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".....The Fu­lani causing security problems in the country were.......Influx of Fulani from neighboring countries like Sierra Leone, Mali, Senegal, Niger and Chad brought into the country for election purposes in 2015.

After the election, the Fu­lani have refused to leave. I and other like minds wrote and warned those we started APC with that this was going to hap­pen but nobody listened,”

Nigeria has been ranked 5th in the latest Africa’s 20 best-performing countries by Jeune Afrique and The Africa Report which noted that;

-1). The country(Nigeria) was weighed down by a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capital that has fallen over the reference period.
-2). A high level of debt (more than 90 per cent of GDP in 2024).
-3). A weak regional integration.
-4). And a rule of law, which is among the most deficient on the continent.
-5). Nigeria also misses out on the Top 10 most prosperous African countries. According to the Atlantic Council’s 2026 Prosperity Index

Africa’s most prosperous nations are those that have managed to combine economic opportunity with strong social outcomes, environmental sustainability and greater inclusion.

The Presidency has shifted responsibility for the rising wave of insecurity across the country to state governors, citing poor utilisation of security votes and inadequate support to federal security agencies.

Presidential Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, made the remarks during an appearance on TVC’s Beyond the Headlines programme on Monday, amid growing public concern over violent attacks in Plateau, Benue, Enugu, and other states.

“What we are finding, very sadly, is that there are some states where the governors give N20m to the SSS, N20m to the police, and N20m to the army as monthly allocation for fighting insecurity. And you hear their security vote is between N1bn, N2bn and N3bn. Where are we going?” Bwala queried.

He maintained that the solution to Nigeria’s security challenges lies not necessarily in the creation of state police, but in the effective deployment of existing resources and structures by state leaders.Nigerian cultural tours

-1). "On matters of security, the bulk stops at the President's table. Like in other countries, Jonathan is the Chief Security Officer. Stop Boko Haram." ( Bola Tinubu Tweet April 14, 2014).

-2) "The festering Boko Haram attacks on the North East and massacre of innocent is concrete proof that Nigeria has no government." ( Bola Tinubu, September 2014 )

-3). "The slaughtering of Christian worshippers is strongly condemnable. It calls to question the competence of Jonathan to protect Nigerians." ( January 2014 ).

TINUBU ACCUSED JONATHAN OF INTIMIDATING GOVERNORS
“Hiding under some nebulous claims that border on the intractability of the security challenges posed by Boko Haram or some acclaimed traditionalists who have killed some policemen to render ineffective the constitutional powers vested in elected governors and other representatives of the people, perceived as not amenable to manipulation for the 2015 project, amounts to reducing serious issues bordering on the survival of the country to partisan politics.”

“No governor of a state in Nigeria is the chief security officer. Putting the blame on the governors, who have been effectively emasculated, for the abysmal performance of the government at the centre which controls all these security agencies, smacks of ignorance and mischief,” he said as opposition leader in 2013.

In 2005, Tinubu, as a governor, vowed to defend the “territorial integrity and sovereignty” of Lagos against the tyranny of the federal government. He also accused Jonathan of using the insurgency as a pretext to weaken opposition strongholds in the north, where the APC was gaining traction.

Tinubu’s criticisms were rooted in his advocacy for federalism and autonomy for state governments. Now, as the president, Tinubu’s emergency declaration in Rivers mirrors the actions he once strongly condemned.
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Home Office sends letters to children as young as five saying they must leave UK
Children of those on care worker visas, who came legally before rule change, told to leave even if parents can stay.

Children as young as five who are living legally in the UK are being told by the Home Office they must leave the country even if their parents have been given permission to remain.

The Guardian has seen five letters sent to children by the Home Office telling them they must leave the UK. A sixth letter has been sent to a woman who is six months pregnant and lives in the UK with her husband, telling her she must leave him and return to her country. The children have parents on care worker visas, which until March 2024 had allowed them to bring partners or children with them to the UK.

“We are completely shocked by the family receiving these letters,” said Varuni Arachchige, a care worker based in Perth, Scotland with her husband, who works in a factory. Their two children, aged eight and five, are thriving at school and settled in their community.

Arachchige has a degree in chemistry and a postgraduate qualification in analytical chemistry from the family’s home country, Sri Lanka, and an MSc from the University of Dundee in sustainability and water security.

Her husband is a graduate in physical science and double maths. He and their children are dependants on her care worker visa. The family paid the Home Office thousands of pounds for their visa applications, pay taxes and do not claim any benefits.

The government began to clamp down on family visas for care workers after the Home Office estimated in 2023 that about 120,000 family members were in the UK, joining 100,000 care worker applicants. From March 2024, care workers have no longer been allowed to bring their partners or children with them to the UK, and a ban on overseas recruitment of care workers was introduced from July 2025.

However, the children who were sent letters in recent weeks arrived in the UK before the various bans and restrictions came into force. “We have been living legally in the UK since we arrived here on Christmas Day in 2022,” said Arachchige. “My visa has been extended by the Home Office until 2031. But my husband and children who are my dependants have been told to leave the country.” Lawyers said they had seen a rise in these sorts of cases in the past few weeks.

Two recent surveys of migrant care workers revealed that new proposals to extend the period before they can settle in the UK – from five years to a baseline of 15 years – could lead to a mass exodus of this group of workers.

Tulia Group CIC, which provides support and legal advice to migrants, surveyed 269 migrant care workers, who all said the settlement route should remain five years. Only 36% said they would remain here with longer settlement rules.

In a separate survey of 1,162 migrant care workers by the health and social care platform Lifted, 69% said they would consider leaving the UK if the 15-year rule comes into force. The current workforce of sponsored migrant carers provides 4.2m hours of care a week for up to 280,000 people, much of which could be lost if the new rules prompt an exodus.

Rasika Samarasinghe, a care worker who arrived in the UK in October 2022 and obtained a master’s at Northumbria University in business management, has received a Home Office refusal to allow his dependants on his visa – his wife, who works as a teaching assistant and their three young children aged 12, nine and eight – to stay in the UK.

“I don’t know what to do,” he said. “We have done everything legally in this country and we have paid every single tax the Home Office has asked us to pay. I’m not an overstayer, I just want a better future for my children. My focus is on family. I can’t do anything without my family.

Both my wife and I work very hard here. We are so confused by what has happened to us. We haven’t told the children yet. My children are all settled and doing well at school. The youngest only speaks and writes English.”

Naga Kandiah of MTC Solicitors said: “Migrant care workers in the UK are being placed in an impossible position: [to not] continue essential work or risk being separated from their children or partners. The result is an unfair choice between vital jobs in the social care system and long periods of separation from family. These workers care for vulnerable people, yet the rules can prevent them from caring for their own families.”

Fizza Qureshi, the chief executive of Migrants’ Rights Network, condemned the “go home” instruction to children. “Migrant care workers continually bear the brunt of this government’s disdain for migrants. Nobody should be forced into a decision to either leave their livelihood or be separated from their families. The government really needs to grow a heart and treat migrant workers who are the foundations of our health and care systems, with more respect.”

A Home Office spokesperson said: “We will always welcome those who contribute to this country and wish to build a better life here. But we must restore order and control to our borders.

“We have set out plans for the biggest legal migration reforms in a generation, addressing the challenges caused by unprecedented levels of migration under the previous government. It is a privilege, not a right, to settle in the UK and it must be earned, rewarding contribution and those who play by the rules.”