BREAKING: NIGERIAN SENATE APPROVES CREATION OF 12 NEW STATES!

In a landmark move aimed at deepening federalism and bringing governance closer to the people, the Nigerian Senate has passed the final reading for the creation of twelve new states across the six geo-political zones of the country.

This historic development follows an extensive nationwide consultation by the Senate Committee on State Creation, signaling a bold step toward equity, inclusion, and balanced development.

1. SOUTH WEST
Ijebu State – From Ogun State
Ibadan State – From Oyo State

2. SOUTH EAST
Anim State – From Anambra and Imo States
Adada State – From Enugu State

3. SOUTH SOUTH
Toru-Ibe State – From parts of Ondo, Edo & Delta States
Obolo State – From Akwa Ibom State

4. NORTH EAST.
Savanna State – From Borno State
Amana State – From Adamawa State

5. NORTH WEST
Tiga State – From Kano State
Gurara State – From Southern Kaduna

6. NORTH CENTRAL
Okura State – From Kogi State
Apa State – From Benue State

This decision reflects the Senate’s commitment to fairness, unity, and national progress.
It is a long-awaited response to agitations for better representation, improved governance, and accelerated development at the grassroots.

The official gazette is expected soon.
A new chapter in Nigeria’s federal structure is about to begin.
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#NigeriaRising
#SenateUpdate
#DevelopmentMatters
#UnityInDiversity.
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BREAKING: NIGERIAN SENATE APPROVES CREATION OF 12 NEW STATES!

In a landmark move aimed at deepening federalism and bringing governance closer to the people, the Nigerian Senate has passed the final reading for the creation of twelve new states across the six geo-political zones of the country.

This historic development follows an extensive nationwide consultation by the Senate Committee on State Creation, signaling a bold step toward equity, inclusion, and balanced development.

1. SOUTH WEST
Ijebu State – From Ogun State
Ibadan State – From Oyo State

2. SOUTH EAST
Anim State – From Anambra and Imo States
Adada State – From Enugu State

3. SOUTH SOUTH
Toru-Ibe State – From parts of Ondo, Edo & Delta States
Obolo State – From Akwa Ibom State

4. NORTH EAST.
Savanna State – From Borno State
Amana State – From Adamawa State

5. NORTH WEST
Tiga State – From Kano State
Gurara State – From Southern Kaduna

6. NORTH CENTRAL
Okura State – From Kogi State
Apa State – From Benue State

This decision reflects the Senate’s commitment to fairness, unity, and national progress.
It is a long-awaited response to agitations for better representation, improved governance, and accelerated development at the grassroots.

The official gazette is expected soon.
A new chapter in Nigeria’s federal structure is about to begin

On Friday, Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Akwa Ibom state Governor Umo Eno paid a visit to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the Villa.

Northerners Don’t Trust Peter Obi"? A Dangerous, Divisive Lie.

Former ACF Secretary General, Anthony Sani, recently claimed that Northerners do not trust Peter Obi enough to allow him to rule Nigeria, even for a single tenure. But we must ask: don’t trust him how?
Will he sell the North?
Will he dismantle Arewa?
Will he pack the North and auction it off?

This kind of narrative is not only misleading, it's deliberately dangerous. It plays directly into the hands of those who benefit from a divided Nigeria.

Let’s rewind.

Didn’t Buhari rule for 8 years?
What did he do?

Appointed an overwhelmingly northern and Fulani-dominated cabinet

Turned major security arms into ethnic extensions (NSA, Army, Police, Immigration, Customs – all headed by Northerners at one point)

Opened the borders for unchecked influx of Fulani herdsmen from Niger, Mali, Chad

Even built a rail line from Kano to Maradi in Niger Republic

Promoted grazing reserves and Ruga projects
Did Buhari not leave power? Was Nigeria handed to Fulani forever? NO. He came, he ruled, he left.

Now Tinubu has come and started what looks like a Yoruba state project:

FIRS – Zacch Adedeji

CBN – Yemi Cardoso

Customs – Bashir Adewale Adeniyi

Finance – Wale Edun

Interior – Tunji-Ojo

NSA – Nuhu Ribadu
He will also leave when his time is up.

So what is Obi going to do that will destroy the North?
Will he cancel mosques? Abolish Ramadan?
Let’s stop the fear-mongering.

Obi is not a dictator. He cannot override the Senate, House, Judiciary, or the system. This is just another old, tired excuse to block credible leadership.

It’s 2025. Nigeria has outgrown tribal propaganda.

Obi will come, serve his term, and go. Nobody is bigger than Nigeria.

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* July was named after the famous Roman general Julius Caesar by the Roman senate; as it was the month he was born in.

* The national flag of Denmark, the Dannebrog, is considered the oldest continuously used national flag in the world. According to legend, it fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse on June 15, 1219 when King Valdemar II was fighting a crusade against Estonian pagans.
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Gov poll: INEC extends Anambra voter registration

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UniAbuja Didn’t Grab Land, Acting VC Replies Wike

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Patriots demand new constitution, support independent candidature

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Nnamdi Kanu’s trial politically-motivated — IPOB

RCCG pastor steals $8,000, begins new life in US – Mummy G.O

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*TODAY IN HISTORY*

* On this day in 1870, the first Vatican Council, also known as Vatican I, decreed the doctrine of Papal infallibility. The doctrine claims that the Pope cannot err when speaking on issues of morality and/ or faith.

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If people are crazy enough to dare, impossible things happen. – Richard Branson

Good morning

*Compiled by Hon. Osuji George osujis@yahoo.com +234-8122200446*

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight

I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer

Natasha has finally made up her mind to resume plenary

The Kogi senator has finally fixed Tuesday July 22, 2025.as a new date to resume her activities in the Red chamber.

This she made after the federal high court judgment that declared her suspension by the Senate excessive .

"The Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has rescheduled her return to the upper chamber for legislative duties to Tuesday, 22 July.

She said the new date was to honour the late former President Muhammadu Buhari, who passed away on Sunday".

Recall the federal high court urged the Senate to consider her suspension that the six month is too much.

Though the Senate rest on the fact that the judgment was not binding since they were told by the court to consider, that they were not ordered by the court to lift her suspension .

PHOTO NEWS

Condolence Visit To The Family of Late President Buhari

The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio on Wednesday, July 16, led some Senators to pay a condolence visit to the family of the late President, Muhammadu Buhari, in Daura, Katsina State.

The deceased's son, Yusuf, Buhari's nephew, Alhaji Mamman Daura and other family members were on hand to receive the visitors.

The National Assembly members also paid similar condolence visit to the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Faruk Umar Faruk where prayers were offered for the peaceful repose of the soul of the deceased.

Finally the delegation visited the Governor of Katsina State, His Excellency, Dr Dikko Radda in Government House, Katsina, Katsina State.

May the soul of our dear late President, Muhammadu Buhari rest in peace.

BREAKING NEWS: NEW STATES TO BE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED BY THE SENATE!

The Nigerian Senate has passed the final reading for the creation of new states after a nationwide tour across the six geo-political zones. The proposed new states are:

South West
- Ijebu State (from Ogun State)
- Ibadan State (from Oyo State)

South East
- Anim State (from parts of Anambra and Imo States)
- Adada State (from Enugu State)

South South
- Toru-Ibe State (from parts of Ondo, Edo, and Delta States)
- Obolo State (from Akwa Ibom State)

North East
- Savanna State (from Borno State)
- Amana State (from Adamawa State)

North West
- Tiga State (from Kano State)
- Gurara State (from Southern Kaduna)

North Central
- Okura State (from Kogi State)
- Apa State (from Benue State) in

Official announcements are expected soon! Good development indeed! #Senate #StateCreation #Nigeriap

In 2017, a conspiracy theory that Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari had died in a London hospital and was replaced with a body double called ‘Jubril’ from Sudan surfaced in popular discourse. This occurred after Buhari had spent three months undergoing medical treatment in London for an undisclosed illness. The President’s location outside of Nigeria, in the country that was its former colonizer, gave shape to different versions of the conspiracy theory, with suggestions that British Nigerian political elites were behind the replacement of the President and were hiding his alleged death.
Anxieties around the President were initially provoked by a tweet on 19 May 2017, in which Eric Joyce, a British politician, tweeted that the President was dead. President Buhari had last been seen in public two weeks earlier. Eric Joyce’s tweet triggered Nigerians who were looking to escape a repeat of the power vacuum that had been experienced in the country after the death of a previous sitting president, Umaru Yar’Adua, who died in similar and somewhat mysterious circumstances in 2010.
Narratives that the president was a clone emerged in public discourse following President Buhari's public reappearance and return to Nigeria from the UK in August 2017. The first identified online appearance of the clone conspiracy theory was a YouTube video created by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a secessionist group in southeastern Nigeria, in September 2017. The group had been seizing opportunities during election windows to insert itself into broader political debates by whipping up regional sentiments of marginalization and political apathy. It had used a range of mainstream and social media channels to call the attention of the international community to its agitations and the illegal detention/trial of its leader. The body double conspiracy theory was picked up in the Nigerian media and widely spread through different forms of popular communication in Nigeria, resulting in Buhari publicly acknowledging and confronting the conspiracy theory. On 2 December 2018, Buhari insisted during an event in Poland, ‘It’s [the] real me, I assure you.’ The IPOB leader responded, tweeting:
If Buhari is not dead and replaced by Jubril from Sudan, why won't the Nigerian government sue Eric Joyce, a former British lawmaker, for peddling lies? They can’t because they know I am speaking the truth. @AsoRock @ericjoyce @NGRPresident @UKParliament @NGRSenate @WhiteHouse t.co/qqrKHPmtNy
In this article, this conspiracy theory that President Buhari was a clone is addressed as an opportunity to question the superficial confidence with which conspiracy theories have been dismissed as aberrations and negative externalities of digital ecosystems and their supporters as threats to an ostensibly deliberative public sphere. While not pitched in defense of conspiracy theories, it seeks to examine them without the comfortable protection of post-enlightenment normativity and to remind us how injunctions to ‘speak civilly’ or ‘think rationally’ tend to reproduce tropes from a colonial past, dismissing or erasing other forms of knowledge/reasoning used to make sense of the world to speak to power.

The arguments and analyses we advance here are closely related to those we presented in a previous article (Gagliardone et al.,
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2021), where we empirically illustrated how this explorative, rather than normative, approach allows us to grasp how individuals do not simply fall for, embrace, or support a conspiracy theory but can ‘do’ specific and distinct things with/through them. In that article, we comparatively analyzed how conspiracy theories circulating at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic were seized by some Nigerian users and politicians as opportunities to criticize the ruling party, while in South Africa the same conspiracy theories became a vehicle to voice deep-rooted resentment towards the West and corporate interests.

The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has approached the Court of Appeal to challenge the ruling of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which ordered the recall of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to the Senate following her suspension.