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Nigeria: Authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalist Daniel Ojukwu
Nigerian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release investigative journalist Daniel Ojukwu, who was remanded in prison custody for 21 days by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday. His detention raises serious concerns about the use of judicial processes to intimidate journalists and undermine the right to freedom of expression and media freedom in Nigeria.
Daniel Ojukwu, an investigative reporter with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), has faced legal proceedings since December 2024 following his reporting on alleged corruption and the diversion of public funds involving Nigerian government officials. In May 2024, he was abducted by officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in connection with his journalistic work.
The continued prosecution and detention of Ojukwu appear to be part of a broader pattern of using the criminal justice system to punish journalists for exposing allegations of corruption and holding public officials accountable.
Detaining him for a further 21 days risks reinforcing a climate of fear and intimidation among journalists and media professionals.
The authorities must ensure that any legal proceedings comply fully with international human rights standards, including the right to a fair trial and guarantees of due process.
The Nigerian authorities must also immediately end all forms of harassment, intimidation and targeting of investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo. They must respect his right to carry out legitimate journalistic activities, including investigating and exposing corruption, abuse of power and human rights violations, without fear of reprisals.
No journalist should be subjected to threats, intimidation or punitive measures for holding those in positions of power accountable.
The authorities must ensure that journalists, including Daniel Ojukwu and Fisayo Soyombo, can work freely and independently without interference or fear of arbitrary arrest, detention or prosecution.
Any attempt to silence investigative journalists through intimidation or the misuse of the criminal justice system constitutes a serious threat to the right to freedom of expression and media freedom in Nigeria.
The Nigerian government must respect, protect and fulfil the right to freedom of expression and the freedom of the press, including the right of journalists and citizens to investigate, report on and criticise public officials and government policies without fear of reprisals.
Authorities must refrain from weaponising criminal laws and judicial processes to intimidate, harass, punish or silence journalists, activists, human rights defenders and other government critics. Journalism is not a crime, and exposing allegations of corruption must never be treated as an offence.
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Let me tell you something that just happened in Nigeria.
A journalist exposed a current SSA to Tinubu, Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire for diverting money meant for Nigerian children classrooms.
The SSA instead of clearing the air, went to court under the guise of a government NGO. She said the report put her in “fear of death.”
How do you pay money for children classrooms to a restaurant account? @Adejoke_O_A
Guess who the court ordered to be thrown in Jail till December to decide bail for “cybercrime”? This is after he was kidnapped by the police for 10 days in 2024.
You guessed right. The journalist.
This is the SSA below. Excuse me ma. You are 67 years old. Don’t you think money for classrooms being misappropriated robs the future generation?
Politics has sustained you for half your lifetime. From commissioner to deputy governor to SSA. When will you allow it to sustain the future generation?
Arrest me too @Adejoke_O_A but you must explain how money meant for classrooms was paid into a restaurant account. Use your United Action for Change NGO.
#Journalismisnotacrime #FreeDanielOjukwu
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November 09, 2026 — MEMAN Competency Centre Energy Bulletin: Import parity & gantry PMS, AGO and ATK prices, international crude indicators, and critical market headlines.
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For almost 30 years, the APC leadership in Lagos has had the opportunity to implement policies and proposals that could significantly improve the living conditions of Lagosians. Yet, rather than hold those in power accountable for their lack of political will and the failure to translate these opportunities into tangible outcomes, some o us would rather record videos explaining how another candidate’s proposal already exists in a 15 year old master plan that has still not been implemented.
At what point do we stop celebrating master plans and start demanding results?
The problem with us as a people is that we have become very comfortable scrutinising those who are seeking power while giving those who already wield it a free pass.
We have normalised mediocrity and rationalised years of underperformance which has made us become so accustomed to our suffering that we have practically turned our chains into bling.
The most unfortunate part is that some of us are now actively defending the very things we should be demanding an end to.
Yesterday GRV said he’s going to abandon the 4th mainland bridge idea and replace them with 3 proposed parallel bridges.
Unfortunately his proposal is worse than what the Lagos state government currently has in place.
I don’t know if he did that ignorantly (which is an embarrassment to his MIT architectural degree) or he intentionally twisted the facts to deceive the gullible public who don’t have access to the plans of the state.
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Lagos deserves better, and Lagosians deserve more.
Yesterday, at the Consortium Lagos Governorship Debate, I spoke about a Lagos operating far below its potential.
And how the problems we face as a State are not beyond our ability to solve. They are problems that require the political will to confront vested interests and put Lagosians first.
We will: invest in the people, modernize transportation, expand housing, support businesses and job creation, dismantle systems that exploit ordinary Lagosians and build a sustainable state that works for everyone.
Our manifesto is Ona Tuntun, A New Way. The choice before Lagosians is simple: more promises from an incumbent 27-year hegemony, or a new way?
Ó TI YÁ.
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Quoting so others can see as well. The accommodation weren’t purpose built as hotel rooms. They are actually dormitories built in the 1960s for visiting scholars. So yeah they are basic but pristine and well maintained and that was okay for me.
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Little to do with El Nino. 2 things can cause this.. and could be both..
- 1 system was not properly sized to load. That means your system was not designed to sustain your load.
- 2 System not competently installed and thus not performing properly.
Go to this telegram group. Look for the question and answer section.
Snap a picture of your system and upload.. a member of the community would help review your setup. It's a free peer to peer community where people help each other out gratis.
t.me/+hENvfZoU1AAyN2E0 – at Ikeja, Nigeria
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Save these tips if you plan to visit IITA (from Lagos)
1. Take the train. You can only book within a 48hr window of your trip. First class has ton of leg room but the coach cabin isn’t bad as well. I did both
2. IITA itself is best reached for bookings over email. As of Nov 2026, their rooms start from N125k (single). The one bedroom is N160k. I stayed in both but preferred the one bed as it has a kitchenette
3. The food in the International House cafeteria is quite nice. Don’t miss the sea food okro, pizza (they have a proper wood-fired oven), the meat pies (baked fresh at 11am every day), suya and all the different varieties of pepper soup. There’s also fresh palmwine on some days and this delicious pineapple drink you absolutely need to try.
4. The tennis coach is amazing. Book a class with him. He is also super beginner friendly.
5. Don’t miss a tour of the grounds. If you are lucky, you’ll get someone to show you around the farms as well.
6. Sunset at the lake is a must-do. Ask to be taken to the peninsula and also the dam as well.
7. Please be respectful of the grounds. It is a quiet research environment. It is also plastic-free so dispose of all your trash in the designated bins.
8. The forest walk is also a cool thing to do but you need at least two people for that. I was solo so couldn’t do it this time
9. The cafeteria dj comes alive in the evenings so don’t spend all your time in the room
10. The staff are incredible. Tip if you can
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"Let me begin with a plain description of where we are, because Nigerians are living with two economies at the same time.
The first is the economy of the national accounts. Our external reserves, the country’s savings in foreign currency, have risen from about US$33 billion in May 2023 to about US$55 billion at the end of October 2026. Inflation has slowed to 14.63%. The economy grew by 4.43% in the second quarter, and tax collections more than doubled between 2023 and 2025. Refining and fertiliser exports are also growing. These are real achievements that came from difficult decisions.
The second is the economy of the kitchen table, the economy of the trader, the teacher, the pensioner, the artisan and the small business owner. Here the picture is harder. When inflation slows, prices are still rising, only more slowly. A kilogram of local rice cost about N757 in September 2023 and about N1,862 in November 2025, according to NBS. The new minimum wage of N70,000 buys about 51 litres of petrol at a recent Lagos pump price, while the old N30,000 wage bought about 126 litres in May 2023 at the national average price. The comparison uses two different price bases, but every household recognises the pressure it describes. The World Bank estimates that 63% of Nigerians were poor in 2025.
Between these two economies sits a transmission gap, and I see four leaks in the pipe.
1. The government’s improved revenue goes first to interest and recurrent costs, leaving little for investment.
2. Factories pay too much for power and credit to produce cheaply.
3. Food leaves the farm at one price and reaches the market at a much higher one because of insecurity, poor storage and transport costs.
4. Wages are reviewed only every few years while prices move every month.
The manifesto addresses each of these leaks. It promises more power and metering for industry, conditional support for manufacturers, storage and secured farm corridors for food, a larger social register, wider health insurance, and a quarterly cost-of-living basket within the first 100 days. That is the right map.
What it still needs is costing, dates for 2027 and 2028, and clear targets for real wages, food prices, and poverty. Most of its dated targets fall in 2030 and 2031, while households will judge the next government by what happens to their incomes in the next two years.
My assessment is constructive, as Nigeria has recorded meaningful macroeconomic and selected productive gains. Spreading those gains across enterprises, employment and household incomes is the task of the next four years."
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The Manifesto: proshare.co/articles/apc-man…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presents its 2027–2031 manifesto, From Reforms to Prosperity, as the second phase of the Renewed Hope Agenda, and it commits the next term to converting macroeconomic stabilisation into higher purchasing power and lower living costs.
The gains thus far are measurable. Gross reserves reached US$55.22bn on October 30, 2026; headline inflation eased to 14.63% in September; real GDP grew 4.43% in Q2; and tax collections more than doubled between 2023 and 2025. Domestic refining and fertiliser exports have also recorded measurable gains.
Stabilisation, however, remains incomplete. Federal interest payments of N7.7trn exceeded revenue of N6.2trn in the first half of 2026 on the World Bank’s measure, and the Bank estimated poverty at 63% in 2025. In an illustrative comparison, the N70,000 minimum wage buys 51.47 litres of petrol at an October 2026 Lagos price, against 125.99 litres for the N30,000 wage at the May 2023 national average.
The manifesto quantifies its power, export, manufacturing and inflation ambitions but leaves wages, food affordability and poverty without outcome targets, costs, commitment, and dates, with 10 of its 11 timed targets set for 2030 or 2031. Spreading the gains across enterprises, employment and household incomes is the task of the next four years.
Proshare will track the December 2026 budget, the June 2027 minimum-wage review, publication of baselines and the cost-of-living basket within 100 days of inauguration, and financial close on the Projects Nigeria pipeline.
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If you’re a young person in Lagos, what should concern you is that the APC administration is 26 years of governance has not delivered up to 20,000 social housing units (and this is being generous).
What should concern you is that even their renewed hope housing program has not delivered up to a 1000 completed housing units.
Algeria delivered 1.7 million units in four years in 2024. South Korea delivered over 2 million units in 1991.
But these jesters want you to believe so badly that delivering 100,000 units is impossible.
Trust me when I say this, a 100,000 units is not even ambitious enough to tackle the scale of the misgovernace in the last 26 years.
And yes, we can build enough social housing for young graduates to occupy.
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Regards
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The debate fact-checkers called me out during the debate but they got it wrong. Precisely as I said in my opening statement, according to the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics data, Lagos does earn more IGR than 31 states combined: ₦1.77tn vs ₦1.73tn (NBS, 2025).
An apology is in order I believe.
Full list below.
Source: microdata.nigerianstat.gov.n…
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The Lagos PROMISE 2027–2031 and the Coherence of Lagos Plans, Continuity, Gaps and the Financing Test
The Lagos PROMISE (Ileri Eko), the 2027–2031 manifesto of Dr Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, sets out 100 pledges across seven pillars and presents itself as the continuation of THEMES+ and of the Lagos State Development Plan 2022–2052. This @ecopoliticsNG analyst note evaluates that claim of continuity against the plans the next administration will inherit, namely LSDP 2052, THEMES and THEMES+, the Lagos State Industrial Policy 2025–2030 and the federal frameworks on which several pledges depend. The inheritance is substantial.
The State reports recurrent revenue of N2.61trn and capital expenditure of N1.27trn in the first nine months of 2026 against a N4.44trn appropriation, and its domestic and external debt stood at N1.20trn and US$1.27bn at June 2026.
@BudgITng ranks Lagos first of 35 states on fiscal performance, while the revised 2026 @PCLAfrica's State Performance Index records citizen satisfaction of 2.58 out of 5.
The manifesto aligns with LSDP 2052 and with #THEMES and #THEMES+ at the pillar level. Coherence, however, weakens at the target level.
Of the 28 pledges with quantified targets, 23 (82.14%) carry no baseline, no pledge carries a cost, and several targets differ from figures in the Industrial Policy, the State’s current transport statements and other pages of the manifesto.
The manifesto names federal instruments but matches them with policy alignment rather than documented allocations.
Proshare notes the manifesto's level of detail and will track the publication of a costed pledge register, the reconciliation of manifesto targets with Industrial Policy Phase II and Phase III, and how federal dependencies are treated in the 2027 budget cycle.
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I just ran some data to back up this post. I have so far generated 3.7 million Naira worth of electricity from solar this year. That is 16 Megawatt hours of electricity.
I asked Claude to calculate how much it would cost me doing the same with diesel and it was 12 M Naira if the diesel generator was running 10 hours per day on average.
I did not include the cost savings in gas for cooking and baking - and I bake my own bread -
The crazy thing is - the system has so much excess capacity that by noon a lot of excess solar goes to waste. This is why getting an electric car to use that excess solar would further save cost on petrol.
100% energy independence is good. Don't let anyone gaslite you.
Pull the trigger and get a competent solar install. You are already doing between 15m to 32m a year at the rate of your spend on diesel generator. 15m is the price of a decent sedan. At that price you have a tech that generates electricity from the sun and gives you a comfortable life.
You only live once bro.. your well-being, your productivity matters a lot.
I did spend considerably on my system but.. I have not a single regret. I am completely energy independent. When light was good in my Band A my system saves me between 350k to 500k a month on electricity bills.
Now the power is unreliable so bad that everyone is complaining my neighbors runs his Diesel gen almost 247 but my system is always on.
I have 5 AC, 3 water heater. I bake my own bread using excess solar at noon. All my cooking is done using induction. My lawn mower is electric. Water pump, pressure pump all run on solar.
The system allows me to establish a base of comfort that allows me to focus and be productive (as a remote worker) I can wake up at midnight and head to my home office to get some work done in climate controlled room.
I wrote some smart into my system that allows it to use weather information to decide when to take from grid during rainy season and when grid is down and heavy storms is predicted disable heavy non essential like pressure pump electric oven and cooker and water heater.
Over the past year the system had only had to triggered once.. all through July to now I have been completely off grid.
I am getting an EV and excess solar would now be used for charging it.
Yes my system is not for everyone not everyone can afford it, but even I started small, very very small 10 years ago with a small setup to carry basic needs. That setup grew to what I have today.
There is a protest planned for today around Lugbe Abuja to pressure govt to fix power unfortunately I am not around to participate I will continue to push for a better grid in Nigeria but I will never blink at using technology to solve my electricity problems.
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NISO is complaining about gas supply and availability.
NNPC is clarifying on gas transportation network.
I think NNPC press is not directly addressing NISO issue.
NNPC is saying we are ready to transport the gas. NISO is saying the gas is not available.
The answer is simple. Someone stop/reduce supplying the gas for reasons we all can predict.....which is money/payments.
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📘 Energy Digest | November 2026 (Part 1)
This edition of the MEMAN Energy Digest explores the potential of biofuels to turn agricultural and organic waste into useful energy, supporting cleaner fuel alternatives, waste management, and Nigeria’s energy transition.
