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Stupìd governor

HE'S JUST MAKING MOCKERY OF THE PROTESTERS

What is he protesting for?

Who is he protesting against?

Is he not a RULER and part of the problem?

You dey mind the guy?

Did he not abandon his party’s candidates to vote for Tinubu and APC senators and representatives

Gabkosh:
Mention another IPP in Abia state apart from the one that is making us discuss now.

That one with 188MW in Aba dwarfs all the oversized generator IPPs in Lagos.

Gabkosh:
Those MW you see are not for all the state but for the particular areas they are located.

The one at peninsula is for lekki peninsula, same for others.

If it is for all the state, it will be bigger than that.

In summary, Lagos state has more IPP generated power than Geometric has for some parts of Abia state.

Is that the summary of your point

Gabkosh:
Calm down bro. Lagos already had 5 if not more.
The lists are

12.55 MW Akute Independent Power Plant
10MW Lagos Island 1&2 Independent Power Plant
10.4MW Alausa Independent Power Plant
8.8MW Mainland Independent Power Plant
6MW Lekki Peninsula Integrated Power Project

That makes a total of less than 50MW for the supposed state of excellence that is in reality a glorified ghetto of go slows in the absence of mass transit on land and water, without water in houses and open defecation.

A 45-year-old resident and father of three, Mr.Fatai Lamide told PUNCH HealthWise that no building in the community has toilet facilities.

The Oyo State-born mechanic said, “We don’t have toilet in this area, including our compound. This canal that you see serves as toilet to all of us living in this area. We defecate inside nylon and throw it inside the canal.

“For people that don’t want to use nylon, they have a special bucket that they use after which they pour it inside the canal too.

https://punchng.com/cholera-outbreak-looms-in-lagos-communities-as-residents-use-canal-lagoon-as-toilet/

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.
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The EIU examines the quality of health care, education, infrastructure, stability, and culture when assessing living conditions of each city. More than 30 factors are taken into account when calculating each rank, which are then complied into a weighted score between one and 100.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

Gerrard59:
While we share blame for not doing our part to develop, I believe in the chess of development and geopolitics, certain actors bar us from actualising our potentials. This has been discussed in detail here: https://www.nairaland.com/7801886/multipolarism-versus-hegemonism-great-power

But the larger portion of blame lies on us, especially in this century, where there are many concepts to learn and copy from. However, as Pansophis.t said, it is one thing to be wealthy, but another thing for that wealth to be at the whims of another person. This means should you go against the person's wishes, the wealth is reduced to rumbles. OTOH, the person can actually prevent you from being wealthy in the first place.

The bold part is the key to the end of our lame situation of wanting everything without putting in the effort required.

Why should I not prevent people from being as wealthy as I am? Did African empires allow their vassal kingdoms to be wealthy and powerful enough to displace them? What is the wisdom in this regard

pansophist:
There is a need, but the road is a long one and requires strategy, organization, patience, and knowing how to sail depending on the direction of the wind.

Simon Ekpa staying in Finland and running a country from there just looks like child's play. You can't stay in Finland, a country that is a puppy of Western hegemony, to break Nigeria, a creation of Western imperialism.

This is just pure geopolitics. Nigeria hasn't broken simply because the political elites are in bed with the West, and they are their rentboys. Also, take a look at countries that declared independence unilaterally, and see their fate.

They suffered years of unrecognition, and the world was shut at them. Even countries with powerful backers like Russia.

Following established precedence, no country that has established a diplomatic relationship with Nigeria will recognize Biafra. A crucial component of diplomatic relationships between countries is territorial integrity, and if Biafra breaks without the go-ahead from Abuja, it would be a lone wolf, weak and dirt poor, with no international recognition.

The economic prosperity of China only took off when the US recognized it as a country after thirty years of its founding, and China is a continent, it's freaking huge. But Biafra? A tiny country that Niger state will be bigger than?

I understand that independence is good, we all want to be free, but the world does not operate on good and bad, but strength and weakness. If Biafra declares, then I can tell you for sure that Nigeria with the help of this western ally will crush it, just like before.

It would be Ukraine 2.0, and the genocide would be worse this time. Unless maybe Russia and China support, then they could be hope.

Why is this lame excuse about western hegemony and imperialism being responsible for our collective failure not applicable to Asian and Arab countries? Is there a fundamental difference between us blacks and other races that we have to deal with, if we are serious about making progress?

Did France not support Biafrans even though USSR failed to support them since they couldn’t pay the communists?

Moreover, what manner of hypocrisy sits in the liberal democracies of western countries and wishes for suffocating dictatorship

SalamRushdie:
Someone is calling 1566 in Binance an appreciation 😅😅😅😅😅

Is that not what the Stalin quote about a bloodied chicken and loyalty was about?

Stockholm syndrome is real and one has to be careful not to be trapped.

omohayek:
Maybe your eyes glazed over where I said that I couldn't trust Atiku's promises due to his record of abusing power for the sake of self-enrichment? You seem to think I had some sort of duty to promote someone who had repeatedly shown himself untrustworthy by compounding his illegal creation of Intels while in office with the Jennifer Douglas scandal in the USA, and then made things worse by taking back his initial words on Deborah Samuels and talking on TV about "enriching his friends". Newsflash: there is more to supporting a candidate than a manifesto, however attractive. Character matters too, and promises are worthless if those making the promises can't be trusted to keep them.

That is why I said you need to understand politics better.

The election was between Tinubu and Atiku, with Peter Obi as a spoiler to help Tinubu.
The politics was to ask whether Tinubu was OVERALL a better choice than Atiku, taking into consideration each candidate's negatives, then work accordingly.

I hope we understand each other better now.

omohayek:
The difference between you and I is that I understand that the means by which you strive for a goal matters just as much as the ends. There was no way in hell I was going to support any candidates whose supporters routinely resorted to brazen slander and character assassination, especially when their attacks had a clear tribalistic slant.

Whatever Tinubu's failings, it is simply a disgusting lie to call him a drug trafficker or accuse him of having forged his certificate, and if those who opposed him had wanted to be taken seriously by thinking people instead of appealing to the low-IQ section of the populace, they would have been better off sticking to factual arguments and discussing policy proposals, just as I'd suggested from the start. Instead they preferred to spew lie after lie, only to have the nerve to feign shock when some of us reacted without utter disgust.

It would be the height of folly to trust a candidate whose movement is founded on tribal supremacy, smears and religious jingoism, running from church to church while endorsing nonsense about the perils of a "Muslim-Muslim" ticket - especially when said candidate had no track record of showing superior intellect or administrative ability, and an even worse record of corruption than Tinubu. My position throughout this last election was not really in favor of Tinubu but against Peter Obi, who represents everything I despise most in Nigerian politics, and who I am %100 certain would be doing far worse than Tinubu currently is, supposing by some miracle Obi's vanity candidacy had managed to succeed.

My concern is that you said Atiku was the best policy wise but created those two threads to undermine his political chance of getting into office to act on those policy issues on which he has been consistent in words and actions when he was given half an opportunity as Obasanjo's VP.

omohayek:
The difference between you and I is that I understand that the means by which you strive for a goal matters just as much as the ends. There was no way in hell I was going to support any candidates whose supporters routinely resorted to brazen slander and character assassination, especially when their attacks had a clear tribalistic slant.

Whatever Tinubu's failings, it is simply a disgusting lie to call him a drug trafficker or accuse him of having forged his certificate, and if those who opposed him had wanted to be taken seriously by thinking people instead of appealing to the low-IQ section of the populace, they would have been better off sticking to factual arguments and discussing policy proposals, just as I'd suggested from the start. Instead they preferred to spew lie after lie, only to have the nerve to feign shock when some of us reacted without utter disgust.

It would be the height of folly to trust a candidate whose movement is founded on tribal supremacy, smears and religious jingoism, running from church to church while endorsing nonsense about the perils of a "Muslim-Muslim" ticket - especially when said candidate had no track record of showing superior intellect or administrative ability, and an even worse record of corruption than Tinubu. My position throughout this last election was not really in favor of Tinubu but against Peter Obi, who represents everything I despise most in Nigerian politics, and who I am %100 certain would be doing far worse than Tinubu currently is, supposing by some miracle Obi's vanity candidacy had managed to succeed.

Do you think it is possible that Tinubu and his supporters floated those stories as bones for dogs to avoid any policy discussion since he is clueless on that

omohayek:
There was never any doubt in my mind that Atiku's plans were objectively the best of the three - he understands clearly that the Nigerian economy needs to be massively deregulated - but the question (at least as far as I was concerned) was the extent to which Atiku could be trusted to carry out his program in a fair and transparent manner, given his long record of using power to tilt deals in his own favor. That so many people harbored similar doubts as I did is no one's fault but Atiku's own, and Obasanjo's criticism of him wouldn't have stuck if there were no substance to the accusations.

In any case, Atiku's latest effort was doomed once Peter Obi announced his vanity candidacy using the LP as his latest vehicle of self-advancement, thereby taking 90% of the Igbo vote with him. Obi might as well have handed Tinubu the election on a platter, by dividing the anti-APC opposition.

Circling back to Atiku's latest statements, while I give him credit for actually making concrete proposals that can be scrutinised (unlike Obi, who sticks to worthless platitudes), the idea that Tinubu ever had the option of a managed float is pure fantasy, given how low the foreign reserves were (and still are), and how much of the FG's income was already going to debt service. Where exactly would the money to "manage" the float have come from?

The harsh reality is that any winner of the 2023 election would have been forced to make the same decisions at a similarly rapid rate, as the money simply wasn't there to keep going in the same old way. The only alternative to doing so would have been to print money at an even faster rate than Tinubu is currently doing, which would have led to inflation so high that a "mere" 30% annual rate would have seemed something to envy. The frustrating there here is that Atiku understands this quite well, but is happy to peddle lies to curry popularity with the masses. It's such dishonesty that makes it so hard for me to trust any promises Atiku makes.

You need to understand politics separately from administration/governance.

If you want the person with the best governance plan to be in office then you play politics accordingly to achieve YOUR goal.

In this regard, how did your threads below help or hinder the person with the best administrative/governance plan to be in office?

https://www.nairaland.com/5001688/reuters-nigerian-candidates-u.s-visit

https://www.nairaland.com/7873126/no-evidence-nigerias-president-forged

BrighterSyde:
I love the fact that pdp keeps calling out apc but it is funny that this same pdp looted the country dry for 16 years so much so that they had to apologize…

APC’s looting and theft make PDP look like learners and apprentices, don’t you think

slivertongue:
The C in APC stands for Corruption

What of the A and P, can we say that they stand for

A-looter and Poverty

Throwback:
Did you also show us any evidence where Tinubu in criticising the Jonathan government, referred to it as illegitimate?

Are you the court to declare the government illegitimate because your own party and preferred candidate lost out both at the election and at the courts?

Shameless loser!

Break the law and face the law.

Anyway, console your partisan self with the fact that your rational and non-partisan self already foretold how Bola Tinubu would become President owing to the obvious work and patience he committed to the task.

You dey mind the confused soul.
As confused as the Pandora confused communist LP/capitalist PDP man she followed to make it easier for Tinubu to achieve his Emillokan dream through Yorubalokan tribesmen packaging, only to expose his governance inadequacies and unleash shege on 200 million Nigerians..

bluebay:
Keep proving yourself wrong… the post was about Ned and Regina and your foolish self is here mentioning Peter OBI.. is he irrelevant now? Racoon

Did you also wail to the post below that was the 5th one of the thread
So who is the foolish person now?

Penguin2:
They are irrelevant and inconsequential when Peter Obi, the enigma, was there.

Peter Obi we know, who the idiotic hell are Akpabio and Ned Agbaya?

People wey for give Super Eagles bad luck if no be say oil wey dey Obi’s head too much; e come use dilute all their yama yama.

Cows😏

Penguin2:
They are irrelevant and inconsequential when Peter Obi, the enigma, was there.

Peter Obi we know, who the idiotic hell are Akpabio and Ned Agbaya?

People wey for give Super Eagles bad luck if no be say oil wey dey Obi’s head too much; e come use dilute all their yama yama.

Cows😏

Oil of hypocrisy na which kind useless oil be that

bennybuhari:
“’I cannot take anything back about Obi. I said Obi said he wants to move Nigeria back from consumption to production and I said that is not true. He cannot do it because his own business survives on consumption. Is that a lie? He has been an importer and I said he deals with cash and carry economics; container economics, imports”.

“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.

“So, Obi is deceiving everybody and I can’t take that back because that is true.

https://independent.ng/peter-obi-deceiving-everybody-i-wont-retract-my-statement-about-him-dele-alake/

porthouse7:
sporting lagos no be real lagos team

How do you mean?
Why is it not a REAL Lagos team

PHAYOL81:
Will TINUBU/LASG be the one to connect home-owners to the water channels available around them？Or which district don't have the state pipe-borne water line in it？Yet whatever enforcement the state makes towards urban upgrade still end up causing ETHNIC UPROAR as if a certain region indigenes are symbol of disorganization, dirt, illegality and corrupt practices.

Yes, the state's/city is responsible for providing pipe borne water channels for every building to connect thereto.
Due to the governance incompetence of Tinubu and his successors, the water volume and coverage of LSWC has shrunk from what it was in 1999.

Potable water still luxury 23 years after return of democracy

24 April 2022

The lack of state-owned pipe-borne water in the homes of Lagos residents has continued to be a source of concern, a non-profit group, Corporate Accountability and Public Advocacy Africa (CAPPA) has said.

At a press event to mark this year’s World Water Day, the group said its monitoring team’s visit to state-owned waterworks showed that most of them are not operational.

The group said the waterworks it visited include the ones at Maryland, Mushin, Ikorodu, Obalende, Agbowa, Onikan, Ikoyi, and Amuwo Odofin.

Only the one in Ikoyi is producing water, according to CAPPA.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/450615-world-water-day-lagos-water-crisis-worsening-group-says.html

bennybuhari:
Lies. That's the more reason people are even japaing more. No matter the exchange rate, who will japa must japa

You dey mind the propagandists?
Is the president not leading the japa movement with his regular escapades to France and Britain while we the extreme poverty masses are left behind to rot under his clueless management of our economy

BigBelleControl:
The team has been disbanded by the proprietor. He said his aim for creating it was to engage the youth and not to compete.

Any ideas if this Inter Lagos is a successor to MFM in some form or way

BigBlackPreek:
Lagos Centre Of Excellence!

What is excellent about a metropolis that Tinubu’s master plan failed to deliver water in every building despite his years in Chicago

Who equates a glorified ghetto to a modern centre of excellence? Who does that, except someone in need of a shrink?

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.
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The EIU examines the quality of health care, education, infrastructure, stability, and culture when assessing living conditions of each city. More than 30 factors are taken into account when calculating each rank, which are then complied into a weighted score between one and 100.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

Qtsnow:
About Inter Lagos

Established in 2023, Inter Lagos FC also known as The Pride of Lagos embodies the very essence of this magnificent city, where dreams kickoff, lifelong bonds are born, and everything is possible. We are a community club that welcomes everyone from all walks of life, impacting Lagos, one game at a time.

Currently in the Nigerian National League, 2023/2024 season, with a domestic fan base acting as the 12th man on the field of play, cheering the players on to victory and a budding global presence, with solid digital footprints, Inter Lagos FC has her sights set on dominating football on the continent of Africa.

What stadium is the home base for the team

tollyboy5:
Lagosians are in a higher level of consciousness, Nigeria is pushing Lagos backward.

Lagos, Ogun then Oyo are trying to follow through an awoken consciousness

Higher level of consciousness to tolerate looting that deprives them of ordinary pipe borne water in every building, because the government failed to employ technicians, clerks, engineers etc

October 20, 2014

LAGOS State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, gave a breakdown of how his administration expended the N160 billion World Bank loan it acquired, saying the state maintained a healthy debt profile.

Fashoa, who spoke during his commemoration of 2,700 days in office and achievements in the last 100 days, in Alausa, Ikeja, said long overdue refund would go a long way in reducing the debt profile of the State, which he said the Federal Government recently published to mislead the public.

He said, “Recently, our political adversaries issued statements that we have borrowed N160 billion. What they have not told you is what we are doing with the money.”

Enumerating his government’s activities within the period under consideration he said; “In the last 100 days, we have commenced work on providing street lighting on the Muritala Muhammed Way in Yaba.

This is 10 kilometres of public lighting which will be completed by the end of this month. On Eko Bridge, Carter Bridge, Ikorodu Road, Lekki-Epe Expressway and every street and highway where there is street lighting in Lagos, it is the Lagos State Government that supplied the poles, the bulbs, the diesel and the maintenance.

“The only major highway we are not managing for street lights is the 3rd Mainland Bridge.

Fire engines, to secure lives, rail transport from Okokomaiko to Marina, with four stations of eight kilometres completed, and work heading to Marina, with piles appearing near the Eko Bridge every day are the places your Government is spending money. The expansion of the Lagos Badagry Expressway to a 10-lane highway is another place where your Government is spending money.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/lagos-spent-n160-bn-world-bank-loan-fashola/

Jicks55:
Nice one Mr Governor... God bless you for all your efforts to make Lagos great

Did you say this also in 2011 when Fashola visited Toronto for the same railway?

anonimi:
TTC in talks to sell old trains to Lagos. Are they safe enough?
AUGUST 10, 2011

Fashola visited Toronto earlier this year to inspect the TTC trains.

The Lagos deal would be the first of its kind for the TTC. Decommissioned cars are usually sold for scrap metal and can fetch up to $1,500 dollar each. While Ross declined to discuss specific figures, he says the sticker price for Lagos is "significantly more" than scrap prices, putting the potential profits to the TTC in the millions of dollars.

It is not unusual for technology from western nations to end up in poorer countries. Marketplaces in Africa and Asia are flooded with North American clothes, computers, and even cars, but the purchase of larger technology like trains is rarer.

The cars will have to be significantly refurbished to fit existing infrastructure in Lagos, and some Nigerian media reports have lamented that the government appears to have settled on "tokundo," or used, trains instead of brand new vehicles.

Although half the cars are more than 30 years old, Ross is adamant they are perfectly safe and are only being decommissioned for capacity reasons. But he also admitted the TTC is not required to make sure the cars meet any safety standards before selling them.

"Once sold, it's up to the new operator to ensure they are in good working order," he said. "They do need to be maintained much more frequently than the new trains, simply because of their age. At some point they will run out their useful life."

Murtaza Haider, director of the Institute of Housing and Mobility at Ryerson University, said the age of the cars is definitely a cause for concern.

"We should be ensuring that there is some service life left in these vehicles and we're not going to be playing havoc with the lives of those who would ride these vehicles," Haider said. "There's metal fatigue, and that metal fatigue could result in dangerous conditions. I would be paying a close watch on this for the next ten years to see how many accidents do happen in Lagos."

He also warned that while rail systems are glamorous as far as transit infrastructure goes, they are not always as effective at reducing congestion as other options. Nevertheless, new rail systems are frequently preferred because governments can take advantage of kickbacks from large contracts.

According to media reports, the cost estimates for the Lagos rail project have varied wildly from $1.2 billion to $30 billion. In 2010, a Nigerian government watchdog accused Fashola's government of widespread corruption.

"More often than not, politicians favour rail transit because it is more expensive," Haider said. "It's almost useless in some cases, and less productive in most cases, than a bus system. But you can't buy busses for $30 billion. You can inflate prices and make a lot of money buying a rail system."

From: https://nowtoronto.com/news/next-stop-nigeria/

PROUDIGBO:
Damn...she looks like a goddess! So beautiful!

Never mind a thousand ships....she looks good enough to raise the Titanic!

Raise the titanic as if Ojukwu was a sinking rod in need of help from Bianca to rise up for the occasion

EreluRoz:
Ajaokuta steel is lying there abandoned and not active, that alone can solve a whole lot of mess in Nigeria but it must be only oil.

Youth of the country are still sleeping, the few ones in position to make a solid statement are worse than the old corrupt leaders.

When we are all ready for revolution, you can call on me for support.

Meanwhile we should keep praying for asiwaju to succeed because he obviously has good intentions for Nigeria.

So what is he achieving in Lagos since 1999, with his good intentions for the state

Elieh:
Its inconsequential talking about the dead many years later

Why don’t you apply it to your religious figures?

Throwback:
Where is Atiku now? Abi na Siddiq?

He is calmly watching us choke under Tinubu’s mega looting and cluelessness in ruining the economy into high prices for everything.

Chinonye2022:
like the way Obi looted anambra money

Na so we see am o.
Pretentious Peter Obi wants to scam us like Tinubu did in 2015 packaging Buhari as APC messiah.
Maybe they think that our mumu never do ni?

anonimi:
Anambra doctors call off strike after 13 months
February 28, 2012

After over a year of down tools, Anambra State Government employed medical doctors have finally called of strike.
According to Dr. Emma Ekwesianya, Chairman Anambra State chapter of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), the striking doctors decided to pick up tools again because of the plight of the ordinary people in the societ.
“It is true, we have called off the strike. We have just signed the agreement with government about an hour ago. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG) signed for the government. A technical committee, headed by Prof. O.O. Mbonu was set up to execute the agreement.” He confirmed.

“We decided to take the 60 per cent offered by government because of our people. Government has been rigid and we do not want to continue with the rigidity of government. We are serving the people, not government and our people are suffering.”
Speaking further, Ekwesianya, revealed that a technical committee, headed by Prof. O.O. Mbonu had also been set up by the association to see to the implementation of the agreement with government sequel to the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Peter Obi-led government on Monday.

Chief Medical Director, Anambra State University Teaching Hospital (ASUTH), Amaku, Awka, Dr. Lawrence Ikeakor also confirmed the new development: “Well I’m happy to tell you that the strike has been amicably resolved, even though, like you said, it’s been a prolonged one but suffice it to say that it has been resolved and the doctors have resumed work.”
“The call off was yesterday (Sunday). The doctors had some negotiations and held their congress yesterday, during which they agreed to call off the strike. So they resumed duty today.
They are in their clinic. Well, I was not privy to the agreement but I will say that our representatives were satisfied with the arrangement, hence they decided to call off the strike.” He disclosed.

https://dailypost.ng/2012/02/28/anambra-doctors-call-off-strike-after-13-months/

BATified2023:
what’s d difference between buhari n peter obi

Under buhari ASUU strike for 6 months same for 6 month’s lecturers strike under peter obi

Doctors are complaining under buhari same way doctors went on strike for 13 months under peter obi

Peter obi increased ANSU tuition fee by 70% so tell me d difference between peter obi n buhari

As regards insecurity,I believe u know for sure that curbing insecurity n kidnapping was part of Obiano manifesto

As regards economy,peter obi couldn’t add 5 naira to anambra economy,something Obiano quadruple within a year in government n also increased workers salary

So bro tell me d difference between peter obi n buhari

Rekhina:
But tinubu donated to the north wooping sum of 400million for floods?

Is that less than what he “donated” to the Americans to hide his heroin charges

Francis5:
Nigeria’s Next Leader’s Ties to a Heroin Ring

Former Lagos provincial governor Bola Tinubu, affectionately nicknamed the Jagaban, is today seen as a shrewd if not “deeply Machiavellian” Svengali in Nigeria’s politics as well as the architect of a hugely successful anti-corruption platform. But 20 years ago he had to forfeit nearly half a million dollars to the U.S. Treasury Department after being named as an accomplice in a white heroin-trafficking and money-laundering ring that stretched from West Africa to the U.S. Midwest.

Although his case has been bandied about the Nigerian press for years, Tinubu’s involvement in a federal drug and racketeering investigation waged jointly by the DEA, FBI, and IRS has gone unreported elsewhere, even after his ascendance to Karl Rove-like status last month. A recent gauzy Financial Times profile of him, for instance, neglected to mention that two decades ago Tinubu was identified as a bagman for two Nigerian heroin movers who operated out of Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. They were Adegboyega Mueez Akande and Abiodun Agbele, Akande’s nephew, who was exposed to law enforcement after selling white heroin first to Lee Andrew Edwards, another dealer later jailed for trying to murder a federal agent, and then to an undercover cop.

In a 1993 court docket from the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, which The Daily Beast obtained from Sahara Reporters, a Nigeria-focused news outlet, IRS Special Agent Kevin Moss said that Akande had run the white heroin ring in the late 1980s until 1990, when he handed off the U.S arm of the business to his nephew, who had arrived in 1988. Akande then returned to Nigeria but continued to oversee the operation from abroad with the help of others at home and in the United States, including his relatives. One of the individuals identified in his cartel by Moss was Tinubu, then a Chicago State University-educated accountant working as a treasurer for Mobil Oil Nigeria Ltd, a subsidiary of energy giant Mobil Oil, which was still a few years shy of its famous merger with Exxon in 1999.

In the biography section of his official website, Tinubu is described as having emigrated to the United States in 1975 “in search of the proverbial Golden Fleece with a heart brimming with unrelenting determination to achieve his visions.” This is certainly one way to describe his tenure stateside.

In 1989, Moss said in an affidavit, Tinubu established an individual money market account, into which he deposited $1,000 in traveler’s checks, and a negotiable order of withdrawal account (NOW) at First Heritage Bank in Country Club Hills, Illinois. The address Tinubu gave the bank was the same as the listed headquarters of Globe-Link International, the front company owned by Akande and his relatives.

“There’s a trend of various Nigerian politicians at the highest levels involved in dodgy business deals around the world, in property and cash.”

Bank employees told Moss that Akande had personally introduced them to Tinubu in December 1989 when who also opened a joint checking account with his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, who already kept a joint account with Akande’s wife at First Heritage. Five days after the NOW account was opened, $80,000 was wired into it from a bank in Houston maintained by one of Akande’s relatives. Tinubu would later use the NOW account to buy a $10,000 Certificate of Deposit for an $8,000 car loan, listing Akande as his cousin on the application.

At the time, Tinubu’s take home as a Mobil Oil Nigeria executive was a mere $2,400 a month and he claimed not to have any other revenue streams. Yet he still managed to deposit $661,000 into his individual money market account in 1990 and then another $1,216,500 a year later. He also opened more accounts with Citibank in its worldwide personal banking unit, transferring over half a million dollars from his First Heritage money market account into one of them in early 1991.

Mobil Oil Nigeria told Moss that Tinubu’s role at the company never involved transferring large sums of money between banks and that it didn’t keep deposits in any institutions in the south suburbs of Chicago, where First Heritage was based. Moreover, although Tinubu moved back to Nigeria in 1983, he neglected to file U.S. income tax returns after 1984 despite having sizable, interest-generating deposits in American banks. All of this was enough to persuade a magistrate judge of the Northern District to issue seizure warrants for Tinubu’s First Heritage and Citibank accounts. Collectively, more than $1.4 million belonging to the Nigerian was confiscated.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/27/nigeria-s-next-leader-s-ties-to-a-heroin-ring.html

treesun:
The Eagle has landed!

Ready for Aso Rock.
Ready to make our country work again.
Unlike that peepooing, shaky shaky ThiefNuibu Asiwaju agberos that is going nowhere but Bourdillon to enjoy his stranglehold on Lagosians and their commonwealth that they have allowed him to get away with since 1999.