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Politics / Re: Yoruba Man Who Stole An Entire Airline by GEJPosterity: 2:08am On Jun 23, 2023 |
Cooldowntemper: It would probably kill you to give credit to where you copied and pasted this entire story from (David Hundeyin's West Africa Weekly newsletter) https://westafricaweekly.substack.com/p/west-africa-weekly-aviation-special-c0e Plagiarism is theft. |
Politics / Re: The Curious Story Of Nigeria's Passport Shortage By David Hundeyin by GEJPosterity: 4:21pm On Sep 24, 2021 |
High Society Gentleman or Ex Drug Trafficker? On its website, ISTL describes itself as a “major subsidiary of the flagship company, Image Technologies Limited (Imagetech).” A quick CAC database check on Imagetech brings up the elusive character behind the curtain. For a Lagos socialite, Olayinka Fisher is a man who somehow keeps a decidedly low profile. For one thing, while researching this story, establishing what exactly his name is turns out to be quite the task. In some places, he is “Yinka Fisher.” In some other places, he is “Olayinka Fisher.” In still other places, he is “Olayinka Fischer” or “Sonayon Fisher.” Only in a few places that he would rather the world did not know about, does his full and correctly spelled government name appear: “Olayinka Sonayon Fisher.” So who is this guy and what is there to him? Quite a bit, as it turns out. The story starts in Mr. Fisher’s previous iteration as a high flying Nigerian diplomat in in mid-to-late 1970s. At the time, when he was still known to the world as Olayinka Sonayon Fisher, he was the Second Secretary of the Nigerian Mission to the United Nations. Researching the many variants of his name online, references to his diplomatic career can be seen right up until about 1980 when he seems to vanish off the face of the historical earth. In 1989, he resurfaces on CAC documents in Nigeria as the majority shareholder in a new company called Imagetech. Presumably at this point, the high-achieving diplomat has decided to pivot into a career in tech entrepreneurship. Nigeria being what it is, nobody ever really bothers to ask why, and by 2003 he is signing the contract above for ISTL under President Olusegun Obasanjo. The good times are rolling. Following the end of his marriage to River State scion Doris Amachree, he weds Dr. Pius Okigbo’s daughter Anne. He becomes an avid art collector and patron of the arts. He hosts art exhibitions with the Spanish Embassy in Lagos, which are co-curated by both of his sons who share his love of the visual arts. To all intents and purposes, he is the SI unit of the classy and respectable old money Lagosian. There’s just one problem: According to U.S. court records, Mr. Fisher allegedly used to be part of an intercontinental cocaine smuggling ring. I obtain the following documents from the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. They detail court proceedings from a 1983 case involving a violent drug dealer wanted for a murder in the Bronx, New York, a successful American businessman who dabbled into the illegal drug business with him, and a Nigerian diplomat who used his diplomatic immunity to traffic shipments of cocaine into the U.S. on their behalf. The diplomat’s name? A certain Olayinka Sonayon Fisher. According to Tracy Wong, the indicted American businessman, he paid Fisher the sum of $50,000 for a single shipment. The indictment further states that this arrangement lasted for at least 2 years with multiple Cocaine trafficking trips made worth several million dollars. Exactly how much Fisher made from this arrangement in total is a question only he can answer, but it certainly raises a few interesting questions. Perhaps the most telling part of this story is that following the release of this NYT article and his subsequent exit from the diplomatic corps, Fisher appears to have intentionally dropped all mention of “Sonayon” from his name. In fact, it took the extraordinary step of making a few calls to my hometown Badagry, where the name “Sonayon” also originates from, to confirm his identity. The fact that this has somehow slipped under the radar for decades despite his custody of one of the most sensitive databases in Nigeria is a sign of a catastrophic failure of state intelligence and due diligence. Making this point further, I speak to a lawyer, Solomon Igberaese to give his professional opinion of this issue. He points out that according to the Public Procurement Act 2007, someone with Fisher’s background should have been disqualified from the public procurement process. In his words: “Falsification of fact can be interpreted to also include drug trafficking. Carrying out drug trafficking under any other guise will constitute falsification of fact. That he concealed packages inside diplomatic pouches certainly qualifies as falsification of fact. Again the section said falsification of facts relating to any matter.” So there we have it - possibly the most mind-bending story in Nigeria’s rich history of dodgy public procurement and contracting. For added measure, the third person in the drug ring, a career drug dealer called Joseph Anthony Margarite was also wanted in connection with a murder at the time of his involvement with Wong and Fisher. The full and unredacted set of court records relating to this case is available here. |
Politics / The Curious Story Of Nigeria's Passport Shortage By David Hundeyin by GEJPosterity: 3:42pm On Sep 24, 2021 |
State-sanctioned racketeering, ethnic nepotism, a complete failure of due diligence, and how an indicted cocaine trafficker has come to control the supply of passports to Nigerian citizens. [img]https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F14572383-7a84-4f71-b5a9-79d28f535f07_1080x1080.jpeg[/img] “We acknowledge and apologize for the challenges faced in the past few weeks regarding passport booklets availability. I am glad to inform you that booklets are now available and are being distributed to all our passport issuing centres.” With these words on March 31, former Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Muhammad Babandede verbally signed a cheque that the NIS would subsequently fail to cash. Through the course of his tenure as CG, Nigerians had become used to chronic passport booklet shortage and the associated black market arbitrage, but the shortage had become acute by 2021. He needed to make a statement to reaffirm his competence. Speaking at the commissioning of the Maitama Passport Express Centre - itself a masterclass in formalised black market arbitrage - Babandede made that statement, and then some. A special team would be dispatched to “facilitate enrollment and production” of passports across Nigeria and its foreign missions. New passport offices to service air passengers would be sited at the airports in Lagos, Kano and Abuja. The new “premium passport processing centre” in Abuja would cut the length of passport issuance and renewal from several weeks to just 72 hours. Ultimately, Babandede’s statement turned out to be just that - a statement. From when he made these pronouncements until his retirement earlier this month, passport booklets continued to be a scarce and expensive commodity in Nigeria. Several factors were blamed for the baffling inability of Africa’s most populous country to provide passports for its citizens. Chronic corruption at the NIS; disputes between the NIS and a private contractor responsible for printing booklets; scarcity of forex to pay for security printing materials; even an alleged unofficial government policy to stem brain drain by making passports hard to access - all these have variously been blamed for this state of affairs. [img]https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3c838bd-1b74-4344-bbcc-8204aed9f623_262x193.jpeg[/img] As is so often the case in Nigeria, no theory or explanation should be dismissed out of hand, which is why when I set out to find out what is really behind the perennial shortage of these little green booklets, I was prepared for anything. Or at least I thought I was. What would emerge as I sank my teeth into this however, was not a story about supply chain disruptions or government inefficiencies. It was nothing like I had ever seen before, which is saying something. Think Transformers meets Black Mirror meets Karishika, with protagonists who are part Elon Musk, part Lawrence Anini and part Bakin Zuwo. There is a murder in New York; a million dollar cocaine deal in Bogotá. Court cases in New Jersey; a legitimate high tech manufacturing operation in Kuala Lumpur; art exhibitions in Lagos; high society marriages; prominent placement in lifestyle and celebrity magazines, and the most comically brazen lawbreaking hidden in plain sight. If this story were a movie, it would be the conceptual offspring of Michael Bay and Ugezu J. Ugezu, which is to say, low on plot and purpose, but high on sheer crash-bang value.
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Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Iniubong Umoren, CCCRN: Newswire Admits Error, Retracts Story Linking NGO by GEJPosterity: 8:43pm On May 17, 2021 |
Fake News. The story was NOT retracted. You can read Newswire's statement here yourself. https://newswirengr.com/2021/05/16/statement-on-center-for-clinical-care-and-clinical-research/ Also the story remains up on the site, in response to the despicable liar up there who claimed it has been taken down. https://newswirengr.com/2021/05/13/murder-in-uyo-who-killed-hiny-umoren/ 2 Likes |
Family / Re: Have You Ever Regretted Being Married To Your Partner? by GEJPosterity: 2:24pm On Dec 06, 2020 |
bouncin04:Above all else, make sure to marry your friend. As in someone who genuinely enjoys the fact that you exist on this planet. Not merely someone who is enamoured with you, or someone who is in love with you, but someone who actually likes you. Someone who even if you weren't romantically linked would enjoy spending their time with you because they find your company pleasant. Someone who likes you, not what you are, how you look, or how you make them feel. Someone who likes you. If you find such a person, never let them go. Ignore whether the sex is great or not, or what kinks and flaws they have. If you marry your friend, half of your future life problems have been solved. Telling you this from bitter experience. 19 Likes |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 11:28am On Nov 11, 2017 |
odimbannamdi: You can reach me here: hello@novanigeria.com |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 3:57pm On Oct 31, 2017 |
haggai247:As soon as I read this, I should never have taken a second look at your useless "test". Worthless, hopeless, future-less, hungry idiot like you. |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 3:54pm On Oct 31, 2017 |
Ranchhoddas:Lesson learned. No more "tests". If I lose work because of that, so be it. Bunch of worthless small time fraudsters. |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Haggai247 Is A Con Artist by GEJPosterity: 9:19pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
Advance work fraudster haggai247, we are still waiting for you to explain yourself. You seem to love stealing people's hard work and then making false accusations to discredit them. Come and defend yourself. |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 9:10pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
Where is this bastard called haggai247? You can't talk again? I thought you had a mouth this morning, what happened? Cat got your tongue? Where are you? Come here and tall nonsense again, I'm waiting for you. Idiot! |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 5:05pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
You can see how this idiot @haggai247 suddenly went silent after I uploaded evidence. Useless bastard, you think it's my head you will use to eat abi? Thunder fire you and your family. Come back to this thread and talk, let me see you! |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Haggai247 Is A Con Artist by GEJPosterity: 2:20pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
On that thread he went as far as taking a sample of a terribly written article by someone else and presenting it as the work that I submitted. I was forced to upload screenshots of our email conversation before he stains my reputation. Can you imagine the nerve of this guy?! |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 2:16pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
olabrad:You better read the thread. He will collect free work from you under the guise of "testing". This guy is a fraud! 4 Likes |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 2:04pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
haggai247:This is our mail conversation and the attached screenshots you cursed liar! Now let me see you come here and post another piece of trash here claiming I wrote it. Let me just see you try it. 1 Like
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Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 1:53pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
haggai247:I can see that your level of bastardry is off the scale because despite that fact that I already posted up the article you sent me and my rewrite, you went ahead to post a different article and a different rewrite by someone else and call it my work. I'm now going to upload screenshots of our mail conversation since you have decided to be a worthless liar. 1 Like |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 1:50pm On Oct 30, 2017 |
Look at this idiot. That's not even the article he sent me. Thank god I already posted it. See him lying like no man's business. 1 Like |
Literature/Writing Ads / Haggai247 Is A Con Artist by GEJPosterity: 8:30am On Oct 30, 2017 |
His mission here is to collect free work under the guise of conducting test for writers he wants to engage. Follow this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/4116910/expereienced-article-rewritten-paraphrasing-needed and see how after obtaining such work under this false pretext, he then attempted to blacken a writer's reputation and disparage his work instead of admitting his real mission. |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 8:25am On Oct 30, 2017 |
haggai247: Here is the article this idiot sent to me to rewrite: Learn What Here is what I submitted
Now tell me that this idiot has any basis to disparage my work? If they gather your whole family including your unborn children together, can they produce this kind of work, and do so within 45 minutes like I did? Useless bastard coming here to collect free work and then actually attempting to besmirch my reputation. God punish you! 2 Likes |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 8:17am On Oct 30, 2017 |
haggai247:Dude ABEG! After even telling me "Good job!" and promising to send the actual paid work, it has been more than 2 weeks, and now you're coming up with stories about how my work wasn't good, bla bla bla. PLEASE! Stick your bullshit up where the sun doesn't shine. I'm not your fukin mate personally or professionally. Even if you were legit, I would not be the one actually writing articles because I have 3 people working for me full time. I'm sure you must have noticed my custom email address. I'm not a freelancer - I run my own copywriting agency. I'm too far advanced in this game to play these stupid games with nobodies like you. Bloody Nairaland scoundrel making up stories about how my work is supposedly bad. God punished you that you tried this with the wrong person this time. If my work was truly bad, I challenge you to post it up here and let's see. If you don't post up my work for the world to judge, then you are a bastard. Idiot! Cc Jhaytee4all bewitching Ranchhoddas 2 Likes |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 3:19am On Oct 24, 2017 |
This dude apparently came here to collect free work. Total bullshitter. But it's fine. Just know that you will also never grow beyond this point. 5 years from now, you will still be running scams on Nairaland to collect free work that you will give to a Fiverr client for $20. You'll discover that all this actually doesn't pay in the end. Enjoy. |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Writers Wanted by GEJPosterity: 2:51pm On Oct 18, 2017 |
HEYWAYA:. 1 Like |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 4:58am On Oct 18, 2017 |
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Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 9:52pm On Oct 17, 2017 |
. haggai247: 1 Like |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Expereienced Article Rewritten(paraphrasing) Needed For Regular Gig **Red Flag** by GEJPosterity: 8:37am On Oct 17, 2017 |
haggai247:Still waiting for your response after submitting the article yesterday. |
Politics / Re: Central Bank Bank Illegally Funnels Huge Cash To FG - Premium Times by GEJPosterity: 12:46pm On Sep 27, 2017 |
onatisi:Time to stockpile hard currency ahead of the depression and the inevitable exit rush. Let it please just hold off for about another 18 months or so. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Central Bank Bank Illegally Funnels Huge Cash To FG - Premium Times by GEJPosterity: 9:37pm On Sep 26, 2017 |
Nigerians are the biggest fools in the known history of humanity. There is nothing more to say. 10 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: Central Bank Bank Illegally Funnels Huge Cash To FG - Premium Times by GEJPosterity: 9:23pm On Sep 26, 2017 |
Onatisi said it in 2015 that they would eventually start printing cash to fund their government after running the economy aground. I didn't think it would happen this soon though. 22 Likes 4 Shares |
Politics / Re: Buhari's Government Has Strong Ethnic Bias by GEJPosterity: 11:10am On Sep 17, 2017 |
Omoluabi16:Welcome to the club. I can't even explain how depressing it is to realise that I am a citizen of one big lie. |
Career / Re: He Was Fired After Performing An "Impossible" Task by GEJPosterity: 9:40am On Sep 08, 2017 |
pedrilo:Welcome to the club. |
Technology Market / Need A Cheap Laptop Urgently 15 - 20k by GEJPosterity: 2:37pm On Sep 07, 2017 |
Hi, I'm looking for a cheap used laptop to serve as backup to my main computer and I only have a budget of 15-20k. I'm in Lagos and I can come to pick it up today or tomorrow. Any takers? |
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