₦airaland Forum

They should just let all of them roam at large for the next 2 years before tackling their matter one by one.

Except Luck of course. Lucky Igbinedion must be quarantined and dealt with ASAP. Since the state money used in celebrating his father's birthday for complete 8 years cannot be recovered, we could try to convert 80% shares in Igbinedion University and Independent Television. Afterall, it's state funds that have developed those in the past 8 years.

These are some of the Scam formats that the FBI is aware of among American con artists:

Jury selection Fraud
Telemarketing fraud
Identity Fraud
Health Insurance Fraud
Medicare Fraud
Travelling Salesmen
Penis Enlargement Frauds
View Webcam
Stocks/Shares Scam
Letter of Credit Fraud
Home Delivery Fraud
Primary Bank Note
Ponzi Scheme
Pyramid Scheme
Gadget Inventors Scam
College Scholarship Scam
Credit Card Fraud
Investment Fraud
Business Fraud
Counterfeit Prescription Drugs
Funeral and Cemetery Fraud
Fraudulent Anti-Aging Products
Franchise Fraud
Internet Auction Fraud
Visa Lottery Fraud
Poetry Competition Scam.
Non-Delivery of Merchandise
Casino Cheats
Mortgage Fraud.


The one I found the most amazing and most cruel is the alibi scam. If any of your relatives is in jail or on trial and is still pleading innocent, the con artiste will come to you and claim that he is a witness to the fact that your relative didn't commit the crime,

Then not forgetting corruption in the form of laundering shareholders' funds in $billions viz worldcom, enron, tyco,parmalat.

Then talk of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and the White House Cabal.

US orders fifteen made in America Boeing C-17 air planes for the military at $3.3billion each. Meanwhile other countries buy it at $2.5billion.

Nigeria, una still dey learn. How many yahoo format dey? Lottery, Next of Kin, Money Order, Disaster Charity Fraud, Romance Scams, War Casualty, what else?

Have you guys looked at your Bulk Mail in recent times? All those mails you see there, what do you think they are.

Una never even know Steve Comisar wey dey prison dey serve sentence for Fraud, still throw format from Prison and catch Maga. Abeg Nigeria, una still be "Omomo" for corruption.

Una no know the level of corruption wey the italian, russian and chinese Mafia dey contribute, drug dealing, money laundering even up to the entertainment industry. Please, Nigeria is still a foetus where Baba like America and Phillipines dey. We still be sperm.

Abeg make una concern unaself with Nigerian issues. See intelligent minds discussing away at matters that will neither take us forward nor back.

@I-man

Our foreign reserve is only a part of our total account balance ( Federation Account). The foreign reserve is and Amount set aside by the CBN to cater for its liabilities and also control the value of the Naira.

Nigeria has the 27th highest foreign reserve in the world. Higher than that of Sweden, Israel or Saudi Arabia. Higher than South Africa's and Ukraine's but that does not make Nigeria any richer than these countries. It doesn't make our currency stronger than theirs either. There has also never been any point in time that Nigeria actually needed up to $20 billion at a time for its liabilities. So I still think it is reasonable for the government to set aside $15billion from our foreign reserves in order to increase salaries, paving way for total deregulation of fuel prices.

If the government actually believes the policies it is presently implementing are going to reap these massive benefits on the long run, then definitely the government should have no problem sacrificing $15billion which it will recover many times over. N20,000 ($160) minimum wage for public workers per month is only fair. In the private sector, some companies offer about N40,000 minimum wage per month. Besides remember that this $15 billion will pay government workers salary for more than a year.

About the refining capacity, India has a Refinery that produces 600,000 barrels a day. By 2009/2010 it will have a capacity of 1.2 million barrels a day. Just building one of that in Borno State (it's better to built refineries on desert-type land) proves adequate. Then the rest like 10 smaller refineries can each produce 100,000 barrel per day. It's generally going to take about 30 months, but before then, we can rely on Dangote's. It's very feasible. Very feasible as long as government holds minority or no shares in the refineries. It'll work.

@I-man

I'm not even saying that they do. I'm just saying if somebody should claim that the jews control the media, it is not enough to label him an anti-Semite.

In Nigeria, Edo control the media: Channels, AIT, Guardian, Genevieve Magazine, NTA, DBN. So if I say it that the Edos control the Nigerian media, I see no reason why I should be labelled anti-Edo.

Me among several groups of people whom I don't like, jews are. Everybody has to earn my love. So if a jew should call me anti-Semitic just because I didn't fall in love with her at first sight, she'll have a very hard time.

Look at Nigerians hated everywhere. Even in Sao Tome, Nigerians are hated. Not because we scam them or anything, but because we have some of the most successful businessmen there. South Africans hate us because they feel were competing with them to dominate africa. In Europe and America, they hate us because they believe we are criminals. I'm not saying they don't like us, I'm saying they hate us. That doesn't mean we should go around labelling everybody that doesn't give agape love. Do jews love Nigerians, no strings attached? Do they like Sango Worshippers? Yet we don't call them names. So what is all this anti-Semitic being touted around?

@spaceworld

I don't get what you're saying about the whole crediting phone thing.

By the way, in America, mobile phones are still for the well to do. Here in Nigeria, the guy that cut the grass in my compound owns a mobile phone and when it's time for people to cut the grass in their compounds, they can reach him. So I don't understand what you're sending me to America for.

@pastorking

it is a very inhuman act for you to suggest that every new president should seize oil blocks and resell. Nigeria will lose credibility and nobody would want to do business in Nigeria permanently. This will ultimately affect the citizenry. So instead of buying oil blocks companies will prefer to sent it for 4 years. During those 4 years they will suck as much fuel as is mechanically possible.

Abdulsalam must have sold those oil blocks in a hurry in the most dubious manner possible, and at rock bottom prices. That is why you see that the companies Obasanjo seized the oil blocks from are taking heart.

@McKren

I appreciate what you noted about these summarising aides are PROs in my principle 4 of Nigerian Petroleum Development Strategies:

4]Very few people know how much Nigeria makes yearly. Nobody knows the amount in the Federation Account. Very few people understand why the fuel prices just increase. Nobody knows what their Constitutional Rights really are. Nobody knows how much NEPA, NTA, NITEL and NNPC make yearly. Very few people at the very top know the goals of the Nigerian state for this year and how it plans to achieve it so that they can know what role to play. Nobody knows anything! Ignorance here, ignorance there, ignorance everywhere. Mostly among the educated, because it is better not to know at all than to know little. It makes me wonder what the NTA and Radio Nigeria are for. Rather than educate the people with entertaining documentaries on how Nigeria will work, NTA is feeding us with propaganda. Propaganda that is totally needless. People live in the reality of things everyday so what good would any propaganda be. If I see 2 hours of electricity daily, and there are policemen collecting N20 at road blocks, what difference would it make if NTA says it's not so? Would I then believe them rather than the truth. Let's face it, Nigeria is not even developed enough for propaganda so I don't know what they are doing. We have to start seeing more of programs like Small Business 2000, Senate 109, documentaries on manufacturing and entrepreneurship, entertainment in the form of Nigerian musicals and Sports. In short, they should get Ben Bruce back to run NTA and sell 49% stake in it. So that in search of profitability, its management will seek to produce quality educative, entertaining and informative programmes. So that the masses are aware of their environment and realise that the aim of this country is not to stay afloat. KEEP THE PUBLIC INFORMED.


@McKren

I will also try to expantiate on what that man may have been trying to say with Strategies 1 and 3:

1]To the issue of fuel price, whosoever wants to sell petrol in Nigeria at N70 will be losing N25 per litre. Something must be done about this. For the longest time, government has borne this cost but it will not continue anymore. For those of you who do not know, or who refuse to know, the reason the government keeps fixing fuel price is to peg it at a rate where the marketers will not exploit the masses, where they can still give the masses a fair subsidy to shield them from the realities of the free market and finally to also set a price that will not be so low as to become unprofitable to the marketers and potential local refiners ultimately driving them out of business.
Reality check: an EVA BOTTLE (1.5litres) of kerosene was N180 in the market before the fuel price increase. ie N120 /litre from the market and dealers when the official price was about N60. Why is that? Do people believe that if five private refineries are producing only Kerosene in Nigeria and there is excess supply all over the country whereby anyone can walk to any filling station and buy at an official price of N100 /litre, it would be bad?
Now we end users are buying kerosene at N120 /litre comfortably (double the official price) because we know that it is not available. Would it be bad if we could buy it at the free market price of N100 and have it available in every nook and cranny?
This is the problem Nigeria is trying to solve, but the government is going about it completely wrongly. LET'S BE REALISTIC AND PRACTICAL.

3]Private Refineries Should be allowed to refine and sell petroleum products at free market price. They can sell Kerosene and possibly Diesel in The Nigerian market as it may be profitable to them, but they should be allowed to sell Petrol and the other fuels to neighbouring African countries at the international market rate. Gradually, the government can allow them to open their fuel stations where they will sell at the free market prices. Generally, N100 /litre of each petroleum product. So there would be the regular filling stations selling at N70 / litre where fuel is hardly available, and the queues are never ending, and there will be the local refineries' filling stations where fuel will be sold at N100 /litre, fuel will always be excessively available and there will be no queues. They people will now individually have to choose. This is what deregulation truly means. IMPLEMENT THE MUCH TALKED ABOUT DEREGULATION.

Why can't your father share his salary among his children?

To start with, what the hell has a PDP board of trustees chairman doing in an NLC meeting. The fact that NLC did not excuse Tony Anenih out of the meeting shows that their general path of thought is majorly flawed.

In fact since labour is even having a meeting with Tony Anenih, leader of the main Political party, the strike may be political afterall. And why pay workers on days they go on strike? Then what sacrifice do the workers make by going on strike? This is pure madness! Workers should not be paid for days spent on strike. Strike is not leave!

Also, I do not respect a newspaper like the Sunday Tribune. Why do they keep "GATHERING THAT"? "Gathering that" in simple English means heard a rumour. What respectable newspaper would be rumour mongering at this critical time for Nigeria? Their plan is evil.

1]To the issue of fuel price, whosoever wants to sell petrol in Nigeria at N70 will be losing N25 per litre. Something must be done about this. For the longest time, government has borne this cost but it will not continue anymore. For those of you who do not know, or who refuse to know, the reason the government keeps fixing fuel price is to peg it at a rate where the marketers will not exploit the masses, where they can still give the masses a fair subsidy to shield them from the realities of the free market and finally to also set a price that will not be so low as to become unprofitable to the marketers and potential local refiners ultimately driving them out of business.
Reality check: an EVA BOTTLE (1.5litres) of kerosene was N180 in the market before the fuel price increase. ie N120 /litre from the market and dealers when the official price was about N60. Why is that? Do people believe that if five private refineries are producing only Kerosene in Nigeria and there is excess supply all over the country whereby anyone can walk to any filling station and buy at an official price of N100 /litre, it would be bad?
Now we end users are buying kerosene at N120 /litre comfortably (double the official price) because we know that it is not available. Would it be bad if we could buy it at the free market price of N100 and have it available in every nook and cranny?
This is the problem Nigeria is trying to solve, but the government is going about it completely wrongly. LET'S BE REALISTIC AND PRACTICAL.

2] we have about $45 billion dollars foreign reserve of which we only need $30 billion for our urgent imports. We get a lot of dollars everyday from our exports that will keep our supply of foreign exchange stable. Then again having so much foreign exchange just encourages Commercial Banks to continue ROUNDTRIPPING.
Now, since the government knows that this increase in fuel price will be of long term benefit, there seems to be no reason why they cannot take out the excess $15 billion foreign reserve to increase government workers' salary to the minimum pay in in the private sector. This will see the minimum wage move to about N20,000 which the minimum paid to factory workers in the private sector. INCREASE THE WORKERS' SALARIES.


3]Private Refineries Should be allowed to refine and sell petroleum products at free market price. They can sell Kerosene and possibly Diesel in The Nigerian market as it may be profitable to them, but they should be allowed to sell Petrol and the other fuels to neighbouring African countries at the international market rate. Gradually, the government can allow them to open their fuel stations where they will sell at the free market prices. Generally, N100 /litre of each petroleum product. So there would be the regular filling stations selling at N70 / litre where fuel is hardly available, and the queues are never ending, and there will be the local refineries' filling stations where fuel will be sold at N100 /litre, fuel will always be excessively available and there will be no queues. They people will now individually have to choose. This is what deregulation truly means. IMPLEMENT THE MUCH TALKED ABOUT DEREGULATION.

4]Very few people know how much Nigeria makes yearly. Nobody knows the amount in the Federation Account. Very few people understand why the fuel prices just increase. Nobody knows what their Constitutional Rights really are. Nobody knows how much NEPA, NTA, NITEL and NNPC make yearly. Very few people at the very top know the goals of the Nigerian state for this year and how it plans to achieve it so that they can know what role to play. Nobody knows anything! Ignorance here, ignorance there, ignorance everywhere. Mostly among the educated, because it is better not to know at all than to know little. It makes me wonder what the NTA is for. Rather than educate the people with entertaining documentaries on how Nigeria will work, NTA is feeding us with propaganda. Propaganda that is totally needless. People live in the reality of things everyday so what good would any propaganda be. If I see 2 hours of electricity daily, and there are policemen collecting N20 at road blocks, what difference would it make if NTA says it's not so? Would I then believe them rather than the truth. Let's face it, Nigeria is not even developed enough for propaganda so I don't know what they are doing. We have to start seeing more of programs like Small Business 2000, Senate 109, documentaries on manufacturing and entrepreneurship, entertainment in the form of Nigerian musicals and Sports. In short, they should get Ben Bruce back to run NTA and sell 49% stake in it. So that in search of profitability, its management will seek to produce quality educative, entertaining and informative programmes. So that the masses are aware of their environment and realise that the aim of this country is not to stay afloat. KEEP THE PUBLIC INFORMED.

5]The VAT paid in Nigeria is totally ridiculous. VAT is a tax on manufacturing final goods from raw materials purchased. Most goods consumed in Nigeria are not manufactured here and their VAT are completely paid up in the exporting country(which should not even be so). But then, what VAT should I pay on a Nokia phone? No part of it was manufactured in Nigeria so what VALUE ADDED are we talking about? What we are paying in Nigeria is a SALES TAX, a tax on every good sold, which has been found worldwide to be a massive failure. Elevates smuggling, exercebates inflation and encourages tax evasion and smuggling. The VAT in itself is known to cause DEADWEIGHT LOSS and is also a REGRESSIVE TAX (doesn't consider level of income for rich and poor). The only VATtable goods in Nigeria are those whose final products are manufactured in Nigeria, viz traditioal wears, housing estates, food in restaurants, beer, newspapers, biscuits, cigarettes and a few couple more. The Government should dialogue with the various unions representing the people (not just NLC, TUC, ASUU et al). The representatives of the NURTW, Landlord Associtions, SUG, NIJ, ICAN, NBA, MAN, every major union will have 2 representatives and they will deliberate for a whole week. The Federal Government should offer a total eradication of VAT from all non-VAT products(which is 90% of products consumed) then increase goverment workers salary to par with the minimum obtainable in the private sector i.e 250% salary increase with immediate effect. In exchange for a total removal of subsidies on all petroleum products 6 months after the salary and VAT changes have come to effect. It should be a fair bargain. That is what achieving ends politically means. POLITICIANS SHOULD BE POLITICAL.

6]Then in general, there should be an added level of abountability, transparency and responsibility among Nigerians. Stiff penalties would be in place for misconduct. If anyone is found guilty of financial fraud, there should be a minimum of 2 years imprisonment if all of the finances are recovered. There should also be a penalty for economic sabotage (including some higher level of economic fraud, vandalisation of infrastructure and perpetuation of artificial scarcity) which will range from 15 years imprisonment to life whether the crime was averted or not. Even a case of Mismanaging Funds, whether in a private company or a government ministry, should be punished with Demotion, 6 months imprisonment or a fine equivalent to the total loss resulting from such mismanagement. These steps will keep those that will want to seek dubious means of profiteering in check. CRIME SHOULD BE ADEQUATELY PUNISHED.

Generally Nigeria will move forward rapidly, the $15billion taken from the foreign reserves to pay the initial rise in workers' salaries will be recovered in threefold by the middle of next year, by 2010, Nigeria would be a 100% refined petroleum products/ 0% crude exporting country, crude byproducts industries such as plastics industries will thrive, the IPPs will have adequate fuels to generate electricity, more than 3 million jobs will be created by the Refineries, IPPs and associated industries, and Nigeria will live HAPPILY EVER AFTER.


PS: adapted from a recent post I made on another thread

To start with, what the hell has a PDP board of trustees chairman doing in an NLC meeting. The fact that NLC did not excuse Tony Anenih out of the meeting shows that their general path of thought is majorly flawed.

In fact since labour is even having a meeting with Tony Anenih, leader of the main Political party, the strike may be political afterall.

Also, I do not respect a newspaper like the Sunday Tribune. Why do they keep "GATHERING THAT"? "Gathering that" in simple English means heard a rumour. What respectable newspaper would be rumour mongering at this critical time for Nigeria? Their plan is evil.

1]To the issue of fuel price, whosoever wants to sell petrol in Nigeria at N70 will be losing N25 per litre. Something must be done about this. For the longest time, government has borne this cost but it will not continue anymore. For those of you who do not know, or who refuse to know, the reason the government keeps fixing fuel price is to peg it at a rate where the marketers will not exploit the masses, where they can still give the masses a fair subsidy to shield them from the realities of the free market and finally to also set a price that will not be so low as to become unprofitable to the marketers and potential local refiners ultimately driving them out of business.
Reality check: an EVA BOTTLE (1.5litres) of kerosene was N180 in the market before the fuel price increase. ie N120 /litre from the market and dealers when the official price was about N60. Why is that? Do people believe that if five private refineries are producing only Kerosene in Nigeria and there is excess supply all over the country whereby anyone can walk to any filling station and buy at an official price of N100 /litre, it would be bad?
Now we end users are buying kerosene at N120 /litre comfortably (double the official price) because we know that it is not available. Would it be bad if we could buy it at the free market price of N100 and have it available in every nook and cranny?
This is the problem Nigeria is trying to solve, but the government is going about it completely wrongly. LET'S BE REALISTIC AND PRACTICAL.

2] we have about $45 billion dollars foreign reserve of which we only need $30 billion for our urgent imports. We get a lot of dollars everyday from our exports that will keep our supply of foreign exchange stable. Then again having so much foreign exchange just encourages Commercial Banks to continue ROUNDTRIPPING.
Now, since the government knows that this increase in fuel price will be of long term benefit, there seems to be no reason why they cannot take out the excess $15 billion foreign reserve to increase government workers' salary to the minimum pay in in the private sector. This will see the minimum wage move to about N20,000 which the minimum paid to factory workers in the private sector. INCREASE THE WORKERS' SALARIES.


3]Private Refineries Should be allowed to refine and sell petroleum products at free market price. They can sell Kerosene and possibly Diesel in The Nigerian market as it may be profitable to them, but they should be allowed to sell Petrol and the other fuels to neighbouring African countries at the international market rate. Gradually, the government can allow them to open their fuel stations where they will sell at the free market prices. Generally, N100 /litre of each petroleum product. So there would be the regular filling stations selling at N70 / litre where fuel is hardly available, and the queues are never ending, and there will be the local refineries' filling stations where fuel will be sold at N100 /litre, fuel will always be excessively available and there will be no queues. They people will now individually have to choose. This is what deregulation truly means. IMPLEMENT THE MUCH TALKED ABOUT DEREGULATION.

4]Very few people know how much Nigeria makes yearly. Nobody knows the amount in the Federation Account. Very few people understand why the fuel prices just increase. Nobody knows what their Constitutional Rights really are. Nobody knows how much NEPA, NTA, NITEL and NNPC make yearly. Very few people at the very top know the goals of the Nigerian state for this year and how it plans to achieve it so that they can know what role to play. Nobody knows anything! Ignorance here, ignorance there, ignorance everywhere. Mostly among the educated, because it is better not to know at all than to know little. It makes me wonder what the NTA and Radio Nigeria are for. Rather than educate the people with entertaining documentaries on how Nigeria will work, NTA is feeding us with propaganda. Propaganda that is totally needless. People live in the reality of things everyday so what good would any propaganda be. If I see 2 hours of electricity daily, and there are policemen collecting N20 at road blocks, what difference would it make if NTA says it's not so? Would I then believe them rather than the truth. Let's face it, Nigeria is not even developed enough for propaganda so I don't know what they are doing. We have to start seeing more of programs like Small Business 2000, Senate 109, documentaries on manufacturing and entrepreneurship, entertainment in the form of Nigerian musicals and Sports. In short, they should get Ben Bruce back to run NTA and sell 49% stake in it. So that in search of profitability, its management will seek to produce quality educative, entertaining and informative programmes. So that the masses are aware of their environment and realise that the aim of this country is not to stay afloat. KEEP THE PUBLIC INFORMED.

5]The VAT paid in Nigeria is totally ridiculous. VAT is a tax on manufacturing final goods from raw materials purchased. Most goods consumed in Nigeria are not manufactured here and their VAT are completely paid up in the exporting country(which should not even be so). But then, what VAT should I pay on a Nokia phone? No part of it was manufactured in Nigeria so what VALUE ADDED are we talking about? What we are paying in Nigeria is a SALES TAX, a tax on every good sold, which has been found worldwide to be a massive failure. Elevates smuggling, exercebates inflation and encourages tax evasion and smuggling. The VAT in itself is known to cause DEADWEIGHT LOSS and is also a REGRESSIVE TAX (doesn't consider level of income for rich and poor). The only VATtable goods in Nigeria are those whose final products are manufactured in Nigeria, viz traditioal wears, housing estates, food in restaurants, beer, newspapers, biscuits, cigarettes and a few couple more. The Government should dialogue with the various unions representing the people (not just NLC, TUC, ASUU et al). The representatives of the NURTW, Landlord Associtions, SUG, NIJ, ICAN, NBA, MAN, every major union will have 2 representatives and they will deliberate for a whole week. The Federal Government should offer a total eradication of VAT from all non-VAT products(which is 90% of products consumed) then increase goverment workers salary to par with the minimum obtainable in the private sector i.e 250% salary increase with immediate effect. In exchange for a total removal of subsidies on all petroleum products 6 months after the salary and VAT changes have come to effect. It should be a fair bargain. That is what achieving ends politically means. POLITICIANS SHOULD BE POLITICAL.

6]Then in general, there should be an added level of abountability, transparency and responsibility among Nigerians. Stiff penalties would be in place for misconduct. If anyone is found guilty of financial fraud, there should be a minimum of 2 years imprisonment if all of the finances are recovered. There should also be a penalty for economic sabotage (including some higher level of economic fraud, vandalisation of infrastructure and perpetuation of artificial scarcity) which will range from 15 years imprisonment to life whether the crime was averted or not. Even a case of Mismanaging Funds, whether in a private company or a government ministry, should be punished with Demotion, 6 months imprisonment or a fine equivalent to the total loss resulting from such mismanagement. These steps will keep those that will want to seek dubious means of profiteering in check. CRIME SHOULD BE ADEQUATELY PUNISHED.

Generally Nigeria will move forward rapidly, the $15billion taken from the foreign reserves to pay the initial rise in workers' salaries will be recovered in threefold by the middle of next year, by 2010, Nigeria would be a 100% refined petroleum products/ 0% crude exporting country, crude byproducts industries such as plastics industries will thrive, the IPPs will have adequate fuels to generate electricity, more than 3 million jobs will be created by the Refineries, IPPs and associated industries, and Nigeria will live HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

Sorry all, I just noticed I wrote Nigerians abroad twice in my earlier post. I wasn't trying to double-count. Perhaps it is because Nigerians abroad will give him twice what he need.

@debosky,

if you don't know something, say it nicely that you don't know. Maybe some good Samaritan will have mercy and drag you to the light. Don't just think you will come and shout "wild speculators", then we will rush off to go and help you get reading material. You have to say please.

@ghettochyk & Dis guy

thanks for hailing my poetry. That is the result of schooling in Benin. Dem reverse my natural-born phon to conc pidgin.

After much Owambe, purchase of property in Magodo GRA, and dashing Tony Tetuila dem 1 million each.

@I-man

what is actually this anti-Semitism you guys keep saying. Naturally, I don't like Italians until I get to know that Italian personally. Naturally, I don't like Benin girls but I've known some that are angels. Naturally I don't like Australian Aborigines and I don't think I could. naturally I don't like pigmies or eskimos. I don't like Lebanese. I don't like blond people. Make or female and I don't like Albinos but I've gotten to know one (Terry Ibisi) she's the gentlest soul. In fact there are few sets of people I like without knowing them: Jamaicans and Afro-Americans because of their colourful lifestyles and their accents. I like Chinese too because I associate them with Shaolin Temples and Kung Fu.

Most people have stereotypes and these stereotypes draw different reactions from different people. There are a lot of places you'll go to outside Nigeria that they will just dislike you because you are Nigerian. Nobody will give you unconditional love. So why does Israel have to label their own and mould it into a crime? Somebody says Israel controls the western media and he's labelled and anti-Semite. The US says Nigeria only has 3 television stations and 2 of them are government owned propaganda channels and nobody labels them anti-Nigerian.

Why should anybody even be castigated just because he doesn't offer unconditional love to a group of people? I don't like Nigerians very much, especially Yorubas, Calabars, and Edos(my own people). I don't like men too because you never know who is gay. So why would the jews try to make the world believe that not liking them is some sort of crime.

I wonder why the ultimate empty treasury was skipped. Lagos State proudly presents: empty treasury, with more than N100 billion! Hurray!

These are some of the formats that the FBI is aware of among American con artists:

Jury selection Fraud
Telemarketing fraud
Identity Fraud
Health Insurance Fraud
Medicare Fraud
Travelling Salesmen
Penis Enlargement Frauds
View Webcam
Stocks/Shares Scam
Letter of Credit Fraud
Home Delivery Fraud
Primary Bank Note
Ponzi Scheme
Pyramid Scheme
Gadget Inventors Scam
College Scholarship Scam
Credit Card Fraud
Investment Fraud
Business Fraud
Counterfeit Prescription Drugs
Funeral and Cemetery Fraud
Fraudulent Anti-Aging Products
Franchise Fraud
Internet Auction Fraud
Visa Lottery Fraud
Poetry Competition Scam.
Non-Delivery of Merchandise
Casino Cheats
Mortgage Fraud.


The one I found the most amazing and most cruel is the alibi scam. If any of your relatives is in jail or on trial and is still pleading innocent, the con artiste will come to you and claim that he is a witness to the fact that your relative didn't commit the crime,

Then not forgetting corruption in the form of laundering shareholders' funds in $billions viz worldcom, enron, tyco,parmalat.

Then talk of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and the White House Cabal.

US orders fifteen made in America Boeing C-17 air planes for the military at $3.3billion each. Meanwhile other countries buy it at $2.5billion.

Nigeria, una still dey learn. How many yahoo format dey? Lottery, Next of Kin, Money Order, Disaster Charity Fraud, Romance Scams, War Casualty, what else?

Have you guys looked at your Bulk Mail in recent times? All those mails you see there, what do you think they are.

Una never even know Steve Comisar wey dey prison dey serve sentence for Fraud, still throw format from Prison and catch Maga. Abeg Nigeria, una still be "Omomo" for corruption.

Una no know the level of corruption wey the italian, russian and chinese Mafia dey contribute, drug dealing, money laundering even up to the entertainment industry. Please, Nigeria is still a foetus where Baba like America and Phillipines (where $3billion of GDP annually is from online scams) dey. We still be sperm.

But Nigeria dey try small, small. Just while I was typing this document, one yahoo boy was trying to scam me, and just as Jojo is in this forum posting, her "man" has already "romance-scammed her.

@sleekwhatever

the same brain wey God give me, na him E give you. The same newspaper wey I dey read, na him you dey read. The same internet wey you dey browse, na him I dey browse. So please don't be posing those kinds of rhetorics to me.

So this long story with a topic that Donald Duke is a thief, why does it have to get to the last couple of paragraphs before it starts admitting words like 'rumour mill' and 'alleged'. It also reaches the very end before it gives in that the Local Governments were given SHARE CERTIFICATES. Lets say the private sector was lured into this project by Donald Duke, if they run out of funds, is it not sensible for Donald Duke to acquire investment shares for the state, local governments and even himself?

See, Donald Duke is one of the few Nigerians with integrity and he is very amiable to Nigerians. So if the man should call out to Nigerians that after serving in the government, he is broke and needs money, you will see students, bankers, Nigerians abroad, Northerners, foreigners, Nigerians abroad, parents and children, labourers, donating money to his cause to the tune of billions. Donald Duke does not need to steal a dime. So let them take their tales from rumour mills and allegations and just shove it!

@bankole

who do you believe rightfully won the elections?

@topic

I believe all hands were on deck as per the removal of Uba the multibillionaire.

I personally, am not seeking Al Mustapha's release but his speedy trial.

In a civilised country like Nigeria, we can't just keep people in jail without conviction. He should be tried in a military court (he still is a military man).

If the court grants him freedom, he can go free. If it jails him, he should go to jail. If if it hands down capital punishment, then he should die. But just leaving him there does not make sense.

The legal system is not there to effect revenge but to correct those that can be corrected and cull out those that are incorrigible.

@fromuk

actually, the man has no such amount. He doesn't even have a billion dollars. Dem dey pick am from ground?

What he did was to devise the dumbest trick in the book. Since he was going to be sworn in as governor, he decided to declare $8billion asset, so that at the end of his tenure, when he would have robbed the Anambra state treasury of $8billion and is then $8billion dollars rich, he can have an alibi that he actually had that money before entering government.

Not only has his plan now failed by losing the seat, but he should also be made to pay an income tax of about 30% for the $8billion he has earned in Nigeria, amounting to $2.4billion.

And please God will not save us in this Nigeria. He's too busy in Iraq and Sudan. We have to save ourselves. Please take action by indicating your concern to nribadu@efccnigeria.com, to the guardian, an all other media bodies. In fact this is a time when CNN and their Jeff Koinange would have come in handy. Contact NLC. In fact, this is the kind of matter that NLC can strike for 2 weeks and I will give them my support.

$8billion. That's just about $200million richer than Richard Branson! Wetin sef?!

I am just saying what the article said. Abi you want me to say what the article didn't say? Ah bros, you dey harsh for my matter O!

@I-man

if he didn't personally earn $8billion, he couldn't have possibly declared a PERSONAL asset of $8billion.

This brings me to wonder why the Chinese were only trying to explore oil and MEND threatened to kill them. But here are the Americans saying they want to come and destroy MEND and they are not complaining. It makes you wonder.

Could this be nothing more than a gettogether of the sponsor and the agent?

Thank God this article has set it straight that Iran is only trying to generate electricity but some other countries suspect otherwise.

@I-man

I read the article and it said ANDY UBA. Unless of course that is the full acronym for the bank.

Anyway, for clarification, I have sent the information to Ribadu's mailbox.

$8billion, that's a fifth of the total wealth of the Nation. So why Sir Richard Branson waste all im life dey invest here and there?

Well, sha na Osun deliver us from that man hand. First of all, he will not get to government house, then secondly he must pay income tax of $2.4 to the national coffers to be set aside for the welfare of Anambra State. The people whom he intended to rob of $8billion, he will now have to pay $2.4billion without touching a single penny of theirs.

2face fall hand for there O! He wanted to be like sound sultan.

Did Mandela's head not function properly?

Ah, you guys are even talking about guys weaving hair. What about Pastors perming hair and using hairnet to sleep and showercap to bathe? Is it right?