While Nairaland is full of villification of 234Next, Saharareporters et al , perhaps in testimony to how non-Nigerians say we are an intrinsically wicked people comfortable with corruption and misrule, our investigative journalist are winning awards as the best and bravest in Africa !! in fact, the revelations these guys won their award for (Allison-Madueke's corruption and unholy alliance with GEJ) was what I tried to bring to the attention of the forum that led to my temporary ban. Nigerians, where are we heading? Read below , in view of the investigative awards of excellence these guys have recieved, to note the  disinterest from GEJ that should show every sensible Nigerian that we are Zap.e.d with this man in charge.

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Nigeria’s NEXT Reporters, Editor Are Africa’s Best Investigative Journalists
Posted: November 3, 2011 - 11:58
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By Sahara Reporters, New York

Tuesday night marked another milestone for Nigerian investigative journalists as two reporters of NEXT Newspapers and their editor carted away two of the only three awards at the 2011 FAIR (Forum for African Investigative Reporters) African Investigative Journalism Awards in Johannesburg, South Africa.

As Gerard Guedegbe, chairman of the FAIR Awards, declared Peter Nkanga and Idris Akinbajo, the African Investigative Reporters of the Year for their joint work, entitled “Last Minutes Oil Deal that Cost Nigeria Dear” published in the June 12, 2011 edition of NEXT on Sunday, a resounding applause filled the Moyo Zoo Lake Park, the venue of the ceremony.

The duo’s work taken from a six-part series courageously uncovered the clandestine practices  perpetrated in Nigeria’s oil industry involving the petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and senior government officials, who discreetly and unilaterally hijacked the oil industry for themselves by assigning prospecting rights on several oil blocks worth billions of dollars to handpicked individuals, contrary to prevailing  laws.


“An excellent, thorough investigation into an important issue. This is an exceptional piece of journalism,” the judges said of the report. They further decried the situation where President Goodluck Jonathan, despite detailed overwhelming evidence as presented in Messrs. Nkanga and Akinbajo’s investigation, still went ahead to return Mrs Alison-Madueke to his cabinet as petroleum minister. “In most countries, this article would cost the minister her job, if not her freedom. Nigeria’s Next newspaper and website did a great job here.”

A second recognition, the FAIR Editor’s Courage Award, was later to come to NEXT Newspapers Investigative desk editor, Musikilu Mojeed, for exhibiting exemplary courage while remaining unbowed despite death threats, police harassment, bribe offers, and consistent pressure put on him by publicists, agents of the Minister, and top government officials, aimed at deterring him from publishing the six-part serial exposing high level government corruption.

Mr Mojeed who was in Johannesburg to speak at the African Investigative Journalism Conference, organized by FAIR and the University of Witwatersrand had just received the first award on behalf of his reporters when as he made his way back to his seat he was announced the winner of the Editor’s Courage Award.

Visibly surprised and elated, Mr. Mojeed later said: “The award surprised me because you know they are terribly secretive about the awards. I had no inkling at all. But I am pleased, very pleased”.

The second prize went to a journalist with the Kenya Standard newspaper for an investigative report on police killings in his country.

Another NEXT reporter and finalist at the awards, Nicholas Ibekwe, was commended for his detailed investigation into how government officials and several well-known Nigerians were complicit in allowing pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer, to use Nigerian children as guinea pigs to test a new drug, which led to the death of at least 11 infants and several others with permanent disabilities.

Also recognised from Nigeria was Toyosi Ogunseye of the Punch Newspapers for her piece on the terrible state of school toilets in Nigeria which the judges declared, “Ogunseye investigated the ‘death traps’ very well, sourced the issue completely, and produced a totally convincing story”.

This year’s FAIR awards which honour only works considered to be investigative had over 40 entries sent from across Africa. The entries were judged by world renowned investigative journalists, amongst whom include Gwen Ansell, editor of FAIR’s well-regarded Investigative Journalism Manuals; Mark Lee Hunter, co-author of the book “Story Based Enquiry”; Tito Ndombi of Africa News and of the Ifasic Journalism Training Institute in Kinshasa; Joe Hanlon, veteran Investigative Journalist and academic who spent decades investigating Africa from his base in Mozambique, and Brant Houston, who is ex-director of US-based professional body Investigative Reporting & Editors, Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of  Illinois, and co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network.

But in Nigeria we stone/kill our prophets!
Kudos to Next!!

Nairalanders , see the corrupt shenanigans of Allison-Madueke for yourselves. I tried to post this same article on Nairaland before she was confirmed as a returning Petroleum Minister a few months ago but the nairaland admin ensured my thread never saw the light of day. in fact, I was banned till Madueke was confirmed a minister !!! I guess GEJ needs his own personal blank 'cheque book' in the form of Allison-Madueke and nothing must stand in the way of that.

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Diezani Allison-Madueke, Former Oil minister, her jeweller and their sweetheart deal
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Former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Allison Maduekwe Former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Allison Maduekwe

On April 7, 2010, a day after her appointment as minister for petroleum resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke flew to Beverley Hills in Los Angeles to revel in a lavish party and fashion show put together by Christopher Aire, a United States-based Nigerian celebrity jewellry designer and merchant, whom she met during her 15-month tenure as minister for solid minerals and steel development.

By the time the bejewelled Mrs Alison-Madueke returned home a few days later to assume duties as Nigeria's first female oil minister, she had achieved three clear objectives from the trip - she had unlimited fun, acquired some of Aire's exotic gold and gemstones, and handed Mr Aire an invitation to become one of Nigeria's biggest crude oil lifters.

It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.


At the time, the 47-year-old Mr Aire had nothing whatever to do with the oil business. His company, Solid 21 Incorporated, dealt strictly in jewellery and timepieces. Those close to him said Mr Aire was content with his jewellery business and had no plan to venture into Nigeria's murky oil waters. But all that changed after his meeting with Mrs Alison-Madueke that fateful April 7.

As the minister was flying home, Mr Aire also kick-started the process of registering brand new companies with which he planned to lift Nigerian crude. On July 9, 2010, the jeweller incorporated Siseno Oil Nigeria Limited, with him and one Patience Iluobe (believed to be his relative) as directors, to carry out the business of petroleum products sales and distribution.

Twelve days later (July 21, 2010), Mr Aire, through his agents, headed again to the Corporate Affairs Commission, where he incorporated another firm, Caligeria Oil Limited, also for the purpose of conducting petroleum products sales and distribution.

This time, one of his US-based companies, Osiri Holdings, Ms Iluobe, and one Otaigbe Onyekwere Agba, were named as directors. Mr Aire also proceeded to incorporate a US version of Caligeria with himself, his bodyguard, Joseph Agbi, and Jivani Davoodian, a Californian lawyer, as directors.

Favourite crude oil lifter

Mr Aire passed the papers of his newly minted companies, which have neither fixed addresses nor personnel, to the Crude Oil Marketing Division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Shortly afterwards - a month after the companies were born - Mrs Alison-Madueke discretionally approved the award of crude oil lifting contracts to the two firms, in violation of NNPC guidelines for lifting of Nigerian crude.

She also disregarded the fact that the "briefcase company" had no track record and lacked the ability to perform. According to a stringent guideline released by the NNPC in early 2010, companies which wish to lift Nigerian crude must prove that they are bona fide end users and that they are established and globally recognised large volume traders with evidence of their global network, their activities, and volumes of crude oil handled in the last three years.

Such companies must also provide evidence that they are registered Nigerian companies with operations in Nigeria's oil and gas industry, and must have a minimum annual turnover of at least $100 million and net worth of not less than $40 million.

Applicants are also required to show commitment to the development of the Nigerian economy by investing in any number of opportunities that abound either in the oil industry or gas sector. Besides, successful companies are expected to post a $1 million performance bond through a first class Nigerian bank in addition to the regular crude oil contract provisions.

In the same guideline, the corporation promises transparency, fairness and equity in the contract award processes. "The NNPC further wishes to emphasise that there is absolutely nothing like ‘Presidential', ‘Task Force', ‘Ministerial', ‘Diplomatic' or any other form of special or privileged allocation, which can be peddled by hawkers or anyone," the guideline states.

Mrs Alison-Maduekwe approved this guideline, which was posted on the NNPC's website on June 24, 2010, over a month after she became minister. But by allocating crude oil to Mr Aire's companies without regard for these rules, the then minister, insiders say, demonstrated a penchant for violating laws, including regulations she helped put in place.

Those who should know at the NNPC say Siseno and Caligeria did not meet any of these requirements. In fact, NEXT was able to determine that the companies do not have fixed addresses or personnel in Nigeria. Caligeria has Plot G19, House 34, Dan Alhaji Road, Barnawa, Kaduna, as its registered address. Siseno, on the other hand, listed Dollar Shop at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja as its operational address.

But visits to those addresses showed that these companies never operated out of those locations. Plot G19, House 34, in Kaduna is an unpainted residential bungalow, and residents and neighbours said no company known as Caligeria has ever operated in the building. "Just because their owner knows the minister and hosted her well at his glamorous event in California, the companies are today two of the biggest lifters of Nigeria's crude oil," said a source at the petroleum ministry.

We have learnt that, between them, Mr Aire's two companies lift 60,000 barrels of crude per day, the highest for any established industry player and twice as much as well-known companies such as Addax, Vermont, Oando, Unicorp and others who are allocated 30,000 barrels per day. The government, through the NNPC, subcontracts crude marketing by allocating crude lifting contracts of 30,000 barrel per day; but some traders like Glencore, Travigura, Vitol and Sahara get as much as 60,000 barrels per day.

Nobody got more than the minister's jeweller friend

As usual, Mrs Alison-Madueke declined to state her own side of the story to our reporters. She called off an interview appointment scheduled with our editors for June 13. She also did not return calls and text messages seeking her comments for this story.

Mr Aire did not respond to our enquiries either. When our reporter called his California office, a spokesperson who identified herself as Adriana, requested that questions should be e-mailed directly to her. She did not respond to the email as at the time this newspaper went to print. But the spokesperson of the NNPC, Levi Ajuonoma, rose in stout defence of his organisation, saying the organisation did nothing wrong. "The process for crude oil lifting license is so cumbersome. If you don't meet the requirements, you cannot be approved to lift crude," Mr Ajuonoma said. He confirmed that Caligeria, which he claimed had been around for a long time, got a one-year lifting contract that had since expired. He denied that Siseno was awarded contract to lift crude, saying "there is no such company on my list." But information at our disposal shows otherwise.

Caligeria's registration documents, obtained officially from the Corporate Affairs Commission, indicate that the company was incorporated less than a year ago and has a subsisting contract with the NNPC. High level sources also confirmed to us that Siseno, also less than a year old, is on the list of our country's crude oil traders. With the arbitrary allocations to his no-address companies, Mr Aire and his associates earn about $11 million a year in profit for doing virtually nothing. Crude lifters make about 50 cents a barrel per day, which cumulatively comes to about $30,000 per day in profit for the jeweller-turned-oil magnate.

Typically, what these ‘briefcase companies' do is team up with influential officials such as Mrs Alison-Madueke, lobby for contracts independently, and then sell their allocations to more established traders. Mr Aire's companies also benefitted from Mrs Alison-Madueke's discretional award of contracts for the lifting of products from the Oso condensate (an extra light Nigerian hydrocarbon) and the Escravos liquefied petroleum gas terminal. Our sources said Caligeria lifts 45,000 metric tonnes of condensate, while Siseno gets 30,000 metric tonnes of LPG from Escravos. Industry insiders said profit from this also runs into several millions of dollars.

Some industry operators described the obvious in calling Mr Aire's a "sweetheart deal". "We just can't understand why briefcase companies without any track record became Diezani's most favourite companies to lift crude oil," said one highly placed source in the petroleum ministry, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisal. "This is the highest level of arbitrariness and corruption I have ever seen, and this woman must be made to answer questions," the source said.

Allison-Madueke's bazaar

Arbitrary awards of crude lifting contracts to obscure companies is indicative of the corruption in the oil industry, which allegedly skyrocketed during the tenure of Mrs Allison-Madueke to a degree last seen during the Sani Abacha administration. Insiders said that during her tenure, awards of contracts were characterised by bribery of top politicians, cronyism in allocation and indirect ownership in some of the lifters, and payment of huge bribes to high level facilitators within the petroleum ministry and the NNPC.

But this has not stopped Mrs Allison-Madueke, who has alienated the entire industry as well as her cabinet colleagues and senior aides to the president, from lobbying furiously for reappointment. Sources say Mrs Allison-Madueke, who is close to the president, is also opposed by Patience Jonathan, the president's wife.

Despite what appears to be overwhelming opposition, however, insiders still rate Mrs Allison-Madueke's chances high, as the president finalises his list of cabinet ministers for transmission to the Senate this week. Our investigation revealed that apart from Caligeria and Siseno, the former minister also trampled on due process in awarding crude lifting contracts to other companies such as Sullom Voe, Spog, Tempo and Tacomo. Insiders also accuse her of discretionary awards of Escravos liquefied petroleum gas contracts to Addax Energy, Avidor Oil and Gas Limited (believed to have connection to Vitol), Taleveras Business, Accoldis Limited (with connection to Spog), Elan Oil (believed to be another version of Traffigura) Tempo Energy Limited, and Blissfield Enterprises. Yet, the bazaar did not end there.

Mrs Alison-Madueke, our sources further revealed, proceeded to discretionally approve the awards of Oso condensate contracts to Algasco (also linked to Vitol), Optima Energy Services, Theydon Petro SA, Ocean Bed (with connection to Sahara Energy), Mangrove Energy, Havistar Petroleum (linked to Taleveras), Hyson, Ascon limited, Nipco Plc, Vitacan Services Limited, AMG Petro Energy, Energy Resources Management, Ultimate Gas Limited, Tempo Energy, Caligeria Oil Limited, Mez Technical Limited, Messrs Affiliate Global Exchange Limited, and Mezcor SA. Most of these companies have little or no investment in Nigeria, as required by the NNPC guideline for crude oil lifting.

A stench of corruption

The former powerful minister worked through a group of very small, even shadowy, companies that always seem to get the best contracts from the NNPC in the upstream and downstream sectors and on occasion in the services industry.

The tangled web of questionable deals includes last-minute assignment of production rights in five large oil blocks to Septa Energy and the obscure Atlantic Drilling Concept Limited without a public tender. The practices also include the secretive award of kerosene allocations, crude oil allocations, fuel oil allocations, LPG and condensate exports, automotive gas oil and naphtha. Oil traders, according to insiders, regularly pay substantial kickbacks into the offshore accounts of top oil sector executives. Insiders say the Isle of Man has been a favourite jurisdiction for such offshore accounts.

The funds are paid directly into the accounts from outside Nigeria and thus the funds never enter Nigeria and cannot be tracked internally. The funds are often then laundered through real estate purchases. A source familiar with the arrangement said London remains the dominant location where funds are laundered in this fashion.

It is said that since Farida Waziri became the chairperson of the EFCC, the Metropolitan Police had enjoyed zero local co-operation in pursuing such matters. In fact, the source added, when the Met briefs the EFCC on such cases with a view to getting its assistance, elements in the commission promptly informs the target - for a fee of course. Under Mrs Allison-Madueke, all sorts of gaps have been exploited. As at April this year, 600,000 metric tonnes of diesel had been imported, with importers shaken down at a rate of N10 per litre.

We have no evidence that these bribes directly involved the former minister. NEXT had also uncovered an elaborate bribery scam at the Petroleum Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), where oil marketers were compelled to pay bribes in US dollars in exchange for obtaining authorisation to import gasoline.

Our investigation at the time showed that oil marketers were instructed by PPPRA to call a mobile telephone number and pay a bribe of $8 per metric tonne of petroleum allocated to them, such that a firm with a 100,000 metric tonnes allocation would be required to pay a bribe of $800,000 in cash. We were also able to establish in subsequent investigations that Mrs Alison-Maduekwe appeared to have violated Nigeria's procurement law by quietly signing away operatorship rights in five lucrative oil blocks to two barely established companies.

DrummaBoy:

But in Nigeria we stone/kill our prophets!
Kudos to Next!!

My brother, even this thread may soon disappear. Nairaland is highly compromised . Of that, i have no doubt.

Yes, it is true that Nigerians have become wicked. How else can we seek out cheap beer palour gist (aimed as oblique blows to the PIB) and instead, promote such real, "in your face" calousness and corruption as below?

Osun state workers are owed several months salary. Yet their govt was able to effortlessly spend millions sponsoring, transporting and feeding 19 buses of praise singing aluta howlers on a trip from Osun to the venue of Tinubu's case in Abuja.

We have heard a tonne of tall tales and high stories from Aregbesola about his govts immense social policies. These social credentials are centred on his OYES programme, which is basically a scheme for graduates to cut grass and sweep the streets for a paltry N10,000. Can someone remind the kind governor that every state has people who cut grass and sweep as a matter of routine?

Here's a little secret, social credentials are worthless when you do not care if the people live or die, or are hungry and ill. Aregbesola is owing several months salaries to the long suffering citizens of Osun, yet he could afford to splash out on the hiring of 19 busloads of aluta howlers to go on a worthless praise singing mission to Abuja (where they were simply arrested ).
A few questions arise from that aimless aluta trip:

[list]
[li]Does Aregbesola value aluta howling more than paying Osun state workers?[/li]
[li]How much did it cost Osun state to pay each hired aluta howler?[/li]
[li]How much did it cost in loss of time that would have been spent on Osun state affairs instead?[/li]
[li]Who owns the 19 buses used? Were they purchased by Osun specifically for useless aluta missions, while workers wages are still owed?[/li]
[li]What was the cost of the journey as concerns petrol, tires, servicing etc?[/li]
[li]How much did it cost to feed and wine each aluta howler?[/li]
[li]What did it cost to house each aluta howler for the useless mission?[/li]
[li]What did it cost to bail each aluta howler from police arrest?[/li]
[li]Since the howlers have now sued the IG, who is footing the bill and how much is it compared to Osuns unpaid September and October wage bills?[/li]
[li]How much govt time is being lost on the worthless case against the IG?[/li]
[li]How much govt time is Osun losing, while Aregbesola travels back and forth to Abuja to beg GEJ for the slight?[/li]
[li]ABOVE ALL, WHEN WILL OSUN WORKERS GET PAID?[/li]
[/list]

Yet another imortant question begs for an answer:
HOW MUCH DOES THE FACT THAT AREGBESOLA LIVES IN LAGOS COST OSUN STATE IN ORGANISATION, TIME AND MONEY?

Now, please can someone account for the billions Osun has received in the past 11 months? Thank you.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-795092.0.html

Beaf:

Yes, it is true that Nigerians have become wicked. How else can we seek out cheap beer palour gist (aimed as oblique blows to the PIB) and instead, promote such real, "in your face" calousness and corruption as below?

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-795092.0.html

Do you have anything to say in regards to how those you constantly villify, because they say the truth exposing your messiah, have now been crowned the best in Africa? No word of congratulation fo our "best in Africa" investigative journalist? I am not surprised . You would renounce even Jesus if he spoke against GEJ.

The entire forum , I am sure, is fed up of your mindless behaviour . What concerns Aregbesola with this thread? You are an example of the "wicked" Nigerians who make these examplary individuals , worthy only of praise and support, objects of derision even when they are feted worldwide for their brave, selfless and patriotic work you would never understand if you lived to be 800 years old.

One day, very soon, the steaming water in the corrupt cauldron of Nigeria will reach a boiling point. When it boils, it will scald and burn those that have been heating it up and the hot liquid will liberate the teeming masses that have become hungrier and more than ever agitated.

Nigeria is getting worse by the day and the elite are playing the ostrich. Why is Nigeria's yesterday always better than its today? This will not continue for ever because the patience and seeming dumbness of the people will not continue for ever.

@Beaf, wats the link btw madueke and osun state now, cos i can get it.

ode remo:

@Beaf, wats the link btw madueke and osun state now, cos i can get it.

Obviously , some people have become too compromised by their blind support for compromised and highly flawed leaders to even bother with the subject matter . This , ordinarily , is a superb award for these guys and for Nigeria. in reality, the fact that the award was won through an expose of the corrupt activities of GEJ's 'sweetheart' means that these guys have become 'persona non grata' with many Nigerians who are too consumed with base greed, feudalism and a myopic defense of their 'corner'.

The same way beef and co sing praises for GEJ and his PDP thieves is also the same way Gbawe and co sing praises to TINUBU and ACN thieves. In reality both camps know that the people they are praising are thieves but they only smell the bad stench from their opponent. Thatz the only reason Nigeria turned a wicked nation.
The more i read the article the more angry i become, how can we curb such when Beef has already jumped on her defence by posting a near similar article to balance what is bad for the nation and Gbawe will do same if the original article is for his ally. Gbawe and co. will request for concrete fact rather than conjectures from the press when its against their political gods but now he believed the "conjecture" (as he always call them) from the press to spit on GEJ and PDP.

Its high time we tell those at the top that enough is enough but how can we do that when we at the receiving end are not united. That means Nigeria will soon turn a MONSTER nation.

Only revolution can safe this jungle called nigeria but most nigerians hate listening to the truth. After givin out a cup of rice plus a sachet of salt they instantly dance away their sorrow. Imagin pple still voting for a party like pdp.

@Ode remo,how are u? Longtime. U still eey sip your ijebu wine?

Gbawe you don't have to bother yourself. Those who will learn will learn. 234next journalists have done their part and I expect them to continue. The rest is up to Nigerians.

Politicians will continue to do whatever we allow them to do. It's up to those who are feeling the sharp edge of misrule to save themselves. For now, It is GEJ's time.


As they say: Oba mewa, igba mewa. . . Enikan ko le lo ile aye gbo.

~One king can't rule forever~

Kilode?!:

Gbawe you don't have to bother yourself. Those who will learn will learn. 234next journalists have done their part and I expect them to continue. The rest is up to Nigerians.

Politicians will continue to do whatever we allow them to do. It's up to those who are feeling the sharp edge of misrule to save themselves. For now, It is GEJ's time.


As they say: Oba mewa, igba mewa. . . Enikan ko le lo ile aye gbo.

~One king can't rule forever~

gba be !!!

@ op - I started reading but had to stop at the chris aire bit because I started hyperventilating. This recurring nonsense is leading us in one direction, those who think that history cannot repeat itself don't know anything

Its actually a shame that we all have allowed these politicians to rule our lives like ping pong.its is crystal clear that j.e.g can not take us out of this depth of rot we are, quite unfortunate. Corruption is now a daily way of live From the top to the bottom.
I dont believe in miracles but as it we need miracle to get ourselves even in first gear.
I weep for my country real bad

My brothers, I have more or less taken a back seat in Nigerian politics. The depth of the rot of nigeria, cannot be understood

nku5:

@ op - I started reading but had to stop at the chris aire bit because I started hyperventilating. This recurring nonsense is leading us in one direction, those who think that history cannot repeat itself don't know anything

My brother , this is how we find issues. I was disgusted too when I first came upon this and tried desperately to post the article on Nairaland. This was around the time Allison-Madueke was awaiting confirmation as a returning Minister. Despite following the rules, my post never made it. It kept getting deleted as soon I as posted and reposted it.  I was even eventually banned for continuing to try posting this article. I was only unbanned when Allison-Madueke had been confirmed as returning petroleum Minister. Go figure. We all know the owner of Nairaland , Seun, is a fervent GEJ fan .

Go and investigate and you will find that many are of the opinion that GEJ is desperate to keep Allison-Madueke as Minister of Petroleum because she is a 'rubber stamp' for all the 'underground' funds needed to buy over folks for unpopular policies like the 7 year single tenure being debated. With so much lack of transparency in the oil sector under GEJ, can we authoritatively dismiss allegations that this is a 'cash and carry' government myopically throwing money at everything?

Kudos to next. The same can't he said about tribune, this day and their likes.

Nigeria has always been a wicked "nation". Can anybody tell me when it wasn't?

presido1:

The same way beef and co sing praises for GEJ and his PDP thieves is also the same way Gbawe and co sing praises to TINUBU and ACN thieves. In reality both camps know that the people they are praising are thieves but they only smell the bad stench from their opponent. Thatz the only reason Nigeria turned a wicked nation.
The more i read the article the more angry i become, how can we curb such when Beef has already jumped on her defence by posting a near similar article to balance what is bad for the nation and Gbawe will do same if the original article is for his ally. Gbawe and co. will request for concrete fact rather than conjectures from the press when its against their political gods but now he believed the "conjecture" (as he always call them) from the press to spit on GEJ and PDP.

Its high time we tell those at the top that enough is enough but how can we do that when we at the receiving end are not united. That means Nigeria will soon turn a MONSTER nation.

You'd think hypocrite in chief Gbawe would have a response to this post. Your wall is crumbling and gradually everyone is beginning to see who you really are. Aint no closet big enough to house such an obvious bigot i tell you.

this is it

wesley80:

You'd think hypocrite in chief Gbawe would have a response to this post. Your wall is crumbling and gradually everyone is beginning to see who you really are. Aint no closet big enough to house such an obvious bigot i tell you.

So I am now obligated to respond to everyone including addressing nonsensical posts? Besides, was I the only one he mentioned? Why not attack others with the same vitriol too? Is this partisan behaviour not indicative of how you never fail to see anything wrong with your 'pals' and 'brothers'? At least , once again, the entire forum can see you in all your shamelessly biased glory. Abeg carry your vindictive and hateful bad belle, you take from thread to thread, away. Go and attack others and stop following me around NL. Dare I say, get a life.

i call upon all well meaning nigerians to sustain d protest on dis issue on nl until allison resigns!!!

DrummaBoy:

i call upon all well meaning nigerians to sustain d protest on dis issue on nl until allison resigns!!!

She is hideously corrupt and should go but that won't happen while her powerful 'enablers' hold sway. Even if booted out, she will only be replaced by another 'rubber stamp' . This is one of the reasons why Nigeria is stagnating badly i.e PDP leaders always pandering to selfishness and cronyism instead of looking for men and women of undoubted integrity who can make our institutions stronger. Ringim, Adoke Bello and Allison-Madueke are just a few examples of worthless 'rubber stamps'.

Ques
1. Why did this news not make front page in national newspapers?
2. Will this thread make front page?

3. Is this not the reason many argue that Subsidy is a facade for corruption?
4. When will Nigerians have enough?

@Beaf
Proof dat dis is no beer parlor gist is dat an international body could give these men the awards.

DrummaBoy:

Ques
1. Why did this news not make front page in national newspapers?
2. Will this thread  make front page?

Make front page in a Nation where mot mainstream newspapers are compromised by political interest? this is why I personally rate our investigate journalists. They may be flawed but they now represent the only chance of Nigerians to know the truth .

Saharareporters , for example, was the only news source that revealed the very ill Yar Adua was in Saudi Arabia recieving medical attention while all other newspaper editors actually met with the Government to enter into a pact of secrecy in the attempt to hide Yar Adua's poor health from Nigerians !!!1 Even when the man was virtually dead, mainstream news agencies remained ominously quie . It was only 234Next and Saharareporters keeping Nigerians 'informed'. A wicked Nation indeed.

I am surprised this thread is not running 6pages already
Its seems nothing surprises Nigerians anymore

Gbawe maybe U should retitle d thread: CORRUPTION IN NNPC, ALLYSON MADUEKE INDICTED - 234NEXT.

information can be twisted especially by bigots like @gbawe.
The truth of the journalists investigation may not be that allison embezzled funds.
Give us the link to the jourmalists' documentary.
All national news papers are not on the side of FG. If this were true as @gbawe presented, the press would have eaten madueke. You know how it is with akala.

moderatorr:

information can be twisted especially by bigots like @gbawe.
The truth of the journalists investigation may not be that allison embezzled funds.
Give us the link to the jourmalists' documentary.
All national news papers are not on the side of FG. If this were true as @gbawe presented, the press would have eaten madueke. You know how it is with akala.

What she is doing is worse that "embezzling" funds. Try and be objective. Read the article about Allison-Madueke and her jeweller . It is the same old practice of a few cornering the Nations vast wealth for themselves and their cronies through abusing positions of priviledge and influence.