₦airaland Forum

durangokid:
So desperate and ambitious, yet he was the one who stopped her sister Mulikat Akande from Oyo state from being Speaker when PDP zoned it to south west claiming that South West don't need a speaker, today the same Femi want to be speaker

Jarus:
The guy breached his party's zoning principle like GEJ and took opportunity and thanks to poor strategy from the other side, he has emerged, meaning no 2 and 4 are from NW and 2, 3, 4 from North.

SW has been effectively expunged from the power equation. I don't even know who the highest ranking SWner is now, not to talk of what no.

Some observations:
1, Jonathan/Patience's preferred candidate, Mulikat(to pacify Yoruba and women) did not win
2, Members rebelled against PDP leadership who wanted Mulikat
3, For Obj's candidate, Muraina, don't even go there.
4, Tambuwal may not last; he may be frustrated by PDP leadership plus the fact that he has been named in Bankolegate
5, Zoning is dying; anybody with good strategy and favourable factor can get anywhere irrespective of party arrangement
6, If GEJ and the powerful Patience could not influence who becomes speaker, then this house can achieve some level of independence from executive
7, ACN and CPC can influence outcomes of house decisions, as has been shown here, despite PDP still having majority members

Ziggylady:
Take it easy with the dude,APC supporters are not called Zombies for nothing,

As usual they are supporting the criminal gbajamiala while calling Atiku a thief.

StFunmi:
Ex Governor Bola Tinubu was a Drug Baron! Nigerian Compass.
Posted To The Web: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - Dotun Oladipo



Contrary to denials, the Nigerian Compass yesterday learnt that the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) confirmed that a former Lagos State Governor, Mr. Bola,

Ahmed Tinubu, ran a heroin ring in the country; was convicted, though with an option of fine; and was actually quizzed last month while entering into the country.

Documents available to the Nigerian Compass showed that the United States Government has written the Nigerian Government, highlighting the fact that Tinubu ran a cocaine ring in the country.

According to the document, signed by the United States Government Narcotics Attache in its embassy in Nigeria, Andre W. Kellum, Tinubu operated an organisation that distributed cocaine.

Kellum said that though Tinubu was not subjected to criminal prosecution, the fact that he acceded to forfeiting funds to the United States Government was on its own a conviction.

Kellum’s letter was a response to a petition pertaining to Tinubu’s suitability to stand for re-election in 2003 as the governor of Lagos State.

The petitioner said that Tinubu, owing to his conviction in the United States for running a drug cartel, was not suitable to stand for election in Nigeria.

In the letter dated April 9, 2003, addressed to the former Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Alhaji Bello Lafiaji, Kellum wrote, “After consultation with the Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of International Affairs (OIA), this is in response to the above referenced matter, regarding Bola Ahmed TINUBU (emphasis that of Kellum).

“Pursuant to the aforementioned request, the Lagos, Nigeria Country Office (LNCO) of the Drug Enforcement Administration immediately contacted DOJ/OIA officials. Copies of documents received by the LNCO from the NDLEA were forwarded to these officials for verification.

“As such, please note that paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of the complaint indicates that persons named therein operated an organisation that distributed heroin and the proceeds of that illegal distribution were in the subject acounts to be forfeited. The complaint references U.S. (criminal) money laundering and (criminal) drug statutes as the authority under which the forfeiture occurs. Nevertheless, note that the complaint in this civil action identifies the funds as the defendant (Tinubu), not the account holders.

“Likewise, the Decree of Forfeiture, signed by a U.S. District Judge, identifies the criminal statutory authority for the civil forfeiture of the funds without regard to whether there is a corresponding criminal prosecution.

“The facts revealed in the U.S. Investigation of the funds and their source are detailed in the affidavit filed by the Internal Revenue Service.

In the letter from the NDLEA that resulted in Kellum’s reaction, the lead anti-narcotic agency in Nigeria said that the conclusion it could draw was that Tinubu’s drug case was yet to be closed by the United States.

The letter, in its opinion section, noted, “Former paragraph 6 above, Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu was involved in Money Laundering Transactions along with Mueez Adegboya Akande and Abiodun Agbele in the United States of America.

“Even though he was not charged to court, he had to compromise the case. Otherwise, he would have lost the whole money.

“Arising from the case, Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu forfeited 460,000 US dollars to the United States Government being proceeds of narcotic trafficking or property involved in financial transactions in violation of 18 USO 1956 and 1957 and therefore was forfeitable to the United States (emphasis that of the NDLEA).

http://news.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=448&z=12

Champneys:
You are a fuc....king idio...t!

Atiku is not listed as an aide to Saraki and he never entered US as Saraki's aide.

Get your facts right and stop spreading beer parlour gists or baseless fabrications!

Brainless twerp!

life2017:
*Atiku listed as an ‘aide’ to Nigeria’s Senate President – AF*
January 19th 2018


The United States Bureau of African Affairs (AF) has disclosed that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, was listed as an aide of Senate President Bukola Saraki.

In a tweet by Lauretta Onochie, a media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari the Bureau of African Affairs which is part of the US Department of State and which is charged with advising the Secretary of State on matters of Sub-Saharan Africa said he was in Washington DC on diplomatic arrangements.

“We cannot apprehend Atiku because of our diplomatic ties with Nigeria, he’s being booked as an ‘aide’ to Nigeria’s Senate President,” AF said.

It would be recalled that Atiku who for 12 years was unable to enter the US following corruption indictment against him, arrived Washington on Thursday in company of Nigeria’s Senate President Bukola Saraki.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/01/atiku-listed-as-an-aide-to-nigerias-senate-president-af/

Atiku applied for visa and was given; he didn’t travel to US as my aide - Saraki


Read more: https://www.legit.ng/1217338-atiku-applied-visa-didnt-travel-us-aide-saraki.html

helinues:
Are you also corrupt? If not you have nothing to worry about

Salebo:
Your late illiterate father is the Thief and INCOMPETENT slowpoke...

dingbang:
They have started their useless propaganda again

Nbote:
Lolzzz... April fool don pass na

Oma307:
his father embezzlement is what we called positive corruption. almost all what kogi have today was brought by Audu Abubakar

nairavsdollars:
* I Am Not Threatened In Anyway - Yahaya Bello

Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday said there will be no preferential treatment for any aspirant seeking to contest the Kogi and Bayelsa states governorship elections on the party’s platform.

The incumbent governor of Kogi, Yahaya Bello, is seeking return to office but he will do battle with some formidable aspirants such as Mona Mustapha, son of the late Prince Abubakar Audu; Sani Lulu, a former President of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), former Commissioner for Agriculture in the Kogi, Tim Diche, among others.

Kogi Guber: Audu will return the N11bn he stole if elected – APC Chairman
October 4, 2015


https://dailypost.ng/2015/10/04/kogi-guber-audu-will-return-the-n11bn-he-stole-if-elected-apc-chairman/

slimmax:
Blow whistle at your own peril

lomprico:
Trust this government at your own peril

Mutemenot:
I don't know why Buhari likes blame game. We all know the last 4 years was a mess, accept your failure, apologize n move on.. Buhari, Saraki n co all failed woefully

contigiency:
It's better for you to try and make out even if it's a minute of your life time and be happy. You don't have to spend all your life time in self imposed agony. This life is very short. That's why Jonathan and other PDP members that buhari gave a sound bitten in 2015 have long moved on, while you are still in nairaland wailing, crying and hating anything good that buhari has done in this country.

Otherwise, I don't know why it rather turned out to be a bad news to you that the government fulfilled a promise made to someone who added immense value to our country's sports profile Since 25 years ago.

Or how such move should attract to the present government a worst performance rating according to you, than the previous governments who made the promise and ignored it.

dokyOloye:
Instead of una to make life meaningful and easy for Nigerians,una de serious de do showboating.
No light,bad roads,empty hospitals,insecurity at its peak,etc,na white man wey done chop belleful una de build house for..
Next one na to declare public holidays for June 12.
Na those kind of things Nigerians go take put food for their belle?
Most useless govt in Africa and probably d whole world.

abc115:
The Federal Government yesterday fulfilled a 25 –year pledge to former Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles, Clemens Westerhof.
At an impressive ceremony inside the conference room of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Abuja, the Minister, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) said the occasion was a further proof that the Buhari administration was “committed to putting right the wrongs of yesterday and redressing all forms of yesterday’s injustice”.

vengertime:
Bloggers are becoming nuisance in Nigeria.

Must you monitor peoples life like evil spirit?

seguno2:
Why does APC like unveiling and commissioning incomplete, unfinished projects
To deceive who?

sheddo619:
He learnt it from his boss PMB na
Commissioning unfinished projects
SMH

Uncleodi:
Good.

At least, no reason not to hit the ground running after 29th May.

dingbang:
you are right, supposing we worshipped a god who visits the iniquities of men every day, we would prosper like the Saudi arabians

saracus:
I like that name, monorail scammer

ijekul:
As the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by the Rivers State Government to probe the sale of valued assets of the state and other matters continued its sitting on Friday, the technical consultant to the state on the monorail project, Arcus Gibbs revealed that  he advised former Governor Chibuike Amaechi against continuing with the project.

Managing Director of Arcus Gibbs Nig Ltd, Wiero Viguezang, however said his company gave the advice only after collecting N22.9bn from the Rivers State Government since its services were enlisted in March 1, 2010.

Viguezang spoke when he appeared before the commission to explain the role played by his company in the monorail project being probed by the commission.

While being cross-examined by counsel to the commission, Dr. Zaccheus Adangor, Viguezang, stated that the monorail project was no longer tenable considering the shortfall in the state’s revenue and the inability of its original technical and equity partners, TSI Nig Ltd, headed by the former military administrator of Rivers State, Brig-Gen Anthony Ukpo (Rtd.), to fulfil its obligations to contribute 80 per cent of its equity holdings.

He disclosed that the state owes his company N1.1bn for its services.
He also said the company had in a letter to the Rivers State through the ministry of transport, in April, made a six-point recommendation to the Rivers State on how to unbundle the monorail project in such a way that the state government can salvage some financial benefits out of the N33.9bn so far invested in the project. The monorail project was originally estimated to cost about Euros2250m.

The technical partner had in its sixth point of recommendation suggested to the Rivers State Government to unbundle the monorail project and approach the manufacturers of the mechanical components and rail tracks in Germany and exploit the possibility of reselling components at a lower price to the manufacturers.

He said the company also advised the state government to consider the option of using the monorail facilities for other commercially viable purposes, mentioning the spaces between pillars and surrounding areas of the monorail project, stressing that the area between Azikiwe Road and the UTC axis could be put into very fruitful commercial purpose.
Viguezang also told the commission that his company and the state government had planned to unveil the monorail project last April specifically to mislead the people of Rivers State into thinking that the project, which has gulped N33.9bn, was still on course.

He admitted that his company wrote a memo to the commissioner for transport to arrange the unveiling of the project essentially for media coverage since the project was “technically uncompleted”. 

According to Viguezang, “We actually wrote to the ministry of transport in January, to arrange for the governor to unveil the monorail project in April for the attention and coverage of the media based on the expectation of the people of the state.”

When asked to clarify if the unveiling was to deceive the people of Rivers State into believing that the controversial monorail project was ready, Viguezang admitted; “It was to deceive the people into believing that the monorail project was at last ready”.

The managing director, however, stressed that “apart from the media coverage and public attention that it is expected to generate, the monorail was not technically and commercially ready. Only phase 1a within phase 1 of the project was ready. So, there was no way the public would have been able to use the monorail as at April when we asked the ministry of transport to unveil the project to the media”.

Viguezang admitted that the Rivers State government enlisted services of Arcus Gibbs at the cost of N600 million from March 1, 2010 to December 1, 2010, after the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with TSI collapsed because TSI could not raise revenue to fulfil the payment of its 80 per cent equity share capital.

He stated that part of its role as the technical service provider to the Rivers State government concerning the monorail project was to evaluate and assess the activities of TSI and give an independent opinion to the Rivers State government.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/how-technical-consultants-advised-amaechi-against-monorail-project-after-collecting-n22bn/218811/

GoTV:
Amaechi doesn't steal

segeguy:
hbd sir, send our cake oo

robosky02:
Amaechi donates N10m to feed poor at 54th birthday

coninse:
Published on Dec 13, 2013
"We Steal Because You Never Stoned Us for It" -Rivers Governor, Rotimi Amaechi"

Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi says the reason that political office holders steal fund is because citizens have never confronted or stoned them (including himself) for the act.

At a tribute event for Nelson Mandela in Lagos, Mr. Amaechi said Nigerians have not shown enough aggression or resistance against stealing by political office holders.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug0ifwslG84

helinues:
La poverty, la frustration

anonimi:
You Igbos need to step up the Civil war remembrance efforts and teach the history to your children in schools with excursions to monuments regularly to keep the memory alive as the Jews have done with the holocaust.
To be done quietly, steadily constantly creating new ways to establish the memories without wavering.
That is way better than making unnecessary noise about Lagos being a no man's land.

Bolusticus:
The China Man and the failed letter writer.

Two sore losers.

BTW, Atikuiscumming