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Nigeria in distress: Only The Mike Adenuga spirit can heal the land
If you wake me up today and put the question – who is the most patriotic businessman in Nigeria in recent history – the answer will pop-up out instantly – Mike Adenuga! I won’t even have enough time to wipe my drowsy eyes or clear my head out of the sleepiness. It is an answer that has lived in my sub-conscious for years.
Mike Adenuga, has done what I have never seen any other Nigerian do in my long years on earth. What he did with the coming of GLO is something that would make me trek from my village to Maiduguri, defying all dangers, including the dreaded good men of the night in solidarity – were he to contest anything in Nigeria, including the nation’s first job.
Don’t tell me it is a business model or his own means of survival. That Oga Adenuga introduced per second billing in Nigeria, years ago, is the reason you and me are not swimming in the pool of our own tears today.
Of course, I know that Nigerians are victims of short memory. They have forgotten what it was – they always do! And because history is no longer taught anywhere in Nigeria, our children will never know the truth.
But not me. I still remember and I even tell my children and those who have ears that it is because of Adenuga that you’re able to hear aloo – that sweet voice of your mother from as far as Sokoto, Okene, Ngwo or Ikot Ekpene!
Otherwise, just like the 090 – naught nine naught – remember it – telephony will still be a status symbol in Nigeria today – just like DSTV still is. Make no mistake about it.
Okay – join issues with me – call me names as usual – intellectual dwarf – economic imbecile – brain-dead social lilliput – I’ll accept it and still tell you for free that the fact that you’re not paying through your nose to make that call is because of this great Nigerian.
I’ll never shy away from attributing patriotism to him. Feel free to give it your own interpretation. But to me, it is just like yesterday when the debates were on. I continue to replay the pictures in my mind of those men in suit arguing on television on why it is impossible to operate per second billing. Tell them it is the model in Ghana, Benin Republic, Togo, et al – don’t forget they got GSM before Nigeria – they’ll give you all the reasons why our country is not on all fours.
Just like today when you see them telling you why you must sell your kini to buy a liter of fuel – regardless of our country’s peculiar circumstances – they introduce every argument in the world to remind you of all manner of difficulties against what even the poorest countries of the world were enjoying.
But Adenuga’s entrance changed the story. Of course, not without a fight. First, they tried to stop him. Even though it was his own show and it was his lot to swim or sink with it, they still didn’t want him to go his way for obvious reasons – he’ll spoil business. So, all manner of blackmail and roadblocks were mounted against him in their wicked, sinister bid. They even tried to use the NCC, the regulatory agency. But due to his resilience and resistance, he was able to withstand the tempest.
Initially, they continued their shylock model, but soon succumbed as they saw GLO practically glowing with Nigerians. Nobody told them that khaki nobi leather. Seeing the direction things were going, they soon caved in. Then, all the arguments disappeared. All the things they told us were not possible, became practicable before our eyes.
I guess that we’re buying fuel at N900 per litre today, is because Adenuga doesn’t own a refinery. Else, the price will still be at N200 or less. Don’t believe the men on suit on television who tell you that oil is an international commodity and must be sold at the same price as UK or US. Tell them it’s a lie. That’s the same thing they told us with GSM.
Surely, you’re paying through your nose for your DSTV bouquets today because there is no Adenuga n the business. Otherwise, every household could afford it as they do mobile phones today. In fact, when they tell you that you cannot enjoy Pay As You Watch in Nigeria as in other climes where pay=TV operates, stand up and walk away knowing you’re listening to lies and it is only happening because this is Nigeria.
You’ve heard that some of your brothers now pay as much as N500,000 for one-way domestic flight ticket. That is possible because Adenuga doesn’t have a commercial airline. Otherwise, you may still be paying as little as N30,000 for the same flight. O Yes! I know what you’re thinking. You need not tell me I’m talking nonsense. But I tell you, all the arguments you hear the airline operators make in the media are nothing but lies, couched in beautiful packages.
Were it not for Adenuga, you’ll still hear the same talk with our GSM today. Think the value of N25,000 in the year 2000 or 2001. You’ll be talking about N250,000 in today’s Nigeria if not more. That was the cost of the SIM card then – the same that you get for almost free now. Go ahead and sneer at me – snigger all you would. But I tell you today, the cheapest you’ll get that SIM card could be at that price or even more. Of course, they’ll justify it – those men in suit on television.
I know I’m a retard – a Mongolian idiot – Incapable of thinking – probably the reason why I believe it resembles something like pure robbery for me to buy fuel at more than N900 instead of N200 and the sellers will still be smiling to the bank. I know that you think I’m an imbecile for me to believe that I could watch premium programmes on DSTV on my legitimate income as a taxi driver or I could travel with N100,000 or less with my family of six on any of that local flight to my village for Christmas – I used to do it with half that price some few years ago – pre-APC times I mean – before everything come scatter with their change!
Had Adenuga been less patriotic, I’m sure they would have found a space for him in their thieving model of mobile telephony a la Nigeria. But he chose differently and today, you could sit in your room, cross-legged and hold conversations with your mother in the village – and even see her face through video calls without being a billionaire.
So, go ahead and mock me. But let me insist that all these are not possible in other areas because there is no Mike Adenuga – the most patriotic businessman in Nigeria in those businesses. So, they remain the exclusive preserves of the high and mighty. Now, if there is anything Nigerians enjoy, it is that exclusiveness. That is how that toy generator came by its name – I better pass my neighbour! Sad!
Again, mock me to your fill! Stick out your tongue! Clap your hands in jest! I agree. I accept your tag. Afterall that’s the way retards are wired! __ The Tiny Voice!
A Rivers High Court sitting in Oyigbo Local Government Area has stepped into the escalating political crisis in the state, issuing an interim injunction that temporarily halts further action on the impeachment process against Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy, Ngozi Nma-Odu.
In a ruling delivered in Port Harcourt, the court restrained the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Martin Amaewhule, alongside thirty-two other defendants — including the Clerk of the House and the Chief Judge of Rivers State—from taking steps aimed at advancing the impeachment process.
Specifically, the order barred the Chief Judge, Justice Simeon Chibuzor-Amadi, from receiving, forwarding, considering, or acting on any request, resolution, or impeachment-related document from the Assembly for the purpose of constituting an investigative panel, pending the determination of the matter. The injunction is to subsist for seven days.
In the two suits—marked OYHC/7/CS/2026 and OYHC/6/CS/2026—the court also granted the claimants leave to serve the interim order and other originating processes on the first to the thirty-first defendants by pasting them at the gate of the Rivers State Assembly quarters.
The court also directed that the Chief Judge, listed as the 32nd defendant, be served through any staff of the judiciary at his chambers within the court premises.
Justice Fiberesima thereafter adjourned the matter to January 23, 2026, for hearing of the motion on notice, as the legal battle over the impeachment move shifts from the political arena to the courtroom.
On Friday, the Rivers State House of Assembly had called on the Chief Judge of the state to set up a panel to investigate the allegations of gross misconduct against Governor Fubara and his deputy.
The assembly members, who made the call through a unanimous vote, vowed to continue with the impeachment process.
The lawmakers had earlier addressed a press conference in Port Harcourt, where they accused Fubara of allegedly using blackmail.
Addressing journalists, the deputy speaker, Dumle Maol, claimed Fubara lacked the trust needed to address the crisis rocking the oil-rich state.
They accused the governor of infringing on the 1999 Constitution, saying the parliament was left with no other choice but to apply their legislative power by impeaching him from office.
The lawmakers also claimed the governor and his deputy had resorted to intimidating the parliament.
They, however, thanked President Bola Tinubu for wading into the crisis.
The members also called on the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, to reconvene the House.
Their position came weeks after they initiated an impeachment process against Fubara and Odu. The lawmakers are accusing them of gross negligence, a move that has heightened political tension in the coastal state.
No amount of intervention or pleading will mitigate the case of Siminalayi Fubara at this stage regarding the determination to impeach him, members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, vowed on Friday, as they opened a new chapter in the ongoing onslaught against the state governor.
Against the backdrop of what appeared like a lull when they failed to sit on Thursday for the same purpose, the members on their return, hinged the blame to go on with the action on the alleged intransigence of Fubara to retrace his step.
For this reason, the called on the state Chief Judge to set up the panel of investigation to look into the allegations of gross misconduct levied against Fubara and his deputy, Ngozi Odu.
Conveying their decision which came in form of a unanimous vote, the assembly members, who vowed to continue with the impeachment process, stressed that no amount of intimidation, blackmail or intervention would stop them this time – the third in the impeachment approach, which was first initiated in November 2023.
Dumle Maol, Deputy Speaker, had earlier told reporters that Fubara lacked the trust needed to address the crisis rocking the oil-rich state, accusing him of multiple infringement on the 1999 Constitution, which left the house with no other choice but to apply their legislative power.
Accusing the governor and his deputy of resorting to intimidation of the parliament, including the dropping of the name of President Bola Tinubu, they thanked the President for wading into the crisis in order to find a solution, but regrated that his efforts were stalled by the same Fubara.
If Peter Obi had mobilised Nigerians against those who rigged him out of the presidential election in 2023, his mandate given to him by the electorate would have been intact and he would have been President today.
This was the contention of Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, who ran with the former Governor of Anambra State, as vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, where Obi was the presidential candidate.
Datti-Ahmed, in an interview currently going viral on social media, told his hosts that anyone seeking to defeat President Bola Tinubu must not rely on the court process but resistance, using Nigerians as was done in the June 12, 1993 election saga against the military.
The outing on Nigeria Right Now, uploaded on YouTube on Thursday, quoted the politician, formerly Senator representing Kaduna Central at the National Assembly, as stating that he made this much clear to Obi, that the judiciary could not resolve the fundamental breaches of the constitution perpetrated by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last elections.
Hear him: “I told Peter Obi – Supreme Court cannot give you governor and give you presidency. For God’s sake, stand up and do something. The Nigerian Constitution was clearly breached.
“The Nigerian constitution was clearly breached; section 134 2b. It couldn’t be any clearer. Now, if it was June 12 people, and you breached not just the constitution but just one punctuation in their interest, I swear to God, nobody will sleep. They will take it.
“As much as I dislike the fact that they are using the Nigerian constitution, you must give it to them; they fight for their interest. They can organise rallies and can keep it up for three decades. And you are saying, ‘Let’s go to court; let’s go to court.’
“Whoever is going to defeat Tinubu must be ready to, I will use the word, ‘red eye’. You must show your red eyes because on that day that they are declaring the results, the people declaring fake results are criminals, and those who are stopping the declaration of fake results are good citizens. Whoever is going to defeat Tinubu must show red eyes… there’s no going to court.”
In the 2003 Anambra governorship election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Chris Ngige of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the winner, but Obi, candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), challenged the result and was later affirmed governor by the court of appeal in March 2006.
Similarly, in 2023, Obi challenged Tinubu’s victory, the APC presidential candidate, but his appeal was dismissed up to the supreme court level.
Court halts move to impeach Fubara *Orders CJ to tarry on panel
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