The recent activities of Omoyele Sowore both on the mainstream media and social media have raised serious significant questions about his motivations and the potential consequences of his actions. Sowore's mobilization on social media for #FearlessInOctober and #RevolutionNow protests appears not only ill-conceived but also dangerously provocative. While I am neither a government official nor an apologist for the current administration, it is clear that some issues are both evident and pressing.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced the appointment of Hon. Ojukaye Flag Amachree as the new Director of Energy Security in the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA). The Energy Security Directorate, a newly created unit in ONSA, is tasked with coordinating policies, protecting critical infrastructure, managing data, providing security coordination, offering risk advisory services, and building strategic alliances within Nigeria’s energy sector.

Elder stateman and business mogul, Alhaji Aminu Alhassan Dantata, has sympathise with flood victim in Maiduguri after he paid them a visit today and donated N1.5 billion to victims in Maiduguri, Borno state capital. Dantata extended his hands of fellowship when he led a delegation from Kano to Borno state Government House, Maiduguri this morning.

The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, and the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, have directed an immediate probe into allegations that a Naval rating, Seaman Abbas Haruna, has been in detention for nearly six years. This was a result of the detainees’ wife speaking on a radio station, where she accused military authorities of unjustly detaining her husband in their custody for almost six years.

Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has expressed worry that some Boko Haram leaders serving jail terms at Maiduguri prison that collapsed might have escaped from the correctional centre following a flood disaster that ravaged Maiduguri, the state capital. Vigil360 reported how flood from a collapsed Alau Dam claimed lives and destroyed properties worth millions of naira in the city including correctional centre.

The federal government has today Friday inaugurated a 16- man member committee for the consequential adjustments of civil servant salaries arising from provisions of the National Minimum Wage Act, 2024, of N70,000, okayed by President Bola Tinubu. Chairman of the committee who doubled as the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), Mrs. Didi Walson-Jack, inaugurated the committee on behalf of the federal government.