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Yet to see a. Nigerian public officer who will take responsibility for his gaffe.

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I'm sure they are from Aba,Nnewi and Imo respectively.fu'cking murderers !

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Rogue Nation.

The Delta State Government on Tuesday maintained that it had no official reaction to the jail term handed down to former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, by a London Court.
The government insisted that Ibori remained a private citizentill he was sentenced by the court, noting that it would be inappropriate for the state government to take a position on a “purely private’’ matter.
The state Commissioner for Information, Mr Chike Ogeah, told our correspondent in Asaba that it was not the job ofthe government to take a stand on such issues.
“He (Ibori) is a private citizen. Delta state government cannothave an official position on a purely private matter,” Ogeah said.
But the Ijaw National Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, in his reaction described the conviction of Ibori as well deserved.
The octogenarian said Ibori’s sentencing vindicated his position that the ex-governor was a thief who used his position as governor to enrich himself.
He said, “We have been vindicated at last because most Deltans misunderstood us when we started the fight. Even the people believed that we manipulated his arrest, but my joy is that he pleaded guiltyto the charges of corruption and money laundering; it is nemesis that caught up with him.
“It is very sad that someone who was governor of Delta State is being convicted in far away London. It is something we are receiving with mixed feelings because he has dented the image of our state; he has dented the image of thejudiciary and he has dented the image of the Attorney- General of this country.”
Former Minister of State for Education, Chief Kenneth Gbagi, described the conviction of Ibori as unfortunate.
He said, “The sentence will serve as a big lesson to others.Whatever it is, it will make the society purer and better.”
Also, the Save Nigeria Group and the Civil Liberties Organisation on Tuesday blamed the escape of Ibori from justice in Nigeria on the nation’s judiciary.
Similarly, the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders said corruption had continued to thrive in Nigeria because the nation’s criminal justice system seemed to give corruptleaders a pat on the back.
Speaking with NAN , the SNG spokesman, Mr Yinka Odumakin, lamented that Ibori,who was given a clean bill on corruption by a Nigerian Court,had been convicted for similar offences abroad.
“We cannot continue to run a country where the rich get away with crimes against humanity.
“This is an opportunity for the judiciary to re-check itself and mend its broken walls” Odumakin said.
In his reaction, the Lagos State Chairman of the CLO, Mr Ehi Omokhuale, told NAN that “Iboris’s conviction is a big slapon Nigeria’s image and its justice system.
“There are so many Ibori’s running free in Nigeria and their freedom is a threat to ourdemocracy.
“For the crime of impoverishing his people, Ibori deserved a life sentence or death, rather than a mere 13 years,” the CLO Chairman said.

http://www.punchng.com/news/iboris-conviction-private-matter-delta/

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The buhari I know is synonymous with violence, his supporters where violent before, during and after the 2011 presidential election. They forced people to chant sai buhari, when he lost they Nigeria never remained the same. In all these the supposed saint remained dangerously silent.

As for GEJ, his failures as a result of his actions and inactions are piling up by the day and he still expect Nigerians to support him cos he's his God's choice for Nigerians.

I will reserve my vote for a convincing candidate come 2015 because it appears that there is no credible leader for now. to take Nigeria out of this jungle she finds herself.

Serial loser

Dear Gej,

I won't vote for you nor Buhari come 2015.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

I de laugh

n 1980, Mr Micheal Osagiede, a 54 year old man from Edo state traveled to the United States of America to seek
for greener pastures and returned for the first time in Nigeria in 2006 after spending 26 years in the US. However, his problem started when he met some friends in a bar in Benin City.

In November 2006, after he purchased his return ticket to the US, one of his friends, a police officer called him while he was in Lagos and waiting for his flight and drove him to an unknown destination. His abductors kept him in a jungle for six years until he was freed three weeks ago, March 17, 2012 to be precise. There was no contact between him and his family. As a matter of fact, his elder brother Dr Peters told Saturday Vanguard that “we thought he has died”.

Ironically, his family members in Benin denied him when someone brought him back home because they could no longer recognize him due to the emaciated body.  His elder brother explained that “we did not recognize him when somebody brought him home because he changed completely. Infact, we chased him away because we thought he was insane and looking for where to go.”

Mike married an American woman Stephanie and they have two kids, Mike (jr) and Donald before this unfortunate incident. Saturday Vanguard spoke to Osagiede at the hospital where he is being treated of trauma and diabetes. He has lost contact with the family in the US and has lost all he got. He narrated his ordeal in very serious pains.

“In the year 2006, I was going back to the United States of America. When I got to Benin, I met some friends and while I was leaving, they were trying to find out when I was going back to the US. So I was telling them everything. That was in November 2006. So I traveled to Lagos to purchase my ticket and after I did that, I called my friend to inform him my flight schedule.

“I told him I just left Zenith Bank now and was heading to the Airport. But he said I should wait for him. But I told him I cannot wait for you to come from Benin my flight is already booked. So very shortly, he arrived with some people in the car and said I should come in. I entered the vehicle and I tried to inquire where we are going to. I told them I didn’t intend going to any where else that I was going to the Airport.

But suddenly, they blind folded my eyes and were driving to where I didn’t know but I noticed that each time we got to a police check point, they would remove it from my eyes. It was there I recognized that we were heading towards Benin but I just felt that they were going to steal my things and at least let me go. But unfortunately, that was how I found my self with them for six years until I was freed two weeks ago in Port Harcourt.

Where did they keep you for that six years?
I was kept in the forest with other people who they kidnapped too. That place has  water everywhere. It is a jungle so you cannot escape. They kept about thirteen of us in that place. Any time they liked, they would beat us and pour something that looked like charm on our bodies.



And in some cases, they would try and get money from your people as ransom and when your people failed to bring the money, they would kill you and throw the body inside the river. For some of us who were there, they collected all the money we had in the world and still kept us. I witnessed close to hundred people being killed and thrown into the river.

How were you being fed?
They were feeding us with bread and sardine and we were drinking the coloured river water. Any time, they came back from operation, they would give us bread and sardine. There was no medication for us. Whenever they felt that you’re ill and could not recover, they would throw you inside the river.

It was only one of the guys who would care about your health but the only thing he’d do too was to pour charms on us whenever they were going out for operation and whenever they returned. It was between life and death. At a point, one of their leaders said all of us should be killed but some of them said no, we needed them here. I noticed that some of them who went out for operation were not coming back. Some time, they get killed during operation.

So new faces would arrive and those ones would not want to release us because they were not the ones that kept us there.
There was a day they went for operation and two of them were killed and one of them who died would have been the person to release us. So when they died like that, new ones would come and those ones would not release you because they didn’t know you. I wouldn’t even know the area of that location now because they would always blindfold you when you are coming in or going out.

But who was this friend of yours that did this to you?
I met him in a bar when I arrived Benin from the United States. I met him with one other boy and he was a police man. But one of my brothers told me that the police man is dead now. He was working at the depot. My relations were in Benin.

So how did you come out from the jungle ?
What happened was that this particular day, my body could not do any thing any more. Any thing they asked me to do, I couldn’t do it. So one of them said this one is gone. He was trying to say that I was dead already .So they took me and one other man out. So I tried to ask where we were but they said I should shut up.

They asked me if I wanted to leave and I said please, let me go. They took us out at night and dumped us some where. They told us to go from there. It was when we got to somewhere that I asked somebody how I could get a vehicle to Benin. So they took me to Eagle Line and a staff there took me to Benin and that was how I got here on the 17th of March.

What about your wife now?
I married an American and we had two kids. They are all in the US now. I have not been able to contact my family now because most of the numbers are no longer operational. I traveled to the US in 1980. I came back to Nigeria once and it was when I was trying to go back after my first visit to Nigeria that I was kidnapped for six years.

So how is your health now?
The doctors diagnosed me and said I have diabetes and that is why my legs were swollen and I have been taking treatment since then. I am appealing to every body to assist me get in touch with my wife and my kids in the US so that they will know that I am still alive. It has not been easy with life and I pray that God should help me to live my life again.

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A law is underway in Rivers that will grant huge benefits to former governors and their deputies

Despite being in hiding from the law by virtue of a controversial court injunction, Peter Odili, a former Governor of Rivers State, who the EFCC says “misappropriated billions of naira” while he was governor, is about to be made even richer through a state legislation.

The proposed legislation is courtesy of a bill tagged the “Rivers State Public Office Holders (Payment of Pension) Bill 2012”, which is currently before the Rivers State House of Assembly. It is meant for the benefit of former governors and their deputies who completed their term in office.

Should the bill be passed, Mr. Odili would be given two houses in any area of his choice in Abuja and Rivers State.

Also, presuming that Mr. Odili acts like the conventional Nigerian politician, he would choose a house in the rich exclusive areas of Maitama or Guzape in Abuja, where a house can cost as much as 400million naira. A similar house in the highbrow GRA area of Port-Harcourt, where Mr. Odili can also choose, costs just under the same amount.

If the controversial bill is passed, Mr. Odili’s two houses alone, could be enough to pay the salaries of 3300 Rivers State civil servants for a whole year at the current minimum wage of N19, 400.

Not just Houses

It is not just posh houses that the state legislators propose as gifts for Mr. Odili and co. The former governor would also receive three brand new cars that would be replaced every three years. Other material benefits include 100 per cent of the basic salary of the incumbent governor, 300 per cent of basic salary as furniture allowance, 20 per cent for utilities and 10 per cent for entertainment.

Aside the financial benefits that Mr. Odili would be getting, and despite that Nigeria is heavily under-policed with one police officer to 800 people, Mr. Odili would get eight police officers for personal and domestic security; another two officers of the Nigerian secret police, the State Security Service; and domestic staff including a steward, gardeners, cooks, and drivers to be paid from the state account.

Hiding from prosecution

With the fear that he would be arrested and prosecuted for corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after his second and last tenure as governor, Mr. Odili, in February, 2007, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja for an injunction restraining the anti-graft commission from arresting him.

As governor, Mr. Odili, who is married to a Justice of the Nigerian Supreme Court, Mary Odili, was granted immunity from arrests or prosecution for any crime; courtesy of Section 308 of the Nigerian constitution.

On March 23, 2007, two months before losing his constitutional immunity, the Rivers State politician got another injunction, this time, a court-granted immunity. Ibrahim Buba granted Mr. Odili’s prayers, giving him a perpetual injunction from arrest or prosecution by the EFCC.

The commission had investigated Mr. Odili and found him culpable for large scale corruption. According to an interim report by the EFCC, “over 100 billion Naira of Rivers State funds have been diverted by the Governor, Dr. Odili”.

An EFCC source involved with the investigation told Premium Times that “Odili stole just as much as (James) Ibori [convicted former Governor of Delta State]; he just knows how to play his game by lying low.”

The Perpetual Injunction

Despite the injunction however, Mr. Odili still feared for his prosecution and so proceeded to the court again to demand an enforcement of the injunction.

On March 5, 2008, Mr. Buba, despite EFCC objection, again granted Mr. Odili’s wish. In a landmark ruling, which was described as bizarre by the Human Rights watch, the court ruled as follows: “The subsisting judgment of March 2007 by this court is binding on all parties. Therefore there is a perpetual injunction restraining the EFCC from arresting, detaining and arraigning Odili on the basis of his tenure as governor based on the purported investigation.”

Status Unknown

Since that ruling, the EFCC has been unable to prosecute Mr. Odili. Though the commission said it would appeal the ruling after several complaints by Nigerians and the International Community, it is not clear if the commission has done so.

Wilson Uwujaren, the commission’s spokesman answered our reporter's call and said he would return the call. He did not do so nor respond to subsequent text messages as at the time of filing this report.

 Speaker defends bill

Even if Mr. Odili is eventually convicted of stealing state funds, he would still enjoy the largesse proposed by the state parliament.

“The bill is for those Governors and deputy governors who served out their terms without being impeached,” said Udede Jim-Opiki, the press secretary to the speaker of the Rivers State House of assembly, Otelemaba Amachree.

When asked if it was fair for any former governor who is indicted or convicted of corruption to enjoy such benefits, Mr. Jim-Opiki said “it can be amended and somebody else can go to court.”

The assembly speaker’s spokesperson however emphasized repeatedly that “the essence of the bill is to stop acts of corruption.”

“It is to help them know that after they leave office, the state will still take care of their welfare,” he said.

The Nigerian constitution under Section 124, subsection 5 gives state houses of assembly the power to make provisions for pension and gratuity of former governors and their deputies.

It’s Amaechi’s bill

Though Peter Odili will be a major beneficiary of this largesse, he did not propose it. The proposal was done by the incumbent governor, Rotimi Amaechi.

Premium Times learnt that, Mr. Amaechi, who served as the speaker of the Assembly during the tenure of Mr. Odili as governor, is hell bent on ensuring the passage of the bill.

“Governor Amaechi wants to safeguard his future, he wants to ensure that he still enjoys much of what he is enjoying now when he leaves office,” a close ally of the governor, who does not want his name mentioned for fear of losing political patronage, said.

Mr. Jim -Opiki, who confirmed that the bill was an executive bill, also stated that the bill would prevent corruption as “they (Governors and deputies) don’t need to bother about their hereafter after leaving office.”

Efforts to reach Mr. Amaechi were unsuccessful as Ibim Semenitari, the state information commissioner did not answer or return calls made to her telephone.

She also did not respond to text messages. Mrs. Semenitari's father, Gabriel Toby, a former deputy governor of the state, will also benefit from the law.

It is not clear if Rufus Ada George, who was governor odf the state between 1992 and 1993, would benefit because his tenure was truncated by the military. 

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/4580-odil…

A law is underway in Rivers that will grant huge benefits to former governors and their deputies

Despite being in hiding from the law by virtue of a controversial court injunction, Peter Odili, a former Governor of Rivers State, who the EFCC says “misappropriated billions of naira” while he was governor, is about to be made even richer through a state legislation.

The proposed legislation is courtesy of a bill tagged the “Rivers State Public Office Holders (Payment of Pension) Bill 2012”, which is currently before the Rivers State House of Assembly. It is meant for the benefit of former governors and their deputies who completed their term in office.

Should the bill be passed, Mr. Odili would be given two houses in any area of his choice in Abuja and Rivers State.

Also, presuming that Mr. Odili acts like the conventional Nigerian politician, he would choose a house in the rich exclusive areas of Maitama or Guzape in Abuja, where a house can cost as much as 400million naira. A similar house in the highbrow GRA area of Port-Harcourt, where Mr. Odili can also choose, costs just under the same amount.

If the controversial bill is passed, Mr. Odili’s two houses alone, could be enough to pay the salaries of 3300 Rivers State civil servants for a whole year at the current minimum wage of N19, 400.

Not just Houses

It is not just posh houses that the state legislators propose as gifts for Mr. Odili and co. The former governor would also receive three brand new cars that would be replaced every three years. Other material benefits include 100 per cent of the basic salary of the incumbent governor, 300 per cent of basic salary as furniture allowance, 20 per cent for utilities and 10 per cent for entertainment.

Aside the financial benefits that Mr. Odili would be getting, and despite that Nigeria is heavily under-policed with one police officer to 800 people, Mr. Odili would get eight police officers for personal and domestic security; another two officers of the Nigerian secret police, the State Security Service; and domestic staff including a steward, gardeners, cooks, and drivers to be paid from the state account.

Hiding from prosecution

With the fear that he would be arrested and prosecuted for corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after his second and last tenure as governor, Mr. Odili, in February, 2007, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja for an injunction restraining the anti-graft commission from arresting him.

As governor, Mr. Odili, who is married to a Justice of the Nigerian Supreme Court, Mary Odili, was granted immunity from arrests or prosecution for any crime; courtesy of Section 308 of the Nigerian constitution.

On March 23, 2007, two months before losing his constitutional immunity, the Rivers State politician got another injunction, this time, a court-granted immunity. Ibrahim Buba granted Mr. Odili’s prayers, giving him a perpetual injunction from arrest or prosecution by the EFCC.

The commission had investigated Mr. Odili and found him culpable for large scale corruption. According to an interim report by the EFCC, “over 100 billion Naira of Rivers State funds have been diverted by the Governor, Dr. Odili”.

An EFCC source involved with the investigation told Premium Times that “Odili stole just as much as (James) Ibori [convicted former Governor of Delta State]; he just knows how to play his game by lying low.”

The Perpetual Injunction

Despite the injunction however, Mr. Odili still feared for his prosecution and so proceeded to the court again to demand an enforcement of the injunction.

On March 5, 2008, Mr. Buba, despite EFCC objection, again granted Mr. Odili’s wish. In a landmark ruling, which was described as bizarre by the Human Rights watch, the court ruled as follows: “The subsisting judgment of March 2007 by this court is binding on all parties. Therefore there is a perpetual injunction restraining the EFCC from arresting, detaining and arraigning Odili on the basis of his tenure as governor based on the purported investigation.”

Status Unknown

Since that ruling, the EFCC has been unable to prosecute Mr. Odili. Though the commission said it would appeal the ruling after several complaints by Nigerians and the International Community, it is not clear if the commission has done so.

Wilson Uwujaren, the commission’s spokesman answered our reporter's call and said he would return the call. He did not do so nor respond to subsequent text messages as at the time of filing this report.

 Speaker defends bill

Even if Mr. Odili is eventually convicted of stealing state funds, he would still enjoy the largesse proposed by the state parliament.

“The bill is for those Governors and deputy governors who served out their terms without being impeached,” said Udede Jim-Opiki, the press secretary to the speaker of the Rivers State House of assembly, Otelemaba Amachree.

When asked if it was fair for any former governor who is indicted or convicted of corruption to enjoy such benefits, Mr. Jim-Opiki said “it can be amended and somebody else can go to court.”

The assembly speaker’s spokesperson however emphasized repeatedly that “the essence of the bill is to stop acts of corruption.”

“It is to help them know that after they leave office, the state will still take care of their welfare,” he said.

The Nigerian constitution under Section 124, subsection 5 gives state houses of assembly the power to make provisions for pension and gratuity of former governors and their deputies.

It’s Amaechi’s bill

Though Peter Odili will be a major beneficiary of this largesse, he did not propose it. The proposal was done by the incumbent governor, Rotimi Amaechi.

Premium Times learnt that, Mr. Amaechi, who served as the speaker of the Assembly during the tenure of Mr. Odili as governor, is hell bent on ensuring the passage of the bill.

“Governor Amaechi wants to safeguard his future, he wants to ensure that he still enjoys much of what he is enjoying now when he leaves office,” a close ally of the governor, who does not want his name mentioned for fear of losing political patronage, said.

Mr. Jim -Opiki, who confirmed that the bill was an executive bill, also stated that the bill would prevent corruption as “they (Governors and deputies) don’t need to bother about their hereafter after leaving office.”

Efforts to reach Mr. Amaechi were unsuccessful as Ibim Semenitari, the state information commissioner did not answer or return calls made to her telephone.

She also did not respond to text messages. Mrs. Semenitari's father, Gabriel Toby, a former deputy governor of the state, will also benefit from the law.

It is not clear if Rufus Ada George, who was governor odf the state between 1992 and 1993, would benefit because his tenure was truncated by the military. 

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/4580-odil…

Application for Employment

I refer to the recent death of the Technical Manager at your company and hereby apply for the replacement of the deceased Manager.

Each time I apply for a job, I get a reply that there's no vacancy but in this case I have caught you red - handed and you have no excuse because I even attended the funeral to be sure that he was truly dead and buried before applying.

Attached to my letter is a copy of my CV and his death Certificate.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Descendants of Mohammad are born to kill, I see no reason why he shouldn't rot in hell.

Descendants of Mohammad are born to kill, the earlier people realises it the better.

Madam Presido you need to pay homage to T.B Joshua's Synagogue.

MUSIC TEACHER "What is your favourite Musical Instrument?" FAT KID: " The lunch bell."

@op in case you happen to read this, know that your marriage just got to a critical juncture where you can make or mar it. irrespective of the diverse opinions you have received from this thread your husband remains human and he's bound to "cross the line", its now up to decide what to do, but make sure you don't end up as the laughing stock.

The vulnerable tend to seek protection from a supposed protector.

Aboki's are honest and dangerous



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Suspected armed robbers on Wednesday Morning snatched the March salary of staff of Katagum Local Government Area estimated at millions of Naira.

Bauchi State Police Commissioner Mohammed Ladan confirmed the incident to Daily Trust in a telephone interview.

“It is true they snatched the workers' salary but we are investigating already” he said, though he did not give any detail of the investigation.


Daily Trust gathered from the staff of the local government that unknown persons suspected to be armed robbers stormed the account department of the council in the early hours of the morning, forcefully breaking open the door of the account section and carting away the salary.

Council staffers said they were shocked at the incident because they expected to collect their salaries today, only to be told that the money had been stolen. They have sent out an appeal to Governor Isa Yuguda, asking him to intervene so that they will be able to get money to feed their families.

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http://dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?opti…