₦airaland Forum

Guyman02:
South West and North deceived the people of Niger Delta for years telling them that their enemies were the suffering people of South East their Igbo neighbours, meanwhile we have come to realise that Igbos are not our enemies after the last elections but the West and North divided us in order to rule us with propaganda.


"PIB Debate: North Controls 83% of Oil Blocks"
by Henry Umoru and Joseph Erunke

"Abuja - Chairman Senate Committe on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to revoke and re-allocate oil blocks, saying that the northerners control 83 percent of the Oil blocks in the country. He also revealed that eminent Nigerians benefit from the distribution of the Oil blocks. He named late President Umaru Yar'Adua; former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; the Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero; former Minister of Petroleum Dr. rilwanu Likman; former Minister of Defense (1999 - 2003) and Chief of Army Staff (1975 - 1979), General Theophilus Danjuma. Others are Alhaji Aminu Dantata; Col, Sani Bello; Alhaji Mai Deribe from Borno State; Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi; Alhaji Saleh Gambo; Mike Adenuga; Yinka Folawiyo (Folorunsho Alakija worth $2.5 billion and Femi Otedola etc).

------ Vanguard News Thursday March 7, 2013

"PIB Debate: North Controls 83% of Oil Blocks"
by Henry Umoru and Joseph Erunke.

----- Vanguard News Thursday March 7, 2013

"I Made $500m From Oil Block, but didn't know how to Spend it - Danjuma."

----- Punch News Thursday February 18, 2010.

"Halliburton Scandal: Report says Abdulsalami, Etiebet, Bayero got $50m"

----- Daily Independent Newspapers Wednesday April 21, 2010.

"N27 bn Halliburton Scam IBB, Abdulsalami, Diya, 77 Others Indicted"

---- Daily Independent Newspapers Thursday April 15, 2010.

"Abdulsalami's Firm named in Failed Power contract of N19 bn"

------ Vanguard Newspapers Friday March 14, 2008.

"Nigerian Leaders Stole $380 bn"

----- BBC News Friday 20 October 2006.

Refineries in Warri and Portharcourt were fixed by Diezani under Jonathan administration. Buhari could not have done a thing in just 2 months. Stop the lies.

"Who is going to fight corruption? The APC people or Obasanjo? They only pay lip service to fighting corruption. Buhari himself is not clean. What is corruption? Malpractices, parading questionable certificates, swearing to false affidavit, they are all part of corruption. And in the 1970s when Buhari was federal commissioner for Petroleum, about $2.8 billion Oil money went missing. It was later discovered that this amount was paid into a British Bank where it yielded about $400 million interest. Nobody knows where that money is. Buhari said he did n't know about it. He was appointed by Abacha as chairman of PTF, my own brother Prof. J.P. Clark was a member. In fact only prof. J.P. Clark and Buhari are still living members of PTF. Buhari brought his brother-in-law as a consultant and later handed over the entire administration of PTF to him and others. They had the authority to execute all projects. At the end of it all, they left and Obasanjo dissolved the board and removed all of them. Then Obasanjo set up a Commission of Enquiry to probe the PTF and the report, which had just been published by some newspapers, shows that N25 billion could not be accounted for by Buhari and those who administered the place. Yet Obasanjo came out to say the only thing he found against him was that instead of building roads and houses, he was busy buying mosquito nets with PTF money."

------ Edwin Kiagbodo Clark Vanguard News Sunday February 22, 2015.

"'Some $30 billion dollars was reportedly earned from Oil during the Babangida years (1985 - 1993). There was in particular the 12 billion dollars Oil windfall earned from 1991 Gulf War. Where did all these huge sums of money go? The most visible answers are some of the multi-billion-dollar white elephant projects around the country. According to Okigbo the handling of the special projects accounts by the Babangida regime was a "gross abuse of public trust."'

-- This Day Newspapers Saturday September 16, 2000.

"...even as Nigeria's oil revenues have soared: in the course of Obasanjo's eight-year tenure, Nigeria earned $223 billion, two and a half times the amount earned over the previous eight years. But thanks to kleptocracy and rampant graft, much of the money has not gone where it should have....Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) estimates that the country has wasted $400 billion since 1960."

----- Jean Herskovits, Former CIA Officer on African Affairs in "Foreign Policy", a United States Journal, August 2007.

"Has the former President (Obasanjo) forgotten that he wasted $16.5 billion dollars on power during his tenure and that $16.5 billion dollars was never accounted for?"

------ Rowland Owie, Former Senate Chief Whip, 1979 - 1983 --- Vanguard News Thursday November 6, 2014.

"The resultant effect of this shoddy approach to National Development was an unmitigated disaster and a colossal los of a whopping sum of nearly 16 billion dollars" .

---- Ameh Ebute Senate President 1993 --- Vanguard News Tuesday October 21, 2014.

"Abacha Served Nigeria Well, say Buhari, Abdulsalami. He did not loot treasury, Babangida declares."
From Adamu Abuh (Kano) and Kodilinye Obiagwu (Lagos)

---- Guardian Newspapers Monday June 9, 2008.

"Abacha Loot: Switzerland has returned $700 m to Nigeria"

---- Vanguard Newspapers Wednesday December 5, 2012.

"US Freezes $458 m Stolen by Nigeria Dictator Abacha"

---- Vanguard News Wednesday March 5, 2014

"State of Jersey to Return 315m Pounds Abacha Loot to Nigeria."

---- Vanguard News Wednesday December 3, 2014..

criminalmindz:
friends and colleagues from every part of the nation and some of my best friends are not even from my side of the country.

However, recent events are making me to have a deeper reflection and I wish we- Southerners in this instance- can have some kind of introspection. Out of 25 appointments made so far, 18 are from the North, 3 are from the South West, 4 are from the South South while the South East has ZERO appointments. A tweet which I saw today stated that “southerners are only competent when it’s time for elections but northerners are competent in terms of governance” and this made the following thoughts run through my mind:

1. Only Southerners have been accusing fellow Southerners of corruption. Oshiomole has been attacking Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as if Ngozi turned down his marriage proposal. The same Oshiomole tried to make nonsense of Akinwumi Adeshina’s successes in the agriculture sector. Ambode tried to pull Fashola down and successfully smeared him with stains. Maybe that’s why Fashola did not get the Chief of Staff role. I’m yet to see a Northerner accuse another Northerner of corruption, even when they belong to different parties. The closest a Northerner got was when the new Kano State Governor attacked Rabiu Kwankaso but he quickly sheathed his sword and even disowned previous reports of attacks. Why are we like this?

2. Are Southerners the only ones who are corrupt? Were there no northerner heading the ministries and parastatals? Did the outgone Comptroller-General of Customs, Abdullahi Dikko not have an alleged case of certificate forgery but he still served out his tenure until he resigned voluntarily? I’m not in support of corruption under any guise but the fight against corruption must not be seen to be sectional.

3. How come it’s easier for the President to believe that Sanni Abacha was not corrupt in spite of recovered loot while it is so easy for him to believe Goodluck Jonathan is irredeemably corrupt?

4. I still remember that aside from God, Tinubu made Tambuwal what he is today. The same Tambuwal would later call Femi Gbajabiamila ‘incompetent’ and rated Dogara as more competent. The same Tambuwal was propped up by Tinubu, a Southerner against a fellow Southerner, Mulikat Akande. Obasanjo was very key to denying Goodluck Jonathan a second term. A good number can still recall how OBJ tore his PDP membership card in public glare. The Northerners find it easy to support themselves but we are always pulling ourselves down. Babangida Aliyu, Sule Lamido and all the other Northern Governors including the former PDP Chairman Adamu Muazu often times refused to campaign for Goodluck Jonathan openly and many times even espoused the virtues of the opposing candidate on the rostrum!

5. Southern leaders and Presidents pull down Southern business men but prop up Northern ones. How many people still remember how Obasanjo ran Mike Adenuga out of town but both Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan made Aliko Dangote what he is today. No northern leader goes against their own. I dare to put it on record that President Buhari will never go against Aliko Dangote for any reason.

6. How come OBJ pardoned Salisu Buhari, the ex-Speaker who forged his credentials and he later was given an appointment as a Governing Council member of a University and heavens did not fall- but when Goodluck Jonathan pardoned Alamieyeseigha it became one of the major issues counted against him? Is there one rule for some and another rule for others?

7. We find it easy to raise our voices in support of the deportation of Buruji Kashamu but have no qualms with Atiku Abubakar strutting around the corridors of power.

8. Only Southerners find it so easy to abuse their elders when they voice opinions not in tandem with the popular opinion. We find it easy to diss Afenifere elders and call them ‘Afenifebi’ while hurling expletives and curses at them. We even abuse our kings and priests. Northerners will never abuse an Emir no matter how unpopular what he said is. Can you imagine any Northerner raising his voice against the Sultan? In spite of Tanko Yakassai, Balarabe Musa and Dangiwa Umar’s perceived support for Jonathan, northern youths did not abuse them. But our own youths run down our elders on social media while our educated elite also support the act.

These are some of the thoughts that have been running through my mind. I don’t pretend to have all the answers and I do this at the risk of being labelled an ethnic bigot. The point however is that Southerners have to get their acts right. We have to put our house in order. The bickering must stop. Let’s engage our emotional intelligence. Let’s not allow others to exploit our tendency to self-destruct.

WombRaiders:
This same Zakari Biu was dismissed during Obasanjo's tenure for his role in Abacha's killer death squad only for him to find himself reinstated back onto the force during Yaradua's administration.

It was during Jonathan's acting presidency that he was dismissed again for his role in assisting the escape of boko suspects in custody.

Today the man has found his way back into the force.

What we should ask Zakiru Biu is why he keeps coming back to the force after several dismissals?

This man has an agenda to fulfill with the full backing of very powerful individuals in the north.

nadisms:
My State Anambra remain indebted to PETER OBI for this feat... In his quote in of the National Dailies ''"I personally remain indebted to her(Okonjo Iweala)
because it was from her persistent
preaching on the need to save in the
Sovereign National Wealth Fund that made
me incorporate savings in foreign currency -
that is why one third of it money we left on
leaving office was in foreign currency, $156
million(N25 billion at that time). With interest
now it would be about $170 million and
with the current rate it is almost N40
billion".
... A worthy ex-governor

Guyman02:
NLNG lying about the project, initially they claimed it was a joint venture and then later turned around to say they have no interest in it. The former MD who is Igbo man located the project in the Niger Delta and then the Yoruba MD Babs Omotowa decided to relocate it to Lagos.

The Yorubas had effectively used their control of the media in the past to deceive the Niger Deltans.

amusadele:
It's now very clear why the north, especially the Fulanis like Buhari can comfortably line up as many people as possible provided they are from other region, and kill them all within few seconds. Each time I think of the threatment they give to GEJ, I was like why are the northerner like this. When Obasanjo was heading abi leading the pdp, all other regions was acting as one. When Ya-Ardua was heading the pdp, every members from all the regions were working together as one country living together, but when GEJ became the leader through the death of the ex president, at once all four governors from the north left and supported their brother Buhari. By God's grace, the one Nigerians will go down. It will stop in a short time. I will pray every day and night, this one Nigerians will be a thing of the past. Amen. God will give the fastest approved.If you like this prayer, say amen and hit, with a very powerful force, the like button.