Anambra State Police Command has been urged to investigate the alleged killing of a man by local security operatives at Ezinifite, Nnewi South Local Government Area of the state.
Human rights activist, Harrison Gwamnishu, made the call in a Facebook post he made on Friday, 6th November 2026.
A voice in the video clip the rights activist posted on the social media alleged that the man was killed for stealing plantain because he was hungry, and that the he had “nobody”.
In another post on the incident on Facebook, the young man was identified as Mr. Emezie Chibueze, who is said to be in his late 20s.
Sources claimed that the deceased was arrested for the said offense, taken to security office and tortured until he became unconscious.
“He was locked up for five days without food and water, later out of fear that the young man might likely die in their custody, the security men quickly returned his unconscious body to his family”.
It was gathered that the family tried their best to save the life of Emezie by taking him to a hospital, but all efforts didn’t yield the desired result.
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday nullified the leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) led by former Senate President David Mark and invalidated all decisions taken under it, including the emergence of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate for the 2027 general elections.
Justice Peter Lifu, in his judgment in suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1819/2025, declared the Mark-led Caretaker Committee illegal, nullifying the process through which it conducted the party’s presidential primary that produced Atiku as flag bearer.
The court also nullified the emergence of former Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, as National Secretary, as well as the appointments of other national officers and the nominations of candidates presented by the party for the 2027 elections.
The judgment followed a suit instituted by former ADC Deputy National Chairman (North-East), Nafiu Bala Gombe, who challenged the process through which Mark and other members of the caretaker committee assumed control of the party after the resignation of former National Chairman, Ralph Nwosu.
Upholding Gombe’s case, Justice Lifu held that the emergence of the Mark-led leadership violated the ADC constitution, relevant provisions of the Electoral Act and the 1999 Constitution.
The court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to recognise or act on decisions taken at the party’s 99th National Executive Committee meeting held on July 27, 2025.
“All the actions taken by the ADC as a party since July 27 to date stand annulled,” counsel to Gombe, Luka Musa Haruna (SAN), said after the judgment.
He said the judgment effectively left the ADC without candidates for elective positions in the 2027 elections, including the presidency, governorship, Senate and House of Representatives.
“As it stands today, the ADC has no candidate from the presidential level to the House of Assembly, governorship, Senate and all other elective positions for the 2027 election. They don’t have any representation as it stands today, except you are from the camp of Nafiu Bala, who is the substantive chairman,” Haruna added.
The ruling came barely 24 hours after Atiku, whose name had earlier been published by INEC as ADC presidential candidate with former Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi as running mate, held a campaign rally in Sokoto State ahead of the January 16, 2027 presidential election.
ADC, Atiku Reject Ruling, Vow Appeal
The ADC has rejected the judgment, describing it as legally defective and vowing to challenge it at the Court of Appeal.
In a statement titled ‘Lifu Judgment: APC Wants to Set Nigeria on Fire’, National Publicity Secretary Bolaji Abdullahi said the party would challenge the ruling through every available judicial process.
The party faulted the judgment, citing an earlier ruling by Justice Musa Liman of the same Federal High Court, Abuja, delivered on July 2, 2026 in suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1637/2025, which it said affirmed the legitimacy of the Mark-led NWC and directed INEC to recognise its leadership.
Atiku also vowed to appeal, accusing the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of attempting to weaken the opposition ahead of the elections.
The Gombe faction, however, hailed the judgment as a victory and ruled out immediate reconciliation, asking Mark and Atiku to register as members of the party in their respective wards before seeking to participate in its affairs.
INEC HAS LOST ALL CREDIBILITY TO BE AN INDEPENDENT UMPIRE OF NIGERIA’S ELECTIONS
By Dr. Oby Ezekwesili
The question of whether Nigeria can conduct a credible 2027 election is already answered. Nigeria cannot hold a credible 2027 election under the leadership of INEC. INEC has lost all credibility to be an independent umpire of Nigeria’s elections, and ignoring this could upend our hard-won democracy.
On Friday, 30 October 2026, and again on Sunday, 1 November, INEC’s Director of Information and Communication Technology, Dr Lawrence Bayode, told Nigerians on national television what many of us had feared and some of us had warned against.
Registration officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission used their official login credentials to inject AI-generated photographs, duplicate records and other fabricated entries into the preliminary register of voters. He said it was not isolated. He said it was found across several states. He said the Commission knows who did it and how they did it.
The INEC Director in that interview said the words that should stop every Nigerian in their tracks: that “the trust is on ground zero, and that some staff are trying to take us back to where we are coming from”. My hands went to my head after that interview.
Let us be clear about what this is. This is not a hack from outside. This is not a glitch. This is sabotage from within the very institution to which the Nigerian people entrusted the register of our sovereignty. The people paid to protect the list of citizens manufactured phantom citizens. The 2027 general elections are now a matter of months away, and the foundational document of those elections has been admitted by its custodian to be compromised.
I speak today as an Occupant of the Office of the Citizen which I have long told the world – especially Nigerians – that it is the highest office in any democracy. It is the Office from which all other offices, including that of the President, Senators, Representatives, Governors and public appointees like the Chairman of INEC, derive their authority and legitimacy. The register of voters does not belong to INEC, nor the Federal Government, nor the ruling party- APC. It belongs to us, the Citizens of Nigeria. Period. INEC merely holds it in trust. That trust, by its own admission, has been totally broken with the AI infiltration of the voters’ register.
INEC cannot investigate INEC. Impossible. No institution that has just confessed to corrupting a national asset from within can then ask the nation to trust it alone to repair the damage. It is a principle of accountability so basic that we apply it to everyday contexts. The accused does not sit as judge. The staff who held the credentials, the supervisors who approved their access, the ICT department that built the platform with the loophole they exploited, and the Commission that certified the display of that register all now have an interest in the size of this scandal being declared small.
Consider what INEC has done since the discovery. Its statement of 27 October named no cause. Three days later, its Director of ICT said on air that officers were compromised in several states, yet he also said he is still gathering evidence before reporting to the Commission. Almost one week after that, Nigerians still do not know how many records are affected, which states, which local governments, which officers, or whether a single one of them has been suspended, let alone handed to the police.
INEC’s defence that this was only a preliminary register is no comfort. It is the preliminary register from which the final register will be certified. If the preliminary register is poisoned and the investigation is conducted in secret by the poisoned institution, then the certified register will carry the poison into polling day. This is the same INEC whose conduct of the 2023 elections collapsed public trust among most Nigerians who were told then to trust the institution.
Citizens are being told again to trust INEC in the face of colossal corruption of the voters’ register. Trust is not restored by the repetition of the word. It is restored by the removal of the substantial conflict of interest of allowing INEC to carry on with “cleaning up” the massively corrupted voters’ register.
I have a strong position on what must be done to restore credibility to the Voters Register of the 2027 elections. Only a Caretaker Rescue Team of independent citizens can restore credibility to the Register. I therefore call for the immediate constitution of a Caretaker Rescue Team: an independent Citizens’ Electoral Team of eminent, non-partisan Nigerians and technical experts, with a public mandate to take custody of the clean-up of the voters register and to superintend citizens’ conduct of the 2027 elections at every stage.
This is not a radical demand. It is the only proportionate one. When a bank’s own staff are found to have forged its ledger, the regulator does not ask the same staff to audit the ledger. It brings in independent examiners, freezes the records, and publishes the findings. When the custodian of a nation’s sovereignty confesses to the same crime, the sovereign, which is the people, must do no less.
Every other proposal on the table today asks INEC to do better. Nigerians have heard that for a quarter of a century. Credibility cannot be rebuilt by the institution that destroyed it, because credibility is not a property of institutions. It is a judgment made by citizens. Citizens will only believe a register that citizens have been allowed to verify.
Three reasons make the Caretaker Rescue Team the only path that can work.
Independence is the cure for the specific disease. The disease is insider capture. The only remedy for insider capture is independent external control. A Team whose members hold no party card, seek no office and are accountable in public is the one body that no faction can plausibly accuse of cooking the result.
Time does not permit a second failure. We simply do not have time to experience a second failure. The elections are in 2027. There is no room for an INEC internal inquiry that drags for months, produces a report nobody sees, and leaves the register to be certified under a cloud. A citizens’ Team working in the open can audit, publish and certify on a timetable the whole country can see.
The 2023 precedent closes the door on faith alone. Nigerians extended their faith to INEC in 2023 and watched the promises of technology collapse on election night. Faith is spent. What remains is verification, and verification must be done by those who have nothing to hide and nothing to gain.
Who sits on the Team, and Terms of Reference:
Composition: The Citizens’ Electoral Team must be drawn from Nigerians whose integrity is not for sale and whose expertise is beyond question:
Independent forensic data, cybersecurity and biometric experts, Nigerian and international, who can read the ABIS logs, the access trails and the image files for themselves.
Representatives of civil society organisations with a track record of election observation and voter mobilisation.
The Nigerian Bar Association, the professional bodies of ICT and accounting, and the academic community.
Faith leaders and traditional institutions with moral standing across regions and religions.
Observers from every registered political party, with a right to see everything and a right to control nothing.
Credible international observer missions as witnesses to the process.
No serving or former INEC official, no office holder, no candidate and no party official can be a member.
Terms of Reference/Mandate. The Team must be empowered, by public declaration and by a “Doctrine of Necessity” law by the National Assembly, to:
Take immediate custody of the full preliminary register, every image file, every access log and every audit trail, and ensure nothing is altered or deleted.
Conduct and publish a complete forensic audit of the national voter database: how many records are fraudulent, in which states and local government areas, through whose credentials, and how they passed INEC’s checks.
Publish the names of every officer implicated and verify that each has been suspended and referred for prosecution.
Supervise the removal of every fraudulent record and certify, in public and with the evidence attached, that the final register is clean before INEC is permitted to adopt it.
Set and enforce the standards under which citizens will observe, verify and defend the 2027 elections: open access to the register, to polling unit results, to the transmission of results and to collation, at every level.
Report to the Nigerian people, not to INEC, on a published schedule, until the 2027 results are declared.
To my fellow citizens, the register of voters is the first ballot. If it is rigged, every ballot that follows is rigged before it is cast. Nigerians have watched a monopolistic political class capture institution after institution and then ask us to trust the captured institution to reform itself. We have seen where that road leads. It leads to election nights when the technology we were promised goes dark, and the courts tell us it did not matter.
This time, we must not surrender the field. The Office of the Citizen is not a slogan; it is the seat of sovereignty from which the Constitution of this Republic derives its first words, “We the people.” The people did not delegate to INEC the right to corrupt our register, and we do not delegate to INEC the right to conceal the extent of its corruption.
INEC has told us that trust is at ground zero. We agree. Trust will be rebuilt from ground zero only by the citizens whose votes are at stake, and by no one else. The Caretaker Rescue Team would not abolish INEC or usurp the Constitution. INEC would continue to hold the legal instruments. But the clean-up of the register, the certification that it is clean, and the oversight of how citizens are allowed to observe, verify and defend their votes in 2027 would be conducted under the custody of the Rescue Team, in the open, with INEC answerable to it and to the public, rather than the other way round.
A strategic move to avert the collapse of our Democracy with damaging consequences would require proactive leadership by the National Assembly. It is unusual for us to expect such leadership from a lawmaking body that has, in the past, mostly failed to act in favour of the interests of people. Perhaps, we may experience a redemptive turnaround from lawmakers who themselves would be in the first line of injury should we all refuse to see and prevent the gravity and scale of danger ahead. For the fact is that the temperature of the ongoing party campaign would worsen if this historic and unprecedented level of corrupt assault on Nigeria’s electoral system is not tackled immediately.
I call on the National Assembly to make a Public Declaration and act under emergency rules to pass a “Doctrine of Necessity law to constitute and empower the Citizens’ Electoral Rescue Team to take over the work of restoring credibility to the 2027 Elections immediately.
I call on civil society, the professions, faith leaders, the youth who registered in their millions, the National Assembly, the judiciary and the international community to join in demanding the Caretaker Rescue Team now. Not after the register is certified in December by the guilty INEC. Not after the elections are announced.
We, the citizens of Nigeria from the North and South; East and West of Nigeria, must act NOW, while the evidence is still intact and the clean-up can still be done in the open.
Shall we?
•Dr Oby Ezekwesili (An unrepentant Occupant of the Office of the Citizen) Founder, FixPolitics and the School of Politics, Policy and Governance (www.TheSPPG.org)
After she mysteriously disappeared from home without a trace twenty years ago, the family of Late Chief Augustine Nwosu Maduka of Umuru Village, Ebenesi, Nnobi, in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State, has announced funeral arrangements in honour of their daughter, Miss Nneka, who was 22 years old at the time of her disappearance.
Nneka reportedly left home on December 31, 2006, but never returned, and has not been found since then.
Her disappearance, which has remained unresolved for nearly two decades, has now culminated in the family’s decision to organise a symbolic farewell in honor of a daughter, sister, aunt and niece whose absence the family said has left a lasting void in their lives.
In an emotionally touching funeral announcement titled “Honouring a Beautiful Life 20 Years Later,” the Nwosu family disclosed plans to hold a three-day funeral programme between November 27 and 29, 2026, at their family compound in Nnobi.
The announcement, it was gathered, reflects the family’s enduring remembrance of Nneka whose whereabouts have remained unknown since that fateful New Year’s Eve in 2006.
According to the funeral programme, activities will commence on Friday, November 27, 2026, with a Vigil Mass scheduled for 5:00 p.m. at Late Chief Augustine Nwosu’s Compound, Umuru, Ebenesi, Nnobi.
The Funeral Mass will follow on Saturday, November 28, at the same venue, beginning at 10:00 a.m.
Relatives, friends, sympathisers and well-wishers are expected to gather immediately after the Mass to offer condolences and stand in solidarity with the bereaved family.
The programme will conclude on Sunday, November 29, 2026, with a Thanksgiving and Outing Mass at St. Paul Catholic Church, Umuru, Ebenato, Ebenesi, Nnobi, beginning at 10:00 a.m.
The funeral announcement was jointly signed on behalf of the family by Mr. Chukwudi Nwosu, Mr. Azubuike Nwosu, Mr. Okwudili Nwosu, Mr. Obinna Nwosu and Mr. Oliver Nwosu.
In a tribute accompanying Nneka’s photograph, the family expressed its enduring affection and prayers for their missing loved one thus:
“Nneka, may the light of God shine upon you wherever you are. May your soul rest in peace.”
The announcement presents a particularly emotional dimension to the family’s experience, as Nneka’s disappearance remains unresolved, with no confirmation of her whereabouts contained in the funeral notice.
Her story, sources explained, underscores the painful uncertainty experienced by families whose loved ones disappear without a trace, leaving behind years of unanswered questions, enduring memories and the hope of finding closure.
For the Nwosu family, the forthcoming ceremony represents an opportunity to honour Nneka’s memory, celebrate the beautiful life they shared with her and unite relatives, friends and the community in prayers after almost two decades of separation.
Twenty years may have passed, but for a family that never saw its daughter return home, Nneka’s memory remains alive.
AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR CHARLES CHUKWUMA SOLUDO
YOUR EXCELLENCY, YOUR VOTE IS ONE VOTE, NOT TWO — ANAMBRA STATE IS NOT YOUR PERSONAL ELECTORAL PROPERTY
To: His Excellency, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Governor of Anambra State
Your Excellency,
At the end of the day, your vote is one vote, not two. You may be a professor of economics. You may be the governor of Anambra State. You may enjoy a personal friendship with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. But none of these privileges gives you ownership of the political conscience of Ndi Anambra. You are an elected governor, not an emperor. Your Excellency, your public support for President Tinubu’s re-election is your democratic right. But the people of Anambra also possess the right to disagree with you. You have argued that supporting President Tinubu could serve the long-term political interests of Ndi Igbo. You have urged Southeast voters not to waste their votes on alternative candidates. But who determines what constitutes a wasted vote? Is a vote wasted simply because it is not cast for your preferred candidate? Democracy is not a transaction in which citizens surrender their convictions in exchange for promises of future political recognition. If supporting President Tinubu is truly in the best interests of Anambra State, present the evidence. Demonstrate the benefits. Explain the economic consequences. Allow the people to examine your arguments and reach their own conclusions. Your political calculation is not a commandment to the people of Anambra.
FEDERAL ALLOCATIONS ARE NOT PRESIDENTIAL GIFTS
Your Excellency, as an economist, you understand the distinction between public resources and personal generosity. Federal allocations are not money taken from President Tinubu’s private account. They are public revenues distributed under Nigeria’s constitutional and fiscal arrangements. Every state is entitled to its lawful share. Federal collaboration can certainly produce additional benefits, and a governor may legitimately pursue such cooperation. But those benefits must not be presented as justification for demanding unquestioning electoral loyalty. The responsibility of government is to serve citizens regardless of their political preferences. If Anambra needs federal assistance to address erosion, insecurity, roads, or other developmental challenges, that need should be evaluated on its merits, not on whether the electorate supports a particular presidential candidate. Public resources belong to the people. They are not rewards for political obedience.
TRADITIONAL RULERS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS MUST REMAIN FREE
Your Excellency, I am concerned about allegations and perceptions of political pressure involving traditional rulers, Presidents-General of town unions, local government officials, and other community leaders. These concerns deserve transparent examination. No traditional ruler should be threatened for refusing to support a political candidate. No President-General should be intimidated into delivering votes. No community institution should become an instrument of compulsory political loyalty. If your administration has not engaged in such conduct, it should welcome scrutiny and clearly affirm the independence of these institutions. Political persuasion is legitimate. Coercion is not.
YOUR PROFESSORSHIP DOES NOT MAKE YOUR JUDGMENT INFALLIBLE
Sir, I recognize your academic achievements and your experience in economic policymaking. But intellectual accomplishment does not place anyone above criticism. A professor can make a poor political argument. A distinguished economist can misjudge public sentiment. And a governor can mistake political influence for popular consent. The people of Anambra are not intellectually inferior to you. They include accomplished professionals, scholars, entrepreneurs, and citizens whose judgment deserves respect.
The true test of intelligence in leadership is not the number of academic titles one possesses, but the ability to exercise power with humility, fairness, and wisdom.
PRESIDENT TINUBU MUST EARN SUPPORT THROUGH PERFORMANCE
Your Excellency, if you believe President Tinubu deserves another term, explain why. What measurable improvements have his policies delivered for ordinary Nigerians?How have his economic reforms affected household purchasing power? What progress has been made against insecurity? How effectively has the federal government addressed the infrastructure needs of the Southeast? These questions are not expressions of disloyalty. They are the foundation of democratic accountability. A president’s record should be assessed through results, not through personal friendships, political arrangements, or promises of future access to power.
THE PEOPLE OF ANAMBRA ARE NOT YOUR SUBJECTS
Your Excellency, you have one vote. Your wife has one vote. Each eligible member of your family has one vote. The same principle applies to the market woman in Onitsha, the trader in Nnewi, the farmer in Aguata, the student in Awka, and every other eligible voter in Anambra State. You may campaign. You may persuade. You may endorse. But you cannot cast their ballots for them. The ballot belongs to the individual citizen. The people elected you to administer the affairs of their state, not to surrender their independent political judgment to you.
MY FINAL MESSAGE
Governor Soludo, political office is temporary. Democratic rights endure. Your friendship with President Tinubu is yours to maintain. Your political alliance is yours to defend. Your preferred presidential candidate is yours to support. But the conscience of Ndi Anambra belongs to Ndi Anambra. Do not confuse the authority to govern with the authority to dictate political allegiance. Do not confuse federal cooperation with a debt of electoral gratitude. And do not confuse the respect accorded to your office with unconditional agreement with your political opinions. History will judge your administration not merely by the alliances you cultivated, but by the integrity with which you exercised public power. Your Excellency, your vote is one vote, not two. Anambra State is not your private estate. Its people are citizens, not subjects. Its votes are not your personal property. And its political future must remain in the hands of its people.
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, has disclosed that Nigeria loses an estimated $10 billion annually to post-harvest losses.
Kyari made the disclosure on Tuesday at the ongoing 32nd Nigerian Economic Summit (NES#32) organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) in Abuja.
Speaking as a panellist on the theme ‘Productivity Revolution for Growth’, the minister said the losses cut across both grains and perishables.
He said Nigeria loses between 15 and 20 per cent of its grains – including rice, maize and millet – despite their relatively longer shelf life, while losses for perishable produce such as tomatoes, pepper, onions, fruits and vegetables could reach 60 to 70 per cent depending on the season.
“We lose almost about $10 billion annually on post-harvest losses,” Kyari said.
“About 15 to 20 per cent on grains, and you can see grains that are hard, and you probably think we will not lose much of that, but we lose on grains, on cereal, rice, maize, and so on and so forth, millet.
“Tomato, pepper, onion, and other fruits and vegetables, we lose some of that as high as 60 to 70 per cent depending on the season,” he added.
Kyari attributed the high waste, especially for tomatoes, to short shelf life, hot weather, poor storage, weak processing capacity, poor transportation and market infrastructure.
He described tackling post-harvest losses as a low-hanging fruit for improving food security, noting that addressing storage gaps could significantly increase food availability and farmers’ earnings without expanding cultivated land.
The minister also lamented the poor performance of federal silos. He revealed that out of 17 silo complexes concessioned to private operators out of 33 built by the Federal Government, only three are currently performing.
The Federal Government has approved a monthly transport allowance of N70,000 for public servants for six months beginning November 2026 to cushion the impact of rising living costs.
The approval was part of key resolutions reached at a conciliation meeting between the Federal Government and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) held at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment in Abuja on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.
The meeting was convened to address concerns raised by organised labour over workers’ welfare, outstanding allowances, rising cost of living and implementation of the national minimum wage.
According to a Memorandum of Understanding signed at the end of the meeting, the transport intervention will apply “across all levels” of the federal public service.
The MoU was signed by Director-General of Budget, Timi Yakubu; NLC President, Joe Ajaero; Permanent Secretary, Service Welfare Office in the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Garba Abdul S.U; and Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi.
The government also approved payment of outstanding peculiar allowance arrears with effect from May 1, 2026. The arrears will be paid in three equal monthly instalments beginning in November 2026.
In addition, 19 months outstanding allowances owed health workers will be cleared within three months, beginning December 2026.
On hazard allowance for agricultural officers, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has submitted the list of beneficiaries and cost implications to the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) for verification. The verification is expected to be completed within two weeks.
The parties, however, failed to agree on the effective date for implementing the national minimum wage, but agreed to immediately constitute the Minimum Wage Negotiation Committee to commence work.
Speaking after the meeting, NLC Assistant Secretary-General, Chris Onyeka, described the discussions as productive but said it fell short of labour’s expectations.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has opened the Preliminary Register of Voters for the 2027 general elections on its online platform after public outcry.
INEC announced on Monday, October 26, that the register earlier displayed physically at Registration Areas nationwide from October 9 to 15, 2026, is now available online at https://display.inecnigeria.org.
The commission said the move followed concerns raised by Nigerians, civil society and opposition leaders, including African Democratic Congress presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, over the accessibility of the register.
National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mohammed Kudu Haruna, said in a statement that INEC “has taken note of the concerns expressed by Nigerians and other stakeholders regarding the desirability of making the Register accessible through its online platform in addition to the physical display already conducted.”
“Accordingly, and in furtherance of its commitment to transparency, accessibility and public confidence in the electoral process, the Commission has decided to make available on its online platform the same Preliminary Register of Voters earlier displayed at the Registration Areas,” Haruna said.
INEC said the physical display was conducted in line with Section 19 of the Electoral Act, 2026, to allow voters inspect their particulars and submit claims and objections.
The commission clarified that the online publication is an additional measure to complement, not replace, the physical exercise.
It said it is currently processing claims and objections from the display exercise ahead of the certification and publication of the Final Register of Voters on December 15, 2026.
President Bola Tinubu has written to the Senate seeking approval for a supplementary external borrowing plan of $20.52 billion and €1.045 billion.
The request was contained in a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and read during plenary on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.
According to the letter, the facilities total $20,517,755,901 and €1,045,083,643 and cover the 2026-2027 fiscal period.
Tinubu said the borrowing is needed to bridge Nigeria’s infrastructure funding gap, sustain economic growth, generate employment and improve living conditions.
He said the plan cuts across all sectors with emphasis on infrastructure, power, transportation, agriculture, healthcare, education, water supply, security, employment generation and financial management reforms.
“The projects and programmes included in the Borrowing Plan were selected based on thorough technical and economic evaluation, as well as their anticipated contribution to the socio-economic development of the country,” Tinubu wrote.
The President said the projects will be implemented across the 36 states and the FCT and are expected to drive job creation, skills acquisition, entrepreneurship, poverty reduction and food security.
Akpabio referred the request to the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, chaired by Senator Haruna Manu, to work with the Committees on Appropriations and Finance. The joint committee is expected to report back within one week.
Akpabio noted that elements of the borrowing plan had earlier featured in the 2025-2027 Medium-Term Borrowing Plan and the budget.
