Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai

@icpcnigeria NOTHING SHOULD HAPPEN TO ELRUFAI IN YOUR CUSTODY!!!!

TRENDING VIDEO: ICPC prevented me from giving my husband dinner, says el-Rufai's wife

Press Release: Our father, Mallam Nasir @elrufai, is still being held by the ICPC. Today, 15 May 2026, we witnessed two distinct yet equally serious attacks on his basic rights. First, his personal Doctor visited the ICPC at about 3pm to discuss the results of medical tests

Mallam Nasir El-Rufai’s doctor was at the ICPC today to follow up on medical tests recently taken by his patient. The doctor was prevented from seeing him by operatives who insisted that the doctor must present written approval by their chairman. This is a brazen violation of an explicit court order that Mallam Nasir @elrufai must be allowed unfettered access to his medical doctors. In addition, I, his wife, brought his dinner as usual at about 7pm today, 15 May 2026. ICPC officials also denied me access, saying that they would not accept delivery of dinner after 6:30pm. This is just as bad as denying his right to medical visitation and we will not stand for it.

BREAKING: The criminal behind the travails and unlawful detention of Abubakar Malami, Amadu Sule Leda (TMDK) and Nasir El-Rufai is finally being exposed globally. Rahmaniyya has been a fraudster that has been convicted by courts in London (twice) and Dubai in the last two

NIGERIA UPDATE - Nigeria’s Growth Crisis Is a Talent-Allocation Crisis - by: Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai - 1st April, 2026 - Part 2 4. Sectoral Reality: Why Building Is Harder Than Extracting Consider a few concrete Nigerian constraints. Power Nigeria’s average available grid capacity is just over 5,300 megawatts for a population exceeding 200 million. No serious manufacturing or services economy can scale under such conditions. When power is unreliable, firms remain small by necessity. Ports and Logistics Average vessel turnaround time at Nigerian ports has been around five days—far above global best practice. Each delay creates gatekeeping opportunities, raising costs and uncertainty. Jobs and Firm Structure With wage employment hovering around 16%, most Nigerians work in survival-level activity. This is not because Nigerians lack ambition, but because the system penalizes formal growth. When these constraints persist, entrepreneurship becomes a high-risk, low-reward path. Rational talent looks elsewhere. 5. Evidence from Other Countries—and What It Means for Nigeria Cross-country evidence supports this argument. Countries that channel more of their top talent into engineering, applied science, and production tend to grow faster. Countries where talent concentrates in rent-oriented legal and administrative activity tend to grow more slowly . The lesson is not that law is unimportant. On the contrary: law is essential when it enables commerce. But when legal and regulatory systems become tools for extraction rather than facilitation, they draw talent away from growth-enhancing activity. Nigeria today sits at that crossroads. 6. Signs of What Is Possible There are encouraging signals. Nigeria’s non-oil exports have grown strongly, driven by products such as cocoa, fertiliser, cashew, and processed agricultural goods. This shows that when incentives align—even partially—Nigerian firms can compete and scale. The task before us is to generalise this success, not treat it as an exception. 7. The Real Reform Objective Nigeria’s reform agenda should be summarised in one sentence: Make value creation more rewarding than value capture. Everything else flows from this. This means: •Shrinking discretionary power and rent opportunities in government; •Making rules predictable, transparent, and digital by default; •Ensuring property rights and contracts are enforced quickly and fairly; •Making it easier to scale a business than to stay small and hidden; •Aligning finance with long-term production and exports, not short-term arbitrage. When these conditions exist, the most talented Nigerians will move—naturally and voluntarily—into productive enterprise. 8. What Success Looks Like in 24 Months If Nigeria is serious, progress should be visible and measurable within two years: •Power availability rising from ~5,300 MW toward 8,000–10,000 MW reliably delivered. •Port turnaround times falling below four days, with fewer physical interventions. •Wage employment rising toward 18–20%, signalling firm formalisation and scale. •Tax-to-GDP moving toward 10%, driven by digitisation and base broadening—not harassment. •Manufacturing and tradables expanding their share of GDP and exports. •Non-oil exports growing not just in value, but in the number of exporting firms. These are not technocratic targets. They are signals to talent—telling Nigeria’s brightest minds that building, producing, and exporting now pay better than extracting. 9. The Strategic Choice Before Us Nigeria’s future does not hinge on slogans, nor on personalities. It hinges on who wins in our economy. If the system rewards brokers over builders, we will continue to underperform. If it rewards producers over extractors, growth will follow—rapidly and durably. This is the central lesson of economic history, and it is the challenge of our moment. Nigeria does not lack talent. Nigeria must reallocate it. God Bless our Country.

NIGERIA UPDATE - Nigeria’s Growth Crisis Is a Talent-Allocation Crisis - by: Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai - 1st April, 2026 - Part 1 Nigeria is often described as a paradox. We are a nation of extraordinary human capital—energetic, inventive, resilient—yet our economic outcomes fall persistently short of our potential. Growth remains shallow, productivity weak, firms struggle to scale, and prosperity does not spread widely enough. Today, I want to advance a clear and uncomfortable proposition: Nigeria’s growth problem is not primarily a shortage of talent, capital, or ideas. It is a problem of where our best talent goes—and why. This is not a moral argument about individuals. It is a political-economy argument about incentives. 1. The Core Insight: Talent Follows Returns Across societies and across history, highly capable people choose occupations that offer the highest returns to ability, especially where small differences in skill translate into large rewards. Economists describe this as increasing returns to talent. When those returns are highest in entrepreneurship, innovation, and production, economies grow. When those returns are highest in rent-seeking—activities that redistribute existing wealth rather than create new value—growth slows or stalls . People do not wake up intending to harm their country. They respond rationally to incentives. So the right question for Nigeria is not “Why are people corrupt?” It is: “What activities does our system reward most handsomely?” 2. Nigeria’s Current Incentive Structure Let us be honest about Nigeria’s reality. •GDP growth was about 4.1% in 2024, respectable on paper but insufficient for a country with our demographics. •GDP per capita remains around US$1,084, placing Nigeria among lower-income economies despite our scale. •Informal employment accounts for roughly 93% of the labour force, meaning most firms are small, fragile, and defensive rather than scalable. •Nigeria’s tax-to-GDP ratio is only about 8.2%, one of the lowest in Africa—signalling weak fiscal capacity and heavy reliance on discretionary collection rather than broad, rule-based taxation. These numbers are not abstract. They describe an economy where scale is risky, visibility attracts predation, and long-term investment struggles to compete with short-term access. In such an environment, the most capable Nigerians often find that the fastest and safest returns come not from building large, productive enterprises—but from proximity to state power, regulatory discretion, political brokerage, or legal and administrative contestation. This is exactly the mechanism identified in the economic literature: when the “market” for rent-seeking is large, talent flows there . 3. Why Rent-Seeking Damages Growth Rent-seeking harms an economy in three cumulative ways. First, it absorbs labour and capital without creating output. Resources are spent competing over existing wealth rather than expanding the economic frontier. Second, it acts like a tax on productive activity. Businesses face delays, uncertainty, informal payments, and arbitrary enforcement—raising costs and discouraging investment. Third—and most damaging—it diverts the very people who would otherwise be the most productive entrepreneurs and innovators. When the brightest minds are pulled away from production, the quality of entrepreneurship falls, technological progress slows, and the economy’s long-run growth rate declines . This is why rent-seeking does not merely lower income levels; it can permanently reduce growth.

RT @B_ELRUFAI: In the name of Allah SWT, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. This message to thank everyone that visited, call or praye…

Great question. What the ADC won’t do is plunge Nigerians into poverty with poorly thought-out policies like the Tinubu/APC subsidy removal has done. What we will do differently is to protect the most vulnerable through targeted subsidies — so that relief actually reaches the

🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔 📌📌📌📌📌📌 Dear Northern Politicians/Clerics Please we demand that you all leave @elrufai in peace to mourn the death of his biological mother and our mother I have never seen in my whole adult life where during Janaza prayers reconciliation is attempted between a man that has been humiliated and dehumanized by those he helped to power and Judas Iscariots That is the most insensitive time and place But where were all these political clerics when T-Pain unlawful and illegally locked @elrufai for about 42 days on trumped up charges during Ramadan and Eid el Fitr despite the fact his mother was on her sick bed? You were all scared of speaking up for Mallam and left the fight for us his supporters and followers to carry our cross This is pure wickedness Once again may Allah grant mama Aljanna Firdaus and forgive her shortcomings

New Dawn. We are ADC. - RMK

In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. On behalf of the elders of our family, I have been requested to announce the Janazah Prayer for our dear grandmother, Hajiya Umma El-Rufai, who passed away yesterday. It will take place at the National Mosque, Central Area, Abuja at 1 pm. The burial will follow up at Gudu Cemetery, Apo. Thank you for all the prayers, visits and well wishes. May Allah SWT bless her gentle and grant her the highest level of Aljannatul Firdausi. Signed Hon. Mohammed Bello El-Rufai Member. Kaduna North Federal Constituency Chairman, Committee on Banking Regulations. March 28, 2026.

As part of my duty as a citizen, I wrote to the NSA to seek clarification on reports about the importation by his office of thallium sulphate, a very dangerous toxin. It’s a matter of concern if anyone brings in any poison, more so an odourless, colourless one.

Yesterday, after the futile attempt to abduct me, the ICPC delivered a letter to invite me to their office. My lawyer has written to confirm that I will be attending the ICPC office on Wednesday, 18 February 2026.

All set for my conversation…

Please note that the conversation will now hold at 6pm today.

New time for my exclusive interview with Nasir El Rufai tonight. It's now a 6pm Prime Time special! Please join us on Arise News.

Join me in a conversation with Charles Aniagolu on Prime Time @ARISEtv, at 8pm on Friday, 13 February 2026.

My lawyers have issued a statement that condemns the illegal attempt to arrest me today at the Abuja airport upon my arrival from Cairo. Our country must outgrow executive overreach and deliberate disregard for the rule of law. m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

Breaking News: Security agents today attempted to arrest Malam Nasir @elrufai as he arrived on a flight from Cairo. Malam El- Rufai declined to follow them without a formal Invitation. They however snatched his international passport from an aide.