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The Kakaaki Of Big Ideas Still Echoes
(Tribute To Sam Nda-Isaiah, 1 May 1962 – 11 December 2020)
Five years after Sam Nda-Isaiah slipped away, his presence still sits with us like a verdict. His voice—booming, impatient, unmistakable – lingers at the edge of memory, summoning dread and inspiration in equal measure. Sam didn’t enter rooms; he arrived. He filled space with conviction, urgency, and a muscular impatience that banished lazy thinking. When he left, he left a silence yet to be filled, a seat waiting for his interruption, a nation missing the trumpet he loved to blow.
To work with him was to live in a whirlwind: gentle and volcanic, cerebral and impulsive, generous and exacting. He could fire you at noon and send you a book by dusk; he could rebuke a sloppy sentence and then pay your cab fare. He decided policy in a heartbeat and debated the philosophy behind it for days. He was the kind of boss who made you want to quit – and then return. I did, again and again, because LEADERSHIP, the newspaper he founded, was more than a newsroom. It was a crucible, and Sam was the fire.
He saw something in people, especially restless minds. He doubled my salary before I edited a single page of LEADERSHIPEDGE. He bought me books on every trip and challenged me to think harder, write sharper, and dream bigger. He was a man in a hurry – racing against his beginnings, against mediocrity, against time itself. He wanted to build an empire of ideas, a nation of thinkers. In one of his columns he wrote, ‘Nations are not built by slogans but by ideas, pursued with courage and consistency.’ That was his creed – and he lived it.
Sam’s management style was unconventional, chaotic even. He could elevate a novice one day and reverse the decision the next. Yet he believed in second chances. He believed in people, even when they failed him. He was no saint – erratic in staffing, sentimental in judgement – but never petty, never cruel. His generosity was legendary. He would pay school fees for staff members’ children, sponsor weddings, and support colleagues in distress. Yet he demanded excellence, often pushing people beyond their comfort zones. He once told me, ‘If you are not offending mediocrity, you are not doing journalism.’
He was never just a publisher. As a serial entrepreneur, he built ventures to house his philosophy of ideas. Banana Republic, his hospitality outfit, was not merely a restaurant; it was a salon where conversation flowed with the wine and ideas were incubated among thinkers, politicians, and dreamers. He believed leisure could be purposeful, hospitality a bridge, and well-designed spaces a crucible for creativity. He also started Allan Wood for human capital development and strategic thinking. His agri-business was to nurture a healthy population and give food security a practical meaning. His business instincts ranged beyond Nigeria, true to his view that enterprise is both local duty and global opportunity. For him, institutions – newspapers or restaurants – should not be merely functional; they should be transformative.
He learned the rigours of corporate governance at the feet of masters like General T.Y. Danjuma and in political governace, Lee Kwan Yew was his idol. From these two great men he internalised discipline, negotiation, patience in turbulence and in season of anomie. Those lessons steadied his ventures and gave him the confidence to sit where capital, policy, and vision meet. He felt at home in boardrooms because ideas deserve structure; in newsrooms because structure deserves ideas. From that vantage – entrepreneur, publisher, strategist – he entered what he called the ‘perilous mine’ of politics. He knew the risks – reputational, financial, personal – but stepped in regardless.
His foray into politics strained his business. Salaries faltered; staff scattered. Yet Sam remained defiant – still dreaming, still building. He was fearless: challenging Obasanjo, confronting Yar’Adua, even his erstwhile boss Buhari – speaking truth to power when it mattered most. He believed politics was too important to be left to career politicians. He wanted thinkers, builders, and dreamers to shape Nigeria’s destiny. As he wrote elsewhere, ‘Leadership is not about occupying office; it is about offering vision. Without vision, power is an empty chair.’
He had reservations too. He worried about sending underage children to school abroad: would distance dilute guidance; would cosmopolitan polish cost rootedness? It was a rare vulnerability in a man armoured with confidence. He was also a notorious micromanager – not from distrust of talent but from fear of failure. The masthead bore his name; if anything collapsed, the mockery would be his. So he hovered, corrected, intervened – guarding vision like a flame in a storm. It was his strength and his weakness.
His celebrated ‘Nigeria: Full Disclosure’ – a collection of his columns – carried a refrain: ‘For God and country, we must tell ourselves the truth, no matter how bitter.’ Patriotism, he argued, is honesty. ‘We cannot continue to deceive ourselves; nations are built on truth, not lies.’
He raged against the tyranny of small minds. Nigeria, he said, is too important for the dictatorship of tiny imaginations. Our poverty was not of resources but of ambition – small men in oversized agbadas, small ideas wrapped in national slogans. He did not hate politicians; he hated the smallness politics often rewards. Nations, he insisted, are built on substance, not slogans.
He wrote about corruption with moral and mathematical anger. Every naira stolen was not just theft from a vault but from a future. ‘Every naira stolen is a child’s school denied, a hospital unbuilt, a road left in dust. Corruption is not just stealing; it is stealing tomorrow.’ He despised euphemism – ‘misappropriation’ for looting, ‘brief illness’ for truths the public deserves. A nation that whispers when it should speak, he warned, risks forgetting its name.
He died at a moment that demanded trumpet blasts for truth, and the irony still stings. Had he written his own obituary, he would have named the enemy and demanded lessons from COVID-19. His passing was not the end of an argument; it was the silencing of a trumpet. We are poorer – unless we refuse to let the silence stand.
What would he say now, two and a half years into the Tinubu presidency, with inflation as theology and hope as contraband? He would separate loyalists from patriots and insist on substance over slogan. He would call for competence over camaraderie, policy that survives applause and passes the audit of results. He would remind us that feedback is not insult, criticism not sabotage; that the press must speak without fear and the state must learn without defensiveness. He would say the nation is haemorrhaging not only naira but hope, and that the first duty of leadership is to stop the bleeding.
At home – his immediate, makeshift nation – the work continues with a quiet stubbornness he would have loved. Zainab, his soulmate and wife, has guided LEADERSHIP as Chairman with dignified steadiness: love as public duty; continuity without mimicry. To lead in the shadow of such a figure is to balance humility with firmness; she has chosen resilience over despair. The children carry his name and, more importantly, his courage. Emerson said an institution is the lengthened shadow of one person; shadows should not eclipse the living but guide them. Let them build their own lights – tempering his impatience into their healthier pace while retaining his allergy to mediocrity.
To his brothers – Abraham, Jonathan, and Solomon – who laboured with me in the newsroom’s holy chaos: you know the crucible he created, the fire that singed and refined. The scaffolding has shaken and stood. Achebe warned that integrity’s true test is refusal to be compromised. When fatigue tempts compromise, choose ache. Choose integrity. Keep the voice loud enough to make enemies and clear enough to make them reconsider. Consider Sam’s love for you, his siblings and clothe his children, wife and business with the same regalia.
His maxims remain usable truths. Leadership begins at the mirror. Nations are moral communities; institutions reflect their builders. Patriotism is practical – measured not by anthems but by lawful behaviour. The citizen’s duty is as essential as the president’s; a culture of shortcuts leads nowhere. He distrusted the theatre of reform that changes signage and salaries but leaves rot intact. He argued for full disclosure – of budgets, deals, public health – because sunlight is not just disinfectant; it is architecture, building rooms with transparent walls where accountability becomes habit.
He urged leaders to read their own policies as literature: test the logic, hear the false notes, force coherence, excise rhetoric that cannot survive reality. He believed in constructive risk: launch the paper others say won’t work; publish the uncomfortable story; run the serious campaign; hire hunger; offer second chances where bad mentorship wrecked first ones. If you go under, let it be for refusing to lie, not for refusing to think.
Five years on, we must ask: Are we telling ourselves the truth? Building institutions or merely inhabiting them? Setting standards that outlast us? Educating citizens to interrogate policy rather than worship personality? Choosing the dull pain of reform over the sweet narcotic of flourish?
LEADERSHIP – the paper and the virtue – still has a story to tell. Newsroom seasons thin and thicken, but the mandate endures: fearless reporting, honest analysis, comfort the informed, discomfort the powerful. Publish truth, elevate standards, teach for mastery, hire for talent, cultivate editors brave in judgement and reporters who love facts more than access or virality.
To readers, practitioners, and citizens who miss that trumpet: honour him by practice, not cult. Read carefully. Write honestly. Build arguments like bridges that bear weight. Demand accountability without smugness; hope without naïvety. Reject cynicism – the cheap wisdom of the unambitious – and choose the harder hope that holds leaders and citizens to standards.
To policymakers, the faithful memorial is reform that survives you. If your agenda requires your presence, it is performance, not architecture. Engineer transparency into procurement; open budgets in formats any citizen can read; improve data until bad policy becomes mathematically embarrassing; train civil servants like athletes; replace loyalty tests with competence audits; banish press releases bloated with adjectives and empty of numerators and denominators.
Sam loved wit because it reveals the skeleton of argument. He teased slogans until they confessed their emptiness. In the newsroom he demanded a disciplinary humour: if you couldn’t explain a story in one sentence to an intelligent uncle, it needed more reporting. Words, he insisted, are tools of construction, not anaesthesia. He preferred hard verbs, clean nouns, ruthless adjectives.
He expected mistakes and respected those who corrected them quickly. He tolerated argument but punished laziness. He prized insolence in intellect and humility in habit; he distrusted vanity that arrived before the work. He nurtured restless minds like dangerous seeds – wanting forests, not reception ornaments.
A soft hymn would betray him. The proper ending is an assignment. The baton is in our hands – Zainab’s steady leadership, the children’s emerging ambitions, the brothers’ stewardship, the staff’s daily graft, the readers’ discrimination, the citizens’ discipline and associates living true to his virtues and shunning the vices he detested. Do not let the trumpet rust. Let his shadow be signal, not shelter: run further, think harder, insist on truth, refuse mediocrity, and demand courage.
He kept a line from T.S. Eliot like a talisman: ‘the end is where we start from’. The abrupt end of his life is no excuse for nostalgia; it is a beginning we must hate to waste. Emerson’s shadow is a challenge: let it lengthen with shape, not merely size. Achebe’s counsel on integrity – refuse compromise – must be our daily oath. Marcus Aurelius – ‘the soul is dyed by its thoughts’ – should colour our newsroom and our nation: think cleanly, act explicitly, build courageously.
Rest well, Sam, man of big ideas. You ran against mediocrity, complacency, and time – making sentences work harder than their syllables and the press louder than power preferred. You taught us that running is the point: the restless, purposeful motion that turns rooms into workshops, meetings into laboratories, and a good nation into a better one. Your trumpet is silent, but the music persists among those you taught to breathe truth and blow courage. We will keep sounding it – without sentimentality, without cowardice, without pause, Chairman!
The Peace Corps of Nigeria, PCN, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of acting in bad faith in the arraignment of its National Commandant, Dr Dickson Akoh, and the Director of Finance, Mrs Omolola Aminat Ahmed, at the FCT High Court on December 11.
The Corps said that the arraignment of its two bosses on contractual transaction was unlawful, illegal and uncalled for.
In a statement on Friday in Abuja by its Media Consultant, Comrade Peterhot Apeh, Peace Corps said it was wrong of the EFCC to have criminalized a simple civil contract transaction between Peace Corps of Nigeria and Jethel Nigeria Global Resources Limited.
PCN, in the statement, recalled that contract No: 101/PCN50 for the production of badges of ranks, Nigerian/Service Badges, beret badges and related kits was freely awarded to Jethel Nigeria Limited on July 12, 2024 and freely accepted by the company on the same day in writing by its Managing Director, Okocha Jones Gido.
The Corps said that challenges arose in the payment of the contract sum when the police unlawfully sealed off its national secretariat in Abuja which, till date, has crippled the activities of the organization .
Specifically, Peace Corps said that it was unable to effect full payment for the contract sum due to the inability to sell the badges to its members across the country as a result of the sealing of its secretariat.
The organization recalled that Jethel Limited had on March 6, 2025 petitioned the police on the matter and Police in a letter with No; 3000/IGP-SEC/MU/ABJ/T.2/Vol.115 of March 6, 2025 invited the national commandant in respect of the matter.
After taking arguments from the two parties, the Office of the Inspector General of Police practically resolved the matter with a conclusion after investigation that the issue in dispute was a simple business transaction fully documented by the two parties.
The police however committed the Peace Corps of Nigeria and Jethel Limited to an agreement by the two parties in writing to facilitate short term payment.
Peace Corps noted with happiness that in compliance with police facilitated agreement, it on December 9, 2025 made the first part payment of N20 million to keep faith with the agreement.
PCN however noted with regret that four days after the office of IGP resolved the matter specifically, March 10, 2025, Jethel still took similar petition to EFCC in flagrant breach of the agreement reached at the Police Headquarters.
It alleged that rather than following the lawful and civil resolution adopted at the Police Headquarters, EFCC took side with Jethel Limited with unnecessary harassment and intimidation of the two Peace Corps chiefs in simple civil contract matter.
The organization noted that when its Director of Finance on December 9 went to its Abuja office to present the evidence of N20 million part payment for the contract sum, only for the EFCC, rather than appreciating the payment, “unlawfully arrested and detained the lady” .
Peace Corps also expressed sadness that the same EFCC arrested and detained its national commandant when he went to the Commission’s office to effect the release of the detained officer.
While faulting the EFCC for acting as debt recovery agency for the contractor, Peace Corps warned the anti-corruption agency to stop the impunity of criminalising simple business transactions .
The organization called on EFCC Chairman, Mr Ola Olukoyede, who by training, is a lawyer, to wade into the unlawful action of its operatives, especially those involved in the instant matter, by calling them to order .
PCN particularly noted with deep concerns that the arraignment of its national commandant and director of finance was borne out of malice because of their refusal to cooperate with operatives to compromise the matter.
The Peace Corps urged the EFCC boss to always obey and respect court orders in the discharge of it functions, adding that an Abuja High Court presided by Justice J.E Obanor had on August 11, 2025, ordered the Commission to maintain status-quo in respect of the contract dispute between Peace Corps of Nigeria and Jethel Limited .
The order of the court followed a motion filed against EFCC by Peace Corps Director of Finance, Omolola Ahmed, in which she prayed the court to stop the Commission from harassing, intimidating, arresting or detaining her in respect of the contract.
The PCN also noted that another Abuja High Court through Justice Edward Okpe had on April 7, 2025, restrained Jethel Limited from further harassing, arresting or taking any adverse steps against Akoh in respect of the contract dispute.
Peace Corps therefore demanded that the charges against its two chiefs be immediately terminated in court so that the EFCC will not be seen as acting unlawfully as a debt recovery agency for anybody or organization.
Former Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has declared that he is still in active politics.
According to the former Minister who spoke on Friday at the convocation lecture of Achievers University in Ondo State, a politician can never retire from politics.
“You can never retire from politics. Once you are in, you are in forever. It’s for life,” he said.
Mohammed also affirmed his commitment to the administration of President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC), stressing that he intentionally stayed off the limelight.
He added that he fully supports the current administration, but whatever he needs to do now, he passes it through the back doors, having been at the forefront of government activities in previous times.
“I am a very loyal member of the APC.
“I am 100% behind this administration. But I have played my role on the front line. Whatever I need to do now, I will pass it through the back channels.
“I have been very privileged to have been minister for eight years, the longest-serving minister in the history of this country,” he said.
Tinubu Doing Well
The former Minister submitted that President Tinubu does not deserve the harsh criticisms coming from certain political quarters.
Speaking specifically on the challenges of insecurity facing Nigeria, Mohammed argued that those outside the government often don’t understand the efforts those in power put in.
“Many people who are not in the kitchen don’t know the fire coming out of it.
“Is there any president who would want his own country to be insecure? The government is doing a lot. We must all encourage the government.
“All the change we are looking for must begin with all of us. Security is local. Actionable intelligence is part of it.
“The president cannot be in Abuja and know what is happening everywhere. People must report suspicious movements. The president is doing his best, and insecurity is a global issue,” he said.
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The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, has congratulated the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on his 58th birthday.
Kalu, in a congratulatory message, described the Minister as a visionary leader, courageous public servant, and tireless advocate for transformational governance.
He lauded his commitment to duty and unwavering dedication to national development, noting that since assuming office, Wike has demonstrated exceptional administrative acumen, driving critical reforms, accelerating infrastructural renewal, and restoring a renewed sense of purpose to the FCT administration.
He prayed for God’s continued protection, wisdom, and strength upon the minister, adding that this new chapter will bring greater fulfilment, renewed grace, and even bigger milestones in his service to the nation.
The deputy speaker said, “On behalf of my family and the good people of Bende Federal Constituency of Abia State, I join millions of Nigerians at home and abroad in celebrating the birthday of His Excellency, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, CON, Minister of the FCT, a visionary leader, courageous public servant, and a tireless advocate for transformational governance.
“We honour a man whose commitment to duty, passion for results, and unwavering dedication to national development continue to inspire confidence in the future of the Federal Capital Territory.
“Since assuming office, H.E. Wike has demonstrated exceptional administrative acumen, driving critical reforms, accelerating infrastructural renewal, and restoring a renewed sense of purpose to the FCT administration. His leadership style, bold, pragmatic, and people-focused, has repositioned the FCT on a path of sustained progress.
“From urban regeneration and improved service delivery to security enhancements and renewed development planning, the minister’s impact is visible, tangible, and widely acknowledged. As he marks another year of life, we celebrate not just his achievements but his resilience, statesmanship, and unwavering devotion to serving Nigeria with excellence.”
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Council of Ministers has endorsed Ghanaian President John Mahama as its sole candidate for chairperson of the African Union.
Mr Mahama was chosen as the bloc’s candidate for chairperson of the African Union when the rotating chairmanship position reaches West Africa in 2027.
PREMIUM TIMES reports that the ECOWAS Council of Ministers reached this decision on Friday at the 95th ordinary session of the Council of Ministers, held in Abuja.
The council said it made the decision because Ghana is “an important ECOWAS Member State and contributes to its international standing.”
It also considered the need to “maintain and increase the chances of ECOWAS occupying positions in regional and international organisations.”
The Ghana Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sam Ablakwa, in a post made on X Friday, also announced that the Authority of Heads of State and government of ECOWAS is expected to adopt this declaration on Sunday.
“ECOWAS Council of Ministers meeting in Abuja, Nigeria has unanimously endorsed President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana as the sole candidate from ECOWAS for Chairperson of the African Union when the rotating chairmanship gets to West Africa’s turn in 2027.
“The Authority of Heads of State and Government is expected to adopt this declaration on Sunday.
“Ghana is exceedingly grateful to ECOWAS for the confidence and support for our beloved visionary and Pan-African President, H.E. John Dramani Mahama,” Mr Ablakwa wrote.
The AU member states elect new senior leadership of the AU Commission. The body’s last election, which brought in the Angolan President, João Gonçalves Lourenço, was held in February.
The position is rotated across different regions of the continent, with the election of a Southern African President this year, and a West African leader in 2027.
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ghazouani had previously held the chairmanship after being elected in February last year at the 37th session of the AU Assembly.
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During the 2027 election, candidates from West Africa will be voted on by all AU member states, and a two-thirds majority is generally needed to win.
Meanwhile, ECOWAS’s early candidate selection increases the likelihood that West African states will coordinate their votes at the AU level.
It also strengthens Mr Mahama’s profile within the AU ahead of the official election.
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GCC Zaria Class Of 1979 Reunites After 46 Years As Alumni Promise Support To Alma Mater
Government Commercial College, GCC, Zaria, Class of 1979 has reunited after 46 years of graduation.
The reunion which took place in Abuja featured lecture, health talks, Annual General Meeting, AGM, dinner among other varieties.
Delivering the Reunion Lecture, the Guest Speaker from Political Science Department, University of Abuja, Prof. Abubakar Sadiq Abba called for unity of purpose among the Alumni.
Prof. Sadiq Abba whose lecture centered on benefits and challenges of Alumni highlighted the importance of Alumni Association and stressed the need for Class ’79 of Government Commercial College, Zaria to effectively harness the potentials of all Alumni towards improving their lots and that of their Alma Mater.
According to him, the benefits of Alumni is both vertical and horizontal which include building of infrastructures in their Alma Mater through institutional support while they also have various responsibilities to themselves as individual and their communities as well as the nation in general.
He therefore called on Alumni Associations to always compliment the efforts of Government in developing the nation’s education sector.
In his words “This they can do by institutionalizing scholarship for the less privileged, construction of classrooms, provision of books and instructional materials, institutionalize the best teacher of the year, promote productivity and professionalism, construction of school clinic among other projects that can fast track the growth of education in the country”.
While congratulating them for being alive to reunite after 46 years of graduation , Prof. Sadiq Abba emphasized the need for them to come up with functional and effective leaders that would pilot the affairs of its Alumni.
An Alumnus of the College and Dean, Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo, Oyo State, Dr. Mrs Folashade Abiola expressed joy for the reunion after 46 years of graduation g from Government Commercial College, Zaria saying they are determined to work together towards ensuring the wellbeing of one another.
Dr. Mrs Folashade Abiola also expressed their readiness to contribute to the educational growth of their Alma Mater.
On his part, Mr John Ibrahim who is also an Alumnus of the College was elated for seeing his school mates after over four decades from Government Commercial College, Zaria.
Mr John Ibrahim who is a Retired Staff of Ministry of Finance, Kaduna promised to contribute his quota towards realizing the objectives of the reunion.
The reunion programme of activities which lasted for three days in the Federal Capital Territory saw Alumni winding and dinning as well as sharing ideas on the way forward as a family.
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“Is This Not Risky?” Nigerian Lady Asks After Seeing 8 Water Tanks on The Same Platform, Share Video
- A Nigerian lady was passing through a street and she saw a tank stand that is holding eight large tanks of water
- The tank stand is so tall that it almost measured the same height with the three storey building in the compound
- In the video which went viral on TikTok, the lady said keeping such a high tank stand close to the house could be risky
A Nigerian lady was surprised when she was passing on a street, and she saw a tank stand that had so many tanks on it.
The tank stand was built in a compound that had a three-storey building, and both structures are close to each other.
The lady said the tank stand is too high and might be risky. Photo credit: TikTok/@bekee047
Source: TikTok
In her video, which she posted on TikTok, the lady, @bekee047 said it was risky to have built such a high tank stand close to a house.
The video showed the tank stand almost has the same height as the three storey building and there were eight tanks on it.
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“Landlords, landladies, you people can do better please.”
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Reactions as lady shares video of tall tank stand
@Marachi4U said:
“It’s more risky to people on the street than people in the building.”
@! said:
“If dem no put water na still una go complain…ndi uchu.”
@lucy said:
“Even thieves fit enter person house through it sef.”
@stan_structures said:
“Is minding your business risky.”
@Adaobi favour okezue said:
“If water no de rush there now una go talk say dem no put tank.”
@bees_accessories said:
“It’s not going to fall toward the house but the street.”
@Gasby said:
“When they could have erected it in another person’s compound or even in the middle of the road.”
@Arizona Fx said:
“What is your business there madam? You don carry camera dey video.”
@famous gee said:
“Very risky, they should have used H beam for the construction instead of pipe.”
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@crescent said:
“The tank frame strong pass Ur relationship.. take am play.”
@ikemba dynasty said:
“How is this risky please?…. everyone now wants to be a content creator!!!!”
@Bolingo said:
“Omo this is dangerous to be honest.”
@Mr Salt said:
“It should be on the Mainroad right.”
@Omotodun makeovers said:
“Na u suppose run make e no fall for your head u Dey do video.”
@user212509103311 said:
“The loads are far bigger than rod these will definitely give way one day that will be big calarmity enviroental safety shall weigh in immediately.”
@Stev Yoma said:
“Now that she pointed this hazard out i hope the agency I’m charge of building in the state take action immediately before is too late.”
Man shares video of bad tank stand
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that a Nigerian man shared a video showing the tank stanchion installed in a compound where he went to work.
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The video shows that the iron bars used to install the stancheon were substandard or too weak to hold anything heavy.
The man said he has reported the matter to the landlord after seeing how a lady was killed in Lagos by a collapsed tank.
Source: Legit.ng
The state Minister for Defence, Bello Muhammad Matawalle, has formally received Sadiq Abubakar Ciroma, Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kaura Namoda Local Government Area, into the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The state APC chairman, Tukur Danfulani, presented Ciroma to Matawalle on Friday, welcoming him and his supporters into the party.
Speaking at the event, Matawalle described Ciroma as a politician with vision and sound judgment, saying his move to the APC would benefit the people of Zamfara.
He assured Ciroma and his supporters of equal opportunities within the party.
Ciroma explained that his resignation from the PDP was due to what he perceived as the APC’s more inclusive leadership and performance in the state.
He accused the PDP-led government under Governor Dauda Lawal of neglecting local communities and focusing primarily on revenue collection.
Reacting to the defection, the chairman of Kaura Namoda Local Government Council, Manir Haidara Kaura, alleged that Ciroma had worked against the PDP even before a recent state assembly by-election.
Haidara accused him of leaking confidential party strategies and collaborating with APC stakeholders, raising doubts about his loyalty.
The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has urged the Federal Government to put an end to what he described as fiscal rascality, particularly the pattern of uncontrolled and unexplained borrowing that does not contribute to productive sectors of the economy.
Obi, in a post on his verified X handle on Friday, criticised the government’s plan to secure about ₦20 trillion in new loans to finance the 2026 budget.
According to him, the borrowing plan is alarming at a time when debt servicing is projected to consume nearly half of the nation’s revenue, and when the country’s borrowing requirement has risen by more than 72 percent.
He questioned the rationale behind planning fresh multi-trillion-naira loans for 2026 when the 2024 budget is still being implemented and the 2025 budget appears untouched.
Obi wrote, “Where is the revenue from 2025? How can we be discussing trillions in new borrowing for 2026 when we are still implementing the 2024 budget? This suggests, very clearly, that the 2025 budget is still untouched and unimplemented.
“So, where are all the revenues that accrued in 2025, even when we were told that revenue targets had been surpassed since August?”
He warned that continuous borrowing for consumption rather than production would endanger the country’s future.
“We cannot keep mortgaging the future of our children through thoughtless borrowing. Nations do not develop by consuming more than they produce.
“They develop by producing, exporting, creating value, and building strong institutions that ensure accountability,” he said.
Obi added that the government cannot boast of increased revenue while simultaneously pushing borrowing to historic levels.
“Governance must be built on transparency, not propaganda. We cannot build a new Nigeria on the foundation of misleading figures, rising debts, shrinking production, and continuous hardship. Our nation must move forward,” he added.
- Dr. Oluwafemi Olawale Adefulire, the only son of former Lagos Deputy Governor Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, has died in Dubai following a surgical procedure.
- The unexpected loss has thrown Lagos’ political circle into mourning, with the APC describing it as a devastating tragedy. He is survived by his wife and children.
The Lagos political community has been thrown into deep mourning following the tragic death of Dr. Oluwafemi Olawale Adefulire, the only son of former Lagos State Deputy Governor, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire.
Dr. Adefulire, a UK-based medical doctor, reportedly died in the early hours of Wednesday, December 10, 2025, after undergoing an undisclosed surgical procedure in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
A family source confirmed the incident to Vanguard, stating the death was unexpected and a devastating blow to the family. The deceased is survived by his wife and children.
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) confirmed the development, with party spokesperson Seye Oladejo describing the incident as “the kind of tragedy most dreadful for parents,” adding that the entire party structure was shaken.
Princess Orelope-Adefulire, a prominent figure in Lagos politics, served as Deputy Governor from 2011 to 2015 under former Governor Babatunde Fashola. She currently serves as the Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a role she was reappointed to in September 2023.
A Nigerian man took to social media to express concern that Nigerian interior designer,Sandra Areh might remain unmarried amid the ongoing controversy.
It’s worth noting that Sandra Areh has come under intense scrutiny after Apostle Selman addressed her as ‘my love’ at his birthday party on December 9, 2025.
Meanwhile, the clergyman is yet to clarify the nature of their relationship, as dating rumors continue to swirl online.
Man expresses concerns about Sandra Areh
The man identified with the Facebook handle, Jerry Smart Ekele hoped that Sandra Are finds the courage to consider other potential suitors.
In his viral post, he noted that if Apostle Selman doesn’t end up marrying Sandra Areh is likely to remain unmarried.
“As it stands, other men who ought to be seeing her as a potential suitor, are already seeing her as the Apostle’s wife. In fact, many people online think they’re already married. This confusion isn’t sitting well with me. We can’t make a sacrificial lamb out of this graceful woman”, The post stated.
Furthermore, he urged Apostle Selman to tie the knot, emphasizing that the clergyman’s relationship status is delaying him from getting married.
According to the post, men who see Sandra Areh as a potential suitor view her as Apostle Selman’s wife.
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