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Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by BornnAgainChild(f): 3:35pm On Apr 30, 2015
bamite:
Laziness is a disease, pls put an end to it!


Repeat Again!!!
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by Akinrogun(m): 3:43pm On Apr 30, 2015
a lame attempt at using reverse pyschology.........Malam Buhari, abeg no look Uche face o!
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by 40dogzz(m): 3:53pm On Apr 30, 2015
If u don't know by now that nnpc is full with stinking corupption then u ar leaving a fairytale life.
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by Nobody: 3:57pm On Apr 30, 2015
Hgold:
GMB can fight corruption without jailing anyone but he should probe Tinubu, IBB & OBJ as well.
once you have evidence against them. It will be done. Obj neva signed for any money for diversion it was atiku he used. So how are u going to brobe him that he stole. But this oil minister that sacked 4 GMD of nnpc within 4 yrs and u think all is well. I have strong fealing that one of those GMD can go to efcc to give them highly sensitive material to implicate this woman. I just pray that God will preserve her life because i can see serious attack on her.

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Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by Koolking(m): 4:16pm On Apr 30, 2015
Emenahagos02:


It was for this reason that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance, had to call for a forensic audit on the matter. A reputable audit firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers has since carried out an audit of NNPC’s account and came up with the verdict that no money was missing. But this verdict does not appear to have impressed Buhari and his gang.  It did not conform with what they have chosen to believe. That is why Buhari wants to institute his own probe. He and his cohorts want to be told what they want to hear.

What should we then expect in the days to come? Compulsive and forced lies? Buhari may do well to spare himself the infamy of engaging in witch-hunting. There are many issues of national importance that should engage his attention. Vendetta and bad blood will only lead to a blind alley

On the bold statement: The author is a chronic liar. Perhaps he didnt read the audit report by PWHC, or probably living in denial. Rain can never wash the spot of a Leopard. No matter how much you are being paid to write this trash and push the truth under the carpet, it won't stand. Sanusi accused the govt he was serving of corruption, what stopped the govt from investigating Sanusi's whistleblowing on misappropriated NNPC funds? If investigation found Sanusi wanting, the govt has all the power to prosecute him for treason.

If Alison is innocence, why is she afraid to submit herself for probe? Guy bone that thing jor, stop taking panadol for someone's headache.
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by rapthugx(m): 4:20pm On Apr 30, 2015
Baba is not witch hunting anybody. He only said he will revisit the issue of d missing $20b-Money more than enough to buy Peugeot factory grin Anybody that has any problem with that is an enemy of Nigeria.
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by Geeman74(m): 4:54pm On Apr 30, 2015
With the current PWC writeup OP withdraw this immediately. And resign from the job of image painter for Dieziani forthwith.

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Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by TS2(m): 6:17pm On Apr 30, 2015
Emenahagos02:

The witch-hunting that may herald the new order in Nigeria may have begun. Diezani Allison-Madueke, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, may be the first victim. She appears to have been programmed for an ignominious exit from office. She drew attention to this when she blew the lid last week. Her story was that oil cabals were after her. They want to package and sell her as a fraud to Nigeria and the world on account of the running battle she had with them.

The minister had to blurt, out following the recent and ongoing media scrutiny that had been directed at her and her office. Before now, Allison-Madueke had been the butt of dangerous insinuations about the alleged sleaze in the petroleum industry. But she had, at every turn, rebuffed attempts to present her in bad light. However, her detractors seem to have acquired a new impetus, following the outcome of last month’s presidential election. The government that Diezani serves is on its way out. The set-up has created a veritable fertile ground for all manner of mischief.

In recent weeks, for instance, a number of allegations have been woven around her neck. We have been told that $700 million was found in her private residence. But we were not told  who carried out the search as well as when and where the incident took place. Then, since some people have continued to insist that $20 billion was missing from government’s coffers, a brand new story is being woven about the fabled amount. And the story is that $17 billion out of the $20 billion has been traced to a Zenith Bank account and that Diezani has negotiated to return the money to the Federal Government.

Of course, many of us are already familiar with tales that the minister is seeking asylum with some foreign countries and that former Head of State, Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar, is negotiating a soft-landing for her. There is, indeed, a diet of tales surrounding the activities of the minister. But she has dismissed all of them as hogwash. She has also gone ahead to tell the world that some powerful operators in the oil industry are behind her travail.

In her bid to move Nigeria’s oil and gas sector away from insitutional and insitutionalised corruption, Diezani said that she stepped on a number of big toes. She is proud to tell us that millions, if not billions  of dollars, have been taken out of the hands of multinational oil companies and their subcontractors and put in the hands of Nigerians through the local content policy. This bold step may not have gone down well  with those who had been feeding fat from the oil sector. Diezani feels satisfied that she is on the right side of history. But her detractors will not let her be. And that appears to be the reason for the renewed critical searchlight being beamed in her direction.

Perhaps, it was in the light of the fictive tales being woven around Diezani and the so-called missing $20 billion that Gen Muhammadu Buhari, the president-elect, is getting unduly excited. Buhari was reported to have said a few days ago that he would inquire into the alleged missing $20 billion when he assumes office. In Buhari’s understanding, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was sacked as the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for telling the world that $20 billion was missing from the country’s coffers. It would have been surprising to hear Buhari say this if he was not engaged in a one-minded pursuit of his fancies and fantasies. But because he and others like him have programmed their mindset to achieve a given objective,  Buhari’s belief is in line with whatever that objective is. That is why he has chosen to believe what he considers convenient.

But those who do not want to stand truth on its head know that Sanusi was not sacked by anybody. He served out his tenure. He could not qualify for a renewal because he was playing dangerous politics with the office of CBN governor.

As we were saying earlier, the mischievous tales being woven around Diezani have started exciting Buhari. He believes the story that a certain amount of money was recovered from Diezani and that she has negotiated for a refund. That was why Buhari spoke thus a few days ago. “I heard that some people have started  returning money. I will not believe it until I see for myself.” That is the mood  around the president-elect. He appears excited by it all. It is the excitement  that he will take to office. And when he gets there, the story, whatever it is, must be made to fall into place. It will not matter how the story will be hammered into shape. The important thing is that it will be made to fit. And when this becomes the case, we will, very soon, be faced with a situation where fiction will be wearing the toga of fact.

As should be expected, Nigerians have been reacting in various ways to Buhari’s declaration that he will revisit the $20 billion saga. But Jonathan, who has been laughing very broadly with Buhari in recent weeks, must have been surprised that the General is not impressed by his (Jonathan’s) attempt to be seen to be one with the man he wants to handover power to. In spite of the broad smiles, Buhari is still very suspicious of Jonathan and his government. That is why he wrongly accused Jonathan of sacking Sanusi. That is also why he is insisting that Sanusi’s claim over missing $20 billion was true. It is also for  reasons of disdain that Buhari has for Jonathan and his government that he wants to throw aside the probes, inquiries and audits conducted by the Jonathan administration on the alleged missing fund and, instead, institute his own probe or inquiry.

I suspect that one of the strangest things, which the incoming administration will be doing will be to foist some people’s sympathies or mischief on the rest of us. If a certain breed of Nigerians closed their eyes and ears to the facts of the $20 billion alleged to be missing, then the government run by that breed will ensure that the lie it has been holding on to for years is elevated to the level of truth.

It is, indeed, strange that Sanusi’s $20 billion is still an issue in Nigeria. A matter in which a CBN governor muddled up his figures and caused more confusion in the process ought to have been dismissed as the figment of his imagination. But the mumbo jumbo was still picked up from the ashes of disinformation and dusted up so that the truth could be established.

But how did we come about Sanusi’s poisonous tale? The man had, in September 2013, written President Jonathan, alleging that the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had failed to remit the sum of $49.8 billion to the Federation Account over a 19-month period. The letter was supposed to be for the president’s attention and necessary action. But Sanusi had other intentions. That was why he leaked the letter to the Press. Soon, the matter became a virus in our body-politic.

Government would not leave such a grave allegation lying low. The Senate took interest in the matter and referred it to an appropriate committee. When Sanusi appeared before the Senate Committee, which was inquiring into his allegation, he told the committee that the missing figure was $12 billion instead. He was later to change the figure to $19.8 billion and then to  $20 billion. Even though Sanusi contradicted himself to no end, those whose minds were closed to the facts of the matter insisted that he was right.

It was for this reason that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance, had to call for a forensic audit on the matter. A reputable audit firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers has since carried out an audit of NNPC’s account and came up with the verdict that no money was missing. But this verdict does not appear to have impressed Buhari and his gang.  It did not conform with what they have chosen to believe. That is why Buhari wants to institute his own probe. He and his cohorts want to be told what they want to hear.

What should we then expect in the days to come? Compulsive and forced lies? Buhari may do well to spare himself the infamy of engaging in witch-hunting. There are many issues of national importance that should engage his attention. Vendetta and bad blood will only lead to a blind alley.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=11713

You have succeeded in talking pure rubbish
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by creserve: 6:41pm On Apr 30, 2015
soe:
OP .. Dont be daft...The woman is corrupt. Stop trying to paint her innocent..we cannot all be daft you know?
They need not fear if they are clean! There are people who can easily verify figures! Meanwhile, will it not be better to let Nigerians know these FACELESS oil cabals!

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Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by Emenahagos02(m): 6:58pm On Apr 30, 2015
Well all am trying to say is dat "you can never see a medicine man without jazz"

Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by Emenahagos02(m): 7:02pm On Apr 30, 2015
angryYou have succeeded in quoting rubbish
TS2:


You have succeeded in talking pure rubbish
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by Emenahagos02(m): 7:03pm On Apr 30, 2015
angryYou have succeeded in quoting pure rubbish
TS2:


You have succeeded in talking pure rubbish
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by Emenahagos02(m): 7:06pm On Apr 30, 2015
Thank ur Chi cuz u r referring to d author
Koolking:


On the bold statement: The author is a chronic liar. Perhaps he didnt read the audit report by PWHC, or probably living in denial. Rain can never wash the spot of a Leopard. No matter how much you are being paid to write this trash and push the truth under the carpet, it won't stand. Sanusi accused the govt he was serving of corruption, what stopped the govt from investigating Sanusi's whistleblowing on misappropriated NNPC funds? If investigation found Sanusi wanting, the govt has all the power to prosecute him for treason.

If Alison is innocence, why is she afraid to submit herself for probe? Guy bone that thing jor, stop taking panadol for someone's headache.
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by Emenahagos02(m): 7:09pm On Apr 30, 2015
Yeah! Am paid to punch u in d face, diu have a problem with that?[sup][/sup] undecided
Twistaray:


This is so pathetic and at the same time stu.pid.

Are you trying to save her bu.tt or what??
If she's found guilty jail it is her portion and if otherwise I see no reason why she should be witch-hunted or jail.

But trying to save her bu.tt with this bullshit, pathetic,disgusting, solidarity write-up(bogus) will only trigger more reason to belief that she's as guilty as being accused.

Who's hunting who?
Anyway, nah yeeboo man get Newsonline' I no blame u OP.
Op dem don pay u abi? grin
Nahhseensse grin
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by Emenahagos02(m): 7:14pm On Apr 30, 2015
angryPls ask me a serious question
FYI am no fan of all the below
shiki:


Were you paid to write this rubbish? Are u encouraging corruption ....when u let Mr. "A" go, u must let Mr. "B" go too, ....corruption continues
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by Twistaray(m): 9:21pm On Apr 30, 2015
Emenahagos02:
Yeah! Am paid to punch u in d face, diu have a problem with that?[sup][/sup] undecided

Ok grin cheesy grin grin grin
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by feeloscar(m): 9:51pm On Apr 30, 2015
Emenahagos02:

The witch-hunting that may herald the new order in Nigeria may have begun. Diezani Allison-Madueke, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, may be the first victim. She appears to have been programmed for an ignominious exit from office. She drew attention to this when she blew the lid last week. Her story was that oil cabals were after her. They want to package and sell her as a fraud to Nigeria and the world on account of the running battle she had with them.

The minister had to blurt, out following the recent and ongoing media scrutiny that had been directed at her and her office. Before now, Allison-Madueke had been the butt of dangerous insinuations about the alleged sleaze in the petroleum industry. But she had, at every turn, rebuffed attempts to present her in bad light. However, her detractors seem to have acquired a new impetus, following the outcome of last month’s presidential election. The government that Diezani serves is on its way out. The set-up has created a veritable fertile ground for all manner of mischief.

In recent weeks, for instance, a number of allegations have been woven around her neck. We have been told that $700 million was found in her private residence. But we were not told  who carried out the search as well as when and where the incident took place. Then, since some people have continued to insist that $20 billion was missing from government’s coffers, a brand new story is being woven about the fabled amount. And the story is that $17 billion out of the $20 billion has been traced to a Zenith Bank account and that Diezani has negotiated to return the money to the Federal Government.

Of course, many of us are already familiar with tales that the minister is seeking asylum with some foreign countries and that former Head of State, Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar, is negotiating a soft-landing for her. There is, indeed, a diet of tales surrounding the activities of the minister. But she has dismissed all of them as hogwash. She has also gone ahead to tell the world that some powerful operators in the oil industry are behind her travail.

In her bid to move Nigeria’s oil and gas sector away from insitutional and insitutionalised corruption, Diezani said that she stepped on a number of big toes. She is proud to tell us that millions, if not billions  of dollars, have been taken out of the hands of multinational oil companies and their subcontractors and put in the hands of Nigerians through the local content policy. This bold step may not have gone down well  with those who had been feeding fat from the oil sector. Diezani feels satisfied that she is on the right side of history. But her detractors will not let her be. And that appears to be the reason for the renewed critical searchlight being beamed in her direction.

Perhaps, it was in the light of the fictive tales being woven around Diezani and the so-called missing $20 billion that Gen Muhammadu Buhari, the president-elect, is getting unduly excited. Buhari was reported to have said a few days ago that he would inquire into the alleged missing $20 billion when he assumes office. In Buhari’s understanding, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was sacked as the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for telling the world that $20 billion was missing from the country’s coffers. It would have been surprising to hear Buhari say this if he was not engaged in a one-minded pursuit of his fancies and fantasies. But because he and others like him have programmed their mindset to achieve a given objective,  Buhari’s belief is in line with whatever that objective is. That is why he has chosen to believe what he considers convenient.

But those who do not want to stand truth on its head know that Sanusi was not sacked by anybody. He served out his tenure. He could not qualify for a renewal because he was playing dangerous politics with the office of CBN governor.

As we were saying earlier, the mischievous tales being woven around Diezani have started exciting Buhari. He believes the story that a certain amount of money was recovered from Diezani and that she has negotiated for a refund. That was why Buhari spoke thus a few days ago. “I heard that some people have started  returning money. I will not believe it until I see for myself.” That is the mood  around the president-elect. He appears excited by it all. It is the excitement  that he will take to office. And when he gets there, the story, whatever it is, must be made to fall into place. It will not matter how the story will be hammered into shape. The important thing is that it will be made to fit. And when this becomes the case, we will, very soon, be faced with a situation where fiction will be wearing the toga of fact.

As should be expected, Nigerians have been reacting in various ways to Buhari’s declaration that he will revisit the $20 billion saga. But Jonathan, who has been laughing very broadly with Buhari in recent weeks, must have been surprised that the General is not impressed by his (Jonathan’s) attempt to be seen to be one with the man he wants to handover power to. In spite of the broad smiles, Buhari is still very suspicious of Jonathan and his government. That is why he wrongly accused Jonathan of sacking Sanusi. That is also why he is insisting that Sanusi’s claim over missing $20 billion was true. It is also for  reasons of disdain that Buhari has for Jonathan and his government that he wants to throw aside the probes, inquiries and audits conducted by the Jonathan administration on the alleged missing fund and, instead, institute his own probe or inquiry.

I suspect that one of the strangest things, which the incoming administration will be doing will be to foist some people’s sympathies or mischief on the rest of us. If a certain breed of Nigerians closed their eyes and ears to the facts of the $20 billion alleged to be missing, then the government run by that breed will ensure that the lie it has been holding on to for years is elevated to the level of truth.

It is, indeed, strange that Sanusi’s $20 billion is still an issue in Nigeria. A matter in which a CBN governor muddled up his figures and caused more confusion in the process ought to have been dismissed as the figment of his imagination. But the mumbo jumbo was still picked up from the ashes of disinformation and dusted up so that the truth could be established.

But how did we come about Sanusi’s poisonous tale? The man had, in September 2013, written President Jonathan, alleging that the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had failed to remit the sum of $49.8 billion to the Federation Account over a 19-month period. The letter was supposed to be for the president’s attention and necessary action. But Sanusi had other intentions. That was why he leaked the letter to the Press. Soon, the matter became a virus in our body-politic.

Government would not leave such a grave allegation lying low. The Senate took interest in the matter and referred it to an appropriate committee. When Sanusi appeared before the Senate Committee, which was inquiring into his allegation, he told the committee that the missing figure was $12 billion instead. He was later to change the figure to $19.8 billion and then to  $20 billion. Even though Sanusi contradicted himself to no end, those whose minds were closed to the facts of the matter insisted that he was right.

It was for this reason that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance, had to call for a forensic audit on the matter. A reputable audit firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers has since carried out an audit of NNPC’s account and came up with the verdict that no money was missing. But this verdict does not appear to have impressed Buhari and his gang.  It did not conform with what they have chosen to believe. That is why Buhari wants to institute his own probe. He and his cohorts want to be told what they want to hear.

What should we then expect in the days to come? Compulsive and forced lies? Buhari may do well to spare himself the infamy of engaging in witch-hunting. There are many issues of national importance that should engage his attention. Vendetta and bad blood will only lead to a blind alley.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=11713
when u give access to 8percent of ur record to b audited nd u ar told to refund close to $2 billion then it's nt funny. If she is clean then she shd nt b afraid of any probe unless otherwise then she shd gv back Wat she stole shikena.
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by feeloscar(m): 9:59pm On Apr 30, 2015
apasino01:
;DSome 1 please help me read dis out can't find glasses
it must be typed using times new roman, nt handwritten. Pls also bring light oo.
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Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by teeboi15: 4:01am On May 01, 2015
And how much were u paid for the beautiful write up??just seekin cheap popularity,rubbish...
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by CassetteBoy(m): 10:43am On May 02, 2015
you are the main reason why igbos dont progress in this country's politics. i am extremely certain you're an igbo, who is blind and asinine enough to support Diezani. i blame ur family for raising you with inhumane values. That you have food on your table, doesn't mean Nigeria is perfect... you simpleton

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=11713[/quote]
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by CassetteBoy(m): 10:49am On May 02, 2015
Emenahagos02:
Well all am trying to say is dat "you can never see a medicine man without jazz"

this confirms that you are a person of no goal or trajectory. you post something regarding the economy and then you post this. draw closer to God...your life and situation is pathetic
Re: Sticky Tales Around Diezani by Emenahagos02(m): 3:09pm On May 02, 2015
Then ur too dumb to understand the meaning og "Proverb"
CassetteBoy:


this confirms that you are a person of no goal or trajectory. you post something regarding the economy and then you post this. draw closer to God...your life and situation is pathetic

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