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tyson55: Gbam!

The reason for this is, Nigerians who are into illicit businesses like drug trafficking and fraud are loud and they often show up with luxury cars and ostentatious goods. Other countries operate silently.

This is interesting! So how manage this man become the head of Navy?

Good example of constructive critism. Action speaks louder than words they say...
We should emulate the Radio Presenter and call a spade a spade so that we can take back this country from these gangs of thieves.
Imagine a serving governor making such a careless statement of rigging an election and someone in this forum thinks it doesnt matter.
You know what, let's close down Nigeria. Let everyone rule himself. If leadership is all about what we get in Nigeria today, please lets shut down. It's not worth it and the hope of better days ahead is dimming everyday with GEJ's 1-week-one-troble.

And after all is done, it will be Nigerian that bore the bad name. Honestly, I dont think I have heard much negatives about Guinea Bissau wrt drugs. But whenever drugs is mentioned in WA, Nigeria is always a pt of reference. Na waooo!

But it baffles me when most reportings about drug trafficking in Africa is mostly on Nigerians while at the corner the silent, deadly, heavy weigths are relatively doing their things.
A former 'head of navy' of a country, OMG!

Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto pictured in Gambia on July 12, 2008. (AFP/File)

Unimaginable the kind of things that happen in the world. A former head of navy of country being a drug baron.
Anyway did Gloria Okon then not traficking for one of our former first ladies (late).

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BISSAU — US agents have captured the former head of Guinea-Bissau's navy, an alleged kingpin in the west African nation's drugs trade with Latin America, in a sting operation on the high seas, intelligence sources and media said.

Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto was transferred to the United States after being snatched in international waters near Cape Verde in an operation by US and Cape Verdian agents, state TV in the Atlantic island state reported.

Bubo Na Tchuto has since 2010 been on a list of suspected drug barons drawn up by the United States, which has also imposed a US travel ban and asset freeze on him.

He is one of several military figures in the small and notoriously unstable former Portuguese colony alleged to be involved in helping Latin American drug cartels smuggle cocaine into Europe via Africa.

There was no immediate official comment by US officials, but Radio France Internationale said a New York court would later Friday inform Bubo Na Tchuto and four others arrested with him of the charges against them.

The head of Guinea-Bissau national radio, Carlos Gomes Nhafe, a friend of Bubo Na Tchuto, told AFP he had received a phone call from the former navy chief, who has been involved in several failed coups in the impoverished former Portuguese colony.

"He called me this (Thursday) morning from Sal, in Cape Verde, to tell me he had been arrested and that he is en route to the United States," he said.

No military official in Bissau would comment. But an intelligence officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the ex-rear admiral was "captured by American agents".

He said US agents had been present in Guinea-Bissau for two weeks and that it was probably these agents who had been involved in the capture.

Bubo Na Tchuto's wife said she had not seen her husband since Wednesday and that her requests to military high command for information on his whereabouts had drawn a blank.

"He left the house (on Wednesday) as usual in his car to do some shopping in town and he hasn't been back since," Cadi Balde told AFP.

The Cape Verde islands lie about 1,000 kilometres (660 miles) west of Guinea-Bissau.

Bubo Na Tchuto was accused of being the leader of a coup attempt in December 2011. He was arrested and later released with 18 others in June last year on orders of the country's current army chief.

Guinea-Bissau, a country of just 1.5 million people, has suffered chronic instability since independence from Portugal in 1974 due to conflict between the army and state.

Political instability and mismanagement have undermined the legal economy, which is mostly based on primary crops and subsistence agriculture.

Drug traffickers have turned the state, which is sandwiched between Senegal and Guinea where the African continent extends the farthest west toward South America, into a transit point for the cocaine trade.

Guinea-Bissau suffered its latest military-backed coup a year ago, and the current transitional government does not have full international recognition.

The United Nations Security Council last year said that drug trafficking in the troubled state had grown since the junta seized control in April.

Correct advice! Can anything such good come out of T.A Orji?
While the other SE governors are speechless and hypnotised, this one said the mind of many.

Billyonaire: Having consulted with the gods, I arrive at the following:
If President says Amnesty, I respect that Decision, and I stand by it.
He is the President, and what an adult sees while sitting, a kid can not see while standing.
Amnesty means no more killing of Igbos, no more killing of innocents citizens by JTF, no more destruction of properties of Nigerians, better name for Nigeria abroad.
Support the President and his team, they know certain things we are not privileged to.

Childish comment, just in the name of doing the job of your pay master.

GEJ, as always, doesn't have mind of his own. Swings alot like a pendulum.
If the BH amnesty push succeeds, then it is easy to conclude that GEJ is a serious mistake and a classical example of a mediocre in power.

(1) The Rich also Cry!
(2) Everyday is for the thief and one day is for the owner(s)
(3) The people cannot be fooled all the time

Too bad for these guys. I don't know why some Nigerians are so sensiless as to commit crime in such a far-away place.
What are they thinking? Whatever the law of the laid stipulates as punishment for such crime should be meted to them. Let other desperados also think twice before they hatch that evil they are planning.

Honestly, I never knew there is this love lost between igbos and Yoruba until I joined NL. It will do us a lot of good than harm if this problem is reduced to barest minimum. We should be more civilized!

Akpabio has just contracted GEJ disease and that's 'acting without thinking'. Of course, it is in the blood, PDP family affair and Nigeria is suffering for it.

cooldipo: Congratulations to Unizik! Worthy of note is the fact that FUTA emerged the winner of the Southern African Zone (preliminary round to the African Final) a day before and lead Unizik and others in qualifying for the final by 4%. It was not surprising to see many Uni present impressed with the showing; some promising to raise the bar like FUTA in subsequent years. Many were surprised to see Unizik carry then day having came in second with a difference of over 4% to FUTA just some hours before then. The final results read Unizik 79.33% Helwan Uni Egypt 78.87%. FUTA 78.33% Uni du Tunis 4th Unilag 5th. 1% difference between the first 3 looks more like abracadabra and the competition felt more like a selection thereafter cos Unizik were unable to
do justice to the questions the panel raised while their closest rival managed to put up some impressive showing in that division and other glitches in the course of their presentation. IBA is a laudable program which should be encouraged but the competition has to be standardised.....a situation where one of the organiser were telling one of the competing schools (FUTA) "sebi u have won it b4 now, let another win" before the winner emerge leaves one with a bad taste; let alone the fact that Unizik was allegedly lead by a high powered team lead by their VC's wife whose daughter stayed till the end of the program. If the organiser get to read this, I will like them to know that they need to take the competition to the next level, first by doing accreditation where competing schools will send in their list of presenters before the programme with their curriculum vitae which can be vetted before and during the competition. This is necessary to prevent situations whereby school present a mixed team of undergraduate and post graduate for a competition that is solely for Petroleum Geoscience post graduate only; such anomaly was reported within the Unizik camp though unofficially. Another thing worthy of note is the composition of the panel; it will be better if each zone in Africa is represented on the panel unlike this year where all were Nigerian except for the 2 expatriates. I hope you won't see this as the ranting of an ant.....take the plus and see how you can find a way around the minus......you are doing a great job......IBA forever!

Dont worry so much. Learn from the big football matches, it is not always the highly rated that wins. UNIZIK is a silent thunder which have not been known so much outside SE until recently but even now in the whole of Africa.Their Geoscience department is good and the graduates are equally doing well in oil & gas sector. It's turn by turn, BROS. Next year it could be another university depending on how they compete and their resource persons.

true2god: I totally agree with u. If this test was conducted in Nigeria the result might come thus:
first: OAU
second: UNILAG
third: UNILORIN
fourth: UNIBEN
fifth: IBADAN
sixth: UNIZIK
This is based on the simple response frm some nairalanders which represents the opinion of certain region in Naija.

Thats the problem with the Nigerian society, CORRUPTION AND TRIBALISM.

Shameful! Just because it's SE university or what else? Why hate like this?

Tolexander: UNIZIK thank your star that OAU that use to be 2nd to none in Nigeria wasn't in the competition.
Honestly, you will be celebrating like Burkina Faso in the last edition of the nations' cup football tournament.

Bros, it's now in record - for 2013 competition, UNIZIK is the winner in the whole of Africa! Whether OAU participated or Not, it doesnt matter.
But also learn how to celebrate with winners (who are not your enemies) because victory is infectious.

Good night! RIP.

Fantastic feat. Living up to their name - GIANTS!

MASSOB cannot be taken serious again if they spew the trash about asking for Rev King's release. Are they joking or what?

slimyem: Its a laughable suggestion Mr. and the why is too obvious but its understandable that you are just overrating your hero.

Why not go and do the hero thing rather than crying

~Bluetooth:
ThankGod he never achieved it.




Chief tribalist of peoples republic of biafra.

Must you talk like a child like this?

ilugunboy: The Biafran Chief propagandist is dead..who will wear his shoes? Chukwumerije?

Unnecessary!

ilugunboy: So the Ibo mod is hiding yoruba posters comment?

I think this boy need to be put in his proper place in this community..

Childish talk. so unnecessary.

An iroko has fallen. The cannon has gone off and the thunder roared in the sky.
Lightening flashes and disappeared. Our eyes are drenched with tears. Prof Achebe has gone!
A man that fought fiercely for equity and justice even at the expense of his life.
A literary warrior, a fighter, a mouthpiece of the downtrodden, a hero, a light of reasoning, a man of intergrity.
Difficult to describe you in whole, and as you said 'nobody can teach me who I am' you know better who you are, but the little we know about you, is forever green in our heart.
Rest in Peace. Your legacy can never be erased.

An iroko has fallen. The cannon has gone off and the thunder roared in the sky.
Lightening flashes and disappeared. Our eyes are drenched with tears. Prof Achebe has gone!
A man that fought fiercely for equity and justice even at the expense of his life.
A literary warrior, a fighter, a mouthpiece of the downtrodden, a hero, a light of reasoning, a man of intergrity.
Difficult to describe you in whole, and as you said 'nobody can teach me who I am' you know better who you are, but the little we know about you, is forever green in our heart.
Rest in Peace. Your legacy can never be erased.

noblezone: I don't need any explanation from the government know that Alams pardon was purely a strategic political move.

If Nigerians see it as endorsement for corruption, I won't be suppressed! After all they see fuel subsidy removal as evil, when on the contrary it would have been one of the best things to have to the country.

Anyway, i have already lost hope in Nigeria!

Speaking from two sides of the mouth. where exactly do you stand?

Childish talk. They cannot defend the indefensible.
The damage has been done already.

Absolutely nothing. He's not wise at all.

Good old times.

And we call ourself 'gaint of africa'.