Akangbedfacts: Envy kills you and your generation there
Please what is there to envy about a rogue and drug pusher? What is there to envy
Nigeria’s Next Leader’s Ties to a Heroin Ring General Muhammed Buhari’s political partner is a former bagman for two heroin traffickers. But that’s just business as usual in Nigeria.
Nigeria’s election last month was celebrated as an unlikely victory for democracy in an African country with a tenuous record of free and fair representation. But the man most responsible for midwifing General Muhammed Buhari’s ballot triumph over current President Goodluck Jonathan has a spotty CV. 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
lwisee: It's his moment let him enjoy it while it last. We will remember all these charades and laugh at Tinubu when we have a new and much younger President come May 29,2023.
A president that does not weewee uncontrollably into his adult pampers
Nonpartisan1: I can't wait to have, Asiwaju Tinubu as my president. Competency... Capacity.... Selflessness --- Inclusiveness..... Thank you Asiwaju for accepting to run the race.
Competency and capacity to raise IGR from Lagosians and steal as per his slogan:
Jeun soke, jeun sapo
without water, free education, feeder roads, clean gutters to avoid flooding, hospitals and clinics free etc.
Maybe if they pay taxes fully and go to jail for tax evasion as oyinbo celebrities do, maybe they will have greater interest in governance processes instead of being yeyebrity politicians’ sidekicks worsening our collective poverty
Obiano is just enduring this his wife and her drama.
Meanwhile if I am use the voices that our skits maker use nowadays in describing the slap situation it will be like.
Ebele walking to receive slap: what are you trying to do?
Ebele in front of Bianca insulting her: They will call her Efu.
Bianca giving her the hot slap like: Arum na aso nkpari.
Ebele after receiving the slap like : make God no allow them kill you.
Obiano sitting quietly without saying a word be like : You think they will not leave you, now they have left you behind.
The people separating the fight be like to Ebele: Will you keep kwayet?
Bianca maintaining beauty after the slap: No be juju be that
The audience be laughing like: hahahahahahahaha otuma na ka.
The way that Thiefnuibu and Jonathan are enduring their wives instead of divorcing them? Is that why Obiano wanted her in the senate like Thiefnuibu's market-woman wife
SmartProf: Obiano has devised a way of completely ignoring the woman's drama. You can see that from how he placed his face away from her dance moves in the video, and how he maintained neutrality when she received her farewell slap yesterday. It's obvious the woman doesn't impress him, and if he has a way he will love to do a swap deal that will see her move to Putin. Indeed the embarrassment an insane woman cannot give to a man does not exist.
If Obiano agrees with any of what you said why has he not divorced her like Mandela divorced Winnie
rocknation62: And one 69 year old man calling himself Yoot has been going around begging & lobbying to be the next president.
The only 69 I know is s*x position
After looting Lagos into a shithole with heavy debts also despite oil prices at $140 and huge IGR increase. Maybe it is the silent curse of Lagosians that have made him an Atosara, peepee pikin
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. Last year, Nigeria overtook India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, thereby becoming the world capital of poverty, according to the Brookings Institute. This year, the number has risen to 91.6 million from 87 million in June 2018. Every minute, six Nigerians enter the group of extremely poor people, according to the World Poverty Clock.
Economic experts have blamed the rising population of Lagos putting more pressure on the available resources, low level of government reforms and rising poverty rate.
Gbolahan Ologunro, an equity research analyst at Lagos-based CSL Stockbrokers said, “There is a high level of people living in Lagos and I don’t think the housing infrastructure is adequate to accommodate the large number of people in the city.”
“For Lagos, being a commercial hub, there are lots of people from rural areas coming into the city on a daily basis. However the improvement for supply for housing units does not keep in pace for the influx of people into the city .So the overall impact is that you have a large number of people living in areas or homes that will be considered as inadequate for human welfare,” Ologunro further said.
According to the National Population Commission of Nigeria (NPC), Lagos has a population of over 21 million as at 2016 and by year 2050, its population is expected to double, which will make it the 3rd largest city in the world.
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.
From the indictors used for the ranking index which was stability, healthcare, culture & environment ,education and infrastructure , Lagos, fairly scored 20.0, 37.5, 53.5, 33.3 and 46.4 respectively which dragged its score to 38.5 from a total of 100.This score remains unchanged from the previous year but its ranking moved up by on position to 138th. Ayodeji Ebo, MD, Afrinvest Securities Limited said that based on the indicators that were used, there have not been any major improvement and that rural urban migration has increased significantly which has put more pressure on the available resources in terms of infrastructure, health, education and social amenities.
“Even though we have seen some development, we cannot compare the rate of development that we have seen relative to the rate of the infrastructure spending or the rate of population that we are seeing. Population pressure is affecting social amenities ,which is why we are still lagging behind,” Ebo also added.
The top 5 most liveable cities in the world are Vienna, Austria scoring 99. 1; Melbourne, Australia with 98.4; Sydney, Australia with 98.1; Osaka, Japan with 97.7 and Calgary, Canada had 97.5.
The least liveable cities were Damascus in Syria, Lagos in Nigeria, Dhaka in Bangladesh, Tripoli in Libya and Karachi in Pakistan which scored 30.7, 38.5, 39.2, 40.4 and 40.9 respectively.
“Inadequate infrastructure is one of the major problems. The poverty level in the country is high and government policies or reforms are not happening as fast as they should to improve the standard of people living in the country.
If all these things do not change, then Lagos and Nigeria as a whole will still lagged when compared with other cities in the world where developmental activities are happening”, Ibrahim Tajudeem, Head of Research, Chapel Hill Denham expressed.
Segzy22: If Russia and US could borrow even China, how do you expect Nigeria not to borrow? Stop this hatred to your country!!!!
Are you also an empty head like Bubu on economics to be making this useless comparison? Is the US or Russia with the highest number of children out of school & the world capital of extreme poverty ahead of India's almost 1.5 billion people? Is the US or Russia having almost zero industrial capacity to create value for exports to other countries
Xscape1993: The only language that APC understands is borrow and nothing more. I doubt if the problems that APC has created for Nigeria can be solved in the next 20 years.
What does that say about Obasanjo's intelligence, if he backed Bubu when he knew he was a nonentity on the economy
citizenisb: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says President Muhammadu Buhari may not do well in economy and foreign affairs, except in military matters.
“Buhari is not a very hot person on the economy and foreign affairs,” Obasanjo said.
The former President stated this on Monday at the third International Conference on African Development Issues — themed, “Driving inclusive and sustainable development in Africa: Models, methods and policies” — organised by Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State.
While reacting to a question posed to him by a member of the audience: “Is there any hope for Nigeria under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari?”, Obasanjo replied, “Is there any hope for Nigeria under this administration? I came back from Geneva, Switzerland a few days ago to attend a conference titled, ‘Are elections giving democracy a bad name?’ We had an election, we elected a leader and the good thing about democracy is that the power you have to elect a leader is also the power you have to remove him. I am saying this because I said earlier that if you don’t see any leader that has done well in the 56 years of Nigeria’s independence, then let us forget about Nigeria.
“I will tell you what I know and I will tell you what I don’t know. I know Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. He served under me in the military. His characteristics that I know, his behaviour that I know, he has not deviated from them. He was never a perfect man, he is not a perfect man and no leader can ever be a perfect man because they are human beings. But if you read my book, what I said about him is correct. He is not a hot person when it comes to economy. He is not a very hot person when it comes to foreign affairs. But he will do well in matters of military and he will do well in fighting Boko Haram.”
TheGidRedpiller: I gave her the money she would need to get herself sorted out in the hospital today.
I just walked in the house, dropped the N100,000 cash on the table where she would clearly see it, and walked out immediately. She shouldn't be expecting me to greet, at this point, she is no longer a mother figure to me, I felt like I was just helping some random person in need on the street, no pressure!
As for her curses, well, I didn't see the money on the table this morning, so basically, she accepted help from a cursed soul. I appreciate everyone that took my situation very likely yesterday and the ones who even tried reaching out to me personally, I really do appreciate, you guys are the real KINGS around here.
I am a damaged person, believe me, I know, the redpill however is the only the that gave me the insight to everything I was going through, I am toxic, I get, but at least I have a good cause, I'm just a young man that has gone through a whole lot, and is currently still going through hell mentally, psychologically and socially!!
My life is looking like I'm supposed to be traumatized in every way, first of, I was molested as a young boy by A WOMAN, and then I have the worst woman the world can ever breed as a biological mother, so basically, I was born CURSED!! what then is the DIFFERENCE
I have given her the money, she won, but whatever.... I'm waiting for the doctor's report tonight.
Still Typing...
You should consider seeing a psychotherapist as soon as you can. All the best
kirajustice: The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, who spoke on behalf of the senators expressed support for Tinubu. In his words: "Your Excellency, once again, all of us wish you well, wish you the best of luck, wish you success in this and in the affair of fighting for APC, to continue to be the ruling party in Nigeria, and justifiably so, Your Excellency, we are with you."
What kind of abracadabra dribbling is this? Only ThiefNuibu’s miseducated and illiterate followers will rejoice over this watery statement.
Sundaypaul12345: The jagaban of Lagos I wonder if we have any other presidency aspirants apart from tinubu, the man keeps making moves while others are quiet
You have not heard that- Ariwo kø ni music, which is a way of saying that empty barrels make the loudest noise
softwareman: Tinubu is a serious minded person that goes about everything with detailed plan and we'll thought out strategy.
Detailed plan and well thought out strategy that gave us the old soldier he called CPC’s expired leadership in 2011 but changed into APC’s capable messiah four years later? Do you know what you are talking about
wiseoneking: This is not completed but partially done. Look at all this red boundaries etc. It makes it look very ugly.
Elections are coming and he knows that the low-expectations Nigerians will be hailing him Mr. Project instead of asking tough questions on cost and other governance matters.
Moferere: Eeyah, Illiterate Peoples of Biafra with their madness. Never doubt well people.
He will never appreciate anything good in his miserable life.
Nansense boy
If you are Yoruba as your name suggests you will know that children that are not built/trained/educated will sell/destroy the house/infrastructure that you built. How has Abiodun and the Ogun state governors before him since 1999 improved the number of children in free government schools with enough teachers? Instead we have pictures of dilapidated schools in Ogun. The Ogun state of Awolowo, Soyinka, Ransome-Kutis etc. If you are an Omoluabi should you not be ashamed of yourself with your misplaced aggression
planetE: Humanity has never benefited from any form of war!!!
Lies. Even Yoruba wars made us more civilised with built up towns/cities and sophisticated division of labour in urban setting with a developed language. Ija lóde ti orin fi di owe. Many of today's health and technological indispensables were the result of rapid war research and use.
That the reporter was arrested and made to appear in court shows that Russia isn’t even bad during a war. Try this nonsense for Nigeria, dem for don use slap and torture reset your destiny
How many times have you heard of petty thieves being lynched and roasted like suya in Russia? Civilisation get levels and dictatorship respects the civilisation still.
Truth is bitter but must be told. Learn and fix the root causes of the hunger ravaging the world capital of extreme poverty. Are you able to work on this
Politics › Re: Bola Tinubu Novelty Birthday Match At Onikan Stadium by anonimi: 6:20pm On Mar 20, 2022
