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Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Emmanuel226(m): 2:58pm On Mar 17, 2019
no worry EFCC go soon come after Trump and the U.S

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Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by lexy2014: 2:58pm On Mar 17, 2019
ClearFlair:


PDP propaganda. Next Level jor

But isn't it d same US that accused Atiku of money laundering? Was that also PDP propaganda?

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Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Emmanuel226(m): 2:58pm On Mar 17, 2019
no worry EFCC go soon come after Trump and the U.S grin

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Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by michoim(m): 2:58pm On Mar 17, 2019
US report or PDP report.
Then the so called U.S. should now come and vote our leaders for us. What an arrant nonsense....
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Nyamiri: 2:58pm On Mar 17, 2019
hisexcellency34:
Crazy US. They knew all this and can't assist us in voting the old hag out

Igbos are a very funny lot. They blame others for their misfortunes but refuse to use their brains to think and see their faults.

You want Americans to leave Michigan and Arizona to come to Abakaliki and Umuahia to vote for Atiku. On election day, what werw you doing?

You Igbos are pathetically unserious and that's why the US dumped Atiku and the worthless fellows supporting him. Treacherous Idiots like Gbenga Daniel and Dele Momodu.
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Cletus77(m): 2:59pm On Mar 17, 2019
contigiency:
That American journalist or whoever is responsible for this stupid report is a stupid idiot. Let them focus and deal with trump's naivity and leave other countries to manage their affairs. That is what Territorial integrity is all about. No black man is more corrupt than them, enough of this nonsense.
Typical zombies..but you will rush any opportunity to go to the US abi?

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Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by lexy2014: 3:00pm On Mar 17, 2019
Nyamiri:
The US and Co surreptitiously hoped Atiku would win but they were dissapointed.

They should write reports taya, na them sabi.

But didn't d same US write a report on Atiku and money laundering?

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Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by drmikeadams(m): 3:01pm On Mar 17, 2019
aremufor ;Dlife:
Why do you guy's take USA serious? Who are they to decide what is going on Nigeria, when they can not fixed their problem?
They commit the highest atrocities in the world and no organisation or country can bring them to book but they are ready to sanction or punish anybody.
Saudi Arabia's and Isreal are the most human abuse I the world, but you will never hear America condemning them.
grin grin make Nigeria at least put effort deveop small reach rwanda before comparing saudi and isreal corruption..we RE simply not moving forward
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Xzellentgraphic: 3:02pm On Mar 17, 2019
America that allow atiku a fraudster to enter their country without arresting him is now accusing Nigeria of corruption..wonder shall never end
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Nyamiri: 3:02pm On Mar 17, 2019
lexy2014:


But didn't d same US write a report on Atiku and money laundering?

It wasn't a report, those were court processes. They don't send people to jail based on reports, they file papers and jail people.

Jefferson was jailed as an accessory to a crime in which Atiku was a Principal accused person. Atiku is a wanted fugitive and that changes nothing.

Hope you've been educated.
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by asawanathegreat(m): 3:03pm On Mar 17, 2019
Safe looting
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by lexy2014: 3:04pm On Mar 17, 2019
michoim:
US report or PDP report.
Then the so called U.S. should now come and vote our leaders for us. What an arrant nonsense....

But didn't u agree with d "US report" that accused Atiku of money laundering?
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by lexy2014: 3:07pm On Mar 17, 2019
Nyamiri:


It wasn't a report, those were court processes. They don't send people to jail based on reports, they file papers and jail people.

Jefferson was jailed as an accessory to a crime in which Atiku was a Principal accused person. Atiku is a wanted fugitive and that changes nothing.

Hope you've been educated.

So which of d "court processes" indicted Atiku of money laundering? Is d court in question a Nigerian court or American court?

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Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by chozzy: 3:11pm On Mar 17, 2019
doctokwus:
The Buhari government is the most corrupt government Nigeria has ever had.
It's only Abacha's that comes close.
GEJ government and his wife would look like untrained amateurs when it comes to looting compared to that of Buhari,his family and cronies.
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Donwis05: 3:12pm On Mar 17, 2019
This one no be news again nah...

We all know say this government na scam

We Sabi too say dem be wash.

Government of criminals, by criminals and for criminals

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Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by bomboyi(m): 3:14pm On Mar 17, 2019
I’m gathering from my feed that this whole college admissions scandal is really shocking to a lot of people.

Well, sit down, babies, because I’m about to deal you a hard blow.

This is nothing.

I think a lot of people seriously have no idea how thoroughly the system is rigged. I spent several years as a for-hire writer who couldn’t afford to turn work away. This means I accepted a lot of jobs I feel icky about now, but it also means that I’ve seen firsthand how this all shakes out.

(Important note: There is not a single person on my friends list who I am referring to with any of what I’m about to write. Also, I stopped taking the type of work I'm going to describe years ago. So if I’ve ever helped you with written material, or if I'm currently helping you: this does not apply to you.)

See, getting little Asshole McGloatyFace III into Harvard is just the first domino en route to prestige and pedigree. That’s why it’s so important; the first domino starts the chain. The richest of rich parents get him there by donating a library collection or buying a building. The middling rich, like those in today’s story, cheat (and don’t for a single second think the people indicted today are the only ones, because they are not, not, not).

The lowly rich hire people like me to write their kids’ essays and letters, pull together their resumes, and figure out how to make years of abject mediocrity sound good. And they don’t only hire people like me. They also hire special tutors and test prep gurus to teach their kids to hack the tests. They pull strings to get their kids special accommodations they don’t need, so they have more time to get all the math problems done on the SAT. They get interview coaches who teach their kids what to say when they go for their appointment. They lean on connections to get Harvard and Yale take a "second look" at their C+ student with a 980 SAT score. These kids get a complete team, and the face Asshole McGloatyFace presents to the Ivy isn’t his own; it’s a composite of all the best expertise his parents’ money could buy.

When Asshole McGloatyFace is in school, his parents hire people like me again. Want to know how many papers I’ve written for undergraduate students? Graduate students? I couldn’t even tell you. It’s a higher number than I can remember offhand. Need a magic paper to save your grade in the class you’re failing? Need to save your half-assed thesis? I’ve done it all. I’m a better-than-average writer and I made my clients look good.

All this work goes into making sure Asshole McGloatyFace graduates from an Ivy, because graduating from an Ivy—combined with the connections of Mom and/or Dad—means he gets internships at the best companies and firms. It means he gets interviews, even if his GPA is sub-3.0. It means he gets the best jobs when he graduates. He’s still an idiot, but now he’s an idiot earning high-five or low-six figures.

This is when the next dominos start to fall. Asshole McGloatyFace’s company is going to get him an executive coach. Because he has the right name and the right degree and the right presentation, so he’s tagged as executive material, and they’re going to start grooming him now so he doesn’t make them look stupid later. The coach is going to teach him how to present himself, what photos to put in his office, what suits to wear and how to accessorize. If Asshole is a man, the coach is going to teach him how to open large meetings with a sweet, humanizing story about his family, especially his kids. If Asshole is a woman, the coach is going to teach her how to be brusque with a smile and never talk about her family under any circumstances, especially not her kids.

Along with the executive coach, Asshole is also going to be assigned a mentor, someone accomplished and probably equally prestigious. The role of the mentor is to help Asshole McGloatyFace to meet the right people, form the right connections. The mentor is going to take Asshole McGloatyFace to events and make sure he knows all the power players in their city.

The coach, mentor, and senior-ups are going to guide Asshole McGloatyFace to volunteer and charitable giving opportunities. Not just any volunteering and charitable giving, but those that are well-aligned to Asshole’s decided-upon Personal Brand (TM). Asshole is going to learn how to give lots of money and make it known, without appearing to brag about it. Asshole is also going to get seated on the best non-profit boards in his city. Some of these are competitive. Want to know how I know that? Because they require an essay, resume, and bio. And guess who writes those.

So now Asshole is rubbing elbows with even more movers and shakers, and is establishing a high-quality Personal Brand (TM). At this point, Asshole has been promoted a couple times and is earning low-mid six figures.

Buckle in, because here’s where lots of dominos start to fall.

At this point, Asshole’s bio features an impressive school, an impressive job at an impressive company, impressive volunteer positions, impressive philanthropy, impressive Personal Brand (TM). This is enough to earn Asshole consideration for a whole host of things most average people have absolutely no awareness of. He’s going to apply for and be named one of his city’s “40 Under 40” and get a spread in a local, glossy magazine*. He’s going to apply for and get a position in his city’s “Up and Coming Young Leaders” program, and be interviewed on TV. He’s going to apply for and win a spot in his city’s “Wealthy People Pretending To Do Good But Really Just Hanging Out With Other Wealthy People” initiative, and get newspaper coverage.

I’ll give you one guess who writes those applications.

(*Note: I'm not shitting on "40 Under 40." Some folks make it on there for genuine charitable good deed, which is awesome.)

By now Asshole’s been promoted again. He’s in his 40s, maybe 50s, and is earning high-six figures, and it’s time to go for the jackpot.

Asshole has now built all the right credentials to apply for a position on a for-profit board. He probably won’t get the first one, and maybe not the second, but he’ll get the third or fourth. How quickly he gets picked up will have a lot to do with how well he’s nurtured his connections and how fondly people remember his parents, who are now elderly or dead. He’s going to link up with a Fortune 500, be named to their board, and pull in a seven-figure paycheck for turning up once per quarter to listen to updates from the CEO and make management decisions.

He’ll need a resume, bio, and compelling personal letter to make this happen. Check, check, check.

Asshole is now making millions of dollars per year, earning millions more on a board, and, as a loving parent, is guiding his own children through the exact same process.

This is how it works. This is why The Right University is so important. It’s not about the degree. It’s about this entire life path, this entire system of manipulation and prestige, to make sure the children of the uber wealthy become the next generation of the uber wealthy, that they get exclusive opportunities and exclusive consideration.

Every single step along this journey, there are other people clawing for the same opportunities but not getting them. Those people didn’t come from the right parents, or graduate from the right schools. Their applications weren’t as good, because they wrote them themselves, and most people (sorry, y’all, but it’s true) do not write nearly as well as they think they do. Their bios weren’t as perfect, because they didn’t have executive coaches and mentors to help them establish a fine-tuned personal brand. Their ideas weren’t as interesting, because they were working with their own stupid ideas and not the ideas of professional idea-havers.

THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS RIGGED, YOU GUYS. It is rigged. Maybe you went from lower class to middle class, or lower middle class to upper middle class, and you feel like FUCKIN A I LOVE AMERICA AND BALD EAGLES AND MERITOCRACY, but it’s all an illusion. Even if you financially make your way into the nouveau riche layer of the upper class, you still won’t be one of the chosen unless you manage to hit some kind of insanely unlikely lottery (Barack and Michelle Obama come to mind), but you’re honestly more likely to get bit by a radioactive spider and start shooting web-shit from your wrists. The upper class is a closed system, thanks but no thanks, no vacancies, don’t let the door hit ya.

I’ve taken jobs from 40-something year old men who handed the telephone to their daddies to talk about how to craft the right impression in their adult child’s “personal” letter. I’ve worked with executive coaches to hash out what jokes to write in order to best illustrate the “good humor” part of someone’s Personal Brand (TM) in a “personal” essay. THAT is how this works.

There’s no such thing as meritocracy.

The end.

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Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by edgecution(m): 3:16pm On Mar 17, 2019
USA should shut up!!!! 90% of all Trumps appointees have been indicted for corruption charges. They should shut the fck up!!!! cool cool cool

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Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by zzzzNigeria: 3:17pm On Mar 17, 2019
grin[size=8pt][/size]
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Newboss(m): 3:18pm On Mar 17, 2019
We all know.

If APC members are saints, they're, by default, licensed to do and undo Hehehe, Nigeria is fūcked angry
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Yankee101: 3:18pm On Mar 17, 2019
Wer don Buhari
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Nyamiri: 3:21pm On Mar 17, 2019
lexy2014:


So which of d "court processes" indicted Atiku of money laundering? Is d court in question a Nigerian court or American court?

No, it is a Camerounian court.

Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Empiree: 3:22pm On Mar 17, 2019
tribalistseun:
Buhari is a thief
what did he steal?. Be specific, please.

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Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by BoboKush(m): 3:22pm On Mar 17, 2019
Zombie will nt like this

Islie:
......Says cases
rarely concluded

......Accuses security agents of unlawful killings




https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/03/17/us-report-massive-pervasive-corruption-at-all-levels-of-govt/


Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Kingspin(m): 3:23pm On Mar 17, 2019
Who does not know except suffering and smiling fans
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by sapele914(m): 3:23pm On Mar 17, 2019
Cletus77:

And who are you
Just shut up and pass..A state in Us is better than this country
Why your mama no born you for yankee?blame your parents or strive to remove yourself from poverty,Lazy animal.
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by lexy2014: 3:26pm On Mar 17, 2019
Nyamiri:


No, it is a Camerounian court.

Is what u posted a court indictment or an affidavit? Does an affidavit qualify as a court indictment?
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by tajuh: 3:26pm On Mar 17, 2019
There is corruption and human right abuses even in the US.

How do you explain that the US still stood by Beoing dispite the evidences.
In Nigeria , we will be seen as corrupt officials backing a tradegy.

I wish there will be some report on corruption and human right abuses in USA
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Empiree: 3:27pm On Mar 17, 2019
hisexcellency34:
Crazy US. They knew all this and can't assist us in voting the old hag out
Assist you for what?. Nigeria is their country? What did you have independence for?.

They have their own election problems still under investigation. Did you not hear of US news media accusing Trump of Russian interference in 2016 US election?.

You guys are true slaves
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Cletus77(m): 3:27pm On Mar 17, 2019
sapele914:
Why your mama no born you for yankee?blame your parents or strive to remove yourself from poverty,Lazy animal.

Am not saying I should have been born in the US..and am not saying the US is a bad country either..

Am asking you who are you to ask who is the US?
Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by Jsbs4444444: 3:29pm On Mar 17, 2019
Prove below

Re: US Report: Massive, Pervasive Corruption At All Levels Of Govt by foreshore(m): 3:31pm On Mar 17, 2019
Islie:
......Says cases rarely concluded

......Accuses security agents of unlawful killings




https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/03/17/us-report-massive-pervasive-corruption-at-all-levels-of-govt/



I thought they said its PDP that is corrupt!!!

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