₦airaland Forum

Siena:
Last time I was in Nigeria, was June 1990.

Not in any great rush to return.

You need to go home soon, so that you don't lose touch. 17 years is a long time.

Source: http://pointblanknews.com/
US Hospital Accuses Orji Kalu Of Forgery


Orji Uzor Kalu 
Former Abia State Governor, Mr. Orji Uzor kalu currently facing charges of laundering N3.1 Billion state funds may be charged for forgery in the United States. The ex-Governor is accused of forging a letter from Brigham Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts, US requesting his presence for his wife’s surgery.

Kalu in a letter to the Federal High Court Abuja had sought for permission to travel to the United States on the ground that “I have just received information through Victor Onochie (by fax) to the effect that my wife is due for a major surgery on 8th August in Brigham and Women‘s Hospital in Massachusetts, USA.

But the Brigham and Women Hospital, MA, through Dr. Kwan and Heather Galvin, both assistants to Dr. Peter Black, the alleged signatory to the Kalu’s letter denied knowledge of such letter.

When Pointblanknews.com confronted the Hospital with the letter, Dr. Kwan said “that is not Dr. Peter Black’s signature. It is obviously forged. This hospital does not issues such letters.”

According to Dr. Kwan, “this is strange and we are not taking it lightly. We are looking into it and we might require the police to come in.”

He disclosed that Orji Kalu’s wife, Ifeoma Ada Kalu was last seen on appointment for MRN in 1999 insisting that “there is no appointment scheduled for her.

tboy1:
More Carnival Pics:

These girls are ugly.  Next time please post nicer pics.

Source http://pointblanknews.com/

Vice President Jonathan Bows To Pressure, Declares N.2Billion In Assets



VP Goodluck Jonathan 
The Vice president Goodluck Jonathan yesterday capitulated to public pressure over the public declaration of his assets as done by his boss, President Umaru Yaradua as he made public his assets declaration to the Code of Conduct Bureau.

The assets which were made public by the senior Special Assistant to the Vice president on Media and Public Affairs, Ima Niboro indicates that the value of the Vice president total assets and cash in banks stands at N295,304,420.

This is about N561, 148,472 less than the assets declare by President Umaru Yar’Adua who declared his total assets to be at the value of N856,452,892.

Mr. Iniboro said the vice president’s decision to make public his assets declaration was to show that ‘there is nothing to hide’.

He added that the vice president is ‘a firm believer in the rule of law and this has guided his conduct in office through the years.

“It is this belief that also guided his position that having declared his assets for a total of seven times, there was no point in going further to publish the declaration” he noted

The vice president’s aide regretted that the position of the vice president not to make public his assets declaration had ‘generated an unfortunate storm, which is not only distractive but also quite unnecessary. We are worried that some newspapers and citizens we hold in high esteem have joined the fray.

“This merely shows that in the affairs of man, there comes a time when even the law must take a second place and the public mood must define our actions. To The Vice president, this is such a time, hence the choice to send you a copy of his declaration for publication” he said.

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In the assets declaration made public yesterday, it indicated that the vice president submitted his assets declaration before Justice Muktar Dodo of the Abuja high court on 30th May 2007, a day after the oath of office and oath of allegiance was administered on him.

A break down of the assets of the vice president indicates that he has four buildings located in Yenegoa, Abuja and his home town in Ogbia, Bayelsa state.

The Vice president said he owns a five bedroom Duplex in Gwarimpa 11, Abuja which was acquired in 2003 through loan and is valued at N24,990,000 while another Seven Bedroom Duplex, which he described as Village personal Home is located at Otuoke in Ogbia Local government area of Bayelsa state. It is valued at the cost of N18,000, 000 and was acquired through ‘savings and gifts in Kind.

The last of the Vice president’s residential buildings are the Four bedroom Duplex acquired in 2003 through ‘savings and gift in Kind’ in the Kpansia area of Yenegoa. The value of the building, he said is N15,000,000. The last Building is the extended Family house in Yenegoa which he said is a four flat storey Building acquired between 2003 and 2007 through savings. The value of the property is put at N10,000,000.

Under vacant and undeveloped plots, the vice president stated as follows: 1032.50 square meter of land located at Onopa Yenegoa and valued at N3,098.00. Plot 2C, 374 Low density Area Yenegoa allocated by the bayelsa state government and valued at N150,000. 2760.00 square meter plot at cadastral Zone BO2, Durumi, Abuja allocated by the federal Capital Development Authority and valued at N5,578,540. One Parcel of farm Land at Otuoke Ogbia acquired through inheritance and estimated at the value of N50,000,000.

Plot Medium Density in Yenegoa allocated by the Federal Ministry of Works and housing the value of which he said is N1550.00

Plot 29, Low density Area Plot in Yenegoa allocated by the Bayelsa state government the value of which is put at N4,908. While the last undeveloped plot owned by the vice president is plot 2246 Cadastral Zone A06, Abuja the value of which he put at N4, 800,000. It was allocated by the Federal Capital development Authority, FCDA

The Vice president’s investment in stocks which is being managed by City Code Investment Company is as follows.

S/No Name of Stock Number Of Shares Value As At 5/25/07
1 CADBURY PLC 8,666 N264,313
2 FLOUR MILLS PLC 8,466 N635,119.32
3 GUINESS NIG. PLC 6,395 N796,177.50
4 UNILEVER 18,750 N337,500
5 UNION BANK OF NIG. PLC 23,466 N727,446
6 FIDELITY BANK PLC 33,333 N296,663.70
7 UBA PLC 180,000 N6,838,200
8 ACCESS BANK PLC 84,656 N1,635,553.92
9 CADBURY PLC 2,500 N76,250
10 UNION BANK PLC 716,109 N22,199,379
11 FIRST BANK PLC 20,000 N808,000
12 FLOUR MILLS PLC 13,333 N1,000,241.66
13 NIGERIAN BREWERIES PLC 10,000 N363,000
14 BANK PHB PLC 866,666 N24,959,980.80
15 OANDO 15,125 N1,134,375
TOTAL 2,007,465 N62,072,200
Other investments include 4nos passenger boats for hiring which is valued at N5, 260,000. While the total cash in Nigerian banks being personal saving of salaries/allowances and income from his investments stands at N58, 984,123.

The vice president house holds utensils including generators, a BMW car valued at N15, 800,000, which he said was a gift; air conditioners, furniture, electronics and kitchen utensils is valued at N41,800,000.

Source http://www.saharareporters.com/www/news/detail/?id=388

The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Michael Andoakaar has done a media briefing making a volte face on the initial stance of the Federal Government regarding the powers of the EFCC to prosecute economic criminals, especially ex-governors. In his briefing to the media today at the State House, he stated that he was 'clarifying' media reports about yesterday’s position of the Federal Government which requires the EFCC to refer all of its criminal cases to the office of the Attorney General before they can carry out criminal prosecutions.


The new position now is that the EFCC can prosecute without recourse to his office. The Attorney General working behind the scenes with ex-governors had written a letter to Yar’adua requesting that he is granted the powers to supervise all prosecutions by the EFCC, ICPC and the Code of Conduct Bureau. Yar’adua approved the request to please former governors especially James Ibori who had put enormous pressure on him to rein in on the EFCC.

However, what the Attorney General was not telling the media is that the volte face came as a result of the interventions from Chief of Staff and State Counsel who felt the Attorney General's memo to Umar Yar’adua was misleading as did not take into account a subsisting Supreme Court ruling on the issue which was highlighted by the West Africa Bar Association President, Femi Falana in his reaction to the announcement yesterday.

After meeting with the President, Chief of Staff invited the Attorney General over to tell him his position could not stand, a further meeting was held which included EFCC Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, Justice Ayoade of ICPC and Wale Babalakin, the honorary Adviser on Legal Matters and the SGF, Baba Gana Kingibe, the meeting concluded that the AG position would compromise the fight against corruption and would injure the Yar’adua administration terribly as exemplified by public outcry over the decision.

Nuhu Ribadu specifically stated that the case referred to AG office, that of Makanjuola, the Permanent Secretary to the ministry of Defence and Obasanjo cousin who embezzled huge amount of money in 2000 did not go anywhere till date.

At the end, a compromise was arrived at that the Attorney General should brief the press to 'clarify' his position as a way of saving the face of the Federal Government since it was his cross anyway.

Meanwhile, Mr. Femi Falana has asked the Attorney General and Minister of Justice to resign his position immediately for gross incompetence

simply_me:
i still wonder what is worth seeing in those pictures. e.g. an ordinary sign post, a crowd like in down town Lagos Island or Oshodi.

Thank you. What is worth seeing in pictures of the UK posted so far. This is 2007 and not the 60's. We should focus our attention on our own cities and see if we can make them beautiful so that we can show them to the world.

There is nothing to gain from showing us pictures of the UK.

Is this all you have for the billions of Naira Agagu got these past 4 years?

This the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX21GH6dlVw

From The Daily Champion 073107

Houses in London, Abuja, Lagos, P/Harcourt



Forfeited properties



Chelsea Hotel, Abuja.


Plot 26, Dalhatu Close, Abacha Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos.


20, Obagi Street, Diobu, Port Harcourt


10, Oguda Close, Maitama, Abuja.


1, Community Road, Off Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos.


247, Water Gardens, London, W2 2DG, London.


14, Mapesbury Road,London NW2 4JB.


Flat 202, Jubilee Heights, Shootuphill, London NW2 3UQ


68-70 Regents ParK, Park Road, London


4A, Ilu Drive, Ikoyi, Lagos.


18, Mississippi Street, Maitama, Abuja.



V & A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa.



2, Marscibil Street, Ishaku Rabiu Estate, Off Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse11, Abuja.



34, Amazon Street, Maitama, Abuja.

MsEbz:
Both of them are toooooooooooooo soft on illegal immigraton, neither have my vote but if Hillary has a big lead I am not surprised.

toooooooooooooo soft on illegal immigraton. What is your solution to illegal immigration? Round up 12 milliom illegals and deport them. That will go into the history books. Immigration whether legal or illegal is part of the American life. Think of something else why you will not vote for either of these candidates.

MsEbz:
I'm not giving my vote to someone just because he's part black, that'd be a waste of my vote.

Voting for a candidate is not a matter of wasting your vote but believing in the candidate's ability to address issues you think might improve your life. You dont always have to vote for the popular candidate so as not to waste your vote.

Can anybody please let me know what happened to this website www.luckyigbinedion.info
How Igbinedion and his cohorts plundered his state, supported with pictures was posted on this site earlier in the year. This will be a valuable source of information for the EFCC in an effort to prosecute the former thief called ex-governor.

These pictures are from Asia and countries in the same category as Nigeria. They are funny, but not a justfication for our own horrible system. We should to do what they do that is right that attract Nigerians to go abroad at any cost than what is not right.

Check this out and make your judgment.

ICPC Interogates Custom Boss Over N50 Billion Annual Loss , Dangote, Otedola, Turaki, Duke, Daniel Fingered 


The comptroller General of Nigerian Customs Services, Mr. Jacob Gyang Buba is presently being investigated by the independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC in connection with an annual loss of N50 Billion in respect of the importation tariff waiver introduced by the Government of President Olusegun Obasanjo.



Pointblanknews.com learnt during the week that Mr. Buba has been a regular caller at the Abuja headquarters offices of the ICPC where he has facing intense interrogation within that last few weeks over repeated annual loss of about N50 Billion within the last eight years. The duty/tariff waiver was introduced by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo purportedly to serve as a stimulant for importation business within the Nigerian economy. Already the rippling is effect of the comptroller General’s confessions to the ICPC is being strongly felt by corporate Nigeria. It is believed that the useful statement that was given to the ICPC and the threat by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC to expose Aliko Dangote maybe part of the reason why Alhaji Dangote of Dangote Group and Blue star Consortium made a volte-face over his interest in the purchase on his interest to buy the Kaduna and Port- Harcourt refineries aside the threat from Labor Union. Dangote among other powerful Nigerians was singularly alleged to have reaped a windfall of over N40 Billion from the so-called regime of waiver.


Other Nigerians who were said to have benefited from the waiver deal include such politicians and investors as Dangote, ex-Governors Saminu Turaki, Donald Duke, Governor Gbenga Daniel and Femi Otedola. Dangote was said to have been terribly disturbed by the gravity of the disclosure of his centrality to the whole deal that he had to hurriedly announce his interest in the Kaduna and Port-Harcourt refineries in order to maintain a low public profile both the media and the generality of Nigerians.

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Apart from the statement made to the ICPC by the Customs Comptroller General,[b] Dangote has a lot of things to worry about in the way he is being “regularly accused” of conniving with political office holders to literarily cream off the Nigerian economy by way of questionable concession often made to him by successive administration. Dangote has been a big campaign donor for many politician including ex-president Obasanjo and several Governors and Lawmakers. He reportedly gave close to a Billion naira for Obasanjo for president campaign in 1999 and 2003. More disturbing was the disclosure that he alone benefited over N40 Billion from the concession granted him to import sundry commodities into Nigeria. It was said that he enjoyed such concession because he had powerful political connection. His gains constitute terrible pain to the Nigerian economy. He was said to have bought a private Bombardier Challenger 300 Jet with registration number 3B-SSD which was registered in Mauritius and delivered through Ireland in June 2007 which he allegedly gave to ex-President Obasanjo to show gratitude. Obasanjo was said to have used Dangote as a front when he sold him a liquidated Federal Jet for an undisclosed amount. The said Jet bought from the Nigerian government is now the second in the fleet of Obasanjo’s private plane; Dangote is said to have since handed the plane back to the man who kept the plane with him in trust.[/b]


Dangote is a man who is fighting in several theaters of war. His recent allegations that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC is a beehive of corrupt practices has drawn the anger of NNPC top level executives who in turn are said to be spoiling for a no-hold-bared disclosure of all the under-table intrigue that led to the doubtful emergence of Dangote as the leading bidder in the privatization of the petroleum refineries in both Kaduna and Port-Harcourt. With the on-going interrogation of the Nigerian Customs czar, Dangote is said to be simply sick and tired of being incessantly accused of dominating the Nigerian business space using unscrupulous means.

Mamajama:
Where is MIMIKO when you need him to response? what did AGAGU say? and PUNCH of all papers. LOL

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The Punch newspaper is an independent newspaper and one of the most reliable newspapers in Nigeria. I will refer you yesterday's edition for Agagu's full interview. Mimiko does not have to respond as people voted for him to be their governor but the election was stolen, so they have every right to make their opinions known.

I commend the actions of the EFFC these past few days at bringing some ex-governors to account for their mishandling of peoples money. My question is when will the EFCC start arresting and bring bigger thieves ( Ibori, Igbinedion Tinubu, Odili--- you know them) to justice. I hope this will be too long. For Nigeria to really move forward we need to see to people being made to be accountable for their actions.

My first job was working in a group home for retarded people. I did not like it but had no choice moreover with a second class upper in science from Nigeria. I pray for a big change back home so that people can stay back home , avoid situations like this.

Can anybody please post the pictures of Nigerian roads. May be if the world is made aware of the bad state of roads and highways in Nigeria, the goverment at all levels will wake up to their responsibilities.

Forbes magazine rating Dangote is like Forbes magazine rating IBB, Abacha and Obasanjo. He is part of the group that has made Nigeria what it is today. No roads, No electricity, No good public schools at all levels, No portable water supply, bad healthcare system. Fobes will only rate people with legitimate, verifiable income.
Let us stop deceiving ourselves so that we can start to solve these problems.