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I took my time to read the full story with all the links and I discovered that the story is true.

She was allotted the oil block in 1993 by Babangida Administration. You will recall that Danjuma said categorically that he sold his own for one billion (1993) US dollars but Alakija did not sell her own but went into partnership with Star Deep(a subsidiary of Chevron) for a 40% stake. when they struck oil, NNPC under OBJ took over the 50% stake and her take was reduced to 10%. Forbes estimate of her $600m USD last year was based on the 10% stake.

She went to court that NNPC has no right to take over 50% without spending a dime and she claimed she spent an average of about 3 billion USD annually to get to a productive stage before NNPC decided to take it over. After a couple of years of legal battle, the Supreme Court in May 2012 ruled in her favour and that was how she owned 60% again and that projected her net-worth to over 3 billion USD ahead of Oprah's 2.7 billion as the world's richest black woman.

The breakthrough started in 1993 (19 years) ago and no wonder the success.

I really appreciate this woman for her tenacity in not selling her own oil block like some other people who are privileged to be given oil block then. If she had done so, this story won't have come up today. the so called $ 3B stake will be to some foreigners.

Hunnmmm, I have seen a minister of works cried heavily on a notoriously bad road that her ministry should have fixed. What was the outcome? The rad was still in it's ever-delapidating and life-wasting state many years after.

Good move anyway; but let us pray also that God will close all their eyes to the compensation that should be paid to the victims either by the insurance or the airline. The way they chop money is like a disease/addiction. Some of us have not recovered from the SEC and Pension Fund probes where they chop and chop any how.

I came across one local abUSE of the HAZARD LIGHT. I saw a driver driving against the oncoming vehicle I accused him asked him why he was doing such a wrong thing but he shouted at me and said "You mean you no see my "ONE WAY" light!". When I checked, it was the hazard light that was on!

@poster. I feel you because I experienced similar feelings. You can imaging on the day of graduation when all your colleagues were coming to shake you and wishing you all the best in life! Some saying they can never accept but fight it out and other similar unguided statements. That was a few years ago. Today, I work For a multinational oil company.

other posters had offeredvery valuable information, just use them to map out your strategy. Here is how I went about mne.

1.I registered for an MBA immediately ( after an engineering degree, perhaps because of banks, I can't remember again.)
2. I didn't even apply for any job with 2:1 tag, because I know we are so many in Nigeria and I don't want to get any depression. What I did was to look for a job with minimum of a 2:2 tag or 2:2 with a master tag. To my surprise, I started getting some fantastic ones. I approached them like this is for me and I got them. In one of the interviews I attended then, we were 24 at the last stage, 3 of us were 1:1; 18 were 2:1 and 3 were 2:2. Could you believe that only 3 were taken and 2 of us got 2:2.

need to mention that I also used to state it in my CVs as previous posters mentioned I.e. B.Sc. electrical/Electronics Engineering ( Second Class Hons. lower Division CGPA 3.49/5.00)
I also need to mention that I got 4 great jobs( Int'l oil company, Central Bank, Diamond Bank, Halloburton) that I can build my career around at the same time and I had to choose which one to go for.


So, as you work, I need to also remind you that the effect will reverberate all through your career, you may not be able to apply for jobs that still demand for 1:1 or 2:1 with a number of years of experience. You will need to always disaster-proof your career by proficiency and certifications, infallible self development. With this and God's favor shy will be your limit.

i wish all the bestin life!

Where is the location? I wonder how you can forget to mention such a vital information?

Thanks for your kindness and generousity with information as regards Immigration to US.

My wife and I applied for US Visa but were denied. We thought we are very qualified and have sufficient tie back in Nigeria. I am working in an Oil Company and my wife is also a practicing Doctor. We have a fat account and we showed the Consulate officer the account statements on his request. My wife confirmed she is pregnant but she wasnt planning to give birth in the US. I guess the officer was not convinced on some things which we tried to explain but he still declined.

1. He wasn't convinced of my salary. He picked a line in my bank statement that was much lower than my salary and concluded that was my income, I showed him my company payslips and letter of introduction from the company that has my annual salary , he still wasn't satisfied.

2. My wife confirmed she is pregnant but she wasn't planning to give birth in the US but he wasn't convinced about this despite all explanations. He was thinking that she want to give birth in the US and was lying about it.

With these 2 issues I guess he denied us. Here are my quaestions? and I desire an honest opinion from you as usual.

1. Why did he denied us and how can we know the exact reason for the denial?
2. We were thinking he should just deny my wife and give me. Why did he deny the 2 of us?
3. We were tempted to re-apply immediately (at least one or two of us). What is your view about this? or should we wait until after our baby arrived before we re-apply?

I was on a long traffic 2 days ago in Port Harcourt but to my surprise, it was caused by the Police men extorting money from Keke NAPEP without even asking them to  clear off the road to prevent such great traffic.

I challenged the policemen that the IG has ordered that this should not happen again, immediately they replied[b] "What the IG stopped was road blocks, this is a checking point"[/b]

Kindly enlighten me, what's the difference between road blocks and checking point?

May be it is time for IG to stop both the road blocks and checking points!

@freecocoa,

There is another thread for teaching English Language's syntax and semantics. That will be a better one for your contributions.

STOP SPOILING OUR FUN. Okay.

@ PapaBrowne

I am sorry to disagree with you on your ascertions. They are absolute statements and there is nothing like that. Have you been in a position to be responsible for about 30 important things in face of very limited resources? Have you heard or used Ranking methods to make a decision after considering the pros and cons of all the items? Have you been priviledged to check out the alternative forgone on any of your decisions as every decision you made has all these? Amidst several capital projects, a single welfare package for staff is not out of order at all.

I am very comformatble now as i am in the Oil and Gas sector. I went to public schools in Osun State and my people are still in Osun State. I am grossly indebted to quite a number of Civil Servants - teachers, nurses, Doctors, Administrators etc who are working tirelessly with meagre amount and has helped several of us from such background to a level where we can compete with the world standard in several aspect of human endeavour.

I can't help wondering how on earth (several of us who are quick to cast aspersions) a family man will be surviving with about 17K monthly and still be very commited like most of them are.

Kudos to them and thanks for Aregbe for at least making them happy. I also hope the bad eggs among them will be fished out.

I called someone who works as a teacher in Osun and she confirm the following

1. That the Government is not owing any salary to date, Aregbe has also paid the december salary. VERY GOOD
2. The Government promised to pay all staff 25% of their Salary as the 13th Month.
3. The government promised that the workers will receive the money before Friday  23rd dec. 2011.

These are the confirmations I made from the people who are directly inpacted.

I did this to put things in perspective so that we can make accurate contributions.

Personally, I believe if the private sectors are rewarding their staff with 13th Month, why not the public sector? They deserve it and we should credit the Govt. to implement it even though it is 25%.
Hasty Generalization is also not FAIR, there are some civil servants that are working tirelessly and there are still some that will not take bribes.

Cheers.

It seems most time that some of us are just abusive by nature or immature in character. I have seen this as one of the major difference between us and our enlightend and white follows.

He asked for a sincere opinion and we are not compelled to respond to his post if we cannot be patience and give a matured response.

@Poster, You can marry a third class. A degree shows completion of a course. Some of our notable popular people this day dropped out deliberately to follow their vision and passion and they were successful at it. Bill Gates of Microsoft, Steve Jobs of Apple,, Zucherberg of Facebook etc.

If she had other important qualities that makes a good wife, Please marry her.

All the best.

@ nolongTing

If you are sure of more billionaires from Nigeria as you said and you can do your research and present you data to Forbe's, they will certainly adopt it once they can verify it.
Another issue you may have to deal with is whether the people you mentioned really wanted such publicity or not.

Cheers!

FYI, Forbes reports only verifiable wealth. If you have been following, you would have noticed that dangote came into the list when some of his companies were listed on the NSE. Until then he wasn't included as some of his investments and indirect and not public. You will also notice that Otedola made it when the share price of AP where he had major stock was very high. His wealth fell as the AP share price fell.

Certainly, there are so many more billionares in Africa and some of the men like Dangote also worth much more that what was quoted for them. Forbes is a reputed company and will like to defend whatever they quoted and unfortunately they won't if they cannot.

My 2 cents.

There are too many ignoramus in the corridor of power.

How can this man be comparing $11 of 1980s with the $110 of the 2000s.

The question he needs to answer is .

What is the value of $1 then and how much is it now?
What about inflation?
What are the cost of things then?
How much salary was he paying then?
How much does it cost to build a good road, schools, infrastructure then compared to these days?

If him and his cohorts can shamelessly stole hundred of millions of dollar when crude oil was $11 per barrel, how much would they have stolen if it is $110?


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My stake is that "More is always better!"  V6 is better any day.

As ststed by eairlier posters, most of the things people fear about V6 are not through, it's also amazing what I4 engined cars are doing these days.

"Atiku. The man OBJ and EFCC could not stop"[/b][b]

Do you think he thinks the people can stop him?

I am persuaded that the poster is not sincere about her posting on this relationship/marriage. If by now the questions most people have been raising is yet to be answered. Such attitude can really make an husband run away. It's like living in denial.

What are you doing that irritates him?
Are you giving him the respect he deserves as the only man you chose?
Are you sticking to things he has dissagree with?
Are you the disobedient, highly opinionated, self-righteous, proud, attention-seeking, nagging, brawling, tantrum-throwing wife?
Have you brought order, peace into his life or the opposite?

Even if you go for counselling with the mind that it is only your husband that is the bad egg without critical look into how you are triggering such behaviour, people may still not be able to help you appropriately as they would have love to do.In my opinion, changes starts by looking inward, to consistently seek how to prevent chaos as it will benefit no one.

Also, if he is truly your husband, and even if he didn't talk explicitly, you should be able to have a lists of things that can trigger such a behaviour from such a man who has just spent heavily on your wedding.

So many people who owned up to those vices listed above have received great helps and are now bouncing in the marital bliss.

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The Other Face of Lagos - Land Scams in Lagos Involving Gov. Fashola and
Ex-Gov. Tinubu
Written by GBENGA THOMAS
Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:10 - Last Updated Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:30

We are concerned citizens of Lagos who have brought to your attention various cases of corruption and abuse of office by former Gov Bola Tinubu and Gov Fashola in our previous publications.

In this publication, we bring to your attention once again monumental cases of corruption and abuse of office involving land matters in Lagos State perpetuated by the duo. Over the past 10 years, both Tinubu and Fashola have been involved in various land scams including outright conversion of Lagos land for personal use, and given out state land and
buildings to their cronies, political associates, public officials, members of security agencies, politicians and members of the various arms of the judiciary to achieve one interest or the other at the expense of Lagos tax payers.

Tinubu in particular is the number one landlord in Lagos and has turned Lagos land worth trillions of naira into his personal possession to be used freely or given away unaccounted for. Even after he left office, Tinubu still continues to steal Lagos land under the watch of Fashola. He is still giving out Lagos land to curry political favours, signing C of O
and backdating them to period he was in office. Gov. Fashola has photocopied Tinubu’s land grabbing style as he is also acquiring land for personal and political purposes.

These brazen acts of corruption by the duo have been with the active collaboration of select few public officers who have gotten obscenely wealthy at the expense of Lagos taxpayers. Most notable are Gbenga Ashafa-formerly executive secretary and now Permanent Secretary, Land’s Bureau since 2001; Mrs Awofisayo-formerly Permanent Secretary and now Special Adviser, New Town Development Authority (NTDA), and a relation of Bola Tinubu from Iragbiji, Osun state who has been in charge of NTDA since 1999; Hakeem Muri-Okunola-PA to former Gov Tinubu and now Executive Secretary, Land’s Bureau; Mrs Nike Animashaun-Director, Land Services and known to be close to Bola Tinubu and Tunji Olowolafe. These people are arguably the wealthiest unelected public servants ever in the history of
Lagos state. They are major wheelers and dealers of prime land. We mentioned in our earlier publication that the Land’s Bureau at Alausa stinks of corruption.

We catalogue below a few brazen acts of stealing and corruption committed by both Fashola and Tinubu on the good tax payers of Lagos. For ease of reference, we categorize these acts into two parts: the direct theft of
prime land and properties and the use of Lagos land and properties to buy favours or pay off public officials at various levels.  A. Direct Theft of Lagos Land and Properties Tinubu’s greed and primitive acquisition tendency knows no bound. In fact, it is believed that Lagos land personally converted by him is worth over N500 billion and
growing because he hasn’t stopped. A few of them are listed below:

1. 4 Oyinkan Abayomi (formerly Queens) Drive, Ikoyi. A 5 bedroom detached house on 1 acre of Land, which was a Lagos State Governor’s guesthouse since 1979 now belongs to Bola Tinubu. The C of O was signed and released
to him by Fashola in 2007 shortly after he assumed office. The property is valued at N450million

2. Tinubu’s residence at 26 Bourdillon road, Ikoyi was initially falsely presented as Oando Plc guest house. Later, he purportedly bought it from Oando, and used public fund to rebuild and renovate it. Recently, the Lagos state government bought the property and paid undisclosed sum to him and thereafter gave the property back to him under the bogus Pension Bill he signed to law shortly before he left office in 2007. The property is worth over N600 million

3. The annex of the Lagos State Guest House in Asokoro, Abuja was bought by the State Government in 2006 for N450million purportedly to protect the main house from security breach. Shortly after he left office, the property was transferred to him under the pension plan he signed into law before he left office.

4. The 250 hectare land valued at about N35 billion strategically located at the Ajah junction on Lekki Road which was initially meant for a General Hospital for the people of Eti-Osa local government was stolen by Tinubu
and handed over to Trojan Estate Ltd- a company owned by Deji and Wale Tinubu to develop as Royal Garden housing estate at the expense of the tax payers of Lagos.

5. The 1,000 hectares of land valued at about N75billion located at Abijo at Ibeju-Lekki LG and given to LCC which is part owned by Tinubu and Fashola and being developed as golf course and housing estate by Assets and Resource Management Ltd (ARM) as ADIVA project

6. The prime land of 157 Hectares with 2.5km of Atlantic beachfront valued at about N10 billion and stolen by Tinubu from the communities of Siriwon, Igbekodo, Apakin, etc in Ibeju-Lekki LG and given to Ibukun Fakeye-his crony to build a golf course and luxury villa with little or no compensation to the villagers. In addition, Tinubu paid $20 million (N3billion) out of public treasury to Ibukun Fakeye to commence the project in late 2006. Fashola has since released additional funding for this project, which is not owned by the state government.

7. The 1-Acre Parkview Ikoyi Estate foreshore land valued at N1 billion reclaimed by Lagos State Government is now owned by Bola Tinubu.

8. While in office, he allocated to himself the former Strabag yard beside the Lagos state secretariat at Alausa, Ikeja.

9. Also the choice property at Lekki-Epe road on which he built and owns the multi-billion naira Oriental Hotel and the extension of multi-storey car park beside it. Also the multi-level recreation centre by Mobil in Oniru Estate on Lekki-Epe road jointly owned with ARM and Tunji Olowolafe. All these assets valued at over N25billion were obtained without paying a kobo to the Lagos State Government.

10. Tinubu and Fashola sold the following prime Lagos properties to their personal friend and front-Prince Dipo Eludoyin at very ridiculous prices: The 3.8 hectares of land of Lagos State Fisheries office in VI (beside the
Institute of Oceanography ) valued at N3 billion The Fishery landing jetty at Badore (where the Ilubirin fishermen were to be relocated) valued at N500 million The entire Ogudu foreshore scheme initially earmarked for low cost housing scheme valued at N5 billion. The Ilubinrin housing estate (which used to house Lagos state civil servants and judges up till 2007) valued at N2.5 billion. The former Julius Berger yard at Oko Orisan, Epe valued at N450 million

11. Tinubu raised a loan of N4.7billion on Eko Akete Project for which nothing was achieved before he turned around to sell the property to his Chagouri friends of C & C and Hitech Construction Ltd at ridiculously low price at the expense of the taxpayers of Lagos.

12. Tinubu expended over N5billion of Lagos tax payers’ money on the bar beach shore line project and no further work has been done by the concessionaire to develop the Atlantic City project which was claimed to have been over-subscribed. We suspect the N5billion will soon become a complete waste given the temporary nature of the shoreline protection. The Federal Government in 2005 offered to handle this project at no cost to Lagos but Tinubu refused because of his personal interest and greed.

13. Tinubu applied to personally purchase the Federal Secretariat building while in office. When he couldn’t get to buy it, he directed Fashola to stop the eventual owner of the complex to develop it. The complex is presently wasting away courtesy of the Lagos State Government.

14. It took several months of horse-trading and underhand payments before Gov Fashola could

15. Several other buyers of Federal Government properties and developers of properties in Ikoyi, VI and GRA Ikeja were forced to succumb to the outrageous demands of Tinubu, Fashola, Commissioner Abosede and other officials of the Lagos State Physical Planning Ministry and were made to pay ridiculous amounts to private accounts before their redevelopments were approved. Those who refused or are unable to pay could not develop their properties. This is a major economic strangulation of property developers and has contributed largely to the sky rocketing rent in Ikoyi, VI and Lekki axis.

16. Tinubu converted all the plots of land where Lagos Polytechnic was located at Ikosi near the old toll gate. He chased away the polytechnic in 2006 and went ahead to locate the choice plots to himself, his cronies and political associates. The headquarter of Television Continental (TVC) which is owned by him is located there. He deprived the youths of Lagos of decent education because of his greed.

17. Tinubu single handedly sold the prime land on Aboyade Cole, VI that was recovered from some allottees, to UACN Properties Plc. The amount of proceeds was shrouded in secrecy

B. Use of Land and Properties to buy favours from public officials This is an act of using Lagos prime land to buy favours and corrupt public officials. This act was perfected by Bola Tinubu as governor and now inherited by Gov Fashola: Several prominent Nigerians in the judiciary, police, INEC, and other sensitive agencies have obtained prime land from former Gov Tinubu and Gov Fashola over the years without paying a kobo. Many of them had turned around to sell the land to third parties at substantial profit. Many top officials in the police, INEC and the judiciary who participated in the 2003 and 2007 elections and tribunals in states where Tinubu has interest were compromised with parcels of free prime Lagos land and cash. If the Lagos State Land ’s Bureau could publish the names and identities of beneficiaries of land allotees from year 2000 to date, the scandal that will result is better imagined. Gbenga Ashafa and Mrs Awofisayo are the conduit through which these acts are being perpetuated. Both are also personally involved in various dubious land transactions on their own.  Prime land and properties have been used to pay off public officials who are personally close to Tinubu and Fashola for ‘job well done’ or for being privy to sensitive information:

(a) Dele Alake, former commissioner for Information and Strategy was sold a whole house on Alexander road, ikoyi where he lived as official quarters at a giveaway price.
(b) Rauf Aregbesola, AC Osun State governorship candidate and former commissioner and Muiz Banire, still a serving commissioner got detached houses at Ladoke Akintola st, GRA Ikeja for the “good job” while serving
under Tinubu.
(c) Yemi Cardoso and Wale Edun both former commissioners were sold houses on Iru close, and other location in old Ikoyi at giveaway prices by Tinubu. The list is endless. Gov Fashola was Tinubu’s Chief of Staff from 2002 to 2007. He was a part of these scams running errands for his boss to perpetuate these corrupt acts. He has since taken over as governor and has continued with these acts Gov Fashola in the wake of the petition against him presented by “The True Face of Lagos” to the House of Assembly has succeeded in buying his way out of trouble temporarily by bribing each of
the 40 members with cash and prime state land at Abijo GRA off Lekki-Epe road.

In addition, he bought a N40million bullet proof jeep for the speaker in a desperate bid to ward off investigation by the assembly. These corrupt acts have deprived the taxpayers of Lagos billions in revenue, which could have been used for public projects. Indeed, the prime land stolen from the Lekki axis is enough to build the Lekki-Epe road without burdening residents and other taxpayers with a 30-year concessional toll road.

Tinubu recently came out with a full page advertorial in several newspapers to deny allegations against him that he influenced the President of the Court of Appeal on the on-going Sokoto State governorship case. We call on him and Gov. Fashola and all those whose names are mentioned in this publication to come out and deny or explain these
allegations against them. The public would no longer take their silence as ‘golden’ We wonder why Lagosians, particularly the educated elites stand by while these men are depriving the good taxpayers of Lagos. Recently, in
Delta state, eminent Deltans led by Chief Edwin Clark wrote a petition to EFCC on the various acts of corruption of former Gov Ibori, which caused the EFCC to make another move to charge him to court again.  Where are the elders of Lagos? Where are the elders of Island club, Yoruba Tennis club, The Metropolitan club, Lagos Lawn Tennis club, Eko club, The Association of Lagos Indigenes, Oriwu club, and a host of others? Where are the popular commentators on corruption?

Where are the human rights activists? Where are the NBA and the NLC? Where are the vibrant civil society groups? Where is the powerful and vibrant Lagos media? Where are the social crusaders? Where are the religious leaders? Where are the traditional rulers, the kabiyesis and chiefs particularly in the Lekki-Epe axis whose ancestral lands have been stolen and who have been deprived of their means of livelihood?

Why is there a conspiracy of silence by those known to be dogged fighters of corruption? Why are they watching as these men fritter away our collective wealth meant for future generation and us?

We should not expect any protection from the House of Assembly whose Speaker recently advised the group ‘The True Face of Lagos’ that leveled allegations of corruption against Gov Fashola to confront him with these
allegations. What manner of Speaker?

We Lagosians should take charge of our own destiny. Let us join hands in the collective effort to call on the anti-corruption agencies, and in particular the EFCC, to act now and move into the Land’s Bureau and the
State’s Treasury Office at Alausa to conduct a thorough investigation on Land matters from year 2000 to date. We assure the public that if this is done transparently, it might be possible to recover trillions of naira
stolen from the tax payers of Lagos.

The Lagos Progressives is determined to continue to expose corruption and abuse of office prevalent in Lagos state. We have done three previous publications and have called upon the EFCC and ICPC to act and we hope
this fourth publication will trigger the necessary actions from these agencies.

We thank the numerous members of the public who have responded with mails of commendations, moral and financial support. We want more of this from you and feel free to contact us by email lagosprogressives@yahoo.com. And
those who think they can intimidate us with their scare tactics, they have failed woefully. We make bold to say that our organization will not relent in our efforts to expose corruption in Lagos State Government and we still have many more releases for members of the public in the coming weeks.

Please watch out for part 5 soon.
MR GBENGA THOMAS WALE ONILE- ERE
Cordinator Secretary
THE LAGOS PROGRESSIVES THE LAGOS PROGRESSIVES
TEL: 07065443358 TEL: 08088662074
Email: lagosprogressives@yahoo.com

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