LagosFirstSon:
Tinubu properties in the UK should be next

KanwuliaExtra:



They were NEVER elected because you don't have elections in Nigeria.
Please, get real.

See what happened with your 'digital elections' with BVAS and all.
Then you are talking of Ibori's 'analogue' era of cash and carry without ballot boxes in a political era where results are written in peoples backyards.

They day Nigeria will have true elections. . . . has not been born.


Nigeria does not even come close to Kenya in many regards.

LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - Britain will seek to confiscate 101.5 million pounds ($130 million) from James Ibori, a former Nigerian state governor who abused his office to get rich and laundered millions in Britain and elsewhere, under a court order issued in London on Friday.

Here is a timeline of Ibori's complicated legal and political history:

EARLY CONVICTIONS IN BRITAIN
In the early 1990s, Ibori was living in London with his wife Theresa Ibori and for a time he worked as a shop assistant at a Wickes home improvements chainstore. The couple were arrested, convicted of theft and fined for trying to steal goods from the store.

Ibori was also convicted of possessing stolen goods after being caught with another man's American Express card at London's Euston train station.

POLITICAL RISE IN NIGERIA
In Lagos later in the 1990s, Ibori became close friends with Major Hamza al-Mustapha, who was Chief Security Officer to General Sani Abacha, the then military dictator of Nigeria. The connection helped him to get involved in politics and business.

In 1999, as Nigeria transitioned to democracy after Abacha's death, Ibori was elected governor of Delta State, one of Nigeria's top three oil-producing states. He served two consecutive four-year terms, stepping down in May 2007.

CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION
From 2005, Ibori was the subject of a joint investigation by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and London's Metropolitan Police.

Investigators found properties he secretly owned in Britain, South Africa and the United States and evidence of his lavish lifestyle, including American Express credit card bills showing he routinely spent tens of thousands of dollars per month on luxury hotels, shopping, restaurants and night clubs.

$15 MILLION BRIBE
Then EFCC Chairman Nuhu Ribadu alleged that Ibori had offered him $15 million in cash in April 2007 to drop the investigation. Ribadu said he pretended to accept but instead deposited the cash at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Ibori has denied this in statements to Nigerian media but has refused to be cross-examined in court in Britain. Ribadu testified about it under oath in a London court and British judges accepted his evidence as true.

EXTRADITION, JAIL AND HOMECOMING
In 2010, Ibori left Nigeria for Dubai. Britain requested his extradition and in 2011 he was flown to London and imprisoned.

In 2012, he pleaded guilty at London's Southwark Crown Court to 10 charges of fraud and money-laundering and was sentenced to 13 years in jail. Britain hailed the case as a landmark in the fight against corruption.

Ibori was released in December 2016, having served half of his sentence before and after conviction, and returned to Nigeria in early 2017. He was filmed being welcomed by cheering supporters in Delta State.

CONFISCATION DELAYS
British prosecutors began trying to confiscate Ibori's assets in 2013 but the process was repeatedly derailed by parallel, related legal action and by lengthy court delays.

Ibori and several co-defendants who had served jail time for assisting in his money-laundering launched appeals against their convictions, alleging that the investigation was tainted because of corruption in the ranks of the Metropolitan Police.

Court of Appeal judges rejected the claims and upheld the convictions in 2018.

LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - Britain will seek to confiscate 101.5 million pounds ($130 million) from James Ibori, a former Nigerian state governor who abused his office to get rich and laundered millions in Britain and elsewhere, under a court order issued in London on Friday.

Ibori, who is in Nigeria, said he would appeal against the confiscation order, one of the largest imposed on an individual in recent British legal history.

"The next steps will be to take my fight for justice to the highest courts in the UK," he said in a statement.

Ibori was governor of oil-producing Delta State from 1999 to 2007 and was extradited from Dubai to Britain in 2011. He pleaded guilty in 2012 to 10 counts of fraud and money-laundering and received a 13-year jail sentence of which he served half, as is standard.

The case was hailed as a landmark in the fight against corruption in Britain, a global money-laundering hub, and in Nigeria, where self-enrichment by the ruling elite has been one of the main factors holding back development for decades.

Judge David Tomlinson, delivering the confiscation order at Southwark Crown Court, said Ibori should pay the sum immediately or face an eight-year jail sentence.

Spokespersons for Nigerian President Bola Tinubu did not immediately respond to requests for comment on whether the Nigerian government would cooperate with the British authorities in enforcing the confiscation order.

Ibori remains well-connected in Nigeria. Tinubu, who took office in May, has hosted him twice at the presidential villa, along with other former governors. Ibori frequently mingles with the ruling elite, and has influence on Delta State politics.

The confiscation process took over a decade after Ibori's conviction because of lengthy court delays and legal wrangling in London.

"The long and tortuous road to reach this point shows just how tough it is to recover the proceeds of corruption in the UK," said Helen Taylor, Senior Legal Researcher at campaign group Spotlight on Corruption.

"To ensure justice delayed doesn’t mean justice denied for the Nigerian people, it’s essential that the UK now makes every effort to ensure the speedy return of this stolen loot to benefit the victims of Ibori’s corruption in Delta State," she said.

Britain has pledged to return any funds recovered from Ibori to Nigeria. In 2021, it returned 4.2 million pounds that had been confiscated from Ibori's ex-wife and his sister, who also served jail time for helping him.

($1 = 0.7788 pounds)

Mindlog:
A big chunk of the funds would end up in private pockets and for those households that would eventually get the N8,000 per month, I am imagining what N267 per day would do for such households.

cococandy:
Until then

cococandy:


There’s no end goal. As with any movement, there’s no conspiracy of a few people sitting somewhere hoping to achieve something clandestine. It just doesn’t stand to reason. There will be errant members of the group and there will be maybe….extremists? If you can use that term in this situation. But by and large it is just a group of people who are hoping nobody will come to their club and shoot 49 people dead just because they don’t like them


Non-adult humans, pets, dead animals, dead people, dead pets, inanimate objects etc cannot give consent.

cococandy:


But to give you a perspective because I feel where you were going with that.
Most bathrooms have 3 or even 4 categories here. All public places usually have

1)Men’s: obviously

2)Women’s: obviously

3)All gender: for anyone uncomfortable in A or B above

4)Family: for ppl with small kids

Bathroom issues have never existed except on the internet where again republicans have tried to convince y’all that LGBTQ folks are hiding in bathrooms waiting to molest your kids. These issues simply are not what they are made out to be. Only designed to distract us from who the real problem is.

cococandy:



No I can’t. I bath alone in private. Another woman can’t join me. Not even my family members can

advanceDNA:
U allow the gender that does not like to pay bills push you to a country where 85% of ur earnings na bills ..... lol...

UnusualEmissary:
Yes, he identifies as a woman. So allow him.

Streetdoctor:

U go wail till ur dying days

apananoni:


Lol. Information is what makes an ordinary man extraordinary, though nothing good come easy

Odibembem:


U guys think too much of Obi. He is d last man in d mind of Batists right now. We are thinking of how to sanitize d CBN and achieve single stable exchange rate, d man to be appointed CBN governor to achieve that, d next Senate President and Speaker, next NSA, Inspector General of Police, Service Chiefs, not an obscure Obi who all he knows about is lying statistics about Bangladesh, Malaysia and China. By the way didn't Obi and his Obidients celebrate Emefiele and his evil cash confiscation policy? Now it's pay time for u guys

Acidosis:


Well, I expressed my perspective based on my own context, but I also acknowledge that I overlooked factors, such as haircuts.

Regarding the budget thing, the truth is I don't follow monthly budgets. I don't believe in them because I don't replace household items or groceries on a monthly basis. In other words, having a monthly budget for rice would be unrealistic for me since e.g., I haven't spent one naira on rice this year. Similarly, seeing a monthly budget for clothing or shoes seems weird to me because I don't buy them on a monthly basis. As you can see, our realities differ.

However, regardless of whether one spends a lot on rent or food, a common factor should be the effort we put into saving or investing. Someone who couldn't save anything from a 400k salary would likely save very little or nothing even with a 70% pay raise. Savings should top the list of every budgets for those who believe in household budgeting. As for those, like myself, who don't believe in it, I would advise prioritising saving first and "blowing" the rest.

If your current living arrangement and environment do not allow you to save, it simply means that you are living beyond and above your means. A.K.A. a fake life.

Acidosis:
Everything about your list is wrong and overbloated, including the least expensive items like hygiene maintenance.

Why are you spending 10k every month as a guy on hygiene maintenance? You dey do menstruation?

How much is your toothpaste and body/hair cream again and how often do you change these items? E no good to dey pass boundary, sincerely. Buy Nivea of 2,500 and add Soul mate hair cream of N500-N1000. I use these items for months.

And then you spend too much on fuel/maintenance. Do you have to drive everyday?

Escapist:


So if the son who is more directly involved is on the run, they should kill the father for his crimes? The law does not work that way.

Escapist:
I actually feel that was terrible judgement... life sentence without conclusive evidence. Almost like the judge was playing to public sentiments.

IkeIgboNiile:
I feel like this case is inconclusive and justice has not prevailed in this case.
A lot of things about the case is still cloudy and the investigation looks hasty. The killer might still be free while someone else takes the fall for it.