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Today, I joined the Hon. Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Zaphaniah Bitrus Jisalo, alongside other senior government officials, at the launch of the compendium titled “Actualizing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda through the Implementation of Zonal Intervention and Constituency Projects (2023–2026)” at the State House, Abuja. The event was graced by the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, who was represented by Her Excellency, Hajia Nana Shettima, as the Special Guest of Honour.
The event highlighted the achievements and impact of constituency and zonal intervention projects implemented across the country under the administration of President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, while also reflecting the government’s commitment to improving service delivery, promoting grassroots development, and enhancing the well-being of Nigerians through the Renewed Hope Agenda.
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STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE
INTERVENTION PROJECTS VITAL IN BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE – FIRST LADY OF NIGERIA
The First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu(@SenRemiTinubu), CON, has emphasized the importance of intervention and constituency projects as critical tools for bridging the gap between government and the people, describing them as tangible expressions of democratic governance and inclusive development.
The First Lady made this known at the unveiling of a compendium by the Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs titled “Actualising President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda Through the Implementation of Zonal Intervention and Constituency Projects.”
The 560-page publication, written in nine chapters, is the first comprehensive public report documenting the implementation of intervention projects across Nigeria’s geopolitical zones and constituencies. The compendium aims to enhance transparency and accountability, serve as a valuable reference document and increase public awareness of projects executed in line with the Renewed Hope Agenda.
Represented at the event by the Wife of the Vice President, Hajiya Nana Shettima(@kujarima), the First Lady reflected on her years of service in the 7th, 8th and 9th National Assemblies, recalling the opportunities she had to contribute to legislation and constituency interventions that positively impacted communities.
She noted that these experiences reinforced her conviction in the importance of constituency-based projects as effective instruments for addressing local needs and improving the lives of citizens.
Senator Oluremi Tinubu commended the Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs for the initiative to document, consolidate and present the various intervention projects being implemented across communities nationwide. She stated that the compendium would provide a verifiable reference point for tracking impact, strengthening oversight, and promoting good governance.
The First Lady further observed that the publication reflects the Ministry’s commitment to advancing national development in line with the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and its determination to place Nigeria firmly on the path of sustainable growth and prosperity.
Speaking earlier, the Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Hon. Zephaniah Bitrus Jisalo, said the Ministry has deployed modern technology to enhance the monitoring and evaluation of projects across zones and constituencies. He noted that the initiative is geared towards ensuring effective implementation of projects in support of the Renewed Hope Agenda.
The unveiling ceremony was attended by key stakeholders from government, development institutions, and other relevant sectors.
Kwapchi Bata Hamman
Special Assistant, Media & ICT
Office of the Vice President
June 16, 2026
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Ai na jima da sanin uncle dinka bitrus shine yake sacewa kakarmu awaki😂
Area naku daya da su Bitrus dama?
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Special thanks to our distinguished guest speakers for sharing their knowledge, experience, and valuable insights:
✅Prof. Zubairu K. Dagona
✅Prof. Haruna Karick
✅Dr. Akawu Bitrus
✅Dr. Dapap Datak
✅Mrs. Utek G. Ishaku
✅Mrs. Elizabeth Gimba
#JosMentalHealthSummit
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20 years ago on this day, I began my term as the first ever black President of the University of East London Students’ Union. I opened doors for other black students and my successor Joseph Getachew Bitrus is a good example.
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[8] Ko pyɛ de ya dal mwa na nerey ya sé ngan: Tɛ̀ in yey na bemin na gap min mwa, yaga tɛ̂ yey he tɛ̀ be hala banɛn pyak.
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Jun 14
Yelewata: Another Genocide Monument Built By Our Silence.
Let me tell you something that should make every single Nigerian sit up and feel something in their chest.
On the night of June 13, 2025, over 200 people in Yelewata, Benue State, were slaughtered while the people whose salaries we pay to protect them sat back and did nothing.
Not because they didn't know. Not because there was no warning. But because warnings in this country have become like rain that falls on stone, it just runs off and nothing grows from it.
Let me walk you through it the way it actually happened, because the details matter and Nigerians need to stop letting these stories disappear into the news cycle without us asking the hard questions.
A memo had already leaked from the Department of State Services as far back as May 13, a full month before the attack, warning that armed militias were planning strikes along the Benue-Nasarawa border.
A US-based watchdog called TruthNigeria says they sent direct warnings to the federal government, the military leadership, and the DSS itself about a planned assault on Yelewata.
And then Dr. Bitrus Pogu, the President of the Middle Belt Forum, came out and said something that should haunt every one of us, he said he personally received a security alert on his own phone weeks before the attack, and his point was simple, if an ordinary citizen like him could get this intelligence, then the security apparatus of an entire nation definitely had it too.
On the actual day, June 13, residents in Yelewata saw strange movements, unfamiliar people crossing into their community, and they did what responsible citizens do, they reported it to local security. Nothing happened. No patrol. No reinforcement. No alert sent up the chain that mattered.
When the attackers came at around 10pm, there were only four soldiers stationed near the local primary school. Four. For an entire community that had already been flagged as a target. Those four men were overwhelmed almost immediately, and the massacre continued for four hours, until 2am, with no backup, no air support, nothing.
This is not just a story about Benue.
This is a story about what happens in a country where the people in power know that no matter how badly they fail us, nothing will happen to them.
No election will be lost. No accountability will come. And the reason nothing happens to them is us. It is our votes, or more accurately, our refusal to vote, that keeps handing these people the keys to our lives and our deaths.
We keep making excuses for the people who fail us. We say "ah, what can one vote do," we say "all of them are the same," we say "I don't have my PVC, the process is too stressful," we say "politics is not my portion."
And while we are saying all of this, somewhere in Benue, in Plateau, in Zamfara, in Borno, families are being wiped out because the people meant to protect them know there will be no consequence for failing to do so.
Our empathy for our own laziness, our own fear, our own apathy, is what is killing our brothers and sisters in these communities.
Every excuse we give ourselves for not participating is a small contribution to the next massacre, because it tells the people in power that they can fail us again and again and we will still show up to do nothing in 2027.
This has to stop. And it stops with us, not with them.
If you do not have your Permanent Voter's Card, this is your sign. Go and get it. Today. Tomorrow. This week.
Do not wait until the deadline is closing and the queues are impossible and INEC offices are overwhelmed. Go now, while there is time, while there is room, while there is no excuse.
And when 2027 comes, do not just register and sit at home. Come out. Stand in that queue from morning till night if you have to.
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If Seyi Tinubu was the one the terrorists Beheaded, will the president be given them options of surrender?
Eleven years. Operation Safe Corridor has been sitting there for eleven years, terrorists know they can always run back to whenever the heat gets too much for them, whenever they have used up their ammunition and need to rest, rearm, and reload before going back to the bush to kill again.
Buhari ran this thing for eight years and Tinubu has continued it for three years, and in those three years we have buried children, we have buried mothers, we have buried entire villages, and yet the president came out to still offer an option of surrender to terrorists.
Ask yourself one simple question, if it was Seyi Tinubu that was taken, if it was Seyi Tinubu's head that ended up in a video what will Tinubu do?
Every general would suddenly find the courage and the resources that they claim they do not have today.
But because it is not his son, because it is the children of farmers, the children of villagers, the children of nobody important in the eyes of the people at the top, the surrender window stays open, and the insult continues.
There are only three explanations for a government keeping such an arrangement running for eleven straight years while the killing never stops.
Either the man at the top is a coward who is too afraid to fight a real war and prefers to bribe killers into temporary silence, or he is sympathetic to what these people represent, or he has been compromised.
There is no fourth option that makes sense, and Nigerians deserve to stop pretending there is.
Now to the second part, because this is where the real conversation has to go.
Wicked leaders do not fall from the sky, they emerge because we let them.
Every single time a Nigerian decides not to register to vote, decides not to collect their PVC, decides to stay home on election day because they have convinced themselves that their one vote does not matter,
that decision becomes a vote, it becomes a vote for whoever the political class wants to install,
because those people are not lazy, those people show up, they mobilize their thugs, they mobilize their paid voters,
they mobilize every available warm body while the rest of us are busy posting on Twitter about how Nigeria is finished and nothing will change.
Voter apathy is not neutral. There is no such thing as opting out of the system, because the system does not pause and wait for you,
it moves forward with or without you, and when you refuse to participate you are simply handing your portion of the decision to someone else,
usually someone who has every reason to want things to stay exactly as broken as they are, because broken systems are profitable for the people running them.
A confused, hungry, divided, and disengaged population is the easiest population in the world to rule badly, and every insensitive policy, every Operation Safe Corridor, every padded budget, every unexplained billions,
all of it survives because the people who should be furious enough to vote them out have instead convinced themselves that voting changes nothing.
2027 is not just another election, it is the next opportunity we have to prove that this country cannot keep being run on the assumption that Nigerians will forget, that Nigerians will get tired, that Nigerians will stay home.
Register. Collect your card. Show up. Bring your neighbors.
Because the alternative is watching another four years of policies that treat your life and the lives of your children as less valuable than the comfort of negotiating with their killers,
and at some point we have to ask ourselves, how many more times are we willing to let that happen before we do something about it.
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Jun 13
Yelewata: Another Genocide Monument Built By Our Silence.
Let me tell you something that should make every single Nigerian sit up and feel something in their chest.
On the night of June 13, 2025, over 200 people in Yelewata, Benue State, were slaughtered while the people whose salaries we pay to protect them sat back and did nothing.
Not because they didn't know. Not because there was no warning. But because warnings in this country have become like rain that falls on stone, it just runs off and nothing grows from it.
Let me walk you through it the way it actually happened, because the details matter and Nigerians need to stop letting these stories disappear into the news cycle without us asking the hard questions.
A memo had already leaked from the Department of State Services as far back as May 13, a full month before the attack, warning that armed militias were planning strikes along the Benue-Nasarawa border.
A US-based watchdog called TruthNigeria says they sent direct warnings to the federal government, the military leadership, and the DSS itself about a planned assault on Yelewata.
And then Dr. Bitrus Pogu, the President of the Middle Belt Forum, came out and said something that should haunt every one of us, he said he personally received a security alert on his own phone weeks before the attack, and his point was simple, if an ordinary citizen like him could get this intelligence, then the security apparatus of an entire nation definitely had it too.
On the actual day, June 13, residents in Yelewata saw strange movements, unfamiliar people crossing into their community, and they did what responsible citizens do, they reported it to local security. Nothing happened. No patrol. No reinforcement. No alert sent up the chain that mattered.
When the attackers came at around 10pm, there were only four soldiers stationed near the local primary school. Four. For an entire community that had already been flagged as a target. Those four men were overwhelmed almost immediately, and the massacre continued for four hours, until 2am, with no backup, no air support, nothing.
This is not just a story about Benue.
This is a story about what happens in a country where the people in power know that no matter how badly they fail us, nothing will happen to them.
No election will be lost. No accountability will come. And the reason nothing happens to them is us. It is our votes, or more accurately, our refusal to vote, that keeps handing these people the keys to our lives and our deaths.
We keep making excuses for the people who fail us. We say "ah, what can one vote do," we say "all of them are the same," we say "I don't have my PVC, the process is too stressful," we say "politics is not my portion."
And while we are saying all of this, somewhere in Benue, in Plateau, in Zamfara, in Borno, families are being wiped out because the people meant to protect them know there will be no consequence for failing to do so.
Our empathy for our own laziness, our own fear, our own apathy, is what is killing our brothers and sisters in these communities.
Every excuse we give ourselves for not participating is a small contribution to the next massacre, because it tells the people in power that they can fail us again and again and we will still show up to do nothing in 2027.
This has to stop. And it stops with us, not with them.
If you do not have your Permanent Voter's Card, this is your sign. Go and get it. Today. Tomorrow. This week.
Do not wait until the deadline is closing and the queues are impossible and INEC offices are overwhelmed. Go now, while there is time, while there is room, while there is no excuse.
And when 2027 comes, do not just register and sit at home. Come out. Stand in that queue from morning till night if you have to.
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Honourable mentions:
1. Afodiya - Euodias
2. Timothawus - Timothy
3. Andarawus - Andrew
4. Bitrus - Peter
5. Yunana - Jonah
Jun 13
Hausa Christian names and their English version.
1. Istifanus - Stephen
2. Bulus - Paul
3. Shawulu - Saul
4. Yahaya - John (Baptiser)
5. Yohanna - John (Beloved)
6. Eve - Hauwa
7. Isaac - Ishaku
8. Solomon - Suleiman
9. Aaron - Haruna
10. Elijah - Iliya
11. Peter - Bitrus
12. Timothy - Timatawus
13. Job - Ayuba
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