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I REPEAT LET LAGOS, WHICH DOES NOT PRODUCE ANY OIL, STOP COLLECTING OIL ALLOCATION AND LETS SEE HOW FAR IT SURVIVES. PLUS ALL THOSE REVENUE ARE COMING FROM YORUBA PEOPLE IN LAGOS? YOUR BOASTING IS AT BEST VACUOS.

Lagos rakes in well over 14 billion a month,


Yoruba people built so many firsts in Nigeria and Africa without oil money and they are about to do it again.

wetin hausa people dey do for you beside killing, slaughtering and chasing your people out of hausaland?

some igbo folks and boy boyism sha,

rehabilitated at Majidun in Ikorodu area of Lagos State by the Fashola administration.

how come the crooks and thieves up north no fit rehabilitate their own people? beats me.

Alao-Akala accuses Fashola of dumping beggars in Ibadan




From Iyabo Lawal (Ibadan) and Kamal Tayo Oropo (Lagos)

OYO State Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, yesterday alleged that his Lagos State counterpart, Babatunde Fashola, had been dumping beggars undergoing rehabilitation in Lagos on the streets of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.


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Alao-Akala said the alleged action was a deliberate act to sabotage his efforts in transforming Oyo State.

The governor alleged that in the early hours of yesterday, some Lagos State government officials conveyed 120 beggars in eight trucks to Molete area of Ibadan and abandoned them there.

He claimed that the beggars were arrested in various parts of Lagos in the last six months but housed and rehabilitated at Majidun in Ikorodu area of Lagos State by the Fashola administration.

Alao-Akala, who spoke through his Special Adviser on Public Communications, Dotun Oyelade, frowned at the alleged action of the Lagos State government and threatened to take the matter up.

His words: "The Oyo State government is working hard to clean the environment as well as rid the city of beggars and any act of sabotage from Lagos or any other neighbouring state will be firmly resisted.

Some of the 'deportees' who spoke with The Guardian said they were moved from Majidun on Wednesday night and dumped under the Molete flyover in the early hours of yesterday with a parting gift of N200.

The beggars apparently went back to 'business' immediately as they moved to different parts of the city seeking alms.

At the Governor's Office, 10 of them were seen loitering around and begging for alms. One of them, who identified himself as Alhaji Muka Bello said he is an indigene of Ibadan but was arrested while roaming the streets of Lagos by the state's officials.

Asked where his family house is located, an incoherent Bello said he could not remember.

Sixty five-year-old Mujidatu Gbadamosi said she was on her way to the dry cleaner on Lagos Island when she was arrested.

Gbadamosi, who said she still had her family at the Pelewura area of Lagos, appealed to the Oyo State government to support her financially so that she could go back to Lagos.

Mrs. Fehintola Ogundare, an indigene of Osun State, said she was arrested at the Aroloya area of Lagos Island when she was seeing off a visitor.

http://odili.net/news/source/2009/apr/10/14.html

It's all about accountability and it's good to see Fashola bucking the system and telling the north to go pound stone.

Take care of your. Enough is enough.

Just too bad we have a lot of hypocrites and shortsighted people around here, they whine and complain about the north and their BS but will never call them out on their BS.

Fashola lunched the first salvo by scolding yaradua and his stupid ultimatum, this is the second shot and I can't wait to see the 3rd, 4th, 5th>>>>

Lagos is the last frontier, it's the last and only sane, progressive, peaceful and cohesive state in Nigeria and Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Ijaw in laggos and other lagosians will do anything to keep it that way,


Afaukwu, you're not making any sense, yoruba this/yoruba that tribalism is clouding your judgment and your assertions are Ignorant or borderline Ignorant.

Afaukwu-

As mentioned, there are thousands of Yoruba outside Yorubland doing roadside or buka food selling, Okada and kabukabu among other . These are lowly businesses, no doubt. Now, Fasola, in his wisdom, determined who is a beggar in Lagos. In like manner, the North can also determine who is a beggar and an unwanted element in their midst. You only need to go to the North and see the Yoruba population there.

I know you're intelligent enough to spot the difference between productive and not productive endeavors.   Lowly and menial stuff contributes to the society and are not dependent on the state or general populace for survival like beggers.


Try make sense sometimes,

Financial mess
•How Nigeria was looted blind
•N17tr stolen in one year
By VINCENT UKONG KALU(vin@sunnwsonline.com)
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Mrs. Farida Waziri
Photo: The Sun Publishing
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Recently, the Director of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC), Tim Daniel, revealed that Nigeria loses $110 billion annually to treasury looting. According to him, the country cannot boast of tremendous development because of the large amount of money being siphoned out of government and taken outside the country.

Saturday Sun’s findings reveal that Daniel hit the bull in the eye. Every ministry, government’s agency and parastatal corporation have been discovered to be involved in the looting spree. Indeed, during her first anniversary as Chairman of Economic Finance and Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri noted that former governors, ministers and members of parliament alone have stolen N285billion in this political dispensation.

With this and other reported cases of corruption Transparency International cannot therefore be faulted in its position that corruption is high in Nigeria.

It would be recalled that one of the reasons the military sacked the civilian government of Shehu Shagari on December 31, 1983 was corruption. Corruption still continues. When what happened then is compared to the looting in the last 10 years, the former pales into insignificance. When the country started another journey in democracy, led by Olusegun Obasanjo, a probe was instituted against the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, which led to the discovery that the former military junta sole $3billion from the country’s treasurer.

The uproar this generated and the recrimination it attracted to the Abacha family did not deter others from helping themselves from the treasury, whether it is national, state or local government levels.
Saturday Sun gathered that on daily basis political office holders’ siphoned money, through various means, from the treasury. Recently, the National Coordinator, Nigeria Network on Stolen Assets, Rev. David Ugolor, revealed that the N65billion looted by Abacha, which had been returned, had been mismanaged. According to him, from evidence the Federal Government, under Obasanjo, disbursed the funds and could not provide evidence of transparent disbursement. The same fate greeted the N16billion recovered from Tafa Balogun, which was said to be missing and no record to trace it.

When Obasanjo assumed office in 1999, he adorned the messiah toga. In fighting corruption, he set up the EFCC, with Nuhu Ribadu as its chairman. The anti-graft agency started blowing hot until it turned out to be a tool for hounding perceived or real enemies of the president. Ribadu, while appearing before the Senate in 2007, told the bewildered nation that the agency had investigated then serving governors and that 31 out of the 36 of them had been found to have allegedly looted the treasury of their respected states and would be prosecuted as soon as their immunity expired.

Curiously, when the tenure of these governors ended, only six of them who were said not to be in the good books of Obasanjo were taken to court by the agency. Not much was known about the extent of looting of the national treasury until the National Assembly started probing various agencies, ministries and parastatals. The figures coming out from some of the probes that represent what have been looted are frightening. It was from the probes that Nigerian realised why the problem of the energy sector had defied solution and why the country has been in perpetual darkness. Over $16 billion, said to have spent by Obasanjo’s government to find solution to the perennial darkness, went into private pockets.

The usual Nigeria’s conundrum was introduced in the probe, which made the report to be confined to the trash bin. The hunter later turned the hunted. Ndudi Elumelu, the head of the probe committee, is now facing trial with four others for alleged perpetration of monumental fraud of N5.2b.Those involved are Chairman, Senate Committee on Power; Senator Nicholas Ugbare, his House of Representatives counterpart, Ndudi Elumelu; Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Power, Dr. Abdulahi Aliyu and Managing Director of Rural Electrification Agency, Samuel Gekpe.

Another sleaze at Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) involved N3billion alleged stolen by the suspended Chairman of the agency, Dr. Ransome Owan and six commissioners. They are currently facing trial on 197-count at an Abuja High Court. Of this amount, N77million was said to have been spent on overseas frolicking and cost of living allowances.

Yet another case of looting is in educational sector, while the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is lamenting the high level of adult illiteracy in Nigeria, the literacy commission boss was involved in N271m fraud, which is part of the amount meant to reduce the illiteracy rate in the country. According to latest report of UNESCO, Nigeria is classified as one of the countries at a serious risk of not attaining the Education for All (EFA) goal by 2015. The report claimed that there are about 60 million adult illiterates and 11 million out-of-school children in Nigeria. It rated Nigeria as one of the most illiterate in the world. In the face of this negative index, the Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Adult Education, Mass Literacy and Non-Formal Education, Dr. Dayo Olagunju and 19 officers of the commission are being prosecuted for the alleged fraud.

The Director of the Universal Basic Education Commission, Prof. Bridget Sokan and three top officers are also facing trial over N78million loot. Also, while the universities are crying of under-funding and lecturers on strike, the Vice Chancellor of Imo State University, Prof. I. C. Okonkwo, has been arrested in connection with N70million fraud. When his house was searched, the sum of N4.5million cash, $11, 200 and 700 Euros were found in his apartment in Owerri.

Former Minister of Aviation, Prof. Babalola Borishade, NAMA’s former Managing Director, Roland Iyayi and two others were fingered in N19billion loot. They are facing criminal charges in court.
The football house is not left out. It was recently reported that $236, 000 was stolen from coffers of Nigerian Football Federation. Funny enough, the National Sports Commission, the supervising agency inaugurated committee to trace the money. The committee, after collecting sitting allowance, did not come up with any finding.

The National Film Corporation has its pie in the shame, as its Managing Director, Afolabi Adesanya and four directors were recently arrested for allegedly sharing of N11.8m belonging to the agency.
The Trans National Corporation (TRANCOP) is also in the news as it relates to corruption. Its Group Managing Director, Thomas Isegoli, is in the net of EFCC for fraud. The amount involved is more than N15billion. He is being held with the company’s Secretary, Mohammed Buba and another official, Mike Okoli.

The GMD is said to have, in connivance with other staff, severally abused the N100million approval limit given to him by the Board of TRANSCORP. He allegedly used organisations owned by his friends and associates to siphon money through bogus and overlapping consultancy projects, contracts and services.
The Chairman, Federal Character Commission, Prof. Oba Shuaibu Abdulraheem, was last September accused of involvement in N262million scam. A petition on this issue was sent to President Umar Yar’Adua and Code of Conduct Bureau. Chief Bode George and others are also facing charges over scam in the Nigeria Ports authority. Former Senate President, Adolphs Nwagbara with Prof. Ebere Osuji, former education minister and others are also facing corruption charges, likewise serving Senator Iyabo Obasanjo and Prof Adenike Grange, who are alleged to have corruptly enriched themselves to the tune of N300million.

At the peak of the Obasanjo campaign for the cancellation of Nigeria’s foreign debt, United Kingdom Minister for Africa, Mr. Chris Mullin disclosed, on February 2005, that about N315.5billion of Nigeria’s looted funds were frozen in various British banks. He had said that Nigeria’s quest for debt cancellation would be a mirage if corruption and looting of the treasure persisted in the country. From reports, Nigeria’s stolen money kept in foreign accounts in 1999 increased from $50billion to $170billion in 2003. This was buttressed in the June 2006 edition of The Africa Report by the former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mr. Raymond Baker, who had estimated stolen money from Nigeria and stashed away in foreign banks to be about $100b.

Baker, who put the total value of “dirty money” laundered globally at $500million per annum, also noted that about 50 percent of these funds, which come from developing economies end up in US dollar dominated accounts.

Saturday Sun gathered that the sum of N53.3billion owed failed banks in the country and now considered bad debts came about as a result of insider abuse or outright stealing by officials of those banks. Before the collapsed of these banks, some of them went to the Nigerian Stock Exchange to raise funds to assist them come out of the woods. This ended with much of the funds being diverted to other uses by the unscrupulous officials of the banks.

Of all these funds stashed away in foreign banks, in 2006, the then Attorney General of the Federation declared that the Federal Government could only recover $1billion.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2009/aug/22/national-22-08-2009-01.htm

Babapupa of course

Delusions and paranoia is indeed a dangerous mix.

^^^
who the fly go hail if no be the pesin wey get open wound?

lmao

I still stand by every word in the post above yours.




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eina-


I really don' know why you're addressing me, you should be addressing the thread starter, not me. Of course, we all know the reason why you're not.

You haven't said a word to the thread starter, even after offering to take mine down which I did. Your concern is not only hollow and disingenuous, it's misplaced, It's even laughable sef.

If you don't like the subject matter, tell your people to stop opening dumb and silly tribal nonsense and baiting threads.

Police parade 4 suspected ritualists in Owerri
National NewsAug 20, 2009

By Chidi Nkwopara
Owerri – Residents of Owerri, Imo state were yesterday, morning treated to a spectacle, as the police command paraded four suspects and the decomposing head of an 18-year old Chinwe Obieri, who was murdered for ritual purposes.

The bizarre scene, which was a replica of the infamous Otokoto saga of September 1996, had the prime suspect, 24-year old Emeka Uwakwe, from Ndiakunwata, Arondizuogu, Ideato North Local Government Area of the state, clutching the decapitated head of his girl friend, Chinwe.
Speaking to newsmen, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Aloy Okorie, gave the names of the other suspects as Chigamezu Anyaoha from Orodo, Mbaitoli, Anthony Obioha from Lude, Ahiazu Mbaise, and the medicine man, Damian Joseph from Obot Akara, Akwa Ibom state.
Mr. Okorie gave a graphic account of how the crime was committed and the efforts made by the state police command to apprehend the suspects in far away Lagos state.
According to him, “you can see we have a case of murder for ritual. What happened was that on July 26, 2009, the young lady, whose head you are seeing (pointing at the decapitated head of Chinwe) left her Akokwa home, Ideato North in Imo state. You can see the head without the body.
“The young man, Emeka Uwakwe, is the boy friend of this girl and he came all the way from Lagos and lured her to his house in the village. He murdered the girl, cut off her head for ritual purpose and dumped the headless body in a bush. Apparently, the girl had told her parents that she was going to visit her maternal uncle in another village.
“As at 7.04pm on that same Sunday, she called her parents and informed them she was already in her maternal uncle’s compound and they believed her.
Later, her parents made a call to her and the call did not go through up till the next morning and by Monday, when it was obvious that she was not coming back, they made a report to the police that their daughter was missing.
“The parents are Nicholas, the father and Theresa, the mother, from Umuezeala, Umueziama Kindred in Akokwa. It was after they made the report to the police that some vigilante people on the same day came around and said they saw a headless body in the bush. The police invited the girl’s parents and they identified the headless body to be that of their daughter,” he added.
“It was at that point that the police swung into action and started investigations. From information, we got to know that she had a boy friend, who is resident in Lagos and who was seen around her home within that period. So, we went to Lagos and we were able to arrest Emeka Uwakwe. You can see him now with the head of the slain girl (pointing at Emeka).
“When we now got him, he made a confession that Mr. Damian Joseph of Obot Akara in Akwa Ibom state, though he is based in Lagos also, was the one who made the charm with which, if he got the head of this girl, mix it with the charm and bury it, money will start flowing, he will start plucking money as if he was plucking fruits from the tree.
That was exactly what the man did. He (Emeka) got the concoction, mixed it with the head and buried it in his room.
“We also went for the Native Doctor and got him. Meanwhile, Emeka made a confession too that it was his friends, Chigaemezu Anyaoha and Anthony Obioha, that introduced him to the Native Doctor and that he was capable of making medicine for money.
They also confirmed that they had done such a medicine before with human scrotum. We do not know whether it was with their own scrotum or other people’s scrotum. We will surely find out soon.
“You can see the pretty 18-year old girl (displaying her photograph). I am sure if you had seen this girl when she was alive, you will weep. You will certainly weep because I have never seen a thing like this in my life.
I just imagine my own daughter of that age being slaughtered for ritual purposes. Well, in an era where we talking about people going to live in the moon, that is the age we are in, 21st century, and people are still being fooled that they can use human head to make money.It is very unfortunate.
“Emeka Uwakwe was arrested on August 12, 2009 and when he gave us the information on how he got about the whole show, our men left for Lagos on Sunday and we were able to arrest both the Native Doctor and the other two boys.
The next line of action is that they will pay the price prescribed by the laws of the land. We all know the price for somebody who has committed murder. He will pay with his own life.
There is no duplicate for life. If he had the courage to kill somebody, he should also be prepared to face the consequence. He should be in a position to say if he killed her with a knife or first strangulated her before he cut off the neck.
“It is very clear that the girl deceived her parents. My advice is simple. I have a daughter of that age. I know how we monitor her. Most times, especially in this era, if she has to go out, we must let go with somebody because you never can tell. That age is a critical period in the training of children.
Parents should monitor their daughters closely. It is easy to make contacts in this GSM era. I am sure that if the parents had raised alarm that very night that they did not see her, may be things would have come out differently”, he added.

eaina-

STFU with your dishonesty and hypocrisy. Don't dish what you can't handle. You guys are nothing but a bunch of sissies and cowards. (Obvious trait of course)

You talk shit and denigrate other people and @ the same time quick to cry and whine when challenged.

You guys keep posting all that junk and watch how fast I challenge you.

What kind of fool go post something to disparage other people and forget say worse dey happen for hin backyard?

Y'all be killing me I swear, lmao,

you're obviously one of them, @ least you know how to recycle my advice to you,

Human Parts Litter Ritualists’ Den
March 12, 2008 17:05

By Jude Orji/Enugu

An evil forest where suspected ritualists dismember their victims has been discovered in Enugu State.
https://thepmnews.com/files/2008/03/ritual-2.jpg
Dismembered parts of victims of ritual killing in Enugu State

Dismembered parts of victims of ritual killing in Enugu State.
The forest is located at Inyi, Enugu-Ezike in Igbo Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State. When it was searched, fresh and decomposing human parts were found all over the place but with some vital parts missing.

The scene is reminiscent of the gory findings at the Okija Shrine in Anambra State in 2004.

P.M.News investigations revealed that majority of the victims were taken to the forest and butchered by the suspected ritualists who then remove the vital parts needed for moneymaking ritual.

Many prominent residents of Enugu and environs were said to be patrons of herbalists and native doctors who perform rituals in the forest.

Inyi Enugu-Ezike is also said to be known as a home for dreaded commercial native doctors and ritualists in Nsukka cultural zone, Enugu.

What is, however, baffling to most residents of the town is the alleged involvement of some policemen in the notorious trade in human parts.

A policeman (name withheld), an indigene of Inyi Enugu-Ezike is said to be the godfather of the ritualists and armed robbers terrorising the town and Enugu-Makurdi Road.

P.M.News gathered that the policeman is so powerful in the town that he is regarded as untouchable because he procures powerful native charms and amulets for top police officers, businessmen and politicians across the country.

And to stem the spate of kidnappers, ritual murders and killings in the town, residents have petitioned the state government to take over the large expanse of land belonging to the village shrine Ogene Mmili.

They also demanded punishment for the perpetrators of the dastardly act.

They listed those kidnapped and killed in the town as Miss Eucharia Abugu Eya, 20. She was abducted on the street and later found dead in the evil forest with some parts of her body missing.

Others are Miss Gloria Ugwueke, 35 and Caroline Odo Eje, a widow with seven children who lived near the Inyi police post.

She was on her way to see her aged mother when she was seized by the ritualists and taken to the evil forest where her body was dismembered.

Her leg was later discovered in a shallow grave without other parts.

But the murder of Miss Edith Ijeoma Onu Ossai, 26, last month led to a wide protest in the town by more than 3000 women who demanded an end to the ritual killings.

The body of the late Edith who was on her way to Edumoga Umuogbo Inyi was found mangled near Inyi health centre.

Edith’s heart, kidney and private parts were removed by the ritual killers. Various parts of the victim were buried in different places.

P.M.News learnt that burying parts of the victim separately would keep her spirit divided and prevent her from going after her killers.

It was gathered that Edith’s mother became mad after seeing the dismembered parts of her daughter.

The protesting women led by Mrs. Theresa Mary Daya, Mrs. Mary Abugu, Ugwu Stella Chinello, Alomona Agnes and Mrs. Josephine Ojobor, said they have no choice but to raise an alarm since the efforts of their men have failed.

A source at the Igbo Eze North Divisional Police Headquarters said the police were on the trail of the ritualists.

He disclosed that the matter was being investigated by the D4 section of the Homicide Department, State CID, Enugu.

http://thepmnews.com/2008/03/12/human-parts-litter-ritualists%E2%80%99-den?version=print

Like I said, this nonsense has been going on unchallenged and I don't see you guys stepping in to check the perpetrators or call them to order. We're all Nigerians and we all have our faults and shortcomings. This nonsense got to stop/get moderated of be challenged.


I'll go ahead and take down the post.


But if his nonsense is not taken down, I'll re-post mine.

Edited-

Quit the foolishness,

We were on the right track with Buhari and Idiagbon and everything worked under Gowan.
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I'll tell you that much,

Roflmao!!!!! No one has yet to answer my questions. How many Calories? At least how much Vitamin A can I expect from one slice ?? Roflmao!!!

Do you ask yourself the same question every time you eat enriched cereal, enriched rice and drink vitamin water?


You're not only acting silly, you're acting very Ignorant and making a fool of yourself.

Good point Oyinda and sky blue

sounds like some some people will do/say anything to discredit and deny their own people's achievements/accomplishments.

I don't think they laughed and ridiculed Kellogg and rice farmers in the US when they fortified breakfast cereals and rice with vitamins to promote good health and help American kids.

What difference does it make? At least they are doing something to help/They came up with something.

Wetin you come up with? Negativity? That's all you have to offer.

Obviously, your negativity no go help a single malnourished child  but the scientific outcome will, so the joke is really on you.


you guys are hypocrites, you drink from the same well with clueless naija leaders, you don't support your own people.

den say just few weeks ago, UNICEF reported that millions of Nigerian children are dying of malnutrition in Northern states namely Sokoto, Kebbi, Yobe and katsina and a Nigerian Scientist rose to the occasion an solved the problem by coming up with food products that might be the answer to malnutrition in Nigeria and you find it funny?

what's funny really? that a Nigerian scientist did what scientist do (solving problems and finding answers and solutions to help humanity)

or just because the solution came from fellow countryman and detested Nigeria?

or is it just that Nigerian children are dying of malnutrition and they don't deserve any kind of help scientifically?


sometimes I don't get you people for real, and we wonder why that place is bleeped up

all these beasts of no nation sha,


if na for yankee the news come from, you people go hail am and begin praise america. I just don't understand why Nigerians finds it funny and prudent to criticize anything/everything from naija. what else do you have going on in Nigeria besides sad stories of corruption and ineptitude?

Talk about self defeatist and sad people,

Just allow us to leave in peace!

Again, who's holding or preventing you?

You guys are not the only dissatisfied people in Nigeria. Break away ASAP and stop boring us with all this endless yeye cries and whining esp' when your leaders are part of the ills and cest pool contaminating Nigeria.

utter rubbish, who dey hold ya hand?

abeg go start your biafra make we rest jare. all talk, no action


lol @ the movement is gaining solid ground. the only solid ground you should be paying attention to na the one for igboland wey erosion dey wash away.

misguided people with misplaced priorities

Nobody said anything about Delta state or Rivers State joining Biafra you Idiot, All I said was that Igbos are not only found In the so called South East,

See this yeye man you obviously inserted both to prove a point, like you guys do all the freeking time.

You're always trying to claim wetin no belong to you. you won claim lagos, na you be jews, delta and rivers is part of igboland, na you own all the houses wey dey abuja, ,

Sounds like you people have serious low self esteem and insecurity issues for real. you freeking worry too much about other people and what they're doing or not doing that you Ignore yourself, your own people, your land and future.


Na biafra dey doom you guys, you ain't going no where till you get that monkey and distraction off your backs.

Dump that nonsense and let us all join hands for a better Nigeria


@Eziachi


Abwg keep quiet jare, I'm getting sick and tired of your jagbajantis. What else is new? Abeg tell me something I never hear before.


lol @ lively debate between Igbo and their Biafra brothers. what's next? turn Nairaland to Biafraland. Funny peeps