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FG insists Nigeria safe after US Embassy Abuja suspended visa appointments indefinitely hours after issuing travel advisory

The Federal Government insists Nigeria is safe for all Nigerians as well as foreigners who visit the country for business or pleasure. The Federal government gave the assurance hours after the US Embassy in Abuja ordered the evacuation of non-emergency staff and their families from its embassy in Abuja. The embassy in a fresh statement issued on Thursday evening announced the indefinite suspension of visa appointments in its Abuja consulate.

In a statement released, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said the advisory did not reflect the overall security situation in Nigeria. He described the US decision as a precaution based on internal protocols rather than an indication of widespread insecurity.

“While we acknowledge isolated security challenges in some areas, there is no general breakdown of law and order, and the vast majority of the country remains stable.”

He pointed to ongoing security operations across multiple regions, noting that coordinated military action, intelligence-led interventions, and closer inter-agency collaboration have produced measurable results.

“Our security agencies remain actively engaged in protecting lives and property, and the results of these efforts are increasingly evident,” he said, adding that these efforts had disrupted criminal networks, limited the activities of armed groups, and improved safety in vulnerable communities.

The minister also emphasised that Nigeria continues to welcome business, investment, and travel.

While recognising the right of other countries to issue travel advisories, Idris urged international partners to seek accurate and current information.

“We encourage our international partners to continuously engage with Nigerian authorities to obtain a more comprehensive and current understanding of the situation on the ground,” he said

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I double dare him too. Ajepako where do you belong? E je ka ri owo yin o.

Dis news sweet me for body well well. Make we kuma set the whole place on fire make everybody go rest.

WHO IS INEC REALLY WORKING FOR? OUTRAGE AS LAW PROFESSOR ‘MISREADS’ BASIC DOCTRINE -
By Darlington Okpebholo Ray, Truth Live News International.

In a nation already grappling with institutional decay and political manipulation, the latest controversy surrounding the Chairman of INEC has once again raised a fundamental question: Are Nigeria’s democratic institutions still guided by law, or by political convenience?

At the heart of this unfolding crisis lies a basic legal doctrine, status quo ante bellum, a principle so elementary that even first year law students understand its implication. It simply means a return to the exact position that existed before the disputed action.

Yet, in what can only be described as baffling and deeply troubling, the INEC Chairman, a Professor of Law, chose to interpret this doctrine in a manner that resulted in the removal of the David Mark led Executive Committee of the ADC.

This is not just an error. It is either a profound misreading of the law or something far more sinister.

Legal interpretations from respected senior lawyers have been clear and consistent. The directive to maintain or return to status quo ante bellum means all parties, including Nafiu Gombe and David Mark, must revert to the original structure that existed ab initio before the dispute was brought before the court.
Nothing more, nothing less.

So, where did INEC derive the authority to act otherwise?
This is where the matter becomes dangerously political.
Because when a Professor of Law ignores a principle this basic, Nigerians are left with only two uncomfortable conclusions.

Either the Chairman does not understand the law he professes, or he understands it perfectly and has chosen to weaponise it.

And if it is the latter, then we are staring at a deliberate attempt to destabilise the ADC, weaken opposition structures, and tilt the democratic playing field in favour of the ruling party.

This is not just about ADC. This is about the soul of Nigeria’s democracy.

When institutions that are meant to be neutral arbiters begin to act like political tools, democracy ceases to exist in substance and survives only in name.

INEC must understand this: credibility is not declared, it is earned. And once lost, it is almost impossible to recover.

Nigerians are watching. Closely!

Deacon Ambassador Darlington Okpebholo Ray, write from South East London, United Kingdom.


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SadiqBabaSani:
Is the Olori allowed to kneel to a Subject of the Alaafin in Yoruba tradition?

don't mind her. All na hi service.

*MY BELOVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
*The official campaigns for the 2027 elections* *will soon kick off nationwide.*
*Take 1 minute and ponder on these hard facts!*

1. No face cap 🧢 can cover your hunger for 4 years.

2. No T-Shirt can protect you from insecurity for 4 years.

3. 5kg rice cannot help your belly for 4 years.

4. 1 litre of groundnut oil cannot sustain your kitchen for 4 years.

5. 4 yards of Ankara cannot cover poverty for 4 years.

6. If someone offers you 10k for campaign or voting, ask yourself this question.
How much do they give to their children as pocket money per month?

7. Remember, your 10k is for 4 years, and it is once and for all.

8. Think about your value,
Think about your voice,
Think about your future,
You are also human, you must not die on the crumbs table!

9. Politicians are not more Nigerian than you are.
The power is in your hands.

10. If the best candidate does not have the chance to win, waste your vote on him without a second thought.

11. It is better to live a fulfilled life, than voting for your own problems.
It is the best thing to do.
You have a chance to speak in the future.

12. Remember you are not suffering as a Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo,Igala ,Tiv or Jukun, but as a Nigerian.
Reject all ethnical cards that are unfavourable to your future.

13. They will visit you during campaign, but you will never see them again until the next campaign.

14. Work for an accountable candidate.

15. Election is local, but politics is international.
The outcome of election will not only affect you, it affects all Nigerians irrespective of where they are.

16. Think about the character and integrity of your candidate.

17. Don't submit yourself as campaign thug, the children of politicians are enjoying winter abroad.
They don't go out with knife 🔪, gun 🔫, or charms.
Their lives are very important to their parents.

Be wise,
Be smart,
Be thoughtful,
Be focused.

God bless Nigeria.

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Yinmu! Butterfly feeling like a bird.

Kill them all jo.

Op your list is incomplete without the kpaing stage. That is the stage the wife becomes a window after the death of her husband or the man becomes a windower after the death of his wife.

I didn't even knew him in Lagos. He was knewless to me.

DeclanR:
Your major issue is lack of comprehension

who comprehension epp in Nigeria today?

DeclanR:
We should expect more hardship?

More strife, more pains, more insecurity?
More Hunger?

Do you know what we are facing today in Nigeria?

Myself as an example, I am witnessing an unprecedented hardship where feeding is a miracle that calls for testimony. Yes!
I now live in fear. But sadly I'm not a woman. Only women are getting aids

AIDS has no cure o

We no go hear word again just because you di birthday. Birthday wey we no see ordinary jollof rice chop dat one na birthday?

All the Christain leaders in Nigeria should be ashamed of themselves, especially Pastor Adeboye and co.

Why now? What happened? What did they did?

thrillionaire:
every time "op, add graphic pictures" but na still Una eyes dey scratch to see the post.

Carry your confusion far away.

eyaaaaaa! Sorry na now I know sey na because your neighbours no bring you Easter food dey make you dey vex unnecessarily for here. Sowie. Pele.

thrillionaire:
You guys should stop these your baseless and infantile complaints joor..

The headline was clear and it said "pictures" included. We're you expecting to see rose flowers??

oga calm down, no be me ask your landlord to increase your house rent biko

Op please when you're posting this kind of photos always indicate that they are glory. Not everyone has the mind to loot at this kind of photos. They are to glory for my liking

Body count is back to zero. He has wiped our sins away.

I'm here for just to reasons, to read comments and to look at Dominique face.

The world will be a better place if only we all mind our businesses

I was 22 while she was 29. It was love at four site

That's my sun's school. We did what we do to make our childrens happy. We do not owe any body any apologize.

Him handwriting no even fine, him signature too no fine.

Na people like ajepako get dis kind message

The King of Round Tripping. He swallowed Yoruba bank Intercontinental Bank and he sacked top Yoruba officials. Innocent Yoruba Chartered Accountants were pushed into the labour market in the afternoon (Osan gangan).. . . . ayo

Onovo Agbo David wrote:

The Weight Of 106 Houses

The dead cannot speak. But numbers can. And the numbers surrounding the late Herbert Wigwe, former Group CEO of Access Holdings Plc, are speaking with a thunder that no amount of posthumous hagiography can silence.

A bombshell investigation by The Londoner, the British publication, has linked Wigwe to 106 properties in London, one of the most expensive real estate markets on earth. Based on newly released data compiled by Tax Policy Associates' Dan Neidle, and made possible by a 2022 UK law compelling overseas entities to declare their beneficial owners, the report places Wigwe seventh among London's biggest overseas property owners. He ranks above royals, industrialists, and foreign oligarchs.

One Nigerian banker.
One hundred and six London properties.
Let that settle.

These properties were not held in Wigwe's name. They were registered through shell companies — entities incorporated in secrecy jurisdictions like Jersey, Guernsey, and the British Virgin Islands. Many of the beneficial owners are listed as unnamed. Unnamed persons. This is not an accident of paperwork. This is architecture. The deliberate construction of financial opacity so that the true owner, or the true beneficiary, need never surface. In Nigeria's political economy, 'unnamed persons' is a phrase that does the heaviest lifting.

UK company records had already linked Wigwe to an address on The Bishops Avenue in north London, one of the city's most storied billionaire streets, where he was listed in 2012 as a director of Carmel Gate Ltd. But 106 properties dwarfs that single address. The Londoner's investigation exposes the full iceberg, not just the tip.

When Wigwe died in a helicopter crash near the California-Nevada border on February 9, 2024, alongside his wife Chizoba, his son Chizi, and NGX Group former chairman Abimbola Ogunbanjo, Nigeria mourned. Dirges played. Tributes poured. The man was celebrated as a titan who turned the Access Bank into West Africa's largest financial institution. But there is a question that the elegies refused to ask: where did the money come from? And more crucially, where did it go?

Wigwe held 2.59 billion shares in Access Holdings, worth ₦65.3 billion at the time of his death. He held 1.26 billion of those shares indirectly through Coronation Trustees Tengen Mauritius, an entity domiciled in Mauritius, another African tax haven. Tengen Family Office, based in Ikoyi, Lagos, managed his wealth alongside that of his long-time partner Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede. The money flowed, but it flowed outward. Into shell companies. Into offshore accounts. Into 106 houses in London.

I had raised concerns, at the time of his death, about Nigeria's forex round-trippers and market manipulators who were making life unbearable for ordinary Nigerians. The revelations now unfolding suggest that the rot went far deeper than currency speculation. Properties held in trust for unnamed persons smells, unmistakably, of wealth laundried on behalf of Nigerian public office holders; the ones who cannot appear on any register but still need their London addresses.

In December 2023, barely six weeks before his death, Wigwe moved into his sprawling ₦15 billion mansion. He died on February 9, 2024. He never fully unpacked. This is not poetic irony; it is a blunt reminder that the accumulation game, no matter how well-played, always terminates at the same address.

The family battles that erupted after his death are equally telling. His father, Pastor Shyngle Wigwe, and his cousin Christian Wigwe filed legal challenges against his children, disputing the estate the late banker left behind. A Lagos High Court granted his eldest daughter Tochi guardianship of her minor siblings, only for the grandfather to appeal. The siblings accused Aig-Imoukhuede of withholding financial details. Courts have been summoned. PwC and KPMG auditors have been deployed. The empire is now a battlefield.

The charity schools, the Wigwe University built in his hometown of Isiokpo, the donations and civic gestures — these are not now erased. But neither do they erase the questions. A man who moves ₦65 billion in shares through Mauritius entities and holds 106 houses in London through British Virgin Islands shell companies is not simply a 'successful banker.' He is a man who understood, deeply, how to move money across jurisdictions so that it leaves no fingerprints.

Wigwe is gone. He cannot be prosecuted, cross-examined, or compelled to answer. But the structures he built remain: and the unnamed beneficiaries of those 106 London properties are, presumably, still very much alive, still very much in Nigeria, and still very much in office.

The reckoning does not always come in a courtroom. Sometimes it comes quietly: in a British newspaper, in a dataset, in a 2022 law that simply required people to say who they really are.

Everyone who has made life further unbearable for Nigerians in one way or another will face their date with truth. In the end, no one leaves this earth with a single pin.

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BEING THE TEXT OF THE WORLD PRESS CONFERENCE ADDRESSED BY SENATOR DAVID MARK, CHAIRMAN OF AFRICAN DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS (ADC) ON APRIL 2, 2026, AT THE SHEHU YAR’ADUA CENTRE, ABUJA.

THIS ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY WILL NOT STAND

On behalf of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), and lovers of democracy, I welcome you all to this world press conference.

Since 1999, Nigeria has been under democratic rule. After 27 years, we thought we could proudly celebrate the entrenchment of democracy, believing that the country’s dictatorial past has receded into history.

Our experience in the past three years or so since President Bola Tinubu came to power has however confirmed otherwise. Democracy is only sustained by the quality of freedom that it offers and guarantees, especially the freedom to choose, the freedom to participate, and the freedom to associate. These freedoms are so critical to democracy that without them, democracy dies.

Yet, in the past three years, we have witnessed a relentless assault on these very freedoms. The agenda is very clear, to create a situation where, in 2027, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerges as the only option left for the people, despite the widespread suffering and wanton killings going on across the country. The twin challenge of deepening poverty, and worsening security situation in the country did not just happen. They are direct consequences of the failure of this government. They know that Nigerians will not want this to continue. They know Nigerians will vote them out. This is why they would do anything to hang on to power by hook or crook.

Background to the Coalition

The coalition of opposition parties came about as a result of a collective search for democratic freedom and the desire to resist what was clearly a relentless assault on opposition political parties. The coalition leaders decided to come together under ADC to save multi-party democracy in Nigeria and rescue Nigeria from what was clearly an emerging dictatorship.

We did not come to the ADC by chance. We did our due diligence. We fulfilled all the party’s constitutional requirements, as well as all wider requirements under the laws that guide the management and operation of political parties.

In furtherance of this process, a NEC meeting was convened on July 29th, 2025, monitored by INEC officials. One of the conclusions of that NEC meeting was the dissolution of the National Working Committee of the party, and the ratification of a caretaker committee to take over the affairs of the party, with my humble self, David Mark, as the National Chairman; Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as the National Secretary; as well as others who have since been serving as officers of the party.

In addition to witnessing this process that brought in the new leadership of the party, a formal report of these resolutions was subsequently communicated to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). On September 9th, 2025, INEC then uploaded the names of the relevant NWC members of the party, based on the NEC resolutions.

One of the officials in the dissolved NWC was Nafiu Bala, who was one of the Deputy National Chairmen of the party. It is on record that Gombe resigned this position on 17th May, 2025. His resignation was also duly transmitted to INEC on the 12th of August, 2025. Regardless of his resignation, he decided to approach the courts on September 2nd, 2025, four clear months after his resignation, seeking to be recognised as the Chairman of the ADC.

What this means is that by the 2nd of September, when he approached the courts, INEC was already aware that Secretary Aregbesola and I had been inaugurated on the 29th of July in a process monitored by INEC. INEC was also aware that Gombe had resigned his position before the said inauguration on the 29th of July.

While this matter was in court, our team of lawyers approached the Court of Appeal, challenging the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court. In rejecting the appeal, the Court of Appeal ordered the parties including INEC to maintain the status quo ante bellum.

After this ruling on March 12th, 2026, we noticed a flurry of activities by lawyers associated with Nafiu Bala, requesting INEC to recognise him as the new chairman, or to de-recognise Aregbesola and I as the secretary and chairman respectively, in a curious interpretation of what constitutes status quo ante bellum. But we knew all along that Nafiu Bala and his lawyers were not acting on their own volition. They had become willing tools in the hands of a ruling party that had lost all support and goodwill of the Nigerian people; a government that had become desperate to cling on to power by all means even if it meant throwing the country into avoidable crisis.

In the past couple of months, ADC has become the only viable opposition party left in Nigeria. But this APC government does not want any opposition. While we were fully aware of all their desperate plans, we remained confident that no level of desperation would have driven the government and the INEC to take a direct action against the ruling of the court. But we were wrong.

It was therefore to our surprise, yesterday, 1st of April, that INEC issued a press statement after the close of business hours, announcing that it had decided to withdraw recognition for both the ADC leadership, which I head, and the fictitious one purportedly led by Nafiu Bala, thereby creating a false equivalence between the parties.

By purporting to recognizing Nafiu Bala as a faction, INEC seems to have conveniently forgotten that this individual had resigned his position, to the knowledge of INEC itself.

The Legal Position

The crux of the matter is the interpretation of what constitutes status quo ante bellum, which the Court of Appeal directed should be maintained. From all authoritative counsel at our disposal, there is no legal interpretation or precedent that could possibly lead to the outcome that INEC seeks to foist on our party.

Based on its press statement of yesterday, INEC is pretending to be confused as to what constitutes the status quo ante bellum. If this was so, under the circumstances, what one would have expected was for INEC to approach the Court of Appeal to request a judicial interpretation of what truly represents the status quo under the circumstances. But it did not do this. While posturing to be neutral, its actions confirm that it has become irredeemably partisan, working, as it were, towards a preconceived agenda. With its action, this INEC has left no one in doubt that it has chosen the path of dishonour and has become complicit in undermining Nigeria’s democracy. It therefore can no longer be trusted.

What we say in essence is this: INEC cannot choose to fix the status quo from the day it took the administrative action to upload the names of the new ADC officials on its website, because INEC does not have the power to determine for any political party who its leaders should be. That decision was taken on July 29th, not on September 9th. With its press release yesterday, INEC has invented a status quo that never existed, because there was no time that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) did not have a duly constituted leadership. What INEC has done is to create a situation that, by its own curious logic, leaves the ADC without leadership. This certainly cannot be the status quo that the Court of Appeal directed should be preserved. It is an INEC invention that is not known to any Nigerian law.

There is only one conclusion that Nigerians can draw from the April 1st action taken by INEC: THE ELECTORAL UMPIRE HAS TAKEN SIDES. IT CAN NO LONGER BE TRUSTED. As a matter of fact, INEC has acted in contempt of the Court of Appeal and has therefore acted unlawfully.

My fellow democrats, distinguished ladies and gentlemen. It is not the ADC that is under attack. This is a direct assault on Nigeria’s democracy and the right of Nigerians to choose, participate, and exercise their rights as free citizens. We have witnessed how the APC-led Federal Government has undermined, compromised, and coerced other opposition political parties. The ADC has risen as the last bastion between Nigeria’s democracy and full-blown dictatorship. And this is what worries them.

What is now unfolding is a concerted effort to dismantle that last bulwark. If we allow this to happen, it could signal the end of our democracy as we know it. If we yield to it, we would have become complicit by our inaction. We therefore hold it a duty to our democracy and the Nigerian people to say “no”.

Right now, I speak to Nigerians at home and in diaspora. I also speak directly to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu: with 90% of the National Assembly and over 30 of Nigeria’s 36 Governors in the APC, President Tinubu, what are you afraid of? If you are convinced that you have done well for the people who voted for you, why are you afraid of a free, fair, and transparent electoral contest? If you are indeed the democrat that you claim to be, why are you bent on destroying all opposition political parties?

Let me reiterate for the record; there are no competing claims on the leadership of the ADC. Nafiu Bala has no locus whatsoever. INEC should have waited for the Court of Appeal to decide this matter. Instead, INEC went ahead to do the bidding of the ruling party. But let us be clear: the role of INEC over political parties is not administrative: it is not managerial: It is simply supervisory.

For the avoidance of doubt, the leadership of ADC inaugurated at the 29th July 2025, NEC meeting remains the lawful leaders of the party. Party members and all Nigerians should therefore remain calm as there is no cause for alarm whatsoever.

It is important to state the net implications of this decision taken by INEC, in case they had not thought of it, or they just do not care:

First, by attempting to subvert the leadership of the ADC, INEC has already undermined our participation in the Osun and Ekiti elections taking place later this year.

Secondly, we have our congresses starting on the 9th of April, 2026, ending with our convention on the 14th April, 2026. We have given due notice to INEC, and they have acknowledged receipt of that notice. This is what the law requires of us.

Let us sound a note of warning. This INEC under Professor Joash Amupitan will be held directly responsible for whatever actions or reactions that follow this criminal path that it has chosen to take.

Our demand is therefore clear:

We demand the immediate resignation or sack of the INEC Chairman, Professor Amupitan, and all the National Commissioners. We no longer have confidence in them. We are convinced that they are incapable of conducting any credible election.

Let us also make it clear: we are proceeding with our party programmes, because there is nothing under the law that makes INEC’s attendance, a mandatory requirement. We have duly served INEC notice, and we will proceed accordingly.

We also call on the international community to take note of INEC’s actions of April 1st, and of the restraint we are exercising today. We urge them to recognise the clear threat to Nigeria’s democracy and stability, and to hold accountable those who are undermining the integrity of the electoral process.

We call on Nigerians to defend our democracy. This is a defining moment. Stand firm. Speak out. Participate. Resist any attempt to impose a one-party state on Nigeria. Nigeria belongs to all of us, and together, we must protect it.

It is often said, that the arc of history does not bend towards tyranny. It bends towards freedom.

And no matter how long the night may seem, the morning will come.

Nigeria will not be silenced. Nigeria will not be conquered.

Nigeria is rising, ADC is rising.

Sen. David Mark
National Chairman
African Democratic Congress
April 2, 2026.

Good better parents be dat. Unlike portable's parents.

Who cares? Dat one na una problem.

Tinubu told the governor of Plateau State to bring the families of the Angwan Rukuba attack that happened on Palm Sunday to the airport on Thursday.

He landed at Yakubu Gowon Airport, walked down to the airport waiting hall used for the event, gave a less than 10-minute uninspiring speech, offered no assurance to arrest the perpetrators, shook hands with few members of the family, and walked back to his jet to go enjoy his Easter holiday in Lagos.

It's hard to believe.

The condolence meeting wasn’t held at the State House or in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State, where the incident happened, but at the airport.

I mean, the AIRPORT.😭😭😭😭

Tinubu is a big disaster!!!


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