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ON Buhari: Final
Charles Chidi Achodo

Legacy of Contradicting Public Perception:

President Buhari’s legacy is a complex and contested one. To his supporters, he will be remembered for his personal integrity, anti-corruption stance, and infrastructural investments in roads, railways, and power.

Yet, for a growing majority, his presidency is viewed as a missed opportunity—a tenure marked by economic decline, rising insecurity, poor governance, and the erosion of civic trust.

His administration saw Nigeria’s GDP contract, unemployment and inflation soar, the Naira collapse, and public debt explode. Youth disenchantment reached new heights, and once hopeful citizens increasingly turned to migration, protests, or extremism.

While some praise his integrity, infrastructural focus, and anti-corruption stance, critics argue that his leadership style was aloof, disconnected, and economically regressive.

That his tenure saw Nigeria’s potential stifled by misgovernance, insecurity, and economic hardships. To these Nigerians, Buhari will be remembered as a man who inspired hope in 2015 but struggled to translate that hope into transformative, inclusive progress.

To critically assess President Muhammadu Buhari's administration, one must also consider the exceptionally difficult context that confronted him upon assuming office in 2015.

His supporters are quick to point out that Buhari inherited a fragile economy, riddled with structural vulnerabilities and compounded by an immediate crash in global oil prices—from over $100 per barrel to under $40, alongside a drastic decline in oil production to just 700,000 barrels per day due to renewed militancy in the Niger Delta.

This same context existed when he came in as a military head of state in 1983 - dried up external reserve, skyrocketing external debt and crushing debt/service ratio and a crash of oil price from 45 dollars/b to 8 dollars/b. Some say it is an unfortunate curse to always assume office in the worst of economic downturn! Jixed maybe?

In a rentier economy like Nigeria’s—heavily dependent on oil revenues—such shocks had catastrophic implications for budget planning, foreign exchange stability, and public investment.

Thus, many of Buhari’s policy responses, his defenders argue, were made under tight fiscal constraints and institutional fragility along external shocks outside his control.

Moreover, much of what he attempted—particularly in anti-corruption, infrastructure development, and social investment—required deep structural reforms and time, the results of which may not be immediately visible within an eight-year tenure.

Initiatives like the Treasury Single Account (TSA), IPPIS, NLNG Train 7, and the AKK pipeline are cited as examples of long-term investments that required strategic patience and discipline.

The Health Factor:

An often-understated issue was the president’s recurring ill health, which led to multiple extended medical leaves in the United Kingdom. At times, this created governance vacuums and slowed down policy momentum. Nevertheless, his supporters describe his persistence despite frailty as evidence of personal courage and commitment. For a man in his seventies, with a serious health challenge, to continue steering the affairs of a deeply divided and complex country like Nigeria, is seen as a mark of patriotic resilience.

On Allegations of Religious Bias and Islamization:

Buhari’s tenure also attracted significant criticism over allegations of religious fundamentalism and Islamization agendas—claims that were widely amplified on social media and political platforms. Accusations ranged from bias in appointments, to complicity in the farmer-herder conflict, to attempts to muzzle Christian voices.

However, his defenders argue that such claims are exaggerated, politically motivated, or outright false.

While his administration certainly struggled with ethno-religious balancing, particularly in federal appointments, there is little credible evidence to support the notion of a deliberate, state-led Islamization campaign.

To many, these narratives are politically charged and reductionist, ignoring the complexities of security dynamics and governance trade-offs in a multi-religious and multi-ethnic state.

Supporters often point to Buhari’s reputation for personal discipline, his known distaste for ostentatious religious displays, and the fact that many Christian leaders held significant posts under his administration.

The use of divisive rhetoric around religion and ethnicity, they argue, may have distracted from more valid critiques—such as issues of weak governance, poor economic management, and lack of accountability.

President Buhari's legacy, therefore, is one that defies easy categorization. His presidency oscillated between commendable intentions and controversial implementations, between stability and stagnation, between personal integrity and institutional dysfunction.

While many of his critics see a missed opportunity, his supporters see a leader constrained by history, health, and hostile conditions—yet determined to do what he could, however limited.

In the final analysis, Buhari will be remembered as a man who symbolized hope and discipline, but whose administration often struggled to deliver transformation at scale. For every justified criticism, there remains a context that explains—though not always excuses—the outcome.

donjazzet:
I like the discourse on Twitter right now about the privilege of the political elite and billionaires.
Anything that leads to better class consciousness is a positive for the society.

The lesson her is; don’t let anyone sell you tales of wars they won without telling you the weapons they had as well.

Many also have the weapons but couldn't win a single battle. In fact coming from a privileged background can oftentimes serve as demotivation because you'll always feel like I have a fallback plan and not go all in to achieve your goals.

Greg Isenberg wrote:
cloudflare just BROKE the internet's business model. they launched "pay per crawl" websites can now charge ai crawlers for scraping content. instead of "block all bots" or "let them steal everything," there's option 3: "pay me."

why this is a BIG DEAL:

every SaaS has valuable data rotting in help docs, case studies, feature pages. ai companies have been training on this for free while building your competitors. now you can charge them $0.10 per page.

your dental saas help docs, well, that's years of practice wisdom. charge crawlers for access and make $3k/month from companies building "dentist ai."

tons of opportunity for founders building businesses:

build a restaurant review database, charge humans $5/month but charge ai crawlers $0.01 per review. two revenue streams, same content. im scanning startup ideas from ideabrowser dot com and seeing where i can add this rev stream.

expert knowledge platforms where you take 30% of human subs and 50% of crawler fees.

cloudflare handles the billing, you set the price.

they way to think about it...

what valuable data do you have sitting around... internal company docs, customer conversations, industry insights, process knowledge.

all of it can now generate revenue from ai companies who desperately need training data.

the winners will be content businesses that move fast. imagine owning a cooking blog with 10 years of recipes. that's training data gold for ai food companies. early adopters will set market rates before competition drives prices down.

this also completely changes saas valuations. businesses with proprietary content now have two revenue streams instead of one.

it's the beginning of a complete realignment of incentives on the internet.

suddenly, creating high-quality, unique content becomes dramatically more valuable. we'll see a renaissance of niche expertise sites because depth now pays better than breadth. the incentive shifts from "create content to rank in google" to "create content so valuable that ai companies must pay for it."

this also creates a new class of digital asset. your company's knowledge base is a revenue-generating asset that appreciates over time (not a cost center).

I'd expect more m&a activity around content libraries, not just user bases.

this makes human expertise defensible again. AI companies will pay premium rates for content from recognized experts because it's higher quality training data. this reverses the commoditization of knowledge.

cloudflare quietly changed the game.

pay-per-crawl just became your new best friend.
Cc; disstroy, seun

Yet again, another masterpiece, written by Segun Ayobolu. Enjoy:

The Nation Newspaper Backpage Columnist

Segun Ayobolu

July 19, 2025

PMB: Simplicity in life, dignity in death

It would have been surprising if his death last Sunday, July 13, in a private hospital in London, had been received with universal approbation and adulation of a virtuous, unblemished life in a polity as complex and fraught as Nigeria. First, there are no human beings without fault. With the possible exception of the immaculately spotless Peter Obi, according to the holy gospel of the ‘Obidients’, mortal leaders are no angels. Again, an inevitable and unavoidable price of greatness is the intense controversy evoked by those who make a significant impact on history across time and space. Those who love them do so fanatically, and those who detest them are implacable in their hatred. And so it was with President Muhammadu Buhari, unassuming military Head of State for about 20 months between December 1983 and August 1985, and two-term elected President of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023. It was no different with Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Balewa, Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ladoke Akintola, Murtala Mohammed, Odumegwu Ojukwu and several others who had played prime roles in Nigeria’s political evolution.

When he died in 1987, the great sage, unrivalled administrative genius and first Premier of the Western Region in Nigeria’s First Republic, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, was passionately mourned by his teeming followers and remorselessly reviled by those who could not differentiate him from Satan. The great novelist and thinker, Professor Chinua Achebe, had issued a public statement after Awolowo’s death, accusing him of supporting genocide during the Nigerian civil war, and vigorously canvassing against according the great politician a state burial. He did not believe that the dead deserved some respect, and he was no doubt entitled to his view in a free and open society. It is instructive in this regard that Awolowo’s arch political opponent, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, who defeated him in the 1979 and 1983 presidential elections, awarded him the National Honour of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR), even though Awo was never President.

A near-unanimous refrain in the outpouring of emotions following President Buhari’s transition to eternity from both his friends and foes alike, however, was the unrivalled ethical pedestal he bestrode and the impeccable moral integrity that characterised his over five decades in public life. His aversion to material accumulation earned him the lifelong adulation, adoration and reflexive loyalty of millions of ordinary Nigerians, particularly in Northern Nigeria, where mass poverty is particularly pronounced, largely as a result of leadership lack of vision and elite venality. Indeed, in his slim but powerful classic, ‘The Trouble with Nigeria’, Achebe had traced the excessive materialism that is the bane of contemporary Nigeria partly to what he described as the deficiency in the political thought of some of our key founding fathers.

As Achebe put it, “A perceptive student of Nigerian politics, James Booth, has drawn attention to the poverty of thought exhibited in the biographies of Dr Azikiwe and Chief Awolowo in contrast to the expressions of ideology to be found even in the more informal works of Mboya, Nyerere and Nkrumah! In a solemn vow made by Azikiwe in 1937, he pledged: ‘that henceforth I shall utilise my earned income to secure my enjoyment of a high standard of living and also to give a helping hand to the needy’. Obafemi Awolowo was even more forthright about his ambitions: ‘I was going to make myself formidable intellectually, morally invulnerable, to make all the money that is possible for a man with my brains and brawn to make’. Thoughts such as these are more likely to produce aggressive millionaires than selfless leaders of their people. An absence of objective and intellectual rigour at the critical moment of a nation’s formation is more than an academic matter. It inclines the fledgling state to disorderly growth and mental deficiency”.

Though controversial, Achebe ‘s contention here in my view contains some grains of truth. Buhari was no intellectual and did not pretend to be one. He was a simple soldier who defended his country’s territorial integrity first on the battlefield, next in a war against indiscipline and corruption through ‘redemptive’ military statecraft between 1984 and 1985 and then on the partisan political terrain as a politician and emergent statesman between 2003 and 2023. Yet, he had a strong moral orientation to life undoubtedly influenced by his deep commitment to Islamic spirituality. It is amazing that a man who was military governor of the former North Eastern State comprising about five states today did not seize the opportunity to amass stupendous wealth. He was a former Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and military Head of State but never allocated any oil bloc to himself. He never acquired any property in Lagos. It almost sounds like fiction. It was after he left office in 2023 that the succeeding Tinubu administration upgraded his house in Kaduna.

When he assumed office as military Head of State in 1984, following the martial overthrow of a thoroughly corrupt and decadent Second Republic, the military still had the image of being a redemptive, messianic institution with the requisite reservoir of patriotism and professional integrity to rescue Nigeria from the havoc of predatory politicians. There is no doubt that Buhari and his deputy, Brigadier General Tunde Idiagbon, pursued their War Against Indiscipline and Corruption in essentially purist and uncompromising, Messianic terms. Thus, they set up anti-corruption tribunals that tried and jailed corrupt politicians of the Second Republic for terms that amounted to life sentences. They publicly executed drug couriers and jailed foreign exchange speculators. They drafted draconian punitive laws against a media they perceived as veering beyond the bounds of liberty into licentiousness.

Even before his emergence as military Head of State, Buhari ‘s patriotic commitment to Nigeria was indisputable. In his thrilling and authoritative book, ‘Soldiers of Fortune’, the lawyer, writer and historian reputed for his extensive knowledge of Nigerian military history, Max Siollun, wrote, “Buhari was in charge of troops sent to Nigeria’s north-eastern border region in 1983 to prevent infiltration by armed rebels from the neighbouring Republic of Chad. After his troops successfully cleared the rebels from the border area, the troops advanced several kilometres into Chadian territory. The political hierarchy ordered Buhari to withdraw his troops, but he refused, arguing that the Chadian rebels would return to the area as soon as his troops departed… Buhari was finally persuaded to withdraw after President Shagari enlisted Buhari ‘s superior officers, Lt-Generals Jalo and Wushishi, to order him to pull back.”

As expected and as Max Siollun writes, the incident created a tense relationship between top members of the Shagari administration and Buhari and that “It also caused enough concern in the government for the Transport Minister, Umaru Dikko, to place Buhari under surveillance. Dikko also pressured the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Wushishi, to block Buhari ‘s posting to Lagos…The strong-willed Buhari complained to President Shagari that Dikko had asked his movement to be monitored. When Shagari raised the issue with Dikko, Dikko did not deny the accusation, but simply warned Shagari that Buhari could not be trusted and should be retired. Dikko had woken a sleeping tiger.”
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Widely reviled by Nigerians, Umaru Dikko had a reputation for corruption, arrogance and contempt for suffering Nigerians. When asked on national television about the economic hardships being experienced by Nigerians under the Shagari administration, he responded by asking if any Nigerians had been seen eating from dust bins! The audacious attempt by the Buhari regime to abduct Dikko from Britain, where he had escaped to after the 1983 coup, an effort coordinated with the support of the dreaded Israeli intelligence outfit, Mossad, made global news at the time. Dikko had been successfully kidnapped outside his residence when he was taking a walk, anaesthetised into unconsciousness, bundled into a waiting van and driven away by Nigerian and Israeli security officers. He was later offloaded into a crate labelled “diplomatic baggage”, addressed to the Nigerian Ministry of External Affairs in Lagos and transported in a lorry to Stansted Airport, where a Nigeria Airways plane was waiting to depart for Lagos with its “diplomatic baggage” at 3 pm.

Unfortunately, there had been a last-minute lapse in the operation and British security and immigration agents in and around the airport had been put on high alert. Attempts by the British authorities to inspect the diplomatic crate were vigorously protested by a Nigerian officer, Major Ahmed Jarfa Yesufu (rtd) and one Okon Edet, a member of the Nigerian High Commission in London. According to Max Siollun, “The vehement protests were dismissed and the police opened the crates with a crowbar. What they found inside was shocking. In the first crate was a bound and unconscious Dikko with his torso bare. Dikko ‘s captors had shoved an endotracheal tube into his throat to prevent him from choking on his own vomit when he was unconscious. His captors wanted him brought back to Nigeria alive. Besides him was Shapiro, brandishing syringes and a supply of additional anaesthetics to administer to Dikko if need be. Shapiro asked the customs officers, “Well, gentlemen, what do we do now?”

Those were momentous episodes in Nigeria’s foreign policy at the time, resulting in a prolonged diplomatic face-off between Nigeria and Britain. Buhari’s transition from a feared military dictator to a democratically elected two-term President who governed with utmost respect for democratic ethos is unprecedented in Nigeria’s history. Obasanjo also governed as a two-term elected President after previously serving as a military Head of State who voluntarily handed over to a democratically elected President in 1979. But on his second coming as elected President, his attempt to secure a tenure extension for a third term in 2007 had to be thwarted by a concerted resistance of critical political stakeholders. Obasanjo sings his anti-corruption credentials from the rooftops and labels everybody else as corrupt. But the monstrous Hilltop mansion in Abeokuta and the expansive Obasanjo Presidential Library complex, as well as numerous multi-billion Naira private investments, give the lie to his rhetoric. Buhari has no such baggage.

This column does not intend to join the debate on the achievements or otherwise of the Buhari administration for his eight years as elected President. His accomplishments are there for all to see, and his failings too, like any leader. One of these is that he was too trusting of some of his key aides who hid behind the cover of his unstinting integrity and credibility to amass humongous wealth without the slightest iota of compassion for the teeming talakawa that Buhari loved and who reciprocated his affection fervently. Yet, some of such unscrupulous persons see his consistently over 12 million votes over several electoral cycles as an asset they can inherit and trade with, even as the honest one leaves us in a blaze of glory. They should not underestimate the intelligence of Buhari’s masses.

Flashback to October 1, 1974. In his address to the nation, Nigeria’s military Head of State at the time, General Yakubu Gowon, told his stunned countrymen and women that his earlier pledge to return the country to democratic governance by 1976 was no longer feasible. Aba Saheed, pen name of Akogun Tola Adeniyi, fiery and unsparing columnist with the then trail-blazing Daily Times, responded with a pungent and incisive piece titled ‘Death, I salute you!’. He warned about the transience of human existence, the ubiquity of death and the ultimate vanity of power. Buhari needed no such admonitions. According to his media adviser, as President, Femi Adesina, towards the end of Buhari’s tenure, he asked the former President, “after here, what next?” And he responded, “I’m looking forward to leaving. And from there, I go to my grave at the appointed time”. No wonder he was so indifferent to the obsessive accumulation of wealth and the arrogant utilisation of power. May the honest one rest in deserved peace.

Oga Seun, your bot is frustrating my efforts whenever I post job openings with links my posts get hidden and my account banned for some minutes. Please, fix this glitch

Anytime I see someone say that Nigeria doesn’t have a labour and/or people problem, I know the person is either not an entrepreneur and/or employer of labour, or they are simply being dishonest.

We are facing a deep-rooted issue with our value system, and at the heart of it lies a culture of impunity. Ajayi Oluwatobi

Imam Ibn al-Jawzi رحمه الله said:

Know that the greatest door through which Iblees enters upon people is ignorance, so he enters upon the ignorant with security, and as for the scholar, he can only enter upon him stealthily.

And indeed, Iblees has deceived many of the devoted worshippers due to their lack of knowledge, because most of them are busy with acts of worship without perfecting their understanding of knowledge.

And al-Rabee' ibn Khuthaym said:
“Seek deep understanding (fiqh), then isolate yourself.”

So, the very first deception he plays upon them is making them prefer worship over seeking knowledge, and knowledge is more virtuous than voluntary acts of worship.

So he made them believe that the goal of knowledge is merely to act, and they didn't understood "acting" but to mean only physical actions of the limbs.

They did not know that true action includes the action of the heart, and that the action of the heart is greater than the action of the limbs.

Mutarrif ibn ‘Abdullah said:
“The virtue of knowledge is better than the virtue of worship.”

And Yusuf ibn Asbaat said:
“A single chapter of knowledge that you learn is better than seventy battles (in the path of Allah).”

And al-Mu‘afaa ibn ‘Imraan said:
“Writing down one hadith is more beloved to me than praying a whole night.”

📘 Talbees Iblees by Ibn al-Jawzi, p. 120

In all his stilt, strict, stubborn, and selectively subdued persona, he was also a humorous person. His humor came in bits and tits, at those moments you least expected them.

Two incidents come to mind for me.

One was during one of my initial pre-appointment reviews with him. I had objected to his offer to me to become the Group Managing Director of NNPC. I preferred the Ministerial Portfolio so as to focus on policies.

‘Why don’t you want to be GMD?’ he asked me as I settled into the sofa next to him in the residential unit of the villa. This was in early June of 2015.

‘I am worried about scandals and the expectations of friends and foe. I don’t want to be tainted’

He burst into a staccato of laughter

‘You think any public office insulates you from scandal?’ And he kept laughing, stopping in between to take a sip of water.

‘If you don’t plan to do anything corrupt, scandal should not bother you. Everyone who has occupied that desk has had issues’, he continued.

‘Well, no one gets free of scandal once you come into government. Even I, as straight as I try to be, people still accuse me of all sorts and abuse me.

We simply do our best and leave the rest to Allah. And on policy, you can drive policy from anywhere if you are determined.’

‘Ok sir’, I began to concur’, then adding, ‘I don’t also want to be absent from council and have a Minister torpedo the change efforts you are bringing me to lead in the petroleum sector’.

He rolled his eyes for a while, then bending forward he said in hushed tones

‘ok you will resume as GMD and when it is time for me to appoint Ministers I will also put you on the list’.

‘Thank you Sir’, I replied and as he stood up he added with new vigour and finality, ‘let’s hope you will be thanking me six months from now, but you resume tomorrow. I do not have time for equivocation.’

‘Yes, Mr President and my General’, I replied. I stood up and gave a mediocre imitative salute.

‘You are funny, Ibe’, he said with a dismissive laughter and wave of the hand, calling me by my name for the first time.

The second was when I went to him to suggest I wanted to go to the militancy zone and make contact with the militants to end the destruction of pipelines that was ravaging oil production in the sector. It was in his office and we were alone.

‘Well, I don’t think it is a good idea. They will take you hostage and ask for ransom and tie my hands. I will rather let the security agencies deal with security issues and you produce the oil’, he said with a fatherly smile.

‘Only problem is, we can’t produce enough oil if we don’t stop the disruptions Mr President’ ,I replied.

He leaned forward with his usual deeply probing eyes ‘are you one of the militants? How will you find them?’

That took me by surprise

‘No Sir, I am not one of the militants. But we have back channels’ ‘You want me to send officers with you into the creek?’ He asked ‘No Sir, that will be more trouble’, I replied.

‘You are on your own. This government does not pay ransome’, he scoffed at me, adding, ‘anyway, I am the substantive Petroleum Minister. If you don’t come back, I will continue the job without you.’

We had some good laugh on that occasion. It was to the credit of that trip, his willingness to accomodate my naivety, and our subsequent meetings with PANDEF under the leadership of Late Pa Chief Edwin Clark and the ceasefire that ensued, that oil production rebounded from lowly 1mbpd to 1.9mbpd over the next few months. All under the President’s leadership.

I did not have the opportunity post my departure from Office in 2019 to meet President Buhari again and to exchange ideas and compare notes . Perhaps it would have afforded me an opportunity to debunk so many mischevious tales of rifts and disloyalty that characterized our working relationship in those years, largely peddled by some self serving pretentious aides and flank opportunists.

I was keeping that opportunity for a one day suprise visit to Daura. The truth is that all I prefer to remember of my working time with President Buhari are my Reverance and Respects for a great man.

Regrettably, my visit today will now be only to participate in the burial Programme of a truly Great Man, for indeed THERE WAS A President.

May his soul Rest in Peace. Allah yaji kansa da rahama , ya bashi aljanna fir dausi.

Tuesday 15th July 2025 10:00am

•Prof Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, former Minister of State Petroleum Resources (2015 -2019); Former GMD of NNPC

On Buhari’s Death

By Farooq Kperogi

It has been announced that former President Muhammadu Buhari passed away in London. Anyone familiar with my writings and commentary knows I vigorously disagreed with many of his policies and decisions while he was president. Our differences were deep, and my criticisms unrelenting.

Yet, news of his passing evokes pathos and an inexplicable sense of loss in me. Death has a humbling power. It reminds us of our shared human fragility, our inevitable mortality, and the transient nature of power, ambition, and even resentment.

I am troubled to see some people celebrating or mocking his passing. Death comes for us all. It is indifferent to politics, power, or privilege. We diminish ourselves when we rejoice in another’s demise. Someday, inevitably, our own turn will come. As Charles Franklin once famously said, “No one gets out of this life alive.”

Today is not a moment for bitterness. It should be an occasion for solemn reflection, for empathy with his grieving family, and perhaps an opportunity for all of us to reconsider how we choose to live, debate, and disagree. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un!

Tunde Bakare on Buhari: "Truth be told, I had the opportunity to speak to him privately many times, and I will not go public against anyone who I had close relationship with. Normally, I will first present it behind the scene. One of the few occasions that I spoke loud outside of private discussion was what happened in Sunday Igboho's house. I was really livid and remembered saying, 'you'll never see me again.' And then he sent for me and said, 'do you know I know nothing about it'." — Tunde Bakare

Tolu Ogunlesi, MON
Deputy Sec Gen
@UN

@AminaJMohammed
on
@channelstv
now, talking about
@MBuhari
.

She told a story about her leaving the Buhari Cabinet, where she was Minister of Environment, to become DSG at the UN. This is me paraphrasing her:

"I was sitting in a meeting in Marrakech (Morocco), and Banki Moon said we think the new Sec Gen will ask you to come and work with him. I told PMB he shouldn't say yes if they come to ask him, and I felt very confident he wouldn't say yes. Then I went on to India, and I got a call from UNSG asking me to be his DSG. I said with a lot of confidence, I can't leave, I'm committed to PMB. I was very confident PMB would also say no. Then they told me PMB was looking for me, and I went to see him. He talked to me for a long time about service, and then I realised where he was going. He said, but of course the decision is yours, but I knew the only thing I could say was, Yes Sir, I will do it..."

Tolu Ogunlesi, MON
A longer list (not exhaustive):

- 16 Constitution Amendment Bills (March 2023)

- Finance Acts 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023

- Nigeria Startup Act, 2022

- Business Facilitation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2022

- Electoral Act (Amendment) Act, 2022

- Defence Research and Development Bureau Act, 2022

- Nigerian Copyright Act, 2022

- Nigerian Tourism Development Authority Act, 2022

- National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Act, 2022

- Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) Act, 2022

- Federal University of Transportation, Daura, Katsina State Est Bill, 2022

- Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022, which repealed the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 as amended

- Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022, which repealed the Terrorism (Prevention) Act, 2011 as amended

- Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Act, 2022, which makes comprehensive provisions for the seizure, confiscation, forfeiture, and management of properties derived from unlawful activity.

- Civil Aviation Act, 2022

- Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (Establishment) Act, 2022

- National Institute of Credit Administration (Establishment) Act, 2022

- Chartered Institute of Social Work Practitioners
(Establishment) Act, 2022

- Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria Act, 2022

- Petroleum Industry Act, 2021

- Climate Change Act 2021

- Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contracts Act, 1993 (Amendment) Act, 2019

- Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021

- Climate Change Act 2021

- Nigeria Startup Act 2022
- Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON
(Amendment) Acts of 2019 and 2021.

- Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission

(FCCPC) Bill, the first legislation in Nigeria’s history focused on curbing anti-competition practices; establishing the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.

- Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) Establishment Act, 2018

- The Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Act 2021

- Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill, an Executive Bill, 2019, facilitating the identification, tracing, freezing, restraining, recovery, forfeiture and
confiscation of proceeds, property, and other instrumentalities of crime, as well as the prosecution of offenders in criminal cases regardless of where in the world they might be.

- Act establishing the Police Trust Fund, 2019

- Nigeria Police Act, 2020 – the first comprehensive reform of Police legislation since the Police Act of 1943.

- Repeal and Re-Enactment of the Companies & Allied Matters Act (CAMA), 2020 – the first comprehensive reform since 1990.

- Not Too Young to Run Bill (2018)

- Nigerian Correctional Services Act, 2019 – the first
comprehensive reform of prison legislation in close to five decades

- Suppression of Piracy and other Maritime Offences (SPOMO) Act, 2019 – the first anti-piracy legislation in West Africa.

- A Bill to grant financial autonomy to States’ Houses of
Assembly and States’ Judiciary (2018)

- Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act (BOFIA) 2020

- The Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities
(Prohibition) Act, 2018

- Credit Reporting Act (CRA) 2017

- Secured Transactions in Movable Assets Act (STMAA) 2017

FPMB Achievements

We’re expecting the presidents from Guinea, Gambia, and Chad to attend the late Buhari's funeral tomorrow. - Gov Dikko.

Gov. Dikko: Every time I meet Buhari, he tells me, 'Go and do what you can, but only God can fix Nigeria. I pity Bola. Bola is a strong man for removing the fuel subsidy. Whenever I wanted to remove it, people advised against it. But he, without advice from anyone, removed it in one day. If he had sought advice from others, he would not have done it.’

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TRIBUTE TO MY FORMER BOSS, PRESIDENT MOHAMMADU BUHARI

I am profoundly shocked with the news of the passing of my former boss, President Muhammadu Buhari.

Nigeria has lost a true statesman whose love for his country and its people has been evident over the years.

In the period I worked with him, I saw and felt his passion for a better Nigeria. He loved Nigeria deeply and believed in uplifting the poor.

He supported my projects as Minister of Transportation, like the modernisation of Nigeria’s railways, providing a more affordable and comfortable means of transportation accessible to both the rich and poor. From the Lagos-Ibadan railway, Warri-Itakpe, Port Harcourt-Aba, to the Kaduna to Kano railway, Kano to Maradi (in Niger Republic) and the completion of Abuja-Kaduna railway, among others, he stood with me, and true to his promise of revamping Nigeria’s railway system.

Former President Buhari also applauded and supported my initiative to provide an enduring solution to the insecurity that hitherto plagued Nigeria’s maritime domain and the Gulf of Guinea, through the Integrated Maritime Surveillance and Security Infrastructure also known as the Deep Blue Project. The implementation of this project has since brought about the removal of Nigeria from the list of countries designated as high-risk maritime nations by the International Maritime Bureau.

He was also in support of my dogged efforts in ensuring the commencement and completion of the Lekki deep seaport and other notable projects. I truly appreciate his love, believe and strides towards making Nigeria a better country and his selfless service to the country. He was a true Nigerian Statesman.

To his dear wife, Aisha, and his beloved children, we are with you in this period of mourning.

May Allah grant him eternal rest.


Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi

July 14, 2025

The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and HRH the Crown Prince Offer Condolences to President of #Nigeria over the Death of Former President Muhammadu Buhari.
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Unfortunately, we were in the hospital together, but I have been discharged. You can trust Buhari with anything, and he won't betray you.

- Former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar.

Condolence message

Say what you will, but facts remain sacred.

The Second Niger Bridge Asaba/Onisha, a generational promise, now fulfilled by General Muhammadu Buhari.

In railway development, a sector left for dead since the 1980s, Buhari did not merely talk but he built. The Abuja-Kaduna Rail Line, which now transports thousands daily. The Lagos-Ibadan Standard Gauge, a project of international class, was delivered. The Itakpe-Warri Rail Line, initiated since 1987, was completed under him, along with new stations across the route.

Power sector? While no administration can wave a magic wand over Nigeria’s complex electricity challenges, Buhari's government added over 4,000MW to the national grid through initiatives like the Siemens Power Project, the Zungeru Hydropower Plant, and the Kashimbilla Plant. For the first time, real groundwork was laid to decentralise the grid and attract private capital into renewables and mini-grids.

Airports were not left out. He commissioned the remodelled terminals of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (Abuja), Murtala Muhammed International Airport (Lagos), and completed the long-abandoned Enugu Airport rehabilitation. A new national carrier "Nigeria Air" was launched, even if its final take-off struggled with bureaucratic resistance.

Digital economy and ease of doing business? Buhari established the Ministry of Digital Economy, registered over 80 million Nigerians in the National Identity Database through NIMC, expanded broadband penetration from 33% in 2015 to nearly 50% in 2023, and improved Nigeria’s ranking in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index. He introduced the Finance Act, reviewed annually, which helped reform Nigeria’s tax laws for the first time in decades.

Corruption? The whistleblower policy recovered billions. The Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) saved Nigeria over N500 billion in ghost worker payments. The Treasury Single Account (TSA), long spoken about but never enforced, became policy. And for the first time, public officials were prosecuted, not spared, under his own government, including ministers and EFCC chairmen.

Security? Say what you will and yes, there were legitimate concerns but it was under Buhari that Nigeria significantly degraded Boko Haram in the Northeast. Over 100 Local Governments once under insurgent control were reclaimed. Hundreds of abducted citizens were rescued, and efforts were expanded to create a multi-national joint task force. He introduced Operation Safe Corridor to deradicalize repentant fighters, saving lives through diplomacy and reform, not just bullets.

Agriculture? The Anchor Borrowers' Programme empowered over 2.5 million farmers. Nigeria witnessed a return to self-sufficiency in rice production, a country that once spent $5 billion annually on food imports became one of Africa’s largest rice producers. Fertilizer blending plants grew from 4 in 2015 to over 40 by 2022, due to the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative.

Education? Over 1,000 new classroom blocks were built nationwide through the Universal Basic Education Commission. TETFund allocations to universities reached record highs. 21 new Federal Science and Technical Colleges were established. Buhari initiated Nigeria’s first national policy on Safe Schools in response to abductions, and secured partnerships for digital education platforms.

Youth empowerment? Buhari launched N-Power, the largest social employment scheme in Africa, empowering over 1 million Nigerian youth. Under the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), over 13 million Nigerians were lifted from extreme poverty through schemes like TraderMoni, MarketMoni, Conditional Cash Transfers, and the School Feeding Programme, feeding 10 million children daily.

Diplomacy? Buhari restored Nigeria's standing globally. He chaired ECOWAS twice. He brought back hundreds of stranded Nigerians from Libya, Ukraine, and Sudan. His foreign policy remained non-aligned, Pan-Africanist, and principle-driven, even as he rejected pressure to toe Western lines on issues like LGBT laws or religious liberalism. He held his ground, not to be loved by the West, but to be respected.

And above all, Buhari lived simply. No one accused him of owning a billion-dollar mansion. No son was seen driving Ferraris. No daughter threw a party in Dubai with public funds. He remained in the same house in Daura he had lived in for decades even as President.

May Allah have Mercy on him and forgive him his shortcomings.
Say what you will, but facts remain sacred.

Abdulwahab Ibn Yusuf Isah

Al-Hasan Al-Basri, may Allaah have mercy on him, said:

❝By Allaah the religion will not be upheld except with the rulers, even if they transgress and oppress, by Allaah! Allaah rectifies by way of them more than they corrupt.❞

[Jaami' Al-‘Uluum: 2/117]

TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, GCFR

By Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, CON

With a deeply heavy heart and profound sense of personal loss, I join millions of Nigerians and friends around the world to mourn the passing of our former President, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR.

I extend my heartfelt condolences to his beloved wife, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, his children, and his entire extended family. I also condole with the government and people of Katsina State, especially the Daura Emirate, where President Buhari’s journey in life began — a town whose name has become inextricably linked with his legacy.

President Buhari’s record of service to Nigeria is almost unparalleled. From the battlefield to the ballot box, he stood as a sentinel of duty. As a military officer, Head of State, and twice-elected President, he offered over five decades of his life to the service of our nation in times of strife and in peaceful times — guided always by a belief in discipline, integrity, and nationhood.

What often went unnoticed in public commentary was his unwavering commitment to the core values that bind any serious society: order, punctuality, and accountability. He did not just talk about these values; he lived them.

He was perhaps the most punctual public servant I ever encountered — never late to cabinet meetings, always respecting the time of others. It may seem a small thing, but in governance, it is everything. It sets a tone.

He had a deep yearning for a society governed by rules, not by impulse. This found early expression in his War Against Indiscipline, a campaign often misread as rigid but rooted in a desire to rebuild a citizenry of order, courtesy, and civic responsibility.

I feel privileged to have served in his cabinet — first in the consolidated Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, and later in the restructured Ministry of Works and Housing.

President Buhari was not a man to micromanage; instead, he gave you the space and the trust to deliver. With that trust, however, came the highest expectations of discipline, results, and honesty.

He had a quiet strength. Yet, within and outside the cabinet, I witnessed his compassion — his deep concern for the poor, the pensioner, the soldier in the trenches, the almajiri child, and the underserved in every part of this country.

Under his leadership, the nation confronted formidable challenges: insurgency, economic volatility, a global pandemic, and deep political tension. Yet he remained consistent — never ruled by noise or poll ratings, only by the burden of responsibility and his belief in posterity’s judgment.

His death marks the end of a defining chapter in Nigeria’s journey — one marked by sacrifice, moral authority, and patriotic resolve.

But even in death, President Muhammadu Buhari leaves behind a living legacy: one of service above self, of discipline without drama, of truth without theatrics.

May the Almighty Allah (SWT), whom he served with devotion and humility, forgive his shortcomings and grant him eternal rest in Aljannah Firdaus.

Adieu, Mai Gaskiya, as you were fondly referred to.

Nigeria salutes you.

Signed,
Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN CON
July 13, 2025

Bot today is doing a fine job today.

MY TRIBUTE EPITAPH

Here Lies Muhammadu Buhari
Soldier. Statesman. Enigma.

Before him, there was no Nigerian politician,
After him, there may never be another Nigerian politician,
To command such fierce loyalty, such unmatched cult followership.

He walked among our nation's wealth but never bowed to it.
His disdain for riches, his spartan simplicity—legendary, unwavering, ascetic to the end.

Like all mortals, he was not without fault.
If he erred, it was in the depth of his trust—
In men who could not rise to the weight of the ideals he lived, a
And the responsibilities he entrusted them with.
They , many of them, failed him—and he knew it,
But he bore it quietly,
With the resolve of a man who believed in duty above self.
Had he written a book, many would have been condemned to eternal damnation.
But he chose not to.

May Allah forgive his shortcomings.
May He forgive ours when our own call comes.
Ameen.Sadeeq Shehu Group Capt. Rtd

“We are all human. To anyone who feels I have caused them significant harm, I sincerely ask for their forgiveness.”

— Late Former President Muhammadu Buhari.

BlueRayDick:
Nothing wey Buhari do wey Amoto no support 😂

It is called tit-for-tat

iamoyindamola:
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Baba no use twitter during that time
Law abiding citizen

I stayed off that site despite having the option of using a VPN to access it, it is called principle something pirates can't relate to.