Iamundisputed: How many Igbos have properties in the UAE and USA compared to Lagos alone? From Orile- Trade fair- Festac-Badagry, Igbos dominate those areas. Alaba is majorly run by Igbos, computer village has a huge Igbo presence, not to speak of small businesses here and there.
You people just want to kill your people's destiny...
Stop wailing for the igbos, properties and business is nothing compared to total freedom nigeria is not working and will never work with the way it has been structured. Igbos will surely achieve far more in biafra than in this ur hell fire called nigeria where they can easily loose their lives and properties in a second without any compensation at the end of the day. We all know the reasons why u lazy yorubas wants to keep the industrous igbos in ur filthy lagos by any means necessary so that they will continue to be used to develop and also boast the igr of lagos nothing else.
maestroferddi: Something has to be wrong with this Ibeto of a business magnate.
We can cry forever of how he was short-changed by Obasanjo to favour Dangote in the past but the truth remains that he is not that effective as a serious investor.
Where are signature projects today? He is barely known in Nigeria and hardly reckoned with in Africa. His global presence is almost non-existent.
I can't forget a personal experience I had some years ago. I was trekking from Ijesha in Surulere to Mile 2. As I was passing through Ibeto Group premises at the place called Second Rainbow, after Sanya Bus Stop, I paused briefly...
I took in the scenery and did a mental calculation of the physical assets I could see and ended up shaking my head.
Disillusionment took the better part of me: I began to muse that that was a man who was contending with Dangote less than 20 years ago...
Today Dangote is not only Africa's richest man but the wealthiest black person alive but where is Ibeto?
Still doing some kind of buying and selling business or ready to employ professionals to upskill his business and make it a conglomerate/behemoth?
There are times we need to tell ourselves the truth and leave sentiments aside.....
Ibeto don't enjoy the monopoly dangote enjoys in nigeria although ibeto is slow i will still prefer him.
Not a bad idea the federal govt have clearly shown over the years their incapacity to handle major national assets due to massive corruption and nepotism in the system. The only problem here will be the hike in transport fares between states.
eagleu: Those are reserved for the time when the oyel from the south is gone, and Arewa republic is in effect.
If that's their plans then it's surely going to backfire in the nearest future because by then the value of crude oil in the international market would have become almost totally useless. Most oil producing nations have been diversifing their economies away from crude oil Saudi Arabia have even privatilized their national oil company but here in Nigeria we are still busy wasting billions of dollars searching for more crude oil.
eagleu: Those are reserved for the time when the oyel from the south is gone, and Arewa republic is in effect.
If that's their plans then it's surely going to backfire because by then the value of crude oil in the international market would have become almost totally useless. Most oil producing nations have been diversifing their economies away from crude oil.
Earlystar698: Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has tasked Nigerian pastors and Imams to deemphasis the collection of tithes and offerings.
He advised religious leaders to emulate icons like Desmond Tutu, Martin Luther King Jr and Pope John Paul II who used the pulpit to fight inequality.
Speaking during his live broadcast on Radio Biafra, the IPOB leader accused followers of Nigerian Pastors of being ignorant and uneducated.
The IPOB leader advised religious leaders to speak out against injustice, stressing that past leaders of religious bodies fought inequality from the pulpit.
“Nigerians don’t know either that Pope John Paul II was a freedom fighter. It was Pope John Paul II that defeated Communism in Poland.
“Every self-conscious adult alive today must have heard or read about the heroic exploits of Archbishop Desmund Tutu in the struggle to free South Africa from the death grip of apartheid.
“He did it from the pulpit, he led rallies and protests. He was arrested, questioned and often detained. He was never obsessed with tithes and offerings as criminal Nigerian pastors are. Can your thieving Daddy G.O do the same in Nigeria?”
Hypocrites u people will continue to reap what you have sown over the years. This is what you get when you refused to condemn genocide against other ethnic groups.
So fulaniherdsmen are now mordern day vampires who can't survive unless they spill the blood of innocent people? Everywhere u find them is the same story of sorrows, killings and destructions what a people.
Am definitely sure that history will repeat itself again if buhari ever makes such ungodly moves. Some evil, lazy greedy individuals in this buhari's regime can't just come to terms of living power in 3yrs time that's why they are now scheming of how to remain in power beyond 2023.
Mr. Hassan Ayariga, founder, All Peoples Congress, and a candidate of the people’s national convention for the December 2012 Ghana presidential election has said that Ghana will not make the mistake Nigerians made by voting an old man into power.
Nigerians have given their country to Buhari and he has killed the country, the country is dead, Nigeria is no more what it used to be, Ayariga said.
He also noted that the man is a old man and also he doesn't have the capacity to handle and lead the country Nigeria .he made all this known in a video clip when he was been interviewed.
He said Ghana should not elect and get careful not to also adopt Nigeria style which already is killing the country as the man is too old to handle the country.
Are we bringing another Buhari in Ghana by voting old man, he asked?
It's really not about the age buhari have always been a total failure even during his youthful age this is the same buhari that plunged nigeria into its first recession in 1984. The whole blame should actually go to all the wicked corrupt politicians who repackaged him and sold him to gullible nigerians to vote for as their new messiah for their own selfish reasons.
The north is just reaping what they all collectively sowed over the years. Their fulaniherdsmen brothers have been committing industrial scale genocide in benue and other states in the whole nigeria yet they never condemned all the actrocities instead their leaders were demanding for ruga fulani settlements.
I really wonder how buhari became a general ordinary one wife and few children he can't even properly manage yet zombies thinks he can manage the affairs of nigeria with 200m diverse population. This is why I respect politicians like atiku u hardly hear this type of family squabbling in his home despite marrying more than one wife the man is no doubt a great manager of human beings.
Yorubas are using the advantage of controlling the nigerian media space to criminalize the Igbo tribe once the opportunity presents itself but turns the other way once it's their own people that are caught in criminal activities.
Explorers: A 26-year-old man in Wuhan has gained 224 pounds in the space of five months while staying at home to avoid COVID-19, according to the doctors.
Mr Zhou had to be rushed to hospital by an ambulance earlier this month after falling critically ill because of the sudden increase in his weight.
Mr Zhou, a worker at an internet cafe, stopped leaving home when the city went into lockdown in late January.
His family members said he was struggling to move due to his weight.
Footage and images released by the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University show medical workers examining Mr Zhou after he was admitted to the hospital on June 1.
Officialgarri: Disappointed that hush is Yoruba. Yorubas do not encourage fraud, cultism, murder, drugs and any other forms of crime. Yorubas do not justify crime by claiming other tribes are worse at it. They don't rejoice when a criminal evades justice just because he is Yoruba. No, they expose criminals and let him face justice
So why are you people celebrating and defending a well known corrupt politician like tinibu even projecting him as the next nigerian president in 2023?
Queseda: If you're wondering why the trio of Oshiomhole, Tinubu and Buhari are the most hated politicians East of the Niger, this is just one of the reasons. From sacking their 'son' GEJ from office, to fücking all their favourite politicians - Atiku, Dino and Saraki hardcore, rubbishing the aspirations of whichever politician they show any glimpse of sympathy for - Ambode, Adeleke, Fayose.....now Obaseki don join the list, haba! This is too much. Even if na me I will hate these irrepressible trio
There's nothing special about the three they are just using very crude method to remain in power which has reduced nigeria to the poverty and insecurity capital of the whole world. These three very corrupt wicked individuals have now turned themselves into the major problem of nigeria which Nigerians must take out to know true freedom and progress. Nigeria will surely never develop like other advanced civilized nations with these kinds of criminal politicians.
Luckydubby7: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told a former Governor of Imo State and Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Rochas Okorocha, to get ready for his day in court.
Speaking at the commission’s zonal office in Port Harcourt, Rivers on Thursday, the Zonal Head, Usman Imam, said N7.9bn belonging to Imo was seized from the former governor during EFCC investigations.
Imam, who has been in charge of the ongoing probe of the former governor, said the commission returned over N5.7bn to various administrations in Imo to pay salaries and pensions of workers.
He said: “I started the Imo state case in Enugu and upon my deployment to this zone, the investigations of corruption allegations against the former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, was transfered from the Enugu zone to Port Harcourt for further investigations.
“Within the period, the commission succeeded in freezing about N7.9bn in different accounts. All the monies that were released to Imo State government were from the N7.9bn recovered from Okorocha. The monies were released in batches.
“N2.7bn was released in March for salaries. In the PDP government of Emeka Ihedioha, excess of N2.5bn upon series of writings and our insistence of monitoring it, was released to pay salaries and pensions because they were monies recovered from the state so it has to go back to the state.
Then the government of Emeka left and this government came, we had a remnant of the money in excess of N2bn. We were able to release N514milion just last month because excess of about N1.8bn is encumbered with a court process. Contractors went to court and targeted the funds. The process is lingering. They still have excess of N1.8bn that is not released”.
Apart from the money recovered from Okorocha, the EFCC zonal boss said the senator’s assets were also identified in Imo and Abuja and seized by the commission.
He said the commission filed a court process for interim forfeiture of the assets confiscated from Okorocha.
He said: “The investigation has got to an advanced stage and we are expecting that on conclusion, we are going to arraign the former governor.
“It is in the course of investigations that we targeted his assets. Some are in Imo, Owerri and some are in Abuja. We marked these properties in Abuja and we have filed court processes for interim forfeiture of these assets. The target is to conclude the investigations and he will have his day in court”.
Imam explained that since he assumed the leadership of the zone in January, the commission has recovered N291.8million, 847,983 US Dollars, 390 pounds, 10,900 Euros and 500 CFA.
He said the commission also froze over N1.1bn in the accounts of Bluekey Technologies allegedly operating a ponzi scheme and defrauding over 8,926 victims of over N4.4bn.
He said the EFFCC further secured interim forfeiture of 96 trucks, vessels and barges while 226 drums of automotive gas oil and 1million litres of suspected crude oil were finally forfeited to the Federal Government.
Imam explained that the son received 441 petitions, successfully investigated 262 with 159 awaiting legal advice and 20 others charged to court.
On the challenges of the commission, he said: “Fighting corruption comes with its peculiar challenges. The corrupt are not going to fold their hands while you retrieve what they had stolen. They would fight back.
“This has come in the form of sponsored media attacks. A blogger, one Dikeocha Chukwuebuka, who caused the zone serious blushes by posting fake pictures of purported overcrowded EFCC cell was arrested and currently under prosecution.
“Other challenges are non-cooperation,m and delayed response to this commission’s enquiries by some agencies; logistic challenge in investigating oil bunkering cases and inadequate office accommodation for staff”.
“In spite of the challenges, the zone remains committed to actualising the mandate of the commission, which is to eradicate corruption in Nigeria”.
EngrHumble: …says “we are delisted from the black book” Alleges late father’s friends abandoned them Late General Sani Abacha
Son of former Nigerian military ruler, Sadiq Abacha, has alleged that even though a travel ban on the Abachas has been lifted since during the Yar’adua era, members of the late General Sani Abacha family were still harassed whenever they travel in and out of the country.
“We went to the security agency, they even gave us a clearance paper. But even before this lockdown that I travelled to Dubai, I was still interrogated at the Airport,'” he alleged.
Sadiq spoke in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service monitored by Vanguard on Wednesday. Asked on how the Abacha family felt on reports of hundreds of millions, allegedly stashed in foreign vaults by the late military ruler, Sadiq said the reports were disturbing.
“We hear the report just as others used to hear. But there are reasons why the money was kept … there are some politicians. Definitely, I’m not happy,” he said
On their relationship with the families of other surviving Nigerian leaders, Sadiq Abacha explained that apart from the family of Ibrahim Babangida, and to some extent that of President Muhammadu Buhari, others had, allegedly, failed to sustain the relationship. ” We relate well with the Babangida family…, ” he said.
These revelations came 22 years after the death of General Abacha.
According to him, “Our present relationship with some of our late father’s friends is surprising. We exchange pleasantries with the family of General Babangida. We are in good terms.
“It is only with members of the Babangida family that whenever we meet, we associate and share stories.
” We also relate well, with family members of President Muhammadu Buhari. But it’s only with the Babangida’s that we recall the past.
” When Yayale Ahmed was Secretary of the Government of the Federation, he helped us and the travel ban on our family was lifted.”
” But up till date, I’m always interrogated at the airports anytime I’m travelling. They always say our names are still in the black book.
” We’ve been to the security agency and they have issued us with a clearance paper. That our names have been removed from the black book.
” But nothing has changed..I’m always harassed whenever I’m going out or coming into the country. I don’t know where to go and be listened to. It should’ve been a security agency, but I was there.
” Nothing has changed. Even recently, before this lockdown, I was interrogated when I returned from Dubai,” he said.
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