₦airaland Forum

sod09:
Instead make psg score goal them they press Brest🤣

akwesenana:
He's most likely bluffing though.

akwesenana:
And they where 2 goals up before.

Why he no carry Nigeria direct?

Roland17:
Small nyash sef wan shake!

All these things na Arteta PR on promax to get extension. Watch Arsenal offer Arteta an extension in the middle of the season.

Barcelona wen no get money and filled with academy players and young players na him una think say Arteta go join?

sod09:
Blueraydick I dan collect oo😃
Make I go whine one of my paddy mod if she will release me

GloriousGbola:
In 2007 the guy clearing in my car was an air force guy. When we went to pick the car I met him in the barracks. Next thing he had changed into army fatigues. This was what he wore as we drove the car.

Rest assured if soldiers are lending/renting out their uniforms for escort, they are definitely doing same for bandits. I mean, we even see civilians caught in public in military uniforms. Where did they get the uniforms from?

iamoyindamola:
You no get forgiven spirit aje

GloriousGbola:
It is well paid soldiers who are renting their uniforms to bandits. It is well paid naval officers who are in bed with militants. It is well paid soldiers who are enforcers for anyone who will drop small money for them. Whether na yahoo boy or debt collector

Itsrm:
I really doubt. Except Seun has access to privileged info that's not in public space

izzou:
[color=royalblue]And na these same people you dey beg make dem increase their salary?

Ehn? [/color]

Realmrsean:

Nigeria Police Are The Biggest Kidnappers pic.twitter.com/ySeiJgpcEv

— Somto Okonkwo (@General_Somto) January 29, 2024

Nigeria police the biggest kidnappers

liveLongNprospa:
Lmaooo this is barely 5billion dollars.
Lets assume he has like 10 billion dollars still hidden somewhere 😂.
Wooh e do

nihilistjnr:
Bro, this is the breakdown of some of the abacha loot that has been recovered in subsequent administrations

According to Transparency International, below are the details of the recoveries made by successive governments after Abacha’s death in 1998.
Under General Abdulsalami Abubakar: $750 million
Under President Olusegun Obasanjo: $2 billion
Under President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua: $0
Under President Goodluck Jonathan: $227 million
Under President Muhammadu Buhari: $630 million

So far this is what they've recovered.

Only God knows what has not been recovered. That's why I used the example of Malabu Ltd that the Abachas used to corner oil block.

When you account for inflation as well, Ibime. Abacha was a hoover o.

nihilistjnr:
I'm not disputing that.

What I'm saying js that I'm not sure Abacha's individual loot is less than the combined efforts of the contemporary looters of the last say 25 years.

That guy was a demon.

GloriousGbola:
as an aside -

a letter bomb was sent to dele giwa. It was addressed from the state house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dele_Giwa

that is what happened to anyone who had the temerity to investigate the govt durig those times.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]China no come play.

Since Africans can't think for themselves, help them think

150 Megawatt plant in exchange for unfettered access to your minerals

Elllllll-Hoeee-Elĺlllll[/color]

nihilistjnr:
Emiefele is literally in jail right now. I'm not sure how you can compare theft in a dispensation that at least pays some lip service to the rule of law to an era where Abacha was using CBN as his personal kolo.

Abacha died almost 30 years ago, and they keep still finding loot that was hidden somewhere, and yet his family remain wealthy enough to remain political elite in Nigeria.

J don't think you truly understand who Abacha was.

liveLongNprospa:
Outside abacha, does anybody here have any idea what any democratic president has stolen?
Like any idea at all?

Iamoyindamola put it best. The military guys nor send because nothing fit happen plus the idea behind military was to not give any bleeps.
These democratic guys atleast want to keep up appearances for life beyond presidency.

But presidents are never ever probed.
We have talked about certain governors because they are not above probing and yet we still don't scratch the surface of stealing.

Buhari ordered the printing of 21 trillion naira which translates to 50billion dollars give or take and how much was stolen from just that alone.
Should we also talk about the oil theft that has been done by presidents too.
Again, I believe the military from top to bottom has been surpassed by politicians in democracy when it comes to stealing.

yemex04:
He is right & you are wrong. NYSC reckons with Age at Graduation for mobilization. If you were below 30 at Graduation, you will be mobilized for NYSC even 30 years after..Infact, you are not suppose to get employed with your degree certificate till you acquire the NYSC certificate. NYSC is compulsory for every Nigerian that graduated before the Age of 30!

iamoyindamola:
We can finally bin ndidi if yusuf can stay fit, his partnership with onyeka will cook

iamoyindamola:
After the nonsense their brother our left back they play
Na only that DM they ball but he's injured

liveLongNprospa:
This was just 2022.
The AGF under buhari.


Then you have just a few cases below.
550bn from 1 man.
Another is 6billion dollars and again, these are not even presidents.

mine3112:
Good morning fellow Gunners. Please is Arteta truly leaving at the end of the season?

mostob:
Gabriel credited with the second goal against Palace after appeal. He is now joint-second highest goalscoring defender in arsenal history (EPL)

Unlimited22:
Astronomically. Lauren is an invincible, won the Olympic Gold and two AFCONs as a starting RB.

liveLongNprospa:
OH.
Now I get it.
So they are currently the opps for a southern president 😁

liveLongNprospa:
I honestly don't think corruption was worse in the military era. Fear yes.. But corruption, lmao omo.. Everybody close to power dey suck money from Nigeria. I'm not sure it was this well spread during the military.

The line of what and what cannot be done has consistently being pushed by democratic elected leaders.

We've never had any idea what a democratic president stole in Nigeria till date. What we know are what ministers, governors, PM's and people heading certain committees and MDAs stole.
So think about it, these are people under the president doing multiple stealing, both known and unknown.
Wetin you feel say presidents dey thief?
I mean see atiku that was a VP almost 17yrs ago, see his wealth till today.
You honestly think abacha stole more than OBJ or Buhari or even will top Tinuke?

LAGOS, Nigeria — Until General Sani Abacha’s death 8 June 1998, Lt.-Gen. Jeremiah Timbut Useni was the second most senior officer in the Nigerian Army. But all that changed over two months ago, when Abacha, Nigeria’s worst dictator died. Not only did Useni lose out in the power-game that followed, he also carried the burden of guilt as playing a part in the indulgence that saw Abacha to his grave.

Then Major-General Abdulsalami Abubakar was promoted a four-star General above Useni and made the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. It was a bitter experience, just when he was closest to capturing the position of the most powerful man in the land. Indeed, the events of the first few days after his friend’s demise were the prologue of the story of his fall from the opulence of power and influence, where he had sojourned for so long. Since his retirement three weeks ago from the Nigerian army, after 41 years in service, Useni has been made to feel the difference between being in power and out of it. Aside from the paraphernalia of office which no longer enjoys, his activities, and sources of stupendous wealth, have come under the scrutiny of the Gen. Abubakar regime.

In a dramatic move last week, Useni was made to taste the bitter end of power. As it did to Ismaila Gwarzo, Abacha’s National Security Adviser (NSA), the Abubakar government, swooped on Useni’s palatial homes in Langtang and Jos.

On Friday 7 August, security operatives from Abuja flew into Jos and Langtang to search Useni’s houses. First, they landed on the Langtang airstrip built by Useni, in his days as Minister of Transport and Aviation during the Babagida era.

The NEWS sources disclosed that over N4 billion was found in his palatial country-home by the combined team of SSS and DMI officers. Of the total money recovered in the Langtang home, over N2 billion was in foreign currency. On the same day, the operatives moved to his house in the millionaires’ quarters (Tundun Naira) area of Jos, on the British-American road, where they discovered over a dozen coaster buses, valued at N110 million, brand new Peugeot cars, shimmering and expensive jeeps and the latest model of Mercedes Benz cars, totalling nine. Sources in Jos, who witnessed the raid, said they saw several bags and other property being moved out of Useni’s house. In the same building, an underground vault where most of the money he looted is kept, was discovered by another team of investigators. The vault, expertly concealed, escaped the prying eyes of the security operatives that carried out the weekend raid.

The Langtang-born General had a modus-operandi for moving his loot from Abuja to Langtang and Jos for safe-keeping. Reliable sources revealed that, at least once a month depending on the in-flow of cash, huge millions of naira are stuffed into beer cartons, sealed and loaded into one of his official vehicles and transported to his country-home, in Langtang. The NEWS has it that on one of such occasions, the driver and the escort, became very curious and decided to find out why the General was stock-piling beer cartons. They opened a few of the cartons and were shocked by what they found in them. On getting to Langtang, they off-loaded 15 of the cartons and fled with the remaining 10. A man-hunt was immediately ordered by Useni but he later gave up because he did not want it to become public knowledge

Before the Jos raids, Gen. Abubakar had moved against Useni in Abuja, temporarily putting his telephone lines out of service. Also, he was ordered to move out of his official residence in Life Camp. Last week, senior officers of the FCDA, told this magazine that the General had forwarded an application to the permanent secretary pleading that the authority should assist him to furnish his personal house in Maitama district of Abuja. According to him, he had no funds to furnish it himself.

Useni’s current fate might not totally be unconnected with promptings and petitions by serving military officers to Aso Rock, insisting that Useni must be probed since it is common knowledge that he made so much money and wielded excessive power under Abacha. Among military officers, junior and senior, Useni’s stupendous wealth, business investments around the country, his meddling in politics and his personalisation of the Federal Capital Development Authority are issues often discussed. The interview he granted This Day, a Lagos-based newspaper, in which he made feeble attempts to dissociate himself from the excesses of the Abacha junta was said to have angered a few senior military officers now in government, who knew the role he played as Abacha’s pointsman. This group of officers, it was learnt in Abuja, cautioned that the clampdown on the Abachas, national security officer, Alhaji Gwarzo; Chiefs Anthony Ani and Tom Ikimi, former finance and foreign affairs ministers respectively, would be incomplete, if Useni was simply allowed to walk away with his loot and say just anything in the papers.

From Benin to Lagos, Abuja to Jos, Useni has built a sprawling empire of businesses and landed properties, way beyond his means as a military officer. Most of his properties were acquired under questionable circumstances. In Plateau State, there is a joke in the streets that ‘Jerry Boy’ has virtually bought over half of Jos.

In 1997, during the asset-sharing between Plateau and the newly-created Nassarawa Sate, Useni influenced the allocation of the expansive former Benue-Plateau bus terminus property, in Tafaw Balewa Street, Jos, to Nassarawa State. A few months ago, The NEWS investigation revealed,

Useni bought the terminus at N20 million, a sum property analysts described as gross under valuation. The bid by the Plateau Transport Company (Plateau Riders) was rejected. The bus terminus is now being used by Useni’s transport company — Tim-Tali, which has over 25 buses. The UTC building on No. 7, Lord Lugard Road opposite El-Shaddai Chapel in Jos (which he bought a week before he retired), the former army workshop building (001155 PHT) in the same area and a block of flats in Dogon-Karfe, Jos, all belong to Jerry Useni. [b]The block of flats on Dogon-Karfe which hitherto housed the Nigerian Customs Service now serves as quarters for staff of the Tim-Tali Industries. The structure was formerly owned by an Israeli company, Dizengof. There is also the Tim Industries, established three years ago, which manufactures exercise books, files, staple-pins and other office equipment. The industry is located in the Rayfield area of Jos. Early last year, the operation of the industry was said to have been stalled when, on Amos Gizo, Useni’s business front and publisher of City Watch magazine, brought into the country obsolete production machinery. Jerry, on realising he had been duped, ordered Gizo’s arrest. His cars and major properties were seized in Jos. Gizo was only left off the hook after he refunded some money. Their business partnership has since gone sour. The house, No. 6, on Dogon-Karafe, formerly owned by the Industrial Training Fund was bought by Useni and then rented out to the defunct Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN).[/b]

In Langtang, his home-town, his motel, also named Tim-Tali, located not too far away from Gen. Joshua Dogonyaro’s majestic country-home, is one of the cosiest places to stay in Langtang. In his home-town, Useni is reputed to have about seven personal houses and nearly a dozen others in Jos. Yet, another testimony of his ‘stewardship’ in former Bendel, now Edo and Delta states, are the three houses he has there.

In Lion Bank alone, (the Plateau State-owned bank), Useni is said to have bought N100 million shares in his own name and another N50 million worth in the name of FCT with the intention of converting them in the future.

Investigations also revealed that the Abacha Foundation was used as a conduit to rake millions of dollars into his accounts. Usually, the foreign companies, which owe Nigeria are blackmailed into donating to the Abacha Foundation’s. They are then given numbers of some dedicated accounts into which they are asked to pay.

The Abacha Foundation house itself is worth about N400 million and Useni insured that immediately. Abacha died, he took full control as the chairman of the foundation.

It is in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, that Useni has diverse and concentrated investments and properties running into billions of naira. In Garki village and township, he owns well over 400 lock-up stalls, nearly two dozen houses and uncountable number of virgin plots. Under the Tim-Tali Investment portfolio is the industry, Tim door, that manufactures steel doors.

Useni is known to be the owner of many petrol stations, shopping centres, plots of land and buildings.

Most of these, according to a civil servant in the FDCA, are registered in the names of his friends, relations and in a few cases children.

Amidst Useni’s known shopping centres is the Abuja Shopping Centre, almost opposite Fototek building in Area III, Garki, Abuja. It was commissioned some months ago. Unconfirmed sources also said the new two-storey building shopping centre near the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Zone 3, Wuse, Abuja belongs to Useni.

Others include RISS petroleum by A.Y.A. junction on Keffi Road and the numerous pink-coloured block of flats to the left side of the road leading to the Ministers’ Hill from the Federal Housing Authority end of Maitama. Near this pink-coloured, red-stripped block of flats and on top of the hill are two mammoth palace-like structures still under construction. One belongs to Jeremiah Useni, while the other belongs to late Gen. Sani Abacha’s son, Ibrahim, who died three years back. Useni, very often visits the construction sites at weekends. Near the Banex Plaza junction of the road that connects Berger to Kubwa Road, Useni had also acquired a lot of land. This is atop the hill near the Directors-General quarters. It was one of Useni’s latest acquisitions a few months before Abacha died. According to a civil servant at the FCDA, he was about to start developing the plot when he lost out. Yet, this is by no means, the entire documentation of the General assets. Though, he parades a mien of simplicity, he is said to be smart, shrewd and at times ruthless when it comes to protecting his interests. He is believed to have several other investments which are mostly not in his mane and cannot be directly linked to him.

The tribe of contractors, political-jobbers and lobbyists, civil servant and Nigerians who reside in Abuja will never forget how Useni, until his recent inglorious exit from the Nigerian Army, bestrode the Federal Capital Territory like a colossus. He held sway like the lord of the manor. His word was law. He sat over enormous wealth and opportunities which he dispensed at his pleasure. Simply put, he presided over a goldmine. He knew it and employed it to greatest advantage.

Under just five years of being FCT Minister, Useni carved for himself an empire, within an empire. Aside from Aso Villa, his office in the FCDA was a Mecca of sorts. A power and clearing house, from where those desperate to see or have the ears of the last occupant of the villa, had to come to pay obeisance and plead for assistance. Ministers, retired officers, politicians, merchants of ambition and professional sycophants, had to see Useni in order to penetrate Aso Rock. They all came for different reasons. From contracts, political appointments and others, to out-rightly beg for money. Indeed, while he remained the closest person to Abacha, a promise by Useni to fix things at Aso Rock was worth taking to the bank. This was at the very height of his power.


USENI INCORPORATEDBusiness investments:

N150 million worth of shares in the Plateau State-owned Lion Bank
Tim-Tali Transport Services, with a fleet of about 20 Civilian buses
Tim Industries — production of office stationery
Tim-Tali Motels
Tim-Doors — production of steel doors
Two Petrol-stations in the FCT
Properites:

Plateau bus terminus, Jos
UTC building, Jos
Nigerian Army workshop building worth N450 million, Jos
Over 32 houses in Jos, Langtang and Abuja
Former Dizengof building worth N350 million, on Dogon-Karafe, Jos
Two shopping malls, Abuja
Nearly 40 lock-up shops in Garki and Wuse
About 70 virgin plots in Abuja
Two mini-housing estates in Abuja
Over 43 different personal cars
A specially-built vault in his Jos home
Tim Industries Limited worth N650 million

liveLongNprospa:
Who owns daily trust biko?