By SUNTV Global Channel | December 31, 2025
Human rights lawyer, Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has delivered a scathing assessment of Nigeria’s political, economic, and security situation under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, declaring that hunger and poverty have become widespread and indiscriminate across the country in 2025.
In a year-end statement obtained by SUNTV Global Channel, Ejiofor said Nigeria’s experience in 2025 was defined by deepening insecurity, worsening economic hardship, and what he described as a troubling collapse of legislative oversight.
According to him, Nigerians should use the transition into a new year not merely for celebration but for sober reflection on the nation’s direction.
“As the curtain gently falls on the last of the 365 days that constituted the year now slipping into history, it is both fitting and necessary that we pause, not merely to reminisce, but to interrogate our national journey and the trajectory of Nigeria’s political and socio-economic development in 2025,” he said.
Ejiofor noted that despite the scale of hardship, Nigerians endured the year through resilience and divine intervention rather than effective governance.
“By a curious convergence of dogged human resilience and divine indulgence, our aspirations were not extinguished. In Nigeria today, survival itself has become a testimony of grace,” he stated.
Insecurity as a Permanent Feature
The rights lawyer described insecurity as the most devastating challenge confronting the country, warning that it had evolved from isolated incidents into a permanent feature of national life.
“Insecurity has become the normalisation of abnormalities,” Ejiofor said, pointing to persistent killings, displacement of communities, closure of schools, abandoned farmlands, and widespread economic paralysis across several regions.
He further alleged that sponsors and defenders of terror had grown bolder, particularly in parts of Northern Nigeria, claiming that some were former holders of sensitive government and military positions.
“Even more scandalous is the grim reality that some of these actors are not strangers to the state,” he said, criticising what he called official silence and lack of decisive action.
“Hunger Has Been Democratised”
On the economy, Ejiofor said the effects of inflation, stagnant wages, currency instability, and poorly cushioned subsidy removals had plunged millions of Nigerians into hardship.
“Hunger has been democratised. Poverty is no longer selective,” he declared, accusing the government of pursuing abstract economic theories while ignoring the daily realities of ordinary citizens.
He warned that the middle class was shrinking rapidly while inequality continued to widen.
National Assembly Under Fire
Ejiofor also took aim at the National Assembly, accusing it of abandoning its constitutional duty of oversight in favour of blind loyalty to the executive.
“The National Assembly has perfected the art of rubber-stamping. Bills arrive. Bills pass. Questions are discouraged. Dissent is treated as heresy,” he said.
He cited the controversial Tax Reform Act expected to take effect in January 2026 as a clear example of legislative failure, warning that it could deepen unemployment and worsen hunger nationwide.
The lawyer also referenced allegations by a member of the House of Representatives that the version of the tax bill currently circulating differed from the one actually passed by lawmakers.
“Instead of transparency, the response has been suppression,” he alleged.
Warning on Selective Justice
Ejiofor further criticised what he described as selective and sluggish responses to violent attacks across the country, warning that the perception that some lives mattered less than others posed a serious threat to national unity.
Hope Beyond the Hardship
Despite his grim assessment, Ejiofor expressed gratitude for life and hope for Nigeria’s future, attributing the country’s survival more to divine mercy than to governance.
“Yet, in spite of it all, we are alive,” he said.
As Nigeria enters a new year, he called for leadership driven by conscience and courage, people-focused economic policies, a just and effective security architecture, and genuine national healing.
“May the New Year usher in restored hope, renewed purpose, and a rebirth of our nation,” Ejiofor concluded.
— SUNTV Global Channel
