₦airaland Forum

They're trying to distract Nigerians

EmmyMaestro:
A documentary about Diezani Alison-Madueke, directed by Chude Jideonwo is set to premiere later this year.

In an Instagram post on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, Jideonwo called the documentary the “biggest-budget docu-series from our dear country.”

“Over the past two years, a 100+ member team has been working quietly on the most ambitious, biggest-budget docu-series project from our dear country. Shot across 3 countries, Covering 8 cities, We traced confirmed and alleged loot across 15 jurisdictions. With exclusive access to investigators from the FBI, the MET Police and the EFCC,” he said

In April 2010, the former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, swore in Alison-Madueke as the first woman to hold the Minister of Petroleum Resources position in the country. In October 2010, she became the first woman to head a country delegation at the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) conference.

She was also the first female Minister of Transportation and the first woman appointed to the Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria board. On November 27, 2014, she was elected the first female president of OPEC.

The documentary investigates allegations of corruption during her time as Minister for Petroleum Resources. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alleged that she led a luxurious lifestyle funded by corrupt dealings.

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has also charged her to court over multiple counts of corruption since she left office.

In 2023, the NCA’s head of the International Corruption Unit (ICU), Andy Kelly, said in a statement, “We suspect Diezani Alison-Madueke abused her power in Nigeria and accepted financial rewards for awarding multi-million-pound contracts. Bribery is a pervasive form of corruption, which enables serious criminality and can have devastating consequences for developing countries. These charges are a milestone in what has been a thorough and complex international investigation.”

According to Reuters, Alison-Madueke was accused of benefiting from at least £100,000 (₦194.2 million) in cash, chauffeur-driven cars, flights on private jets, luxury holidays for her family, and the use of multiple London properties.

In October 2023, she appeared before the Westminster Magistrates Court in the UK over the alleged bribe. The judge, Michael Snow, granted the former minister a £70,000 (₦136 million) bail.

The documentary is co-produced by, Judith Audu, Eromo Egbejule and Jideonwo, and executive produced by Jideonwo, Mfon Ekpo, ‘Yemi Adamolekun, Mojolaoluwa Aderemi-Makinde and Capital Film Productions.

We were robbed by Tinubu, Mahmmud and Buhari and thats why Tinubu is failing. Its retribution

brutal1:
he is no longer your president?

Remember how Peter Obi joined Labour.
Abure and his team were magnanimous to accept him close to election into Labour Party so you don't expect him to bite their hands by being aggressive towards them.

It would portray him as ungrateful. He has to find a win win situation to resolve this. Trust me, Obi is very brutal with power

helinues:


And Peter Obi is calling himself a leader, a leader with no political command tone. No balls of steel..

How many are the LP executives again? Perhaps Peter Obi would have been shivering if he was to address The army, Navy and police if elected as president.

Imagine a presidential candidate who can't organize the party he contested under but delusional thinking he can organize complicated Nigeria

Stabilization is different from bringing down the exchange rate. If the exchange rate does not come to where APC started criticizing PDP govt then they've failed with regards to this

Tinubu is by far the worst illegitimate president Nigeria ever had

Benwallt:
Obi can not lace Tinubu's shoes. Obi's popularity ends with obidrunks

SUG president dragging a coastal highway to fraud!

Obi cannot be as terrible as Tinubu

Benwallt:
He can never get it. He is 100% unfit for the exalted position. He would desecrate everywhere with a touch of Anambra failure.

When Obi gets presidential powers, you'd know why the elites have been ganging against him. He will use his presidential powers to the fullest

helinues:
How many are the LP executives that Peter Obi as the presidential candidate can't talk to and tell them to put the party in order.

Ordinary Party executives, Peter Obi can't handle and for his mind, he thinks he can handle complicated Nigeria. Peter Obi lacks political command

Well, labouring in vain is allowed sha

The girl look 100% like the Bayeros

HNICEARTH:
Forget their names, i dont think they are northerners. Probably why they never inherited anything.
Look at those pictures carefully, do they look like northerners?

I don't think you're really responding to my comment

celestineteryim:
are they not from one Nigeria?

Shettima that insulted Osinbajo as ice cream seller. Bokoharamist!

It may have even gingered the Kano governor to respond this fast because it would not have been a good publicity to say Otti is the one that helped the late Emir's family.

I'm sure they would have reached out to Kano govt before now

greggng:
She didn't do anything wrong . When one is In trouble one tend to reachout to good human beings . The governor if abia state us one if the best governors this country will ever produced.

I'm from Anioma and it will be great to have Anioma State

Yes ofcourse...if per chance he knows her father, it might even be before 1999. You know Otti was high up in several banks

GeneralPula:
Most likely their connections has been from way back. She also mentioned Tony Momoh etc..

I mean before Otti joined Lp..

Nah...an Indian is British prime minister yet the British people do not feel threatened.

Yorubas feel threatened if someone whose father is Yoruba and mother a different ethnicity is contesting only in Lagos. They don't care anywhere else

DevilsEqual:
This is how you go about Politics in other peoples land
You register your party as the constitution allows it and then campaign in peace

If the Yorubas over there choose to curse the original UK citizen, threaten to depose King Charles and to abolish some Scottish custom when voted in, then they are sure to meet stiff opposing that might even be accompanied by flogging and many more

If they wouldnt do all that, and campaign without hate speeches, then they are good to go

They are Omoluabis and will never misbehave... They are Representin

Legendhero, helinues,Elsudan1,yyba, Omoawoke, make una con invade the thread before hate full everywhere

Lunacy

Godons1:
Cause na Northerns make Otti Governor. The way they made Hope Uzodinma Governor of Imo.

Fear North

Is Alex Otti a friend of the family? An acquaintance of her late father the emir?

I wonder why she specifically called Otti

Davido's uncle is a PDP gov so what do you expect?

I don't know why I feel like the sultan is part of the problems of the North and Nigeria as a whole. I feel he has not used his position for the progress of the North but for the perpetual continuation of feudalism!

Okupe was not in PO's camp to snitch. He got in trouble with the law after his conviction when he was already DG campaign for Obi.

Whatever shenanigans he is doing now is to survive APC retribution and help him get money for his health issues

psucc:
Reno left Atiku. He was just sent there to snitch on him for Tinubu just like Okupe in PO's camp.

So his loyalty now is with Tinubu and not AA. May God save us from "frenemies"

Ugly girl. Just one picture from generation to generation

Sheistoopretty:
Rants of a Jobless man

Honestly, it doesn't help the country but Nigerians are pretending to be united in one Nigeria but doing devisive politics.

Whats the meaning of Northern governors forum, Southern governors forum, SW governors forum, SE governors forum etc?

Tell me which advanced countries we have this nonsense? Non!

But these jokers that claim to love Nigeria will be supporting divisive politics

Antitankweapon:
Enough of this North vs South nonsense. Enough of it please. It doesn't help Nigeria. And we are getting sick of it.

Northern Governors and Southern Governors is NONSENSE. We should stop these forums. North and South should stop these divisive forums. It is never helped us. Enough please.

Let's build a United nation that works for everyone, where every ethnic nationality thrives and feels safe. Please.

North vs South doesn't help our unity, and it should STOP. North vs South should STOP.

Let's all work for a United Nigeria.

Someone said they're classmates or something

SadiqBabaSani:
What if he's a Serviceman

Why are you defending criminality?

Svoboda:
You guys wail over everything Tinubu. I cant subject myself to 16 yrs of hate and gnashing of teeth, building bile and hatred for someone God has already blessed.

Obi will not become president by harvesting hate and uncontrolled bile. Let him go and patiently build political structures, alliances and network across nigeria. It was the same thing Tinubu did to succeed, chargoury or no chargoury. .

This is not 1966 where there were no proper documentation, rather, everybody was trying to exonerate their ethnic group.

This is the age of the internet and it is well documented that when the Yorubas came to power from opposition in 2015-2024, they ruined everything!

I'm happy for her but she may not be the luckiest. If I was a girl, I'd prefer my own husband thats for me alone and not someone that cheats all the time and even do it openly.

Some of us value peace of mind

DMerciful01:
CHIOMA IS THE LUCKIEST GIRL IN NIGERIA....HAPPY FOR HER

Read to understand! The discussion is about Nigerian heads of state and their recognition in the naira. Anyways, run along, seems you're just here to argue

T9ksy:
Ojukwu was the Head of State of the now defunct Republic of Biafra, at least for 30months before running off to exile in Abidjan, abandoning his people to the mercy of federal troops.

Whats your point? You don't expect him to comment on everything especially at the initial stage but when a dangerous pattern starts happening, then expect reactions.

If you don't have something sensible to say then keep quiet

Zico5:
Where were you when Ganduje was destroying the entire traditional tool just cos he has score to settle with some individuals. All of you were mute then but could now pick up ur your voice cos you want to be heard. Politicians are just green snakes under the green grass.

Ignorance is bliss

PressMyButton:
See as investors dey rush Nigeria. Nigeria is too big an economy for anyone to joke with. I don't care if any foreign company leaves, more investors will come in. Mitchelin, Dunlop, etc left, and we ever still going stronger.