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This is the start of something new. I hope this administration doesn't dissappoint.

speedyGonzales:
draw your own map and show it, since you dispute all existing maps...

Here is the wiki page and you can see he has put credible sources to for the map.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biafra_independent_state_map-en.svg



the propaganda is all over this forum and is also on Nigerian news and history, but you are Yoruba, so you would never let your see it!

I will henceforth, not respond to you because, you obviously lack the intellect to structure an adequate arguement and also because I'm bored of you bullsh*t. have a good day!

I asked u a simple question and u refused to answer it. Who drew the biafra map?

speedyGonzales:
if a quite, dumb... biafra existed after the white man came and left nigeria! help yourself and check the wikipedia, the is a map there, maybe it will rid you of the doltishness, you are currently exhibiting!

who drew the map?

speedyGonzales:
the simple truth is the yoruba's like you have just done are tricksters, you want stability and growth that only favours you and nobody else! if any other region is trying to do well, you put them down and broadcast propaganda! it is what the yoruba knows, propaganda! well, not all yoruba's!

give me one example where yoruba propaganda was used to bring down anyone

No doubt. It has been like their second nature. But if this same senerio plays out in the case of Benue, justice must be served.

I doubt the credibility of this list. How can Oshiomole who has been poor for the past one year be no3 on the list.

Work wan start oh. Wailers food don done.

pk... oshimen to take n he scoresssssssssssssssssssssssssss 4 2..final here we come

gggggggggggooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

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Going through this thread shows that ther is massive ignorance among our youths

PREMIUM TIMES has uncovered one of the most fraudulent crude oil deals executed by the Goodluck Jonathan administration, which saw a campaign official and some other suspected cronies of the ex-president smiling to the banks with up to 50 per cent commission from the proceeds of a foreign crude oil lifting contract, turning them into instant billionaires.

In the middle of the shady deal is a Nigerian oil and gas company, Sarb Energy, which acted as a dodgy middleman in a non-transparent government-to-government crude oil sale between the Nigerian and the Zambian governments.

Sarb Energy, incorporated on September 19, 2008, was specifically established for the controversial deal.

This newspaper has established that Sarb Energy has link with at least one political associate of former President Jonathan, whose five-year reign as leader of Africa’s largest oil producer was characterized by allegations of massive corruption, especially in the oil and gas sector.

The company’s directors at inception, according to records at the Corporate Affairs Commission, were Nimi Barigha-Amange, a former Peoples Democratic Party’s senator from Bayelsa (2007-2011), who also served as director of planning, research and strategy for Mr. Jonathan’s re-election campaign in 2014; Sylva Ogbogu, a retired Brigadier General; Akpan Ekpene, the managing director of the company, who executed the deal; and Ogba Properties and Investment Company Limited, a company whose real ownership remained unclear.

For months, PREMIUM TIMES was unable to obtain its records at the CAC.

Sarb Energy corporate ownership structure

SARB Corporate Structure

Mr. Barigha-Amange was a director in Deltoil Nigeria and Pixy Energy, two other companies with stakes in Sarb Energy.

The crude oil deal

In a testimony he gave at a Zambian court, Mr. Ekpene said he sold the idea of the government-to-government crude oil deal to the Zambian government in 2008, which then gave his company, Sarb, a power of attorney to execute the contract on its behalf.

Under the deal signed with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the Zambian government was to lift eight million barrels of crude oil worth N155.4 billion ($969.6million).

After the deal was sealed on April 20, 2011, Sarb made an initial deposit of $2.5million to the NNPC in the name of the Zambian government.

Rather than Sarb importing the crude for use of the Zambian government at home, it was agreed that the company would sell the commodity to other traders, split profit 50-50 with the government and then remit the Zambian government’s share to official administration accounts.

But that didn’t happen. What indeed happened was that the Nigerians sold the crude and failed to make payments into Zambian government accounts.

Instead, according to Mr. Ekpene, parts of the proceeds were diverted into an account held by Iexoria, a Singapore-based company allegedly controlled by Henry Banda, the Zambian president’s son.

No evidence has emerged till date indicating that Zambia received any revenue from the deal.

The deal sparked controversy in Zambia, with former President Rupiah Banda charged with multiple violations of that country’s anti-corruption laws.

In his testimony during the trial, Mr. Ekpene claimed the proceeds of the deal were passed directly to Mr. Banda and his family.

The Sarb managing director told the court that his company made two wire transfers worth $550,000 from its Access Bank account in Nigeria to a Barclays Bank account in Singapore owned by Iexoria.

Henry Banda, the Zambian president’s son, controlled Iexoria. Both transfers were made before that country’s September 2011 general elections, when Mr. Banda was still president.

A fake consultancy contract was then drawn up between Sarb and Iexoria to support the payments, stating that Iexoria was supposed to carry out a feasibility study for a power plant.

Mr. Ekpene admitted in court the contract was a ruse as no such feasibility study was done. He said that approach was adopted to deceive Access Bank into authorizing the transfers.

He claimed that he also gave Mr. Banda $500,000 through his son Henry, to boost his election campaign. He said that was after Mr. Banda requested $1 million advance payment from the government-to-government oil deal.

Mr. Ekpene also told the court that he helped Banda with campaign materials, which he transported from Nigeria to Zambia, during a trip in which he admitted concealing $260, 000 cash in his luggage.

He said he handed over the cash to Banda at the Government House for his use in the 2008 campaigns.

He said he made the donation to President Banda because the intermediary in the crude lifting deal, Major Richard Kachingwe, allegedly insisted that they needed to support him to win reelection.

Mr. Ekpene may have, however, lied under oath in court during the Banda trial when he said only 5.7 million barrels of crude were shipped out of Nigeria in the deal, with the last cargo loading in December 2012.

PREMIUM TIMES found, from NNPC and Finance Ministry records, that 11 cargoes, carrying more than eight million barrels, were lifted in respect of the deal.

Insiders say Sarb Energy continued to lift from the NNPC even when the Zambian authorities believed the deal had ended.

The Magistrate’s Court in Lusaka, the Zambian capital, however acquitted Mr. Banda in June 2015, saying the prosecution failed to prove its case that the former leader violated Section 99(1) of the Zambian Penal Code.

No progress with investigation in Nigeria

Even though Sarb and its official, Mr. Ekpene, made startling confessions in court in Zambia, including admitting laundering funds out of the country, it does not appear investigation is making progress in Nigeria.

Mr. Ekpene claimed in court that Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission looked into the contract in May 2013.

But no enforcement action has so far been taken.

The spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, said he was not aware that any such investigation was ongoing. He promised to crosscheck with the agency’s investigators and then revert to PREMIUM TIMES.

The spokesperson for the NNPC, Ohi Alegbe, could not be reached Monday.

When contacted by PREMIUM TIMES, Mr. Barigha-Amange, the PDP politician, directed all enquiries on the matter to Mr. Ekpene, the managing director of the company.

“I don’t know much about this matter,” the former senator said. “Only the MD can talk about it.”

Mr. Ekpene however declined to comment. He did not answer or return calls. He also did not respond to an email sent to him more than a month ago.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/192555-exclusive-jonathans-campaign-chief-others-divert-n155bn-crude-oil-money-to-corrupt-zambian-officials.html

Macelliot:
I really don't want Ikwerres to be part of Igbos..

But I will advice you guys to stop using the word Akalaka..

Akalaka means destiny in Igbo language, but means nothing in Bini language..


If you are a good student of History, you will know that The Benin Kingdom were "EXPANSIONIST"..

According to bini encyclopeadia, the word Akalaka doesn't exist in her history nor was their any Prince, slave, outcast or commoner with such name in her history...

Alakala means somethng in bini language cant seem to remember its meaning.

pazienza:
Only Biafra can solve that problem.

That way we eliminate the Arewa-Oduanistan effect and machinations and rekindle our bond of unity with our long lost brothers.
There were Igbophilic voices in those communities that were against the Igbo denial ish, theit only wanted to control their resources, but those voices were drowned and Igbophobic voices were raised and empowered by the Arewa-Oduanistans, and as the powers of Igbophobic voices grew, so did they followeship in the entire community, until the entire community became Igbophobic.

It is to the exploitation agenda of the Arewa-Oduanistans that Igboland remain balkanized, without first neutralizing them, we can't achieve much. There will always be greedy people in those areas that would always be empowered by the Arewa-Oduanistans to ensure the Igbo denials continues and that oil keep flowing.

So if I have the powers, I would establish Biafra by peace or by war.

Igbo denial is the disease, Arewa-Oduanistans are the pathogens. Remove the pathogens, you cure the disease.

http://www.usafricaonline.com/fjellah2005.html

failures always have excuses. Always blaming others instead of aknowleding their failure

there should be no mercy

Him come beg again??

Excellentmind:
Eagles, go make Nigeria proud again!!!!!!!!!!!!

eagles??

I love these boys

goaaaaaaaaalllllllll

Confused party

chuna1985:
By extension, Anambra, imo, ondo, Abia states are Niger delta so what do u mean

sorry for d confusion. South to be specific

ROYALD:
Your question is irrelevant

ok

ekenedegreat:
I think you're dumb and also uneducated, if not you won't be using your anus to reason.
You want to know the benefits the SS will get from being part of Biafra as if, the SSners are agitating for there freedom.

Its obvious I made a mistake replying u.
sorry 4 disturbing u

ekenedegreat:
What are they (SS) benefiting from nigeria presently?? That should be your question and that is if you don't reason through your anus.

it seems u did not understand my write up and my question else u wouldnt be insulting me.
I just want to knw what benefit d ss will get from being part of biafra instead of staying on their own.
It is obvious from ur reply that u r uneducated.

As someone who was born and brought up in the Niger Delta, I am inclined to ask Igbos on nairaland this question. This is because anytime the issues of Biafra are mentioned by Igbos on nairaland, they tend to include the south south. It is clear to a rational mind that Igbos will gain so much from the ss like land,oil,access to sea etc. But I have been trying to think about what the ss will benefit from the Igbos if seccession occurs.
When is say Niger Delta, I mean the south south.

LORDDICE:
aldo remember iwobi d arsenal forward

I've heard of Iwobi but have never seen him play so I can't vouch for him. But Iheanacho is God's blessing to Nigeria. I dont think there is a better teenager in the world right now even better than Martial.
How good is Iwobi and who would u compare him to?

DFemaleBoss:
But Buhari told us that Abacha never stole.

While jonathan gave him an award for being a thief

Sad