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AmeLonRo:
Hmmnn. I have helped 2 of my mentees to travel on scholarship to Turkey and USA for Masters. Many don't know about opportunities here and abroad. So many do not apply. This chap has information, he applied and he was selected. The others with higher scores had no information, did not apply and we're not considered. If you have someone with good B. SC. or M. Sc.I can mentor for a small fee and they will get something good in a short while.
I have been to many states in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and USA. Information is key. Don't call me on this but send a mail to me at newgbenge@yahoo.com

Fraud alert. Small fee rogue.

arresa:
And still end up as migrant workers, fanyogot and gala peddler in SW...



funny people...

Just like you, so-called sophisticated Nigerians, end up as illegal migrants in other countries, yes?

gypsey:
who da hell goes to Oman for greener pastures? Oman is in the middle of the desserts, No green has ever grown in Oman, even the Omani Arabs do not see green themselves let alone pastures.


Them smelly Arabs are heartless and still living in the Dark Ages.

An average Omani is better than an average Nigerian. Use GDP per capita to do some basic comparative economic analysis between the two countries. Nigeria's total GDP is higher but we also have a far higher population. Thus, we are holding the short end of the stick.

See below focusing on per capita and HDI (Human development Index)

Oman


Population 2016 estimate
4,424,762

GDP (PPP)
2017 estimate


• Total
$189.582 billion


• Per capita
$46,475

GDP (nominal)
2017 estimate


• Total
$71.325 billion


• Per capita
$17,485

HDI (2015)
Increase 0.796
high · 52nd


versus

Nigeria



Population 2017 estimate
190,886,311

PGDP (PPP)
2017 estimate


• Total
$1.118 trillion (23rd)


• Per capita
$5,929 (129th)

GDP (nominal)
2017 estimate


• Total
$376.28 billion (31st)


• Per capita
$1,994 (137th)

Gini (2010)
Positive decrease 43.0
medium

Many Yoruba girls are enslaved in the Middle East. Afenifere, OPC, and Odua Vanguard etc better start looking into this issue before y'all become slaves to Arabs in their own land.

ISpiksDaTroof:
This glorified township that should be merged with three other states.

Fake Ngba-ti hibernating under Olumo rock but claiming white non Nigeria. Oluwole human shyte.

mekuslogan:
Glad to PERMANENTLY escape all the shenanigans in Nigeria.

Taking my oath of U.S. citizenship soon. After the oath ceremony I become a 100% US citizen with all rights and privileges. The only thing I cannot become in the US is the President, since I was not born in the country. Every other opportunity, including becoming a Senator or State Governor, is at my finger tip. It is up to me to utilize the boundless and invaluable possibilities of being an American citizen to achieve my own version of the American Dream. Very grateful for the great honor, after 5 years as a Green Card (GC) holder. These past 5 years with GC have been the most careful in my entire life. No mistakes, or you find yourself back in the ''shithole'' Naija.

Congrats bro. Welcome to the club of Igbo-Americans

PMB, a ''pastristic'', ''presentristic'' and ''futuristic'' MUMU can only identify and appoint fellow Mumus. Incomparable with the quality of GEJ's appointments. Assuming that GEJ is not smart, he know how to find smart people.

[quote author= post=69708475]Mumu thread.[/quote]"Ya fada deer"

Two smart Nigerians appointed by GEJ. Very different than PMB's equivalent appointees

Dafreeguy:
Is it by force to fight sombori ni..let tyson fury goan fight him na

Sorry, but this is a stupid comment. It is like asking a pastor whether it is 'by force' to preach every Sunday, or a professor whether it is 'by force' to teach his students during school hours. Joshua is a professional boxer; so he must fight.

akanbiaa:
Will Ibos allow other tribes to represent their states? Seems the person in charge of publicity on the NNPC quiz is a tribalistic person from the east and only wants his people favored at the expense of indigenous people of the state. FACT

Incorrigible loser spotted.

wristbangle:
I thought the Germans are non racist people.

What do you know?

Ex President Jonathan’s former health minister is now a Professor at America’s Duke University. His former agriculture minister is now the President of the African Development Bank. His former finance minister sits on the board of Twitter, Gavi, Lazard and the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank. His communications minister is now the Chairperson of the global Alliance for Affordable Internet. All this is happening while President Buhari and his finance minister are still looking for their certificates!-Reno Omokri

doskie:
talkative ! and you are so confident about the lie you are telling. what is ipob there ? thats an unadulterated bini accent. az in ..... heavy bini man.

Don't mind that Afonja retard.

IgboBasthard:
Amaka your yansh!

Captain Simisola is igbo? Flat head.

Who is Simisola without Air Peace? Plus, the other crew members are Igbo, I guess.

Nbote:
We neva fit maintain our airports na airline wahala we wan join am with...

Exactly my point. Nigeria is the most underperforming country in the world among the supposedly wealthy countries. The level of governmental incompetence is mind boggling.

EgunMogaji:
I asked you which airport you showed a picture of.

Instead of answering such a simple and innocent question you went on an emotional and infantile rant.

Again, which Colorado are you referring to?

PS: Colorado State University has no international airport. Very few international airlines are allowed to fly deep into the US.

If blocking me will soothe your bartered self esteem then please be my guest

You are right about Air Rwanda not flying to CO. They actually don't fly anywhere in the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RwandAir

I have flown them twice to Lagos from Kigali. In both cases I was not overly impressed. But at least they have something they are very proud of, and Paul Kagame is working, unlike your old fool of a president, Buhari.

Does Nigeria need a national carrier?

Nigeria does not need a national carrier, seeing as Nigerians are unable to manage govt business without running it down sooner or later with corruption, nepotic appointments, and sheer incompetence. The US does not have any either; and I believe Air France (AF), KLM etc are private ventures now, with the French govt having less than 20% of the AF shares.. Lufthansa stopped being the German national carrier since 1994 and is completely private, even owning Brussels Air, Austria Air, Swiss Air, etc.


What Nigeria need are well managed and run private carriers with international reputation. What stops Dangote, Ovie, Elumelu, etc (individually or as a group) or even our so called big banks, from investing in and creating international airlines?

Does Nigeria need a national carrier? 

Nigeria does not need a national carrier, seeing as Nigerians are unable to manage govt business without running it down sooner or later with corruption, nepotic appointments, and sheer incompetence. The US does not have any either; and I believe Air France (AF), KLM etc are private ventures now, with the French govt having less than 20% of the AF shares.. Lufthansa stopped being the German national carrier since 1994 and is completely private, even owning Brussels Air, Austria Air, Swiss Air, etc.


What Nigeria need are well managed and run private carriers with international reputation. What stops Dangote, Ovie, Elumelu, etc (individually or as a group) or even our so called big banks, from investing in and creating international airlines?

MightySparrow:
out of 40, 21 are yorubas rest 19 shared among other tribes.

That's your statistics? Two questions:1 Did you read some of the comments where many more names were listed? 2 Did you assume or agree that only 40 Nigerians own RRs?

You are a complete bumbling olodo rabata

MightySparrow:
From the statistics Rolls Royce is made for yorubas.

Where is the statistics?

Take the Nigerian job and re-enter the US after every 6 months to maintain physical presence until your naturalization petition is approved one year later. Just look for an international conference to attend in the US so your company bears the travel costs.

Front page oh! Our ngb_ati bros dem don hammer

News
Nigerian man gets 15 years for IRS tax-return scheme
By:
AP and KTVZ.COM news sources
Posted: Jun 22, 2018 12:35 AM PDT

Updated: Jun 22, 2018 12:35 AM PDT

Emmanuel Kazeem
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A Nigerian man who netted more than $11 million in a fraud scheme has been sentenced in Oregon to 15 years in federal prison.

Emmanuel Kazeem was sentenced Wednesday in Eugene. A jury previously convicted him of fraud, conspiracy and aggravated identity theft.

Prosecutors say the 35-year-old purchased more than 91,000 identities from a Vietnamese hacker that originated from an Oregon company's private database. They were used to file fraudulent tax returns in an attempt to get refunds.

In total, Kazeem was linked to 10,139 tax returns that tried to get more than $91 million in refunds. He successfully received $11.6 million.

Prosecutors say Kazeem used the ill-gotten gains to buy two houses in the U.S. and attempt to develop a four-star hotel in Lagos, Nigeria.

U.S. Dept. of Justice news release:

EUGENE, Ore. – On Wednesday, June 20, 2018, Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem, 35, of Bowie, Maryland and Nigeria, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for leading a vast conspiracy to steal identities and file fraudulent tax returns. He was ordered to pay more than $12 million in restitution and will be subject to deportation when released from prison.

“Emmanuel Kazeem orchestrated one of the largest tax fraud schemes in our nation’s history. The complexity of this case and the incredible effort by law enforcement to bring those responsible to justice cannot be understated,” said Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon. “I want to remind everyone that this case began when vigilant Oregonians notified the IRS when fraudulently tax returns were filed in their names. It only takes one tip to make a difference and bring down a complex criminal organization.”

“IRS-CI vigorously investigates criminals who band together to take advantage of our tax system. Today’s sentencing of Emmanuel Kazeem sends a strong message to those who seek to rob U.S. citizens of their hard earned tax dollars,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge, Brian Payne.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, in May 2013, a victim in Medford, Oregon notified the IRS that false federal and Oregon state tax returns were filed electronically using her and her husband’s personal identifying information (PII) including social security numbers and dates of birth.

An IRS investigation led to search warrants of residences in Illinois, Maryland, and Georgia and to numerous email and instant messenger accounts used by Kazeem and other co-conspirators. At a Chicago residence, agents seized approximately 150 prepaid debit cards and $50,000 in money orders. In Maryland and Georgia, agents seized more than 50 electronic devices, 40 money orders in amounts exceeding $29,000, $14,000 in cash and numerous prepaid debit cards containing over $12,000 in fraudulent tax refunds. The search warrants helped agents identify Kazeem as the leader and mastermind of the scheme.

The scheme resulted in the conspirators possessing stolen PII of more than 259,000 victims. Kazeem purchased more than 91,000 identities from a Vietnamese hacker that originated from an Oregon company’s private database. The company provided pre-employment and volunteer background checks for thousands of clients. Kazeem divided the identities into batches and shared them with other co-conspirators. They were in turn used to file fraudulent tax returns between 2012 and 2015.

In carrying out the scheme, Kazeem trained and directed his co-conspirators including his younger brother, Michael Oluwasegun Kazeem, to use stolen PII to obtain thousands of electronic filing PINs to bypass IRS authentication procedures. They acquired over 19,500 E-File PINS during the course of the conspiracy. Kazeem also used taxpayers’ PII to gain unauthorized access into many taxpayers’ IRS transcripts, which contain sensitive personal financial information. Conspirators also used pre-paid debit cards with the victims’ stolen identities to receive direct electronic tax refund deposits from the IRS.

In total, Kazeem was linked to 10,139 fraudulent federal tax returns attempting to get over $91 million dollars in refunds and successfully receiving over $11.6 million dollars. Refunds were withdrawn from the debit cards and at least 2,000 wire transfers totaling over $2.1 million dollars were sent to Nigeria. Over 700 of those wire transfers, totaling more than $690,000, were directly linked to Kazeem.

Kazeem used the conspiracy windfall to place a nearly $200,000 down payment on a newly constructed house and to purchase a $175,000 townhouse, both in Maryland. His average monthly credit card payment during 2012 to 2015 was over $8,300. Kazeem also attempted to use his ill-gotten funds to develop a $6 million dollar, 4-star hotel in Lagos, Nigeria.

In May 2015, Kazeem transferred the townhouse to his sister in Nigeria for $10 and included her on the deed to his Maryland residence, also for $10. He was arrested one day later.

IRS agents determined Kazeem had no verifiable sources of income between 2012 and 2015. In order to disguise the source of the fraudulent refunds, he listed sources of income from bogus employers in reports to both the IRS and immigration authorities. After entering the United States on a student visa from Nigeria, Kazeem engaged in marriage fraud to evade immigration laws. In April 2014, while leading the tax fraud scheme, he filed for naturalization under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Based on the false information provided to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, he was approved. The same year he personally participated in filing over 1,445 fraudulent federal tax returns and received over $3,385,000 from returns paid out by the IRS.

Kazeem was convicted by a federal jury on 19 counts, including mail and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, in Medford on August 4, 2017. Five other co-conspirators, Oluwaseunara Osanyinbi, Oluwatobi Dehinbo, Lateef Animawun, Oluwamuyiwa Olawoye and Michael Kazeem, previously received federal prison sentences for their roles in the same conspiracy.

This case results from a joint investigation by IRS-Criminal Investigation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Homeland Security Investigations with support provided by the Department of Treasury, Inspector General for Tax Administration, the U.S. State Department, and the Oregon Department of Revenue Policy and Systems Unit. The case is being prosecuted by Byron Chatfield and Gavin Bruce, Assistant U.S. Attorneys for the District of Oregon.

8. Having meat, fish, stock fish, snail, and crawfish all in one pot of soup. In other places in the world, it is either one of these or the other, not all (ESPECIALLY MEAT AND FISH) at the same time.

KratosCorp:
For those with little data - Herr you go:




Well, do not be fooled by the economic and social collectivism of the igbos. That culture is way more complex than you can imagine. Behind that seemingly extraordinray collectivism lies a firecely thriving individualism and a huge sense of personal liberty. Igbos are no socialists/communists. Be guided.

Fierce competition is great as long as it is fair and equitable to all.

1914 Amalgamation.
The civil war's outcome. I wish Igbos suceeded in leaving.

hucienda:
Impressive.

Beyond a doubt!!

ChilledPill:
Igbo di egwu

Igbo di egwu x10

Igbos must give credit to Abiriba/Ohafia/Arochukwu (Abia State) and Anambra people for creating this age-long business model of apprenticeship. Now Oyibo want to copy it. Hope they pay royalty for it

This basically supports what I heard songster Davido proclaiming recently on video: Ibos are the best

About the talk

''From rides to homes and beyond, we're sharing everything these days, with the help of digital tools. But as modern and high-tech as the sharing economy seems, it's been alive in Africa for centuries, according to author Robert Neuwirth. He shares fascinating examples -- like apprenticeships that work like locally generated venture capital and systems for allocating scarce water -- and says that if we can propagate and scale these models, they could help communities thrive from the bottom up.''