LAURETTA ONOCHIE

  NIGERIANS AND TINUBU’S SUFFOCATING, FORGED TAX POLICY Nigeria is groaning under an economic weight under the Pres. Tinubu dictatorship. At a time when citizens are battling inflation, unemployment, and the rising cost of basic survival, the Tinubu administration’s tax regime has become an additional noose—tightening around households, small businesses, and the productive middle class. Taxes, in a responsible democracy, are instruments for development. They are meant to be fair, consultative, lawful, and proportionate to citizens’ capacity to pay. What Nigerians are witnessing today, however, is a forged tax policy—one hurriedly assembled, aggressively enforced, and seemingly disconnected from economic realities on the ground. A Policy Without Compassion or Consent From multiple levies to increased tariffs and charges, Nigerians are confronted with taxes that appear neither debated nor democratically owned. The informal sector, which sustains millions, is harassed. Small and...

EFCC’s Open Defiance of Court Order, Continued Illegal Detention, and Media Trial of Abubakar Malami, SAN From: Office of Abubakar Malami, SAN Date: 23 December 2025 The Office of Abubakar Malami, SAN, former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, issues this press release to formally alert the Nigerian public and the international community to the brazen, contemptuous, and lawless conduct of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in its handling of matters concerning Mr. Malami. Following the clear and unequivocal court order granted by the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on 23 December 2025, admitting Abubakar Malami, SAN, to bail on already fulfilled conditions, officials of the EFCC were formally served with the court process. Rather than comply with the authority of the court, the Commission refused to accept the court-backed letter, chased away the bailiff, and insisted on the continued detention of Mr. Malami in blatant defia...

The Office of the Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, issues this press release to formally address the ongoing detention, investigation, and threatened prosecution of Malami by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which he categorically describes as a politically motivated witch-hunt precipitated by his recent defection to the African Democratic Congress (ADC). THE MOTIVE: HISTORICAL ANIMOSITY AND MALICIOUS PERSONAL VENDETTA  Malami states that the present actions of the EFCC are not borne out of law enforcement imperatives but are instead driven by deep-seated historical animosity and a malicious personal vendetta orchestrated by the EFCC Chairman. While serving as Attorney-General of the Federation, Malami recalls that the Federal Government constituted the Justice Ayo Salami Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate grave allegations of corruption and abuse of office within the EFCC. At the time, the curre...

  Opposition Leaders Raise Alarm over Threat Against Nigeria's Multi-Party Democracy. *Accuse Tinubu govt of plot to annihilate opposition *Demand independent review body to examine public accounts of federal, state, LGs from 2015 to 2025 *Propose embedding anti-graft operatives directly into government payment, expenditure processes at all levels PRESS STATEMENT Anti-Corruption, Not Anti-Opposition: A Joint Statement by Opposition Leaders on the Growing Politicisation of State Institutions for Persecution of the Opposition We are compelled by duty to nation and conscience to issue this statement to alert our compatriots and the international community to the unfortunate and gradual slide of our country into a state where key national institutions - particularly the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC); The Nigeria Police; The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) are increasingly perceived as tools of political intimidation, selectiv...

Prof. Michael Ogueke  The truth is, Trump no rate Tinubu at all. I doubt he thinks we have a president in Nigeria. Well, that's the international insult a country gets from electing mediocrity & tribal champion whose only sense of reasoning & preoccupation is how to remain in power to completely confiscate the country for himself & his tribal kinsmen & loot it out of the world map. Over two years now that Tinubu sacked all the Nigerian Ambassadors, he has not replaced them. Nigeria has no Ambassador in America nor anywhere else in the world to be invited by foreign governments for clarifications on issues of interests to them.  Nigeria has no Ambassador anywhere in the world to send to foreign governments to present Nigeria's positions on issues.  Nobody even know if we have a Foreign Affairs Minister let alone what his name is. Everything about Nigeria is run & controlled by Tinubu, his son - Seyi, Wike & Gbajabiamila.  And now, none of them ...

 "OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR FUBARA: YOU ARE PROHIBITED BY BOTH ECOWAS TREATY , NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION AND THE SoE LEGISLATION FROM ACCEPTING ANY HAND-OVER NOTES FROM THE SOLE ADMINISTRATOR: SOLE ADMINISTRATOR SHOULD HANDOVER TO PBAT AS WE AWAIT SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA TO GRANT YOU AN EXTENSION OF TENURE AS WAS DONE IN THE CASE OF PETER OBI (2008)-RIVERS STATE TO BECOME AN OFF-CYCLE ELECTION STATE." By Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja. Your Excellency, Governor Siminialayi Fubara, Sir, You are a very fortunate person unknowingly President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (PBAT) and the National Assembly has unwittingly granted you an extension of your tenure by their imposition of a six month suspension upon your good self. You are entitled to a six month extension because the said state of emergency that was imposed upon your good self did not satisfy the requirements of Section 305 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 . This is because the pre-requisite essential requirement...

 The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has directed its members to withdraw services from public hospitals nationwide from Friday. The action followed the expiration of a 24-hour ultimatum issued to the Federal Government to meet its outstanding demands. The ultimatum came after an earlier 10-day deadline, which lapsed on 10 September, without resolution. On 1 September, NARD had warned it would embark on an indefinite strike if the government failed to address the issues within 10 days. Resident doctors, who constitute the majority of the medical workforce in teaching and specialist hospitals, have repeatedly gone on strike in recent years over unpaid wages, poor welfare, and inadequate working conditions. NARD President, Dr. Tope Osundare , told Daily Trust on Thursday that the fresh ultimatum was the outcome of a six-hour virtual meeting of the association’s National Executive Council (NEC) held on Wednesday. Daily Trust reports that the doctors are demanding imme...