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If we are marrried yes, if not I can help pay for the purchase of a kidney even if its from jand no matter the cost

obailala:
Most people here on this thread have just displayed the typical kind of mindset most Nigerians have for others, HATRED and JEALOUSY!! What is wrong if someone who has the means wishes to give birth abroad? It is this idle-mind-jealous attitude that make people (especially in the villages) try to poison or use juju on relatives and friends whom they think are progressing.

Most people here try to conceal their malice by accusing her of shouting about it. Did she come out planely on tv and announce this to the world or didn't she mention it simply because she was specifically asked by the interviewer?

Who is doing the shouting? she or the journalist? Besides just like someone here confirmed, this is an old interview that was dug up from the archives and I wonder why it should be on the front page. Haters should hit their head on the wall if they don't like her. Rubbish!

spot on , bad belle full naija , a lot of people with PHD(pull him/her down). as if its their buisness. i wonder who even put this on the front page

cyborg_ban:
Name calling ? When can you re-think and think of moving Nigeria forward instead of attacking my post, wake up bro, things are happening around the globe while of your friends doing their worse, help to bring them back to real life and help them stop this now.

yes lets also discuss how to stop the killings and bombings after all charity begins at home. or maybe we should discuss if govt should continue to sponsor northern prostitution in mecca

DRlulu:
good northerners also need to look into this disturbing trend added to boko harem and 90% poverty the north is finished. i hate to be involved in tribalism but your soo foolish i cant stand it.

northerners turning mecca into prostitution haven

While thousands of Muslim faithful from Nigeria, travel to Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrimage, or Umrah (lesser Hajj), and returned home after the rites, many female pilgrims would abscond with the assistance of travel agents to live as illegal migrants, popularly referred to as ‘Tikari’, engaging in all sorts of businesses to make quick money. Mustapha Isah Kwaru witnessed their activities while on pilgrimage to hajj, and reports.

Saudi Arabia has become one country where human trafficking is thriving with the influx of Nigerian women, men and youths, mainly from the northern part of the country with a view to earning a living through various means. Even married women are also lured to the Holy land with promises of juicy jobs and profitable businesses. The married women would therefore, break up their marriages and relocate to Mecca in search of greener pastures.
However, on reaching there, they were made to engage in forced labour in the residences of Arabs where they worked as domestic servants, beggars, road side hawkers or indulge in other unwholesome activities. They are also alleged to engage in prostitution, all in the desperation to acquire wealth that has been supposedly, out of their reach in Nigeria.
While some of the married women gave up their marriage deliberately, others do so with the permission of their husbands who would allow them work in Saudi Arabia to make money for their families. Reports indicate that the Sharia legal system is taking decisive measures against those men, for aiding and abetting such act, making others to have a rethink on the issue.
Although some of the illegal migrants live in other popular cities of Saudi Arabia like Medina and Jeddah, investigations revealed that over 95 percent of them live in Mecca due to its booming commercial activities. It was however, observed that a large number of illegal migrants from the neighboring Niger, Cameroon and Chad Republics also trooped to Saudi Arabia using Nigerian passports.
For instance, in January to February 2009, the Kano state command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS), took over the custody of 100 illegal emigrants deported from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA).
Parading the deportees before newsmen in his office, the then Comptroller of the Command, Mr. David Samuel, said 24 of the deportees were actually non-indigenes who were found to be nationals of Niger with Nigerian passports. Similarly, during the screening exercise of the Borno state pilgrims who performed the 2011 Hajj, immigration officials seized over 30 passports earlier issued to foreign nationals who disguised as Nigerian pilgrims.
Our correspondent gathered that most times, the would-be illegal migrants did not need to worry over fares to undertake the trip to Hajj or Umrah, where they would abscond as they were sponsored by agents based on the agreement that the fares would be refunded after securing ‘juicy’ jobs or businesses, while others sold their own belongings to fund their trip. However, on reaching Mecca, the agents would take custody of the migrants, seize their traveling documents and offer them accommodation, food and other basic necessities before introducing them to various ‘marketing’ strategies.
The migrants are said to be having a running battle with Saudi Arabian police who declared total war against them and are making it difficult for them to move freely in the city. Sometimes, they hid on hill tops to escape the police and other law enforcement agents. But the women often got temporary relief during the hajj when they enjoyed liberty to move about as the influx of pilgrims made it difficult for them to be identified.
During this period, the women sold either second clothing thrown away by Arabs or new ones which they bought to be resold to pilgrims. Other items sold include, praying mat, veils and so on. As early as 4.30 am, the women alongside young girls and little children would troop to the major roads leading to the Holy Mosque, Ka’abah, displaying their wares on pavements. Some of them sold Nigerian dishes at the various locations of the pilgrims’ accommodation. In an interview with our correspondent in Mecca, a cross section of the migrants narrated their experiences. A middle- aged woman and mother of four, Hajara Yusuf (not real name), who claimed to hail from Kano state, said she has lived in Mecca for over 15 years and engaged in menial jobs in the houses of Arabians, while during Hajj, she resorted to selling food to Nigerian pilgrims.
‘‘I have lived in Mecca for over 15 years and have not returned home since I broke up my marriage. I had sold all my belongings and accompanied a rich female friend to the Holy land, who was to introduce me to a lady who would secure a job for me. To my greatest surprise, I was taken to work as a domestic servant in the house of an Arab man. I told her that I was not in Saudi Arabia to serve as domestic help, so I stayed at home. The following day, she refused to give me food and threatened to send me away. Unfortunately for me, she had all my money and traveling documents so there was no way I could return back to Nigeria, I had no option than to oblige, she narrated.’’
For Hauwa Yusuf, though she regretted breaking up her six-year old marriage, she has now made enough money which she used to buy houses, cars and jewelries in Nigeria, while sponsoring her parents and other relatives to perform the pilgrimage. She claimed that all her children have been enrolled in notable private schools but she hopes to return home to establish some businesses in future.
Another woman who simply identified herself as Asabe Nura, mother of seven, and indigene of Katsina state said: ‘‘I have spent up to 10 years in Mecca and my migration was connected with the death of my husband in a ghastly auto crash. After his demise, I become helpless as I’m from a poor family and my husband’s relations refused to assist me in taking care of the children. When life became unbearable for us, I sold the house he left for us and used the money to facilitate my trip to Mecca to earn a living and rid my family of poverty. I didn’t bother to ask the kind of job I was going to do. I just sought the permission of my parents who gladly welcomed the idea and agreed to look after my children for me. At Mecca, the agent confiscated my traveling documents which he took to one old woman who had spent over 30 years in Saudi Arabia for safe keeping. I was then taken to the house of an Arab man where I spent five years working as a domestic servant. Every week the agent came to collect undisclosed amount of money that was supposed to be due to me.
Adding that “For three years I was not given a dime and when I protested, the agent threatened to call policemen to arrest and deport me back home. That was how I suffered until the fourth year when the agent said I could begin to enjoy my pay as I had offset the bill for my upkeep.’’, she narrated.
Asked how much she was worth, Asabe said, ‘‘actually, I thank Almighty Allah for making it possible to come here. Presently, my parents and children are no longer languishing in poverty as I have built houses for them all and all my children re in school, while I bought a car for the eldest one who recently graduated from the University and is into business.’’.
For Mrs. Rabi Sule, (not real name), who claimed to be from Sokoto state, her husband permitted her to come and work in Mecca for a period of only three years, but she had spent five years before going back home, after which she returned and moved to Jeddah, to make more money.

typical northerners, killers, prostitutes in mecca , first african terrorist. govt better stop sending them to mecca let them pay for their ticket shikina.

a response to cyborg who claims only igbos are bringing shame to nigeria.




While thousands of Muslim faithful from Nigeria, travel to Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrimage, or Umrah (lesser Hajj), and returned home after the rites, many female pilgrims would abscond with the assistance of travel agents to live as illegal migrants, popularly referred to as ‘Tikari’, engaging in all sorts of businesses to make quick money. Mustapha Isah Kwaru witnessed their activities while on pilgrimage to hajj, and reports.

Saudi Arabia has become one country where human trafficking is thriving with the influx of Nigerian women, men and youths, mainly from the northern part of the country with a view to earning a living through various means. Even married women are also lured to the Holy land with promises of juicy jobs and profitable businesses. The married women would therefore, break up their marriages and relocate to Mecca in search of greener pastures.
However, on reaching there, they were made to engage in forced labour in the residences of Arabs where they worked as domestic servants, beggars, road side hawkers or indulge in other unwholesome activities. They are also alleged to engage in prostitution, all in the desperation to acquire wealth that has been supposedly, out of their reach in Nigeria.
While some of the married women gave up their marriage deliberately, others do so with the permission of their husbands who would allow them work in Saudi Arabia to make money for their families. Reports indicate that the Sharia legal system is taking decisive measures against those men, for aiding and abetting such act, making others to have a rethink on the issue.
Although some of the illegal migrants live in other popular cities of Saudi Arabia like Medina and Jeddah, investigations revealed that over 95 percent of them live in Mecca due to its booming commercial activities. It was however, observed that a large number of illegal migrants from the neighboring Niger, Cameroon and Chad Republics also trooped to Saudi Arabia using Nigerian passports.
For instance, in January to February 2009, the Kano state command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS), took over the custody of 100 illegal emigrants deported from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA).
Parading the deportees before newsmen in his office, the then Comptroller of the Command, Mr. David Samuel, said 24 of the deportees were actually non-indigenes who were found to be nationals of Niger with Nigerian passports. Similarly, during the screening exercise of the Borno state pilgrims who performed the 2011 Hajj, immigration officials seized over 30 passports earlier issued to foreign nationals who disguised as Nigerian pilgrims.
Our correspondent gathered that most times, the would-be illegal migrants did not need to worry over fares to undertake the trip to Hajj or Umrah, where they would abscond as they were sponsored by agents based on the agreement that the fares would be refunded after securing ‘juicy’ jobs or businesses, while others sold their own belongings to fund their trip. However, on reaching Mecca, the agents would take custody of the migrants, seize their traveling documents and offer them accommodation, food and other basic necessities before introducing them to various ‘marketing’ strategies.
The migrants are said to be having a running battle with Saudi Arabian police who declared total war against them and are making it difficult for them to move freely in the city. Sometimes, they hid on hill tops to escape the police and other law enforcement agents. But the women often got temporary relief during the hajj when they enjoyed liberty to move about as the influx of pilgrims made it difficult for them to be identified.
During this period, the women sold either second clothing thrown away by Arabs or new ones which they bought to be resold to pilgrims. Other items sold include, praying mat, veils and so on. As early as 4.30 am, the women alongside young girls and little children would troop to the major roads leading to the Holy Mosque, Ka’abah, displaying their wares on pavements. Some of them sold Nigerian dishes at the various locations of the pilgrims’ accommodation. In an interview with our correspondent in Mecca, a cross section of the migrants narrated their experiences. A middle- aged woman and mother of four, Hajara Yusuf (not real name), who claimed to hail from Kano state, said she has lived in Mecca for over 15 years and engaged in menial jobs in the houses of Arabians, while during Hajj, she resorted to selling food to Nigerian pilgrims.
‘‘I have lived in Mecca for over 15 years and have not returned home since I broke up my marriage. I had sold all my belongings and accompanied a rich female friend to the Holy land, who was to introduce me to a lady who would secure a job for me. To my greatest surprise, I was taken to work as a domestic servant in the house of an Arab man. I told her that I was not in Saudi Arabia to serve as domestic help, so I stayed at home. The following day, she refused to give me food and threatened to send me away. Unfortunately for me, she had all my money and traveling documents so there was no way I could return back to Nigeria, I had no option than to oblige, she narrated.’’
For Hauwa Yusuf, though she regretted breaking up her six-year old marriage, she has now made enough money which she used to buy houses, cars and jewelries in Nigeria, while sponsoring her parents and other relatives to perform the pilgrimage. She claimed that all her children have been enrolled in notable private schools but she hopes to return home to establish some businesses in future.
Another woman who simply identified herself as Asabe Nura, mother of seven, and indigene of Katsina state said: ‘‘I have spent up to 10 years in Mecca and my migration was connected with the death of my husband in a ghastly auto crash. After his demise, I become helpless as I’m from a poor family and my husband’s relations refused to assist me in taking care of the children. When life became unbearable for us, I sold the house he left for us and used the money to facilitate my trip to Mecca to earn a living and rid my family of poverty. I didn’t bother to ask the kind of job I was going to do. I just sought the permission of my parents who gladly welcomed the idea and agreed to look after my children for me. At Mecca, the agent confiscated my traveling documents which he took to one old woman who had spent over 30 years in Saudi Arabia for safe keeping. I was then taken to the house of an Arab man where I spent five years working as a domestic servant. Every week the agent came to collect undisclosed amount of money that was supposed to be due to me.
Adding that “For three years I was not given a dime and when I protested, the agent threatened to call policemen to arrest and deport me back home. That was how I suffered until the fourth year when the agent said I could begin to enjoy my pay as I had offset the bill for my upkeep.’’, she narrated.
Asked how much she was worth, Asabe said, ‘‘actually, I thank Almighty Allah for making it possible to come here. Presently, my parents and children are no longer languishing in poverty as I have built houses for them all and all my children re in school, while I bought a car for the eldest one who recently graduated from the University and is into business.’’.
For Mrs. Rabi Sule, (not real name), who claimed to be from Sokoto state, her husband permitted her to come and work in Mecca for a period of only three years, but she had spent five years before going back home, after which she returned and moved to Jeddah, to make more money.

http://www.peoplesdaily-online.com/news/special-report/3000-trafficking-how-nigerian-women-are-turning-mecca-into-tikari-haven-

hence forth northerners should start paying for their trip to saudi as we no know what they go there to do, after all its not govt that is sponsering the southerners that go to europe to do the same thing.

idiot better stop ruining our image in rhode island before complaining about igbo men. i wonder wetin carry u go there


https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-392533.0.html

Arosa:
why don't the government give loans to the almajiris to go and farm. or are almajiris not aloud to farm?

they wont access the loan, southerners and foreign investors will end up benefting from it or it will just remain there in the bank and end up in the pockets of northern elites . they have been doin that since 1999.

every body is complaining in nigeria , na waoo who come dey enjoy

Alj Uche:
guy you no they shame at all,.,.,.,. lagos belong to everyone but when they start killing us igbos in lagos, you would shout yorubas are trablist,.,. guy fear God ooo

e no meanafter all they dey kill yorubas too for north so all gjoin , its called dying for what you beleive in.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has delisted 12 companies from trading on the floor of the market following their alleged dormancy.

The companies which the NSE placed under suspension for close to one year now had not been meeting their obligation in terms of fees to the market, even as some of them had not paid dividend in the last five years.

The companies delisted from the market include Nigercem Plc; Albarka Air Plc; Foremost Diaries Plc; Wiggins Teape Nigeria Plc; Okitipupa Oil Palm Plc; First Capital Investment and Trust Plc; Flexible Packaging Plc; Netpak Plc; Krabo Nigeria Plc and Tropical Petroleum Plc.

The list pasted on NSE’s website, however, did not disclose why the companies were delisted from the exchange.

It will be recalled that the NSE delisted 64 companies in 2009.

The council of the NSE said it approved nine which were dormant companies, following the expiration of time given them to regularise their status with the exchange.

The companies included Ferdinard Oil Mill Plc; Footwear Accessories Manufacturing and Distribution Plc; BCN Plc; Chrislieb Plc; Epic Dynamics Plc; Liz Olofin and Company Plc; Oluwa Glass Company Plc; Aba Textile Mill Plc and Asaba Textile Mill Plc, among others.

The council of the NSE had in early September last year approved suspension of some seven companies for failure to submit their financial statements, while 34 others had been placed on watch list for failure to submit their 2009 full year financial result.
http://www.sunday.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/18616-dormancy-nse-delists-albarka-air-okitipupa-oil-10-others

The current gloomy state of the nation’s construction industry resonated on Tuesday, as the Federation of Construction Industry (FOCI) said no fewer than 100,000 construction industry workers would lose their jobs.

The imminent mass purge by the firms is owing to the failure of the federal and state governments, as well as some multinational companies to meet their financial obligations to fund ongoing capital projects scattered all over the country.

The president of FOCI, Mr Mobolaji Williams, raised the alarm at the Victoria Island Lagos, office of the association when he addressed newsmen.

He said contractors in the industry were being owed over N100 billion for jobs they had already executed, while more debts were being accumulated as they tried to get the projects to a reasonable level before closing the sites and wait for payments.

Williams revealed that more than 60,000 construction workers had lost their jobs between November 2010 and February this year as a result of the closure of the sites they were working. Those affected included all cadres from labourers to skilled workers and expatriates.

“These sites are being closed as a result of the failure of the government, to release the cash backing for these capital projects in line with the agreed completion stages of the programme for their execution or approved certificates,” he said.

Analysing the situation, the FOCI president stated that over 400,000 people would be affected by the impending loss of jobs assuming each of those to be affected has four direct or indirect dependants.

The construction industry operator lamented that the whole scenario was coming at the dry season, a period when construction companies ought to be fully stretched to cover much ground before the rainy season when construction activities slowed down.

He pointed out that the construction companies involved were getting increasingly worried due to debts that were mounting since the middle of 2010 before the Federal Government reviewed its budget 40 per cent downward.
http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/18628-100000-construction-workers-to-lose-jobs

There is an imminent fuel shortage in the southern part of the country following the refusal of petroleum tanker drivers to load fuel from Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) at the weekend, in protest against the kidnapping of the children of their Warri, Delta State Chairman, Mr Godspower Mashemigha.

Two children of Mr Mashemigha, namely Mine (12 years) and Yenroun (9 years), were abducted by four armed men last Friday morning while on their way to school at Seat of Wisdom Modern School, Ekpan road.

The Nigerian Tribune gathered that four children of the chairman of the petroleum tanker drivers were in the Hilux jeep conveying them to school when the yet to be identified gunmen blocked their vehicle.

It was learnt that two of the children bolted away on sighting the gun wielding youths while the remaining two were apprehended by the suspected kidnappers who carried out the operation in an Uduaghan for 2011 branded Hyundai car.

“The four children were in a Hilux jeep conveying them to school when the Uduaghan for 2011 branded car suddenly blocked their vehicle. Two of the children ran away on sighting the gun wielding men while the remaining two were kidnapped”, a security source disclosed.

This development threw the tanker drivers into confusion and they resolved to immediately stop loading fuel protest against the action and the rising state of insecurity in Delta State.

The Nigerian Tribune gathered that the kidnappers of the children of the chairman had established contacts with the chairman demanding for N80 million ransom for their release.

Undercover security agents had, however, launched a manhunt for the kidnappers.

Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Charles Muka said, at the time of filing this report that he had been receiving calls in respect of the matter but was yet to be briefed by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Charge of Ekpan.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/18847-kidnapping-petroleum-tanker-drivers-refuse-to-load-fuel

the okada man wowo

am not becomerich, but i think he would love this, make i take cover soon maps will follow.

The Federal Government has released over N56 billion for the payment of the monetisation arrears to workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), in its effort to boost the morale of the company’s workforce.

Minister of State for Power, Mr Nuhu Wya, made this known at the weekend in Benin City, during a two-day working visit to Edo, Delta and Anambra State to assess the level of work of ongoing projects in the states.

Besides, the minister said the Federal Government would not relax pressure on the contractors handling the Independent Power Plant (IPP) and transmission lines projects across the country until they showed they could deliver on the projects on schedule.

Mr. Wya announced that the Federal Government had set aside another N400 billion which would soon be disbursed to workers before the transfer of the company to the private sectors.

The minister, who was reacting to questions from journalists on the move by the government to privatise the electricity company under the Independent Power Projects (IPPs) initiative, said the released fund was not a send forth package for PHCN workers upon the transfer of the various plants to private hands.

“We are not doing a send forth for our workers. We are just giving them what is accrued to them. No worker had had it so sweet like the PHCN workers.

Now, I want to assure all Nigerians that the first beneficiaries of this privatisation drive we are doing are the PHCN workers themselves,” he said.

The minister assured the PHCN workers that the privatisation policy would not lead to their mass sack and that the decision would, instead, improved on the lives of the workers who, according to him, stood a better chance to be retained when the private sector comes on board.

Wya further said, “We are going round telling our workers in PHCN that they are not loosing anything. If anything, they are going to make some money that they will use to do some initial investment now, and still keeping their jobs with the company. Nobody is going to sack anybody in our work force. If anything after the transfer, they instead will have improved their life and will continue to be better from now onward.”

The Minister said the government was in a hurry to ensure that the present power problem facing the country was completely overcame by the year 2020 as it had targeted 40,000 Mega Watts of electricity generation by the year 2020.

To achieve this according to Wya, the Federal government was currently undertaking the construction of six IPP stations across located in at Alaodi, Egbema, Ihovbor, Olorunshogbo and Omotoso.

He said the plant at Ihovbor had four turbines, each of them with 123 MW capacities and that when added up, they would produce almost 500 MW, while the six plants were expected to generate almost 5000 MW
http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/18858-fg-disburses-n56bn-to-phcn-workers-as-monetisation-arrears

Worried by the lack of growth and economic development in the Northern region, President Goodluck Jonathan said in Kaduna on Thursday that the Federal Government would ensure that a conducive environment and infrastructure was made possible in the Northern region to attract investment for the socio-economic development of the region.

Similarly, the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and other notable figures in the country lamented the economic backwardness of the North, insisting that the region had all it takes to push ahead economically but could not due to poor leadership in the past.

President Jonathan who spoke at the Northern Economic Summit that was held at the conference hall of Kaduna International Trade Fair and Investment Centre, said with the abundant human and material resources in the region, his administration would focus attention particularly on desert encroachment to ensure that people were able to harness from the immediate environment for their economic advancement.

The governor of the CBN, Mallam Sanusi, said that when they talked about economic development, they were talking about redressing conditions of objective violence that had continued to bring about subjective violence in a place like Jos.

Mallam Sanusi said futher that the problem of the North was an extreme form of the problem of the entire country and while they talked about the North,the poor man in Nigeria should be considered, whether in the North, or the South as all were victims of the same system.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/19111-jonathan-sanusi-lament-norths-economic-backwardness

THE Federal Government has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to discountenance the Pius Okigbo panel report that indicted former head of state, General Ibrahim Babangida, for alleged corruption over the $12.4 billion Gulf Oil windfall.

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) listed as respondents in a suit seeking Babangida’s probe over the alleged fraud, claimed that “the report is not admissible in law because it has not yet been published in a gazette and no White Paper has been issued on the report.”

Responding to a suit brought against them in September 2010 by a coalition of six civil society groups seeking information on how the $12.4 billion oil windfall of between 1988 and 1994 was spent, the CBN claimed that the suit was not justiciable because it was not covered under the fundamental rights provisions of sections 33-46 of the 1999 Constitution.

The plaintiffs are Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP); Women Advocates and Documentation Centre (WARDC); Committee for Defence of Human Rights (CDHR); Access to Justice (AJ); Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), and Partnership for Justice.

The suit, no FHC/ABJ/CS/640/10, was brought under the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules 2009 by the groups’ lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, at the Federal High Court, Abuja.

In their separate preliminary objections filed last week before the court, both the AGF and the CBN also argued that the plaintiffs had no locus standi; and were not juristic persons as they were not registered.

The AGF said that the affidavit in support of the suit was “not duly stamped.”

Adetokunbo Mumuni, SERAP executive director, said that, “we strongly reject the objections raised by both the AGF and the CBN. We are finalising a reply, which we will file in court in due course.”

Earlier, the plaintiffs, in their suit, had averred that: “In 1994, the Federal Government set up the Pius Okigbo Panel to investigate the activities of the Central Bank of Nigeria and recommend measures for the re-organisation of the bank. In the course of its assignment, the Okigbo Panel found that the $12.4 billion in the Dedicated and Special Accounts had been depleted to $200 million by June 1994.

“As a result of the alleged mismanagement of the said $12.2 billion by the military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, the Okigbo Panel recommended that the Dedicated and Special Accounts be discontinued.”

The plaintiffs are seeking an order of Mandamus, compelling the respondents individually and/or collectively to publish detailed statement of account relating to the spending of $12.4 billion oil windfall between 1988 and 1994, and to publish in major national newspapers a copy of the statement of account.

Besides, they want the court to order the respondents to prosecute anyone indicted by the report, recoup the money from them and return same to the treasury.

They also want an order directing the respondents to provide adequate reparation, which may take the form of restitution, compensation, satisfaction or guarantees of non-repetition to millions of Nigerians that have been denied their human rights, as a result of the respondents’ failure and/or negligence to ensure transparency and accountability in the spending of $12.4 billion oil windfall between 1988 and 1994.

According to the plaintiffs, “the need for information regarding the spending of $12.4 billion oil windfall is important to promote transparency and accountability in the management of public resources and to fulfil Nigeria’s international obligations to promote the development of the country.

“Access to information of this nature is especially important in this country, which is struggling to establish the rule of law and democracy in the face of underdevelopment, poverty, illiteracy and disease.

“The right of access to information is also crucial to the realisation of all other human rights, including the peoples’ right to their natural wealth and resources.”

They added that “public bodies hold information not for themselves, but as custodians of the public good and everyone has a right to access this information. Unless the Court compels Mr Adoke and the CBN to disclose the information requested in this case, the information may never be disclosed and Nigeria will remain in breach of its international anti-corruption and human rights obligations and commitments.”

The plaintiffs also argued that “the diversion and/or mismanagement of the $12.4 billion oil windfall is a violation of Nigerians’ right to natural resources and wealth and to economic development, as recognised and guaranteed by 21 and 22 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act).

“Under the African Charter, the Nigerian government has a legal responsibility to utilise the natural resources of the country so as to benefit the whole people.

“Just as the people of every sovereign state have a permanent right to choose their form of government, so the people are entitled to insist that the natural resources of the nation be exploited in the interest of the people.”

The plaintiffs were contending that “the right of a people not to be dispossessed of their wealth and natural resources is not just any ordinary right, but the fundamental human right. This right is an essential element of peoples’ economic security, survival and independence.”

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/18836-124bn-oil-windfall-fg-asks-court-to-reject-okigbo-panel-report-on-ibb

They pretend to be patriotic, whereas their trumpetization of bold policies cannot be implemented because by so doing, the cat will be out of the bag, that those who call for reforms are themselves objects of reform.”

IN their communique of 12 July, 2003, the Igbimo Agba Yoruba (Yoruba Council of Elders) mentioned at least four areas namely: Leyland Motors, Central Bank, Railways and dismissed UNILORIN professors, which are glaring cases of discrimination against Yoruba by the Nigerian Federal Government. These are tips of the iceberg of a nefarious policy to downgrade the Yoruba in the federal set-up, in order to slow down their rate of progress. Those who do not know, should now know that Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) was initiated by the Federal Government when it became obvious that if there was an open contest for admission into the Nigerians universities, Yoruba would take most of the positions. In a country where there is justice, equity and fair play, and where no discrimination exists, it matters not whether the intake of universities are mostly Yorubas or Igbos, since they are also Nigerians. In the Nigerian Football team, most of the players are Igbos. Yoruba cannot complain if their boys are not footballers but Table Tennis is presently dominated by Yorubas and this is because the skill cannot be found elsewhere to boost Nigerian ego. As soon as others produce the skills, Yorubas will be dropped.

In the Federal Public Service, Yorubas are being downgraded and nobody is doing anything about it, because the President ( a Yoruba man by birth) regards himself first as a Nigerian. In other words, President Obasanjo’s ratiocination is ahead of what is on the ground. He is thinking in the air of a Nigerian nation, in which all the ethnic groups are welded into one compound instead of the present amalgam. This is not only ethnological impossible, it is being used as the yardstick for demoting the Yorubas, so that others may catch up.

In the 70s, a case went to court successfully of an Egba girl who scored first class in JAMB exam, but could not secure an admission into any university for her course of her study, because JAMB had zoned the intake, with the result, such that those who did not obtain the CUT OFF mark were admitted, because they came from areas described as educationally disadvantaged. It is the work of non-Yoruba federal civil servants who took advantage of the renegade military rulers of northern origin to evolve the iniquitous policy and put same into practice. If in a federal ministry, the grading is such that northerners occupy a long line of the most senior offices from top to the bottom, where will their Yoruba counterparts be in another 20 years?--Hewers of wood and cutters of stones.

Local Government and Census
The mischief is carried far into the demarcation of local governments, where landmass is used as the principal criterion for demarcation. This means that the sparsely populated desert regions of the North will receive more federal grants than the densely populated equatorial regions of the South.

VAT
The irony here is that this sharing policy is carried into the sharing of income accruing from VAT. It is common knowledge that 80 per cent of the income of VAT is generated in the South and when it is being shared, the North takes the lion share. The result is that the income to the South cannot meet the expenses of the Southern states and the people become stagnant in improverishment. Free education becomes a problem. Employment is impossible, development in agriculture and allied products are nil, while in a state like Zamfara, there is such a surplus of income from the federal purse, such that the sharia- intoxicated governor had the money to invite international press to witness his declaration of primitive sharia, contrary to the Nigerian Constitution. He is so rich, that he has surplus funds to provide for amputation of limbs by crude surgery and to create international controversy over the simple issue of adultery, which in this modern age is so common in international relations due to modern sophistication.

Geo-political zones
The federal civil servants who carved out the six-geo political zones, did so with premeditated mischief. They deliberately isolated the six Yoruba states from the oil producing Delta and created a monster which they called South-South. Edos are kinsmen of Yoruba, so are the Itsekiris/Urhobos , they are now grouped together across the Niger with Akwa Ibom and Cross River, thus creating an enclave of oil producers from West to East to the exclusion of Igbos and Yorubas.

No Regret
Yorubas have no regret at all. Japan has no oil but they have abundance of human resources, which is an intelligent work force.

This has enabled them to have the second largest economy in the world. Yorubas have the human resources, but Nigeria is causing them to waste away. The best in human resources can only be obtained by a combination of the EXPERIENCE of the elderly ones and the vigorous and sincere aspirations of the youths. As it is today, Nigerian rulers are encouraging the youths to take over, without the accumulated experience of the elders who are dying out. The process of dying out is being accelerated by the Nigerian government policy which refuses to pay PENSION to those who have retired or have been compulsorily retired. Some of whom have collapsed and died on the queue, which was also a plan or plot to exterminate them.

Ultimatum
This ultimatum has no fixed time limit. It is merely a warning to the so-called rulers of Nigeria, that Yorubas are FED UP with their selfish plot of pretending to govern, while in fact , their whole plan is to protect their loots, by sitting on the top of the system, giving orders. They pretend to be patriotic, whereas their trumpetization of bold policies cannot be implemented because by so doing, the cat will be out of the bag, that those who call for reforms are themselves objects of reform.

Those who cry that Abacha’s loots be recovered are beneficiaries of the loot and so, at some point in the game, nobody hears anything about the loots any more. This cavalcade of deception is no longer a secret. The President did not sign the document presented to him by those who installed him in 1999, but he implemented nearly all the politicies in the document. By 2003, it was obvious that Yorubas were the sacrificial lambs of the Presidency, Nigeria Railways left Kaduna for its original site in Ebute Metta, but Yorubas were uprooted from the Railway Service in hundreds and Northern Yorubas with Fulani souls were made to replace them. Ports Authority left Abuja, but how are the Yorubas faring in the establishment? Chief Bode Akindele and his associates also lost the contract because they are Yorubas. Chief Subomi Balogun”s bank was axed because he is Yoruba. Is his Yoruba bank the only culprit in the game of foreign exchange?

Let my people go
The ultimatum amounts to the cry of Yahweh to Pharaoh, “Let my people go.” Pharaoh refused and Yahweh delivered his people and destroyed Pharaoh and his cohorts.
Yoruba want to rule themselves now as part of a true federation; the consequences of refusal may bring Nigeria down. Verbum sat sapienti (a word is sufficient for the wise).



http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/features/2372-discrimination-against-yoruba-by-the-federal-government

NIgeria is really effed up , by cousin was arrested for havin his two phones with him without receipt ,can u imagine , the mentality in nigeria especially amongs security persons is terrible.

where fstranger , ileki idi ,eku bear andf bkbabe. this list is not correct its only foolish igbo people that are investing in the north even with all the crisis there since the 80s. they should remove yoruba people from that list before i vex now.

i dont know if dividing the nation is the solution but i know what we are doin now is not working, from the way thing are goin 20 years from now we will still be this way, even with all the powder and lipstick we are rubbing on abuja ,calabar, lagos island, ph,enugu the truth is that less than 5 percent are enjoyin those things . just yesterday obasanjo got in 1999 its already 2011 thats 11 years and nothin to show for it except new generation banks.

its not the first time, they have attacked lagos and abuja before and govt did nothin , at the end only the average citizens will suffer.

so they neva ban OPC ,miscreants parading with weapons

what the Bleep is this thread doin on the front page

hugooh42:
Another Igbo don kill him Mama.Igbo seffff!!

DRlulu:
you mean ajo mmuo

all gjoin