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Politics / Re: Tinubu Vs Osibanjo Who Has More Federal Administrative Experience by crispus09(m): 11:38pm On Jan 14, 2022
Star boy I believe.
Like for star boy share for bobo chicago

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Politics / Re: 2023: Igbo President Will Ensure Balance, Sense Of Belonging – Ohanaeze by crispus09(m): 11:27pm On Jan 14, 2022
Though I feel for south east coz they have been maginalize for too long, but they can not be trusted with nigeria presidency this present time, don't misquote me o what I feel ipob and namdi should done before the agitation get to this level is to let there people get involved in the politic and elect only there loya member into power the way terrorist Fulani/BH, are doing now in the armed forces,para military and government agencies then when they have enough people in corridors of power break the shot hole called Nigeria.
The same thing I said about igboho when I was talking to some boys volunteering to be igboho militant,igboho should have gather enough foot soldiers and weapon before he decided to fight government.
Politics / Re: Kwara Gov. Makes New Appointments by crispus09(m): 11:25pm On Jan 14, 2022
Ok so what is the importance of these appointments on kwara people or just feel like paying back your loyal boys,
Politics / Re: Atiku Indicted For $2 Million Siemens Bribe And Laundering $40 Million by crispus09(m): 11:24pm On Jan 14, 2022
SkullMinerSW:
Former vice president Atiku Abubakar has for a long time been challenging Nigerians who accused him of being corrupt to come forward and prove it. So far nobody has come forward.

Well, has received a report on how Atiku was the subject of a probe ten years ago, by a United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Senator Carl Levin.


The report detailed how Atiku Abubakar while still the vice president of Nigeria between 2000 and 2008, used offshore companies to siphon millions of dollars to his fourth wife in the United States, Jennifer Douglas.

Specifically, the report said Jennifer Douglas, an American citizen, helped her husband bring over $40 million in suspect funds into the United States through wire transfers sent by offshore corporations to U.S. bank accounts.


In 2004, the then President Bush barred Atiku and other corrupt politically exposed persons from being issued visa to the United States.

The US Senate probe was motivated by US government concern about corruption in the Third World and its corrosive effects on the development of honest government, democratic principles, and the rule of law.

“It is also blamed for distorting markets, deterring investment, deepening poverty, undermining international aid efforts, and fostering crime. Some have drawn connections between corruption, failed states, and terrorism. Corruption also continues to be a massive problem. The World Bank has estimated that $1 trillion in bribes alone exchange hands worldwide each year,” the committee noted in its bulky report.

Atiku was not the only foreign Politically Exposed Person(PEP) probed by the committee. He had company in Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, now the 48-year-old son of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mbasogo, the President of Equatorial Guinea (EG), late President of Gabon, Omar Bongo and three Angolan PEP accounts, involving an Angolan arms dealer, an Angolan government official, and a small Angolan private bank.

The committee submitted its report on 4 February 2010, three years after Atiku left office.

The report unveiled violations of US laws by Atiku and his fourth wife, Jennifer Douglas. It also included revelations about Siemens bribe paid into one of the accounts, and it possibly provided the basis for Atiku being barred from entering the United States, since then.

This Report examines how politically powerful foreign officials, their relatives, and close associates – referred to in international agreements as Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) – have used the services of U.S. professionals and financial institutions to bring large amounts of suspect funds into the United States to advance their interests. Using four case histories, this Report shows how some PEPs have used U.S. lawyers, real estate and escrow agents, lobbyists, bankers, and even university officials, to circumvent U.S. anti-money laundering and anti- corruption safeguards. This Report also offers recommendations to stop the abuses.

Here is a summary of the report:
Atiku Case History.
From 2000 to 2008, Jennifer Douglas, a U.S. citizen and the fourth wife of Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and former candidate for President of Nigeria, helped her husband bring over $40 million in suspect funds into the United States through wire transfers sent by offshore corporations to U.S. bank accounts.

In a 2008 civil complaint, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Ms. Douglas received over $2 million in bribe payments in 2001 and 2002, from Siemens AG, a major German corporation.

While Ms. Douglas denies wrongdoing, Siemens has already pleaded guilty to U.S. criminal charges and settled civil charges related to bribery and told the Subcommittee that it sent the payments to one of her U.S. accounts.

In 2007, Mr. Atiku was the subject of corruption allegations in Nigeria related to the Petroleum Technology Development Fund.

Of the $40 million in suspect funds, $25 million was wire transferred by offshore corporations into more than 30 U.S. bank accounts opened by Ms. Douglas, primarily by Guernsey Trust Company Nigeria Ltd., LetsGo Ltd. Inc., and Sima Holding Ltd.

The U.S. banks maintaining those accounts were, at times, unaware of her PEP status, and they allowed multiple, large offshore wire transfers into her accounts. As each bank began to question the offshore wire transfers, Ms. Douglas indicated that all of the funds came from her husband and professed little familiarity with the offshore corporations actually sending her money.

When one bank closed her account due to the offshore wire transfers, her lawyer helped convince other banks to provide a new account. In addition, two of the offshore corporations wire transferred about $14 million over five years to American University in Washington, D.C., to pay for consulting services related to the development of a Nigerian university founded by Mr. Atiku Abubakar.

American University accepted the wire transfers without asking about the identity of the offshore corporations or the source of their funds, because under current law, the University had no legal obligation to inquire.

Executive Summary

Combating corruption is a key U.S. value and goal, due to its corrosive effects on the rule of law, economic development, and democratic principles. In 2001, the Patriot Act made the acceptance of foreign corruption proceeds a U.S. money laundering offense for the first time, and required banks to apply enhanced scrutiny to private banking accounts opened for senior foreign political figures, their relatives, and close associates. In 2003, the United States supported the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, now ratified by over 140 countries. Also in 2003, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) formed an investigative group dedicated to combating foreign corruption by PEPs. In 2004, President Bush issued Presidential Proclamation 7750 denying U.S. visas to foreign officials involved with corruption, and Congress later enacted supporting legislation. A 2009 study sponsored by the World Bank analyzed PEP controls worldwide and recommended stronger measures to reduce corruption.

The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (Subcommittee) initiated this investigation to learn how U.S. laws apply to PEPs utilizing the domestic financial system, and examine how foreign senior political figures, their relatives, and close associates may be circumventing or undermining anti-money laundering (AML) and PEP controls to bring funds that may be the product of foreign corruption into the United States. It is the latest in a series of Subcommittee hearings examining foreign corruption and its U.S. aiders and abettors.

During the course of its investigation, the Subcommittee staff conducted over 100 interviews, including interviews of lawyers, real estate agents, escrow agents, lobbyists, bankers, university professionals, and government officials. The Subcommittee issued over 50 subpoenas and reviewed millions of pages of documents, including bank records, correspondence, contracts, emails, property records, flight records, news articles, and court pleadings. In addition, the Subcommittee consulted with foreign officials, international organizations, financial regulators, and experts in anti-money laundering and anti-corruption efforts.

Source
https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2017/12/03/corruption-us-senate-report-finally-nailed-atiku-abubakar/
Atiku and tinubu have milking Nigeria since God knows when

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Politics / Re: 2023: Dino Melaye Refers To Yahaya Bello’s Presidential Ambition As “baba Ajasco by crispus09(m): 11:22pm On Jan 14, 2022
jeffizy:
The ying-yang twins again.




grin grin


Dino is a big bully I swear. grin
Just called them acupuncture twin
Politics / Re: 2023: Dino Melaye Refers To Yahaya Bello’s Presidential Ambition As “baba Ajasco by crispus09(m): 11:21pm On Jan 14, 2022
Yeye bello is just catching cruise ni
Like if you agree with Melaye.
Politics / Re: Digital Centre: Pantami Shuns Aregbesola, Avoids Ilesa Event by crispus09(m): 11:17pm On Jan 14, 2022
Even no love among Buhari cabinet
Some that can not put his house in order is now ruling a whole giant of Africa, what a mess we re in.
Politics / Re: I Am Here In Ogun State To Commission 5 Visionary And Trail-president - Buhari by crispus09(m): 11:16pm On Jan 14, 2022
presidency:
Let me start by thanking His Excellency, the Governor and the People of Ogun State for the reception accorded me and my team on our arrival in the State. I had planned to be here few weeks ago in December last year but for a conflict of schedules.

2.​This welcome by the large crowd brings back the nostalgia of my first arrival on this soil as a young infantry officer in the Nigerian Army at the then Lafenwa Barracks in Abeokuta, not long after independence.

3.​The traditional hospitality of the people of this State has not waned a bit. Today, I am “Omowale” and very happy at this homecoming to meet my brothers and sisters whose goodwill I have always enjoyed. Thank you.

4.​The last time I visited Ogun State was during the electioneering campaign and build-up to the 2019 general elections. Between the last visit and now, so much has changed. The then candidate, Prince Dapo Abiodun, is today the performing Governor of Nigeria’s Gateway State. I have read and heard so much about this silent but effective achiever and deliverer of good governance.

5.​I recall that Governor Dapo Abiodun visited me at the Presidential Villa at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in year 2020. During that visit, he presented to me a compendium of achievements in his first 52 weeks.

6.​The compendium contained a good number of projects as encapsulated under the Development Pillars with acronym: I-S-E-Y-A. He could not commission the projects then because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The compendium surprised me. I wondered how he could deliver all the projects under the then prevailing circumstances.

7.​I am therefore delighted to accept his invitation. The invitation was not just to come and see or inspect but to commission fully completed projects that his Administration has delivered for the wellness and wellbeing of the people of Ogun State.

8.​Today, we are here to be part of the development history of Ogun State. I am very pleased to be in the Gateway State, which is my first visit to any State in the New Year. It is my fervent hope that year 2022 will bring all of us good tidings.

9.​Today, I am here in Ogun State to commission FIVE visionary and trail-blazing projects:

a. the Gateway City Gate;

b. the 42-Kilometre Sagamu Interchange-Abeokuta Road; and

c. the 14km Ijebu-Ode-Epe Expressway.

10.​Also to be commissioned are two Housing Estates for low, medium and high income earners at Kobape and Oke-Mosan in Abeokuta, respectively. This is a high number of projects to be commissioned in one day, and it is gratifying.

11.​On arrival earlier today, I commissioned the 14km Ijebu Ode- Mojoda – Epe Road, which has been reconstructed into a modern expressway by your Administration. This impressive road will complement the Sagamu-Benin Expressway that the Federal Government is currently reconstructing; also due for commissioning this year.

12.​Just across the road is the 42-kilometer Sagamu-Interchange-Abeokuta Road which the state Government has reconstructed and equipped with street lights and other modern road furniture. That road, which I will commission shortly, enjoys a direct linkage with the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway that the Federal Government is rebuilding and due for completion later this year.

13.​I am particularly impressed by the quality and standard of your road projects, and the creative way you have deployed resources to reconstruct and rehabilitate them. It is significant to note that the two road projects being commissioned today are federal roads. This is an example of constructive engagement, cooperation and collaboration between the States and Federal Government.

14.​These roads also fit well into our rail transportation masterplan that connects Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital to Kano, with Ogun State having more rail stations, along the Lagos-Ibadan rail corridor.

15. ​It is equally heartwarming that your housing programme cuts across different social strata. Some are for the medium and high income earners, whilst others are especially for the low-income earners and are truly affordable, costing as low as N6 million only per unit. This is inclusiveness at work and it is very commendable.

16.​This Gateway City Gate Project, where we are now, is not just a Park beautification project. It depicts that something new is happening in Ogun State, a welcoming entrance into the State Capital at the centre point of the State.

17.​It is also an ICON depicting the joining of hands for building the future of Ogun State in togetherness. I look forward to a busy but exciting day ahead with the commissioning of these laudable and impactful projects of your Administration.

18.​Your Excellency, well done! I am proud of what you have done for your State and your people. You have made our great Party, the APC, proud too. You are a worthy example of promises made, promises kept. These lofty projects could not have materialised without your huge investment and commitment to security of lives and property.

19.​This has made Ogun State one of the safest and most peaceful States in the country and investors’ destination of choice. You have justified the mandate of the people of Ogun State. You have represented our Party very well.

20.​I have also listened to your requests to give priority attention to the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta and the Sango Otta-Idiroko Roads respectively. Let me assure the people of Ogun State that these roads will receive Federal Government attention. We are considering extending tax credit as funding option for the reconstruction of these roads, as we have done for the 100km Sagamu Interchange-Papalanto-Ilaro Road.

21.​I will also consider the approval of the reconstruction of Sagamu-Ogijo Road by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) under the tax credit scheme.

22.​I congratulate the people of Ogun State for having such a focused, deliberate and inclusive Administration under the watch of His Excellency, Prince Dapo Abiodun. I enjoin you to continue to support him for the successful implementation of the “Building our Future Together” Agenda of his Administration.

23.​Your support is required to deliver more development projects that will ensure an improved social-economic development of the State and individual prosperity of the citizenry.

24. ​Your Excellency, whilst commending you for your achievements so far, I urge you not to rest on your oars. The reward for success is more hardwork to meet the increasing expectations of the people. When state governments deliver impactful projects, in consultations with stakeholders, like we have witnessed in Ogun State, the trajectory of our national development will be enhanced.

25.​Once again, I thank Your Excellency, for the invitation and the opportunity to identify with the giant strides going on in Ogun State.

26.​I appreciate the people of Ogun State for the warm reception accorded me and my entourage. It is also with a sense of responsibility that I receive and cherish the honourary indigeneship bestowed on me as symbolised by the presentation of the key to the Gateway State by Governor Abiodun.

27.​ I will leave Ogun State with fond memories and look forward to enjoying the privilege of my honorary indigeneship.

28. ​It is now with great pleasure that I commission this Gateway City Gate.

I thank you and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The useless president came from Abuja just to commission police helmet
Politics / Re: Urgent Response To - 9 Soldiers Killed In Abakaliki By Benjamin1997 by crispus09(m): 11:12pm On Jan 14, 2022
It might be true and it might not but the question is OP have you done your investigations to ascertain the truth?
Politics / Re: 2222 Days Of Zaria Massacre by crispus09(m): 11:07pm On Jan 14, 2022
Make una look for Buratai and avenge your people's murder now
Politics / Re: There was no security threat under my tenure, Osun was safer - Aregbesola by crispus09(m): 11:01pm On Jan 14, 2022
Stupid and psycho man.
But hunger nearly kill people under your watch when you start paying half salary and scattered the whole setting in osun state,
The mumu man get mouth to talk now just because you get kanta with oyetola(incumbent governor),
Anyway make you and oyetola pack una load go continue una fight for Lagos coz imole ti de, okunkun APC and oyetola vanish.
Politics / Re: We Won’t Because Of Anyone’s 2023 Ambition Destroy Our Future; Give Us Restructu by crispus09(m): 10:57pm On Jan 14, 2022
Correct talk agba awo. Yoruba no dey for nonsense

Hit like for tinubu in aso rock 2023
Hit share for tinubu in prison 2023

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Politics / Re: Sunday Igboho! Watch As Gani Adams Expose Buhari On Live Tv by crispus09(m): 10:53pm On Jan 14, 2022
Yeye man, this man no get action at all, all he knows how to do is talk talk talk.

Like if you think igboho should ve been the aare ona kakanfo share if you think gani Adams should have been the one in prison.

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Politics / Re: Ipob And Agbero by crispus09(m): 10:52pm On Jan 14, 2022
Simple: hypocrisy
Politics / Re: Breaking! 9 Soldiers Killed In Abakaliki by crispus09(m): 10:47pm On Jan 14, 2022
Nigeria army can not escape this onslaught launch against them the the people they re doing business with.
Politics / Re: Babayemi's Supporters Jubilate Over Success Recorded At Party Screening. by crispus09(m): 10:42pm On Jan 14, 2022
Who is babayemi again, never heard of him
Politics / Re: PDP, Others Kick As Buhari Dismisses State Police, Insists On Grazing Routes by crispus09(m): 11:36am On Jan 06, 2022
We have lost opposition in this country.
Politics / Re: Newsnobody Can Hold Nigeria Ransom – Arewa Youths On Buhari Declaring Bandits Te by crispus09(m): 11:35am On Jan 06, 2022
Bunch of bloody blood sucking vsmpire
Politics / Re: 2023: Day Kaduna Standstill For Abdullahi Mukhtar ! by crispus09(m): 11:33am On Jan 06, 2022
Someone like el-rufai again kaduna south re wise now sha
Politics / Re: Oruk Anam Roads: Works Commissioner Applauds Nsik Engineering For Good Job by crispus09(m): 11:33am On Jan 06, 2022
A good work
Politics / Re: Amb. Egunjobi Samuel Reported Fulani Bandit Attacked To The Speaker O.D.H.A& DSS by crispus09(m): 11:32am On Jan 06, 2022
Hmm this fulani's are cursed people o

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Politics / Re: 2023: Business Owners Woo Osinbajo As Campaign Posters Flood FCT by crispus09(m): 11:30am On Jan 06, 2022
Its normal na
Politics / Re: Boko Haram Attacks Army Base In Borno, 10 Soldiers Killed - ISWAP by crispus09(m): 11:29am On Jan 06, 2022
I just don't understand why this cursed administration and its officials are this useless, and to think the killings are under reported re worrisome, tomorrow now military will say they have kill over thousands them.

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Politics / Re: "Assess My Performance" - Amaechi Tells Nigerians by crispus09(m): 11:28am On Jan 06, 2022
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Politics / Re: 2023 Presidency: Tinubu Working On Declaration Date –DG Campaign Council by crispus09(m): 10:38pm On Jan 03, 2022
Trumann:


Yahaya Bello would eventually post Tinubu's posters in Ebira land.
He can do that if he's so wish,
Youth governance is what I'm championing
Politics / Re: 2023 Presidency: Tinubu Working On Declaration Date –DG Campaign Council by crispus09(m): 10:36pm On Jan 03, 2022
77up:
Tinubu has last been in power since 1999, he's not less a Nigerian, people are only hating but it doesn't stop the God's project.


BAT 2023.
I'm not hating anybody tinubu was senort before governor for 8yrs and has continues to rule lagos and osun state ever since by proxy,
Tinubu is a fool blooded nigerian just like yaya bello I mention,not that I like GYB in fact I'm not his fan at all,
But like I said I 'll rather vote youth to serve as an avenue for other youth to take over than to continue worshiping all these old selfish greedy people that only care about there children in abroad while continuing to leave youth in this country to suffer.
Foreign Affairs / Re: The Only Woman On Earth That Married The President Of Two Different Countries by crispus09(m): 7:47pm On Jan 02, 2022
Na world record

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Politics / Re: Can We Move The 2023 Presidential Elections To This Year 2022(photo) by crispus09(m): 7:26pm On Jan 02, 2022
Ok with the suffering and the way we re shouting now if election were move to be happen this year.you will not believe Nigerians will still not use there brain to vote right

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Politics / Re: How Saharareporters Blazed The Trail Exposing Fantastically Corrupt Politicians by crispus09(m): 7:25pm On Jan 02, 2022
But
Politics / Re: Hon.tiamy Mourns Olubadan by crispus09(m): 7:24pm On Jan 02, 2022
Baba sunn re ooo
Politics / Re: We Are Tired Of The Politics Of Falsehood, Deceit And Lies Against GYB by crispus09(m): 7:22pm On Jan 02, 2022
Time to dey expose una self

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