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Nigerians, there is fire on the mountain!
After weeks of dragging INEC to publish the votersâ register, they have finally unlocked it on their website. But guess what? There are over millions of duplicated voters with the same picture, the same NIN, but different voter numbers. Some people can even identify their family members who died over eight years ago still listed on the website.
What a useless waste of resources.
You remember when the APC was moving mad, sharing rice and collecting peopleâs voter card numbers and NINs? This is what they achieved with it. What does this mean? For instance, in a polling unit of 2,000 voters, AI can record 10,000 voters using the rest of the duplicate data.
INEC is a fraud. Amupitan has instigated revolution and chaos in this country.
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This is mathematics. A number that is the sum of the seventh powers of its own digits. Mystic digital self-assembly.
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- First, he said, you were a very big fool to offer me a free lunch when I did not ask for it. No 1 rule you should learn is that âthere is no free lunch in Lagosâ. -
Meeting Uncle Sam medium.com/p/republished-meeâŚ
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Can you imagine how many approvals, contracts, payments and signatures happen before public money becomes 48 properties owned by one man?
Corruption cases like this should leave Nigerians asking:
Where did the system fail?
Budget implementation?
Procurement?
Internal audit?
Asset declaration?
Accountability shouldn't begin with asset recovery. It should begin long before public resources can be diverted in the first place.
EFCC Secures Final Forfeiture of University, Radio Station, 46 Other Properties Linked to Malami
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, secured the final forfeiture of 48 properties linked to a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
Among the forfeited properties are Rayhaan University, Kebbi State, including the Rayhaan University Permanent Site, Rayhaan University Temporary Site, Rayhaan University Third Site, the Rayhaan University Vice Chancellor's House and Rayhaan Radio along Sani Abacha Bypass Road, Birnin Kebbi.
Delivering judgment, Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Abuja, held that the Commission had successfully established that the properties were reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities and were not acquired from lawful sources of income.
The properties finally forfeited to the Federal Government are: a luxury duplex at Amazon Street, Plot No. 3011 within Cadastral Zone A06, Maitama District, Abuja (File No. AN 11352); a two-winged large three-storey building situated at No. 3 Onitsha Crescent, Area 11, Garki, Cadastral Zone A03, Abuja (formerly Harmonia Hotels Limited); Plot 683, Jabi District, Cadastral Zone B04, comprising a five-storey building (now luxurious Meethaq Hotels Ltd., Jabi, with 53 rooms/suites); Property No. 3130 within Cadastral Zone A04, Asokoro District, FCT, Abuja, comprising terraces; Property No. 3 Rhine Street, Maitama, Abuja (Meethaq Hotels Ltd., Maitama, with 15 rooms); and Plot No. 1241B, Asokoro District (No. 11A Yakubu Gowon Crescent), Asokoro District.
Others are: Shop No. C52, Citiscape â Shariff Plaza, Plot 739, Cadastral Zone A07, Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse II, FCT, Abuja; No. 4 Ahmadu Bello Way, Nasarawa GRA, Kano; Plot 157, Lamido Nasarawa GRA, Kano; a commercial plaza comprising commercial toilets, laundering facilities, warehouse tanks adjacent to Birnin Kebbi Market; 100 hectares of land along Birnin KebbiâJega Road; and another 100 hectares of land along Birnin KebbiâJega Road.
Others are: a four-bedroom bungalow at Gesse Phase II, Birnin Kebbi; Shops Nos. A36 and B3, Vegas Mall, Wuse II, Abuja; No. 26 Babbi Drive, BUA Estate, Abuja; No. 27 EFAB Estate, 5th Avenue, 59th Crescent, Gwarimpa, Abuja; a four-bedroom house with two-room boys' quarters at No. 10B Doka Crescent, Abakpa GRA, Kaduna; Plot No. 13, IPENT 7 Estate, Karsana District, Abuja; a bedroom duplex with boys' quarters at No. 12 Yalinga Street, off Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja; two warehouse shops B40 and B46, Wuse Market, Abuja; acquisition of twin houses at Zone E, Apo Legislative Quarters, Cadastral Zone B01, Plot 1401, Gudu District, Abuja; and properties acquired by Khadimiyya for Justice & Development Initiative at the Academic Garden City, Birnin Kebbi, sold by the Federal Housing Authority Mortgage, namely: nine units of three-bedroom bungalows, three units of two-bedroom bungalows, and 5.4 hectares of land.
Also forfeited are the Rayhaan Agro Allied Factory in Kebbi State, including the factory buildings, factory machines and plant units, factory mosque, Rayhaan Mill staff quarters, and the Rayhaan Bustan Building.
 Others are assets at Azbir Arena, Kebbi State, including Azbir Hotel, Printing Press, Gallery, Gardens, Mosque, Azbir Clothing, and Azbir Pharmacy and Supermarket.
Other forfeited properties include the Al-Afiya Energy tanker garage opposite Rayhaan University Health Centre along Sani Abacha Bypass Road, Birnin Kebbi; Rayhaan Security House off Sani Abacha Bypass, Birnin Kebbi; an uncompleted two-storey plaza located opposite Central Motor Park (Eastern Park), Birnin Kebbi; Amasdul Oil and Gas Ltd. filling station structure along Sani Abacha Bypass Road, Birnin Kebbi, near Jambali Automobile Workshop; the assets of Zeennoor Hotel at Kabuga Satellite Town, off Gwarzo Road, Kano, with 131 rooms; Zeennoor Mosque at Kabuga Satellite Town, off Gwarzo Road, Kano; and the old Zeennoor Hotel building.
It would be recalled that on January 6, 2026, Justice Emeka Nwite granted the interim forfeiture order following an ex parte motion moved by counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ekele Iheanacho, SAN.
Sequel to the granting of the interim forfeiture order, and in compliance with the order of the court, the EFCC published the interim order in national dailies, inviting interested persons to come forward and show cause why the final forfeiture order should not be granted in favour of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
The EFCC subsequently filed a motion for the final forfeiture of all the properties.
Meanwhile, following the publication of the interim order, Mr. Malami, SAN, and 14 other persons, mainly his family members and associates, filed applications to show cause and also urged the court to set aside the interim forfeiture order on the properties. They further challenged the jurisdiction of the court to grant the order and urged it not to grant the final forfeiture order.
The case was heard before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik on May 27, 2026, and the matter was thereafter adjourned for judgment.
Delivering judgment on Wednesday, the court held that the EFCC had sufficiently established that the 48 properties were reasonably suspected to have been acquired with proceeds of unlawful activities, and that the respondents failed to discharge the evidential burden placed on them, as they could not show the legitimate sources of the funds used in acquiring the properties.
The court further held that the respondents merely claimed ownership of the properties without providing proof of how they acquired them with funds from lawful sources.
According to the court, non conviction-based forfeiture proceedings require respondents to adduce evidence showing the lawful sources of the funds used in acquiring the properties, and not merely make bare assertions of ownership.
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Do you know why Think and Grow Rich has inspired so many entrepreneurs?
The strange thing is that it contains almost no practical blueprint for starting a business. It does not teach you how to find customers, build a product, raise capital or manage cash flow.
Yet countless successful business owners credit it as one of the books that changed their lives.
Why?
My theory is that the book changes identity.
It convinces ordinary people that building extraordinary things is within their reach. Once someone genuinely believes that, they begin to take risks they would otherwise avoid and notice opportunities they would previously have ignored.
Belief changes behaviour, and then behaviour changes outcomes.
Now look at this photograph.
Lionel Messi was randomly paired with a five-month-old baby after the child's family won a UNICEF charity raffle during a Barcelona photoshoot.
That baby was Lamine Yamal.
Objectively, the photograph is nothing more than an extraordinary coincidence.
But imagine growing up with that picture. It would be difficult not to feel that your story was somehow different; and that perhaps you were destined for something remarkable.
Whether or not destiny exists is beside the point.
The belief itself can become a powerful force.
There is even an experiment to prove this:
In 1968, researchers Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson carried out what became known as the Pygmalion Effect.
They administered IQ tests to pupils at an elementary school and then randomly selected around 20 per cent of them. The teachers were told that these children were "intellectual bloomers" who were expected to make exceptional academic progress during the year.
But it was just a trick; the pupils had been chosen entirely at random. There was nothing exceptional about them.
Yet, by the end of the year, many of these pupils started doing better than their classmates.
The researchers argued that the teachers' expectations subtly changed how they treated those children; offering more encouragement, more patience and more opportunities: which helped improve their performance.
Expectations changed behaviour.
Behaviour changed results.
Maybe the same principle explains why Think and Grow Rich has had such a profound impact on so many people.
And maybe it also explains why a random photograph of Messi holding a baby can make the child grow to become a star.
Sometimes a coincidence becomes part of someone's identity, and the stories we believe about ourselves often influence the lives we go on to build.
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I have been asked many times: Why are supposedly rich Nigerians such attention junkies?
Truth be told, this is a generalization because I know many wealthy Nigerians who love seclusion and want no attention at all. Otunba Mike Adenuga is their patron saint. It is, however, true that a fair representation of that class seeks considerable publicity for absurd reasons.
Many in the public are not familiar with the terms PEP (Politically Exposed Persons) or OFAC Lists (The US Office of Foreign Assets Control lists). Those in banking and compliance are very aware. The FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) in the UK also maintains its own lists of rich and prominent people worldwide linked to questionable transactions and dealings.
I didn't understand the importance of D&B, referrals, or the effect of proximity to PEPs until we went through a partnership onboarding process with a major global tech company. They put us through the wringer and eventually created a favorable D&B (Dun and Bradstreet) profile. When we partnered with another tech company, it was faster because they could just refer to the previous profile. I value this more than any publicity.
What saved us was that very early on, I made it a policy not to give bribes to any client or prospective client to get deals. Working with MTN for a long time strengthened this, as they have very strict rules around bribery and corruption, like most major listed institutions. They are also listed in America and are subject to close scrutiny in their dealings.
Many of our so-called "wealthy people" have direct links with government PEPs, and a few may be on those foreign lists. I was going through the updated OFAC SDN list recently and searched for Nigeria. A lot of people I have never heard about came up. They mostly had links to BDCs and Crypto.
I still remember how famous the convicted Nigerian fraudster "Hushpuppie" was until he was apprehended, and I kept asking myself why he had given himself so much attention.
The answer came to me during a conversation with a friend who works at Visa: there is so little information about people's transactions and so little general business data that people use popularity to brute-force referrals.
If you are very popular, people will come to you instead of you going to them. It is a business strategy. That signaling also reached tech startups, as founders began seeking popularity to attract investor attention. One person succeeded, and everyone decided that was the way to go.
Does this work for our rich people in Nigeria? Apparently it does. I still can't forget my uncle buying a brand-new BMW 7 Series in 1999 after a transaction we hadn't fully concluded, and how the mere presence of that car inspired more inbound deal requests. It was like watching a movie. He had been a banker for decades and knew the script.
My friend from Visa was right then about signaling, but I still don't understand why those with very public transactions and dealings are still desperate for publicity and attention. Ego problem, but I could be wrong.
One thing I learned from observing rich Nigerians is that they never play all their cards out in the open. When they show you a lot, be sure that they are hiding even more. I still remember the video of the lady in the market whose friends entered the same business, but she secretly had fish farms.
Whenever a Nigerian is suddenly seeking publicity, just know that the public may be about to be hit with something that will only make the rich man/woman richer. I don't want to use the word "scam," but it is often something close to it.
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One thing Iâve noticed about myself is that I spot patterns very quickly.
When something happens more than once, my brain automatically starts connecting dots.
Most times, I can already see where a situation is headed long before everyone else does.
The frustrating part is that when I warn people, they rarely listen
Then the exact thing I warned about happens
And suddenly, they are back stressing me for solutions
Now Iâm forced to think for them and this stresses me to the core
This has happened to people who are very close to me the most and I just donât know why they wonât listen.
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Nigerian history deserves more than scattered Wikipedia pages. For @1000reasons9ja, I created 1800+ dated moments of Nigerian history. You can now trace Nigeria from the 1300s to 2026.
I also added 200 more reasons against T-Painâs administration.
1000reasons.vote/hall-of-famâŚ
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Iâve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s.
Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, â one searchable graph.
You too can connect the dots: 1000reasons.vote/looters
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Pastor Dolapo Lawal teaching with Pewbeam AIâs Bible presentation software last week was a very delightful couple of seconds.
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I have one piece to share.
I hope all these TL conversations do not poison your heart.
I hope you're not training your mindspace to start choosing partners from a place of fear, or lowered likelihood to cheat. Ask Israel Juju.
These are faulty compasses.
Churchgoers cheat. Atheists cheat. Hijab wielders cheat.
Virgins cheat. Adelebos cheat. 20s cheat. 30s cheat. 40s cheat.
I hope the factors that calibrate your values, are not from Twitter thinkpieces but are strengthened offline. Else, you will end up as a box of ruin.
My safest predicators for relationships are:
- brackets,
- reciprocity.
If you're doing well financially, box within potentials like you doing well financially. Don't be a 7fig earning techie & you'll be hunting smallies struggling with 200L carryover in Laspotech.
Mental brackets. Intellectual brackets. Financial brackets. Exposure brackets.
One of my theories as to why, people (read men) scale way below these brackets is because they're scripting scenarios for control. They're hunting "bendable" women. Chief, she won't be naive forever - but I'll expand on this, some other time.
Be big on reciprocity. As you're doing for your partner in the early weeks, if they like you they would be doing as much.
Using the filters of brackets and reciprocity, are safer predicators than fear and paranoia.
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C.S. Lewisâ incredible observation on friendship
ALT If, of three friends (A, B, and C), A should die, then B loses not only A but âAâs part in Câ, while C loses not only A but âAâs part in Bâ. In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. Now that Charles is dead, I shall never again see Ronaldâs reaction to a specifically Caroline joke. Far from having more of Ronald, having him âto myselfâ now that Charles is away, I have less of Ronald. Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, âHere comes one who will augment our loves.â For in this love âto divide is not to take awayâ.
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You must pay salaries on time,build a structure that is scalable and profitable, trademark and protect your craft. Be tax compliant and meet investors expectations. Talk is cheap ,try it, the body will tell you