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US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by gistyinka(m): 8:15pm On Nov 08, 2013 |
Former US Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell has said that there are at least 115 US Dollar billionaires in Nigeria. He made the revelation in his book titled “Nigeria – Dancing on the brink”. The Ambassador said that he received the information from a top New York investment bank executive with knowledge of offshore accounts and asset records of high profile Nigerians. Forbes puts the number of dollar billionaires in Nigeria at 2, a gross understatement of the public wealth hidden in private pockets of politically exposed persons. However in their defense, Forbes only measures corporate assets i.e. wealth that can be traced to shareholdings in listed companies. He stated this while describing the corruption in the Nigeria and the immense poverty plaguing the nation. John Campbell was the US Ambassador to Nigeria between 2004 and 2007.
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Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by iterator25: 8:26pm On Nov 08, 2013 |
Nigerians know this.. Nothing new |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by slimfit1(m): 8:35pm On Nov 08, 2013 |
Well thanks ambassador we are enjoying the suffering thank you go and relax in your Manston for now sir thanks. |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by Nobody: 9:46pm On Nov 08, 2013 |
Babangida should be amongst them. It's shocking that Nigeria, with a GDP of $400bn, has almost the same number of $ billionaires as the U.S., a $15tr economy |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by Nobody: 10:33pm On Nov 08, 2013 |
I hope those are Dangote and Adenuga |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by AZeD1(m): 11:17pm On Nov 08, 2013 |
CFCfan: Babangida should be amongst them. It's shocking that Nigeria, with a GDP of $400bn, has almost the same number of $ billionaires as the U.S., a $15tr economyThe US has far more than 115 billionaires |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by sopoundz(m): 12:57am On Nov 09, 2013 |
Wa o! Mk I soon b no 116. Papa bless my hussle |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by UyiIredia(m): 1:20am On Nov 09, 2013 |
CFCfan: Babangida should be amongst them. It's shocking that Nigeria, with a GDP of $400bn, has almost the same number of $ billionaires as the U.S., a $15tr economy And I thought you were politically savvy given how active you are hear: I will convebiently forget this occurred. |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by UyiIredia(m): 1:21am On Nov 09, 2013 |
CFCfan: Babangida should be amongst them. It's shocking that Nigeria, with a GDP of $400bn, has almost the same number of $ billionaires as the U.S., a $15tr economy And I thought you were politically savvy given how active you are hear: I will conveniently forget this occurred. |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by Nobody: 1:25am On Nov 09, 2013 |
Uyi Iredia: Maybe I got the number of US billionaires wrong |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by UyiIredia(m): 1:51am On Nov 09, 2013 |
CFCfan: SMH. Maybe Your sh*t's worse than I thought. |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by DonHummer(m): 2:01am On Nov 09, 2013 |
any Nigerian who doesnt knw this deserves a slap.. 1 Like |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by Nobody: 2:40am On Nov 09, 2013 |
Uyi Iredia:CFC sef nor gree ansa u again.He agreed he made a mistake nd u ad 2 harp abt it again? @ topic,the man aint writing abt anything we don't already know,nd more. Godbless Nigeria! |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by Nobody: 3:24am On Nov 09, 2013 |
You plagiarized and edited my initial post! Copy copy Copyright https://www.nairaland.com/1509047/least-115-dollar-billonaires-nigeria-ambassador |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by musiwa112: 9:59am On Nov 09, 2013 |
nigeria has over 100 billionaires in usa dollars. that is true, but most stole the money while they were in government.. abacha has 5 billion dollar. you should be able to find 60 people with $1billion while in govt. they dont pay worker . even since 1999, many stole millions of dollars. the budget of a governor for 8 years is more than $8 billion. a state like lagos is $24 billion, so as governor, some of them steal billion. some minister control millions of dollars. |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by musiwa112: 10:05am On Nov 09, 2013 |
why do you think, people are shouting that they want me to president because they are feed up with all this people.. by 2015 the army will overthrow them because they are not credible...many have stole money... the army will overthrow all of the governors after 2015, they will overthrow jonathan too.. they will overthrow fashola etc.. they will overthrow northern governors too.. even they will overthrow buhari, that why, when the issue of credibility took place, the youth in his home town, went to blow up banks to try to link him to robering a bank. but the army will not overthrow me.. i have not fund boko haram, i got investigated... because they think i was the one, they dont know that the northern youth are not that stupid, they know the truth. nigerian army are not that stupid, |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by gboso1ne(m): 10:16am On Nov 09, 2013 |
We know b4 |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by gabriel212: 12:03pm On Nov 09, 2013 |
musiwa112: why do you think, people are shouting that they want me to president because they are feed up with all this people.. by 2015 the army will overthrow them because they are not credible...many have stole money... the army will overthrow all of the governors after 2015, they will overthrow jonathan too.. they will overthrow fashola etc.. they will overthrow northern governors too.. even they will overthrow buhari, that why, when the issue of credibility took place, the youth in his home town, went to blow up banks to try to link him to robering a bank.What are you saying? |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by IGBOSON1: 1:03pm On Nov 09, 2013 |
Off the top of my head, i can mention: Abacha IBB Atiku Abubakar Abdulsalami Abubakar Mai Deribe Theo Danjuma Dangote (and throw in a couple of Dantatas) All the past Comptroller Generals of Customs Obasanjo Tinubu Adenuga Chagourys (they're Nigerians innit?) Orji Kalu These are just a fraction of the 100s of dollar denominated billionaires! And when you think of all the hangers on, relations, friends and kinsfolk of past leaders (owners of Nigeria) that have been given juicy billion dollar defence, customs and construction contracts......including civil/public servants that were virtual lords of the manor in the ministries and agencies they headed, only then can you begin to appreciate how much this country has lost to these thieving scum! These are 100s of billions of dollars that could have been channelled into the construction of a super-highway network across the country; construct a bullet train network that could link cities and regions within the country......so much so that you could live in Benin or Enugu yet commute to work in Lagos every weekday; used to build world class hospitals; equip our universities to world standards, fund R& schemes, and pay our university lecturers competitive salaries that would serve as a magnet to attract the best minds to the country; develop a thriving tourist industry in places like Bauchi, Adamawa/Taraba, Obudu, Bonny and Badagry; construct mass housing in our major cities; build on the capacity of our power network which would in turn boost production and industry, hence creating jobs for our youth; etc-etc-etc. Instead of the above, we have these billions of dollars sitting idle in the foreign bank accounts of these materialistic goons (or laundered in property in cities like Lagos and Abuja), waiting to be fought over and wasted by their lazy fat kids when they eventually kick the bucket in a foreign hospital from too much excess in life! A sad commentary indeed! PS- You can add to the above list of billionaires if you can think of any more! 1 Like |
Re: US Ambassador Defies Forbes Lists--nigeria Had About 115 Billionaires In Dollar by BrokenTV: 4:55pm On Nov 09, 2013 |
musiwa I hope you know that this is not your thread or |
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