₦airaland Forum

lakpalakpa: I hope Ribadu isn't trying to prove them right..

The former EFCC chair is purely driven by his selfish ambition

Ribadu’s descent into a moral abyss



Highly respected former EFCC Chairman has now taken to political prostitution

jomonic: Hitler was a very competent ruler. He brought the German economy to economic parity with his other competitors like the UK and France. But look at what he did to the Jews and the global conflagration he caused the world. It is not just competency that should be considered. APC will simply ignore the South Eastern State if they ever come to power. May God forbid this!!!. Nigeria has to move forward.

AustineE1: igbos has made their choice and will stand by it,even at the pain of death.

Ikengawo: The ignorance of this man is so steep that it's hard to gauge.

So he believes that Nigeria can do with 1/5 the oil of Saudi Arabia and 500% of Saudi Arabia's population what Saudi Arabia has done 500% the oil of Nigeria as a population the size of Lagos?

Faun: You mean the same way your people have traded their lives for the eternal servitude under the 72 year old cattle rearer MuhaMALU Bokohaari?

Sincere9gerian: A thread was created a few days ago on the ONGOING repair works on the existing Niger Bridge with pictures but it didn't make front page. Now this on Eko Bridge makes front page.

henrysam: Why was the man not sacked since 2000. How e come be Jona problem if he's still in service and a senior permanent secretary.
Heaping all blames on gej will not sell again.
Gej till shekau becomes a pope.

Danladi Irmiya Kifasi, the man President Goodluck Jonathan just named as the new Head of Service of the Federation, had been indicted of corruption in 2000 and barred from holding public office, according to a government White Paper obtained by SaharaReporters. Last Wednesday, Mr. Jonathan appointed Mr. Kifasi as the new head of Nigeria’s civil service following the retirement of Bukar Goni Aji, the immediate past Head of Service.

Danladi Irmiya Kifasi, the man President Goodluck Jonathan just named as the new Head of Service of the Federation, had been indicted of corruption in 2000 and barred from holding public office, according to a government White Paper obtained by SaharaReporters.

Last Wednesday, Mr. Jonathan appointed Mr. Kifasi as the new head of Nigeria’s civil service following the retirement of Bukar Goni Aji, the immediate past Head of Service.

The position means that Mr. Kifasi is to oversee Nigeria’s civil service. The controversial appointee formerly worked as the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources.

Several sources told SaharaReporters that Nigeria’s powerful Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, prevailed on President Jonathan to appoint Mr. Kifasi, despite his indictment on corruption.

An anti-corruption activist who helped provide information about Mr. Kifasi’s corrupt past said that his appointment provoked questions of credibility and highlighted Mr. Jonathan’s penchant for hobnobbing with corrupt elements.

[b]The source wondered what kind of disconnect made it possible for the president to elevate a man like Mr. Kifasi to the topmost post in the civil service despite the existence of a Government White Paper that declared Mr. Kifasi unfit for public office.

The White Paper arose from Mr. Kifasi’s involvement in a financial scandal at the Federal Superphosphate Fertilizer Company (FSFC) in Kaduna, capital of Kaduna State. In 2000, a panel of inquiry looked into a scandal that involved Mr. Kifasi, Awal Tukur, Jide Omokore, who is also close to President Jonathan, Ben Osuji, J.B. Ghumdia, J.O. Odu, and Fivatek Nigeria Limited. The panel investigated how the mentioned subjects defrauded the FSFC by making up costs, misappropriating funds, inflating the price of items, and tampering with the contract for the building of a sulfuric acid plant.

The investigation concluded that Mr. Kifasi, who was then the director of the FSFC, had given out free bags of fertilizer to officials in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture. Mr. Kifasi also handed out four all-wheel-drive trucks ordered for the plant to agriculture officials.

The White Paper, which heavily indicted both Mr. Kifasi and Mr. Omokore, made strong recommendations in relation to the former. The investigating commission recommended that Mr. Kifasi should refund the total amount of funds spent on overpricing of items during his tenure. Investigators found that the inflation of prices was deliberate and part of Mr. Kifasi’s calculated acts of fraud.

The investigators also found that Mr. Kifasi engaged in widespread maladministration, including the misapplication of funds, dishonesty and flagrant violation of financial regulations. The commission added that Mr. Kifasi’s acts of corruption led to huge losses and imposed a heavy debt burden on the FSFC.

Not only did the commission declare Mr. Kifasi unfit to hold public office, it also recommended his dismissal from the service. The Commission recommended that Mr. Kifasi should refund various sums, including N20,047,844.25 lost by the Company through his hyperinflation of prices for sulfuric acid. In addition, the commission ordered that Mr. Kifasi should refund N12,100,000 being the difference between funds he claimed to have spent on a missing fire truck and water tanker and the correct price of the vehicle.[/b]

Mr. Kifasi had claimed that former President Umaru Yar’Adua had extended a presidential pardon to him, but there is no government gazette available to authenticate the claim.


http://saharareporters.com/

crazypatriot: and to think this is a mod on NL's politics section......HM
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suwailad: sharrap dia! you want to fight with your nokia and mtn free 10mb? balumba!

Decontee Sawyer, the widow of Patrick Sawyer – the Liberian who brought Ebola to Nigeria on July 20th this year – explained that her husband came to Nigeria with his Ebola infection because he believed he will get better healthcare and a cure for his ailment in Nigeria.

A quick google search for “Ebola vaccine” at the time Patrick got infected will tell you why anyone with Ebola would have booked the next flight to Nigeria: our minister of information, Labaran Maku had on April 2nd, two months earlier publicized that Nigeria was ready for Ebola and the Ministry had procured vaccines for Ebola. Of course, Nigeria could and should have vaccines for Ebola. We can afford to have sponsored local and even chartered foreign research companies and paid them to develop these vaccines for Africa 10 years ago, had it been we had our heads on right and thought about people over private jets.

Quoting Mr. Maku in the media:
ion, including getting the vaccines and medicines in case there was any incident in Nigeria. “So far, there is nothing like Ebola fever in Nigeria, and Council was reassured that every step has been taken to ready our country just in case, infected persons come into the country from our neighbouring cou
“Nigeria is ready, because the Ministry has taken every precautntries,” Mr. Maku said.

Nigeria’s president described Patrick Sawyer’s coming to Nigeria when he knew he had Ebola, as “mad” and “crazy.” Those are the exact two words that describe the misinformation of Jonathan’s minister of information, Labaran Maku. People are now asking him, “where are your vaccines?” Is it “salt bathe?” Is Labaran Maku behind the dangerous spreading of the idea that salt bathes are a vaccine for Ebola? He can be.

Labaran Maku, Nigeria’s minister of information’s announcement – that Nigeria was prepared and had vaccines for Ebola – are apart from being senseless, mad, crazy, criminal and treacherous, frankly evil.


[b]But this is a trend with almost all of Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan’s appointees. The nation’s minister of interior, Abba Moro recently himself confessed to have been ruled by the devil when he ordered a crazy and mad immigration recruitment exercise that was designed as a dangerous scam to defraud the nation’s youth. In that exercise a million of Nigeria’s youth were taxed to a collective tune of millions of dollars and then gathered together on March 15th this year for an interview in stadia in herd conditions that led to stampedes and the suffering of thousands, injury of hundreds and death of over 25 job seeking youth.

Other of Jonathan’s ministers have been publicly disgraced in gross and simply evil looting scandals with one, Stella Oduah, finally being kicked out after the President could no longer take the heat and stay in her defense; and another, the minister of oil, Diezani Maduweke, also known as the oil godess, who the president continues to protect despite her being implicated in the nation’s suffering and the looting of over a third of the nation’s income with her having been caught in serial grand looting scams including a kerosene subsidy scam through which she loots as much as $4 million/day from the pockets of the nation’s poor. Money for healthcare.[/b]



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BishopMagic: Olodo rabata. go and get an eductaion first before posting here. I said Lagos and not that backward hinterland Osun

Abariwiseman: Nonsense!
when your mates are commissioning
Kilometers of roads
power plants
Stadiums
primary health care facilities
Improving the standard of their educational facilities (primary, secondary and tertiary)
e.t.c
Gov Fashola, chooses to commission common shopping complex, after they (APC & Co.) have burnt down the market and chase the poor traders away.

okomogo: You really took that out of my mouth, i wonder why we the youth that are supposed to be more reasonable just look at things from the abstract. She asked some reasonable questions that we should critically examine and watch the trend of unfolding events, always remember someone made a promise to MAKE THE COUNTRY UNGOVERNABLE before 2011 elections. Call it what you like but i think we need to ask ourselves some questions.

san316: Chaaaaai! This is the last straw. This woman is completely insane to make such assumptions based on mere coincidence. Gosh!!! How can a security personel of her level say such a thing? The fact is that bh is now preoccupied fighting in gwoza and probably still plotting more suicide attacks. Marilyn ogar, face your work oo.

Sincere9gerian: Nonsense! So the DSS should not defend itself from the onslaught from the APC? So it is right for the APC to make insinuations but wrong for the DSS to match them in their own game? My guy, you'r not making sense.

Sincere9gerian: This is about everything. It is about an opposition party with penchant for mischief and crying wolf when there is none. It is also about a desperate opposition party that is trying to run down every state institution. It is about an opposition that makes baseless and careless allegations at every slightest opportunity.

For goodness sake, the APC won the Osun election. So why cant the party that won an election let us be? Why must the APC continue to heat up the polity in spite of the fact that it won the same election it is crying about?

Honestly, in my opinion, your party the APC has become a burden and a nuisance to Nigeria.

OneNaira6: The question she asked is actually interesting and begs for an answer.
How come only the states APC lost gets bombed after the election but the ones they won are spared? If anyone does not see the intriguing aspect of her suspicious then that person needs he/her head checked

Sincere9gerian: Are there no "wrongs" in your party, the APC? Why not first remove the log of wood in your party's eyes so you people can see clearly to point at the "wrongs" in the other political parties?