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Politics / Re: Bayelsa Indigenes Clash With Igbo Traders by atakamus: 8:52pm On May 11, 2017
Let us state the real thing here. I am Igbo from Imo state. I live in Yenagoa not too far from Biogbolo. I have lived in Bayelsa for over 10 years and have a Bayelsa wife with three children.
What happened was just the unfortunate. The boy that killed the girl is Igbo but the resultant effect was wrong as some boys took advantage of the situation to set up looting. Yes no body is happy for the killing and most people mainly Bayelsans are not happy with the way the boys took advantage of the situation. Some of them don't even know the girl at all.
The security( Police, Sars and Army) did well to check the situation. The government, local and state are also doing something to check the situation.
It is not even an Ijaw thing. The ethnic group involved here is called Epie.

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Nairaland / General / Re: 7 Reasons We Should Stop Killing Snakes by atakamus: 11:16am On May 10, 2017
Some people de crase oooooooooooooo
Politics / Re: Pic: King Of Nigeria Adesegun Ademusiwa Paying His Respect To Canadian Military by atakamus: 6:29pm On May 09, 2017
Afonja king
Politics / Re: Suspended NIA DG, Oke, Admits Jonathan Ordered Release Of $289m. by atakamus: 8:44am On Apr 21, 2017
Jonathan released a lot of things ooo. Why I no meet this guy? Him for release my own. He released sperm, money, women etc. GEJ the highest releaser.

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Romance / Re: Say No To Broke Men, Ladies Be Smart! by atakamus: 2:39pm On Apr 15, 2017
This is the kind of bi@cht I like to have around. Play unrealistic plasure with her. Jab her so hard front and back and dump her. If you are lady, avoid such confused and lady girl that beleive God created men to solve women problems.

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Politics / Re: Senate Plans Law To Harvest 3 Trillion From Dormant Bank Accounts. by atakamus: 6:15pm On Apr 12, 2017
Sorry for Nigerians. The one they de appropriate never reach them. Na de one to mop up go reach them. Well they go de mop and the banker go they mop as well. Time don reach wey u go get alert we say your account has been closed and at night assassons will come after you. They go mop your money before they come after you. U go see guys they run if they get alert say their account has been closed.
Politics / Re: I’ll Not Hold Parallel Congress In Anambra — Makarfi by atakamus: 6:10pm On Apr 12, 2017
This guy don dey get sense. Oya Putin clap for him.

Politics / Re: Nigeria Customs Intercepts Rifles Concealed In 40ft Container In Lagos (photos) by atakamus: 3:03pm On Jan 30, 2017
Holy Moses
Investment / Re: Anyone On MMM Japan Here?? by atakamus: 4:18pm On Jan 29, 2017
MMM Japan is a huge scam. My friend lost #800 000 through it last year ending. If u put head there sorry has become your name. Infact anything MMM is scam.

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Jobs/Vacancies / Re: N-power- I Just Received My Stipend. by atakamus: 4:23pm On Dec 30, 2016
Catalin:
30k can't solve half your problems.
Do u know the level of his or her problem Bugga. Did u give him or her anyone? PDP

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Politics / Re: Los Angeles Times Write Up On Buhari's Corruption Fight. by atakamus: 6:09pm On Dec 29, 2016
talktimi:
your mother is a gangster cool
If it pains you, see the truth and appreciate it. Buhari is trying period.
Politics / Re: Los Angeles Times Write Up On Buhari's Corruption Fight. by atakamus: 3:18pm On Dec 29, 2016
talktimi:
270 million was used to cut grass cool

2016 and 2017 budgets are a cesspit of corruption itself

PDP gangster. Package yourself well there, Your people messed up this country. Thank God for Buhari. We are restructuring. Go and eat and sleep.

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Politics / Re: Los Angeles Times Write Up On Buhari's Corruption Fight. by atakamus: 3:10pm On Dec 29, 2016
Sai Baba, Sai Baba , Sai Baba Sai Baba

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Politics / Re: Los Angeles Times Write Up On Buhari's Corruption Fight. by atakamus: 3:09pm On Dec 29, 2016
For sure this guy is trying. For the first time in my thirty years in this country I feel a government doing the right thing. Those saying all sorts of nonsense are short sited. Let us create a Nigeria where hard work will be rewarded not some stealing and looting.

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Politics / Los Angeles Times Write Up On Buhari's Corruption Fight. by atakamus: 2:46pm On Dec 29, 2016
US Newspaper LA Times published an article on its website, stating that Nigeria has started to feel the impact of its current fight against Corruption as some government officials with Luxury cars can't afford to buy fuel now. Read the interesting article below...

It’s a tough time in Nigeria’s civil service. The government money that sloshed through bureaucrats’ personal accounts until last year has dried up, leaving many facing a novel fate: They have to survive on their salaries.


Stories abound of mid-level bureaucrats in the capital, Abuja, with luxury houses and multiple European luxury cars, who can no longer pay for gasoline. Others have had to withdraw their children from prestigious foreign schools and colleges.
“There are now civil servants who have to live just on their salaries. They were living above their standard before,” said Mala Mohammad Yaro, an auditor in the Maiduguri state government. “They are now complaining.”
Nigeria has seen many billions of dollars leak out of government coffers in past decades, with the state oil company one of the worst offenders.
Nigeria ranks 136th among 167 nations on the “perceptions of corruption” index compiled by the advocacy group Transparency International, with first being least corrupt (Denmark) and 167th the worst (a tie between Somalia and North Korea).
Corruption in various forms — bribes, overcharging, skimming from government accounts — is so embedded in Nigerian culture that when then-British Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on video this year calling Afghanistan and Nigeria “fantastically corrupt,” the Nigerian president didn’t object. Well, I think he’s being honest about it,” President Muhammadu Buhari told CNN. He added, “I don’t think you can fault him.”
Buhari has unleashed an anti-corruption sweep that has touched people across the country but left bureaucrats, in particular, in despair.
In Kano, the country’s second-biggest city, a civil servant who got his job through a family connection 15 years ago is tall, thin and, these days, gloomy.
“It’s like a tradition,” the civil servant, Ibrahim, said of corruption in the bureaucracy. “Because the government had plenty of money, they didn’t care much what happened.”
Ibrahim, who declined to be fully identified because of the corruption crackdown, says he was not a big-time crook, like the accounting and revenue officials.
“They used to buy houses, marry beautiful wives,” he said. “They used to send their children abroad [for education]. Some of them had many very expensive cars.”
But that’s getting harder now after Buhari implemented a reform last year that is simple and elegant: Government departments and agencies used to have more than 10,000 accounts in various commercial banks. Now there is just one government account in the central bank, the Treasury Single Account.
In the stroke of a pen, myriad scams were wiped out. Banks could no longer lend government money back to the government at exorbitant rates. Bureaucrats couldn’t siphon off bank interest. Money could no longer be discreetly detoured out of the breathtaking tangle of accounts. Scandalously inflated government contracts could be easily traced.
Now the government actually knows where its money is and how it’s spending it.
“The Treasury Single Account has affected us all,” bemoaned Ibrahim. “Civil servants are crying, because everything they did before, they cannot do any more.”
He cannot afford to run his car. Even buying food is a problem. He’s embarrassed when relatives who have always depended on his largess expect support.
“In our tradition, if you have money you will give it to your family,” he said. “But now the money is not even enough for your own needs.”
The biggest thieves, according to Ibrahim, were those who had access to government accounts; other bureaucrats have long been known to generously pad their salaries with bribes.
A World Bank survey in 2014 found that 55% of firms in Nigeria expected to pay bribes or give gifts to bureaucrats or politicians and others to “get things done,” more than double the average in sub-Saharan Africa. Forty-five percent said corruption was “a major constant.”
The effects of such corruption are far-reaching, the World Bank says. Corruption is a major stumbling block toward reaching the U.N.’s sustainable development goal of ending poverty by 2030, according to the bank.
Nigeria’s anti-corruption drive has been made more urgent by the country’s worst recession in three decades, as the oil-dependent economy reels with the decline in oil prices. The economy shrank more than 3% in the second quarter of 2016 alone. Nigeria spends $4.4 billion a year on civil service salaries, 40% of all spending, a figure the government says is unsustainable.
The crisis comes as Nigeria’s oil revenues have been hit further by rebels in the oil-producing southeast, who have blown up pipelines, forcing a drop in production from 2.2 million barrels a day to 1.4 million.
The Single Treasury Account has reduced corruption and helped the government get control of revenue, but it had left commercial banks severely stressed, according to Garba Ibrahim Sheka, an economics professor at Bayelsa University in Kano.
“If we compare the costs and benefits, most of us will say it’s better that the government has come up with this policy because it has checked one of the major issues in the country, which is corruption and theft of public funds,” Sheka said. “Civil servants are complaining. People have been reduced to their natural position.”
But when there’s less to steal, there’s less to spend.
“Blocking someone from stealing public funds will reduce his frequency in the market,” Sheka said. “If retailers can’t sell as much, they will buy less from manufacturers.”
Shopkeepers in Kano say their businesses have shrunk, partly because civil servants — once a large part of their clientele — are no longer flush with money.
“Business has gone down by 40% in the past year,” says Vashir Musa, 33, a shopkeeper selling Chinese-made shoes, Timberland knockoffs and bags. “People have to manage on their salaries. They don’t have a surplus above their salaries, and they need that for the basics like food and school fees.”
The scale of embezzlement in Nigeria is astonishing. Judges, senators, former governors and deputy governors, political staffers and ex-bankers have been swept up in recent months in an unprecedented anti-corruption drive.
Seven judges, including two Supreme Court judges, have been arrested on corruption allegations. The sacked head of the military, Alex Badeh, is being tried on charges of stealing $3.1 million from Nigerian air force accounts to buy houses in Abuja.
A cousin of former president Goodluck Jonathan has been charged with the theft of $40 million that was supposed to pay for tactical communication kits for Nigeria’s special forces.
A former customs boss, Abdullahi Dikko, also has been arrested and accused of pocketing $40 million.
A former national security advisor, Sambo Dasuki, tops that. He’s been in fraud scheme prosecutors say reached $13 billion.
Not all civil servants are distressed about the anti-corruption measures. Yaro, the government auditor, said corrupt, rich civil servants often derided him as a loser.
“I’m prone to honesty in my life,” he said. “Because I embrace a moral way of life, people look down on me as a poor man.”
In the past, some government departments would deny him access to cash books and accounts. The single government account has “made my life easier,” he said.
There are different forms of corruption: non-existent “ghost workers” on the government payroll, overcharging on government contracts, diverting money from government accounts. And bribes.
Ibrahim used to double his salary in “gifts.”
“Before, people used to give money if you did a very beautiful thing for them. But now people have no money in their hands. People used to give me shoes, clothes, even watches,” he said. “You would thank them and tell them you would have a very long relationship with them.
“You’d quicken processes for them. We used to handle those jobs with extra care.”
Like many civil servants, Ibrahim doesn’t believe the anti-corruption campaign will stick. After all, none ever has before.
“It cannot be permanent,” he said.
Sheka, the economist, agreed.
“Even if the government blocks corruption on one side, another side will open. This issue of corruption is in our blood.”

http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-global-nigeria-corruption-2016-story.html

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Politics / Re: John Paden's Book On President Muhammadu Buhari And His Dirty Little Lies - Ffk by atakamus: 1:21pm On Dec 27, 2016
This idiot is jobless. Well I don't him. He has stolen a lot of money that working is a waste of time for him. What this thief does is to write about Buhari every day.Enemy of progress.
Politics / Re: Nigerians Warned To Stay Off MMM 'scam' by atakamus: 9:56pm On Oct 10, 2016
Chief tell them oo. Na only MMM I de hear this day. If you take this one, U will get this one. I don tire.

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Politics / Re: Bode George Asks Agbaje To Step Down For Him by atakamus: 8:38am On Aug 15, 2016
Thief de quote bible. Stupid man. PDP should make him their chairman na. Na their concern be that.
Politics / Re: What Family And Friends Think Happens When You Live In America by atakamus: 6:16pm On Aug 07, 2016
Come back. Come and test a better option here. If u no fit make mone, keep quite.
Politics / Re: U Can’t Diversify The Economy From Oil By Searching For Oil In The North- Fayose by atakamus: 12:15pm On Jul 28, 2016
If this statement came from Fayose , it is unfortunate. Ekiti should know that they don't have a governor. Searching for oil in the north cannot diversification. Why not get oil in the north. My Izon brothers will know that God shares things how he wishes.
Politics / Re: AVENGERS TO BUHARI: Continue With N-east Oil Exploration, No Export From N-delta by atakamus: 12:50pm On Jul 27, 2016
Some people are fools. People are suffering in Bayelsa and other Niger Delta states because of non paymen of salaries and these people are busy looking for dialogue.
Selfish people.

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Politics / Re: APC Lauds The Fg's Decision To Scrap POST UTME And Others. by atakamus: 1:21pm On Jun 05, 2016
Wonderful news. Lecturers admission racketeering will end for good. Good move. Obaji introduced that Post UME nonsense.
Romance / Re: 4 Guys Dated This Lady And Died After Leaving Her by atakamus: 10:56am On Apr 23, 2016
Run for your life guys
Politics / Re: Mohammed Barkindo Nominated For OPEC Secretary-General By FG by atakamus: 4:31pm On Apr 02, 2016
See the guy neck. God punish Satan now. Na this type of people be Nigerians. We never enter. Give him the secretary abeg. God I dey oooooo. Bless me too abeg you from my heart. Forget my sins abeg ooo. The ones I committed before plus including the ones I go still commit. Abeg God raise me up. Amen.
Politics / Re: Okorocha At Asumpta Catholic, Gave His Life To Christ,Promises To Change His Way by atakamus: 8:19pm On Mar 28, 2016
That is not Assumpta Cathedral of Owerri. Who is this person lying here. You and your Okorocha should go and sleep. That is Anglican Church in Owerri.
Family / Re: Any Married Lady Who Never Had This Is As Good As unmarried. by atakamus: 12:42pm On Mar 28, 2016
Come madam carry food give this guy abeg. I go pay you. Women don send you abi. Una no go succeed.
Our ladies nowadays are after unrealistic abstract things in thus world. They are not ready to submit and respect their husbands. Rather they are after their right. Most if them are selfish and are not ready to commit to their marriage. You hear things like " I know my right" instead of them to respect their husband.
The one I am living with opted for court wedding and I said no. I thank God for my response. Now she is a big issue for me. Very disrespectful and very abusive. Recently she has been telling people that she will leave the marriage. Some people I don't even know. Some people I don't even know. I spent mm y resources to train her in School. She has left the house 8 times and returned. I still accepted her. About 3 months ago, she destoyed all our marriage pictures including frames. Now she is asking for forgiveness because I am giving a damn again. She intercepted a text message between me and another woman that I intentionality went for. Her lives is now crashing. She is telling me she has right. I have made up my mind, I won't chase her away but will marry second wife. I won't chase cus we have three children together. The children need us but I can't live with her alone. It took me 8 years to put up with this shit of behavior.
So damn it OP.
Religion / Re: Why Do People Find It Difficult To Pay TITHES? by atakamus: 8:20am On Mar 28, 2016
If you look at Oyahkilome, Oyedepo etc, you should have no choice than to advice yourself. A group of people will gather part of their income and give someone that is not that he calls himself pastor.
These niggas pastors keep getting rich while their members keep getting poor out if fear. Can man rob God policy keep working for the Oyahkilomes etc. Oya will fry his hair, speak like oyibo and eat people dry. God is alive. I can't fall for any of them. Nonsense question.

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Politics / Re: Immigration Boss Carpets Ex-minister, Moro. by atakamus: 9:15pm On Mar 27, 2016
Moro na mumu.

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Politics / Re: When Will Nigerians Stop Calling PHCN..........NEPA by atakamus: 11:15pm On Mar 26, 2016
Ones light becomes stable, it will stop. If not why waste our time calling PHCN when what we see us NEPA when we look.
Romance / Re: He Is From Imo.... So Sad by atakamus: 6:01pm On Mar 26, 2016
If you love him, continue with him. I am from IMO myself married a Bayelsan girl. We have three children. Unfortunately she is misbehaving big time. I will soon marry a second wife and a Bayelsan as well.
Politics / Re: Buhari Opening Bottle Of Water By Himself At A Function,Is It Sign Of Humility? by atakamus: 9:34am On Mar 26, 2016
It is a sign of security not humility. After the recent stupid prophesies, the nigga don't trust anybody.

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