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ifyalways: Who is this frustrated coward quoting me this morning?

Which dirty, daft soul is this forcing herself so much to be noticed by ify?

Unu lekwa this mgbeke ?!

Pick up your very dumb face and zoom off my way. If your mama born you well, use your everyday handle to attack me!

Lekwanu, hungry puppet trying to address ify?I talk to masters not slaves. Go bring your master to address me before udele erie ozu gi this morning.

you are the megbeke here
nwukwa na okpuru nwoke!
ashawo nairaland
stop parading your self mrs wife for all
shameless thing

our new eze will not live in culture section'
he has to defend us here too
and this place is where most things happen
these culture section people cannot speak for us here

ifyalways: was that statement made today?what have you guys done to teach her let alone she didn't listen?have any of you bothered to open a thread and educate she and others about the "igbo cause"?

No?!. You major focus is fight!, fight!!
Tigbuo, Zogbuo.

We want bridge builders.

Let me just invite you all to the culture section where the reality is sitting tight!

The igbo cause y'all are hiding under to put others down won't work and be achieved when my brothers are tearing themselves apart for "Nri cause/Ngwa cause/delta igbo cause" etc. We need to unite FIRST from the grassroot before we can forge ahead.

Jeez!

madam you have voted, why not go and sit down somewhere
you are too desperate to control the new eze we need a strong man to represent us please
odumchi is a moderator in this forum
how can he represent ndi igbo ofuma for dis place?

moderator why are you allowing people to campaign for their candidates indirectly here
ifyalways is campaigning for odumchi and you say nothing

if you she doesn't stop she will destroy this election
if she has issues with onlytruth she should take it outside
of this place

naija don suffer
too much suffer in nigeria
even fisherman no fit go gabon

make i hurry go marry one of dem militants jare
too much money full ground

don't know much of these guys but i know onlytruth
my vote goes to onlytruth
policewoman too

berem: you sound like Okija Juju! I hope am right in my guess.

okija caught!
useless man

how can any igbo person insult oda igbos and people are here wanting them to contest
this election

some should have their heads examine

i'm even ashamed how some are attacking awa eze because of uselss people

HAIL BIAFRA!

ocelot2006: Hey speak for yourself. As a fellow South-South man, my allegiance is solely to my country Nigeria and the green-white-green flag, and I vehemently refuse to side with some defeated pipe-dream cocked up years ago. Yes mistakes were made in the past by previous military govts against the people of the Niger-Delta. But then again, everyone else bore the brunt of the military's neglect. It's not as if these past military leaders developed their own states or regions (apart from their own personal pockets). If so, how come the North is still far behind in terms of education, health-care, and civil infrastructure. Every other region have similar stories of abandonment by our past military.

With the advent of democracy, at least the FG tried to rectify these past mistakes. But you seem to heap the full blame on the FG, forgetting that our own respective state and local govts equally failed us. What the hell did they do with their own allocations?

Anyway, I don't see us SS states siding with the Biafrans. Worst case scenario, we declare our own republic (although it will never get to that).

the only people in SE and SS who wants to contineu in nigeria are those who benefit personally from nigeria, like old soldiers like you
every retired military personnel wants nigeria to continue
go and ask danjuma!

as long as these old soldiers are there in igboland and SS, they will stick with nigeria because their pension is at stake!

ya words na selfish word

1,400 identities! shuoooooooooooo!

Nigerian Couple in the UK Jailed for Trying to Claim £3.8m in Benefits Scam using 1,400 Identities

Exactly one week ago, BN brought you news of a Nigerian couple that was arrested in the UK for falsely claiming about £43,000 in benefits. The story elicited much fury from readers who were disappointed at the bad image they portrayed about Nigerians abroad.

It is therefore saddening to read news of yet another Nigerian couple arrested in the UK for securing £87,000 from fraudulent claims totalling £3.8million over four years.

Adeola Thomas, 38, and his partner, Abimbola Abiola, 34, managed to pocket £87,000 after using 1,400 stolen identities to complete 2,495 handwritten tax and benefits claims forms.

And just like the other couple that was reported to have lavishly spent the money on a house in Nigeria, the pair spent the money on designer clothing and electrical items including a 50-inch plasma television.

The fraud was discovered when benefits staff at HM Revenue & Customs noticed they had received multiple tax credit claims from the same addresses. Subsequently, an investigation was launched.

Thomas’ hand-written application forms were analysed, computer records were checked, and hours of recorded calls to the Tax Credit Helpline were listened to and a surveillance operation was carried out. The HRMC investigators viewed CCTV footage showing activity outside various North London Post Office ATMs.

Thomas was eventually arrested at a cash point outside a Post Office in Hackney on October 7th last year. He was found to be in possession of 17 Post Office account cards in different names, two mobile phones and two fraudulently completed forms addressed to Jobcentre Plus.

When Abiola was arrested later the same day, she had £4,125 in her handbag. The mother-of-one claimed the money was her child benefit payment.

Daily Mail reports that the pair, who carried out the scam between January 3, 2007 and October 7, 2011, tried to claim £827,000 from HMRC, securing £43,000. They also claimed £3 million from the Department of Work and Pensions and received £44,000.

With Abiola’s help, Thomas used stolen personal details to complete 2,495 handwritten application forms, which were sent to the appropriate departments for processing.

Thomas, who also happens to be an illegal immigrant pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering offences. Abiola, a Nigerian national with leave to remain in the UK was also found guilty of four counts of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and possession of criminal property.

They were both sentenced to jail this week. Thomas was sentenced to seven years in jail while Abiola received two-and-a-half years sentence.

The Judge who read his sentence indicated Thomas should be deported after serving his time in the UK.

Below are photos of his arrest when he was trying to withdraw his fraudulent claims at an ATM.

see them!

Yoruba and fraud!
why are we in the same country
why God why!

Nigerian Couple defraud UK Govt of £3.8 million

Written by Sunday, 30 September 2012

A Nigerian couple who tried to claim £3.8 million in an ‘eye-watering’ benefits scam using 1,400 stolen identities have been jailed for a total of almost 10 years.

Adeola Thomas, 38, assisted by his partner, Abimbola Abiola, 34, managed to pocket £87,000 after submitting almost 2,500 handwritten applications for tax credits and benefits.

The fraud was discovered when benefits staff noticed the same address was being used for multiple claims, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.

Thomas, an illegal immigrant, was jailed for seven years while Abiola, also a Nigerian with leave to remain in the UK, received two-and-a-half years.

Passing sentence, Judge William Kennedy said: “This was no less than a criminal industry, with simple and eye watering criminality designed to maximise the loss to the public.

‘It was a difficult investigation carried out with skill and tenacity.”

Nigerian Tribune http://tribune.com.ng/sun/news/8694-nigerians-defraud-uk-govt-of-n1bn

emiye: I think the ibibios are the 4th largest ethnic group in naija. no?

most likely

shymexx: Bakassi is gone, focus on what we've got... Nigeria should NEVER have gone/honoured ICJ in the first place... We're a big country and we had no business going to the ICJ when we knew the French have special interests in Cameroun/Francophone Africa...

We need to modernise our military and dare the French(notorious cowards) - seceding a part of your Country to a smaller country is cowardice... We're a cowardly nation and we need to let it go...

To be honest, no matter how many 'fresh facts' are revealed, Bakassi belongs to Cameroun - and we can't win at the ICJ... Appeal and militarise the place, or let it go..

PS: France can't hurt a fly, that's the easiest Western country to defeat in a war...

that is if you survive their nuke bombs first
mumu

bakassi is gone deal with it.
no need crying over spill milk

Ngodigha1: He is your brother now. Wonders shall never end. Yet you and your fellow criminals will bomb Atlass building and other projects in Yorubaland at will. Your criminals also kidnap their obas anytime they want. You do all this to them knowing that they are cowards. Its a pity.

but ijaws are cowards too. that is their bond of brotherhood
useless ogogoro heads make good partners to oil soup heads

go rochas!

Biafra rep: nwanne echefurum na obu ndi ofenmanu na amaghi ihe ka mu na ha n'aru uka. Ndi iberibe! Amam na n'ikpeazu ndi Igbo ga enwe nmeri na obodo Nigeria. Ndeewo.

umu Yoruba bu ndi chukwu buru onu. mba na enweghi isi

obi is fired up and ready for action!
my action governor
carry go!

it is precisely because of the ZUBY77s in enugu and other parts of igboland that you need a Chino11 in anambra state
this zuby fool has done more damage to igbo unity with his foolish and fake statistics than chino can ever do in a whole year
anambra people constantly scold and abuse chino for his ways
enugu people simpply caution zuby lightly and pretend not to see it
anyaoku ajoka
tufia

@topic, kudos to peter obi!

by the time GEJ leaves office, he would have achieved more than all his predecessors combined

GEJ, forward ever!

in your wet dreams!
Yoruba thieves want to run away with lagos

massob will get armed one day all this nonsese go end
coward police
boko boys full ground
police run from them

oduamumu and kingofmaleasss stalking igbo diks
nairaland resident biiitches