speaks

If, at this stage, with everything going on in Nigeria; bad roads, poor electricity, and widespread unemployment; you still need someone to convince you why you should vote right in 2027, I'm sorry to say this, but something might just be wrong with you.

More Trouble For Makinde As Lawyer Demands Details Of 7 Years Oyo LGs Federal Allocation, Writes AGF, Finance Minister A legal practitioner, Ayo Omoleaupen, has written to the Minister of Finance and the Accountant-General of the Federation, demanding details of allocation to the 33 Local Government Areas in Oyo State from 2019 till date. Ayo Omoleaupen, of Umar and Alofe Chambers, made the request pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 2011, on behalf of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives Candidate for Surelere/Ogo-Oluwa Federal Constituency in Oyo State, Comrade Akinloye Olusegun. The request is a prelude to presenting petitions to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offenses Commission (ICPC). In the letter dated October 27, 2026, "the information is requested for purposes of civic accountability, public interest research, and to promote transparency in public finance management, in line with Section 14(2)(c) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended)." The Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation was given seven days to provide the information, saying, "in line with Section 4 of the FOI Act, we kindly request that the information be made available within 7 days of receipt of this application." He also undertook to pay the prescribed fees for searching, duplication, transcription and certified true copies where applicable, in accordance with Section 8 of the FOI Act. The letter read in part; "We are Solicitors to Mr. Akinloye Olusegun, hereinafter referred to as "our client", on whose firm and express instructions we make this request pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 2011. "Our client is an indigene of Oyo State and a concerned stakeholder in accountable governance and public finance management. "We hereby request for the following information under the custody of the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation and the Federation Account Allocation Committee. "The monthly breakdown of all federal allocations disbursed to each of the 33 Local Government Areas in Oyo State from May 2019 to October 2026. "The breakdown for each per Local Government Area per month showing separately, where applicable; Statutory Allocation, VAT Allocation, Exchange Rate Gain / Differential, Electronic Money Transfer Levy (EMTL) and any other augmentation, excess crude, or distribution as approved by FAAC. "The total aggregate amount disbursed to the 33 Local Government Areas in Oyo State collectively for each month within the period."

My team of economists inform me that the leading cause of the growing income inequality is central bank driven increase in the supply of money and credit. They say that when banks issue expansionary credit or when the CBN expands the money supply, the money goes into the hands of the 'elite', causing them to buy up goods, leaving the rest of the population to bid for the now smaller quantities of goods. They say this is also what causes rising prices and recessions. In an Aliyu Bin Abbas Administration, we will put an end to this, narrowing the wealth gap and reducing the cost of living in the process. @ARISEtv @ruffydfire @seunokin @ayomairoese @charlesaniagolu @Rotankwot You should have me on to discuss these matters Aliyu Bin Abbas. Presidential Candidate of the Action Democratic Party nitter.gq/ARISEtv/status/2117370…

The APC’s inaugural rally in Kaduna, despite the huge sums reportedly spent on mobilisation and the governor’s repeated boasts that Kaduna is firmly in the APC’s grip, turned out to be a massive flop. The embarrassment appears to have badly dented the party’s morale. You can see the shift: rather than projecting confidence, they seem increasingly rattled and have resorted to intimidation.

Economic Reforms Are Making the Rich Richer and the Poor Poorer - Peterside If you ask a rich man, he will tell you the current reforms are working because he is getting richer. The concern should be for the 140 million Nigerians who are getting poorer. Atedo Peterside, President, ANAP Foundation, and Founder, IBTC Bank

The open display of cash at a political town hall meeting by a popular PDP female senatorial candidate in Kogi State is a clear sign of do-or-die politics and the monetization of the electoral process. @inecnigeria should intervene before this escalates, especially since she is not the only wealthy candidate in a race where both a former governor and the sitting governor are determined to unseat her. @OfficialDSSNG should also take note, as the situation risks descending into serious political violence if money alone fails to deliver the desired outcome. #SayNoToElectoralViolenceKey #SayNoToMoneyPolitics

This is what happens when historical ignorance is accompanied by an astonishing degree of intellectual arrogance. First, there were no “West African countries” during the transatlantic slave trade. The region comprised kingdoms, empires, city-states and independent societies. Applying modern national identities to centuries-old history is an extraordinary display of ignorance. Second, Europeans did not arrive in Africa as benevolent abolitionists. For centuries, they financed, institutionalised and industrialised human trafficking, supplying weapons that fuelled wars and slave raids, creating an enormous market for human captives, and codifying racial slavery into their laws. African collaborators existed, but their complicity does not absolve the European empires that sustained this monstrous commerce. Entire African communities were devastated, populations displaced, villages destroyed and societies destabilised. Millions were deported across the Atlantic, while countless others suffered captivity, violence and death on African soil. Africa was itself a vast crime scene, not merely the departure point of enslaved people. And perhaps the most remarkable historical fraud is how European nations have managed to present themselves as the liberators of the very people they spent centuries enslaving. I grew up in a former French colony in Africa being taught from primary school that slavery was abolished by a Frenchman named Victor Schœlcher. It was only in 2026 ( yes this year ) that I discovered that people in former British colonies had been taught a remarkably similar story, except that their white saviour was an Englishman named William Wilberforce. Yet long before Britain abolished slavery in its colonies in 1833, enslaved Africans in Haiti had fought a revolution, defeated European armies and proclaimed their independence in 1804. Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines were central to that struggle. In 1816, Haitian President Alexandre Pétion supplied Simón Bolívar with weapons, ammunition and military assistance to support South America’s liberation struggles, on the condition that he advance the emancipation of enslaved people. And he went on to free more than half a dozen Latin American countries. And what was Haiti’s reward for daring to liberate itself? Diplomatic isolation and, in 1825, a crushing indemnity of 150 million francs imposed by France, effectively forcing formerly enslaved people to compensate the descendants of their enslavers for the loss of their supposed property. Meanwhile, Britain compensated slave owners with £20 million following abolition, while the enslaved received nothing. Where are these stories in the European narratives of abolition? Where are Nat Turner, who led an enslaved uprising in Virginia in 1831, Queen Nzinga, who resisted Portuguese expansion and slave raiding in Central Africa, or the countless African rulers, communities and freedom fighters who resisted enslavement? Black people fought for their freedom. They rebelled, resisted, organised, sacrificed and died for it. Their liberation was never simply a gift bestowed upon them by benevolent Europeans. There is something profoundly tragic about descendants of enslaved Africans, born and educated in the lands of their ancestors’ enslavers, regurgitating sanitised colonial history, seemingly incapable of distinguishing historical scholarship from imperial propaganda. The greatest triumph of colonial indoctrination is when the descendants of its victims become the most zealous defenders of its mythology. What a pity!

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I have always been fascinated by a particular breed of African politicians in Europe who seem to have made it their life’s ambition to be more British than the British, more French than the French, and more hostile to Africans and immigrants than the most rabid nationalists in their adopted political circles. You find them in Britain, France, Belgium and across Europe, particularly in countries that once colonized Africa. Many are the children of African immigrants, sometimes the first generation born in Europe, whose parents arrived in those countries as foreigners. Yet their children have somehow developed an almost religious devotion to the most reactionary interpretations of European nationalism. They speak about immigration as though their own parents descended from the heavens with citizenship certificates in their hands. And I am not talking about Africans who happen to be conservative. I am talking about those who appear determined to prove their loyalty to their political constituencies by expressing a degree of contempt for immigrants, Africans and their own ancestral history that would embarrass even some European conservatives. The irony would be hilarious if its consequences were not so serious. Because these politicians occupy a particularly convenient position in the racial politics of Europe. Their African ancestry gives certain political movements an opportunity to present deeply contested positions on immigration, race and colonial history through someone whose very presence is then offered as proof that racism could not possibly be involved. It is the political equivalent of the racist who insists that he cannot be racist because he once dated a Black woman. Except that this time, instead of producing a Black girlfriend, they produce a Black politician with an African surname and a spectacular appetite for defending their ideological prejudices. What particularly disgusts me is the historical revisionism that sometimes accompanies this performance. Imagine being so desperate to demonstrate your European patriotism that you begin defending an imperial history whose victims included people who looked like your grandparents. And for what? To prove that you are sufficiently British? Sufficiently French? That your African ancestry has been politically disinfected to the satisfaction of your audience? I find this obsession with proving oneself more authentically European than Europeans themselves intellectually fascinating and morally disturbing. This is the context in which I examine Kemi Badenoch’s politics. Badenoch is entitled to her conservative convictions, just as anyone else is entitled to challenge them. But her Nigerian heritage does not make her interpretation of British colonial history more credible, nor does it make her positions on race and immigration immune from criticism.

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My style is intentional for a reason. I’m trying to poke your conscience. I know it’s all politics, but I expected more from an intellectual like you. What are you tryna gain ? A post maybe ? A share of the largesse ? Mummy’s men Jeep or what’s in there for you gangan ? Do you really love this country or you’re just tryna be like your looting leaders ? Are you proud of supporting this mess you find yourself in.. It’s never too late to get out now. You’re not getting recognised by these thieves you’re calling leaders, instead they’re leading others into the cookies jar. Again, Why are you twerking for an Ayederu man you can’t point out his father’s house in Yorubaland. I’m talking to that voice of reason. Reason am well Egbon.. See you around ✌🏽