Tinubu pleads with US court not to order release of his records

President Bola Tinubu has on August 28, 2026 filed a legal application in a U.S. federal court pleading to block the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Department of Justice (DoJ) from releasing unredacted law enforcement records on him from the 1990s. Aaron Greenspan, transparency activist, had filed […]

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US Judge orders release of Tinubu’s records

US District Court in Washington, D.C., has ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to process and release non-exempt records concerning a 1990s Chicago drug investigation linking current Nigerian President Bola Tinubu. US Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, has initiated action in federal court to comply with the US courts’ orders concerning […]

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Senior US Judge delays release of Tinubu’s Chicago State University records

Judge Nancy Maldonado of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has placed an immediate stay on the release of President Bola Tinubu’s university records after he pleaded severe and irreparable consequences to his life. Mr. Tinubu, through his lawyers, begged Ms. Maldonado, a district judge, that the September 19 order […]

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Tinubu files motion for emergency review of order asking Chicago State University to release records

President Bola Tinubu has filed an emergency application seeking a review of the judgement that ordered the release of his academic records by Chicago State University (CSU) to Atiku Abubakar. Judge Jeffrey Gilbert of the United States District Court had on September 19 ordered Chicago State University to release with deposition Mr. Tinubu’s records to […]

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