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U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by Tofax: 8:07pm On Mar 28, 2023
U.S. may designate Nigeria state sponsor of narcotics trafficking over Tinubu’s drug crimes in Chicago : Lawyer

The administration of incoming president Bola Tinubu, who forfeited $460,000 to the United States government over drug trafficking and money laundering crimes in 1993, puts Nigeria at risk of being designated a narcotics state sponsor in accordance with the Kingpin Act 1999, Peoples Gazette has learnt.

The Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act was passed in 1999 to combat international drug trafficking and impose sanctions on “significant foreign narcotics traffickers” and “entities” found guilty of the economic crime.

The Act prohibits traffickers and their businesses once they are identified from benefiting from the American financial system

Citing Section 1904 of The Act, Abdul Mahmud, a lawyer acquainted with the U.S. laws, said The Act only applies to foreign persons or companies but that it doesn’t recognise a nation or state as a “foreign entity.”

“Foreign entity, by the definition given by the Act, includes companies, enterprises, businesses, partnership, joint venture, etc,” Mr Mahmud explained to The Gazette.

“So technically under the Act, no direct action can be taken against a national state as Section 1907 specifically states that foreign person doesn’t include a foreign state,” he added.

However, he explained a clause that could implicate Nigeria as a sovereign state, asserting the provisions of Section 1904 of The Act gave U.S. the right to cite a sitting president (being a foreign person with immunity) for “blocking and prohibition(sic) sanctions.”

Section 1904 (a) of the Kingpin Act states that “a significant foreign narcotics trafficker publicly identified in the report required under subsection (b) or (h)(1) of section 1903 of this title and foreign persons designated by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to subsection (b) of this section shall be subject to any and all sanctions as authorized by this chapter.”

But the inability to sanction a sitting president who enjoys immunity may cause the American government to designate the nation a narcos state, a move that would further dent Nigeria’s already tainted reputation on the global map.

“The diplomatic implications of such an action is huge, considering the image problems it creates for the nation state,” Mr Mahmud stressed.

“Yes, possibility then that (sic) exists that a national state can be categorised as a narco state if the national state takes steps to forestall the implementation of the Act as regards its president,” the lawyer asserted.

Last year, the Northern District Court of Illinois released documents detailing Mr Tinubu’s 1993 legal battles with United States authorities over drug-related and money laundering charges.

The president-elect’s allies have tried to fend off attacks from critics and citizens who seek the truth over the haunting past of the man set to be sworn in as the nation’s leader come May 29.

The U.S. government in July 1993 had sought from Mr Tinubu a forfeiture of proceeds of narcotics going up to $460,000.

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by Nobody: 8:07pm On Mar 28, 2023
angry Your headache Mr. Lawyer tongue

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by GeneralPula: 8:07pm On Mar 28, 2023
Mtchew..

Una go Taya..

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by Neverslumber(f): 8:11pm On Mar 28, 2023
Very much likely. I don't doubt one bit.

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by Ofunaofu: 8:12pm On Mar 28, 2023
It's not just raining..its pouring all because of a life long ambition of a particular individual

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by Puremind1225: 8:15pm On Mar 28, 2023
Kingpin president

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by OmotolaBoy(m): 8:18pm On Mar 28, 2023
Ashiwaju Jagaban Presido
Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by Racoon(m): 8:19pm On Mar 28, 2023
And begin to blackmail the country hence commit subterfuge as his dirty drug past are well known to them.

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by VeeVeeMyLuv(m): 8:19pm On Mar 28, 2023
Ofunaofu:
It's not just raining..its pouring all because of a life long ambition of a particular individual
It is a bad omen both intrinsically and extrinsically.

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by Brendaniel: 8:19pm On Mar 28, 2023
Chai! see what Tinubu and APC supporters want Nigeria to become....

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by pansophist(m): 8:22pm On Mar 28, 2023
When you're weak as a country, you calibrate your destiny towards the acceptance of others, therefore, sacrificing your interest. I mean, who cares what the US thinks?

Russia thinks the US culture is satanic with their same sex marriage and changing children's gender, does America care? NO. China thinks the same way and many others.

The US have also labelled chinese administration as genocidal towards the Uyghurs, but does China care? Absolutely not. Weakness in leaders disgust me.

Let them think what they want, just be strong enough to live your life according to your desire, and defend it with your might. What nonsense.

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by POGazette: 8:28pm On Mar 28, 2023
Tinubu is a druglord

Everybody knows that

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by mployer(m): 8:29pm On Mar 28, 2023
pansophist:
When you're weak as a country, you calibrate your destiny towards the acceptance of others, therefore, sacrificing your interest. I mean, who cares what the US thinks?

Russia thinks the US culture is satanic with their same sex marriage and changing children's gender, does America care? NO. China thinks the same way and many others.

The US have also labelled chinese administration as genocidal towards the Uyghurs, but does China care? Absolutely not. Weakness in leaders disgust me.

Let them think what they want, just be strong enough to live your life according to your desire, and defend it with your might. What nonsense.

Be yourself, like having a criminal as president?

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by tensazangetsu20(m): 8:30pm On Mar 28, 2023
pansophist:
When you're weak as a country, you calibrate your destiny towards the acceptance of others, therefore, sacrificing your interest. I mean, who cares what the US thinks?

Russia thinks the US culture is satanic with their same sex marriage and changing children's gender, does America care? NO. China thinks the same way and many others.

The US have also labelled chinese administration as genocidal towards the Uyghurs, but does China care? Absolutely not. Weakness in leaders disgust me.

Let them think what they want, just be strong enough to live your life according to your desire, and defend it with your might. What nonsense.
US sanctions aren't funny bros especially on a third world country. The suffering Nigerians are suffering will be multiplied by 20 if we get a quarter sanctions of what Iranians are getting

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by DOptical: 9:15pm On Mar 28, 2023
Seun, your attention is needed here. Stop using your website as an avenue for fake news purveyor. You know quite well that gazette have been arrested severally for their propagandas.

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by RenaissanceGuy: 9:19pm On Mar 28, 2023
Who takes this perennial attention-seeking, sensationalist blog seriously??
Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by ChEkWaSIyKe(f): 10:36pm On Mar 28, 2023
DOptical:
Seun, your attention is needed here. Stop using your website as an avenue for fake news purveyor. You know quite well that gazette have been arrested severally for their propagandas.

Allow him abeg. Don't you want him to make money? The sole aim of business is profit. NL is not a charity organization.
Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by DOptical: 10:37pm On Mar 28, 2023
ChEkWaSIyKe:


Allow him abeg. Don't you want him to make money? The sole aim of business is profit. NL is not a charity organization.

It shouldn't be fake news purveyor. With all the attention validation he's been seeking, I thought the constant fake news was what he would curb. He should rest with the attention seeking..
Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by flokii: 10:54pm On Mar 28, 2023
All these paid gutter media doing what they know how to do best.. do the bidding of their white-skinned masters in return for bones as per dogs that they are.

Tinubu don tey for the game of politics and he is one man nobody, not even foreign interests can push or toss around unlike the other one in Eluu P ready to lick shlt of any country just to be called Mr. President.

Tinubu should invite Russia Military to partner with our soldoers to rid the North off Insurgency forever. Russia is capable with all the supersonic and nuclear missles. Putin recently forgave Africa owed debts running into millons of dollars and I am sure such a man would be a really good ally unlike the ones that ruined Libya, Syria and others.

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by KanwuliaExtra: 10:56pm On Mar 28, 2023
Absolutely ridiculous.
Now, this is an over-kill. cheesy
They accepted his 'plea' and he has no further 'drug-errands' we know of currently.

They need to focus on the credibility of the sham elections and delist him as a credible Nigerian president from their affairs.
This is a crime he committed in the US. It is history.
Now we have a FRAUD for elections. . . that is the focus of NIGERIANS.
Period.
Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by Omowale2023(m): 11:07pm On Mar 28, 2023
pansophist:
When you're weak as a country, you calibrate your destiny towards the acceptance of others, therefore, sacrificing your interest. I mean, who cares what the US thinks?

Russia thinks the US culture is satanic with their same sex marriage and changing children's gender, does America care? NO. China thinks the same way and many others.

The US have also labelled chinese administration as genocidal towards the Uyghurs, but does China care? Absolutely not. Weakness in leaders disgust me.

Let them think what they want, just be strong enough to live your life according to your desire, and defend it with your might. What nonsense.
Lol....don't be a **********. Nigeria is a 3rd world country who can't survive on it's own without collecting a loan from either IMF or the global community. If usa ban u, all their allies will follow suit. Nigeria must not allow a drug lord to be president.
Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by Omowale2023(m): 11:12pm On Mar 28, 2023
flokii:
All these paid gutter media doing what they know how to do best.. do the bidding of their white-skinned masters in return for bones as per dogs that they are.

Tinubu don tey for the game of politics and he is one man nobody, not even foreign interests can push or toss around unlike the other one in Eluu P ready to lick shlt of any country just to be called Mr. President.

Tinubu should invite Russia Military to partner with our soldoers to rid the North off Insurgency forever. Russia is capable with all the supersonic and nuclear missles. Putin recently forgave Africa owed debts running into millons of dollars and I am sure such a man would be a really good ally unlike the ones that ruined Libya, Syria and others.
It's heavily apparent you have zero idea on international law and diplomacy. No allies of america can work with Russia. If not, sanctions will follow them. Even when USA warn India and china about Associating with Russia, what did they do?, they dress back from Russia immediately. Guy, america sanctions no be here oooo
Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by MrAgbako: 11:24pm On Mar 28, 2023
IPOB people stvvvpid sha. grin
Nah why una no fit progress be this. Fake news, hate and bigotry grin
Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by Tobijays: 11:34pm On Mar 28, 2023
tensazangetsu20:

US sanctions aren't funny bros especially on a third world country. The suffering Nigerians are suffering will be multiplied by 20 if we get a quarter sanctions of what Iranians are getting
so you think US will sanction Nigeria onto what? Common now you guys think! Except you harboring terrorists or you trying to get nuclear weapons US don’t give a shiii! So many Nigerian students in US and professionals! US is about to build ther biggest embassy in Eko Alantic already mapped over 350 mill dollars so how them go ban Nigeria coz of Tinubu that brought Clinton to commission the Eko Atlantic project! Tech way nah just means to survive no be say you get sense

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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by Tobijays: 11:34pm On Mar 28, 2023
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Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by SenatePresdo(m): 12:19am On Mar 29, 2023
Some people will insult Obidients because of this news that has nothing to do with Obidients.

Keywords; USA, People's gazette..
Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by SenatePresdo(m): 12:22am On Mar 29, 2023
NO WONDER JOE BIDEN, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS REFUSED TO CONGRATULATE HIM.

E CHOKE!

Re: U.S. May Designate Nigeria State Sponsor Of Narcotics Trafficking Over Tinubu’s by SenatePresdo(m): 12:23am On Mar 29, 2023
pansophist:
When you're weak as a country, you calibrate your destiny towards the acceptance of others, therefore, sacrificing your interest. I mean, who cares what the US thinks?

Russia thinks the US culture is satanic with their same sex marriage and changing children's gender, does America care? NO. China thinks the same way and many others.

The US have also labelled chinese administration as genocidal towards the Uyghurs, but does China care? Absolutely not. Weakness in leaders disgust me.

Let them think what they want, just be strong enough to live your life according to your desire, and defend it with your might. What nonsense.

Tinubu is on his own, we stand With America.

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