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sarrki:
Bayo is president personal or put it official photographer

But he can still take the Vice Presidents official function photographs. Well, it saves flight cost , accommodation and other costs too. I can live with that

Laolu Akande turned photographer. Ina Bayo?

Peter Obi should be investigated as one of the sponsors of the terrorist organisation, IPOB.
The no election declaration was designed to favour and rig PDP into power. The idea was to disenfranchise some voters. Peter Obi is green snake. His cup will soon be full and will be exposed for the evil the man represents.

Bede2u:
I disagree completely that buhari is misunderstood in se... but for the sake of education, tell me what and what he has done in/for the se in 2yrs 4months to show that igbos verdict about the man was all a big misunderstanding.

Also that the 1st coup was plotted by sotherners is irrelvant because we will never knw if their intentions were for the betterment of the country seeing that they never ruled. But we can say that juntas headed by northeners all failed to develop d country but only succeeded in giving the north undue advantage. That we are all sharing ss oil today ws because of aguiyi ironsi who believed that the oil was big enough to go round. Otherwise prior to him, the old eastern region only gave 50% of oil proceed to the center...pple still say igbos are selfish.

There are some work going on the Enugu Onitsha, Enugu Aba Portharcourt road repair. 2nd Niger bridge is still in the front burner. Unlike the previous Govt where lips service were paid to these things, this Govt actually means business. Due to the paucity of funds and drop in oil price, progress might have been slow. But slow and steady wins the race. On appointments Igbos are still occupying important positions. That is why I write about miscommunication. Take for instance the recent NNPC appointment where 55 people were appointed or redeployed, the Igbo man who is the General Manager of NNPC Group Public affairs division released only 15 names, that contains no SE individual, thereby creating confusion. Who are the remaining 40 people? A look at the individual websites of the NNPC subsidiaries will reveal South East names as some of their Board of Directors members and Managers.

As time goes on, his achievements will manifest and that should clear all doubt. No amount of explanation will do. Time will tell

Bede2u:
let me agree with most things u wrote.
However, the north more than any other tribe must bear the blame of Nigeria's backwardness. Except for yar'adua who brought relative peace in ss, most positives that have been recorded in this country came while a southerner is president. We should not keep putting the north in power... expecially the bigots among them. I voted buhari, but in hingsight, that was a mistake. He is not misunderstood in se at all. His motives are clear- to gv the se only what the law allows. Nothing more. I should have voted gej. Killing ipob unarmed members when he should have used dialogue? God bless Obj... that man is wise. I dont knw wat happened in odi bayelsa but i knw obj is much wiser than the bigot buhari. The only reason he has a cult fellowership in d north is because he is the nnamdi kalu of the north. He is unrepentantly pro north.
In recent times, i believe the biafra dream is less feasible now. Many igbos have integrated themselves in north and west. It would be unreasonable to ask them to up rooth their lives for biafra. The international community may not support a nigeria break up. Anoda war would be lost if not fought in unity with yorubas.
One nigeria seems the most likely future for us all... let the igbos be given a sense of belonging.. let the two political parties (like it was done for u guys in 1999) nominate igbo presidential candidates. Let igbos lead this country again to assuage freyed nerves.
We trully may be better together than apart... but wounds must be healed

I see your point and I must say that this is not the first time I am hearing them. On Buhari, I still think he has been misrepresented and greatly misunderstood. As you have rightly pointed out, our greatest challenge is our lack of development and I believe that things will get better.

The Miltary Govts favour the North alright, but we must not forget that the first coup was planned and executed by Southerners. In terms of democracy and since the 4th republic started in 1999, out of the 18 years, the South has produced the President, 14 years. And if one would discount Osinbajo's Ag Presidency, there is not much to be recorded for the North.

On Igbo Presidency, I know it will come. If a minority tribe like the Ijaw can be voted, nothing stops an Igbo man from being competitive, politically speaking and winning the Presidency. People just need to play their cards right.
By 1999, the country did not just cede the Presidency to the Yoruba as notable Nigerians like Dr Alex Ekwueme contested against Obasanjo during the PDP primaries. Yorubas candidate in that election was Olu Falae, but the rest of the Country did not agree with us. That is politics for you where the best candidates does not necessarily win. Just take a look at Donald Trump...

Bede2u:
so why has nigeria not prospered? Even by 3rd world standards, we are backward. Only country in the world where polio still exists. Abidjan in ivory coast looks like new york when compared to Lagos. Cattle rearers still move around with cattle even in downtown Abuja where many foreigners live and work. Electricity is as bad as the worst in Africa.. to the sad extent that cameroon gets more electricity than us, yet we are the largest producer of oil and gas in Africa. NNPC is basically an oil-importing firm. We sell crude and import refined produce cos we have no refineries. Where has Nigeria excelled? And who is the cause? Certainly not Igbos... there has neva been an igbo president. Our governors are busy building state infrastructure that were neglected by non-igbo millitary sole admins that ruled SE during millitary era... why cant fg build federal infrastructure neglected during same era?
As for voting GEJ, igbos believed that their interests were more protected in Gej than buhari. Its not an unreasonable believe as we can now clearly see by buhari's actions against us. Igbos believed that a 2nd geh term would see SE get many fg projects. Dnt blame dem for voting gej cos u voted buhari.. their fears were relevant

Nigeria has not lived up to her potential because of all of us. It will be disingenuous of anybody to try and exonerate any tribe. Igbos might not have been President for a long time, but it has not stopped their politician or representatives from "chopping". Sometimes, being President can just be a figure head, whereas people "chopping" might even be relatively unknown individuals. Those who looted Nigeria don't discuss tribe during their looting spree. All of them have helped themselves to Nigeria commonwealth and they cut across tribe.
When an average Yoruba person could not identify any Yoruba in the first 20 list from Jonathan administration, guys like Omokere and Aluko were eating fat under Madam Dieziani. But poor folks in Aba are breaking necks in defending Dieziani who does not give a damn. Wisdom is important.
Nigeria has wasted many opportunities no doubt, but we did it to ourselves. We, I mean all of us. If Nigeria gets anything right, we will claim the success and where we have failed, let us all accept our contributions. Buhari has been greatly misrepresented and misunderstood in the SE, but as time goes on people will see and feel the positive change.
No one should grudge SE for voting GEJ in 2015. Another election beckons as 2019 approaches. Voting pattern may change by then. These things are not static.

Bede2u:
support the SE to go. And if the south south votes to go with them or form ND Republic, support them too. We dont like each other... no need remaining in each other's way. We are not asking for anything but independence. And mind u the millitary created a ss zone that include many igbo and igboid communities. U guys only lost illorin and kabba. We lost many lands to Rivers and Delta states. That was also wrong of hausa fulani millitary. They made sure they did not lose their own territories.

Rather than see Kabba, Ilorin, Offa, Ayetoro etc as Northern territory, we can chose to see them as our eye on the North or our voice in the North. Has Saraki or Dino Melaiye / Smart Adeyemi or Pius Adesanmi seized to be Yorubas because Kwara and Kogi State are part of North central? NO. During the second republic and by 1983, Cornelius Adebayo has become the Governor of Kwara state under the Unity Party of Nigeria headed by Chief Obafemi Awolowo. See, Igbos need to start to think strategically. Society does not necessarily need to be mono ethnic before such society can prosper.

iConductor:
Let me educate the illiterate OP.

Singapore landmass = 719.1 km²
Borno State landmass = 70,898 km²

I'm sure you prefer the bomb blasts in Borno than living in Singapore whose GDP is 297 billion USD in 2016.

Everything about Nigeria is number number number! Big|! Large! Quantity! No focus on quality. That's why they have so many graduates yet one of the least percentage of literate people in the world.

Big for nothing country with big wasteful population and big wasteful landmass yet begging small unknown Jordan for alms.

Here is Singapore. Here's how a country should be.

But what is stopping your Governors from making South East states to be like Singapore?

cococandy:
Hehehe
Even when the husband is doing and has always been doing well. Somehow the nurse wife always is assumed to be earning more

E be like say na una attitude. It should not matter how much you earn. Moreso, na small money dey always turn a pauper into a mad person. Poverty mentality

CaptainG00D:
Thats why i said u havnt traveld out of ur brown roof..
SE extended to delta and rivers state.,
But ur fraudlent nigeria and their envy decided to split it.

But you think SW does not extend to Edo, Delta, Kwara and Kogi state?

kn23h:
Maybe you should travel out of your brown roof in Enugu before talking nonsense.

Oyo - 10,986 mi²

Igboland: 16,000 mi²

Slightly.....

You are right and Borno state is (22,200 sq mi). Bigger than the entire 5 South East states

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dandollaz:
Igbo's are not stinge.am from anambra and most tell you if your brother hammer e don bi for everybody.
All this thing are what they Yoruba make you people to believe.after Biafra war it didn't take igbo man time to rebuild which is rear in other tribes.
Let me inform you that it only igboman can transform this good for nothing country. Ask ngozi okonjo iweala ask soludo ask akunyiri RIP ma.to mention few they are creative.
Igboman hardly intimide follow igbo

The three Igbos you mentioned at one time or the the other, what miracle did they perform while in Govt? Are you saying other tribes that serve in the same capacity as the Igbo you mentioned did not perform? You are greedy and hateful

Donjazzy12:
This is a lesson to those foolish men fighting for women rights. Women are inherently evil only foolish men believe them.

Excluding your mum??

The guy dey even speak Yoruba towards the end of the video. Na why he get sense..

lacemose:
Nigerian man videos his babymama harassing his Mother in
the U.S then she tries to set him up Claiming he was beating
Her

see video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV0_OYx7Y48

All these our girls, once dem start to dey do Nurse (My friend call them - Noise) or Nurse aid / care giver, one finger no dey gree enter their yansh again. They are usually very crude, vulgar, manipulative, vindictive and abusive. Na dem full online forum and other social media saying bad things about Nigeria

I am not surprised at this video at all. Na their way..
Na why dem they push their men to kill them especially in the USA. Sometimes, they kill their men too. Depends on who is faster among the two.

This guy does not look marginalised to me and he is Igbo.

May be the real Buhari can now return as this is one is Jubril from Sudan

kirchofff:
Hello guys, don't know if this is the right section for this.

I registered my BVN in 2015 during the rush hour period. But I just discovered now the the picture there is a wrong picture. My biometrics also can't access the the BVN. I went to the branch or the bank where registered it(Skye bank) they said that pictures on BVN numbers can never be changed. My other details like names and date of birth are correct. I'm so devastated right now because there's something important I want to use it for...
Any advice please?
Thanks in anticipation.

There is something wrong with everything that could be used to physically identify you..Photos and Biometric..... Hmmmmmm. Patience Jonathan, FFK, Stella Oduah, is that you?

Customs uncovers Nigerian arms syndicate in Turkey .

Customs intercept another 2,671 pump action rifles

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

…FG, Turkish Ambassador to meet over incessant arms import * Importer named

By Evelyn Usman, Godwin Oritse, Godfrey Oritse and Udeme Clement

THE Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Thursday said that it had uncovered a Nigerian syndicate in Turkey involved in illegal arms imports just as the Federal Government and the Turkish government are meeting today in Abuja to find a lasting solution to the incessant arms imports from the European country. Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd) displays the seized 1,100 Jojef Magnum Pump Action and Jojef Magnum Plastic Single Barrels Hunting Gun Pump Action Rifles at Lagos Tin-Can Disclosing this in Lagos, Comptroller-General of the Service, Col. Hammed Ali, and (Rtd) said that the importer of the arms has been identified as Great James Oil and Gas Limited. Ali also said that all Customs Area Comptrollers have been put on red alert at all entry points into the country which includes the airports, seaport and border posts. He said that the agency was also collaborating with the Directorate of State Service, DSS, and the Nigerian Intelligence Agency, NIA to nip the menace at the bud. “Now that Tin-Can Island port has become a hot spot for arms smuggling, these criminals will move elsewhere and we must be at alert”. He added The Customs boss also disclosed that has also developed a profile to conduct a hundred percent examination of any container coming from Turkey adding The container was subjected to 100 percent examination and the result is what you are seeing here on the ground. According the Comptroller General of Customs, the vessel that brought in the container that brought the dangerous cargo is ‘M. V Arkas Africa owned by Hull Blyth shipping company. He noted that 70 to 80 percent of imported cargoes are under declared that is why we resort to 100 percent examination. “Our findings have shown that this dastardly act is being committed by Nigerians and there are syndicates in Turkey that are manifesting this. “We are yet to get the bottom of the whole thing, are these arms meant for commercial purposes, or meant to be given to a group of insurgents or agitators and kidnappers. “That aspect of the investigation is still ongoing, the SSS and other agencies will let us know what their finding are. “For us in the NCS, we have developed a profile and like I promised you, we are going to escalate the issue beyond the borders of Nigeria. “Having identified the country of origin, we will not relent on making sure that we get to the bottom of why the offensive import is coming from one particular country. “Fortunately, we have made an inroad; we will have the first Diplomatic meeting with the Turkish Ambassador basically on this issue of arms import. “Already, President Buhari had discussed this issue at an international forum and the Ambassador has been mandated to seat with us and let us find the way forward. “Steps are being taken beyond the shores of Nigeria because we establish what is happening, why is it happening and how we can stop it. “We want to be ahead of these criminals, we are right inside the port to tract and monitor the container right from the ship. “We are getting more advanced and employing all the Technology we have.” He disclosed that the Service has also increased and enhanced its patrol teams across the country to ensure such dangerous cargoes do not come in. Despite several attempts to get the Comptroller-General of Customs to name the terminal the container was to land, he declined to disclose the name of the terminal for reasons that Vanguard could not ascertain. Customs to profile more containers With the interception of the deadly weapons imported in a 20ft container number CMAU 189817/8 and concealed with thousands of soil pipes, the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, is putting measures in place to profile more containers that may likely carry such dangerous items from the sea.

The Customs Area Controller, CAC, of the Command, Comptroller Bashar Yusuf, made this known while addressing Journalists at the Command said that the seizure of the 470 pump action rifles was made possible through accurate data profiling of the cargo right from the sea. According to him, “Container profiling is quite imperative in Customs operations, because through this means, we were able to track the arms from the vessel in the sea and intercepted the items at the entry point. We profiled the container through the means of conveyance used in bringing the weapons as well as data from the documents attached to it. Similarly, we are currently profiling containers that are not only carrying arms but other prohibited items, in order to prevent such offensive items from going into our economic environment”. In the same vein, the Comptroller General of Customs, CGC, Hameed Ali, said that arms or ammunition falls under absolute prohibited items, which are not allowed to be imported into the country by any individual. He said, “Aside from arms and ammunition posing a serious challenge to national security, 80 percent of illicit goods coming into the country, which are often intercepted by Customs full under false declaration. For example, the discovery of these 470 pump action rifles, which brings the number of arms seized in the last eight months to 2,671. Therefore, we need the best technology to detect such items, in order to prevent them from going into the wrong hands”.


A search at the corporate affairs commission website reveals the following about the company:

RC NUMBER: 968675
COMPANY NAME: GREAT JAMES OIL & GAS LIMITED
ADDRESS: SUITE 4, PRINCE AND PRINCESS ESTATE 4TH AVENUE, ABUJA, FCT
DATE OF REGISTRATION: 2011-07-28

Callmedondee:
The Ibos want Biafra
The North wants Ibo's exit
The Yorubas want Ibo's exit
The Ibos are saying "we have investments in your areas and cannot leave them"
And the fight is being cooked.

Amongst all these, the President is in London
Governors are sharing bailout funds
Workers salaries are not paid
Government officials have their children schooling abroad
Ministers and senators are looting

The poor Hausa man is riding Okada
The poor Ibo man is riding Okada
The poor Yoruba man is riding Okada

The poor Hausa man sleeps under the bridge as Alamajiri
The poor Yoruba man sleeps under the bridge as Alaye
The poor Ibo man sleeps under the bridge as agbero

It is pertinent to note that the poor from all ethnic groups in Nigeria have everything in common and so is the rich.

Do not allow the agitation of an Ibo man who lives in UK or USA for Biafra cause the killing of the Ibo man in Adamawa. The rich hate us that much.
Do not allow the Alhaji whose children are living abroad to persuade you to go and start killing on the street of Kaduna.

The problem in the country is not the agitation of any ethnic group but the unity of the elite and the disunity of the masses.

How many times have you taken your agitation to question your local government Chairmen?

Why have you not asked your Governors through agitation how they spent bailout fund?

Why have you not agitated against that government official whose mansions you go to beg for help?

Sad to note;
All the Governors love themselves
All the past Presidents love themselves
All the senators love themselves
All the top government officials love themselves
All the looters love themselves

Why can't you and I love ourselves?
Why cant we combine efforts and fight them?
Why do we fight ourselves?
Why do we allow them the freedom we don't have?

Remember; a good Nigeria is better than a good Arewa, Oduduwa or Biafra.

#One_love_Nigeria.

Wole Soyinka did not write this trash.
One Nigeria is not by by force.

Biafar or dey kpayi

Because Buhari defeated their beloved GEJ hero. The hatred is bad belle politics taken too far

Breaking : FG Secured Court Order Proscribing IPOB

Nigeria's Attorney General gets court order proscribing Indigenous People Of BIAFRA (IPOB) therefore designating it as a terror organisation - @SaharaReporters

Aufbauh:
Good development though, but i know some people will want to protest against it.... We know dem.

Hahahaha... God pass dem.

Ozekhome, the looters Lawyer will not find this funny at all.

Anti-graft war: CJN okays special courts, judges to try alleged looters. Says SANs, lawyers to face sanctions for trial delays

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Vanguard

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA –

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Monday, directed all Heads of Courts in the country to compile and forward to the National Judicial Council, NJC, comprehensive lists of all corruption and financial crime cases being handled by their various courts. Justice Onnoghen The CJN, who gave the directive during a special court session the Supreme Court held to mark the opening of the 2017/2018 legal year, noted that “inexplicable and seemingly intractable delays”, has been the bane of criminal justice administration in the country. He decried that such delays, “result in the unfortunate disruption of due process”. Consequently, Justice Onnoghen ordered all the Heads of Courts to designate at least one court in their various jurisdictions as Special Courts, solely for the purpose of hearing and speedily determining corruption and financial crime cases. He said where such cases proceeded on appeal, to either the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court, special dates on each week should be fixed, solely for hearing and determining such appeals. He said the National Judicial Council, NJC, would at its next meeting, constitute an Anti-Corruption Cases Trial Monitoring Committee that will continually monitor the progress of high-profile criminal cases.

According to the CJN, “This committee would be saddled with, among other things, the responsibility of ensuring that both Trial and Appellate Courts handling corruption and financial crime cases key into and abide by our renewed efforts at ridding our Country of the canker worm”. Warning that it would no longer be business as usual for corrupt elements in the judiciary, the CJN, gave all Heads of Courts in the country the nod to clampdown on both Prosecution and Defence Counsel who indulge in the unethical practice of deploying delay tactics to stall criminal trials. He said the Heads of Courts should report cases of unnecessary delays to the NJC, which in turn, would transmit them to the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC), in the case of SANs, and the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC), in the case of other legal practitioners. “We must not lose sight of the indispensable role of the judiciary in the fight against corruption. Corruption continues to place the judiciary in the eye of the storm, but, we cannot allow that to deter us or weaken our resolve. “It is regrettable that the image of the Judiciary has been tarnished by the notion that the Nigerian Judiciary is bedeviled by corrupt elements, hence the need for an image building parade. “We must accept that acts of misconduct of a few rub off on the rest of the judiciary and create the impression that all judicial officers have their hands soiled with the proceeds of corruption. “Let me be clear here; it is not going to be business as usual for the few unscrupulous elements in our midst. I am determined to redeem the unfairly battered image of the judiciary. “Any Judicial Officer found wanting would be dealt with decisively, and shown the way out swiftly. It is therefore for this reason that the independence of the judiciary must be entrenched if we are to hold the trust and confidence of the citizens of Nigeria. “We, in the judiciary are fully aware and in fact worried by concerns expressed by members of the public on the very slow speed with which corruption cases in particular are being heard or determined by our Courts. “Although the Administration of Criminal Justice Act contains many commendable provisions aimed at speeding up the process of criminal prosecution generally, it is clear that we still need to employ more strategies to support and strengthen this law in fast tracking the criminal justice system”, the CJN added. Justice Onnoghen who also used the occassion to swear-in 29 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, vowed to bring the full weight of the law on anyone found to have offered gratification to a judicial officer. He said: “We shall reform, strengthen, continue to work with the National Judicial Council, and with the support of the public rid the Judiciary of both perceived and real corruption. “I encourage members of the public to cut off the supply side of corruption by stopping the offering of bribes to judicial officers. The full weight of the law will be visited on all those who are caught in this nefarious activity that is capable of eroding integrity and confidence in the judiciary. “Finally on this issue, I wish to appeal to litigants, advocates and the public to refrain from making unsubstantiated and malicious allegations/complaints against judicial officers. “Unsubstantiated and unfair complaints against judicial officers are a threat to justice and judicial independence as much as the act of corruption itself because of the atmosphere of intimidation, fear and erosion of confidence it may engender. “Some judicial officers may fear to make decisions against certain litigants or lawyers for fear of enlisting malicious complaints. Aggrieved parties should only make complaints where judicial officers have violated the Judicial Code of Conduct or abused their exalted office. “We are under no illusion that the fight against corruption would be an easy one, as we are already aware that when you fight corruption, corruption fights back; but we are determined to win it. We require all hands to be on deck to fight this monster”.

Describing the past legal year as “a turbulent one for the Judiciary”, the CJN disclosed that the Supreme Court considered a total number of 1,362 matters comprising motions, appeals and judgements. “Under motions, we heard 82 political, 675 civil and 208 criminal motions, totalling 965; the Court also considered a total number of 394 appeals comprising 96 political, 174 civil, and 124 criminal. In total, 243 Judgments were delivered in the 2016/2017 legal year. “This is by all means an impressive report considering the persistent and increasing volume of cases that continue to come before this Court. I attribute this impressive performance to the hard work of judicial officers, support staff and the reforms we are implementing to improve justice delivery. “I share the view that the Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria are the most hard working Supreme Court Justices in the world”, the CJN stated, even as he frowned against disobedience of court orders. “Disobedience of or non-compliance with judicial orders is a recipe for breakdown of law and order. Such developments are at variance with the principles and tenets of the rule of law in a democratic government”. On his part, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, in his address, said the new legal year was an opportunity for judges and lawyers to rededicate themselves to the rule of law. He said the federal government under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari will do whatever it takes within the context of the provided precedent to ensure peace and security of the nation in the sustenance of our democracy. The AGF said: “Today, our country faces serious political and constitutional challenges from different sectors. In view of its role as the ultimate arbiter of disputes in our polity there is no doubt that this Court will be increasingly required, in the coming year, to interprete and adjudicate on various matters affecting the sustenance of our national values and the sanctity of our political system. “I trust that in this endeavour, you shall continue to dispense justice in a fair, firm and courageous manner, in the overall national interest, as you have done over the years. “The fair and firm resolution of contending social issues, by our courts, is critical to the continued confidence of our citizens in the efficacy of democracy and its capacity to resolve the challenges which they face on a daily basis. “To achieve this, there is a need for all the arms of Government to remain focused on improving the judicial system to a level which benefits us all”.

Malami said he would ensure that all Executive branch institutions always acknowledge and respect the fact that the Judiciary is pivotal to the maintenance of law and order, and must therefore be fully supported to discharge that mandate. Nevertheless, he urged the judiciary to take a second look at the current system of its annual vacation. “While the practice of a two months-plus Annual Vacation is historical and has become part of our judicial system, it would appear that several litigants and persons outside the legal system increasingly see this practice as a contributory factor to the delay of cases in our courts. In their estimation, it amounts to practically shutting down the entire Judicial arm for such a long time, every year, in addition to the other Public Holidays which are also applicable to the Judiciary. “While Courts have historically tried to address these concerns through the use of Vacation Judges, we all know that there is so much Vacation Judges can do. I am aware that in some other Jurisdictions, the practice of staggered vacations is increasingly being employed as a strategy to balance the need for rest and the avoidance of a total shutdown of the Judiciary for such an extended period in the interest of the expeditious treatment of cases by all means possible”, the AGF added. Meanwhile, dignitaries that attended the event included the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, a former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, among others.

Turkey is top on the list...

globemoney:
Yes, healthy debt is welcome, the people are feeling the impact, now, what legacy project did peter obi leave after 8 years, No salary increase, no workers employment, no civil service promotion, what indeed did the soft spoken criminal do with Anambra money

It will also be interesting to know what Peter Obi did with money in 2012 that makes the domestic debt to spike.

Paperwhite:
Nobody needs any futher explanation to grasp that the present Nigerian structure is defective and dangerously tilting towards the cliff. So what Nigeria needs to do to avoid this impasse is a sovereign national conference devoid of any governors or NASS interference.This is because this useless entities are the major beneficiary of a United Nigeria hence will do everything possible to maintain the status quo while the ordinary Nigerian continues to suffer.After all they never really care.

Which law will back that conference? You cannot do things outside the constitution..

Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/diezani-efcc-traces-1-5b-swiss-bank/

Diezani: EFCC traces $1.5b to Swiss bank

The Nation

Posted By: Yusuf Alli On: September 18, 2017
A house traced to Mrs. Alison-Madueke in E146 Emirates Hill Dubai


•Investigators access ex-minister’s mansions in Dubai
Nigeria is set to activate one of the agreements it signed with the United Arab Emirates to seize some mansions traced to former Oil Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, The Nation learnt at the weekend.

Besides, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has traced about $1.5billion believed to be proceeds of crime to a Swiss account as part of the ongoing probe of the former minister.

The anti-graft agency has allegedly linked the loot with the ex-minister and four of her business associates.

Four detectives on Friday left Nigeria for the United Kingdom with more clues on Mrs Alison-Madueke’s alleged loot.



The detectives have gained access to two exotic mansions belonging to the former minister in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), ahead of an Assets Forfeiture process by the Federal Government.

The properties are located in E146 Emirates Hill Dubai and J5 Emirates Hill Dubai.

According to a top source in the EFCC, about $1.5billion has been traced to the ex-minister and her business associates.

The source said the associates allegedly used two shell companies to sell more than $1.5bn worth of Nigerian crude oil.

The anti-graft agency claimed that the $1.5billion oil cash had been traced to a bank in Switzerland.


The top source said: “So far investigation revealed that the $1.5billion was laundered into an account in Switzerland after passing through the United States. We have the details of how the cash was wired into the account by some oil firms.

“Our investigation confirmed that the account was used to disburse the slush funds to make exotic purchases and acquire properties in Nigeria and other parts of the world.

“The US Department of Justice through its Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative is already seeking to recover $144m in assets from some Diezani associates.”

The team of detectives that went to the United Kingdom is the second this year.

“We are working hard on how to seize cash and assets linked with Diezani. We want her tried at home instead of in he UK,” the source told The Nation.

It was learnt that Mrs Alison-Madueke’s posh mansions in Dubai was worth about 74million Dirham.

The source added:”Apart from the database made available to us by the UAE, there is no hiding place for Diezani, her associates and all the Politically Exposed Persons( PEPs) because the UAE has a Beneficial Ownership policy which will give details of those with assets, even if they are bought through proxies.”

With the location of the two assets of the ex-minister, the Federal Government will invoke the agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal and Commercial Matters(recovery and repatriation of stolen wealth) between Nigeria and the UAE to initiate a forfeiture.

President Muhammadu Buhari on January 19, 2016 entered into six agreements with the Emirates, including the Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal and Commercial Matters(recovery and repatriation of stolen wealth).