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Former U.S. Vice President, Dick Cheney, is scheduled to be charged for issuing $180,000,000 in bribe money to Nigerian officials, during his time at Halliburton. Well, that ought to give him another heart attack.

Nigeria’s anti-corruption unit EFCC (The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) has stated it is going forward with the charges. Considering the wars in the Middle East have largely been fought for the benefit of Halliburton (oil and rebuilding contracts), Cheney deserves to be charged for his global misconduct on their behalf and as a scheming shareholder.

udezue:
Is Beaf Feab?

WTH happened?

Where is my man EzeUche?
and also Ileke Idi?

krendo:
^^^^^

Brazen arrogance mixed with laziness

Only a lazy people pride themselves on natural resources they di not plant.

This is why the Ijaws are very lazy, no education, no hardwork, the fishing they knew how to do is now un-existent. All they wanna do is threaten the rest of us with guns and hope to be paid money monthly and then go and blow the money on kai-kai.

Go and look for work, we will soon chase Jonathan back home and put you Ijaws in your place.

Power belongs to God and with your arrogance we will purnish you.

alj harem:
no when did u post it,,,,,, do u even know my address

and what i suppose to do with a rat brain

i beg no vex me ooo

appletango:
if it wasn't for zoning your uncle and auntie would still be unknown crooks from the creeks

[size=14pt]Niger Delta Council Confirms Villagers Dead After Army Operation[/size]

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- A key representative body in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta said at least nine villagers were killed and more than 100 houses destroyed after the army entered a community while chasing militants this week.

Local villagers told Dow Jones they had been shot at by the army's Joint Task Force, which denies targeting them.

The army moved in recent weeks to crush a resurgent militancy in Africa's largest oil region.

In a media statement, Miabiye Kuromiema, president of the Ijaw Youth Council, or IYC, said he got confirmation that nine people "are confirmed dead, and many more still missing" when he visited the Ayakoromor community Friday.

A spokesman for the JTF said the army was on its way to attack a nearby camp of the militant John Togo when "they came under fire from civilian quarters" in Ayakoromor in Delta State. He said Togo's men appeared to have taken positions there.

The IYC also said "it was discovered that more than a hundred houses were burnt/destroyed, by the JTF."

The army said that due to the gunfight, "some houses ignited and the fire spread," but there was no intentional arson.

The army spokesman confirmed that nine locals died and said he could no longer rule out they included unarmed civilians. "It cannot be discerned if they were militants or not," he said.

A person familiar with the identity of the dead said most were elderly, with ages ranging from 40 to 75 and included a woman.

In a phone interview, Jimmy Aye, 50 years old, who sought refuge in the outskirts of the regional capital of Warri, said he was "shot in the back by a stray bullet." He said none of the locals had fired shots.

Asked if he had seen militants in the community, Aye said, "No. I only saw the army."

Oyele Mounkuroama, 36, another refugee now in the compound of a local leader in Warri, said his wife was shot twice in the buttocks and that a bullet scratched his face. "They arrived on boats on the river and they began to destroy our property," he said in a phone interview.

-By Benoit Faucon, Dow Jones Newswires; benoit.faucon@dowjones.com


(END) Dow Jones Newswires
12-04-101851ET
Copyright (c) 2010 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

alj harem:
gbammmmmmmmm

beaf just shut it because u do not know what u are talking about

Horus:
Get your fact right. The french army (La Licorne) massacred 120 Pro-Gbagbo peacefull protesters. It was an anti-french protest. The protesters were in front of the Hotel Ivoire in Abidjan to suport and protect Gbagbo because the french army wanted to attack the presidential palace, and the french suffered a deadly air raid from the Ivorian Air Force (9 dead and 34 wounded).

The United Nations conducted an investigation into the events of the March 2005 demonstration and in early May 2005 the report leaked through the French media. The UN report stated that "At least 120 people were killed, 274 wounded and 20 disappeared. These figures are by no means final." The report also accused the army and pro-Gbagbo militias of attacking citizens indiscriminately and unprovoked. The Government responded by accusing the UN of encouraging instability in the country by releasing such an irresponsible and unfair assessment. The student groups also staged a series of protests against the report.

ocelot2006:
Until an official independent investigation is carried out, we won't know what transpired during the military operation. That said, I won't be suprised if the crook John Togo had his camp located close to or within the community. It wouldve made perfect sense as the militants would've been able to use the villagers as human shields.

Besides, the military won't just attack a settlement without carrying out some form of recon using military intelligence assets or SSS operators, aqcuire and process collected intelligence from HUMINT source

The task-force boss maintained that the target was the militant camps operated by John Togo in the community and not the villagers. According to him, the few houses burnt were those situated under PHCN tension wire.

ilugunboy:
Dude you are damn desperate to get an Igbo man in there come 2015 with the most silliest strategy ever know in the books of politics - trying to make a politician honour his words when there is no constitutional limitation on him to do so! pathethic reasoning of the highest order. Am really afraid for the Igbo nation if your type is what they are breeding to take over the political space, it simply means tthe North will always easily use your naivety in politics to hold on to power perpertually.

ElRazur:
Please say something more meaningful.

Emagweali is intelligent.

His claims were misleading

Records are now being set straight.


Deal with it.

McKren:
What are the various strategies Jonathan has proposed to stimulate the private sector?

Provide us videos of Jonathan talking about his programmes or defending his records. Not links to sites where experts are asked to go and dump 10 point plans. If the President is not talking about these plans himself, hee is either not aware of them or he does not believe in them.

BTW you guys should stop wishing that a man who has stepped down from the race is still running. You are living in the past.

ElRazur:
In  debates around here, it is all well and good to score a brownies points while not refuting the points raised.  You sir, are doing the same thing right now.
. . .

ElRazur: You see as it stand, I can present a lecture and claim to invent Microsoft Windows 7 program, but I will be looking for trouble if I now make an OS based on Windows 7.

McKren:
Instead of Jonathan camp telling Nigerians about their programmes, they are busy talking about concensus forgeting that all news whether good or bad helps keeps Atiku in the news and attracts momentum to him.