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CONVERSION OF THE KWARA STATE FUNDS AND RESOURCES BY SARAKI,
While by the questionable so called COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENT, each farmer is expected to form and register a COMPANY either alone or in conjunction with ‘interested investors’  what has come out of the project is ‘NEW NIGERIA FARM’   Findings at the COPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (C.A.C.) shows that the company known as
NEW NIGERIA ENTERPRISES LIMITED is wholly owned by SARAKIS. NEW NIGERIA. ENTERPRISES LTD with
R.C.NO:10115 was registered on 10th May, 1972 with DR. SOLA SARAKI and FLORENCE MORENIKE,
(SARAKI’WIFE) as the Subscribers and the Directors   By Sections 36 and 37 of the COMPANIES & ALLIED
MATTERS ACT, a new business cannot be registered or be allowed to operate in or with a name so close to or
resembling an existing registere name. ALSO investigations at the CAC revealed that the name NEW NIGERIA
FARM is not registered.  This therefore, lends credence to the allegation that all the official and banks documents relating to the farm project have been changed to SRAKIS’. The result is that the farm project is the property of SARAKIS with the Zimbabweans as their employees and the Kwara State the EBTOR either as a LENDER OR as a GUARANTOR of various questionable loans,  It is noteworthy that despite billions of Naira hanging on the neck of kwara state, the SARAKIS in the 2010
Budget allocated close to N1, 000,000,000.00 to the Songa Farm Project of the family. By this singular fraud,
the Sarakis have mortgaged the future of the generations yet unborn of Kwara state while enriching
themselves and their family in billions of the people’s resources.

Oh my God!!!!
I sincerely pray that this is not true!

Are we still disgracefully trading ourselves to oyibo people? Disgusting if this is true.

occam:
@Beaf
The best option is to stay away from BBC website if you dislike their message.

The irony is that you are helping BBC drive more visitors to their site. BBC wants the audience to see this type of content and share the link amongst their friends through forums like this. Those friends then click the link to see the photograph and may view other content on BBC (online advertising 101). Like other media companies, BBC is also generating revenue from online. More visitors = more revenue

You can also create content (videos or photographs) that shows positive things about Nigeria, post it on this forum and we’ll help spread the word. Now I don’t mean pictures of houses in Abuja or Lekki.

Roll over and give up?
No, the best option is to speak out against BBC's motives. We are not as powerless as you think.

The BBC is all about reinforcing a derogatory image of Africa, there are no excuses for not standing up to them. I gave an earlier example (linked) of them posting a picture a picture of the apartheid flag of South Africa on their African news homepage for weeks, despite several protests. Such things must stop and they will only stop if we gain the fibre to to say, "NO MORE!"

The effect of all this matters should be to unleash the EFCC on NNPC with the force of 7 hurricanes.
What we call fuel subsidy is just 90% FG money flowing directly and corruptly into private pockets, totally unaccounted for.

We find ourselves caught in a catch 22 situation, were subsidies are the only tangible benefit to the masses of a ridiculous system, in which Nigeria, one of the Worlds major oil producers, relies on imported fuel for a hundred percent of its needs.

Heads must roll.

[size=14pt]Nigeria oil firm insolvency raises corruption questions[/size]
By Aderogba Obisesan (AFP) – 4 hours ago

LAGOS — Nigeria's state petroleum firm has been labeled insolvent, raising new questions Wednesday over the oil-rich country's squandered resources and what role corruption played in the company's fate.

The firm's woes have also thrown a spotlight on its complex relationship with the government, which forces the company to keep petrol prices low but has simultaneously held back subsidy payments.

The controversy has played out against the backdrop of an approaching election season, with a presidential vote set for early next year in the OPEC member, the world's eighth largest oil exporter.

Junior finance minister Remi Babalola said on Tuesday that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is insolvent, with liabilities exceeding assets by 754 billion naira (five billion dollars, 3.9 billion euros).

NNPC disputed the claim, saying the government owes it more than six billion dollars in subsidies.

On Wednesday, NNPC spokesman Levi Ajuonuma responded angrily to the minister's statement, saying that labeling the firm insolvent amounts to calling the country bankrupt, because of its reliance on the oil industry.

"Anybody saying NNPC is broke, you are indirectly telling the world that Nigeria is broke, don't do business with Nigeria," he said. "It is a very serious matter. NNPC is not broke. Nigeria is not broke."

Because of the poor state of Nigeria's refineries, the company has to import products from abroad and pay market price. It must then charge a fixed price for petrol, a situation that has created the problem, according to NNPC.

"When you buy high and you have to sell at a fixed price, there is always a difference, and that difference, for almost eight years now, has been building," said Ajuonuma.

The controversy has led to inevitable questions however about what role corruption has played in NNPC's affairs in a country long held back by graft.

"Economically, there is no basis for NNPC to go bankrupt," said Gbenga Martins, an economist and oil industry expert. "Corruption is the bane of NNPC, which has landed it in its current situation."

Cletus Nwogwugwu, an Abuja-based economist and financial consultant, agreed that the NNPC "because it is inefficient and swimming in corruption, does not have a good standing to say that it cannot pay its bills."

But there are also a range of other connected issues, with the government seeking to reform the petroleum industry, the source of an estimated 90 percent of export earnings and 80 percent of government revenues.[/b]

A reform bill is currently before the parliament, and the government wants to wean the NNPC off subsidies.

President Goodluck Jonathan, who took over in May after the death of his predecessor Umaru Yar'Adua, recently sacked two top officials of the NNPC and ordered an audit of its accounts.

He has also promised to cut down on corruption and reform the oil sector to make it efficient and profitable -- a daunting task given the NNPC's situation.

[b]Meanwhile, Nigeria's inability to capitalise on its oil wealth continues to cause frustration in the country of 150 million people -- Africa's most populous nation.

Its four refineries, with a total installed capacity of 445,000 barrels per day, grossly underperform due to corruption and poor maintenance.

As a result, the country faces fuel and electricity shortages, with power outages a daily part of life

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jJaTC6YX9hJVIERvLM1gQrbckTXA

Ha! E be like say cocaine is getting cheaper.

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Even you "science" is faulty. The first thing you will think of in that position, will be to protect your head and softer parts. Break fall ke!

ajadudu:
It's a clay model in a glass case, that is what caused the reflection buddy. Look at the depth and placement of the right hand of the guy climbing through the window. Also look at the proportion of the molue. Too many reasons to show it is a model. LOL

Have you ever used clay? How do you think the inside of the bus was done?

And why is such a great artwork unknown?
It makes sense to argue about things we know.

The distance some of us are willing to go to deny reality is shocking. Twice, in my younger days, I had strange women sitting in my lap at Ojuelegba; I have seen such shocking scrambles too many times to count.

honeric01:
He's not the only one guilty of the offense, what about the rest that even supported him?

The picture is real. It only looks blurred because of the reflections in the window it was taken through. If you look toward the top of the pic, you'll notice that the window is partly wound down, so you can see the top of the glass.

It is close to impossible (99.99%) for the average joe with the average pc to fake the people in that photo, even major movie studios would really struggle to create such lifelike figures. Current everyday CGI technology is not capable of producing such realistic poses.

@topic
It is better to accept reality than to stretch the bounderies of incredulity.

[size=14pt]NNPC is insolvent - Babalola [/size]
Wednesday, 14 July 2010 01:21 Reuters
•Current liabilities now exceed assets

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) does not have enough money to fund its operations and is technically insolvent because of unpaid subsidies it is demanding from government, Remi Babalola, minister of state for finance said on Tuesday. The state owned oil behemoth, which oversees Nigeria’s vast oil industry, is locked in a standoff with the Federal Government, saying it is owed more than N1 trillion in subsidies.

The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), which manages the distribution of Nigeria’s oil revenues to the three tiers of government, says however that NNPC owes it a shortfall of N450 billion in unremitted crude oil receipts. “NNPC is insolvent as current liabilities exceed current assets,” Babalola told a FAAC meeting in Abuja.
Remi Babalola

“NNPC is incapable of repaying the N450 billion owed to the Federation Account unless it is reimbursed the N1.156 trillion (in subsidies) it has requested from the federal ministry of finance,” he said.

Despite being Africa’s biggest oil and gas producer, Nigeria is reliant on imports to meet its energy needs. Its four refineries are in disrepair, but even at full capacity they would only meet around a quarter of domestic energy demand.

Most people in Africa’s most populous nation see subsidised fuel as the only tangible benefit of their nation being a major world oil producer. The government has said it wants to remove the subsidies, which cost upwards of $4 billion a year, but such a move is likely to meet with popular resistance.

NNPC buys crude oil at the prevailing international market rate but sells petroleum products to local marketers at a discount in order to keep pump prices artificially low. The government is supposed to subsidise the difference.

NNPC’s financial woes highlight the need for urgent reforms to Nigeria’s mainstay oil industry, where the state-run firm’s funding shortfalls have been an ongoing hindrance to the OPEC member country meeting its full production potential. Foreign oil firms including Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Total and Agip, operate onshore in Nigeria through joint ventures in which NNPC holds significant stakes.

NNPC has consistently struggled to meet its share of cash calls to fund the joint ventures, leaving some struggling to maintain existing operations or invest in future projects.

Parliament is currently considering wide-ranging legislation to reform the industry, part of which aims to solve the funding problems by splitting NNPC up and making the joint ventures independent, allowing them to tap capital markets. Nigeria has struggled to pump much above two million barrels of oil per day (bpd), just two thirds of its installed capacity, partly because of insecurity in its restive Niger Delta oil heartland, but also because of the funding problems.

Babalola said NNPC was spending increasing amounts of money repairing vandalised infrastructure in the Niger Delta, where an amnesty last year has brought a period of stability, and was also suffering. President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the finance ministry to audit the accounts of NNPC, which has been plagued by mismanagement and corruption over a number of years.


http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12706:nnpc-is-insolvent-babalola&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=18

[size=14pt]Shake-up Looms in INEC[/size]
•Senate confirms 2 more board members
•PDP kicks over state congresses
From Kunle Akogun and Chuks Okocha in Abuja, 07.14.2010

A major reorganisation is underway at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the commission’s Chairman Prof. Attahiru Jega and his national commissioners hold a crucial meeting tomorrow in Calabar, Cross River State. 

The meeting is to reposition the body ahead of the 2011 polls, THISDAY learnt.

In the meantime, the Senate yesterday confirmed two more nominees for appointment as INEC national commissioners.
The two, Dr. Abdulkadir Suleiman Oniyangi from Kwara (North-central) and Hajia Amina Bala Zakari from Jigawa (North-west), could not be screened alongside Jega and six new national commissioners on June 22 and 23 due to the delay in getting their security clearance.

Competent sources at the commission said though the reorganisation move is coming under the aegis of an executive retreat, the repositioning plan is so serious that only Jega and his commissioners are attending the parley.

No director or staff of the commission except Jega and the commissioners are attending the retreat, the sources said.
The retreat, which will enable INEC undertake a comprehensive assessment of the state of its readiness for the tasks ahead, is to hold from July 15 to 17.

During the retreat, INEC leadership will review the state of its general administration and personnel, the existing departments, the budget vis-à-vis assets and liabilities as well as the general framework for voter enlightenment, voter registration, logistics and ICT infrastructure.

The commission will also consider the appropriate strategy for the conduct of elections at polling units, procedure for documentation and announcement of results as well as the reorientation of its workforce.
THISDAY learnt that the decisions at the retreat may likely lead to a major reorganisation of INEC personnel nationwide.

Already, the commission is said to have indicated that directors who have served up to eight years at the commission may be shown the way out in line with a circular from the Head of Service of the federation Mr. Steve Oronsaye based on the news civil service reforms, though some have argued that INEC is a statutory body and not within the regular civil service structure. 

The Jega-led commission will also brainstorm on other issues such as arrangements for training, monitoring of political parties and relationship with national and international bodies such as National Youth Service Corp (NYSC), National Orientation Agency (NOA), European Union (EU), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), United Nations (UN), and United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) etc.
With the clearance of Oniyangi and Zakari, INEC now has 10 national commissioners - eight new ones and two others from the Maurice Iwu era-.

Two of the original nominees, Gen. Abdullahi Bagudu Mamman (rtd) and Ambassador Mohammed Anka, were dropped by President Goodluck Jonathan on account of their alleged partisan status. They are yet to be replaced.

The six who had earlier been cleared by the Senate have since assumed duties having been sworn in by the President late June. They are, Engr. Nuru Yakubu (Yobe) – North-east, Col. M.K. Hammanga (Adamawa) – North-east, Dame Gladis Nne Nwafor (Abia) – South-east, Dr. Ismail Igbani (re-appointed) (Rivers) – South-south, Mrs. Thelma Iremiren (Delta) – South-south, and Prof. Lai Olurode (Osun) – South-west.

Answering questions from senators at yesterday’s screening, Oniyangi, a medical doctor and Zakari, a pharmacist, pledged to discharge their duties with a high sense of integrity.
Oniyangi, who was the first to face the senators, said he would carry out his duties to the best of his abilities if confirmed.
He also pledged that the new crop of INEC leadership would do its best to give the country a free, fair and credible election Nigerians would be proud of.

On her part, Zakari while responding to a question on the feasibility of the much-canvassed electronic voting system said “Nigerians should be properly educated first before we think of introducing e-voting.”
She said if elections were credible and every voter’s vote counts, the country does not have to waste time and resources on prolonged post-election litigations.

Senate President David Mark enjoined the new INEC commissioners to join hands with their colleagues “to ensure there are free, fair and credible elections in the country.”
Meanwhile, INEC and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seem to be on a collision course on the recognition or non-recognition of congresses in some states.

INEC had raised issues over the party’s congresses in Bayelsa, Enugu, Imo, Kogi, Plateau and Oyo states.
But PDP has advised the affected state chapters to remain calm.

PDP had earlier in a letter through its then Acting National Chairman Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed titled “Inconclusive PDP Congresses", dated 8 June 2010 sought clarifications from INEC on its position on the party’s congresses in the affected states.
INEC had in a letter through its Secretary Abdullahi Kaugama dated June 23 with reference no. INEC/DPP/M&L/PDP/024/Vol.161 listed the state congresses that were not acceptable to it as they did not follow due process and laid down guidelines.
The states are Bayelsa, Enugu, Imo, Kogi, Plateau and Oyo.

However, PDP’s National Working Committee disagreed with the INEC report on the congresses and directed its National Organizing Secretary Chief Uche Secondus to submit to it the status of the party in all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Consequently, Secondus, in a memo dated July 1 2010, titled “Status Report on Year 2008 Party Congresses”, gave a detailed report of the state congresses, which differed from INEC report.
For instance, whereas INEC said the congress in Delta State was not acceptable to it, the PDP report said, “Congress election was conducted in Delta State. Monitoring report says state executives emerged by consensus and harmonization and this was confirmed by the National Working Committee (NWC) after several meetings with stakeholders.”

In Edo State, where INEC said the congress was acceptable to it, PDP said though congress was conducted, the “result of the congress is being contested in court.”
Edo State is polarised between two godfathers, Chief Anthony Anenih and Dr. Sam Ogbemudia.
In Adamawa State, the electoral body said the congress was acceptable to it, but PDP said though a congress election was conducted, in Maiha local government, however, there were no executive list, while in Jada local government, the list of ward election is missing.

The same thing is applicable to Girie and Shelleng local government areas where the list of elected congress officials is missing. As a result, PDP in the report said there were several petitions trailing the conduct of the election in the state.
In the South-west zone, PDP said the congresses in Osun, Ogun, Oyo and Ondo were with one problem or another but INEC only faulted the congress in Oyo State.

For instance, PDP said in Osun State that though the congress took place, but ward and local government result sheets were not available despite several reminders to the chairman and members of the electoral panel.
In Ogun State, PDP said only state congress result sheet was available. Others, the party said, were missing. In Ondo state, the report said there were no ward and local government result sheets for Akoko North-east, Akoko North-west, Ifedore, Ilaje, Okitipupa and Ondo-west local governments. INEC, however, certified the congress in the state.

In Enugu State, INEC said there was no congress but PDP insisted a congress took place. It was the same thing with Ebonyi, but whereas in Imo State, PDP said a strange congress list was available without the state congress result sheets while a court restraining order was subsisting during the congresses.

Both INEC and PDP certified the congresses in Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Sokoto, Katsina and Zamfara as okay.
Also, INEC and PDP said the congress in Bayelsa State did not follow due process and therefore was not acceptable.
In Borno, despite INEC’s approval, PDP said, “post-congress crises remain unresolved.

Harmonization and reconciliation agreements for wards, local government executives are still unconcluded in some local governments”.
In Bauchi State, PDP said “merger agreement between old and new members is yet to be concluded.”

In Taraba State, PDP said though congress was conducted, the executive list in Lau local government, Jimilari local government and Ardo local government were either missing or remain inconclusive.
It also said congress was conducted in Yobe State, but there were no executive lists in Jakusko Local Government Area, Machina Local Government Area, Falimari and Maskandari Local Government Areas of the state.

In a statement issued last night by his Media Assistant, Mr. Ike Abonyi, PDP National Chairman, Dr. Okesilieze Nwodo, however, said the attention of the National Working Committee (NWC) had been drawn to the fact that INEC observation was causing anxiety among members in the affected states.

“It has come to my notice that the observation of INEC on some of our state congresses is causing some anxiety,” he said. “The NWC is studying the observation and hopes to make its decision public at the appropriate time”.
Nwodo charged members in the affected states not to be distracted as the party’s decision would be communicated to them.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=178285

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I see the rumour mongers and conspiracy theorists are attracted like flies to rotten meat.

[quote author=john_blaze link=topic=474746.msg6379805#msg6379805 date=1279042787]Typical Nigerian!!!
your response to my post shows your level of maturity,
By the way how old are you?[/quote]Charlie, look in the mirror.

mochafella:
I doubt that is real, looks like artwork or a model

Deep Soul:
Look closely. That picture is definitely not a real one.

. . .Clever people sha! Can't you see it is taken through a car window? I bet none of you even knows their way around a graphics package. Rubbish.
Why is reality so hard for us to accept?

shotster50:
Everyone on here seems to not disprove the article. It has left me wondering what the reaction would have been if the BBC made this into another documentary,

If the man makes it a point of duty to go over and over the same crap in a derogatory way, then we will face him squarely. BBC has won itself nothing but scorn with their "African" obsession. I can spot a racist from 10 miles away.

To echo some of the b*llshit excuses some of us give. . .
That is simply a display of [size=49pt]RESILIENCE![/size]

Onlytruth:


This is by far the best situation analysis of Nigeria I've ever read!

I was beginning to wonder whether I'm the only one with these conclusions about Nigeria.
Thank God that a complete foreigner reached the same conclusion.

The biggest enemies of Nigeria are those who come here to make idiotic posts about some Eko Atlantic city without publicly scrutinized urban development plans. Those who lie to us about Nigeria being the best place to live.

When you ask hard questions, they attack you as if you are the problem.

Anyone who fails to see Nigeria for what is it is truly DEMENTED.

Thank you!

As for the bolded, I almost hate the sycophantic id!ots that act that way, because its my country they are fcking up with their stupidity. For every word those fools utter, another child dies somewhere in the country, another graduate falls by the wayside somewhere in the country.

I can assure you that complete foreigners regularly see the madness in the country as something they can exploit; from the oil companies fcking up the Niger Delta to Pfitzer's illegal and evil experiments on kids in the North.

Nigeria lacks any sense of organisation, which is the bedrock of development. It is so bad that we don't even the most basic rules for child safety, food safety, industrial standards. . . Everything is done in such a crazy way that you wonder how we manage to remain alive; but to the average Nigerian who is blind to the effects of our murky and self strangling habits, this madness translates to resilience. Not! It is all a vehicle to keep us travelling backwards at ever faster speeds, maybe as Prof Ben Nwabueze was right that we need a bloody revolution.

Nigeria has been on the failed states list for about a decade now. When will we get off it?

[quote author=john_blaze link=topic=474746.msg6374555#msg6374555 date=1278964971]The freemasons are a international fraternity with numerous US and UK presidents as registered members like Barack obama,Tony blair, George Bush just to mention a few. In addition to their "frat" activities there are reports that the freemasons especially the high ranking masons[b](33 degrees masons)[/b] engage in clandestine activites which other masons are not aware of.

Illumanti: To the best of my knowledge the "illumanti" is one of the oldest cult in the world. Discovered in the 17th century by a group of German scholars, who claim to have secret knowledge about life that most people are not aware of.The described themselves as illumanti which in latin means the enlighten ones over time their network spread across europe and they included members such Michael angelo,leonardo di vici, Sir Issac Newton just to mention. They were so powerful in europe and determined who got into power.
In the 18th century the catholic church went after them, due to fear from the church they went underground and have remained there ever since. The illumanti is not fiction, they actually do exist and they control most things that happen in the world today.[/quote]You have injected your foolishness in this topic! Barack Obama is NOT a freemason.
The same id!ot that claims he is a freemason, also claims he is the anti-christ. You always yourself the mouthpiece of stup!d far out, racist rubbish.

This is the site that claims Obama is a freemason, it can only seem credible to irreedamble fools; http://www.rense.com/general80/obmw.htm

Becomrich0:
beaf, you are a young man, you are joking with yoruba people. You dont want them to be upset with you. There can make your wife visit every church in the world for you to look for healing. Do you know what they call aiye.

There is power were there is power. Go and watch agbarala.
Have you heard of ogboni and others before. There is power were there is power. That all I can tell you. men not come after you.

Hmmmmmmmm! And I thought you were a pastor, now I'm sure your name is Adesegun Ebele Azikiwe Musiwa!
See map!

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=477932.msg6379445#msg6379445 date=1279038814]. . .
I reiterate your country is a useless country. . . .If you want me to say this a million times i will. . . . .
U have provided nada. . . . .Only retards quickly rush to Wiki to produce information that has got nothing to do with issue.
Nigeria is #1 as far as E-mail scams are concerned and you are talking about Spamming in Russia and Mongolia. . . .Who gives a rat about that?[/quote]It can't be so difficult for you to provide references to back up your self flagellating assertions, or is it just because you have none?
If you say Nigeria is the email scam capital of the World, please please prove it. If you can't, it simply means your mind has been parked in massa's garage and you desperately need to get it back.
No nation can develop without pride in identity.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=477932.msg6379020#msg6379020 date=1279034878]This dude is genetically deluded. . . . .Where did i say anything about you enrolling in anger management classes?
Are you dyslexic or suffering from the madras eye?

Mr Foolish, the moronic statistics you provided is about SPAMMING. . . .which is quite different from SCAMMING.
I think you need to check your dictionary and see the difference. . . .
Your country is useless - there i said it and it is people like you trying to defend the indefensible that has made it more useless.[/quote]Botnets are much more dangerous and generate zillions of times more dosh than anything some desperate dan 419er can ever muster from an internet cafe. 80% of spam is sent by botnets. Botnets are owned by organised crime gangs (mainly in the US, Russia), Botnets are used to attack sovereign nations. . . Can you see how you miss the bigger picture to whip yourself raw as the Worlds email fraud capital?
Isn't something missing in you? I think it is a gaping hole were your identity and pride in it should be.

Stop being funny and remember you brought up the email thing to whip yourself with, after calling Nigeria a useless country.
I have simply provided you with facts and figures to prove that, as far as email scams or spamming goes, Nigeria is very far from being the worst country, only to make you so angry and dish out abuse rather than counter-logic. Its the sort of thing massa wants, it frees their whip hand, while some of us do the job ourselves.

"The availability of e-mail has helped to transform a local form of fraud into one of Nigeria's most important export industries."

Insa Nolte, University of Birmingham's African Studies Department.

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/adepoju-paul-olusegun/maga-will-still-pay.html

I'm sure you will agree wholeheartedly with the lying prof. Nigeria's exports are about $65billion and 419 (no excuses for it) accounts for less than 0.5% of that. Its called whipping yourself to suit a foreigners goals and desires.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=477932.msg6378900#msg6378900 date=1279033789]I don't need to run to Wikipedia to pick holes in your nonsense theories.

There's no point in me having a debate with a plonker who cannot discern the difference between spamming and scamming.
U need to go back to school or better still, sue your handlers and teachers cos they really did an awful job training you.
I can perfectly understand your anger now - Half baked graduates always seem to think the world is against them in every matter.

Stinking swine!!![/quote]I wonder who sounds angry between the both of us? Stop waxing sentimental, just provide counter figures from any credible place you can source them. . . None?

You have been told by massa, that Nigeria is the email scam capital of the World and when presented with unshakable proof, you react by taking the whip from massa and whipping yourself raw. Its much the same effect the pictures have, the weaker ones whip themselves to pieces.
I am saying, look at what is being presented, put sentiment aside, analyse it and react positively; don't tell me my country is useless as you did earlier or lie down and die to lies about Nigeria being the email fraud capital, instead, sit back and think, it is useful.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=477932.msg6378842#msg6378842 date=1279033267]You are a stark illiterate.
When spam involves any fraudulent act then it is reported as a scam.
Don't lump the two together with your techno-fuckno lingo and think you are making any sense.

Nigerians are the biggest scammers in the world - you have to be a consummate retard to disbelieve it.[/quote]What you call "techno-fuckno lingo" is really the sound of yourself running in terror from facts and figures. Charlie, where are your own figures to buttress your arguments? None?

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=477932.msg6378760#msg6378760 date=1279032591]I hope to God you know there's a difference between spamming and scamming.
Mr Beaf - Are you sure you passed through the 4 walls of a citadel of learning?[/quote]Maybe you need to read up on the proportions of spam that are fraudulent? Or you need to know about botnets, viruses, phishing and just how spam is sent? maybe you didn't notice that Sophos (an anti-virus maker) furnished some of the figures in my earlier post?
Thats where the real crime is, it is huge and sophisticated; not the sort of tiny operations from some half literate conman having a go from an internet cafe in Akoka. . . But trust about our self flagellators helping to sink our name as a scam capital! They've got your mind, son (and thats what they want)!

Talk about whipping yourself harder than massa ever will.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=477932.msg6378642#msg6378642 date=1279031253]The irony. . . . .an average Briton knows where Nigeria is. . . .don't mix the Brits with the Americans.
BBC have no blame if a certain Nigerian sends em pics of her environment, . . .The pictures are not fake, they are real!!!
I dunno why you're getting your knickers in a twist cos of pictures - are the kids related to you in any way?[/quote]Why don't you post pictures of the nicer parts of Nigeria and see if BBC will publish them? I have tried such things, have you?

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=477932.msg6378642#msg6378642 date=1279031253]Stop grasping at straws and talk about the children-in-a-canoe issue.
Whatz ma business with what BBC reported about Togo or apartheid in South Africa?

Your country is useless and you think BBC reporting it or not will change people's perception about Nigeria.
Go to CNN and advise your fellow Nigerians to stop sending scam emails all over the world. . . .

Mr Beaf - The defender of Nigerians.[/quote]Like I said, Iwonder how CNN manages to find so many positive African stories, but the BBC simply can't find any? Instead they take to publishing  derogatory pictures and receiving "phone calls" from Yar Adua.

I guess the bolded pretty much sums up how you feel about your identity as a Nigerian?
About the scam emails, perhaps you do not know that Nigeria is nowhere near the top of the major spamming countries (all spam is criminal).
Whipping yourself harder than massa whips you is called, inferiority complex and thats what we as Africans need to purge from our midst.

A 2009 Cisco Systems report lists the origin of spam by country as follows:[10]

(trillions of spam messages per year)

1.Brazil: 7.7;
2.USA: 6.6;
3.India: 3.6;
4.South Korea: 3.1;
5.Turkey: 2.6;
6.Vietnam: 2.5;
7.China: 2.4;
8.Poland: 2.4;
9.Russia: 2.3;
10.Argentina: 1.5.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)#Geographical_origins

In terms of volume of spam: According to Sophos, the major sources of spam in the fourth quarter of 2008 (October to December) were: [unreliable source?] [19][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59]

The United States (the origin of 19.8% of spam messages, up from 18.9% in Q3)
China (9.9%, up from 5.4%)
Russia (6.4%, down from 8.3%)
Brazil (6.3%, up from 4.5%)
Turkey (4.4%, down from 8.2%)
When grouped by continents, spam comes mostly from:

Asia (37.8%, down from 39.8%)
North America (23.6%, up from 21.8%)
Europe (23.4%, down from 23.9%)
South America (12.9%, down from 13.2%)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam#Origin_of_spam

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=477932.msg6378149#msg6378149 date=1279026000]You are a raving stark illiterate. . . . .

A Nigerian provided pics of children travelling to school by canoe and you want to protest?
Are the pictures fake? Instead of you to be gingered to make a change and correct these ills, you want to attack the organisation that brought the information to the world. . . . .

Sometimes i think the average Nigerian is mentally-deranged.[/quote]Should I reply you in kind? No, this is an example of how the dazed victim lavishes praise on their oppressor to the extent of even being a better whip than the oppressor can muster.
Is it not the same BBC that received two "phone calls" from Yar Adua, whom the whole World knew wasn't in any shape to make calls?
Is it not strange that the BBC never finds positive African stories like CNN very regularly does?
Is it a coincidence that the average Briton conjures up images of animals anytime Africa is mentioned?

Anyways, below is a link to an example of how the BBC saw displaying a photo of apartheid South Africa's flag as alright, simply because Togo had made a mistake. The same flag was displayed on the Africa news homepage for about two weeks, even with the strongest protestations about it. I guess in your books that would make the Average African "mentally deranged" if they complained about such, instead of simply going home to fight apartheid?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7235415.stm

there is no sense in jumping higher than the master says you should, instead question why the heck you are jumping when he says jump.

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=477367.msg6375601#msg6375601 date=1278978891][color=deeppink]The referee was a bit generous in giving out yellow cards.

But anyways, Spain dived a lot in that match.[/color][/quote]Haba! If the ref had done his job properly, it have been like three red cards to Holland in the first half alone; it was like they sent 11 cannibals to face spain!

Mr Fire:
He is lucky to attempt his poo in US - land of rule of law. Had it been China, Singapore or Russia, he would be dead by now.

That is so true. The weirdest part is that, half of that security will be put in place to protect the mumu from danger. He is very lucky indeed!

I just found that the number of cards in that march is a World record!
It equals of cards Portugal got in Portugal vs Netherlands (2006).

[size=14pt]Cost of holding Abdulmutallab’s trial in Detroit raises concerns [/size]
Tuesday, 13 July 2010

IT'S the bill nobody in the United States state of Michigan wants to pay. Who's going to cover the cost to safeguard Detroit and terrorism suspect Nigeria-born Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab when he appears in court to answer charges he tried to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day?

Experts said federal, state and local authorities could tally tens of millions of dollars in bills to escort the 23-year-old from the federal prison in Milan, seal an international border, block downtown streets, keep protesters at bay and make sure local buildings and infrastructure remain safe.

If Abdulmutallab doesn't take a plea deal or plead guilty before his trial, as New York's Times Square attempted bomber has done, his drawn-out trial could attract significant attention from the media and others.

The incident "struck close to home for a lot of people," said Paul Jenkins, a Washington-based homeland security consultant. "There's a definite possibility you could see protesters or threats emerge, even if he isn't present at the court the whole time."

During his January arraignment, the suspected terrorist's presence in downtown Detroit brought out demonstrators, onlookers, Flight 253 passengers and others. The drama escalated when a suspicious package and envelope were found near the courthouse. Abdulmutallab wasn't present for a court hearing last month, and future court dates haven't been booked.

Dan Lijana, spokesman for Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, confirmed that city police would be responsible for securing the streets around the Theodore Levin Courthouse should there be threats or concerns. Lijana said the last discussions between federal and local officials about who will pay for security took place around the time of Abdulmutallab's arraignment in January, but he wouldn't say what came of those discussions.

Abdulmutallab is being held at the federal prison in Milan, where he has been cooperating with authorities, officials say. The prison is about 45 miles southwest of Detroit, and bringing him to court could cause traffic and escort issues. The Federal Protective Service and US Marshals Service -- both federally funded -- are responsible for coordinating Abdulmutallab's transfer to and from the prison.

Melody Kindraka, spokeswoman for the Michigan State Police, said her agency had not yet received requests to help out with security at the trial.

And, indeed, it might be a bit early for any such requests. But the security cost question still concerns some.

Repesentative Candice Miller, who sits on the House Homeland Security Committee, sent a letter in April to Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano, saying she has concerns about a highly politicised trial that could be the target for protests and other disruptions.

In her letter, Miller said requiring a beefed-up law enforcement presence would "place an undue burden on the city and the southeast Michigan region. We are simply in no position to absorb the additional security costs that will be caused if this trial is held in Detroit."

Abdulmutallab's next court appearance is not set; pretrial motions are due September 13.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/8154-cost-of-holding-abdulmutallabs-trial-in-detroit-raises-concerns

^
Yes I was there, did you go FGC Ilorin too?

chuxy12:
ha!! paul will be utterly confused because the PDP riggig machine will shock his Psychic sen ;Dses

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=477785.msg6375273#msg6375273 date=1278972616]@beaf

lol but men have cleavys too tho [/quote]Not the "right type", believe me!