Group Hails Tinubu, Matawalle, Security Chiefs for Rescue of 24 Abducted Kebbi Schoolgirls

The Network for Peace and Development (NPD) has described the successful rescue of the 24 schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Maga, Kebbi State, as “a divine victory and a resounding testament to decisive presidential leadership.”

In a statement issued this evening and signed by its Executive Director, Rev. Moses Adamu, the group praised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his immediate and firm directive that produced results in record time.

“To the glory of God Almighty, our daughters are back home alive and unharmed,” Rev. Adamu declared.

“This miracle did not happen by chance. It is the direct result of Mr. President’s fatherly resolve when he ordered the Honourable Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Bello Matawalle, to relocate to Kebbi State and ensure the girls were brought back alive. That single instruction changed everything.”

The NPD singled out Dr. Matawalle for special commendation, describing his physical presence in the state as the turning point in the operation.

“Dr. Matawalle did not sit in Abuja issuing press releases. He moved to the theatre of operation, coordinated the forces on ground, and led from the front.

“Today, Kebbi and the entire nation are celebrating because of his courage and commitment,” the statement read.

Rev. Adamu also poured encomiums on the Chief of Defence Staff, the Service Chiefs, the Inspector-General of Police, and troops who executed what he called “a flawless rescue mission.”

“These gallant men and women worked day and night, risking their lives in difficult terrain, because leadership at the very top gave them no option but failure.”

The Network revealed that it worked hand-in-hand with the federal security forces throughout the eight-day ordeal, supplying vital community intelligence and mobilising local hunters.

“We saw first-hand the determination of our security agencies when they are backed by a President who means business,” Rev. Adamu said.

While rejoicing with the families, the NPD mourned the death of the school’s Vice Principal, Malam Hassan Makuku, who was killed during the attack, and prayed for his soul.

The group urged sustained momentum in securing schools nationwide, declaring: “Today, Mr. President, Dr. Bello Matawalle, and our security forces have shown that no child will be abandoned in the hands of criminals as long as this administration is in power.”

Massive Turnout In Osogbo As Osun ADC Concludes Federal Constituency Tour

– Nigerians Have Resolved To Vote Out Incompetent Govt, Install Responsible Leadership – Aregbesola

– As Party Leaders Canvass Aggressive Mobilisation, Support For ADC

Residents of Osogbo, and by extension Osogbo/Olorunda/Irepodun/Orolu trooped out massively as the African Democratic Congress (ADC), in Osun State, concluded its Federal Constituency Tour.

From the Ataoja’s palace to the Technical College in Osogbo, where supporters waited for several hours, residents, artidans, market men and women, youths, students among others came out in their numbers to show love and support to the party’s National Secretary, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who led the party’s hierarchy on the tour.

Addressing party supporters and loyalists, Aregbesola thanked them for their age-long show of support for his political tendency.

He said it is time for Nigerians to speak with one voice and galvanise the electorate to vote out the ruling parties at all levels.

The former Governor of Osun noted that his party presents the viable alternative to addressing the nation’s challenges of insecurity, maladministration, poverty, hunger and absence of good governance.

His words, “There is nowhere in Osun that the people do not resonate with what we represent. Our achievements and legacies when we were here continue to speak for us. That is why we get the kind of reception we have anytime we come here, particularly Osogbo, the state capital.

“There is no sector where they have not failed. They have disappointed Nigerians in almost every sphere. The economy is in dire straits, insecurity is ravaging the country, as well as many pitfalls of the present administration.

“The only viable alternative to all of these is our great party, the African Democratic Congress (ADC), which is poised to liberate the people and make life more abundant for the masses.

“We are glad that our people have resolved to vote out an incompetent government. Our party, if elected, will correct all of the governance misnormals and set the tone for our dear state, Osun and country to witness a masses oriented development.

“Continue to mobilise and draw more people to join the party and participate in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise. We promise you all a government of vision, mission and direction,” Aregbesola stated further.

Receiving the former Minister and his entourage in his palace earlier, the Ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Oyetunji Olanipekun Larooye II pledged to back the resolve of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to reclaim the state.

The Ataoja, who recalled the monumental transformation of Osogbo to a modern capital city, during the Aregbesola administration (2010-2018), promised that the people of the town will back the party in 2026.

“Aregbesola’s journey this time around is different. This is because he has come now to work assiduously for the betterment of the people of Osun.

“He is one man I respect a lot, because when some naysayers were mounting pressure on him to do dethrone me, he did not listen to them.

“We are not ingrates in Osogbo. Osogbo is always united when it comes to Politics. I will never leave Aregbesola. I will always support him and all he represents,” the monarch stated.

The event also served as a mobilisation centre as senior party figures; Dr. Charles Omidiji, Alhaji Azeez Adesiji, Senator Felix Ogunwale, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, Dr. Najeem Salaam and others charged party members to recommit themselves to grassroots engagement.

They described the ADC as the only party with the moral clarity and capacity to rescue Osun and Nigeria from the current decline.

Other dignitaries at Tuesday’s event include Engr. Jide Adeniji, Alhaji Rasaq Salinsile, Revd. Adelowo Adebiyi, Senator Adelere Oriolowo, Mr. Jide Bewaji, and other leaders of the tendency.

*Akinosho’s Regular Faulty View and A Regulator’s Achievements*

By Bukola Olasanmi

On the surface, the piece published in the online and PDF editions of the Africa Oil+Gas Report on 24 November 2025 under the title “The irregularities of the regulator will keep Nigeria’s upstream underachieving” wears the respectable garb of a professional intervention designed to stimulate debate and provoke corrective action.

A closer, honest reading instantly betrays the personal grievance of the publisher, Toyin Akinosho, who has cynically disguised his private shopping list as an “editorial.” The deliberate distortion of facts, the selective deployment of half-truths, and the insertion of outright falsehoods disgrace the very idea of an editorial—an exercise that is meant to be impartial, disinterested, and committed solely to the public good. For the remainder of this rebuttal, therefore, the article will be correctly described as Akinosho’s opinion piece, not as any official editorial of the Africa Oil+Gas Report.

To dignify it with the label “editorial” would be an insult to every serious publication that has ever taken a principled stand on issues of national importance. In that single article, Akinosho has managed to commit what amounts to journalistic fraud in print. Were he still resident in Nigeria rather than safely ensconced abroad where he now peddles his wares, a strong case could be made for charging him with criminal defamation and cyber-stalking.

By rushing into print, he has implicated himself beyond rescue. Had he kept his resentments private, some people might still have mistaken his silence for wisdom. Instead, he has chosen to advertise the hollowness of the “decades of experience” he so loudly trumpets—experience that now stands exposed as little more than recycled gossip, hot air, and copy-paste plagiarism from the NUPRC website and social-media handles.

One would not be surprised if, cornered by the collapse of his latest stunt, he resurrects his decade-old trick of claiming “assassination attempts” in order to cloak his fabrications in a martyr’s robe. His only plausible plea at this point is ignorance; everything else—malice, envy, and mercenary interest—is already on full display.

Akinosho’s tirade against the NUPRC (and by extension its leadership) conveniently omits the elementary truth that attracting investment into any sector is never the responsibility of a single regulator acting in isolation. Global capital flows are shaped by security, fiscal policy, judicial certainty, infrastructure, and a dozen other variables. A responsible analyst would at least have acknowledged the devastating impact of Nigeria’s lingering insecurity on investor confidence.

Instead, Akinosho remained silent on the subject, preferring to train his guns exclusively on the Commission while pretending the broader context does not exist. Yet even within this hostile operating environment, the NUPRC under Engr. Gbenga Komolafe has delivered results that no honest observer can dismiss as modest.

The aggressive roll-out of improved metering infrastructure has driven crude-oil theft and losses to a 16-year low by mid-2025. The 2024–2025 divestment programmes and licensing rounds have been widely praised for transparency and competitiveness. The Project One Million Barrels incremental initiative has already added approximately 250,000 barrels per day of sustainable production. These are verifiable, quantifiable achievements—facts that sit uncomfortably with Akinosho’s narrative of failure and therefore had to be ignored entirely.

The mask slips completely in the seventh paragraph, where he laments: “Hopes that NUPRC’s appointment earlier this year of a professional with business journalism experience and a track record of demanding transparency from powerful individuals and institutions as its head of communications would lead to predictable and timely release of data have been dashed.”
Translation: “They should have given the job to me. I have a geology degree, industry exposure, and I run a newsletter—never mind that my ‘journalism’ consists largely of lifting NUPRC press releases verbatim and selling them to foreign subscribers as proprietary analysis.

Fire the current spokesman and install me instead.” It is a naked, pathetic job application dressed up as public-interest commentary. One sincerely hopes that the Commission Chief Executive, Engr. Gbenga Komolafe, treats this tawdry piece of blackmail with the contempt it deserves. Intellectual laziness is the kindest explanation for such a shoddy, narrow-gauge outburst.

The days when Akinosho could simply harvest data from the NUPRC website, repackage it with minimal effort, and flog it abroad as “exclusive insight” are over. The Commission now releases timely, detailed, world-class data directly to the public—cutting out the parasitic middlemen who used to monetise information that was never theirs to sell. That is the real source of his rage: the tap has been turned off, and the easy money has dried up.

Let Toyin Akinosho understand this clearly: his attempt to denigrate an institution that has become a benchmark of competence and transparency in Nigeria’s public sector is doomed to fail—now and always.

What is truly galling is the shameless plagiarism that has sustained Akinosho’s “career” for years. Page after page of his paid reports, sometimes sold for thousands of dollars to unsuspecting international clients, are nothing more than lightly reworded copies of press releases, presentations, and social-media infographics. He adds a few adjectives, changes a headline, and pockets the money while contributing zero original research, zero fieldwork, and zero value.

Now that the Commission publishes everything in real time—with infographics, spreadsheets, and interactive dashboards—he has been reduced to a digital scavenger screaming because the free buffet has been replaced by an open, transparent cafeteria that no longer needs his waiter services.

The irony is delicious: a man who postures as the conscience of Nigerian upstream is in reality its most conspicuous freeloader. While genuine journalists and analysts burn shoe leather attending technical meetings, interviewing engineers, and crunching data, Akinosho sits abroad, copies, pastes, and cashes cheques. His entire brand—built on the borrowed credibility of other people’s work—is collapsing in real time, and the panic is palpable.

This November 2025 tantrum is not the cry of a wounded patriot; it is the death rattle of a hustler whose business model has been rendered obsolete by competence and openness. Finally, spare us the pretence of elder-statesman gravitas.

A man who has spent years dining out on the NUPRC’s intellectual property now has the effrontery to lecture the same institution on “irregularities” because it refused to hand him a salaried position he never applied for through proper channels. The sheer sense of entitlement would be comical if it were not so pathetic.

Toyin Akinosho is not a victim of regulatory failure; he is a casualty of his own laziness, greed, and the irreversible triumph of institutional excellence over parasitic pamphleteering. History will record him not as a chronicler of Nigeria’s oil industry, but as a cautionary tale of what happens when a mediocre middleman mistakes access for talent and plagiarism for journalism. The NUPRC has moved on. He never began.

***Olasanmi is a legislative writer with a focus in oil and gas