Month: October 2025

BREAKING: May Agbamuche Takes Over as Acting INEC Chairman from Mahmood YakubuNaijatrusts Online Professor Mahmood Yakubu has officially handed over the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to May Agbamuche, who now serves as the Acting National Chairman of the commission.

Agbamuche, the longest-serving National Commissioner at INEC, will oversee the affairs of the electoral body pending the appointment of a substantive chairman by President Bola Tinubu.

Her assumption of office marks a significant transition in Nigeria’s electoral leadership as the commission prepares for upcoming political activities across the country.

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Court Orders Removal of Kenneth Udeze, Affirms Adekunle Rufai Omoaje as Authentic Action Alliance National Chairman

The Federal High Court in Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria, has ruled in favor of Adekunle Rufai Omoaje, declaring him the legitimate National Chairman of Action Alliance (AA). This judgment comes after a prolonged leadership dispute within the party.

Key aspects of the judgment include validation of Omoaje’s leadership, where the court affirmed his election as National Chairman at AA’s October 7, 2023, convention in Abeokuta, which was monitored by INEC officials. The removal of Kenneth Udeze was ordered by the court, citing his expulsion from the party upheld by the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.

INEC compliance is a critical part of the ruling, as the commission was directed to recognize Omoaje and restore names of state chairmen loyal to him on its portal. The INEC Chairman Mahmoud Yakubu faces arrest if he fails to comply within seven days, with a ₦100,000 cost awarded against him. The legal basis for the ruling cited contradictions with Section 182 of the Electoral Act and violations of fair hearing rights.

Reactions to the judgment have been positive, with Omoaje hailing it as a victory for democracy and rule of law, boosting confidence in Nigeria’s judiciary. AA’s legal counsel commended the court’s decision, urging INEC compliance.

This development underscores the judiciary’s role in resolving political and party leadership disputes in Nigeria, highlighting the importance of legal processes in determining legitimate leadership within political parties. The outcome is expected to have implications for Action Alliance’s operations and its standing with electoral authorities like INEC.

Nigeria’s Silent Recolonization: How Foreign Powers and Local Collaborators Are Bleeding Our Minerals. (If you can be patient to read this, you will know what’s going on in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State).

The night the attackers came to Oke-Ode, Kwara State, the villagers thought it was just another herder incursion. But as the bullets tore through mud walls and flames engulfed the harvest, it became clear this was no ordinary clash. “They told us to leave or die,” recalled Amos Ajibola, a farmer who fled with his family into the forest. “When we came back days later, strangers were already digging in the hills where we farmed.”

Stories like Ajibola’s are multiplying across Nigeria’s mineral-rich communities. Officials and media often dismiss them as “Fulani–Farmer clashes.” But beneath that narrative lies a disturbing truth: the violence is carefully targeted at communities sitting on gold, tin, lithium, and other strategic minerals. Once villagers are displaced, the land is quietly taken over by illegal miners tied to powerful cartels with foreign backers.

The New Masters: China and France

Security experts and local leaders increasingly point to a slow-motion recolonization of Nigeria, one driven not by treaties or flags, but by economic predators. China and France are the most frequently named, both with long track records of extracting African resources. France has never hidden its dependence on Niger’s uranium, while China has poured billions into Africa under its Belt and Road Initiative. In Nigeria, their interests intersect with a shadow economy of illegal mining.

“These are not random clashes,” said one Abuja-based security analyst who requested anonymity. “They are calculated displacements. The real battle is not over grazing routes, but mineral veins. And the buyers are waiting in Lagos, Dubai, and Beijing.”

Imported Terrorists, Local Collaborators

The system runs with brutal efficiency. Nigerian collaborators, often businessmen or politicians, first identify communities sitting on mineral deposits. They pass the information to their foreign backers. Armed groups, sometimes Fulani Ethnic Militias, sometimes mercenaries from Mali, Chad, or Niger, are then deployed to terrorize locals until they abandon their lands.

A conflict researcher with the Centre for Democracy and Development put it bluntly: “What the public sees is another farmer–herder clash. What is really happening is organized displacement for mining access.”

History Repeating Itself

This pattern echoes Africa’s darkest chapters. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, wars over coltan and cobalt have killed millions while enriching foreign corporations. France has kept a stranglehold over uranium mining in Niger for decades. Now, Nigeria’s lithium and gold deposits are drawing similar interest, and similar bloodshed.

The losses are staggering. Nigeria officially bleeds $9 billion annually from illegal mining. Zamfara alone has seen gold smuggled to fund arms purchases by terrorist groups. In Nasarawa and Kogi, truckloads of lithium vanish under the radar, shipped abroad without any benefit to the host communities.

Who Really Benefits?

The villagers do not. For them, the cost is death, displacement, and dispossession. In Kwara, Kogi, and Plateau, survivors recount losing their farmland, their homes, and their churches, while strangers move in with heavy machinery and armed escorts.

“This is not just corruption, it’s a national security crisis,” warned retired General Alexander Ogomudia in a 2024 interview. “When foreign-backed cartels fund militias to chase Nigerians from their land, it is nothing short of economic warfare.”

Yet government silence is deafening. In some states, officials are accused of protecting cartels. In others, fear of offending powerful embassies leads to paralysis. The result is impunity, as villagers are left to bury their dead while their wealth is siphoned abroad.

The Dangerous Silence

Perhaps most alarming is how easily Nigerians dismiss the allegations as “conspiracy theories.” But from Oke-Ode to Egbe to Isanlu, the same story repeats: gunmen attack, villagers flee, minerals are extracted. How many coincidences make a pattern?

The silence is not ignorance. It is complicity. Every day Abuja refuses to act, the looting of Nigeria’s future deepens.

A Call to Wake Up

Nigeria’s independence in 1960 was won with hope for sovereignty. Today, that sovereignty is under siege not by colonizers in uniform, but by foreign interests in suits, aided by local traitors and protected by mercenaries. China and France may not admit it, but Nigerians on the ground see the connection between their mineral wealth and their bloodshed.

Unless the federal government confronts this reality, tells the whole truth and stand firm, investigates transparently, and breaks the chains of collaboration, Nigeria’s mineral wealth will continue to build other nations’ industries while Nigerians bleed. The recolonization of Nigeria is not a distant threat. It is unfolding now, community by community, mine by mine.