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Sugar has the same brain response as cocaine. You addicted to that high. You might find a replacement and that new thing will become a problem later. Try seeing an addiction expert first. Then do this two things in the meantime, try jogging or doing light workout and eating okra related dishes. Okra is good for controlling sugar levels in the body. Make sure to see an addiction expert to help you. I have seen people run from addictions to addictions cause no self control. You might have oral fixations and might replace that Pepsi with berry blast and now you have a berry blast problem, or move to beer and develop a drinking problem.

Exousiang01:
You are displaying ignorance here Oga.
Do you know the capacity of those panels?
Or you think all panels are the same?

Forgive him, he did expo all his life

franchasng:
This is not enough, you need to go back and copy more and paste here.



Nigerians know the truth

Nigerians know the truth about but obidients rather use lies to hype him up. Characteristics of a cult.

aswani:
If any of this is true, and I can believe every single word, then Obidients need to enter house.

Obidients, so all this time, you people have been diddling us, to quote my Australian friend, haba Obidients, una suppose fear Baba God nau?!

The crazy part is the same people praising obi were people attacking him when he was a governor. But now they feel it's their turn to loot the national Treasury. If you have a sound debate with obi you will quickly discover he is a snake oil salesman. He doesn't know Nigeria problems. Someone that couldn't properly develop Anambra a state with a common language and religion wants to develop Nigeria with multiple religions, cultures, languages, ideologies? The non ibos just want a Christian to rule. Obi was lucky that during his time social media exposure wasn't a thing.

Claims by the immediate-past governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi, that he ran a very lean administration and consequently left billions for his successor, Willie Obiano have been faulted by one of the aides of the ex-governor, Benji Obi, saying his former boss was far from the truth.

The former Special Assistant on inter-party Affairs to Chief Peter Obi, who spoke during a telephone chat with journalists in Abuja queried his former boss on the use of public funds for private functions. “Who built the first Helipad at the Government House in Anambra for his personal use?

“Peter Obi used helicopters to travel often while he was the governor, and he usually travelled alone or with one trusted aide. It was not a secret within the administrative circles in Awka. When he went to the burial of his wife’s sister, he flew in a helicopter. He took off from the Government House”, he said.

The former governor who was an Independence Day guest at a church programme, The Platform, in Lagos had told his audience how he ran Anambra state successfully and left a huge amount of money for the incumbent governor.

“Peter Obi increased the money for his private kitchen at the Government House to N2million monthly and increased the feeding for the Police officers attached to him to N7million monthly”, he alleged saying the increase was never translated to increased feeding

He alleged that his former boss lied when he said he stopped the buffet-styled dinner being served at the Government House.

“What he did was to sack all the previous cooks and butlers and employed over 30 cooks/butlers/stewards from Akwa Ibom and expanded the kitchen budget. The bills are still there. It is verifiable. The Akwa Ibom cooks and stewards were over 20; who were they cooking for? Buffet was always there.

“Peter Obi purchased a bulletproof BMW for his wife and two bulletproof land cruisers for himself. He even bought an additional one for his brother, Damian.

“He was always using private jets to travel as often as any other state governor in Nigeria. The records are there and can be made public.

I don't want to add how obidients were beating people voting APC and yet they scream for free and fair elections. Both Tinubu, Atiku and Obi supporters are like religious cult. They lie about their messiah, try to force their way of thinking on others. Very abusive online and offline. Lack critical thinking. Nigeria is beyond doomed.

Mr Obi has two children- a daughter, Gabriella Nwamaka Frances Obi, and a son, Gregory Peter Oseloka Obi. Sometime in 2010, more than four years after he became governor, the politician developed an appetite to set up his first discreet company in the British Virgin Island. He named the company Gabriella Investments Limited, after his daughter

To set up what has now become a convoluted business structure, Mr Obi first approached Acces International, a secrecy enabler in Monaco, France, to help him incorporate an offshore entity in one of the world’s most notorious tax havens noted for providing conduits for wealthy and privileged corrupt political elites to hide stolen cash to avoid the attention of tax authorities.

Tax havens are politically and economically stable offshore jurisdictions or countries with extensive laws and systems that provide little or no tax obligations, but enable high secrecy and privacy protection for foreign individuals and businesses.

Mr Obi also paid Acces International to provide nominee directors for the company. Nominee directors are residents of tax havens paid to sit on boards of companies to hide the identities of real owners of offshore firms.

So, after accepting a brief from the then governor or his representatives, Acces International officials headed to the British Virgin Island, a notorious tax haven, where it contracted a local registered agent – Aleman Cordero Galindo & Lee Trust (BVI) Limited (Alcogal) — to set up Gabriella Investments Limited for Mr Obi.

The 36-year old Alcogal is a Panamanian law firm that went on to open overseas subsidiaries offering company formation and registered agent services in BVI, Seychelles, Belize, and Bahamas, and the preparation of corporate documentation in relation to the companies formed. It also provides trust services through its subsidiary trust companies in Panama, BVI, and Belize.

After extensive documentation, Gabriella Investment Limited was born on November 17, 2010, with registration number 1615538. Two figureheads – Antony Janse Van Vuuren and Lance Lawson — were appointed its first directors while ultimate control resided with Mr Obi.

On the same day the company was incorporated, the nominee directors met and issued 50,000 shares of Gabriella Investment in favour of Hill International Holding Corporation, a shell International Business Company operating under the laws of Belize, another tax haven. The director of the company is Mr Van Vuuren, also one of the directors of Gabriella Investment.

It is unclear what businesses Mr Obi transacted with the entities but in some communications, they were sometimes referred to as investment vehicles. Mr Obi told PREMIUM TIMES the offshore entity is the holding company for most of his assets and that the business structure he adapted was to enable him to avoid excessive taxation.

“I am sure you too will not like to pay inheritance tax if you can avoid it,” he told the reporters who interviewed him.

The Memorandum of Incorporation of Gabriella Investment said it was set up to carry on or undertake any business or activity, including trading of any commodities or goods, to do any act or enter into any transactions.

Recalibrating the structure and bringing family under the umbrella
Mr Obi has since rearranged his offshore businesses. First, he renamed Gabriella Investment. Beginning February 10, 2017, the company became known as PMGG Investments Limited in what is a combination of the first letters of the first names of Mr Obi’s nuclear family. P for Peter (ex-governor), M for Margaret (the ex-governor’s wife), G for Gabriella (the ex-governor’s daughter) and G for Gregory (the ex-governor’s son).

Mr Obi has also now created a trust known as The Gabriella Settlement, an entity also registered in the BVI. According to Fidelity Investments, a trust is a fiduciary arrangement that allows a third party, or trustee, to hold assets on behalf of a beneficiary or beneficiaries. Experts believe that trusts are traditionally used for minimising taxes even though they can offer other estate plan benefits as well.

By the current structuring of Mr Obi’s wealth and offshore businesses, The Gabriella Settlement, which appears to hold all or a majority of his assets, is the sole shareholder of PMGG Investments.

In turn, a New Zealander entity, Granite Trust Company Limited is the sole trustee of The Gabriella Settlement. Sam Access International, the Monaco-based secrecy enabler Mr Obi first hired in 2010 to set up his offshore structure, was until August 23, 2019, the sole shareholder of Granite Trust.

Antony Janse Van Vuuren, who has acted as a consistent and perpetual director for almost all of Mr Obi-related offshore entities popped up again, making the filing that brought in another Monaco-based company, Rhone Acces Sam as the sole shareholder of Granite Trust. However, Rhone Trust and Fiduciary S.A., a Swiss entity, is the ultimate holding company for Granite Trust.

Mr Peter Obi and his Man Friday
A central and recurring figure in former Governor Obi’s network of offshore companies and on whom the politician appears to place immense trust is Antony Janse Van Vuuren, a 70-year old South African based in the principality of Monaco in France. Experts in Illicit Financial Flows consider Monaco a tax haven because of its generous tax laws and policies.

According to KPMG Multi Family Office, the principality of roughly 30,000 inhabitants does not charge wealth tax, property tax, investment income tax, and capital gains tax. It also does not tax dividends and directors’ fees and unless they are French nationals, resident individuals are not subject to personal income tax while inheritance tax is zero per cent for spouses and direct beneficiaries. It is unclear if it was this mouth-watering tax regime that attracted Mr Obi to Monaco.

What is however clear is that, in 2010, four years after he became governor, the politician or his representatives hired Monaco-based Acces International, where Mr Van Vuuren has been partner and director for 25 years, to help him create a secret and intricate scheme for managing his assets. Mr Obi told PREMIUM TIMES that British Lloyds Bank’s advice informed his offshore structure decision.

From Monaco in France to Tortola in the BVI, to Wellington in New Zealand, and to Geneva in Switzerland, Mr Van Vuuren has travelled around the world running business errands for Mr Obi and taking major decisions on his behalf.

While Mr Obi stays comfortably behind the curtain, the South African has remained the face of the ex-governor’s companies and the assets they hold. For the past decade, he is the politician’s number one business arranger in the offshore world as well as the custodian of the politician’s business-related documents and correspondences.

Mr Van Vuuren, a veteran nominee director for possibly tens or hundreds of shell companies, attended the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he graduated in 1967 with a Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting and Business Management. He also obtained an MBA from Durham University in 1977.

A History of Playing Offshore
A 1991 leaked incorporation document reveals a certain Peter Obi and two other individuals – Donatus Ogbogu and Uche Okagbue – to have incorporated Beauchamp Investments Limited in Barbados.

The firm was incorporated as an international business company on August 20, 1991, with registration number 7305. The setting up of the company was handled at the time by a certain Peter L. Chase. What businesses the company does and what assets it holds remain unclear. Mr Obi denied knowledge of the firm as well as of Messrs Ogbogu and Okagbue. He said the individual who incorporated Beauchamp was possibly another businessman who happened to bear a similar name as him.

However, Next International (UK) Limited, another of the former governor’s overseas companies, was incorporated on May 16, 1996, in London. Mr Obi and his wife, Margaret, were listed as directors while Next International (Nigeria) Limited (with 999 ordinary shares) and Mr Obi (with one ordinary share) were listed as shareholders.

The exact businesses the company undertook in its 25-year history remained unclear, although, on March 8, 2001, the firm reported taking a mortgage from Lloyds TSB Bank Plc for a property on 53 Clyde Road, Croydon.

Breaking the Law: Number 1
In Nigeria, a person is statutorily obligated to withdraw from engaging in or directing a private business, except if it is farming, upon becoming a public officer, Section Six (6) of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act stipulates.

However, our investigation, based on records obtained from the UK Companies House shows that Mr Obi continued to be a director of Next International (UK) Limited for 14 months after becoming the governor of Anambra State, thereby breaking Nigeria’s law. The politician resigned from the company on May 16, 2008, 14 months after he assumed duties as Anambra governor. He took office on March 17, 2006.

Mr Obi and missed tax opportunity
In June 2017, the federal government launched the Voluntary Assets and Income Disclosure Scheme (VAIDS), an initiative seeking voluntary disclosure of previously undeclared assets and income with a view to paying all outstanding liabilities. The VAIDS offered a nine-month window and incentives that included immunity from prosecution for tax evasion and undeclared assets, which would have benefited people like Mr Obi.

A key objective of the VAIDS was curbing illicit financial flows and tax evasion, which commonly feature the use of offshore holdings to shift taxes from where they are earned to havens where little or no taxes are paid.

The government in 2017 said defaulting individuals and corporate bodies who failed to take advantage of the VAIDS would be subject to criminal prosecution.

A number of Nigerian public officials with previously undeclared assets tucked away overseas participated in the VAIDS and got clearance certificates. Mr. Obi shunned the scheme and continued with his opaque business dealings in breach of the law

No northern politician means well for anyone, all are thieves and criminals. Atiku deserves firing squad, same hell rufai,bitter obi and drug baron Tinubu.

People call Tinubu a drug baron, which he is but will ignore the bad doings of who they claim to support. Peter Obi that Anambra people complained about bitterly is now suddenly a saint cause they want to have the bragging rights that an ibo man ruled a so called democratic Nigeria. The same Atiku that was used as a case study by a lady at NSA for corrupt politicians in West Africa. Her research is filled with details on how Atiku has stolen and looted funds in every position he has attained. How he used his wife to acquire properties in the USA with Nigeria money, his Mafia like behavior to handling issues. Mr Rotimi that is known to have stolen funds during his time as governor of rivers and as minister of transportation, what did rivers gain with him as a governor? What did Nigeria gain with him as a minister of transportation? So we have Tinubu the drug baron, Obi the lying viper, Atiku the Mafia looter and a snake with big eyes in Rotimi as candidates for presidency. Are we as a society not ashamed to be arguing and defending criminals? Are the Yorubas telling us Tinubu is the best they can produce? Are the ibos telling us Rotimi and Obi are what their society really envision a leader to be? When will the North be wise and stop supporting their oppressors? Shame should catch us. One day a generation will look back on us and ask what we're this people thinking, how blind and stupid we were despite education and tools available to us to be in this state.

Simple answer is Atiku and Co promised him ministry slots if he gave up his party to them. Gombe obviously is asking for something Atiku and co can't provide, hence this whole party drama. People will blame APC because they can't just admit their so called Messiah is an idiot who can't play politics nor lead. Tinubu is a criminal, that's 100% true, but difference between Tinubu and the opposition is he knows how to play the dirty game called politics. We should remove emotions from politics and we will see all this people at the top are all the same. People complained during OBJ time, called him all names, then Johnny came and people were saying OBJ was better and was insulting Johnny, then Buhari and the same thing was repeated, same thing now with Tinubu, and we will keep on repeating this cycle of praising the past leader and condemning the current one cause we the people are too emotional in a game that requires critical thinking

ADC problem is easy to solve. They just need to swallow their egos and come together as one. The current chairman definitely wants something the new crew doesn't want to give him. They should give it to him and he will leave the seat for David. What is going on here is just clash of interests. Same thing happened in LP that destroyed it. The biggest mistake PDP made was having too many top members with different interests. APC has top dogs with the same interest. By now ADC should have a clear favourite that everyone should have been campaigning for even without a primary election. But now we have a battle between Atiku and Obi where each faction will waste time and resources trying to outdo each other. Then after the primaries people expect that everyone from this two factions will actually work together. The Abuja elections is a clear indication they are not united. They were busy blasting each other on social media for the poor results. This is not how opposition work. The opposition in Nigeria currently is the worst in history. They feel like people who are just there to fill the roles of opposition while secretly working for the party in power. Just like how companies in the USA will create a rival company to maximize profits, while the public believes there is no monopoly.

If he couldn't see them properly then he should have sent his VP or Senate president to see them properly. Him have a busy schedule is not an excuse. The people of Jos should come out and publicly denounce anyone holding power in that state and demand their resignation. All parties and personnel of those parties should be blacklisted. The people should select someone for themselves without inec and sort their issues out. The people in power are just creatures who look like human beings but are not, I mean that for APC, ADC, LP and PDP. All should burn at the stake.

It feels like the opposition in Nigeria are controlled opposition and not true ones. Though they are thieves, they often love to leave a loophole in any opposition party they go to that will cause internal issues. If Mr Nafiu said he has not resigned and the documents were forged then ADC should do an internal investigation among themselves. This is the downside of hijacking existing parties, you can not expect everyone to surrender what they have been building. The reason Tinubu APC feels like a one party system is because the opposition he is facing are the worst opposition in Nigeria history. The most disorganized, the most selfish driven, the most confused. They act like they are controlled opposition meant to fool the public. You can't tell me with amount of resources and influence the opposition has they can't create a new party from scratch built on their own principles. ADC was greatly unknown before they went in, the time they used buying people out should have been allocated to setting something new without any resistance.

Nigerians should just accept this people in top leadership positions are all the same and should be all removed if we are to go forward. Let's try people with no ties to the current pool of leaders and political parties we have. Instead recycling the same set of people who once dined and drink together. People who will insult themselves today and praise themselves tomorrow. It's clear insults is like friendly banters among themselves and not taken as serious criticism.

airsaylongcome:
It’s “fake and fabricated” until you personally loose someone to it. Then it becomes real. 5 years this year I buried someone that died from it

It was all fake and fabricated. Hospitals worldwide just diagnosed everyone with a fever as COVID 19.. The vaccine has been abandoned, disease vanished, the people who lead the red wave in USA have been apologized to as being right about the whole thing. Just cause a phoney hospital in the name of looking for who COVID 19 funds lied to you doesn't mean that's what happened. I call that period an era medical graduates decided to be stupid cause of pressure. Everything taught about how bacteria and viruses work were thrown out the door. Same way people consumed salt during Ebola without researching anything just cause people said it worked until people started dying from high salt intake. UN and WHO have both quickly abandoned whatever COVID 19 was and moved on.

This people are teaching the young generation it's okay to lie for views, clout and attention. Social media is obviously too hot to handle for most people. We need to start heavily punishing people like this.

Sonnobax15:
Which normal bad day? . Come ughelli and warri come ask Keke riders wetin Dem dey pass through whether your ears no go full with different complains.

The truth is that these guys are passing through hell at this moment. I knew what I experienced during times like these during my time as a Keke rider. Who get the Keke wey you dey balance no go wan hear your own story ,cuz definitely he dey expect you to return with him money,and not an empty pocket filled up with plenty excuses.

I live in warri, my neighbor drives a keke, my friend is a keke mechanic, I go to his shop and Keke riders share their daily experiences on the job. The original video is obviously lying for content. No Keke man is carrying home 50 naira on a bad day except they have an accident or get caught by police riding without papers

AdolfHitlerxXx:
She's the one. If a paid employee ever wrote that rudely, he / she would be fired.

Education back then was of higher standards than now especially for a silver spoon like her.

People hired to handle social media accounts respond as they are told to. I have seen worse. Try following social media managers groups online and see what they talk about. Some employees don't care as long as the person operates within agreed terms and conditions. You insult her they are free once in awhile to insult back. Very soon AI will take over that and reply as they program it to.

Obviously not her handling her account. But it's shameful how some of us act because of political hatred. The same people accusing other tribes of corruption will ignore the corruption going on among them. If truly one tribe or region had the answer to Nigeria problems we would have seen mass development in that region.

Daddyk87:
One Chinese professor had predicted this at least a couple of years ago if am not wrong.
I thought he was mad, perhaps am wrong.

Not all he says is true but he did get the trump winning right and trump going to war with Iran also right, the last one is Iran winning the war. Strangely this is like his first set predictions he has gotten right

And who caused this high rate of immorality? Same previous generations who complain. We copied everything bad about Western and black america culture thinking it was cool, classy and refined.

Nothing wrong with solar. Nigeria has two main problems, cheap customers who want the very best while cutting cost and corners and greedy and poor installers who are into the business just to money instead of delivering quality services. Maybe we need a commission to vet installers. But knowing Nigeria that commission will end up corrupt after some time.

Morocco are not true Africans and behave like colonizers. The script was for them to win it but they were out to shame. The world sees Senegal as Africa champion. It's high time another body is created and Morocco removed. They should go play Asian league.

Nigerian hasn't produced any leader near the Big daddy of Singapore

goslowgoslow:
So people cannot have a contrary opinion without being a Moslem? The majority of Americans who are Christians are even against this war. Na una wey possibly dey Nigeria dey carry for head.

You can't stop a fool from being a fool. It's like David Hundeyin said. Nigerians don't like to think from themselves. They accept everything western world says. If any person questions those western countries you are labeled a conspiracy theorist or a terrorist supporter. Just don't waste your time educating them. Best you can do is let the next generation know who the real enemy is

A competition of two legs. From your logic why didn't Dortmund go through after winning the first leg? Football has some of the most delusional people you will see in the name of football banter. Tottenham a team fighting relegation in EPL made it to the round of 16 in the champion league. Crazy part is the same Tottenham won the Europa why in the similar situation. A 2-0 result and Liverpool are through, 1-0 and arsenal is through, if by some miracle Newcastle wins the second leg they are through. Chelsea, Man city and Tottenham are the ones with mountains to climb. The crazy part is all 6 English team made it through the group phase. Why didn't all the Spanish teams, all the Italian teams, all the German teams, all the French teams make it through? Let's forget banter and wait until the competition is over to judge who did well. PSG who won it last year were written off. The Barcelona people said will win it only ended in the semi. Inter Milan that removed Barca went on to have a horrible final.

rowlandwhy:
Can someone please educate me on what happened to the globacom network?

This business was flourishing and I was proud that we had a Nigerian telecommunication service provider who even expanded into Ghana, but all of a sudden, it seems like they dropped the ball and the network got drowned.

In most places in Nigeria, there is barely glo service, in Ghana, i think its totally off now.

What happen to glo? is it political or mismanagement or some people prefer to have foreigners in this telecommunication sector?
Thanks

Like most Nigerian owned business it was created to make money. As long as they make a profit they don't care. They have no interest in challenging or being innovative. They only act when they notice sudden drops in profits. Someone created a thread once begging communication engineers and technicians to create something that will force this major network companies in Nigeria to behave like how MTN had to adjust when starlink came into the market.

anonimi:
In the other countries we are doing japa to, has inflation outstripped general wage level and complicated by unemployment as is the case in extreme poverty Nigeria

Those same country complain as well. UK nurses have gone on strikes multiple times cause of wages, teacher union have gone on strike multiple times. Nigerians greatly suffer from inferior complex. From the day we are born we have been told western countries are heaven and Africa is hell fire. Our education system and religious system are aimed at programming us to japa. The same Nigeria we say is bad is where foreigners come and make it and go. Most poor Nigerians are from the North. In the south there is no money but hotels are booked on the weekends, clubs are booming, prostitution is a booming industry. Major importation of goods is entering the country, you find a lot of Nigerians on the Internet being able to afford data. Most modern Nigerians are just frustrated cause they sold a lie that going to school and getting a certificate was going to make life easy for them. Even in the same abroad they run to they end with depression, mass loneliness, doing third class citizens jobs. When they get to a certain advanced age, thanks to social media they come online to rant about how they feel they have not accomplished anything or how their spouse left them due to difficulties faced. I work IT in an international community, just like we rant about our society, they rant. The difference is they don't see going to another nation as the fix, they try to educate themselves on why their society changes and how they adapt or change it back. In Japan what did the men do when wages couldn't support a family? They gave up on getting married and having children. There was a report that was out that Caucasian men in western countries have reduced the numbers or children they have or just don't have one. Resulting increase demand of migrants to fill up work force. The number of people on social support keeps on increasing, is that a good sign? Social experts have predicted a global collapse is coming soon. USA has already rolled out lab grown and synthetic foods to try and keep up with the food demands of the low income class. It's even on tik tok, people in USA have been posting about how the standards of food have slowly degraded. You have your phone and the Internet. Research global inflation and it's impact.

Why is that some Nigerians judge Nigeria inflation like it's an isolated thing? What country can purchase the same things their currency could in the 1900s in 2020s? Inflation is a global thing. No car company will sell a vehicle to you with the same marketing strategies as they did in the past. And the funny thing is despite the inflation people still buy the latest vehicles.

When corruption doesn't favor you, you destroy properties. The same youths who are complaining about being angry with start supporting the government once they get a brown envelope.

Whoever is lying to him that he is an important as he think he is should be studied. It's not easy to brainwash a person like this.

It feels like this going to court after elections is just a way to launder money into the lawyers account. Our politicians can not be this foolish to be wasting money on cases like this.

Who told that lady APC leaders did not come out for their candidate? While ADC was playing online politics, APC was playing grassroots politics. The core voters in Nigeria are not found on social media.