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Nuhu Ribadu was born in Yola, Adamawa State, on November 21, 1960. He attended Aliyu Mustapha Primary School Yola from 1966 to1973 and Yelwa Government Secondary School, from 1973-1977. Between 1978 and 1980, he was at the College of Preliminary Studies, CPS, Yola, for his A-level studies.

In 1980, he gained admission to study law at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, graduating in 1983. He graduated from the Nigerian Law School and was called to the bar in 1984.

After his national service, he joined the Nigeria Police, where he rose to become head of the Legal and Prosecution Department, Police Headquarters, Abuja. His 18-year service in the Nigeria Police culminated in his appointment as pioneer Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in April, 2003.


Prior to his appointment as the Chairman of EFCC, Ribadu served as key operational officer in the General Investigation Department and the Force Criminal Investigation Department of the of the Nigerian Police. He was also a member of the highly commended Failed Banks Tribunal that sanitized the rottenness in the Nigerian Banking sector of the late eighties. He helped pioneer the setting up of the Legal and Prosecutions Department of the Nigerian Police, a unit that served as think tank and policy nerve center of the police.







Ribadu has been recipient of several awards as a police officer, prosecutor and Chairman, EFCC. He received the Inspector General of Police Awards in 1997, 1998 and 2000 and the Special Commendation of Mr. President in 2005, for the successful prosecution of several advance fee fraud, banking fraud and sundry economic crime cases. He was also specially commended by the Accountant General of the Federation for successfully prosecuting some corrupt public servants in 1999.







He was a key member of the Economic Management Team from 2003 to 2008 that initiated and drove the wide ranging public sector reforms, which laid the foundations for the socio-economic rejuvenation of Nigeria. Alongside this responsibility, he also served as a member of the Presidential Committee on Trade Malpractices, the National Joint Intelligence Board, the National Committee on Public Service Reforms and the National Cybercrime Working Group.



Ribadu has been widely acknowledged as bringing to his job a deep passion and an exemplary sense of dedication and efficiency. In three years, the EFCC under his leadership built the now most celebrated Crimes Training and Research Institute in the sub-region. The agency also recorded about 200 criminal convictions, a record that is far ahead of the total record of the police in its 147 years of existence, and far ahead of the Attorney-General’s office in the 49 years of the country’s post-colonial history.











These achievements helped make the EFCC a reference Law Enforcement Agency on the continent; and the bold investigation, prosecution, and conviction of Nigeria’s hitherto untouchable politicians and businessmen earned him the reputation of being a foremost and respected anti-corruption crusader in the world. It is to his record that he rejected a N30 million bribe from one of the country’s major money laundering offenders in 2005, although the most sensational report of his ethical conduct thus far was the 2007 rejection of a $15 million bribe from a former governor from one of Nigeria’s Niger Delta states. The businessman has been convicted for the crime and the former governor is currently undergoing trial.



In acknowledgement of these modest achievements, he was promoted Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), in March 2007; the African Union put him on its advisory board on anti-corruption matters; and he was lately invited to join the advisory board of the friends of the World Bank/UNODC initiative on stolen asset recovery.





Recognizing the increasing trans-border dimension of financial and economic crimes, Ribadu, a regular attendee at the annual INTERPOL retreats, led an enforcement initiative that led to the founding of the West African Conference of Police Chiefs, and which is today a strong mechanism in the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism in West Africa today.


Mr. Ribadu holds an LLM degree with emphasis on the jurisprudence of corruption in Nigeria from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. In 2008, he was at the Harvard Business School where he did a program in the strategic management of law enforcement agencies.







Since 2004, notable newspapers and magazines in Nigeria have repeatedly voted Ribadu, Man of the Year, in recognition of his outstanding achievements as a committed crusader against corruption and other related crimes.


Ribadu’s modest achievements in EFCC, most notable amongst which are the delisting of Nigeria from the FATF List of Non-Cooperative Countries & Territories, admission into the prestigious Egmont Group and the withdrawal of the US Treasury advisory on Nigeria by the FINCEN. He has also attracted donor support from European Union (EU), UNODC, UNDP, World Bank, and a host of others running into millions of US dollars, and also built an effective collaborative effort with the FBI, SOCA [UK], Metropolitan Police [UK], Dutch Police, German Police, South African Police and a host of other Law Enforcement Agencies in the world.



In 2008, Ribadu completed the senior executive course of the Nigeria Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies where he was conferred with the Membership of the National Institute, MNI.




In June 2010, Ribadu was awarded the Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) by Babcock University, Ogun State, in recognition of his "loyal breeding", "lofty aim" and "resolute courage" as well as his "fierce stance against corruption in the face of sponsored disgrace and certain death that has resulted into positive changes and global acclaim hitherto considered impossible".





Until recently, Ribadu was a senior fellow at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University, as well as a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development, Washington, DC.







Ribadu is married to Zara, a lawyer, and they are blessed with six children. Ribadu enjoys watching football and reading books on human rights, politics, corruption and economic and financial crimes.

Team Ribadu is a youth driven, flagship volunteer movement for the Nuhu Ribadu 2011 presidential bid. It is “a political movement, founded in recognition of the legitimate thirst of Nigerian youth for a new kind of leadership marked by integrity and competence. It seeks to harness and support the tidal wave of young people, who are eager to get involved in the electoral process, in order to create political and social change”.
To achieve this, Team Ribadu is building a groundswell of motivated, committed and capable volunteers to not only ensure that the right leaders are voted into political office in 2011, but also to ensure that these leaders are held accountable for their promises once elected into office”.


Clearly, more than anything else, the 2011 election will be a battle between the old order and the emerging; between whether we want change or more of this present order. What we at Team Ribadu – some of us are professionals, many of us are students, and many more unemployed -- are saying is we want to reclaim Nigeria and we have the capacity to do so.



We, young Nigerians, are calling 2011 the Year of the Nigerian Youth Voter. According to a post on the team’s Facebook, “in 1993, IBB and his cabal annulled the popular will of Nigerians. Many of us were too young to vote then. But not anymore! We are conscious of the task that history has placed on our shoulders. Task of our grandparents, many of whom were much younger than we are now, was to liberate our nation from the evils of colonialism, the task of our parents was to build a strong, prosperous, and united nation, an egalitarian society founded on the principle of social justice and freedom. Unfortunately, the latter woefully in that calling.


“But it is not enough to bemoan our situation or to perpetually play the blame game. We have the future of Nigeria literally in our hands. The question is: do we want to live the second half of the Nigerian century in darkness? The world is now electing young and visionary presidents with broader foreign policy perspectives, with notions and ideas of integrity, and above all with models of the future.”
At Team Ribadu, we see in Nuhu Ribadu, former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to confront our problems as a nation. Ribadu brings compassion, integrity and a strong vision of the future. What else can one ask for in a country where the bankruptcy of leadership is the rule rather than the exception?


Team Ribadu is poised to be the most elaborate and sophisticated attempt by Nigerian youth to be a part of the democratic process. Understandably, it is gradually turning into a pop culture phenomenon. Recently, about 400 volunteer members across the country gathered in Abuja, the first of its kind in our tortuous political history, to parley with the man, Nuhu Ribadu, and we were able fine-tune strategies for our roles in what will be, for most of them, the greatest opportunity as well as challenge of our lives.

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House of Reps updateWatch Out- The video will be uploaded soon) "Following a rowdy session instigated by Hon. Dino Melaye and his group, all members of the group were suspended till the end of legislative session. Austin Nwachukwu a member of Melaye group who came in with tear gas that he was using during the fracas was beaten and stripped unclothed before camera , for, refusing to leave the chamber after suspension."Melaye's dress was equally torn while Hon. Igwe a supporter of Hon. Dimeji Bankole had his hand dislocated by Nwachukwu after using tear gas on him. Doris Uboh a member of the Melaye group collapsed in the fray and was carried out. Hon. Independence Ogunewe escaped through the back door to ,  See Moreescape beating."The house resumed after order was ,  See more restored to consider a bill on the Nigerian Customs Service after Bankole had apologized to Nigerians for the action of some of his members.

Will upload the video once it is out.
Watch out.

As promised: This is the video,


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnRavpA01oI

Dino Melayeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee oohhhhhhh.
You chickened out last year after all the false allegations,
You said"
Eventually he retracted his statements as he had this to say on the floor of the House: He said, “My name is Dino Melaye, representing Yagba/Bunu constituency of Kogi State. I would want to address my respected colleagues that the institution of the House of Representatives of which I am a bonafide member is greater than Dino Melaye as an individual. My colleagues, the issues that I have raised were not personal issues but at the same time I would not want to be responsible for the type of brouhaha situation of giddy-giddy that we (the House) experienced some few days. If my actions or inactions, omissions or commission, deliberate or in deliberate, intentionally or unintentionally or both, has generated the kind of acrimony it has generated, I want to strongly while I subject myself to the institution of which I am a member, I would not want to drag the say that while I subject my elf to this institution of which I am a member and which I intend to comeback to…”

Now again.
Na wa for u Dino.

Watched the video, so sad,

Why can't House of Reps work in peace??/
Wahala all the time.
Haba!!!

You taught me during my BSc. and my Masters and now u r the INEC Chair,
Then we all looked up to u,
Please don't let us down!

Why is Prince2 lectures so expensive in Abuja?

A new high class fast food restaurant within the highbrow of Kaduna State requires an effective, efficient and honest experienced person to fill the position of the restaurant manager.
The person should have at least three years working experience in a popular restaurant. Our rivals in Kaduna include Chicken Republic, Rich Bite, Food Planet and Mr. Biggs.
If you fit the position, send your CV to mediainsightltd@yahoo.com
Honesty and Experience is a major criteria.

Sad!

na today!
They can go to hell and form their own country!

Those guys are diversifying so they don't need all those musicians to survive.

Hope it doesn't get to Nja.

For where?
Na lie!

Very sad.

I would ensure I go to school
Even if it is distance education or adult school.

God forbid!
I'll counsel her and pray hardddddddddd.

No way!

Why Rita?

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No to Shona
No to Rita
No to Chidinma

Bola should and must win!

I guess we should be asking for the pictures of the innocent people that he caused their deaths!