Niger is a poor country.

It makes sense for them to use already established individual in UK who they dont have to pay to do their consular work there.

Dont forget Akinola Aguda was Chief Justice of Botswana for many years talkess of an ambassador!

Interesting indeed.

The Yoruba elders should create 'Egbe Omo Yoruba' thats is dedicated to development of Yorubas all over the world.

They should atleast set up 'Primary schools' or 'Private Schools' in all those places and propagate the Yoruba Culture and way of Life.

Nelson Mandela paid the sacrifice of staying in jail for 27 years before Southafrica could be free.

how do you know SA is free?

This is the place that supposed to power Nigeria Industrialisation!!!

This is a situation where I really question the human decision making reliability and the awe allocated to the intelligence of those that occupy certain position of decision making roles (i.e. members of the Nobel Committee).

You don't need to question rather understand them.

This is another WESTERN honour, which is Political!

Tsvangarai has not delivered for this pay-masters, he wont be getting it any time soon

Remember, Mugabe was given Order of British Empire when the good was going on well!

What is world peace?

You are asking wrong question.

Did Nigerians voted for Yaradu in 2007?

NO.

Yaradua does not need your votes in 2011.

Case Closed!

Trail blazer President Obama has done it again by winning the Nobel prize.
What does this translate to for world peace.

what is world peace?

who decides whats world peace?

we should have open mind and not accept all 'junks' from Western Media!

.

This is best thing to happen to Nigerians since a long time.

They should promote this news everywhere; radio, TV, villages, town, schools.

well done.

This is money to be use for 2011 elections.

Madam, CoolG was practical and objective in his posts and since you were not there, i think it is insulting to say that he lied without proof.

the onus is on CoolG to substantiate his claims.

Otherwise it is a crap lies!

@CoolG

Individual tax for married status is usually between 10% - 15%. For the year in question which was 2007, the adjusted tax rate was 12% in my tax return.

Crap Lies. London is the key financial centre of EU.

And for the amount you mentioned, there is no where in EU you will pay cheap tax like 12%.

Sorry, i am unable to give you the name of the bank. I signed an NDA. Since i have already stated the consulting fee i can no longer state the name or i will be in breach of my NDA.

Crap lies again.
Means you did not work anymore after that?  Since the employer will ask for your work place and how much you earn. Think before you write here Bobo CoolG, even we wey dey naija, we know whats up!

****************Soludo is A FRAUD****************

AFC: Soludo Spent $17m As Pre- Operational Expenses

From: SULE AMUDA Abuja


http://www.nationalmirroronline.com/cove/article02

The probe panel inaugurated by the federal government to investigate the whopping $462 million investment by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), has revealed that Professor Charles Soludo, the embattled governor of the apex bank spent $17 million as pre-operational expenses to mid-wife AFC before commencement.

According to the highlights of report of the panel headed by the director of operations of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, the said amount was allegedly spent on consultancies and travelings.


The report also stated that Soludo transferred to foreign accounts of AFC the sum of N750 million in November, 2007 and another N143 million in March, 2008.

It also frowned at the decision of Soludo to have accepted to be the Chairman of AFC in his personal capacity, noting that this is a clear violation of Section 9 of CBN Act 2007 which disqualify principal officers of the CBN from holding any office by virtue of their respective office

In my own case, i did a consulting work for an European bank to upgrade their banking server. For the one year consulting work, the consulting fee was $1,000 a day.

which European Bank? tell us which country?

How much did your employment agency took from you?

How much taxes was deducted?

How much is left for you to spend?

All i wanted to bring out is that Soludo can afford to buy a mortgage in UK from his earnings and pay his children tuition even before he became CBN governor.

Buying mortgage in UK is actual free for all unless he paid FULL.

CoolG,

You got it wrong.

UBA was fined because Soludo transfered money illegal from CBN into UBA NY account for his African Finance Center(AFC)

UBA did not want to disclose this but rather ready to pay fine of $5million!

Bello Osagie left UBA before 2007. Get your facts right!!!

The payments to the politically connected businessmen are at the centre of an AFP investigation into Securency for allegedly bribing Nigerian officials to win a 2007 contract.

this put it clearly within when Soludo was CBN governor.

I always knew that Soludo is a fraudster from the UBA indictment in US to this current case.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/push-for-rba-senate-probe-20091004-ghyn.html

The Ekiti State Government is to generate $1 billion (N150 billion) annually as revenue from the Ikogosi Warm Water Springs, when the project is completed, Gov. Segun Oni, has said.

another CRAP!!!

where is the infrastructure to support tourism?

death trap roads?

trigger happy policemen?

constant darkness?

high tech armed robbers?

increasing kidnappers?

and finaly Yahooze boys + girls?

Most annoying when such statement are uttered!

The Age last week revealed Mr Harding and another British-based businessman, Benoy Berry, were paid several million dollars by Securency to market the company's polymer notes in Africa and to win a currency printing deal in Nigeria. Much of the money was paid into tax haven bank accounts.

The payments to the politically connected businessmen are at the centre of an AFP investigation into Securency for allegedly bribing Nigerian officials to win a 2007 contract.

Asked if he was aware of any bribes being paid to Nigerian officials, Mr Harding said: "It is the nature of the beast. I'm not ignorant of what goes on. As soon as I learned of the troubles with Securency I pulled right back."

RICHARD BAKER AND NICK MCKENZIE
October 2, 2009
A RESERVE Bank of Australia company is under Federal Police investigation for allegedly bribing Nigerian officials to win a bank-note deal in the most serious development yet in the cash-for-contracts scandal.

The bribery probe centres on a series of multimillion-dollar payments by RBA firm Securency into offshore bank accounts of two British-based businessmen.

Benoy Berry and Mike Harding boast high-level political contacts in Britain and Africa.

The Age can reveal that among those contacts are senior British politician Lord David Steel and his adviser Atul Vadher, who were involved with Dr Berry and Mr Harding in another venture, Global Secure Currency Ltd, about the same time the pair were promoting Securency in Africa.

Lord Steel is a co-founder and former leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats political party, inaugural presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament, a life peer of the House of Lords and vice-president of the Royal African Society.

His long-time assistant, Dr Vadher, has also been an adviser to at least two African governments and contested the 1999 European Parliament elections for the Liberal Democrats. The Age is not suggesting any wrong-doing by Lord Steel or Dr Vadher.

Securency's payments to Dr Berry and Mr Harding, coupled with their links to a senior British politician and his adviser, are likely to attract the interest of Britain's Serious Fraud Office.

An AFP taskforce has been investigating Securency since May for possible breaches of Australia's criminal code, which outlaws payments to foreign officials.

The probe is focused on large commission payments by Securency to politically connected foreign middlemen, often into tax haven accounts.

An investigation by The Age into Securency's Nigeria activities can reveal that the RBA firm paid millions of dollars into a tax haven bank account belonging to Dr Berry. The total figure is not known.

In 2006, Dr Berry's security technology company Contec Global was investigated by Uganda's corruption watchdog after the country's internal security agency accused it of paying a $1.8 million bribe to a minister. The bribery allegation could not be proved, but a report found the Ugandan minister had been improperly "fronting" for Dr Berry's firm because he stood to benefit from the deal. Dr Berry has not responded to inquiries from The Age.

An overseas-based source aware of Securency's dealings in Africa said the firm paid more than $1 million into accounts tied to two companies effectively overseen by Mr Harding, 72, including one called called JH Marketing Africa 2000.

Mr Harding, associated with the British Conservative Party, lived in Africa for 20 years working for British company Unilever.

The Age has learned that Mr Harding directs some of his earnings into a company account in a secretive tax-free business zone at Sharjah airport in the United Arab Emirates.

UAE officials said they could only disclose who owned the business if they were given a "judicial order". But The Age linked the UAE entity that received the Securency payment to Mr Harding by matching its phone number to a telephone listing in the Englishmen's home town of Bracknell.

Mr Harding, who initially denied any association with Securency when questioned by The Age earlier this year, said last week he could not discuss the payment from Securency to his UAE company because it had become "a legal matter".

Dr Berry and Mr Harding were paid to help Securency, which is half-owned by the RBA and British firm Innovia Films, promote its polymer currency across Africa and win a 2006 contract from the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Mr Harding said the Nigeria negotiations were handled by the company's Africa manager, Peter Chapman, and Dr Berry. Mr Chapman recently resigned and is believed to be in Brazil.

"I had nothing to do with the supply contract to Nigeria," Mr Harding said. "It was all handled by Mr Chapman and Mr Berry. I became involved after that was agreed."

Despite Mr Harding's attempts to distance himself from Dr Berry, corporate records show the pair to be the only shareholders in a British company called Global Secure Currency Ltd, registered in 2004.
Corporate records show Lord Steel and Dr Vadher were Global Secure Currency Ltd directors between September 2005 and August 2006.

Mr Harding denied any involvement in the shell company, saying he did not pay for the shares allotted to him. "I won't have anything to do with shell companies . . . they can be used to launder money," he said.

Lord Steel and Dr Vadher were also directors of Dr Berry's Contec Global company during the same period. Corporate records show the pair remain small shareholders in Contec Global.

Dr Berry, who is also Burundi's honorary consul to India, was last month threatened with prosecution by the Central Bank of Nigeria for being among the country's worst debtors.

Lord Steel told The Age this week his business association with Dr Berry was shortlived and that neither he nor his assistant Dr Vadher received any directors' fees or attended board meetings.

"We met Benoy Berry when we were in Uganda and he was angling for a contract there," Lord Steel said in a statement.

"He seemed a pleasant and successful guy and he asked us to join his board, which we agreed to do. We were never shareholders.

"However, we soon became disillusioned and decided to disengage . . . I am surprised to learn that we were even registered as directors, because our association with him lasted only a few months."

It is not the first time Lord Steel has been involved with controversial companies and businessmen.

In the 1990s, he was a director of Heritage Oil & Gas, which was run by British businessman Tony Buckingham. Mr Buckingham also directed controversial mercenary soldier company, Executive Outcomes, which was involved in conflicts in Sierra-Leone and Angola in 1995.

Lord Steel is also involved with controversial Anglo-Iraqi businessman Nadhmi Auchi, who heads finance and arms trading company General Mediterranean Holdings. Lord Steel has been a GMH director for many years.

Auchi was convicted of fraud in France in 2003 over his role in the takeover oil company Elf. Auchi is challenging his conviction and two-year suspended jail sentence. The RBA continues to refuse to discuss Securency's overseas activities.

Got a tip? Email investigations@theage.com.

Hoax!

make the best use of it.

This is where EFCC needed to do their work and not chasing shadows!

@texazzpate,

You got it wrong!

When Nigeria and Cameroun had 'Bakkasi' problem; it is was Colonial Map that was used by same colonists to decide for us.

The only country putting its fate in their hands is Zimbabwe!

But see how same colonists is cleverly punishing Zimbabwe!

They punish Zim so that like of South Africa, Zambia, etc would never attempt to re-distribute the land.

Obama goof badly with that statement! We know that US President are bunch of liars!

The programe should not be scrapped but the killer(s) found and sentence to death as lesson to other would be rapist.

Since she was raped, there would be sperm, this could be use for DNA testing.

All adult male in that vicinity should be questioned and DNA checked.

But alas this is Nigeria. Hell on earth!

Harold Smith has spoken!

He is an old man soon to go to his grave!

It is left for us to act on what we already know but now confirmed by Smith.

It is left for us to educate other African countries.

Angola has reached a preliminary deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for loans of up to $890m (£558m).

IMF mission chief Lamin Leigh said the loans would help alleviate the nation's immediate cash flow pressures.

Angola, the world's 19th largest oil producer, has been hit hard by falling crude prices over the past year and the wider global economic slowdown.

Oil is currently trading at $67 a barrel, less than half its $147 all-time high of July 2008.

Only God sabi when EFCC become FIRS wey dey arrest tax defaulters.  Dis kain country sef?

Indeed, when they were arresting the Bank Chief, did anyone SHOUT!!

Problem with us in Nigeria, we dont shout when things START to go wrong!

EFCC would start to arrest tenant for not paying rent SOON.

Only in Nigeria, Our Nigeria!

Best Ogedengbe, the best Nigerian Goal Keeper is dead.

Most people on this forum may not know him as you will be too young.

Adieu to Best.

Another start disappointed by Nigeria!

stillwater:

Must soldiers rape people?

well only fools would rape in this age of HIV.

They will surely die a slow death with their wives.

The okada driver will think twice because he knows the passenger and people on the street also have GUNS.

It would be a balance of terror.

It same reason US would never attack Russia or any nation with 'Nuclear Weapon'

They know the damage the other side would do.

Yes to everyone having guns, killing rate will go up and later stablise!

nonsense from otherwise useless lady called Farida!

Only in Nigeria!

You can do this legally.

Go to a court of law and declaring you want to renouce your Nigerian citizenship.

If you dont have any other citizehshp, you become 'stateless' and illegal resident of Nigeria or whereever you are NOW!

Basically in LAW you dont exist anymore.

Lineage is different from citizeship!