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17/09/2026

Borgu: We Must Never Normalise the Killing of Nigerians

The reports emerging from Borgu, Niger State, are becoming increasingly difficult to comprehend and deeply painful to contemplate. On 27 August, I expressed my anguish over the reported abduction of about 600 Nigerians, many of them women, children and elderly people, alongside the killing of others. I described it then as “one case too many” and urged that it be treated with the urgency it deserved.

Today, that anguish has become even deeper. We are now confronted with continuing reports of the gruesome killing of some of those abducted, while many others remain unaccounted for.

In another disturbing incident, a bandit group reportedly beheaded a Nigerian and sent his severed head to a community leader over a ₦50 million levy. If the reported killing was intended to increase pressure on the community and extract more money for those still being held, then we must recognise the terrible reality before us: human life is being deliberately turned into a bargaining instrument.

One person is killed to terrorise an entire community, while others are kept alive as hostages for more ransom. This is not merely criminality; it is the systematic devaluation of human life. These are not statistics. They are Nigerians. They are mothers, fathers, children, brothers, sisters and elderly people. Their only offence was to live in communities where the protection of the state has become increasingly inadequate.

We must therefore ask ourselves a fundamental question: At what point do we, as a nation, decide that this is no longer acceptable? We cannot continue to normalise the kidnapping of hundreds of citizens, the killing of innocent people, the imposition of levies on communities, the displacement of entire populations and the payment of ransom as though these are unavoidable features of Nigerian life.

The consequences of insecurity go beyond those abducted or killed. Families are displaced, farms abandoned, businesses destroyed, children deprived of education, and citizens forced to seek safety elsewhere. Insecurity ultimately destroys both lives and public confidence in government.

Nigeria cannot continue reacting only after lives are lost. We need intelligence-led operations, stronger community security, rapid response, better coordination and equipment for our security forces, effective border protection, and sustained action against criminal networks.

The primary responsibility of government is the security and welfare of its citizens. While politicians prepare for elections, Nigerians are asking for something more fundamental: the right to live. We must never accept a Nigeria where kidnapping, ransom, criminal levies and the killing of innocent citizens become normal. Every Nigerian life matters. Every victim deserves justice. Every community deserves protection.

Our prayers must be matched with action. No criminal group should determine who lives or dies anywhere in Nigeria. Nigeria must restore security, justice, and the dignity of human life.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

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30/08/2026

Did you know that Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu maintained an Ideological rift with Emeka Ojukwu during the Nigerian Civil W*r. Nzeogwu was deeply opposed to the secession of Eastern Nigeria and held a turbulent relationship with the Biafran leader.

Following the failure of the January coup, Nzeogwu was detained at Kirikiri Prison and later transferred to the East. When the Eastern Region declared independence as the Republic of Biafra in May 1967, Nzeogwu was released from prison.

However, he strongly disagreed with the decision to secede, maintaining his ideal of a unified, socialist-leaning Nigeria free from ethnic factionalism. His radical nationalist views clashed directly with Ojukwu’s administrative authority and political strategy.

Recognizing Nzeogwu's immense popularity among junior officers and civilians, Ojukwu kept him under close watch, initially denying him a formal command position within the Biafran Armed Forces. But then, when a position was offered to Nzeogwu, he refused to wear the official Biafran military uniform in public for a time, operating instead as an irregular field commander leading localized reconnaissance operations in the Nsukka sector.

Operating on the Nsukka front in the opening weeks of the Nigerian Civil War, Nzeogwu led a small squad on a night combat patrol near Obollo-Eke. Driven by his characteristic personal bravery and preference for leading from the front line, Nzeogwu advanced into a zone that had already been infiltrated by troops from the Nigerian Army's 1st Division. They were caught in an ambush in pitch darkness. His unit was engaged in heavy close-quarters firefights.

DIFFERING HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS from commanders on both sides suggest that in the confusion of the night engagement, Nzeogwu's team was heavily outgu**ed. He was unalived alongside his men, ending the life of the 30-year-old officer from Okpanam in present-day Delta State, just weeks into the Nigerian-Biafran civil w*r.

Question: Could it be that he was trying to make contact with the federal forces to find a solution to the crisis?

What lessons have you learned from this inspiring story?

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10/08/2026

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07/07/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, in light of the foregoing issues scandalizing the entire government structure, from the Presidency to the National Assembly, from the Budget Office to the CBN, from the Nigeria Police that deployed officers attached to the so-called fake DG, to the Head of Service that approved 300 staff for the agency, to the EFCC that gave him an award, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that granted him unfettered access to foreign institutions, diplomats, special envoys and ambassadors... and much more.

So, the question is this: who will investigate whom?

How does a thoroughly compromised system investigate itself?

Can the Presidency investigate the Presidency?

13/04/2026

07/04/2026

“This Experience Will Not Repeat Itself” - Another Presidential Promise fails in less than 24 Hours.

Less than 24 hours after President Tinubu stood at the Jos Plateau State airport on April 2, 2026, and promised the grieving Nigerian citizens, “I promise you that this experience will not repeat itself,” another brutal attack occurred in Nyamgo Gyel, Jos South LGA, resulting in the deaths of several innocent citizens.

Since then, and only a week following that reassuring promise from the President, Nasarawa State has been plunged into grief as the Akyawa and Udege Kasa communities fled for their lives after gunmen killed at least 11 people. Many homes were reduced to ashes, and numerous families remain missing.

In Zamfara State, 150 innocent Nigerians were abducted from the Kurfa Danya and Kurfan Magaji communities in one of the largest mass kidnappings in recent times. On the same day of the Zamfara kidnappings, terrorists in Borno State stormed Chibok, killing four officers and burning down homes.

Yesterday, on Easter Sunday, Benue State was rocked by violence again, with over 17 Nigerians massacred, entire communities left in ruins, and many individuals still unaccounted for. Today, in Kaduna State, several innocent citizens were killed by terrorists inside churches, with many others abducted in the Ariko community of Kachia LGA.

Yet we were told, “This experience will not repeat itself.” This represents a failure of leadership and responsibility, and sadly, Nigerians are paying for it with their lives.

These attackers are not ghostly figures; our inaction emboldens them. How can a President make such a categorical promise and, mere hours later, the nation continues to count the dead across multiple states? The primary responsibility of any government is to protect lives and property; however, this responsibility is failing today. Nigerians are being slaughtered in their homes, in their communities, and in the very places they should feel safest. Even the President did not enter these communities, so who is truly safe in Nigeria?

This is a national emergency. Nigeria is bleeding, and the situation is worsening and increasingly helpless.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

Nigeria News Now

29/03/2026

WHO IS THIS MAN? The American Courts Are About to Tell Nigeria the Truth About Bola Ahmed Tinubu
By Kio Amachree | Stockholm, Sweden

I am the eldest son of Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree QC — Nigeria’s first Solicitor-General, Acting Attorney-General, first Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice, Senior Crown Counsel to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and Attorney-General of the British Cameroons. I grew up in the law. My father’s closest friends were Queen’s Counsel, judges, and diplomats. I studied law myself — in England and in Sweden, where I reside. I do not put pen to paper lightly. And I do not use the word alleged when the documentary evidence no longer supports it.

I have read the United States court documents in the matter of the United States government versus the financial interests of Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I have read them carefully, as a man trained in the law on two continents, carrying the name of one of Nigeria’s greatest legal minds. And I am here to tell my fellow Nigerians what those documents say — plainly, without the fog of political protection that has surrounded this man for three decades.

In 1993, Bola Ahmed Tinubu forfeited $460,000 to the American government after authorities linked the funds to proceeds of narcotics trafficking.  This was not a misunderstanding. This was not a clerical error. A DOJ affidavit by IRS Special Agent Kevin Moss confirmed that Tinubu’s US bank accounts — holding over $1.4 million — were under investigation for suspected he**in trafficking connections and money laundering activities, and explicitly named the FBI, DEA, and IRS as agencies involved in the probe.  The drug in question was he**in. The city was Chicago. The network was real.

The IRS Special Agent’s affidavit outlined the drug trafficking activities of one Abiodun Agbele, who was arrested while selling white he**in to an undercover agent. Agbele identified a man named Akande — linked to Tinubu — as his uncle, and claimed that Akande had helped him secure an apartment in Hammond, Indiana. Further DEA investigations revealed that Agbele had sold he**in to multiple individuals on several occasions. 
These are American federal documents. Sworn affidavits. Court filings. Not rumour. Not opposition propaganda. Not the imaginings of a diaspora agitator. Legal instruments produced by the Department of Justice of the United States of America.

Now, in February 2026, the mask is being removed — not by me, but by the American judiciary itself.
Judge Beryl A. Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rebuked the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration for employing delay tactics to frustrate the release of President Tinubu’s records. Her court described the agencies’ non-disclosure posture as presenting arguments that were “neither logical nor plausible,” and noted the existence of incessant postponements that had caused the case to linger for over three years. 

Judge Howell ordered the FBI to file sworn statements explaining its repeated failure to meet court deadlines, and directed the bureau to release all non-exempt records related to Tinubu. The FBI was additionally instructed to submit a detailed timetable showing how it plans to release the second batch of 500 pages by March 13, and complete full disclosure by June 1, 2026. The court further ordered both the FBI and DEA to submit joint status reports every 14 days starting February 27 until all responsive records are processed and released. 
This is not a witch hunt. This is a federal judge — appointed for life, answerable to no Nigerian politician — demanding accountability from America’s own intelligence agencies on behalf of the public’s right to know.
The court’s judgment was unambiguous: “The FBI and DEA have both officially confirmed investigations of Tinubu relating to the drug trafficking ring. Any privacy interests implicated by the FOIA requests to the FBI and DEA for records about Tinubu are overcome by the public interest in release of such information.” 
Let those words sit with you, Nigeria.

Overcome by the public interest. An American federal court has ruled that Nigerians — and the world — have the right to know who their president truly is.
I am told that in raising these questions, I have insulted the Tinubu administration. I have been subjected to abuse on social media. I have been told things about my father — my father, Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree QC, pioneer of Nigerian jurisprudence, servant of the Crown and of the United Nations — that are too vile to repeat. Grown men, hiding behind anonymous accounts, insulting a dead lion to wound his son.

They have miscalculated.
I survived Eton. I survived the boardrooms of Wall Street. I have navigated the legal and political corridors of three continents. A keyboard bully from Abuja cannot break what decades of real opposition could not. Every insult they send strengthens my resolve. Every threat deepens my investigation. They have not silenced me. They have sharpened me.

I am not a politician. I am not running for president. I am a citizen — a very particular citizen, carrying a very particular name, with a very particular obligation to the truth that my father embodied. I am asking questions that every Nigerian deserves answered: Who is this man? What did he agree to? What did he forfeit, and why? What understanding was reached with the authorities that allowed a man with this background to ascend to the presidency of Africa’s most populous nation?
These are not radical questions. In any functioning democracy, they would be the first questions asked.
Nigeria is watching. The world is watching. And on June 1, 2026, the United States government — compelled by its own courts — will begin to provide answers that A*o Rock cannot suppress, spin, or silence.
My father taught me that the law, when properly applied, is the greatest equalizer known to civilization. He was right then. He is right now.
God bless Nigeria. God bless the truth.

Kio Amachree is a Swedish-Nigerian political commentator, diaspora activist, and founder of SKJ Records Sweden. He is the eldest son of Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree QC, Nigeria’s first Solicitor-General and UN Under-Secretary-General.



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27/03/2026

BRITAIN'S BILL IS DUE. WHY THE UK HAS REFUSED TO TALK ABOUT BIAFRA:

Written by Mike Arnold.

Word is, my biggest sin in Washington isn’t what I’ve said about the genocide.

It’s what I’ve said about the British.

More specifically, I had the audacity to publicly say the B word: Biafra.

Not as an advocate for separation, mind you — only for historical context. I have never advocated for Biafran secession. I have communicated their righteous grievances.

I have also called on them repeatedly to lay down that talk for now and band together across tribal lines to end the evil regime strangling the entire nation. Only when the stranglehold is broken can every people group draw their own map in peace.

But I believe — fundamentally, non-negotiably — that every people group has the right to choose their own path. And what the British did to them is a vast, horrific, ongoing evil.

And apparently, that is the most dangerous thing I can say in Washington.

More dangerous than naming the genocide and those behind it.

More dangerous than exposing the lobbyists and pharisaical swamp creatures.

Because this one hangs a starvation genocide around some very important limey necks.

So let’s talk about that.

What Britain Did:

In 1914, Lord Lugard drew a line around two incompatible civilizations — the Islamic Caliphate of the North and the Christian and traditional peoples of the South — called it Nigeria, and handed it to the Crown. Nobody was asked.

The contraption was designed from birth to keep the Caliphate in administrative control and the oil flowing to London.

When the SouthEast tried to leave in 1967 — after tens of thousands of Igbos were slaughtered in northern pogroms — Britain showed it's hand.

Their own declassified Foreign Office documents state it plainly:

“The sole immediate British interest in Nigeria is that the Nigerian economy should be brought back to a condition in which our substantial trade and investment in the country can be further developed, and particularly so we can regain access to important oil installations.”

That’s not my accusation. That’s their confession.

Shell-BP — part owned by the British government — controlled 84% of Nigeria’s oil production. Two thirds of it was in Biafran territory.

So Harold Wilson’s Labour government secretly armed the Nigerian federal military. Millions of rounds of ammunition. Hundreds of machine guns. Thousands of mortar and artillery bombs. Aircraft. Armored personnel carriers.

While standing in Parliament and lying about it.
Nigeria imposed a blockade on Biafra. Food couldn’t get in. Medicine couldn’t get in. The famine was not an accident. It was the strategy.

When parliamentarians begged Wilson to stop — estimating two million deaths from starvation — he rebuffed them. Two days later he secretly agreed to supply Nigeria with aircraft for the first time.

When images of skeletal Biafran children shocked the world, Wilson called it “propaganda.”

Up to three million people died. Most of them children.

Britain pocketed the oil.

They have never apologized. Never acknowledged it in a school textbook. Never paid a single penny.

What They Owe:

Here is a reasonable, precedented tally. Not a number pulled from the air — a calculation built category by category from documented facts.

Oil Revenue — Biafran Territory
Nigeria has earned approximately $600 billion in oil revenue since the 1960s. Two thirds of Shell-BP’s operations were in Biafran territory. At a 60% territorial share — $360 billion. Adjusted for inflation from 1967 dollars to today — conservatively $2.5 trillion.

Wrongful Death — Up to 3 Million People
International wrongful death precedents — Holocaust reparations, ICC awards, comparable genocide settlements — range from $100,000 to $500,000 per life. At a conservative $500,000 per person — $1.5 trillion.

Structural Damages — 112 Years of the Contraption:

The 1914 amalgamation. The installation of the Caliphate as the administrative class. The 1960 handover engineered to protect British commercial dominance. The ongoing genocide that architecture enables to this day. Caribbean nations are currently pursuing $10 trillion from Britain for slavery reparations. Nigeria’s case is more recent, more direct, and more documentable. Conservative estimate — $1 trillion.

Obstruction of humanitarian aid. Arms supply to an aggressor. Compounding interest on all of the above — add $500 billion minimum.

The Total:

Approximately $6 trillion.

Twice Britain’s annual GDP.

The largest reparations claim in human history.

Every penny of it sourced from declassified British government documents. Harold Wilson’s own words. Shell-BP’s own records. The Foreign Office’s own confessions.

A free Biafra — or any legitimate successor government representing the Southeast — would have full legal standing to file this claim before the International Court of Justice.

Which is exactly why the British don’t want anyone talking about Biafra.

And exactly why they don’t want me in that briefing room.

Now you know why this is the forbidden topic.

Rise.



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27/03/2026

IPOB commends U.S. lawmakers, calls for referendum on Biafra

The Indigenous People of Biafra has commended a United States-based commentator, Mark Arnold, and members of the U.S. Congress for what it described as their intervention in drawing attention to security concerns in Nigeria.

In a statement issued on Thursday by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, the group said the remarks by the U.S. figures had helped highlight issues affecting communities in parts of the country.

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22/03/2026

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