Ministry Of Power, Energy Commission Of Nigeria Collaborate To Transform Energy Sector.

As part of dedicated efforts to deliver the dividends of democracy to Nigerians under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, the Federal Government and Energy Commission of Nigeria have strengthened their collaboration in transforming Nigeria’s Energy Sector.

The Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN), led by DG/CEO Dr. Mustapha Abdullahi, in a meeting with the Minister of power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu discussed on strengthening collaboration and align with national energy
priorities.

Discussions were focused on enhancing cooperation on renewable energy priorities
and integrating ECN’s research outputs into national power infrastructure through joint implementation and shared resources.

Chief Adelabu reaffirmed the Ministry’s commitment to sustained partnerships,
especially in hydroelectric power generation and other strategic energy initiatives critical to transforming Nigeria’s power sector.

ECN updated the Minister on key programmes, including the Renewed Hope Solarization Programme, the National Energy Master Plan, and the National Energy Policy, reaffirming its commitment to delivering results that advance Nigeria’s energy and development goals.

CONSENSUS BUILT FOR REFORM: TINUBU’S PLACE IN NIGERIA’S POLITICAL HISTORY

By Barrister Aminu Hussaini

History often reveals itself not in moments of noise, but in moments of alignment-when power, timing and leadership converge. Nigeria is living through such a moment and at its centre stands President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The expanding national political consensus coalescing around the APC is not an accident of electoral arithmetic; it is the culmination of decades of political engineering, negotiations and strategic bridge-building in which Asiwaju has been the principal architect.

Nigeria’s recurring challenge has never been the absence of reform ideas. What has been missing is a leader capable of commanding sufficient national consensus to implement them.

 Constitutional conferences have come and gone. Committees have produced volumes of recommendations. Yet reform repeatedly stalled at the altar of political fragmentation and mutual suspicion. Tinubu’s ascendancy marks a departure from that cycle.

Unlike many leaders who inherit power without reach, Tinubu arrived at the presidency with a deep, cross-regional political network patiently built over time. His politics has always been coalition politics-pragmatic, inclusive and unsentimental. 

From his days as a pro-democracy activist, to his tenure as Governor of Lagos State and through his role in forging the APC itself, Tinubu demonstrated a rare understanding of Nigeria’s power map and how to align its diverse interests without collapsing into sectionalism.

The current national convergence around the APC reflects this strategic depth. It is not merely that the party governs across much of the federation; it is that this spread cuts across traditional fault lines-North and South, Muslim and Christian, majority and minority regions. Only a leader with Tinubu’s political credibility and negotiating instinct could have held together such a broad coalition in Nigeria’s notoriously volatile political terrain.

This convergence creates something Nigeria has seldom enjoyed; the political space for courage. Restructuring- long caricatured as a sectional agenda- can now be approached as a national project. 

Under Tinubu, the argument for reform no longer sounds like a threat to unity but like a strategy to save it. When a president commands trust and influence across regions, fears give way to dialogue and suspicion yields to pragmatism.

Nigeria’s problems are structural and well known. Over-centralisation has weakened security, stifled economic initiative and eroded accountability. States remain fiscally dependent and administratively constrained, while the federal centre is overburdened and inefficient. These dysfunctions persist not because they are unsolvable, but because previous leaders lacked the political alignment to confront them decisively.

Tinubu’s leadership changes that equation. His presidency coincides with a rare political consensus strong enough to sustain difficult conversations about devolution, fiscal federalism, state policing and a more balanced federation. Crucially, this is not consensus born of coercion, but of political inclusion. It is the product of alliances negotiated, interests balanced and egos managed – hallmarks of Tinubu’s political style.

With the groundwork of national consensus already laid, Kano’s decision to plug into the centre reflects a clear reading of history, power and opportunity. Given its demographic strength, economic reach and symbolic standing in the North, Kano’s cooperation significantly deepens the legitimacy and reach of ongoing reforms. More than a political gesture, the alignment positions the state as an active stakeholder in shaping outcomes rather than reacting to them. 

At a time when reform demands coordination and shared purpose, Kano’s alignment enhances its influence at the centre while reinforcing national stability and policy coherence.

Yet history is unforgiving of missed opportunities.

Consensus can be a tool for reform or a trap of complacency. The measure of Tinubu’s place in Nigeria’s political history will not be the scale of his political dominance, but the depth of the reforms he dares to pursue. Power that merely consolidates itself is soon forgotten; power that restructures a nation endures.

Restructuring under Tinubu need not be radical rupture. It can be deliberate, negotiated and stabilizing – strengthening the federation by empowering its parts while preserving national cohesion. That balance between firmness and flexibility is precisely where Tinubu’s political genius has always resided.

This moment calls for statesmanship over partisanship, legacy over longevity. If Tinubu deploys this unprecedented national consensus to reset Nigeria’s federal architecture, history will remember him not merely as a master strategist, but as the leader who finally aligned Nigeria’s power structure with its realities. Moments like this define nations and leaders. For Bola Ahmed Tinubu, this is more than a presidency. It is an appointment with history!

Barrister Aminu Hussaini is the Special Adviser to the Governor of Kano State – AKY on Justice/Constitutional Matters: +234 8033742424 – aminuhussaini173@gmail.com

ECN Management/ Staffs Congratulate Dr Mustapha Abdullahi On His Birthday.

Thanks President Tinubu For Making The Right Choice

The Management and Staff of Energy Commission of Nigeria has congratulated their Director General, Dr Mustapha Abdullahi on the occasion of his birthday.

The staffs in their birthday message applauded the leadership style of Dr. Mustapha describing him as a good manager of men and resources.

Dr Mustapha Abdullahi was also described as a man with an amiable personality and God -fearing disposition.

According to the staffs. “Dr. Mustapha Abdullahi has displayed an enviable leadership quality in the development of the sector through his significant contributions to the Commission including the energy sector that has witnessed sustainable growth in energy solutions that has also fostered appreciable levels.

“His unwavering dedication to duty, improvements to staff welfare have remained a rallying point that has continued to” encourage staff, attract admiration and support to his policies for the overall good of the sector.

While wishing the indefatigable DG a happy birthday anniversary celebration, the Management and Staff of the Energy Commission of Nigeria, ECN called on Dr. Abdullahi Mustapha to remain focused on his vision to take the Commission to the enviable heights for all and the nation at large.

The staffs lauded him as a dedicated agent of Renewed Hope which has uplifted the spirit of the workforce from its near-obscurity in its over four decades of existence

They further commended Mr. President for appointing a sound visionary and genuinely dedicated person as Director General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria in the person of Dr. Mustapha, who on assumption to office had assured that under his leadership, “The ECN will set the tone for economic development based on progressive innovation and policy initiatives as envisioned by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope agenda.”

THE HERESY OF STANDING STILL IN A MOVING POLITICAL TERRAIN

By Barrister Aminu Hussaini Sagagi

One of the most persistent misconceptions about Kwankwasiyya is the attempt to imprison it within a single personality or a single political platform. This reductionist view strips the movement of its historical depth and undermines its ideological ancestry. Kwankwasiyya did not begin with an individual, nor was it designed to end with one. It is the latest expression of a political philosophy that has travelled – deliberately and consistently – through Nigeria’s evolving political landscape.

The philosophical roots of Kwankwasiyya lie unmistakably in the radical populism of Malam Aminu Kano, the NEPU tradition and the audacious Tabo philosophy. Tabo was moral courage in action: the willingness to confront feudal dominance, inherited privilege and the culture of silence imposed on the talakawa. Aminu Kano embodied this ethos in both conduct and symbolism. His simple white attire represented moral clarity and humility; his red cap projected identity, resistance and solidarity with ordinary people. These symbols were not ornamental – they were political language.
Crucially, this philosophy never pledged eternal loyalty to a single platform. NEPU itself was born as a rejection of conservative politics. As Nigeria’s political environment evolved, NEPU gave way to the PRP, carrying the same ideals into a new democratic moment. Later, the same populist current found expression in the SDP during the Third Republic and the PDM tendency that followed, adapting again to shifting political realities without abandoning its core mission.

With the return to civil rule in 1999, the philosophy re-emerged within the PDP, where it gained administrative expression and delivered tangible outcomes, particularly in education and social mobility. When the PDP’s internal contradictions deepened, the movement explored the APC as a possible national reform vehicle. When that promise faltered, it returned to the PDP and later found a more accommodating home in the NNPP. At each stage, the platform changed; the values endured.

This historical movement – from NEPU to PRP, SDP, PDM, PDP, APC, back to PDP, and NNPP – is not evidence of ideological inconsistency. It is evidence of ideological resilience. The philosophy travelled because Nigeria changed.

To remain static would have meant irrelevance.
Understanding this lineage is essential to the present debate surrounding Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s imminent alignment with the APC. Resistance from some Kwankwasiyya notables often rests on the mistaken assumption that movement equals betrayal. History suggests otherwise.

The betrayal would be to freeze a living philosophy in sentiment while political realities shift around it.
Nigeria’s contemporary political environment rewards strategic relevance. Governance today is shaped by access to power, coordination of resources and the ability to negotiate influence. For a sitting governor, relevance is not ambition – it is capacity. Surely, capacity in the Kwankwasiyya tradition, exists solely to serve the people.

Perhaps the most damaging misunderstanding is the portrayal of Kwankwasiyya as a personal empire rather than a historical continuum. Individuals may carry the torch at different moments, but the fire itself predates them and will outlive them. To reduce the movement to a personality is to erase Aminu Kano’s legacy and misunderstand the meaning of Tabo.
Kwankwasiyya was never a prisoner of parties. It has always been a travelling philosophy – rooted in justice, powered by relevance and willing to move again to its next destination if that is what service to the people requires.

By Barrister Aminu Hussaini – Special Adviser – Justice/Constitutional Matters to the Governor of Kano State – AKY. May be reached: +234 803 374 2424 / aminuhussaini173@gmail.com

Nigeria is in Trump’s sights. Will it be next?

…Alake favouring China and Chagoury puts Tinubu at risk.

By Biliyaminu Suraj
biliyasuraj247@yahoo.com
American forces captured Venezuela’s now-deposed president Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a major military attack in the country’s capital, Caracas.

Maduro and his wife, were flown out of the country and placed on a US-bound warship to face a criminal trial in New York. President Trump said, “the US will temporarily run Venezuela until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition”.

The military action follows allegations by Mr Trump of Maduro running a corrupt and illegitimate dictatorship.

President Trump does not seem concerned by international law experts who say the attack appears to blatantly breach the UN Charter, which only permits member states to use force against another in two circumstances: either with the endorsement of the Security Council, or in self-defence.

Mr Trump also said he is “ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to”.

US Attorney-General Pam Bondi released documents alleging Mr Maduro “sits atop a corrupt, illegitimate government that, for decades, has leveraged government power to protect and promote illegal activity”. This description by the US Attorney-General could equally apply to Nigeria.
President Tinubu has recently come into Mr Trump’s orbit with Mr Trump accusing the Tinubu Administration of allowing jihadist forces to target Christian villages and massacre thousands of Christians. Trump authorised a US Senate delegation to investigate and report directly to him as a matter of urgency. The evidence collected by the Senators during their trip to Nigeria was deeply disturbing. It wasn’t long before a US warship stationed in the Gulf of Guinea launched a successful missile strike on an ISIS camp in Northern Nigeria. That was a warning shot to President Tinubu to do more to prevent the killing of Christians and do it quickly.

The further dimension to the US-Nigeria tension is the blatant action by Mines Minister Alake in channelling critical minerals discoveries away from the US to Chinese companies and allowing President Tinubu’s benefactor, Gilbert Chagoury, to take his share too.

Chagoury is well known for his role as Sani Abacha’s bagman. After Abacha died in 1998, having looted Nigeria’s treasury of approximately $5billion, Chagoury agreed to return an estimated $300 million to the Nigerian government to secure his indemnity from possible criminal charges.

He currently serves as Saint Lucia’s Ambassador to the Holy See and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO which conveniently affords him diplomatic immunity. His close connections to Tinubu are well known so it should come as no surprise that, after Mines Minister Alake revoked Jupiter Lithium Ltd’s titles to Nigeria’s largest lithium project which Jupiter discovered and developed over the last decade, the Jupiter Lithium Project’s titles were given to Chagoury’s companies.

Maybe President Tinubu didn’t realise that Jupiter Lithium Ltd, a UK company, had signed a deal to supply critical minerals to American Resources, a NASDAQ listed company.

The Jupiter Project is one of the world’s largest deposits of lithium and other critical minerals. It is also one of the world’s lowest cost and highest grade deposits. It has been held in limbo for two years by Nigeria’s court while Mines Minister Alake has been trying to figure out how to get the project off Jupiter Lithium Ltd and give it to the Chinese. The answer came in the form of Gilbert Chagoury. Chagoury employed an Australian, Colin Ikin, to set up a series of front companies to whom the Mining Cadastre Office would award the critical minerals tenements they had revoked from Jupiter Lithium Ltd. Jupiter Lithium Ltd were ejected from their tenements in November 2025 by Nigeria’s Civil Defence Corps who then escorted Chagoury’s Chinese miners to site to commence mining.

But the local communities did not like Ikin or the Chinese. They wanted to continue with the Jupiter Project and all the community development Jupiter had been undertaking for several years. The community leaders challenged the Minister and Ikin. The community was attacked by Fulani herdsmen who used machetes to hack several villages, chopping of one girl’s hand. Such is the intimidation of communities who are told that if they comply with the request for consent to mine the attacks will stop.

The result: the communities live in fear after Jupiter’s staff and security were removed, Gilbert Chagoury becomes the owner of Nigeria’s largest critical minerals project, China secures all the product from one of the world’s largest critical minerals deposits and the US gets … absolutely nothing.

So, by favouring China and Chagoury, Mines Minister Alake has likely put President Bola Tinubu on the list of persons of interest to President Trump.