₦airaland Forum

viktor01:
Are you for real?

As real as the hate and hurt the NL losing voters display online everyday.

Are you guys gonna let this political defeat eat your heart out for the next 3 or 7 years?

erico2k2:
Kai,another one here. !

looting didn't work for the masses, neither is sabotage.

i haven't seen a leader so sincere about improving the conditions and loving his country like this gentleman in a very long time. Ride on Mr. President. Success for 9ja is the only goal!

Dear Mrs. Balogun,

I am sorry to hear all this about the demise of your holy matrimony, but as they say s____ happens in this life, sometimes for the good, and sometimes as a learning experience.

You deserve better my beautiful African Queen. I have been in love with your heavenly aura since the first day I laid eyes on your pretty pics and heard your angelic voice. I said to myself I wish you were mine to love and spoil, but also thought one day some lucky, productive guy would win your heart and soul and make and keep you happy. I was only partially correct. Now that you are mentally and spiritually free of that taxing experience I think it's time to make my play before all the other 9ja and UK playboys put in their bids for your hand in marriage, and love and affection.

On this day of April 30th in the year of our Lord 2016, I profess all my heart and soul to you. When your legal business is finished I'd like the first opportunity to offer you peace of mind, smooth sailing on this plane of existence, and a very close and warm friendship that all will envy. I'm also prepared to take care of your little blessing and raise him as my own, and into a strong man. No b.s.! Just say the word baby(inbox me) and let's get it popping quickly. You don't have to wait 10-20 years for love to return to your life. I offer it right here and now with intense and extreme sincerity. I'm prepared to relocate you to the states, with Mavin Records permission and blessing of course, or make a new start in jolly ole England. Your choice my lovely Queen! Please dry your eyes and give this some thought.


With all my love,

A.B.

i saw this vid the other day. only 7 minutes



People Are Merging with Their Smartphones


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTduyvT8zoM



Published on Apr 22, 2016 Truth Stream Media
Have you looked around lately? The zombie apocalypse is already here. It’s as if people have merged with their smartphones, as if the device is now a part of their bodies like another hand or another foot.

Reality is becoming a little less real by the day. Can you even imagine what it will be like when virtual reality hits the mainstream?




for the guys ....

Cell Phone Radiation Linked to Erectile Dysfunction

http://www.tbyil.com/Cell_Phones_Radiation_Linked_to_Erectile_Dysfunction_Tony_Isaacs.htm

kick azz Pete...kudos to ya on all those reps and sets ....u da man!

i like... no brazilian/asian mop on her pretty head.

big chicks do big things! ride on babygurl

always been a fan, and she has the most shapely legs in Nollywood

glad someone made a thread on Abuja


The Opinion Pages | Op-Ed Contributor
Will Nigeria’s New Capital Be Old Soon?

By TOLU OGUNLESI APRIL 27, 2016

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ABUJA, Nigeria — A few weeks ago I sat in a taxi in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. “I think I’ve driven you before,” the driver said. How long ago, I asked. Two years, he confidently replied. And then a claim that stunned me: “I’ve still got your number saved.”

Indeed he did. My name was saved as “TOLU TRANSCORP” — Transcorp being the city’s sole Hilton hotel, the center of Abuja’s social life, and the place where, two years ago, this driver took me. I had no such recollection, but his evidence sufficed.

For me, that story perfectly illustrates Abuja’s sedate, small-town charm; such a random reunion would have been much less likely in frenzied Lagos, home to 18 million, more than three times the population of Abuja.

After living in Lagos for 10 years, the last three as a full-time journalist, I’ve now moved to Abuja to work. Spending weekdays in Abuja and weekends in Lagos allows me to compare the two: Lagos, first settled in the 15th century, has long been a bustling port city, while Abuja is much younger and relatively unstoried.

Lagos has been a city long enough to be “cultured,” with an unending array of book readings, open-mike events, theater festivals, concerts and entertainment award ceremonies. In February alone it hosted a marathon and two weeklong festivals, one for social media and the other for theater. This week, the Lagos International Jazz Festival takes place there.

Abuja’s culture scene, by contrast, feels like something on the margins of the real world. Between government agencies, diplomatic missions and donor-funded civil society organizations — with their endless seminars, round tables and workshops — Abuja feels smothered.

This year is the 40th since a military government decided that Nigerians should emulate Washington, D.C.; Canberra, Australia; Brasília; and Islamabad, Pakistan, by building a new, geographically central capital as “a symbol of Nigeria’s aspirations for unity and greatness.”

But Abuja is proof that while you can decree a city into existence, no administrative fiat can give it a soul. It has neither a national museum nor a national theater, although it does have a National Ecumenical Center and a National Mosque — proof of how important religion is in Nigeria.

And yet there’s plenty to admire in Abuja, and for Lagos to envy: the extensive highways (which, not surprisingly, tend to make the city’s car crashes more spectacular than those in Lagos); the generous portions of green area (where goat-head pepper soup and cold beer are served in gardens in the evenings); the much less humid air closer to the desert north, which makes the heat much more bearable than in Lagos, even though Abuja is hotter.

And Abuja is a hero of sorts, since it was envisioned as an escape valve for Lagos, which has struggled with overcrowding for as long as anyone can remember.

Throughout the 1980s, Abuja developed only halfheartedly, with the lure of Lagos proving more powerful than dreams of a fresh start in the nation’s interior. The turning point came in April 1990 — a coup attempt that failed to topple the four-year-old military government of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida.

President Babangida survived it, but his enthusiasm for Lagos did not. Soon he ordered that the seat of government relocate to Abuja. There, a pristine presidential residence lay in the shadow of a 1,300-foot-tall outcropping of rock — a forbidding presence in a city that, unlike Lagos, was not yet touched by chaos.

But while Abuja was appearing to save Lagos by decongesting it, it was simultaneously creating a new problem for Nigeria. According to popular folklore, discontent in the oil-rich Niger Delta bubbled over in the late 1990s when Gen. Sani Abacha, who succeeded Mr. Babangida as Nigeria’s military leader, brought thousands of youths to Abuja for a “2 million man march” to support his effort to succeed himself as a civilian president. The delta youths, the story goes, saw in Abuja’s gleaming buildings and modern roads evidence of the miracles oil money could create, a concept they couldn’t quite accept because back home in the delta, they associated oil only with misery — polluted farms and rivers, and murderous impulses within the army and police squads.

It would be another decade before the delta people would finally feel at home in Abuja. In 2010, Goodluck Jonathan became the first Nigerian president to hail from that region; soon the Hilton’s lobby teemed with men wearing the delta’s trademark gowns and fedoras. Since last May, when President Muhammadu Buhari, a northerner, took office, those gowns have given way to the babanrigas and woven caps of the north.

Around 2010, Abuja also began losing its innocence. Bomb explosions targeted government buildings, diplomatic premises, barracks, newspaper offices and crowded bus parks; the terrorist group Boko Haram and its affiliates are believed responsible.

Those bombings left the city on edge, its streets swamped with military checkpoints and the hills ringed with armed sentinels. These days, thankfully, things are much calmer, and Abuja is finally shaking off its sense of terror.

Meanwhile, 450 miles away, Lagos patiently waits for Abuja to become like it. In the 1950s, the government there decided to develop Victoria Island, until then a waste dump, into a model upscale residential area. But the chaos embedded in the city’s DNA eventually overran the island, too, and is now as endemic there as anywhere else.

There’s nothing to suggest that Abuja — a product of what the Nigerian urban planner Simon Gusah describes as a “let’s run and leave the problem behind” mentality — will not follow the same route as Lagos. After 40 years, it still has no functioning rail system, and everyone travels by road, just as they do in the port city.

I’m tempted to imagine my taxi driver giving Abuja a ride, and turning back to say to it, just as he did to me, “I think I’ve driven you before.” He proceeds to pull up Abuja’s phone number on his phone. There it is, but for some reason it’s saved in his phone book as “LAGOS.”

Tolu Ogunlesi works in digital communications and is the author, most recently, of the novella “Conquest & Conviviality.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/opinion/will-nigerias-new-capital-be-old-soon.html?_r=0

Gerrard59:
And what's the estrogen there for? That's the hypocrisy I'm writing about. Or you think women don't like sex much as men do? They're not humans?

or course they enjoy sex. what kind of question is that? how do you think we all got here?
the point of this thread is women's reputations and some of them changing men like clothes. you can argue until Jesus returns but the fact remains that women catch more flack than men for being promiscuous.

Gerrard59:
First bolded, change is constant. Be open to change(not the one we're experiencing). And it's eons



Secondly, tell same to the men, what's good for Greece is good for Uganda. Women should protect their virtue, but men should fvck around? I ask again, are the men fvcking ghosts?

thanks for the spelling correction....no men are not ghost, men are conquerors with testosterone in their balls to discharge. like it or not, that's what many males do. get as much p*ssy as they can when they can.

ultimately women have the final say so in whether or not a sex act occurs. that is unless a crime is committed.

Gerrard59:
^^^^^

Rules my @ss. Who made them? If there're indeed rules, then you have no right whatsoever to whine about the "lack" of virgins. You can't be going around fvcking/disvirgin-ing girls/ladies and come later to complain about the absence of virgins. The ladies aren't sleeping with ghosts, they're sleeping with MEN. That's sheer hypocrisy. Only a Virgin man has the moral right to demand for a Virgin lady.

No body is whining here or trying to de-virgin any young girls. Just stating facts of life that have been in place for ions.

And did you not read where i posted that young women should protect their virtue?

Sorry ladies, the rules are different for males and females.

A guy can _____ a hundred females and he'd be toasted as a champion or playboy. On the other hand if a female does the same she'd have the unsavory reputation as the neighborhood Jezebel or worse, the village ashawo.

I agree it's not fair but those are the rules of the game. we don't know who wrote them but they've been in place for centuries.

We repeat, keep the treasure box and legs tightly closed in your youth.

Most older spinsters are exempt, your time has passed, so go ahead and have your fun like the guys.

does mr. senator have enough loot left to hire another 50 lawyers?

deep thinking rational minds have to think about the topic.

how do herdsmen have time to tend to their herd and comment all this new atrocities?

it doesn't add up at all.

i agree with the premise that these are outside paid mercenaries again causing tribal division in 9ja land.

@poster...why u go pee pee trousers during this scorpion adventure?

beware of this advice young ladies....men keep an unofficial database of both chaste and loose and women with medium to high mileage. you may think that you're outsmarting the male gender in such matters but it doesn't work like that!

keep your treasure box locked up and legs closed until you are blessed with your own mate!


and you're very welcome for this knowledge

Fabulocity:
So, in other words, marriage is principally for sex, a way to avoid Fornication?
Dude, you may not realise, but times HAVE changed. A woman does not need a man to define who she is. It has nothing to do with the western world
Marriage is not for everyone. It's better to be happy and single than to be miserable and married. Get that
Pls get that primitive thinking out of your head. It's quite repulsive.

i can't speak for women but i would imagine that most would aspire to have a happy and healthy family unit and one day future grandkids to hold and spoil rather than a fat bank account, accomplished career, dried up eggs, and a ton of abortions and damaged reproductive organs.

yeah, that's definitely modern alright.

Fabulocity:
I honestly don't understand why you quoted all these scriptures
I'm talking about marriage and you're yapping on about fornication
I simply stated that she doesn't have to marry before she's an accomplished Woman
And you're preaching to me about Fornication?

in the meantime what is she doing? walking around like the virgin you know who.
an accomplished woman is one that is giving breast milk to her baby and nurturing her youth to be productive. those western world ideals is what has so many 9ja women walking around today in olosho status which no decent man will want long term.

Fabulocity:
I honestly don't know why Africans are so backwards in thinking
So it's only when she's married that she's an accomplished Woman?
Abeg who man don epp for this Life?
All that matters is that she's making more money than you could ever dream of, she's highly successful, she's a blessing to her family and she's happy
Her marital status would not change all that

like them or not, these are the rules,

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 - Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Hebrews 13:4 - Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

John 8:41-42 - Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.

1 Corinthians 7:2 - Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Galatians 5:19-21 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

wins18:
This girl fine oo, joke apart, I won't mind marrying her
Anybody with her No.?

Hit like if u agree with me,
Share if u think otherwise.

stand down small boy and don't be lusting on my future wife because my lovely linda is already taken off the market.

i have one more ram and about 100 kilos of premium yams to go before i deliver the bride price to her family.

just joking ...go toast her and make her yours, she could use a good man and some real love/n in her life. all work and no play yada, yada, yada.

Now that's how you run a clean government. Don't play around with the crooks and looters!
How many politicians would be left in Abuja if the Federal Republic implemented a similar law?


China introduces the death penalty for officials involved in corruption cases involving more than £300,000

President Xi Jinping waged a much-publicised anti-corruption campaign
The president had vowed to target powerful 'tigers' and low-level 'flies'
No Communist Party official is known to have been put to death yet
Embezzlement could incur death penalty, or life sentence without parole
See more news from China at www.dailymail.co.uk/china

By Amie Gordon For Mailonline

Published: 04:27 EST, 18 April 2016

Corruption cases involving more than £300,000 - or three million yuan - could incur the death penalty in future, Chinese authorities have ruled.

Under President Xi Jinping the country has waged a much-publicised anti-corruption campaign however no Communist Party official is known to have been put to death for the offence since Xi took office.

The Supreme People's Court and China's national prosecuting body said that bribes or embezzlement totalling three million yuan or more will be considered 'extraordinarily huge value' and could incur the death penalty, or a life sentence without parole.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/18/15/2NxE52hGF58066a471634fcfd499-3545506-Corruption_cases_involving_three_million_yuan_or_more_may_incur_-a-31_1460988701005.jpg

Corruption cases involving three million yuan or more may incur the death penalty in future, Chinese authorities have ruled

Such offenders will be eligible for the death penalty if their actions had 'extremely severe circumstances and caused extremely vile social impact and extremely significant losses to the state's and the people's interests', Xinhua News Agency cited their joint 'judicial explanation' as saying.

Capital punishment will remain an option for the courts -- which in China are controlled by the ruling party -- and will not be mandatory.

The intent was to punish corruption 'with severity according to the law', Xinhua said.

Supreme People's Court judge Pei Xianding said judicial authorities would hand down death sentences 'in a resolute manner', Xinhua reported separately.

A previous threshold was set in 1997 at 100,000 yuan, but was not updated until it was abolished last year.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/18/15/2NxE52hGF58066a471634fcfd4e4-3545506-Under_President_Xi_Jinping_China_has_waged_a_much_publicised_ant-a-33_1460988707022.jpg

Under President Xi Jinping China has waged a much-publicised anti-corruption campaign vowing to target both powerful 'tigers' and low-level 'flies' in the Communist Party

Xi's crackdown has swept up scores of senior officials in the party, the government, the military and state-owned companies, including former security czar Zhou Yongkang.

So far its most severe sentences have been death with a two-year reprieve -- which is normally commuted to a life term -- or life imprisonment, which Zhou was given.

Former railways minister Liu Zhijun was given a suspended death penalty in 2013 for taking bribes worth 60 million yuan, which was commuted to life imprisonment last year.

The document also widened the range of benefits that can be defined as bribes, to include debt forgiveness among others, the report said.

Any acceptance of gifts by government employees that might affect the performance of their public duties will be regarded as bribery even if there was no specific request by the briber at the time, it said.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/18/15/4fZwcsD55y9c4bdb1c7c6f6bdfe4-3545506-A_man_walks_past_a_courthouse_in_Beijing_during_the_sentencing_o-a-35_1460988712039.jpg

A man walks past a courthouse in Beijing during the sentencing of China's former railways minister Liu Zhijun in 2013, who was given a suspended death penalty for taking bribes worth 60 million yuan

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3545506/China-sets-death-penalty-threshold-corruption-cases.html

abeg, where was the honourable gej when all dis alleged paramour-ing occurred?

don't sleep on the guy.


https://www.36ng.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Ini-Edo.jpg?9edf6e


https://newsrescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/President-goodluck-Jonathan-and-Deziani-Alison-madueke.jpg


https://www.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Omoni-Oboli-at-Presidential-Villa-August-2014-BellaNaija.com-01-1.jpg

https://www.icampusng.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/seyi-Shay-and-President-Jonathan-iCampusng2.jpg

irunooboo:
My boobs are bigger and sexier. Seeing it will make you cum twice in few minutes

what can dat honeyspot do doe?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlrqGakejd4

@lebroske, Dan, the character played by Yul Edochie will show you how to man up.



MARRIAGE COURSE - LATEST NOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c2Y4cSVawU

go for it missy, be happy, it worked out very well for karen and meheeda



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@OP... stand up and be a man and not a wimp.
grow a set of you know what.
demand that she immediately hand over her phone to you without hesitation or send her back to her father's house for breaking your peace of mind.

and while you're at it let her check out your phone. fair is fair.

2016 men(or small boys) with no liver or backbone, sha.

auntie linda entertained me this past week with the way she exposed the tribulations of that small boy rapper fronting like he's big and renting everything.

Some 9ja Leaders need to stop sending capital to the UK, UAE, and elsewhere before investing at home.

hoping the all mighty NL bot doesn't obliterate this lengthy post.


Nigeria: #PanamaPapers - Hidden Family Assets of Nigeria's Senate President, Saraki, Uncovered in Tax Havens

By Emmanuel Mayah and Joshua Olufemi

At least four assets belonging to the wealthy and famous Saraki family of Nigeria, all tucked away in secret offshore territories, have been uncovered.

But the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, failed to declare them to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) as required by Nigerian laws.

This revelation, made possible by internal data of the Panama-based offshore-provider, Mossack Fonseca, obtained by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and shared by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) with PREMIUM TIMES and over 100 other media partners in 82 countries, could worsen Mr. Saraki's case as he battles to extricate himself from allegations of corruption.

Mr. Saraki is yet to respond to PREMIUM TIMES' request for comments. His spokesperson, Yusuph Olayinonu, did not return calls or respond to a text message seeking comments.

But in a written response to ICIJ, the Senate President insisted, through his UK lawyers, that he "declared his assets properly in accordance with the relevant legislation," and that the charges against him "are both unfounded and politically motivated."

Last September the CCB slammed false asset declaration charges on Mr. Saraki, accusing the Senate President, among other things, of failure to declare his assets in full.

Under the code of conduct law, a public office holder is required to declare his own assets, those of his wife as well as assets in the names of his children below the age of 18.

In his declaration form, Mr. Saraki listed property owned by his wife, Toyin Saraki, to include a plot of land at Lekki valued at N5 million, which he said was a gift he received in January 1989.

Mrs. Saraki was also listed as owner of a property at 15 Bryanston Square, London W1 and 69 Bourne Street, London.

While the first, which rental income was put at £48,000 with a value of £900,000, was acquired in January 1989, the second, which value was put at £2m and had rental value of £150,000, was acquired for business in April 2000.

However, a fresh investigation by PREMIUM TIMES and its media partners, has uncovered a hidden London property in the name of Toyin Saraki but which was left out among the assets declared by the Senate President.

The hidden property is located at #8 Whuttaker Street, Belgravia, London SW1W 8JQ. It has title number NGL802235.

Similarly, the Senate President stated in his assets declaration form that his wife held an account in Eco Bank Broad Street, Lagos, where she had N1.5 million at the time he became governor in 2003.

She also maintained an account in Coutts & Co Strand, London, where she owned £450,000 and $125,000 in addition to $3 million in Northern Trust International Banking Corporation Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner.

Mrs. Saraki was also listed as maintaining substantial shares in European and American Trading Company, Tyberry Corporation and Eficaz Limited just as she held 500,000 shares, valued at £500,000, at P.C.C (U.K) Ltd. He was however silent on the number of shares the former first lady had in Haussmann and Tiny Tee (Nig) Limited.

Elaborate as the declaration in the name of Mrs. Saraki appeared to be, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report that apart from the undeclared London property, three additional overseas assets in the name of the wife of the Senate President were hidden from the authorities and are missing from the assets declaration form.

Our investigations reveal that Mrs. Saraki owns secret companies in some notorious tax havens.

The hidden assets

The first, Girol Properties Ltd, was registered on August 25, 2004 (a year after Mrs. Saraki's husband became governor of Nigeria's north-central state of Kwara) in the British Virgin Island (BVI).

Company documents show that Mrs. Saraki owns 25,000 numbers of shares with a par value of US$ 1,00 each, and was appointed the first and only director of the company.

It however remains unclear what businesses Mrs Saraki transacted with the company. Mrs Saraki however, in a letter to ICIJ, through her lawyers, denies ever owning any shareholding in Girol Properties.

The second company, Sandon Development Limited, was registered in Seychelles Island on January 12, 2011 and has Mrs. Saraki and one Babatunde Morakinyo, (a long-term personal aide and friend of Mr. Saraki) of 11 Okeme Street, Lagos, as shareholders.

While incorporating that company, documents show, Mrs. Saraki bought a curious service from Mossack Fonseca & Co, the Panamanian firm that helped her to register the firm.

Perhaps to avoid being identified as the beneficial owner of Sandon, the Senate President's wife asked Fonsecca to provide nominee directors for the company. Nominee directors are sometimes used in tax havens to conceal real owners of companies and assets.

She then made an undertaking indemnifying the Panamanian company "in respect of all claims, demands, actions, suits, proceedings, costs and expenses whatsoever as may be incurred or become payable by you in respect of or arising out of any member or employee or associate of your company or associated companies holding any office, directorship or shareholdings in the company or by reason of or in consequence of any act or decision made by any such person or company in connection with the management and/or administration of the said company."

Shortly after the company was incorporated, Mrs. Saraki used it, in July 2011, to buy the property on Whuttaker Street, Belgravia, London SW1W 8JQ.

The property, acquired from Renocon Property Limited, a company registered in the British Virgin Island, was never disclosed to Nigerian authorities as required by the country's code of conduct law.

The third hidden company in the name of Mrs. Saraki is Landfield International Developments Ltd., a company registered in the British Virgin Islands on April 8, 2014. It's registration number is 1819394 while its registered office is 1 Akara Blog., 24 De Castro Street, Wickhams Cay 1, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Island.

According to Mossack Fonseca, the registered agent of the company, Mrs. Saraki, at least until January 27, 2015, was sole shareholder and beneficial owner of the company which had two nominee directors - Glaisd Alie Limited and NewGombe Limited - both appointed on September 2, 2014. Its agent says Landfield is authorized to issue a maximum of 50,000 no par value shares.

"In so far as is evidenced by the documents filed at the Registered Office, the Company is in existence and, in good standing," Mossack Fonseca recently said of Landfield in response to an enquiry by one Laura Templeman, a Senior Associate for Ogier Group, a law firm based in the British Virgins Island. "According to the documents filed on the Company's file as at 27th January, 2015, there are no actions, pending or threatened against the Company and no action has been taken to wind up the Company or to appoint a receiver or manager."

Mrs. Saraki said she sold her shares in the company to a third party in January 2015, but PREMIUM TIMES is yet to sight any document to that effect.

In July 28, 2015, Mrs Toyin Saraki, who was the first lady of Kwara State between 2003 and 2011, was interrogated by Nigeria's anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in relation to awards of contracts during her husband's tenure as governor.

The EFCC has not taken further actions since her interrogation, and nothing has been heard of the case since then.

A troubled husband

Mrs Saraki's husband, Bukola, who is Nigeria's third most powerful official by virtue of his position as Senate President, is facing a 13-count charge of alleged false declaration of assets.

He is being tried by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, a special court that tries public officers for any contravention of the Code of Conduct for Nigerian public officers as spelt out in the Fifth Schedule of the Nigerian constitution.

The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) were established to enforce "a high standard of morality in the conduct of government business, and to ensure that the actions and behaviour of public officers conform to the highest standards of public morality and accountability."

The Code of Conduct Bureau had on September 16, 2015 slammed charges on Mr. Saraki, accusing him of offences ranging from anticipatory declaration of assets, to making false declaration of assets in forms he filed before the Bureau while he was governor of Kwara state.

The Senate President was also accused of failing to declare some of his assets, acquiring assets beyond his legitimate earnings, and operating foreign accounts while being a public officer - governor and senator.

The offences, the charge said, violated sections of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended.

Mr. Saraki is also said to have breached Section 2 of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act and punishable under paragraph 9 of the said Fifth Schedule of the Constitution.

The Senate President has denied wrongdoings, saying the case was politically motivated and that he was merely being persecuted for emerging the President of the Nigerian Senate against the wishes of his political party, the ruling All Progressives Congress, which preferred a different candidate.

But this fresh revelation regarding hidden assets in tax havens might fuel the allegations against Nigeria's third most powerful official and strengthen the prosecution's case against the politician.

The Saraki family and ownership of offshore companies

Apart from Toyin Saraki, another member of the Saraki family popped up repeatedly as PREMIUM TIMES and its partners conducted a year-long investigation into the leaked Mossack Fonseca internal documents, which contained 2.6 TB files, involved 214,488 entities, and revealed hundreds of details about how former gun-runners, contractors and other members of the spy world use offshore companies for personal and private gain.

Laolu Saraki, brother to Senate President Saraki, also has several footprints in offshore financial havens, documents show. A number of shell companies are connected to the younger Saraki.

He is sole shareholder in some of the companies while sharing ownership with some business partners in others.

For example, documents show that Laolu is the owner of Polly Capital Holdings Ltd registered in Niue, a small island nation in the South Pacific Ocean.

Another document showed that after some years, Laolu brought in another person as co-owner. The company is now co-owned with a certain Richard Pembroke, who has 25,000 equity shares, just like Laolu.

Laolu's other offshore companies are co-owned with his associates. Among the co-owners are Kojo Annan, son of former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan; Obi Asika; Olufela Ibidapo who are all known figures in Nigeria.

Laolu and Kojo Annan hold equal shares of 25,000 in Blue Diamond Holding Management Corp. The duo, along with Mr. Asika, also own Sutton Energy Limited, registered in the British Virgin Island.

Mr. Asika owns 15,000 units of shares, the same amount owned by Laolu Saraki and Kojo Annan. Mr. Asika was a Senior Special Assistant to former President Goodluck Jonathan, and is closely connected to the Sutton Group.

Mr. Asika's profile on the website of the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), of which he is Board member, refers to him as Founding Partner & Executive Director, Sutton Group from June 1999 to October 2002.

The connection between Mr. Annan and Mr. Asika seems clear, as Mr. Annan sits on the Board of Mr. Asika's another company,Dragon Africa. Additional documents show that the trio - Laolu, Kojo and Asika - also co-own Sapphire Holding Ltd., a company located in Samoa, a tiny Island of an estimated 194,320 people in the South Pacific.

Company documents also indicate that Ensol Limited (Environmental Solutions), registered in the Republic of Seychelles, with registration number 028376, partly belongs to Laolu.

The company is co-owned with Ama Annan, a relative of Kofi Annan (former UN Secretary General), who was appointed director on May 19, 2006 but ceased to be director on July 2, 2008.

Another Nigerian, Olufela Ibidapo, was then appointed to replace her on January 4, 2010.

Mr. Ibidapo is the current Head of Corporate Affairs at Heritage Bank, a successor bank to the defunct Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria, largely owned by the Saraki family but whose operational license was revoked by the Central Bank of Nigeria in January 2006 following the re-capitalisation policy in the banking sector.

The bank however returned with a new name (Heritage Bank) in 2012 following the order of the Federal High Court, compelling the central bank to restore its operational permit after it declared that it had amassed the required capital base to return to business.

It however remains unclear why the Saraki's incorporated the offshore companies linked to them or what businesses they transacted with the entities.

While that may not be the case with the Sarakis, some business people in Nigeria and elsewhere are known to have created Shell companies offshore for a host of dodgy business reasons, which include hiding assets, avoiding tax or as fronts for illegal deals. Shell companies are however not entirely illegal, and not all owners use them for dubious purposes.

We have done nothing wrong - the Sarakis

Mr. Saraki and his wife denied any wrongdoing.

Responding to separate written demands for comments, the couple maintained that it is not illegal to hold shares in offshore companies.

In a letter to ICIJ by the London-based law firm of Discreet Law, Mr. Saraki said he declared his assets properly in accordance with the relevant Nigerian legislation.

Mrs. Saraki, in a separate letter to the ICIJ through another London-based law firm, Harbottle & Lewis, also insisted that she "made all required disclosures in relation to her shareholdings."

In their separate letters, the couple threatened to sue should the ICIJ and its partners proceed to publish information about the undeclared offshore assets, with Mrs Saraki saying any publication concerning her private financial information infringes on her privacy and breaches the Data Protection Act 1998.

Will Fitzigibbon (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists), contributed reporting to this story.

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