StOla: So why did you ask a stupid question as the title of your thread?
You know she has an oil block, yet you are asking how a tailor became a billionaire?
Since clansmen are no better than alamjiris in intelligence, tell your village gathering that the military regime awarded oil blocks to whomever patriotic Nigerian citizen the government so desired.
Having the intelligence and business acumen to seek out foreign technical partners and negotiate a favourable deal to foot the bill, and then invest heavily to transition from an Oil Mining License (OML) to an Oil Producing License (OPL) is what makes the difference.
Go and educate your hunchback leader on this education you have so received. Also tell him to go look for a job to compensate for his wasted youth.
So what exactly qualified her for an oil block? Being in close proximity to the axis of corruption?
Now while you are trying to come up with an answer to my poser, please regale us with precisely what constitutes "intelligence and business acumen to seek out foreign technical partners" within a rentier state?
rooftech: Before Kanu started this IPOB and Biafra thing, what was his occupation?
no insults needed!
He was an unremarkable Peckamite
From a council flat in Peckham to a country home in Umuahia, Nnamdi Kanu owes his rise to prominence to constant hate speech, an adulterated version of Judaism and the help of the Nigerian Government.
Among the Igbo, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu is respected for many reasons. He is seen by most as the father of the Igbo nation, the man who fought to lead them out of a failing experiment and into a nation of their own, what would become the ill-fated Republic of Biafra.
For the few surviving soldiers who fought under his hand in the war that followed, he was a father and a leader.
For the generation that came after, those who saw him in documentaries and read of him in books, he is the symbol of lost values, a throwback to what the ideal Igbo man should be: strong, informed, industrious, fearless.
Perhaps more than anything, Ojukwu’s defiance is what has made him a deity of sorts among his people.
When he declared the Republic of Biafra, Eastern Nigeria was in the disadvantage in population, finance, military power and everything that would matter in the months to come.
Ojukwu inspects Biafran soldiers during the civil war (Archive) Looking back now, 50 years later, Ojukwu was well aware that the odds were not in his favor, but it is clear that the decision was made in spite of the circumstances, not because of them.
It was in an attempt to draw from this sentiment that a certain London-based radio broadcaster from Abia re-created Radio Biafra and began a campaign to whip up the undead desire for secession.
Nnamdi Kanu was born ‘Nwannekaenyi “Nnamdi” Kenny Okwu Kanu in Isiama Afara, a town in the area of Umuahia, the capital of Abia State. The exact date of his birth is not public knowledge, most claims put it at some time in 1970.
He attended Liberty Avenue Primary School, Umuahiabefore stepping up to the town’s Government Secondary School to continue his education.
Whenever there is a conversation about most of the world’s most iconic rebel leaders, it is easy to see their influences as well as the formative steps; Castro’s first speech, Kagame’s first battle, the baby steps that helped them grow into the roles that they assumed in later years.
Kanu spent his formative years in the Igbo hinterland; by default, he must have been exposed to a more emotionally-influenced interpretation of the war, and the circumstances that surrounded it, from older soldiers and superiors.
Beyond that, there is enough to suggest that he was born close to the nucleus of the war, both in location and ideology.
His father, Eze Israel Okwu Kanu, an Igbo chief, conveyed much-needed aid to soldiers and civilians during the civil war. Not far from the Kanu family home is what is left of what used to be headquarters of the Biafran army, where his family claims Ojukwu once spent a couple of nights.
Kanu was also born at a time when the war was a very recent memory and like many of his peers, the perspective he was afforded would have been fresh and relatively untouched by time.
Kanu would go on to study at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka after secondary school, but after a series of strikes, he crossed the seas to London where he claims he finished his tertiary education.
There is no information on what university he attended or what course he studied.
According to The Telegraph, he made his home in Sandlings Close, Peckham, an area in London that is also known as‘Little Lagos’ for the large number of Nigerians who live there.
The self-proclaimed leader of Biafra holds a British passport that guarantees his entry into the United Kingdom at any point that he wishes.
It is not clear how Kanu spent most of his time in London, but what we do know is that it was while he was here that he first became involved in the fight for Biafra.
This is where things get interesting.
There are reports that he joined the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), the major face of Biafra at the time and became a favorite of its leader, Ralph Uwazurike.
At the time, Uwazurike was a marked man in the face of the Obasanjo administration. After several ‘excursions’ with his newest friends, the Department of State Services (DSS), starting in 2003, he was aware that he could only find success with a new approach.
That new approach was Radio Biafra.
Radio Biafra has its origins as a pirate radio station that broadcast propaganda during the civil war from a studio mounted on a jeep; a measure that the war and hovering warplanes made necessary.
Uwazuruike’s brainchild was intended for a similar purpose; a medium of spreading the message and ideals of the secessionist country to Igbo people and apologists across the world.
The station was to broadcast from a location outside Nigeria that the federal government would have no control over; because of Kanu’s residence in London, his eloquence and his relationship with MASSOB’s leader, he seemed the obvious choice for the role.
But Kanu had other ideas, in the weeks that followed, he took charge of Radio Biafra and from his council flat in Peckham, went rogue on MASSOB.
The year was 2009.
This decision would also have implications when he, alongside other disgruntled members of MASSOB formed a splinter group, what we now know as IPOB, short for the Indigenous People of Biafra.
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Kanu used Radio Biafra to spread a deeply sectarian and militant message, as he put it “… Biafra or Death“, often referring to Nigeria as a ‘zoo’ that was destined to go up in flames.
In a video that has since gone viral on social media, he said of spiritual leaders from the South-West’s Yoruba tribe, “It’s always Yoruba people, head of Pentecostal, head of Catholic, head of Anglican. Hausas are killing us, Yorubas are sucking our blood”.
“If you’re attending a Yoruba church, you should be ashamed of yourself”, he continued. “Anybody attending a pentecostal church with a Yoruba pastor is an idiot, a complete fool, an slowpoke. They are worse than Boko Haram. If your pastor is Yoruba, you are not fit to be a human being”.
These rants on Radio Biafra sparked a new conversation among its listeners; one where violence was often mentioned and war was an inevitable means to the desired end.
Among the Igbos, the desire for separation may have become understated to a large degree in the years that followed the war, but like all ideas that have gained a romantic appeal, it has always been a constant.
As such, pro-Biafra rhetoric is not a strange concept, either to the Igbo or Nigerians of other tribes.
What set Kanu apart and grabbed attention in those early years is also the reason why among more nuanced spectators, he is not taken seriously.
Unlike other pro-Biafra groups, Kanu has made little attempt to appeal to reason in achieving his goals.
His version of the struggle for Biafra has been defined by an excessively crude and one dimensional method.
While the most prominent of these groups, MASSOB believes that Biafra can be achieved by negotiation and its detailed 25-step plan, Kanu, on the other hand, believes that the only solution is war, and every other Nigerian is the enemy.
On 19 October 2015, Ralph Uwazuruike cleared the air about Kanu’s membership, disclosing that he does not belong to the movement and was sacked for indiscipline and for inciting violence among members.
Broadcasting in over 100 countries around the world, Radio Biafra had such massive reach that it spread quickly, its nightly broadcasts heard at home in Nigeria and by supporters in far-flung places like Australia.
In hindsight, it would appear the most pivotal tool in Kanu’s rise, even if that success came with its own thorns.
In 2014, the station’s existence became public knowledge and in the months before the presidential elections, Nigeria’s primary broadcasting agencies tried to pull down its transmission, with little success.
Arrests were made in 2015; three members of IPOB, David Nwawusi, Benjamin Madubugwu and Chidiebere Onwudiwe were detained at various times during the year for connecting Radio Biafra transmitters to Ericsson masts in eastern states.
More than a decade after he left the country, Radio Biafra put Nnamdi Kanu in the national conversation, but only to a degree.
At the height of the station’s popularity, Kanu was little more than a faceless monster, a largely unknown entity. While his message had found willing listeners, many agreed that he would have to leave London for Nigeria to be taken seriously.
Yet, absurdly, even after his return, it is this air of mystery cultivated over time, that has created an image that is seen as untouchable by most of his followers.
Nnamdi Kanu is a walking, breathing conundrum.
Where the integrity of his peers has come under question at one point or the other, he has branded himself as the outlier.
He portrays himself as the quintessential Igbo man, first and above anything else. In his tirades, he preaches that the Igbo are a subset of the jewish people and identifies as a Jew, referring to the regular idea of the Christian God as a sham, like the rest of Nigeria.
In place of this, he says the Igbo will practice Judaism in the new country and offers obeisance to a new god of Biafra, Chukwu Okike Abhiama.
When he makes public appearances, it is full regalia, with a Jewish cap, a handfan with the rising sun of the Biafran flag printed on it, and a Jewish prayer shawl; often appearing like something between a Jewish priest with an apprentice stylist and a hippy Igbo traditional ruler.
His appearance is no mistake; Kanu makes concerted efforts to keep it up, enhancing it as much as the circumstances allow.
When he was released from jail in April 2017, he wasted no time in visiting Enugu to ‘pray’ at the Cenotaph erected in memory of the soldiers who lost their lives in the civil war.
“Whenever Nnamdi Kanu enters Biafraland, he would first go to Hill Top Ngwo to pray at the Cenotaph before proceeding to his home to see his parents and his people”, a source told Nigerian newspaper, Daily Post. “He has paid his customary homage to the memory of our fallen heroes”.
It is here that our failure to properly examine the history and educate ourselves on the Biafran war has played straight into his lap.
ALSO READ EKONG SAMPSON ADVOCATES MASSIVE MOBILISATION FOR CONTINUOUS VOTERS’ REGISTRATION His core audience is a new generation that only saw the war in books and stories and he is able to sell them his own idea of the country of their dreams, re-imagined to suit his inclinations.
For them, Nnamdi Kanu is the new Biafra in flesh.
It is no mistake that this pristine image has amassed followers in the tens and hundreds of thousands, young men who in recent months have begun to refer to him as ‘our father’, ‘the leader of Biafra’.
An IPOB press release from 2015 even goes further to refer to him as ‘Prophet Nnamdi Kanu’
This image is often re-enforced by his closest friends and family members.
“My brother was singled out by God for this mission” Kanu’s brother and fellow Biafra agitator, Prince Kanu told the Telegraph in January. When he was further prodded, he claimed his brother was led by a vision he had in 2006 in Croydon, a fair distance from Nigeria and Igbo land, if we are to put it lightly.
The success of this ‘re-branding’ has reduced the pro-Biafra struggle into a personality cult of sorts, with reports of supporters kneeling down before him and kissing his feet upon his release from detention.
In reality, what Kanu has created is an illusion; a representation of the fallacious history that he invokes and the promise of the future he seems so willing to fight for.
It is an image that is as convenient as it is effective.
But for all that Nnamdi Kanu has done to put himself in the frontlines of the struggle for Biafra, no-one has done more to help his cause than the Nigerian government.
Nnamdi Kanu’s parents; Eze Israel Okwu Kanu and his mother is Ugoeze Nnenne Kanu, at the family’s country home in Isiama Afara, Abia. (Tom Saatar / Telegraph) While Radio Biafra put him in the list of pro-biafra agitators, a vast majority of the people he hoped to lead still viewed his message at arms’ length, with a certain degree of skepticism.
What they said was pretty simple; here was a man, calling on them to defend themselves and their sovereignty and prepare for war with the rest of Nigeria, yet he was miles away in a flat in London, speaking into a microphone from an undisclosed location.
It only made sense that whoever sought to lead them would lead from the front.
In the final months of 2015, Kanu decided to pay a visit to Nigeria, taking up temporary residence in Lagos’ Golden Tulip Hotel. Barely days after, he was nowhere to be found.
On October 18, 2015, reports made the rounds that Kanu had been arrested by the dreaded Department of State Services.
He told his lawyers that he had been held in secret for four days.
In the weeks that followed, the IPOB leader was charged with treasonable felony for a speech he delivered at the World Igbo Congress in 2015 where he asked the bewildered audience for ‘guns and bullets’ to fight the war for Biafra. Alonside him were the three IPOB members arrested for planting Radio Biafra transmission equipment early in that year.
Political analyst Cheta Nwanze describes his arrest as “a mistake because it played into his hands”.
As Nwanze told the BBC in May, “When the 2015 election happened, there was a slowdown in the popularity of his radio station and that’s when he decided to come to Nigeria to get arrested”
Nnamdi Kanu had spent months accusing the government of a conspiracy against the Igbo people and moonlighting as the patron saint of information and freedom from oppression; if his supporters suspected that his ‘truth’ was a threat to the government, his arrest gave credence and credibility to those claims.
Even after the courts ruled that he should be released in November 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari’s federal government pulled a rabbit out of the hat, and ensured that he was re-arrested and held again. The DSS presented a court order that gave it license to keep him custody for an extra three months for ‘questioning’.
As one commentator put it, this authoritarian approach inspired the feeling that “perhaps, this guy is not totally wrong”
Kanu would spend go on to spend months in and out of Kuje Prisons, often falling victim to the crippling judicial system and the DSS’ underhanded tactics to hold him for as long as possible...
if i read something like i came from humble beginings and later became a state governor or millionaire or anything useful, i could have understood the reason why this shameless Igbokwe published his embellished yet useless life history.
I had expected to read about some major achievement to point to in his life as examplary apart from going to Okongwu school, UNN and establishing a restaurant in Lagos. Who didn't do that? lol....
Go to Onitsha, Aba or Owerri and ask the owners of those 4 storey buildings how they managed to make money to build them between 1975 - 1985 from 20 pounds given to them and you will hear true stories of heroism and achievement.
An average Igboman born before 1970 can boast of better achievement from poverty to grace. Has anyone read about Innoson, Ibeto, Ekene dilichukwu, Prof ABC Nwosu, or Festus Nwakor just to mention a few.
Nnamdi Kanu from a humble beginning to becoming an undisputed leader of Ndigbo only surpassed by Ikemba Odimegwu Ojukwu or Nnamdi Azikiwe is a feat greater than owning a restaurant business in Lagos and later applying for APC spokesman of Lagos. For God's sake, Rochas Okorocha can boast of a greater pedigree of coming from poverty, broken family from different tribes (hausa & Igbo) to becoming a multi-millionaire and a state governor of an Igbo state for two terms. Today Nnamdi Kanu is a legend known around the globe, yet he didn't steal anybody's 1 kobo unlike the useless Nigerian politicians.
Joe Igbokwe should have remained as a Molue conductor which he self admitted. It is the only job that fits his shameless persona
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Legend in the mind of the deluded
VIDEO: Ex-PRO Of Radio Biafra, Chioma Amaryllis Exposes Nnamdi Kanu, Says He’s A Fraudster
The former Public Relations coordinator of Radio Biafra, Chioma Amaryllis, has exposed the director of the pirate radio station, Nnamdi Kanu.
Miss Amaryllis, who said he was once a girlfriend of the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, said in a 16 minutes video that she quit the Bianfran struggle when she discovered that he was just using it to make money for himself.
Chioma, who is said to be resident in the Unites States said she made the discovery when she decided to visit Nigeria to see for herself, the claims of what Nnamdi Kanu said he has put in place in Igbo land to actualise the dream of Biafra.
DeLaRue: Visiting Lagos shouldn't be a problem if all sides take a reasonable approach.
State officials should agree with his team ahead of his visit which public space he can use so that disruption to traffic and businesses can be localised.
A stadium would be a good environment to accommodate him & his fans. This would also help in terms of managing the safety & security of attendees and local residents.
So LASG should become complicit in flouting the rule of law by providing access to a stadium?
The conditions are: — Mr. Kanu must not hold rallies. — He must not grant interviews. — He must not be in a crowd of more than 10 people. — He must provide three sureties in the sum of N100 million each. — One of the sureties must be a senior highly placed person of Igbo extraction such as a senator. — The second surety must be a highly respected Jewish leader since Mr. Kanu said his religion is Judaism — The third surety must be a highly respected person who owns landed property and is resident in Abuja — The IPOB leader must deposit his Nigerian passport — He must also deposit his British passport with the court — He must provide the court with reports on the progress of his health and treatment on a monthly basis. — The order for him to deposit his Nigerian and British passports also mean he cannot travel out of the country (If this is considered, it is the thirteenth condition).
While I don't know what fountain of water you drink from, it is clear that you are not the sharpest tool in the box
What signal do you think Ambode's government will be sending to foreign investors, if it were to provide its blessings to IPOB's quasi-military rally? This question also applies to other juvenile commentators who have little or no idea of how government works.
"Folks: We have an update now on the reason the "Jankara" Judge in Ilorin procured by Bukola Saraki could not produce the record of proceedings in his own court.
The Chief Judge of Kwara state upon receipt of a copy of Femi Falana's letter requesting the records has found out that the "records" were incomplete.
For instance, the judge, Sikiru Oyinloye had adjourned his last sitting of the case to affirm "proof of service" but along the line, lawyers loyal to Saraki, led by Yusuf Alli (SAN) approached him, handed him a written judgement and told him to go ahead and give a judgment awarding N4billion against SaharaReporters. When Oyinloye told them it will be tough for him, they promised to "handle the consequences" using their connection and contacts within the Nigerian judiciary. At the point of giving that ruling, Oyinloye had not even ascertained proof of service of the summons of the purported libel lawsuit against SaharaReporters and myself, but yet he creatively issued a judgment without fulfilling the processes he laid down in his previous rulings on the matter.
Our lawyers have now been grudgingly told to come to get the available "record of proceedings" by 11 am tomorrow. The cookies are starting to crumble!
As you all know, this is a long existential battle to liberate the robbed and the oppressed against whom a crooked judiciary and rogue lawyers have been arrayed over the years in every corner of our nation and which have long been championed by our collective efforts. But rest assured that even the most noxious of political crooks are dead scared of the power of interaction of the oppressed that could remotely provoke action." ~ Omoyele Sowore
tesppidd: It's expected! Fani Kayode always only has two clap backs. 1.Someone is ugly. 2.He graduated from Cambridge. Fani Kayode should brag about what he made out of himself and not what his father made him.
Too right bro. That crack head knows the best way to curry favour in Nigeria is to issue constant reminders about his father's past glory/infamy
The truth that scares the likes of Okorocha is that Fani-Kayode is a confirmed Cambridge-trained lawyer whose great grandfather, Rev Emmanuel Adedapo Kayode, his grandfather, Victor Adedapo Kayode were UK-trained, and his father, Chief Remilekun Fani-Kayode, was not just a prominent lawyer who finished from Cambridge University in 1941 and came top in the British Bar examination for the whole of British Commonwealth of nations, he was also the Deputy Premier of Western Nigeria, and the one who successfully moved for Nigeria’s independence in the Federal House of Assembly in 1958.
He was a Queens Counsel, the third Nigerian to be made a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, and set up the first indigenous law firm with the erudite late Chief Frederick Rotimi Williams and Chief Bode Thomas.
bendike: Smh. Ffk is a nobody? A oxford trained lawyer is a nobody? Who in your generation has attended oxford or you think we are talking of lasu? A lawyer that practiced and consulted for years? An ex minister of the federal republic of nigeria in his 30ties? Better use Google my bro.
Stick to what the Bleep you know bro. (1) FFK attended Cambridge and not Oxford (2) Unlike his father who actually distinguished himself in his chosen profession, your dope-fiend operates mainly as a political jobber (to borrow a popular phrase from our political lexicon) and nothing much more
i. Excerpt of the biography taken from his own website
He is a lawyer, a Nigerian politician, an evangelical christian, an essayist, a poet and he was the Special Assistant (Public Affairs) to President Olusegun Obasanjo from July 2003 until June 2006.
ii. Why I dumped my law career - Femi Fani-Kayode (video)
"Sure, it is a great thing, it is a wonderful thing to have studied. It is a versatile degree and it does not mean you have to be a lawyer, I mean I practised for only about four, five years and when I came back, I stayed in my father's law firm for about four five years and then became a full partner in the law firm. After the four, five years I said goodbye law, because I just did not like the way it operated here," Fani-Kayode said. "In England, there is a distinction between the barristers and solicitors but here there is no distinction, solicitors go to court, barristers do solicitors work and I found that a little bit challenging and complicated. And my whole mind is focused towards advocacy and I would have been a barrister not a solicitor," he said
GenBuhari: No North American or European leader has ever died of illness whilst in office, at least not in living memory.
Buhari would be the 3rd serving Nigerian leader in 19 years to mysteriously die from illness whilst in office.
If we add the likes Balewa, Ironsi, Muritala Mohammed and also those overthrown like Gowon, Shagari, Buhari and if we also add potential leaders who were likely poisoned such as Abiola and Idiagbon. You should have to say that the continued trend of our leaders have their tenure cut short, should be viewed with suspicion especially, when it always happens to those that try to fix the country.
Many corrupt Nigerian leaders; Thief Obasanjo etc, some like IBB suffering long term illnesses, are still surviving and likely would outlive Buhari. [/s]
Another polemic from Nairaland's own certified Conspiracy Theorist on Steriods
Did your imperialistic Ogre put a noose around Buhari's neck to drag him across to London? Do you ever take deep breaths before regaling us with your flights of fantasy on these pages?
Buhari would be the 3rd serving Nigerian leader in 19 years to mysteriously die from illness whilst in office. ^^^ And why is this my problem, in a nation where leaders high on gluttony also pay scant regard to their immediate medical concerns - never mind its decrepit healthcare infrastructure?
Have you checked out the average life expectancy in Nigeria for the past 20 years? Or do you just enjoy posting emotion-laden rants from your little echo chamber?
1. DSS must either withdraw its original report in writing to Senate and apologise
OR
2. Presidency must fire the DG DSS for incompetence and replace him with a DG that takes its job seriously
OR
3. Presidency must accept the DSS report and fire Magu for lack of integrity
You can not ignore all of the above and then bully the Senate to ignore a security report on Magu and approve his screening anyway!
It's a joke. This Presidency really need to get serious. And someone comes here to tell me Osibanjo is a Professor he must know what he is doing.
Professor my foot! He is allowing himself to be misled by blind people.
This is not about emotions. It is about due process!
I am afraid you have elected to make light of the way government works in a rather complex polity. While I would hate to see my intervention here misconstrued as a spirited defence of Magu - for it is not - what law states that the report of a security agency is sacrosanct?
Do you know the FBI began monitoring Martin Luther King from 1955 onwards? Are you aware that the current leader of the opposition in the UK had a file kept on him, as a result of his anti-apartheid activities? My point: security reports - well meaning or otherwise - and not set in stone.
Fast forward to the current era...is it not true that Donald Trump re-hired Michael Flynn as his national security adviser - despite the truckload of security briefings which led to the latter's dismissal from Obama's government?
The Vice President said: "We should commend the president for not interfering with what the DSS said. The DSS came up with a report and the man who was accused refuted it.
"He explains and gives a reason. When that happened, the president looked at what Magu said and what the DSS wrote and he said ‘I am satisfied with what Magu said’.
"He then decided to retain Magu as the nominee for EFCC. I don’t see any reason why that should be contested. The president has not interfered with what the DSS said. If he wanted to interfere, he would have ordered the DSS to keep quiet. He didn’t do that, but he said ‘I don’t think the DSS report is meritorious enough to withdraw his nomination.’
"The president reserves the right to say, ‘this is who I want’. I’m fully in support of Magu as the EFCC chairman just as the president is."
She said she was ready to reveal to Nigerians all that happened and was ready to follow Messrs Aluko and Omokore to jail.
“I said tell him [i.e., ALUKO] to bring everything out, and then you know what will happen? No problem, I will be happy to escort all of you to jail along with myself. I said, in fact, you’ll be shocked by what I will do. Because when it comes to that, I will come out and tell the Nigerian people this is what happened.
“Oh, yes, I will blame myself, but it [INAUDIBLE] place and everything. Anything they want to say, I am happy to go. But I will come out openly and say it so that they can judge me openly. And then all of us go and sit on the gate. Let us see who survived [INAUDIBLE], me or you,” she said.
Orikinla: Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has suddenly stolen the headlines from Boko Haram since she was arrested in London and released on bail last Friday on allegations of bribery, corruption and money laundering.
If bribery, corruption and money laundering are the reasons for arresting her, then I wonder why many of the political gangsters who have been plundering and squandering our riches have been traveling to and from UK without any harassment by the British law enforcement agents since Onyeka Onwenu's anti-corruption documentary film "Nigeria, A Squandering of Riches" on corruption in high places before the December 31,1983 military coup which catapulted Gen. Muhammadu Buhari into military power before he was toppled on August 27, 1985. If all Nigerian politicians with properties in the UK should be investigated for bribery, corruption and money laundering, majority of them would be found guilty from the APC to the PDP.
I know majority of Nigerians cannot see the connection of the arrest of Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke with what former British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair told President Muhammadu Buhari to overhaul the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation *NNPC) which is under the Ministry of Petroleum Resources she was heading in the government of the immediate former President of Nigeria, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/if-you-must-succeed-crack-the-nnpc-nut-blair-tells-buhari/
When did Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke even join the oil industry? In 2002, when she returned from the U.S and got employed by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). And the rot in the oil industry has been there even before she went to the UK as she student in her teens. All those commenting and writing defamatory reports on her are just doing nothing but to give a dog a bad name and hang it. And they are making more noise than sense in political brouhaha amplified by the new ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) in their desperation to use Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke as the scapegoat for the discredited administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan
There is no money laundering without the connivance of foreigners and there have been bribery and corruption and money laundering in the oil industry since Shell and British Petroleum discovered crude oil in Oloibiri, Bayelsa State, in 1956. And these multinational oil companies from Shell to Chevron, Mobil, Total and others have been in the messy oil deals before the former Petroleum Minister even started primary school and they have been enjoying their loot and giving out some millions of dollars as scholarships to students from the host communities and the rest of Nigeria in image laundering they call Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). They have been laundering billions of dollars before she joined the NNPC about 13 years ago and none of their citizens has been harassed and embarrassed as they are now doing to Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke when heaven knows they are now holier than her. So, who is fooling whom?
The most preposterous and ridiculous of all the rumours is the childish and foolish allegation that she wanted to buy the entire Hyde Park for £13 billion (N3 trillion)! Of course anyone who believes this British Bullshit needs to buy himself or herself a brain.
...Apparently while the trio allegedly schemed to launder billions of naira that should have accrued to the Nigerian government all was not well with them. In the recorded conversation, Mrs Alison-Madueke, in response to speculations that Mr Aluko was going to blackmail her, threatened to spill the beans.
She said she was ready to reveal to Nigerians all that happened and was ready to follow Messrs Aluko and Omokore to jail. “I said tell him [i.e., ALUKO] to bring everything out, and then you know what will happen? No problem, I will be happy to escort all of you to jail along with myself. I said, in fact, you’ll be shocked by what I will do. Because when it comes to that, I will come out and tell the Nigerian people this is what happened.
“Oh, yes, I will blame myself, but it [INAUDIBLE] place and everything. Anything they want to say, I am happy to go. But I will come out openly and say it so that they can judge me openly. And then all of us go and sit on the gate. Let us see who survived [INAUDIBLE], me or you,” she said.
Mrs Alison-Madueke also acknowledged that the furniture she was given by the duo of Messrs Aluko and Omokore was not worth more than $4million.
When two yorubas killed a British soldier in broad day light the same yorubas denied the two Yoruba jihadist as Nigerian and even Yoruba.
When Khadija Dare was unveiled as a yoruba the same yorubas denied her and said she was British
Now this Igbo woman denies being Nigerian and the same afonja bastards come for her head.
Your head dey there.
Most of the respondents on this thread can hardly hold a consistent view to save their lives. They are wired up to blow with any prevailing wind
So how else should Chi Onwurah have described herself? Isn't it enough that she is actually doing some real work to advance trade with the country of her father's birth?
“ I am delighted that Abike, the President of Nigeria’s special adviser for Diaspora, has accepted my invitation to come to Newcastle to meet with members of the Nigerian diaspora here, Universities and wider business networks in the North East.
“ This will be an opportunity for those of Nigerian heritage to raise issues with Abike and for her to hear about the contribution they are making to our region. It is also the opportunity for universities and businesses to develop high level links with Nigeria, the largest country in Africa with around 173 million people and a growing economy.
“ My father came to Newcastle from Nigeria to study in the fifties, so I am very aware of the strong links between the North East and Nigeria. On my recent trade mission there I was told they want to see more British trade and investment and the North East diaspora can make a great contribution to that".
Now would some of the opinionated twats on this thread show us how much of a contribution they've made to Nigeria's development in recent years? Go on, I am waiting
benzems: The different between Igbo and Yorubain London is that the Yorubas are terrorist while Igbo are MPs.
Put a sock in it fool!
Bim Afolami - MP for Hitchin and Harpenden constituency Fiona Onasanya - MP for Peterborough Kemi Badenoch - MP for Saffron Walden Baron Victor Adebowale - Member of House of Lords
There is really not a lot to this story for discerning minds.
Eric Joyce has simply rehashed something he picked up on the #FakeNews website known as [url]metro-uk.com[/url] (not to be confused with [url]metro.co.uk[/url], a daily newspaper).
A lot of the information you want is in plain sight, my conspiracy theorist comrade, GenBuhari
1. Where was he born?
Answer: Kanu was born in Isiama Afara, Abia State,
2. Date of birth?
Answer: Sept 1967 / circa 1970 (depending on the source you read)
3. Primary / Secondary Schools attended in which state /country
Answer: Library Avenue Primary School (now part of Government House, Umuahia) and Government College Umuahia.
4. Universities attended in which states / country
Answer: Attended 'University of Nigeria Nsukka' but never finished his degree.
5. Ans: Masters Political Science from Brunel University UK
6. Employment history (give employer and dates)partial Ans: Worked as a property consultant in UK, then started a radio station in 2009 which failed, restarted 2013, with some investors
RBL Management Services Limited and Biafra Television Ltd; 30 Sandlings Close, London, SE15 3SY.
Elsewhere, Nnamdi Kanu's work history is summarised as follows
Mr Nwannekaenyi Kenny Okwu-kanu holds 4 appointments at 4 active companies, has resigned from 0 companies and held 0 appointments at 0 dissolved companies. NWANNEKAENYI began their first appointment at the age of 45. Their longest current appointment spans 4 years, 7 months and 0 days at RBL MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED
The combined cash at bank value for all businesses where NWANNEKAENYI holds a current appointment equals £4.4k, a combined total current assets value of £6.5k with a total current liabilities of £3.3k and a total current net worth of £14.3k. Roles associated with Mr Nwannekaenyi Kenny Okwu-kanu within the recorded businesses include: Director
7. How did he become involved in IPOB
8. His mothers state of origin
9. Did he live or his parents live through the original Biafran war in Biafra
kitaatita: ... ..In an interview with SaharaReporters, Mr. Amaechi, who is Nigeria’s current Minister of Transportation, said he had no connection whatsoever with the apartment or the money. He added that he does not own any apartment or house in Lagos, stating that his only property in Nigeria was in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city.http://saharareporters.com/2017/04/13/nigeria%E2%80%99s-intelligence-agency-former-gov-amaechi-dismiss-reports-linking-them-50m-cash
This is from ThisDay, a newspaper that is far from an APC mouthpiece.
A source with knowledge of the ownership of Apartment 7B, in which the money was kept, said it was initially bought by Bishop Dale Investment Limited, but later sold to Chobe Ventures Limited, the current owner of the flat. At the time the cash discovery was made, the flat was unoccupied, THISDAY confirmed.
Now if the source quoted above is correct, here is a question; how does Amaechi get to register an on-going concern using a Victoria Island address, back in 1991 - at a time when he had not even cut his teeth in party politics yet?
joeprince23: amaechi is a theif,we from rivers knw say na him get that money
Nah Amaechi get Chobe Ventures Limited wey dem register for 1991?
A source with knowledge of the ownership of Apartment 7B, in which the money was kept, said it was initially bought by Bishop Dale Investment Limited, but later sold to Chobe Ventures Limited, the current owner of the flat. At the time the cash discovery was made, the flat was unoccupied, THISDAY confirmed.
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