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[size=14pt]Ibori Petitions AGF Over Alleged EFCC Manhunt[/size]
Tue Apr, 13 2010

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FORMER Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, has petitioned the Attorney General of the Federation over reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun a manhunt for him in connection with a petition on his transaction in the Ascot-Wilbros matter, which took place while he was in office.

Despite the fact that the Delta State Government had cleared him, a report bySaturday Punch indicated that that the anti-graft agency has re-opened investigation into the matter and wants the former governor to appear to make a fresh statement.

In a letter by his lawyers J.B. Daudu and Co. to the EFCC, copied the AGF, Ibori reminded the body of series of efforts to investigate him on various allegations, all of which had come to nothing and wondered what would have necessitated another effort.

“It is a matter of public record and judicial decisions that you have on behalf of the Attorney General vigorously investigated every aspect of our client’s tenure as governor of Delta State and failed to find any crime committed inclusive of allegations of conspiracy, official corruption, diversion and misappropriation of public funds, stealing and money laundering for the period of 29th May 1999 to 29th May, 2007.

“That the said investigation was predicated upon the instruction of the first respondent and the petition of various persons, including, but not limited to a group christened “Concerned Elders and Citizens of Delta State.”

The said investigation covered among other issues the purchase of Wilbros by Ascot and the role of the applicant in respect thereof.”

The petitioner also reminded the anti-graft body that the matter had been dismissed in court, for which the Commission, dissatisfied had gone on appeal in Benin, wondering why it would not subject itself to a process it had begun and allow it to run its full judicial course.

In very simple term, elementary terms, Ibori’s lawyer said, “What your organization is doing by seeking to reinvestigate a matter you have already investigated and charged to court and for which the alleged offender has been discharged (which in this instance amounts to acquittal) amounts not only to complete infraction of the Nigerian Constitution but is a breach of our client’s fundamental human rights.

“Nowhere in the world, except of course, in some notorious banana republics is the rule of law and constitutionality trampled upon so aggressively as you are doing in this instance.”

Arguing that the commission should have done a thorough investigation on the matter before going to court to avoid running foul of the principle of double jeopardy, they regretted a situation where it had begun criminalising the former governor on the pages of newspapers without any formal invitation to clear his name.

The letter, signed by J.B. Dauda (SAN), threatened to head to court to seek judicial redress should any attempt be made by the EFCC “merely because you control the coercive forces” to interfere with Ibori’s liberty.

Daily Independent had reported of an alleged concerted pressure from both Ibori’s traducers in his state, championed by Chief Edwin Clark and the Presidency with the full knowledge of Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan on the EFCC to cage the former governor ahead of 2011 elections.

http://www.thetimesofnigeria.com/Article.aspx?id=2544

Those boys will be freed.

The man is guilty of both attempted sodomy, homesexuality and paedophelia. Jail awaits.
Homesexuality is a crime in Nigeria. I wish there was a better way of dealing with it than criminalising it, maybe try something similar to the Iranian approach of surgical treatment?

mikeansy:
Nope this not about international terrorists

somebody is exploiting the routine violence between Fulani herdsmen and Beroms

Bombs have historically not been used in this violence and surely this is an invention

Why do I get the feeling that somebody wants the Acting President to rush back home and are not happy that he is abroad meeting with World Leaders?

True, but their wish has turned sour since the suspects were injured by the bomb. Mission failed.
Its a good thing both suspects are alive; they will tell us were they got the bomb from.

Jonathan is a man that keeps his moves close to his heart while smiling shyly. What he's said in very many words is that we have to wait until June to know how things will play. I wish he would just unceremoniously sack Iwu though!

The id!ot wanted to test the extent of Uncle Joe's power. So as Uncle Joe landed away, na so im too wan enter plane!
Hidiot!
Everyday for de tif one day for de owner!

Uncle Joe, you no deh carry last!

He looked so confident unlike his boss who got so confused by the type of tea in the white house that he started confessing how meeting George Bush was the greatest day in his life. Disgrace!
What a cooooooool breadth of air after so many months of primitive politics!. . . God punish Na'aba for saying Uncle Joe shouldn't have honoured Obama's invitation. Political jobbers like him don't realise just how embarrassing it was to us when Yar'Adua dodged his responsibilities of meeting Obama at a UN surmit, prefering instead to open a Saudi uni (even though, at the time 9ja ones had been closed for months, due to ASUU strike).

Uncle Joe carry go! Make us proud! We are watching your enemies at home!

[size=14pt]Jonathan approves further foreign treatment for Yar’Adua –Investigation[/size]
By Everest Onyewuchi and Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja, Published: Saturday, 10 Apr 2010

Forty-four days after President Umaru Yar‘Adua was brought back to the country in the cover of darkness, indication has emerged that the ailing president would be flown abroad again for further medical treatment.

Yar‘Adua was hurriedly evacuated to Saudi Arabia on November 23 last year and was admitted to the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah.

A few days later, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, issued a statement signed by the president‘s personal physician, Dr. Salisu Banye, saying that Yar‘Adua was suffering from ”acute pericarditis”, a covering of the heart membrane that impedes blood circulation.

Just like he was secretly flown out, Yar‘Adua was flown back to Abuja in an air ambulance in the wee hours of February 24, two weeks after the House of Representatives and the Senate had passed resolutions on February 9 empowering the Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, to assume office as Acting President.

The National Assembly took the step because continued absence of the President was threatening to plunge the nation into serious constitutional crisis, particularly because he was held incommunicado by his wife, personal aides and kitchen cabinet.

But Saturday Punch investigation revealed on Friday that Acting President Jonathan, who had since replaced the National Security Adviser, dissolved the Executive Council of the Federation, reconstituted it and sacked the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, was ready to approve that Yar‘Adua be flown abroad again for further treatment.

A Presidency source said that Jonathan had also given the nod to the Yar‘Adua family to fly him to any country recommended by his doctors for comprehensive medical treatment whenever the need arose.

The source said that Jonathan was willing to approve all necessary logistics for the President‘s medical trip abroad.

“It will then be left for the President’s doctors and his family to decide whether they want to return him to Saudi Arabia or find another country where he will be able to receive the necessary medical attention,” the source said.

It was revealed that Jonathan‘s gesture to his boss was contrary to speculations that the new cabinet he inaugurated at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa on Tuesday will soon invoke Section 144 of the Constitution to activate the process of removing the ailing president from office on the grounds of permanent incapacitation.

It was further gathered that Jonathan‘s gesture was also meant to reassure the Yar‘Adua family who had adopted panicky measures in the last two weeks by inviting some Islamic and Christian clerics to visit and pray for the ailing president in his residence, a departure from their initial policy of making access to him impossible since November 23, 2009.

The source told one of our correspondents that Jonathan would not move against Yar‘Adua because ”his motive for dissolving and reconstituting the cabinet was to deliver good governance to Nigerians.”

The source added, ”You know the antecedents of Jonathan right from his days as Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Governor and his selection as running mate to Yar‘Adua in the 2007 election.

”The man is not desperate and he still sees Yar‘Adua as his boss and would be willing to hand over to the President whenever he recovers from his illness.

”The Acting President will not invoke Section 144 against Yar‘Adua. That is not the reason for dissolving and reconstituting the Federal Executive Council.

”In fact, he has approved that Yar‘Adua be taken outside the country for medical treatment and that he was willing to handover to him whenever he recovers.”

The Acting President was quoted as saying that he was not desperate for political power as only the Almighty God has the ability to determine who will be entrusted with positions of authority and power.

The Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Ima Niboro, could not be reached to react to the revelation that Jonathan had approved further foreign medical trip for Yar‘Adua.

Calls placed to his telephone lines rang out unpicked while an SMS message saying, ”Hello sir, my office needs to confirm a report that the Acting President has approved a plan to fly the President to a foreign hospital. Thank you,” sent to him by one of our correspondents, was not replied.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201004101582182

Ikengawo:
are you people arguing about how will 'replace' jonathan during a visit that will last less then 8 hours maximum?
lol you people are crazy.

Sunday to Thursday. . . 8 hours?
Eze goes to school!

NSNA:
Guys don't fight, there are many demonstration videos on youtube
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgEsSOphlp8[/flash]

That type of machine in the video is very good for grinding onions, pepper or corn. I can swear that when I was growing up, it was the type of machine in the place my mother used to send us to grind pepper.

Its for pepper.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=427490.msg5862633#msg5862633 date=1270841117]Same old s h i t.now beaf can campaign for his brother.lol[/quote]I really wish he was my brother! Just so I can blast your as\s from Aso Rock!
Up bros Joe! Nutin do you! Uncle Joe, carry go!

On a serious note, Jonathan looks very promising and a clean breath of fresh air. Lets see if he can deliver electricity to the nation.

I have found a pic of the fueless generator!

https://www.worldwideflood.com/ark/technology/ox_mill_small.jpg

morpheus24:
Ha ha ha! Genius.

My dear friend he is ENTERTAINER of the year. Can you tell me what the ANC youth charter is?

Why is it geared only towards black youth. Where are the other chapters to represent all groups in SA

Other than promises! promises! promises, A few trips here and there, What solid projects are malema working on to uplift the youth of the country?

What is he doing to diminish the improveshied lives of the constituents who's support he is requiring?

Can you stare us to sources where we can understudy what this man has actually accomplished as a president and is actually doing other than making imflammatory speeches to steer up emotional responses by poor uneducated people who are ready to do anthing in the attempt to change their lives.

Please educate us AFRICANS on Julius Malema apart from this website which doesn't say much about anything.

http://www.ancyl.org.za/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48

My unreserved apologies about the other thread.

I think the problem is much deeper than Malema or Zuma, the greater issue is one of impunity by supremacist Whites, who perceive themselves as untouchable because of the weak handed treatment given to those guilty of apartheid crimes. That weakness on the part of the SA govt has made it seem that Blacks are too scared to handle injustice firmly and judiciously. Malema is the attack point of the racists because he is seen as the weak link in their onslaught against the ANC machine. I am not saying it is correct, but the songs Malema sings, pretty much everyone else sings (even kids).

As mentioned above, societal inequalities were handled with kid gloves, in an almost idealistic way after South Africa's independence. There was a truth commission that simply berated murderers; while no firm plans went the equitable redistribution of wealth and skills, very little punishment for the unbelievably evil crimes of apartheid were meted out. As far as race relations are concerned, the SA govt looks very weak.
South Africa has the very same stresses on land ownership that exist in Zimbabwe, yet there are only token gestures at land redistribution. Surely, the South African govt is rich and skilled enough to put firm, long term plans in place toward equitable land ownership over a sensible period; but nothing concrete has been done.
With all of the above, it is no surprise that there are White groups sprouting here and there that think they are untouchable. In present day South Africa, there are Whites only towns and enclaves or in the case of AWB, a separatist, Whites only town.
There are all sorts of gruesome racial crimes that are treated with kid gloves even in the present day, for example, Scott-Crossley who fed his lions with a Black man was acquitted at some point; another claimed to have mistaken his worker for a baboon and shot him, he was sentenced to life on 5 counts of murder, then had the charges changed from murder to culpable homicide and the sentence reduced to 20 years.
Several White farmers pay their workers below the minimum wage and treat them like slaves. Terre'Blanche was killed for not paying a monthly wage of 300 rand, but the average minimum wage in SA must be in the range of 1700 rand (not too sure of my figures, but not far off target).

There is a lot of impunity and the resulting bottled rage. We see that rage erupt explosively out of the townships every now and again because their cry for justice and equity has gone unheeded. Terre'Blanche was a victim of such anger.
The racial tensions in South Africa can be cured only if the govt bares its fangs and deals harshly with racial crimes, injustice, and wealth and land redistribution. As time goes by, punishments can be lessened, but right now SA needs a sledge hammer to instil discipline. That sledge hammer will crash heavily on White separatist enclaves and only then on "kill the boer" songs that are a mere reaction.

edoyad:
Hope a letter has been written to the senate to that effect incase Jonathan has to remain in hospital there.

davmor:
now i understand where u are coming from. or if 9jadeltans want to fight the other people, u no what i mean

Abeg rest jare!
You deh find my maut wen NEPA don cease light!

Big B1:
Someone said the only way IBB will not win is if Goddluck decides not to support him.
This a very funny and at the same time a foolish statement.

[size=14pt]Why do you think Yaradua isn't stepping down?[/size]
Answer:
One of the reasons is, the man wants to be a major part of picking his replacement.and he's determined to accomplish this goal

I have nothing against Goodluck, but let us all keep in mind that he's still an acting president; hence, let us all allow him to keep on acting. When the time is right or when it counts the most President Yaradua will re-appear.

Points:
The next president must come from the north, the entire north supports IBB, USA and UK have also shown their indirect support, the entire big wigs in the country support IBB and I also support IBB.

If you take a good look at our political structure in this country, our people and the country as a nation, you will realize that our problems in Nigeria are very simple to identify and solving them is also easy as long as we elect an individual with experience, wealth and has a lot to lose if things aren't done correctly.
I think this is the best time for us, Nigeria to get the best of IBB.
It is clearly obvious that he's smart,his ideas are incredible, he has the support of the back bones of this nation, he has the complete respect of every single politician in this country, he clearly knows how to pick the best team and get things done effectively/ efficiently.

It is a matter of time,IBB will recapture this nation. And things will be done correctly this time around.

Nigeria will be back at the top soon.

. . .Yar'Adua cannot step down because he is not even aware of his surroundings. We are tired of damn lies, so no to Yar'Adua, no to foolish zoning and a bigger NO to IBB.

Toyins:
@beaf.

Sorry they dont sale. They only train people to build it themselve. I guess you are into forward and clearing of generator. .

No, I no deh forward and clear generator. o!
I just know you can never get something for nothing eg fueless generator.

All na 419. Onovo and Waziri, over to you! Bad people don change style.

denony:
This is true, in my area we have been enjoying light since almost a month now.
people have started getting tired of using light. i think its going to be actualised.

My area is a living witnss.

Eh?!
Tired of using light? Bros, na so dem wiked una before? Damn!

Toyins:
Nawa o.

Why this agression? Why do you guy think its impossible. Nothing is imposibility.

I have seeing some guys on LTV (maybe LTV Trade Fair or so but am sure of the advert). Asking people to come for a training on how to build a fuelless generator. Why not do your own research? Find out the truth before condemning the idea.

Na 419 my sista!
Don't pay, else you be the next maga!

up2u:
The technology was first developed by one Technocrat Resource Group. I attended their seminar early this year and I will proudly say its a SUSTAINABLE POWER GENERATION method. I have been trying to design one for myself since then but have been too busy with work and source of material difficulty. This group claimed they have been for long frustrated by government to stop it but decided to tell Nigerian so they can design for themselves and put govr to shame. This is the basis of the technology:

1. An accumulator is used as the main power source.
2. Attach a D.C Motor to the rotating end of an Alternator(can be found in our normal generators)
3. Power this motor with the Accumulator which further turns the alternator.
4. Now since the current produced from the alternator would not be polarized, one would need a diode for polarization
5. Boost with capacitor
6. Now here is the secret of its sustainability. Use a transformer to step-up the output current to say about 240V OR 260V(the physicist can do that well or any electrician around u). Use this new output as input to your accumulator.
7. Thus the accumulator is been charged at thesame time is been used.

House, this concept is mind blowing. It can work 24/7 24/7 xcept for wear and tear which would set-in because of the rotation between the alternator by the motor. But lets be real, even if it would last you for just 1year you would have saved alot of money from buying diesel or fuel.

If u feel like knowing more here is my number (EDDIE)07025895782 or 08072249270 email eddie.jerry@yahoo.com

I still have some part of the live video i made during the seminar.

But remember I paid to learn. So u MIGHT pay to learn form me. ''JUST JOKING''

Is this the new 419?

"Not if they send Sango people, Ayelala, Egbesu and mammy water. Get Professor Soyinka, Professor Wande Abimbola, Sat Guru Maharaji, and all the leaders of the spiritual groups: Eckankar, House of Truth, Freemason, ROF, AMORC, Society of Friends, Ancient Order of Foresters and so on and so forth to make the selection. And when they get there, they should get Turai to swear to an oath of truth."

One really shouldn't laugh but. . .
Damn!

Sagamite:
Constable Zombeaf!

Your brain is full of pure water!

[size=14pt]Sodomy-ite[/size]

[size=14pt]Dust mite (no wonder your brain is so little )[/size]

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davmor:
I BELIEVE DECENTRALIZATION IS GONNA DO MUCH BETTER, BUT PLS EXPLAIN "UNDER WHICH ATTACK"?

In case of armed conflict.
If for example we ever need to sieze Bakassi back from Cameroun, power stations will be a target.

Sagamite:
Constable Zombeaf, I don't defend myself from moronic conjectures.   Ignoring silly conjectures from a product of the worst parts of a failed educational system is the best approach.

At my intellectual level, I don't do strawman arguments. Mo ti she kona in thinking.

slowpoke!

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-424754.32.html#msg5849644

You don't draw first blood?  

This is the fourth time this fool has "drawn first blood" against me. Here is another:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-421883.128.html#msg5813541

And since I know you are not that intelligent and I can slice you into bits in seconds, I welcome it. I would take sweet delight in knocking that your silly brain that shows immense paucity of thinking cells.  

I find it so easy.  

What a fool with with an egusi soup brain! The fourth time I have attacked you!. . . The thing is, when faecal matter drops from your lips as a normal occurence, you tend to forget were you used that sewer you call a mouth. You were the one of the very first obnoxious people I met on NL, but unlike some who give up and walk away, I will hang with you, school you, show up to be the coward you have proven to be on these pages [size=14pt]and break you[/size].

I am your nemesis.

Horus:
[size=15pt]Malema calls for apology[/size]

Fri, 09 Apr 2010

ANC Youth League president Julius Malema said on Thursday night that he was not "remorseful" over chasing BBC journalist, Jonah Fisher, from a media briefing.

"We are not remorseful on our stance (sic) and will never be remorseful about disrespectful journalists; particularly [those] from countries whose media always undermine the credibility and integrity of African leaders," Malema said in a statement.

Malema said he had been provoked by Fisher's comments.

"In the process answering to questions, a white guy, whom we later discovered is a reporter from the British Broadcasting Corporation, interjected when we were expressing the disgust over the fact that [Zimbabwe's] Movement for Democratic Change is throwing insults at the ANC Youth League leadership from air-conditioned offices in Sandton, whilst the masses are on the ground in Zimbabwe."

"He, in a very scornful way responded saying 'but you stay in Sandton'."

Malema said he became "agitated" when Fisher did not back down.

He said, though, that the youth league would be willing to talk to Fisher if he wanted to apologise.

"Our doors are however open for engagement with the journalist if he intends to render an apology and we will from there decide what will happen."
Julius slams media


Malema also lashed out at the way the media reported on the incident.

"We are disturbed on how most media houses have portrayed a distorted picture on what exactly happened. They presented a picture that we just responded to the journalists without provocation and that is mischievous."

He said the youth league would defend free speech and media freedom but that it "should be expressed within certain confines".

"We respect the rights of journalists to openly engage on whatever issue they deem suitable, but they should not be disrespectful."

The National Press Club will, meanwhile, host a summit in Sandton on Friday to discuss the incident at the media briefing.

"The National Press Club will on Friday host a summit to discuss a way forward following Malema's handling of the media," chairman Yusuf Abramjee said in a media advisory.

Source: http://news.iafrica.com/sa/2205530.htm

The issue of land rights is one that unites South Africa and Zimbabwe. It is a very touchy issue for the ANC and both countries and any journalist should have enough sense to be tactful about those issues. It is quite clear that the BBC openly sides with the MDC. . . it is not in their interest to continue attempting to influence African affairs. We aren't colonies anymore.

Sagamite:
Strong allegations!  

Constable Zombeaf!  No facts, no points, no backing up arguments, just conjectures.

And I am guilty until proven innocent? Abi, officer?  

The way you said because BBC made a programme on the Niger Delta then you know the British government must have changed their position on Nigeria.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-421883.0.html#msg5793332

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Conjecture throwing idiot.

Zombeaf o, zombeaf. Failure of an education system. You are daft, no be small.  

See my signature.

I challenged you and you can't do anything about it, but talk more BS. So you are a coward as well as an id!ot?
Lets see how far we can go. I have challenged you, be a man or be a wimp. Daft donkey.

@morpheus24
I hear you, but I didn't draw first blood. sagamite hasn't fully understood what he's dealing with, he wants to be obnoxious and thats fine with me.

Sagamite:
[size=14pt]Legal action even if I am innocent [/size] of your conjectures?
. . .

You might be a bit too daft to understand, but yes; I have made very serious allegations against you. [size=14pt]What are you going to do? Like I said earlier, it is a challenge. Are you man enough or just a little wimp?

You have sided the White supremacist BNP and mouthed their mantra here. Are you a racist BNP implant on NL?[/size]

Fhemmmy:
You mean he perpetrated some 419 scheme or what are you talking about?

419 became common place during IBB's regime because, his time was a corruption free for all. That was when people could use CBN letterheads for fraud.

Sagamite:
slowpoke, strong allegations?

www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

I don't defend myself against moronic, conjectural allegations.

Strong allegations?

I really am beginning to wonder where you went to school if conjectures are strong allegations to you. They really need to close down some College of Education institutions in Nigeria. I guess it is in one you studied your Law diploma and conjectures are strong allegations.

You will do well as a Nigerian police officer because I heard their arbitrary "strong allegations" is normally what they have as evidence, and they normally then ask the accused to prove his/her innocence of those "strong allegations".

Strong Allegations!

To anybody with an ounce of sense, you have been faced with the strongest level of accusation; the sort that might even necessitate legal action if you are innocent, but there you are laughing your head off like a fool.
You have sided the White supremacist BNP and mouthed their mantra here.
Forget the childishness above and address the accusations of racism I have levelled against you.

[size=14pt]It is a challenge.

Simple question; are you a racist BNP implant on NL?[/size]

Why can't you answer? Why waxing foolish?

[size=14pt]Yayale to take charge …As Jonathan jets to US – Daily Trust[/size]
April 9, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi

Acting President Goodluck Jonathan travels to Washington tomorrow to meet U.S. President Barack Obama on his first foreign trip since he assumed presidential powers in February.

Jonathan has no officially-designated deputy and there was no announcement yesterday on who holds forte in his absence, but a source said Secretary to the Government of the Federation Mahmud Yayale Ahmed will take charge of affairs.

Yayale is the next most senior government official after Jonathan. On Tuesday, he represented the country in Washington, where he and the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed the U.S.-Nigeria Bi-National Commission agreement.

The acting president would be away till Thursday, indicating that the weekly cabinet meeting may not hold on Wednesday next week.

http://nigerianbulletin.com/2010/04/09/yayale-to-take-charge-as-jonathan-jets-to-us-daily-trust/

Feraz:
Beaf, i checked the site n got an OOPS! sign. Is it still running? This is a gud idea

Thank you.
It will begin running (in phases) at its proper site from the week we are entering. As soon as that happens, it will be announced here.