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Ricky_Ross: Very well said. And don't be surprised Nigerians will celebrate over this stupid report coz they are their own worst enemies. They like to hear bad news about Nigeria.

Kay-Dee:
The lead is too slim to set off the champagne corks just yet.

shymexx: Romney didn't do his homeworks - he had everything to nail Obama, yet he was too arrogant to use it...

Politics is about lying, however, he failed to use that to his advantage....

ogugua88: Fired up and ready to go. Chukwu dalu, I'm not working tomorrow.

Oya, when is Romney's concession speech?! lol

manny4life: Obama leading in CO, but loosing out in MN, NC, and VA

Right now, Obama has only netted 25,000
votes out of the DC suburbs, compared to
more than 234,000 to '08. Right now,
Romney has an 87,000 vote lead, but plenty
of votes are left in the black cities of
southeastern Virginia. If Obama comes close
to his '08 margin in northern Virginia,
Romney's in trouble.
by Nate Cohn 3:44 AM

ogugua88: AND OBAMA GETS THE BIG STATES!

MICHIGAN! AUTO BAILOUT!

NEW YOOOOOOOOOOOOOORK!

CHRIS CHRISTIE'S NEW JERSEY!

ItsModella: Romney wins Arkansas, Tennessee and Oklahoma.

Ok, let
me give you an example. Let's say on
May 30, 1966, the day Biafra declared
secession, if on that day

Katsumoto: That's a lot of BS sir.

1. How could the Nigerian government have coordinated a policy that was meant to penalize Biafrans just a day after secession was declared?

2. Why would anyone withdraw half of their funds and replace it the following day? Is he stating that the Biafrans who remained in Lagos for the duration of the war didn't have any money to spend since any account credit by a Biafran wasn't accounted for by the banks? Or did the banks have a way of telling Biafrans who remained in Nigeria and those who went to Biafra apart?

3. Was it possible that an Igbo man who was relocating to Biafra before the outbreak of war would have left his savings in banks outside Biafra?

What really happened
1. Because Biafra was converting Nigerian pounds to FOREX and buying arms, Nigeria banned the importation of Nigerian notes 21 August 1967. Simply put, no money was allowed in from anywhere.

2. For the same reasons as above, Nigeria changed its currency in January 1968.

3. Later on in 1968, the central bank announced exchange rates for old Nigerian notes and Biafran notes in areas that had been won by the Nigerian troops.

4. The Biafrans stole 2 million pounds from the Central Bank in Benin

5. Biafrans contributed to the war effort through their savings and assets

Given the above, how can Ekueme claim that a man who withdrew half his savings on May 31 1967 and deposited the same amount back in a day later lost the amount that was deposited after just a day?

ferdiii: Actually she asks 'what do you do for a leaving?'. When she ought to have started with am a medical doctor and you are...?

ojubi: I know a girl who is currently refusing a marriage proposal from a very promising, God fearing, ambitious, and nice young rich man cos accoding to her d dude does not satisfy her in bed.
I was speachless when she told me about it some days ago.
Until that day i use to think sex as d women make us pay for it, is only important to men.
Obviously i was wrong.

Billyonaire: Learnt one or 2 things there, but that money issue is a fat lie. I cant love without throwing some money around. Money is the lubricant of love. Ladies, what says y'all.

texazzpete: [size=50pt]So the 'whistleblower' here is a security consultant and arms supplier whose business can be said to be negatively impacted by the FG doing business with a key competitor...and you people are swallowing his story hook, line and sinker.

This is just like if the chairman of a herbalist forum is 'exposing the rot in the medical sector'.

I'll take his words with a pinch of salt[/size]

fried-rice:
Only Onitsha could boast of a concentration of tall residential buildings with most of them
barely 1.8 meters apart from each other. no other SE states has such concentration.

homerac7: most of posters here have never had a dealing with any FG agency on technical matters otherwise you will know that scamming those guys is next to impossible unless those guys are in collusion with you. do you really really really think that everybody in civil service is truely a dumbo? dont worry, when time you have dealings with them arrive, just go to them with such mindset and see yourself disgraced.

@ topic,

...no b news again, dat's d way things run here. in as much as one cant believe the allegation totally, d way one sees expensive pieces of equipment lying around and wasting away in govt warehouses and premises is appalling.

illitrate: Nigerian defence and security equipment contractor, Alh. Rabiu Hassan, yesterday, alleged that some Israeli security contractors (names withheld) were fleecing the nation of huge sums of money in hard currencies by supplying either non-functional equipments or collecting mobilisation fees without making supplies.

The contractor told journalists in Abuja that at a time the nation was facing dire security challenges, three Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, UAVs, popularly known as drones, supplied by the Israelis were rotting away in a hangar in Benin because they were non-functional.

He added that even at that, Nigeria was made to pay far more than the cost of the most sophisticated drones currently used by United States of America, USA.

Hassan, who said he had petitioned the Presidency and relevant anti-corruption agencies, said although he was a contractor himself, he had to cry out for a probe into the activities of the affected companies with a view to arresting the situation.

He said: “As we talk, there are three Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, which are popularly called drones, supplied by the Israelis which have never worked. They are parked right now at a hangar in Benin. They have never worked since they were supplied.”

He said the non-functional drones cost the nation $240 million, adding that the Israeli behind the drones deal had operated in the country for over a decade and had infiltrated the top echelon of successive administrations in the country, where he had entrenched himself.

He equally disclosed that another set of two Israelis were on the verge of sealing a deal for leasing two spy satellites to Nigeria at a cost considered to be another rip-off as they had asked Nigeria to pay 145 million Euros for a project, which cost had been put at $40 million by Imagesat, the manufacturers in Israel.


Hassan said: “I have personally gone to Israel and found out from the manufacturers what the cost is. It is $40 million for the total project. It is curious that they (contractors) are quoting 145 million Euros.

“The Israeli company does not quote in Euros, they only quote in dollars. Nigerians must ask questions: is there any such contract at $145 million? This can’t happen elsewhere in the world.”

Hassan, who said he was crying out as a patriotic Nigeria, disclosed that he would be at the State Security Service, SSS, and the Office of the National Security on their invitation to give more details on his petition.

According to him, he had earlier made a preliminary statement at the SSS and was determined to ensure that the matter was not swept under the carpet. He said the entire activities of the Israeli firms in the nation’s security sector must be probed.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/isreali-contractors-sold-nigeria-240m-non-functional-drones/