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ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY IN AFRICA: WHERE DID NIGERIA RANK? ⚡
(% of population with access to electricity)

1 🇸🇨 Seychelles — 100%
2 🇲🇺 Mauritius — 100%
3 🇲🇦 Morocco — 100%
4 🇩🇿 Algeria — 100%
5 🇹🇳 Tunisia — 100%
6 🇪🇬 Egypt — 100%
7 🇬🇦 Gabon — 94%
8 🇰🇲 Comoros — 90%
9 🇬🇭 Ghana — 90%
10 🇿🇦 South Africa — 88%
11 🇰🇪 Kenya — 76%
12 🇧🇼 Botswana — 76%
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22 🇳🇬 Nigeria — 61%

Nigeria ranked 22nd in Africa, with 61% of its population having access to electricity. Due to Nigeria’s large population, the remaining 39% without access translated to roughly 80–85 million people still lacking electricity.

#Statisense
(World Bank, 2023)

"I accept this appointment and posting... even as I pledge my unalloyed loyalty to ...President Bola Ahmed Tinubu..."

yinkus6750:
Amba Rhino, what is the difference between you and FFK? Hossana today crucify him tomorrow. Stomach infrastructure is real...

LagosOrigin:
Reno omokri used to abuse tinubu for his past drugs business connection . Now tinubu has posted Reno omokri to Mexico to go learn drug trade. I swear Reno won't like this Mexico he's posted to..

Edipet:
Which country Reno dey go like this?

Among those who received postings are a former presidential aide, Reno Omokri; a former minister, Femi Fani-Kayode; Senator Ita Enang, and a former INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu.

Tinubu released a second list of ambassadorial nominees on Saturday, November 29, 2025.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the postings of 31 career and 34 non-career ambassadors to various countries and the United Nations. The Senate confirmed the ambassadors-designate in December 2025.

[i]According to a statement by the presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, the non-career ambassadors who received postings are;

President Tinubu approves the postings of Ambassadors:

NON-CAREER:

1. Senator Grace Bent → Lome, Togo
2. Sen. Ita Enang → South Africa
3. Ikpeazu Victor → Spain
4. Nkechi Linda Ufochukwu → Tel-Aviv, Israel
5. Mahmud Yakubu → Qatar
6. Paul Oga Adikwu → The Vatican City (Holy See)
7. Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas → The Philippines
8. Mr. Reno Omokri → Mexico City, Mexico
9. Hon. (Engr.) Abasi Braimah (FMHR) → Budapest, Hungary
10. Mrs. Erelu Angela Adebayo → Portugal
11. Barr. Olumilua Oluwayimika Ayotunwa → Tokyo, Japan
12. Rt. Hon. Ugwuanyi Ifeanyi Lawrence → Athens, Greece
13. Barr. Chioma Priscilla Ohakim → Warsaw, Poland
14. Aminu Dalhatu → United Kingdom (UK)
15. Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau → Beijing, China
16. Hon. Tasiu Musa Maigari → Gambia
17. Olufemi Pedro → Australia
18. Barr. Muhammed Ubandoma Aliyu → Argentina
19. Lateef Kayode Are → USA
20. Amb. Joseph Sola Iji → Russia
21. Sen. Jimoh Ibrahim → UN Permanent Representative
22. Femi Fani-Kayode → Germany
23. Prof. Isaak Folorunso Adewole → Ottawa, Canada
24. Ajimobi Fatima Florence (F) → Austria
25. Mrs. Lola Akande (F) → Sweden
26. Ayodele Oke → France
27. Yakubu N. Gambo → Saudi Arabia
28. Senator Prof. Nora Ladi Daduut → Seoul, South Korea
29. Barr. Onueze Chukwujika Joe Okocha SAN → Dublin, Ireland
30. Dr. Kulu Haruna Abubakar → Tunis, Tunisia
31. Rt. Hon. Jerry Samuel Manwe → Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago (T&T)

CAREER AMBASSADORS:

32. Amb. Nwabiola Ezenwa Chukwumeka → Cote d'Ivoire
33. Besto Maimuna Ibrahim → Niamey, Niger
34. Monica Okwuchukwu Enebechi → Sao Tome and Principe (STP)
35. Amb. Mohammed Mahmud Lele → Algiers, Algeria
36. Endoni Syndoph Paebi → Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
37. Ahmed Mohammed Monguno → Cairo, Egypt
38. Amb. Jane Adams (nee Okon) Michael (F) → Kingston, Jamaica
39. Amb. Clark-Omeru Alexandra (F) → Lusaka, Zambia
40. Chima Geoggrey Lioma David → Bamako, Mali
41. Amb. Odumah Yvonne Ehinosien → Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
42. Amb. Wasa Segun Ige → Beirut, Lebanon
43. Ruben Abimbola Samuel (F) → Rome, Italy
44. Amb. Onaga Ogechukwu Kingsley → Maputo, Mozambique
45. Amb. Magaji Umar → Kinshasa, DR Congo
46. Amb. Muhammad Saidu Dahiru → New Delhi, India
47. Amb. Abdussalam Habu Zayyad → Dakar, Senegal
48. Amb. Shehu Ilu Barde → Accra, Ghana
49. Amb. Aminu Nasir → Ethiopia
50. Abubakar Musa Musa → N’Djamena, Chad
51. Amb. Haidara Mohammed Idris → The Hague, Netherlands
52. Amb. Bako Adamu Umar → Rabat, Morocco
53. Amb. Sulu Gambari Olatunji Ahmed → Malaysia
54. Amb. Romata Mohammed Omobolanle (F) → Tanzania
55. Amb. Shaga John Shamah → Botswana
56. Salau, Hamza Mohammed → Tehran, Iran
57. Amb. Ibrahim Danlami → Kenya
58. Ibrahim Adeola Mopelola (F) → Cotonou, Benin
59. Amb. Ayeni Adebayo Emmanuel → Brussels, Belgium
60. Amb. Akande Wahab Adekola → Berne, Switzerland
61. Amb. Arewa (nee Adedokun) Esther (F) → Windhoek, Namibia
62. Amb. Gergadi Joseph John → Libreville, Gabon
63. Amb. Luther Ogbomode Ayo-Kalata (F) → Sierra Leone
64. Danladi Yakubu Nyaku → Khartoum, Sudan
65. Bello Dogon-Daji Haliru → Bangkok, Thailand

DeepSight:
Also many of the things he has now denied ever saying will be out on social media ASAP. Trust Nigerians.

esnbrutality:
Angelfrost, Richtaiwo, Domperigon, FreeStuffsNG, Slytiger. Please come and comment....

FreeStuffsNG:
Na wa o. Since 1981, he has been using that fake certificate and did not have the decency to go back to school.
But for this, he would be contesting for Enugu state governorship.smh

The then-minister had submitted a degree and NYSC certificates to President Bola Tinubu and the Nigerian Senate during his ministerial confirmation in 2023. He claimed he obtained a degree certificate from UNN, where he purportedly graduated in 1985.

Nnaji’s petition and constitution of the panel. In the petition dated 14 October 2025, Mr Nnaji alleged unethical disclosure, document tampering, and political manipulation of his academic records by senior officials of UNN.

The findings of the federal government’s panel on Mr Nnaji align with this newspaper’s report, which exposed the then-minister’s certificate forgery scandal.

The immediate past Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, indeed forged his University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) degree certificate, an investigative panel set up by Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, has found.

The seven-member panel was constituted on 23 November 2025 in response to Mr Nnaji’s petition to the education minister following a painstaking two-year investigation published by PREMIUM TIMES in October last year, which revealed that the then-minister forged his degree and NYSC certificates. The panel submitted its detailed report to the education minister in December 2025.

Nnaji’s petition and constitution of the panel
In the petition dated 14 October 2025, Mr Nnaji alleged unethical disclosure, document tampering, and political manipulation of his academic records by senior officials of UNN.

The former minister also accused the UNN Vice-Chancellor, Simon Ortuanya, and a former Acting Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Oguejiofor Ujam, of “issuing forged or unauthorised correspondence, improperly accessing his academic file, and facilitating media publications that misrepresented his academic history.”

The probe panel was led by the Director of the University Education Department in the ministry, Rakiya Gambo Ilyasu, while James Ocheido, the deputy director of the department, served as secretary.

Other members of the panel were: the Director of Polytechnics and Allied Institutions Department in the ministry, Ejeh. A. U; his counterpart in the ministry’s Colleges of Education Department, U. C. Uba; and a representative of the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Mohammed Ayuba.

The Director of Human Resources Unit of the education ministry, Yusuf Saeed, and his counterpart in the ministry’s Legal Services Unit, Foluso Akinlonu, were also members of the panel.

The panel said it adopted “documentary review, interviews, verification, and technical audit as its methodological approach” to the investigation. It said during the investigation, members physically visited UNN, engaged with the institution’s officials—including its vice-chancellor and former acting vice-chancellor and reviewed necessary documents and the university records.

The UNN officials interviewed during the investigation were the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ortuanya; a former Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ujam; the Registrar, Celine Nnebedum; Records Unit officials; and other staff members involved in handling academic records.

The panel said that during the investigation, it also accessed and inspected Mr Nnaji’s academic files and internal correspondence – including the 2023 and 2025 letters issued by UNN.

It added that it examined UNN’s historic academic records, registry movement logs, Senate lists, convocation archives, electronic access logs, and other relevant documentation, including Mr Nnaji’s transcript request, as well as verification of the provenance and authenticity of letters issued to media organisations and government agencies by the university.

“The members of the panel arrived (UNN) in Nsukka on Sunday, 23rd November 2025. On Monday, 24th November, the panel paid a courtesy visit to the Vice Chancellor, Prof Simon Ortuanya and informed him of the purpose of the visit and proceeded to the venue the university provided for the panel to use,” the report stated.

"Nnaji forged his UNN certificate"
A PREMIUM TIMES investigation had revealed that although Mr Nnaji was admitted to study biological sciences at UNN during the 1981/82 academic session, he did not graduate and was not issued a certificate after failing one of his courses —Virology (MCB 431AB).

In the federal government panel report, exclusively obtained by PREMIUM TIMES after months of searching for the document, investigators said they conducted “a thorough review of the Senate-approved graduation list of 1985 and the personal student file” of Mr Nnaji and found, among others, that his name was not in the graduation list in the 1985 set.

The panel said it obtained “several correspondences” dated from 8 November 1985 to 19 May 1986 between Mr Nnaji and the Registry Department of the university regarding his failed course MCB 431 – Virology, which were documented from pages 69 to 55 of the former minister’s academic file.

It added that Mr Nnaji, in his handwritten correspondence dated 19 May 1986 and titled “Application to take course, 431AB in September,” explained that he could not write the exam scheduled for 21 April 1986 due to ill health, and attached a supporting medical report. The panel was unable to find any record of him (Nnaji) having taken the failed course,” the report further read.

The panel then wondered how Mr Nnaji obtained the “purported certificate of graduation” dated July 1985, which he submitted to President Bola Tinubu for appointment and to the National Assembly for his ministerial confirmation.

The panel’s findings on Mr Nnaji align completely with this newspaper’s report, which exposed the then-minister’s criminal and unethical certificate forgery.

Background
In October 2023, PREMIUM TIMES began investigating Mr Nnaji’s academic records.
The then-minister had submitted a degree and NYSC certificates to President Bola Tinubu and the Nigerian Senate during his ministerial confirmation in 2023. He claimed he obtained a degree certificate from UNN, where he purportedly graduated in 1985.

Apparently disturbed that he was under scrutiny, Mr Nnaji filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja to block both UNN and its vice-chancellor, Mr Ortuanya, a professor, from releasing his academic records.

Apart from the UNN and its vice-chancellor, the minister of education, the NUC, the university’s registrar, a former UNN Acting Vice-Chancellor, Mr Ujam, and the Senate of the university were listed as defendants in the suit. But before the minister could obtain an injunction, Mr Ortuanya had responded to PREMIUM TIMES’ FOI letter, confirming that Mr Nnaji had forged his UNN degree certificate.

The UNN registrar would shortly thereafter corroborate Mr Ortuanya’s position, indicating that although Mr Nnaji was admitted to the university in 1981, he neither graduated nor was issued any certificate. NYSC authorities, in response to a separate FOI letter from PREMIUM TIMES, had disowned the discharge certificate in possession of the then-minister.

Mr Nnaji resigned from his position as minister three days after this newspaper published the investigation exposing how he forged his degree and NYSC certificates.
Many Nigerians had called for Mr Nnaji’s prosecution, maintaining that his resignation was inadequate in light of his violations of various Nigerian laws, including the Criminal Code Act.

Last week, a legal practitioner, Liborous Oshoma, criticised the Nigerian government for failing to prosecute Mr Nnaji, over the certificate forgery scandal, maintaining that people like the former minister “should be prosecuted and banned from holding public office to serve as a deterrent to others.”

Meanwhile, PREMIUM TIMES exclusively reported in February that the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission began an investigation into Mr Nnaji’s forgery scandal.

Insiders had told this newspaper that the former minister could be prosecuted if the investigation shows that he truly forged his credentials.