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Saharareporters is now in possession of details of a carefully scripted plan to bribe the chairman of the Presidential Elections Tribunal in Nigeria, Justice James Ogebe through his Washington, DC–based son, Mr. Emmanuel Ogebe.

According to the latest revelations, Umar Yar'adua approved an initial $150,000 down payment to Emmanuel Ogebe who advertises himself as "Number 1 Legal Consultant in Nigeria in Washington, DC."

The payment was to be the first of a $2 million bribe Emmanuel Ogebe was to be paid on behalf of his father, a justice of the Federal Court of Appeal who is presiding over several petitions arising from the widely rigged April 21, 2007 presidential election.

Attorney General and Justice Minister Michael Aondoakaa hatched the bribery plan. Aondoakaa has made several visits to the US where had meetings with the younger Ogebe.

On one of such visits, Michael Aondoakaa was a guest of the Nigeria Lawyers Association in New York and lodged at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Arriving in the US several days before the one-day event that took place on a Saturday, Aondoakaa made time for “fun” and to have elaborate meetings with the younger Ogebe.

One source told Saharareporters that, prior to his visit to the US on that trip, Aondoakaa had never been to the US before becoming the AGF, a claim we could not independently verify before going to press.
However, we can confirm that the attorney general spent ample time with Emmanuel Ogebe during his visit and dangled the bait of highly lucrative legal briefs to Justice Ogebe’s son. Aondoakaa made it clear to Emmanuel Ogebe that Yar’adua hoped that the award of legal briefs to the younger Ogebe would “persuade” Justice Ogebe to affirm Yar’adua’s election.

Both Aondoakaa and the Justice Ogebe are from Nigeria's North Central state of Benue. Michael Aondoakaa is Tiv while James Ogebe is an Idoma native.

Our sources, said that, Emmanuel Ogebe, on detecting that he was being used to corruptly influence his father, he decided to play along. He met with Aondoakaa several times afterwards to further discuss winning briefs from the federal government. He told Aondoakaa that there were three contentious cases going on in the US against the Nigerian government, and promised that his intervention was necessary as a “legal consultant”.

Saharareporters has found out that Emmanuel Ogebe does not even have a license to practice law in the US.

The cases for which Aondoakaa sought to make Ogebe a legal consultant for the Federal Government were listed as Abiola vs. Abubakar; the NNPC vs. Gulf Petrec at the US Appeal Court of the 5th Circuit in New Orleans, and the Wilbros case in Texas.

Apart from the Wilbros case in which the accessing of court records was the only legal effort required, the other two cases already had paid lawyers hired by the Nigerian authorities (attorneys-on-record) handling them, so there was no need to retain any legal consultants to assist with the cases.

In fact, with regard to the Abiola vs. Abubakar case, both plaintiffs and defendants had already entered into negotiations to work out an out-of-court settlement before Umar Yar'adua came to occupy Aso Rock.

Aondoakaa’s offer of legal briefs to Emmanuel Ogebe had nothing to do with the three cases, but was a pretext to bribe Justice Ogebe, the most important judge in the Presidential Elections Tribunal. Aondoakaa and Yar’adua had become anxious, according to our sources, because Justice Ogebe had become unpredictable on the account of his religious beliefs. One of Yar'adua's political handlers described the judge as “a Christian fanatic.” Aondoakaa and Yar'adua wanted to reach Justice Ogebe on time, figuring that if Emmanuel Ogebe was well taken care of, he could make Yar’adua’s case to his father during the judge’s annual medical visits to the US.

Aondoakaa proposed to Emmanuel Ogebe to write a proposal to his office asking to become a legal consultant to the aforementioned cases. It was unclear if Emmanuel Ogebe did so before his relationship with Aondoakaa became frosty—in large part over financial dealings.

Sources close to both parties adduce various reasons why their relationship broke down before Emmanuel Ogebe's proposal to become a legal consultant to Federal Government cases in the US. One reliable source told Saharareporters that Emmanuel Ogebe abandoned Michael Aondoakaa because he found direct access to Yar'adua.

On his part, Aondoakaa told his close associates that Emmanuel Ogebe was not to be trusted, describing him as a scammer. In turn, Emmanuel Ogebe insists that it was Aondoakaa who was the biggest scammer of all time. He described an instance where Aondoakaa gave the Wilbros brief to his (Aondoakaa’s) cousin, simply referred to as "Ohi," a lawyer in Texas. Ogebe told his friends that the AGF promptly cancelled the brief as soon as he threatened to expose the deal. Aondoakaa eventually asked a US-based lawyer to help him get the documents from a US court in Texas for free. By then, Andoakaa had spent several nights in the US in the company of three other federal government delegates ostensibly in search of court records in the Wilbros case. They collected huge estacodes said to be $3,000 each per night and also raked up huge hotel bills.

Saharareporters learnt that as Emmanuel Ogebe’s relationship with Aondoakaa soured, the young man perfected a direct way to reach Yar'adua. Some of the sources interviewed for this story said Emmanuel Ogebe wanted to cut Aondoakaa out of the deal because he knew too well that Yar'adua needed him very badly.

In September 2007 in New York, Emmanuel Ogebe personally presented a letter to Yar'adua at the latter’s press conference with Nigerian journalists. Later that month, he reportedly sent another petition through a government official stating that he was the lawyer handling the Abubakar vs. Abiola case on behalf of the federal government. The alleged that Aondoakaa wanted to bring in another lawyer to take over from him, and warned that this development was likely to lead to Nigeria’s loss of the case.

Saharareporters learnt that when Yar'adua broached the petition with Aondoakaa, the attorney general assured him that Justice Ogebe had been taken care of. One source told us that Aondoakaa showed pictures of Emmanuel Ogebe and himself in the US to assure Yar'adua that things were going on as planned.

Meanwhile, after waiting for settlement from the Nigerian government without results, an irate Emmanuel Ogebe again met with Nigerian government in Yar'adua’s delegation to the White House visit and delivered another petition and request for his promised pay off, using Abubakar's case as his launch pad.

Towards the end of 2007, Yar'adua approved the sum of $150,000 as payment for Emmanuel Ogebe even as Aondoakaa was engaged in settling the Abubakar case directly with the attorneys-of-record, according to the terms of the out-of-court settlement stipulated by the parties. No mention was made about the pay off to Emmanuel Ogebe.

But by January 2008, Aondoakaa—who has traveled to the US more frequently than other members of Yar'adua's cabinet—reportedly informed Yar'adua that he was going to pay Mr. Emmanuel Ogebe the sum of $150,000 approved by Yar'adua. He asked that Emmanuel Ogebe be told to meet him in Washington, DC to pick up the payment.

The details of what transpired between the two in Washington, DC remain shadowy as both sides gave differing accounts. While the AGF accused Ogebe of coming to see him with a hidden tape recorder, calling him a “419-er” and threatened to have him deported from the US, another account told Saharareporters that the AGF was never in Washington, DC in January as he claimed. We confirmed that Mr. Aondoakaa was in London on January 11 2008 to meet with attorneys in charge of Abubakar's case to conclude the out-of-court negotiations.

Emmanuel Ogebe arrived Nigeria about two weeks ago and reportedly sent word to Yar'adua that the AGF never paid him the approved monies. He also told top administration officials that his life was under threat from assassins hired by Michael Aondoakaa, Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice.

When Yar’adua summoned the AGF to explain why he did not pay Ogebe, he produced documents that showed that Emmanuel Ogebe was an "enemy combatant" who had sworn to affidavits and legal notes in support of enemies of Nigeria in the Abiola Vs. Abubakar case. He also provided letters written by attorneys for the plaintiffs and defendant in the Abiola case denouncing Emmanuel Ogebe for his spoiler role. He said the documents compelled him to withhold the fees approved by Yar'adua—and which he had already reported to Yar'adua that he was going to Washington, DC the previous week to deliver.

Several political pundits say the central disturbing question raised by the whole affair is why Yar'adua approved $150,000 to be paid to James Ogebe's son for no discernible legal services rendered. Another question is: Why did the AGF agree to pay a non-attorney in court cases that already had their attorneys-on-record, according to case dockets? Why would Aondoakaa agree to pay $150,000 to Mr. Emmanuel Ogebe, a man with no license to practice law, and whose legal fees the AGF did not vet as required by the government’s so-called due process and zero-tolerance for corruption?


http://www.saharareporters.com/www/news/detail/?id=513

Popular comedian, Ken Chibuzor, otherwise known as Abagana, is dead.

He died at a private hospital in Gbagada yesterday afternoon after a brief illness.

P.M.News gathered that Abagana died at about 3p.m. yesterday after vomiting blood.

He was rushed to a private hospital in Gbagada, near his residence, but died before the doctors could attend to him.

According to a close source, “Abagana has been complaining of having a heart problem. Before this incident happened, he had been coughing profusely and as a result was vomitting blood, so he was immediately rushed to the hospital.

“But the doctors were still busy attending to other patients, and before we knew anything, his lungs failed and he died,” the source said.

The Anambra state-born humour merchant got married last year and he has a son.


http://www.thenewsng.com/modules/zmagazine/article.php?articleid=22148

Nigerian broadcasters say they cannot afford to buy the rights to the tournament, which starts in two weeks' time in Ghana.

The Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) says the company that owns the rights wants 3m euros ($4.4m).

More than 30% of Africa's TV audience for football is in Nigeria, Bon says.

The group says it can only offer 1.25m euros ($1.8m) for the rights.

"They said our offer was not acceptable, so we said: 'Fine, you can go and set up a TV channel in two weeks, we won't deal with you'," Bon chairman Abubakar Jijiwa told the BBC Focus on Africa programme.

Many Nigerians fanatically follow their national team, the Super Eagles, and the country is the most populous in Africa. "If you want to ignore Nigeria, good luck to you," Mr Jijiwa said.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7177804.stm

Another feather to PROFESSOR (?) MAURICE IWU's cap . Afterall, he's still boasting that he organised a free and fair election. What a shameless idiot!

The Supreme Court in Abuja yesterday removed Sir Celestine Omehia as governor of Rivers State.The court also ordered the immediate swearing in of Rotimi Amaechi as the new governor. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Amaechi was immediately sworn in as governor at the court premises. Earlier in day, police tightened security at the court as it prepared to deliver its ruling determine the authentic governorship candidate for Rivers in the April 14 election. Amaechi, former Speaker of the Rivers House of Assembly had filed his before the court contending that he was the authentic candidate for the April 14 governorship election won by the PDP in the state, but was wrongfully substituted. He asked the apex court to remove Omehia and declare him the winner of the election.


http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=93318

We all agree that there are bad eggs (and most time,one is forced to agree that the bad eggs are in majority) within the Police force, I still think there are ways we can help ourselves. In most neighborhoods in Lagos, there are some notorious cybercafe, that are patronized mainly by the so-called YAHOO YAHOO boys. Let's face the fact, if you are truly innocent, you will see the people around you and by their faces you shall know them. If you decide to pit your tent with fraudsters, and you're unlucky to seen in their company, you will be treated like a fraudster. Whenever I need to use public cybercafe, i do look at people around me before making up my mind to sit down there. In my case, the nearest cybercafe to my house is one of such notorious ones, and I will be very stupid to go and sit down there, no matter how urgent the need is.

Also, if I may use my experience with the Police as a basis for assessment, I had been stopped and searched by Police in several parts of Lagos, and none of them has harrassed me for once. The way we present and carry ourselve is the only wepaon we have, let us present ourselves as responsible as we can. God will continue to help us.

Nokia on Tuesday issued a product advisory for its BL-5C battery. The problem: The battery, which may affect as many as 46 million devices, could explode.

In the advisory, Nokia said the battery was manufactured by Japan’s Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. between December 2005 and November 2006. The BL-5C battery is one of 14 used by Nokia. The advisory comes amid a spate of issues with batteries in laptops and other electronic devices.

Nokia said:

Nokia has identified that in very rare cases the Nokia-branded BL-5C batteries subject to the product advisory could potentially experience overheating initiated by a short circuit while charging, causing the battery to dislodge. Nokia is working closely with Matsushita and will be cooperating with relevant authorities to investigate this situation.


Nokia has several suppliers for BL-5C batteries who have collectively produced more than 300 million BL-5C batteries. This advisory applies only to the 46 million batteries manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006, from which there have been approximately 100 incidents of overheating reported globally. No serious injuries or property damage have been reported.


According to Nokia said that the 100 incidents with the battery occurred while charging the battery. Nokia also added that only a portion of the BL-5C batteries in question are included in this advisory. Nevertheless, a bevy of Nokia devices are affected. Here’s the list.

Nokia 1100, Nokia 1100c, Nokia 1101, Nokia 1108, Nokia 1110, Nokia 1112, Nokia 1255, Nokia 1315, Nokia 1600, Nokia 2112, Nokia 2118, Nokia 2255, Nokia 2272, Nokia 2275, Nokia 2300, Nokia 2300c, Nokia 2310, Nokia 2355, Nokia 2600, Nokia 2610, Nokia 2610b, Nokia 2626, Nokia 3100, Nokia 3105, Nokia 3120, Nokia 3125, Nokia 6030, Nokia 6085, Nokia 6086, Nokia 6108, Nokia 6175i, Nokia 6178i, Nokia 6230, Nokia 6230i, Nokia 6270, Nokia 6600, Nokia 6620, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6631, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Nokia 6682, Nokia 6820, Nokia 6822, Nokia 7610, Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia N72, Nokia N91, Nokia E50, Nokia E60

To identify the battery recommends the following:

In order to determine if a battery is subject to this advisory, it is necessary to remove the battery from the device. A Nokia battery will have “Nokia” and “BL-5C” printed on the front of the battery. On the reverse, the Nokia mark appears at the top and the battery identification number (consisting of 26 characters) is found at the bottom. Consumers should refer to this identification number to determine if their battery is among the batteries manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006. A comparison of that number with those subject to this advisory will determine a consumer’s ability to obtain a replacement free of charge.

http://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/

i read physics too (FUTA). and so glad to discover a forum like this!

Looking for a lonely lady in Lagos, The focus of the relationship should be making each other happy within reasonable limit.