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Beautiful actress, beautiful daughter...wish daughter a very happy marriage life...

This Saraki's CCB trial have really exposed a lot of issues within our political system.

The sh*t have really hit the fan and to many public office holders will be smeared.

Everything is just in millions & billions...yet workers are not been paid their wages every month.

Ex-employees of the defunct Nigeria Airways are yet to receive their package or pensions after almost 20 years of service.

At the end of the day, our public office holders will be extra careful before they get themselves involved in any act of corruption and moving funds overseas....
All avenues are been blocked...from Dubai to Europe to North America...it seems that most countries are taking a different view on money laundering...except they want to take the money to Russia or China.

We need a massive reorientation in this land...everyone inclusive...

It's suprising that the some state legistors voted this charade into law...all ex-governors from 1999 should be probed starting with Tinubu & others...

What must it take to build new refineries in Nigeria with all the petro-dollars?

Four refineries in this country and yet we can't maintain them, maybe its high time private companies are allowed to run refineries to stop all this untold fuel hardship. If Nigeria has got sensible leaders, there should by now be a refinery in every state of the federation.

All previous governments are to be blamed.

If the event is still holding, i think the masses should match down there to protest.
This government have been so insensitive, no update about the economy or the persistent fuel crisis, yet they are hold one useless economic forum.

BY STEPHEN GLOVER

The Panama Papers are sending shockwaves in all directions. David Cameron has still not shown he didn't benefit in the past from his father's offshore tax arrangements.

My guess is he will have to be franker before he convinces his critics that he hasn't somehow been associated with the kind of tax avoidance measures against which he has publicly railed.

But there is another less obvious time-bomb in the Panama Papers that has not yet detonated. When it does, Mr Cameron will have to defend himself on another front.

He is, of course, the great champion of Britain increasing foreign aid at breakneck speed, irrespective of our financial predicament. Last year it stood at £12.2 billion, including an overshoot of nearly £200 million. It is projected to be a staggering £16 billion by 2020.

What is clear from the Panama Papers is that leading politicians from a number of poor countries to which we have given aid possess considerable assets. They have also employed offshore companies.

For example, the daughter of Pakistan's prime minister Nawaz Sharif is named as having been the beneficial owner of flats in Park Lane, one of the most expensive parts of London. Note that in recent years, Pakistan has been among the top three recipients of British aid.

The family of former Sudanese president Ahmed al-Mirgrani own a property in London whose value is not specified. Sudan is one of the poorest countries in the world, and has received £175 million in British aid since 2003.

The wife of Bukola Saraki, president of the Nigerian senate, and his former adviser own two offshore companies that jointly hold a £5.7 million house in London's Belgravia. In 2014, Nigeria was the fifth largest recipient of British aid, to the tune of £237 million.

Also flying the flag for Nigeria is Mallam Bello Gwandu, a former director of the Nigerian Ports Authority. A British Virgin Islands company owned by him holds a flat in Maida Vale, another much sought-after area of the capital.

Nor should we forget Folorunsho Coker, a former head of the Number Plate Production Authority in Lagos, who owns a £1.65 million property in agreeable Fulham.[/i]

And so it goes on. A £2.8 million house near London's Sloane Square belongs to Ayad Allawi, a former prime minister of Iraq, a country in which much British blood and treasure have been invested.

Kalpana Rawal, the deputy chief justice of Kenya (recipient of £135 million of British aid in 2014), was a director or shareholder in four offshore companies, some of which bought and sold property in Britain.

There are hundreds of officials and politicians from Third World countries mentioned in the Panama Papers. Some of them come from oil-rich Arab countries that do not receive British aid.

The ones that concern me here come from poorer countries to which we do give considerable sums of money. Needless to say, I am not suggesting these people are guilty of diverting British aid or their own government funds.

But it is disturbing that officials and politicians from poor countries in receipt of aid should be buying up choice houses and flats in the richest parts of London, thereby pushing up property prices beyond the reach of most British- born people.

Wealthy foreigners from the Third World are apparently using offshore companies in order to minimise their tax liabilities in their own countries, which they are thereby depriving of much-needed tax revenue. The hard-pressed British taxpayer is effectively being asked to make up some of the difference in the form of aid.

There is, of course, already lots of evidence of the misuse of public funds in the Third World. President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has just been found guilty of half-inching nearly £14 million of public money to improve his private home. With the support of his ruling ANC party, he has escaped impeachment.

Over the past decade, the UK has given tens of millions of pounds in aid to South Africa, though it has now ceased. The South African president may not have been literally pocketing our money, but he was indirectly defrauding the British taxpayer.[i]

No less shocking is the case of Rwanda, an impoverished country that has received hundreds of millions of pounds of British aid. Its president, Paul Kagame, doesn't stint on his own comforts and hires a jet for his frequent foreign travels. This disagreeable man, who has cracked down on a free Press, was once a favourite of David Cameron and the Tory hierarchy.

The Panama Papers state that Kagame's former physician, security adviser and spokesman, Brigadier General Emmanuel Ndahiro, has allegedly owned a jet aircraft as well as property abroad.

Will David Cameron, and his fellow foreign aid zealot George Osborne, pause for a moment, and consider this new evidence? They should ask themselves how officials and politicians in dirt-poor countries are able to buy expensive houses in London.

Their commitment to expanding foreign aid while other budgets are squeezed originates in a desire conceived more than a decade ago to 'de-toxify' the image of the Conservative Party. Mr Cameron believed that if Britain undertook to meet a United Nations target of 0.7 per cent of GDP a year, voters would be persuaded that the Tories were no longer 'nasty'.

Has this worked? I hardly think so. In fact, I believe that Cameron and Osborne's pig-headed determination to increase foreign aid during a period of belt-tightening is having precisely the opposite effect to the one they intended.

Many people, including a growing number on the Left, are aghast that money cannot be found for pressing causes closer to home while ever larger sums are lavished on often corrupt Third World countries where there is little or no accountability.

For example, Britain spends nearly £250 million a year supporting industry in developing countries — some 3.5 per cent of the soaring aid budget. Nigeria is a major beneficiary, with leather exporters there receiving tens of millions of pounds from our Department for International Development.

Some, possibly most, of this money is misspent. An investigation on BBC Radio 4 revealed that a 700 per cent increase in Nigerian leather exports, largely to Italy, was exaggerated by filling containers with rocks to collect cash coming from huge aid subsidies.[i][/i]

And yet money cannot be found — or at any rate has not been found so far — to keep alive the strategically important steel plant in Port Talbot on which the livelihoods of thousands of British people depend.

Aid is lavished on countries whose politicians and officials are mysteriously able to buy expensive properties in London while our own people are asked to make sacrifice after sacrifice.

A couple of days ago, a major study warned that GP surgeries are reaching 'saturation point' and can't cope with the rapidly rising population.

Will Cameron and Osborne ever understand the rage of ordinary Britons facing such adversity? I am sure they are decent men, but I don't think their desire to splurge so much aid money is chiefly attributable to humanitarian concern. No, first and foremost they hoped it would look good.

But it doesn't. It looks increasingly bad. They never express any outrage at stories of waste and corruption in countries to which we give aid, and they show scant concern when people in this country are in need of help.

I understand that ever-rising foreign aid is a cornerstone of their political credo to which they blindly cling. But, actually, their addiction to what I believe is an immoral cause will be more and more interpreted as proof of hard-heartedness and remoteness from their own people — clear evidence that the nasty Tories have not changed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3527405/STEPHEN-GLOVER-irony-Cameron-s-obduracy-foreign-aid-proves-Tories-nasty-party.html

It seems most banks in Nigeria encourage money laundering...based on the evidence of cash deposits made in dollars in a single day.

The Central Bank of Nigeria should look into this quickly.

The same search light should be beamed to other ex-governors who are still receiving extra income from their states.

Indeed, Saraki is very greedy.
More exposures to follow.

When will David Mark & other politicians named in the panama papers offer their resignation?

As public office holders they are not above the law. Our politicians are shameless...i don't have respect for anyone of them.

Icelandic PM just resigned over the panama papers.

At least we know that footballers & entertainers are legimately earning their income, but are dodging paying taxes which itself is a criminal offence.

By the way Lionel Messi is undergoing trials in Spain based on tax evasion done for him by his dad.

Heads must roll...i mean literally...

At this rate, Nnamdi Kanu will spend up to a year in custody even before his trial commences...then factor another year for the trial & presenting of witnesses, counter-appeals, adjournment & prosponement...very likely that before the sentencing date Nnamdi Kanu will have spent up to 3 years in custody...

Anyway he believed in his 'Biafra freedom', so he has to fight for it!!!

Our politicians no get shame at all...shame on them for approving corruption...

unlawfulact:
What is happening to saraki now is not really about his emergence as senate president neither is it about genuine concern to fight corruption using him as a scape goat. Ther truth is saraki is seen as a strong contender a man to beat in 2019 hence the need to shut him down by all means. Are u not susprise that nasir el rufai offers to be a witness against saraki. He might not be jailed eventually but they must have suceeded in damaging its reputation.

Likely, his reputation has already been been battered & damaged...even if he remains the Senate President until 2019, he should just forget about contesting for the Presidency.

Saraki's case like other politicians in this country is very simple to decide without wasting too much resources on court appearances.

The Federal Government should ask for the tax clearance for all the companies owned by the Saraki family, review the companies operations, and look into the financial statements...i guess within a month the truth will be out.

For over 6 months now, the CCT have allowed Saraki & his bunch of legal team have their time in the various court of appeal. All have come to a fruitless end, now the trial must begin.

I hope if & when judgement is passed, nobody will say that Saraki's human rights have been denied, or that the presidency is not allowing him to defend himself properly.

This is serious, depositing ₦4bn in one account!!!!

The latest gist is on Saraki, he has stepped on the toes of many powerful people both in PDP & APC & they are ready to deal with him ruthlessly. So we should not assume that his present delimma is only from the APC party, even his late dad 'cursed' him.

Politicians will always be politicians...looking for the best place where their bread will be buttered.
I think after Tope Aluko didn't get any favours from APC, he has no other option but to return to Fayose.

The funds for the cheques, are they from his personal account or government account?

A great man indeed...if he had been given the chance...Nigeria would have been like Singapore, a nation who got independence around the same time as Nigeria.

Red biro

Everything just for photo opportunity, this action can be done without any unnecessary funfare.

With all his rants, Nigeria still stands!!!

Some info about her:

-- her nickname is Ntando

-- she is a teacher

-- Ntando is a graduate of the University of the Witswateraand (Johannesburg)

-- she's 23 years old

-- Ntando from Mpumalanga, a province in northeastern South Africa. She's a self-described "township girl"

-- As the winner, she get 2 million rand (US$131,000) in prizes, including a Nissan Duke, a 7-day international vacation, and cash.

It rarely happens (in comparison to the ~80% blacks in South Africa's total population) now there is a winner at the just concluded Miss South Africa beauty contest.

It's even trending WORLDWIDE on Twitter. Her name is Ntandoyenkosi Kunene.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzfx-uXp3yc


http://misssa.co.za/

http://www.channel24.co.za/The-Juice/we-had-a-quickie-with-miss-sa-ntando-kunene-20160322

If Saraki has got nothing to hide...let him face the CCT and defend all the allegation against him...it's very simple...instead of looking for ways to appeal and counter-appeal.

The earlier this gets sorted out the better for him to either continue in his post as SP or vacate to fight for another political post in the future.

The federal government has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate Kasmal International Services Limited, a company owned by Senator Buruji Kashamu, for its involvement in stamp duty fraud.

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, requested that the anti-graft agency investigate an agreement made between the Nigerian Postal Service and Kasmal International Services Limited for the collection of stamp duties from banks and other financial institutions in the country.

According to the Attorney-General, Mr. Kashamu’s company granted waivers of all arrears of remittances owed to the federal government by banks from 2004 through 2015.

Mr. Malami has also requested that the EFCC interrogate the former Post Master General of the Nigerian Postal Service, Ibrahim Mori Baba, and the Secretary and Legal Adviser of the Nigerian Postal Service, B.S. Yakubu.

The Attorney-General provided the EFCC with eleven documents, including a letter dated February 1, 2016 in which the Acting Post Master General of the Nigerian Postal Service admitted that despite the lack of a formal agreement between the Postal Service and Kasmal, Kasmal granted waivers of all arrears of remittances to all commercial banks and financial institutions in the country.

In his letter to the EFCC, the Attorney-General requested that the anti-graft agency submit a report to him within three weeks.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/03/24/federal-government-orders-efcc-investigate-kashamus-firm


Somehow, there's no hiding place for Kashamu.

Why can't APC concentrate on making lives comfortable for the masses now, instead of talking about a future event?

A big, fat, humugous, gigantic NO...even if GEJ wants to contest as my local councillor.

It all good...this is a good development for ladies football in Nigeria.

Very good development...thanks largely to GEJ efforts.