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Abiona Joel retweeted
🇳🇬 WHICH NIGERIAN STATES ARE SAFER FOR CIVILIANS? — 2026
State — Score (out of 100):
1 🟣 Ekiti — 98.1
2 ⚫ Bauchi — 95.9
3 🟣 Ogun — 94.6
4 🟤 Akwa Ibom — 93.0
5 🟤 Rivers — 91.3
6 🔴 Kano — 90.5
7 🟤 Cross River — 90.3
8 🟣 Oyo — 87.7
9 🟣 Lagos — 86.9
10 🔴 Jigawa — 85.0
11 🟢 Anambra — 83.7
12 🟤 Delta — 83.5
🟣 SW ⚫ NE 🟤 SS 🔴 NW 🟢 SE
Ekiti led with 98.1, ahead of Bauchi by 2.2 points. The North accounts for 3 of the 12 states and the South 9.
NB: Scores are out of 100, higher is better. Based on attacks on civilians, civilian deaths and sexual violence events. Coverage includes 36 states and the FCT.
#Statisense
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Abiona Joel retweeted
When will you guys pick up the Constitution and read it? The president can't reduce the NASS budget, expenses, or salaries. Instead, the NASS approves the budget for the president, and he dares not spend a dime outside that approval. The President goes before them to present his budget and seek their approval.
The budget of the National Assembly is a first-line charge or statutory transfer, paid directly from the Federation account and does not require any presidential approval for release. The President can't stop or cancel the National Assembly's budget, infact the National has the powers to veto or override the President and bypass him completely to pass any budget.
Abiona Joel retweeted
Nobody cares! You started a war and lost! You did a coup that slaughtered leaders from the Western and Northern Regions while sparing yours. Your people in the North mocked the Northerners over the killing of the Sarduana. As if that was not enough, your people went on to end the regional system of government by fiat via Agunyi Ironsi's decree and planned to rule over others.
There was a reaction which led to the war you ultimately lost. Ibos are no victims! You are a deeply greedy and coveteous people who started what they couldn't finish. Unfortunately as a people, you haven't really learnt your lesson.
I don’t think any tribe in Nigeria gets this but there’s a certain level of trauma that the war had on the igbos
We need to be honest with ourselves
I had an aunty that anytime she heard loud noises, she remembers airstrikes and shelling
Or is it my dad that saw an airstrike in a market that killed the a woman carrying a child on her back.
He tried to run and rescue the child but the bombings was too much
Till today he wonders if that child made it
My dad was 8 years old at the time
I just think that we should tell these stories more
Abiona Joel retweeted
The 2023 cohort of Nigerian federal university admissions, about to graduate in 2027, will be the first set of students to finish a four-year degree after four consecutive academic calendar years completely uninterrupted by a nationwide ASUU strike since 1985 - 41 years.
They deserve a different certificate.
Abiona Joel retweeted
Pinned tweet: Yet another $3billion investment in Ogun State and our people have chosen to unlook because they have been conditioned to be scared of sharing Goodnews about their own. O ma se.
But this same people will join others to celebrate bare-minimum like transformers and thick gutter elsewhere. Who do us like this?
Abiona Joel retweeted
Another major random raid and they managed to convict someone for $800 fraud. I say it all the time, most of these raids are random and they are not backed with intelligence. That’s not how an Agency of EFCC’s status should be operating.
Court Jails Applewood Estate Suspect for Gift Card Fraud in Lagos
Justice Dipeolu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on October 30, 2026, convicted and sentenced one Hassan Usman Olamilekan for offences bordering on money laundering.
Olamilekan was convicted following his arraignment by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a one-count charge of money laundering, contrary to Section 18(2)(a) and punishable under Section 18(3) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.
The count reads:
"That you, Hassan Usman Olamilekan, sometime in 2026 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court indirectly disguised the origin of the sum of $800 (Eight Hundred United States Dollars) in gift cards, which sum forms part of the proceeds of your unlawful activity, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 18(2)(a) and punishable under Section 18(3) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022".
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge.
Following his plea, the facts of the case were reviewed by an EFCC operative, Ebuka Abanga. The court subsequently found him guilty and convicted him accordingly.
Justice Dipeolu sentenced to a fine of N200,000 and ordered him to remit the sum of N1,000,000 (One Million Naira) to the Federal Government of Nigeria. He is to remain in the Correctional centre pending the payment of the fine and restitution.
The court also ordered the forfeiture of an iPhone 11 Pro and a Poco C71 mobile phone, being items recovered in connection with the offence.
Investigation revealed that Olamilekan, 18, who claimed to hail from the Republic of Benin but was born in Nigeria, was involved in lottery scams and operated several social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Zangi and iMessage.
He reportedly met his victim, one Gary Brewer, a United States citizen, through the Zangi application, where he impersonated a white American woman identified as Julie Leach.
Olamilekan told the victim that he had won a lottery prize of $250,000,000 and needed money to activate the winnings before he could claim the prize. He subsequently persuaded the victim to send him gift cards through the Zangi application.
The defendant admitted selling the gift cards through the Cardsonic application, converting them to Naira and transferring the proceeds to his grandmother’s OPay account. He confessed to benefiting from a total of $800 from the fraudulent scheme.
Olamilekan was among the 21 suspected internet fraudsters arrested by operatives of the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the EFCC during a sting operation at Applewood Estate, Orchid Road, Lekki, Lagos State, on October 26, 2026.
Abiona Joel retweeted
Show me where I said "The rest are unmarried"? You can't, because it is not there. It doesn't exist.
I said "the other remains unmarried".
You see why I said you make too much noise? You need to declutter your mind.
Now let me help you with what I do very well.
Redirect some energy from your vocal cords to the cord you have with your skull and read my tweet again.
You are allowed to pray for grace to comprehend,if human capabilities fail you.
I am very sure you now understand what I posted. Oya clap for yourself.
Man shall not live by noise alone.
Shalom!
At least you highlighted what I do very well but what you didn’t do is talk about how a career I commercialized has become one of the best things to happen to entertainment. It feed families. Oh and I make a great living from it. If that’s struggling, I’ll take it
As for you, What are you known for?
As an OAP too; oh I aced that so well and hung my boots at the right time. The track record still remains a legacy till date. You just earned yours now with a stupid tweet. What a way to enter a hall of fame of idiots.
“The rest are unmarried” is a blatant LIE and misinformation. You wrote that out of usual display of ignorance. You goofed & the complexities of marriage doesn’t have anything to do with what you wrote. You just tweeted with the comfortable assumption that you are knowledgeable but you are not
Abiona Joel retweeted
Nigeria Was Not Set Up to Be Productive.
Nigeria operates, to a significant extent, as a rentier state.
Its political and economic architecture has historically revolved around extracting and distributing resource revenues rather than systematically creating wealth through domestic productivity.
Following the discovery of crude oil, the country became deeply dependent on natural resources, shifting the government's role from an economic enabler to a mere distributor of wealth. This reliance on oil decoupled the government from its citizens, fundamentally altering the dynamics of governance.
Consequently, government finances depend on natural resource extraction rather than the economic output and taxation of its people and businesses. This structural disconnect manifests in three distinct ways: revenue detachment, passive citizenship, and inverted institutional objectives. Instead of acting as active stakeholders in wealth creation, citizens have been conditioned to wait for the distribution and consumption of resource rents.
In a typical rentier state, the government secures political patronage by expanding the public sector, creating redundant bureaucratic jobs within state agencies and deploying sweeping subsidies to temporarily manage economic pressures.
To break this cycle, Nigeria must improve its productive capacity, build competitive industries, expand its tax base, and foster an environment where private businesses can thrive, all while continuing to tackle systemic corruption.
However, Nigeria does not need a standard "war on corruption." It needs a structural transition away from a rent-seeking economy. Corruption and rentierism reinforce each other. Historically, the single largest corruption drains on the nation have been petrol and foreign exchange (FX) subsidies. These are systems created precisely by the rentier model to distribute underpriced assets and resources to citizens.
Structural changes to expand the domestic productivity and tax revenue base are fundamentally more revolutionary than any anti-corruption campaign. When the government is forced to derive its financial survival from the economic success of its people and businesses, it is naturally incentivized to build an environment where industries can thrive.
I have said this several times on different X spaces...
Abiona Joel retweeted
1. The CCTV recording is evidence in a homicide case. It doesn't stop being yours, but it is now relevant to a criminal investigation. Under section 84 of the Evidence Act 2011, computer-generated evidence like CCTV can be admitted in court if it comes with a certificate about the device that recorded it. That video is capable of helping to determine the case.
2. I strongly advise that you don’t delete it. Destroying evidence you know is needed for a criminal case can be treated as obstructing justice. You may be tried and convicted for it.
3. You don't have to give it to the families. They have no legal right to demand it from you. If the footage helps their sons, the defence lawyers can apply to court, and the court can order it produced via subpoena. That helps to keep the chain of custody clean and also protects you.
4. Relying on Section 4 of the Police Act 2020, the police upon detection of a crime are allowed to gather evidence, and a combined reading of sections 9 and 12 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act empowers the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) to collect evidence from anyone who has it. The best thing to do is to get your lawyer to write the Police and attach a copy of the video to the investigating officer and get an acknowledgement for your record.
5. Furthermore, you have to think about your safety. Once people know your camera saw what happened, you're a witness. The best thing to do is to cooperate with the police, hand it over and also seek their protection. If you get threats, report them straight away.
6. Just to add, the aspect of right to privacy does not really come up here especially if it happened on the street and your camera captured it. You may own your property but the Street doesn’t belong to you.
Yesterday, chaos broke out on my street and sadly, about two people lost their lives.
Police came and arrested some guys. Later, the families of those guys came to my gate begging me to give them the CCTV footage from that day, because I have a camera outside my house.
I refused to give it to them.
This morning, I received a police invitation letter, and I am very sure it's about that same CCTV footage.
Now I'm asking: Does the police even have the legal right to demand my private CCTV footage? What happens if I refuse to release it? Will I be committing a crime if I say no?
Abiona Joel retweeted
Seyi Tinubu with Obi Cubana = He is securing his business, if na you nko?
Seyi Tinubu with Davido = Since he concerns his family, he care less about the masses. Fake outrage from him.
Seyi Tinubu with Phyno = These Afrobeat artists ehn, they can't leave him alone, he is one of their biggest supporters.
Seyi Tinubu with Olamide = He is a Yorghurt, reason he has been quite.
If some faceless bush babies still use your head in 2026, then, you need a brain check up. 😭
Abiona Joel retweeted
I am not in the business of going through the corners.
Phyno is safe because he is Igbo.
Obi Cubana is safe because he is Igbo, despite being appointed South-East Coordinator of the City Boy Movement by Seyi Tinubu. Cubana Chief Priest is safe because he is Igbo, despite being appointed Imo State Coordinator of the same movement.
Stanley Uzochukwu, owner of The Delborough Lagos, E-Money, Zenco and Chima Anyaso have all engaged with Seyi Tinubu politically and leisurely.
Even Abia State governor, the beloved Alex Otti...
All of them are safe,
as they should be.
But Toyin Abraham? Jide Kosoko? Eniola Badmus? Seyi Law? Ogogo (Taiwo Hassan), Saheed Balogun and Lege Miami? They have all been subjected to an extraordinary level of online hostility, cyberbullying, dragging and slander.
And it's not about politics. Nope!
The fake outrage is not about governance, policies or a better Nigeria, No!
It's simple: "I hate them because they are not my people" "my person is not president" "My candidate is not the one doing great things"
The hate has been unnecessarily ethnicised, we see it for what it is and we shall handle it appropriately.
I am checking several posts about this matter and Phyno appears quite safe for hanging out with Seyi Tinubu.
Maybe the emergency lovers of Nigeria are currently busy at work. Perhaps when they close, we can expect them to give him the Toyin Abraham treatment. #Noticing
Abiona Joel retweeted
Under Peter Obi as governor of Anambra state:
Simeon Soludo, father of the incumbent governor, Charles Soludo was kidnapped.
Pete Edochie, the iconic Nollywood star was kidnapped.
A former deputy governor f Anambra state, Dr. Chudi Nwike was abducted in Anambra state, taken to Delta state and kil+led after ransom was paid.
Igwe Robert Eze, the traditional ruler of Ukpo in Dunukofia local government areas of Anambra state was kidnapped.
Chief Godwin Ubaka Okeke, chairman of GUO Motors was kidnapped in Anambra state.
Ken Emeakayi aka Iroko was kidnapped. He was the chairman of Nnewi Auto Parts Dealers.
Ernest Obiora, a former chairman of Nnewi North Local Govt was kidnapped.
Dr Emeka Aniebonam, a member of the Anambra state house of assembly was kidnapped.
With a land mass of 4,884 sq/km, Anambra state is the second smallest state in Nigeria yet a man who could not secure that state wants to secure Nigeria.
Sambisa forest alone is 66,000 sq/km. It is 13 times the size Anambra state, a state which Obi could not secure.
We should stop joking, please.
Abiona Joel retweeted
While we were young, we grew up idolizing activists and critics as heroes.
They shaped policies through activism, rather than through intellectual engagement or capability. TV stations and newspapers interviewed them on every topic, including subjects far outside their areas of expertise.
This is one of the reasons that era failed. I acknowledge their contributions to social justice, but activism alone rarely develops a country. Innovators, founders, researchers, and entrepreneurs do.
The new generation is toeing the same line by hero-worshipping overnight social media activists. Unlike our time, there is now a very low barrier to entry for activism, requiring only a ring light and cheap data.
There is a distinct difference between protesting a broken system and building a working one. When a society elevates critics over creators, it risks getting trapped in cycles of grievance without progress.
Abiona Joel retweeted
One would think he received zero votes 🤣🤣.
President Tinubu secured 482,283 votes, while Atiku secured 489,045, a difference of just 6,762 votes.
It all depends on how you define winning, but if Tinubu can achieve something similar in states like Katsina in 2027, believe me, he has already secured another victory.
That is precisely the kind of electoral strategy he deployed to outsmart both Atiku and Obi in 2023.
Tinubu Must Stay.
#ArewaForAsiwaju #A4A
