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don't see why this can't make the front page too. if the 'fat girl story' could make it and got lots of advice and attention as a result, then I think what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Mods, do it!

another murder case cracked with the aid of technology. If only we'll learn to employ ICT/CCTV and the likes in cracking hard crimes in this country.

But please don't professional players in Europe sign similar contracts with their respective clubs? Can this also be termed "bonding"?.

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That's if BH doesn't visit them within the first few weeks of their operation.

Who's this chap putting up Okonjo iweala's picture everywhere on NL? He needs a ban!

Hope it makes the front page. Bitter truth I tell ya. you need to see the way fellow Nigerians are reacting to this article via their comments on saharareporters. very typical of Nigerians.

Wonderful video. Didn't dig the beats at first, but the video made me just like the track! You've got to love it.

Abeg na where person fit watch this match? Whether online or offline..

@op, you are not well.

Thank you,

I just hate piercings! Especially when it's on the face!

You can use Nipost. But pls ensure it is EMS and it is registered.

Cheers

This Ritualust! Only God knows how many human heads are in his wardrobe?

There are times when silence is indeed golden. Even if Nasir had to react, he should have kept it short and simple. there's no doubt that this piece wasn't written in good light. Just shows his kind of person. *smh*

I've been dreading this day! no one expected it would come this soon.

Viva SAF!

Good Job!

Na wa o! E don reach the one wey una go begin use juju dey fight each other for Nairaland abi? Nairaland is truly a reflection of Nigeria? Nothing we no go see here.
Elephants fly in Nigeria you know!

yeye Op! Na una type dey give good guys bad reputation! mtsheeew!

Saint Obi!

Happy Birthday Baba! The history book of Nigeria will be incomplete without giving a chapter to you. God Bless & keep u.

Admin/Mod!!!

May Day! May Day!! One psycho is on the loose and is posting porn on this thread!

I repeat! One psycho is on the loose and posting porn on this thread!

May His Soul RIP. We never really were friends on a personal level, but your charisma and aura robbed off on anyone that came in contact with you. You couldn't but notice him back then in school especially when at social functions.

The Good Die Young!

Just want to ask why the double standards? Bellview crashed and was grounded; ADC crashed and was grounded; and I also think same happened to sosoliso ( not too sure). I mean these airlines were owned by Nigerians. Now an Indian owned airline crashes and its back in the air 7 months after. Me thinks something isn't just right. How do you then encourage local businessmen to invest in their country? *smh*

RUBBISH!

[quote author=Mynd_44]Cartoons having intimate content? Please give examples.
Cartoons have always been violent (at least a lot of them) consider Tom and Jerry, Bugs and Daffy, and a lot of others[/quote]Though "family guy" isn't targeted at kids..try checking it out> i also think "the Simpsons" isn't suitable for kids. But family guy is way out of it my dear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy

online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444138104578030903731665328.html

Is it not the same J P Morgan that has just been dragged to court by State Prosecutors in New York? I sincerely don't think anything good will come out of this union.

By JEAN EAGLESHAM And DAN FITZPATRICK

New York's top prosecutor opened a new front in efforts to hold banks accountable for the financial crisis by filing a civil lawsuit against J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., alleging widespread fraud by the company's Bear Stearns unit in the sale of mortgage-backed securities.

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The case is the first to be brought under the aegis of a group of federal and state prosecutors and regulators formed by President Barack Obama in January. If successful, the lawsuit could point the way to significantly more financial pain for the big banks, which face threatened government actions and numerous investor lawsuits tied to mortgage securities that soured in the crisis.

Since 2008, state and federal regulators have launched dozens of probes to determine whether banks broke securities laws or were simply guilty of errors of judgment. Regulators have achieved some record-breaking penalties and investors have secured some significant victories. Bank of America Corp. agreed Friday to pay $2.43 billion to settle claims it misled investors about the acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co., in the largest shareholder class-action settlement tied to the meltdown. BofA didn't admit wrongdoing.

At the same time, regulators have been criticized for their failure to bring enforcement actions in relation to some of the biggest blowups in the crisis, such as the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. William Black, a former bank regulator, said Monday's civil action showed "a continuation of the failure of leading prosecutors to bring a criminal case against any of the elite players."

The complaint filed Monday in New York state court by Eric Schneiderman, the state's attorney general, seeks an unspecified amount of damages related to billions of dollars in losses. It is the first action from the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group, which cites some $22.5 billion of losses suffered by investors in securities issued by Bear Stearns Cos. in 2006 and 2007, before the New York investment bank nearly collapsed in March 2008 and was taken over by J.P. Morgan. The lawsuit alleges that Bear Stearns defrauded investors by packaging up and selling on mortgages that it knew—or should have known—were highly likely to default.

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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, left, filed suit over mortgage securities.

J.P. Morgan Chase spokesman Joseph Evangelisti said the bank intends to contest the allegations, and that it is "disappointed" the New York attorney general "decided to pursue its civil action without ever offering us an opportunity to rebut the claims."

Mr. Evangelisti also noted the allegations pertain to the activities of Bear Stearns before J.P. Morgan Chase purchased the securities firm in March 2008.

The New York lawsuit takes the approach of targeting alleged fraud across the firm, rather than restricting the allegations to a single deal, as federal regulators have done in many previous cases related to the financial crisis.

The lawsuit also uses New York State's Martin Act, which doesn't require prosecutors to prove a firm intended to defraud investors to win a case. The suit draws on work by other members of the group, particularly the Justice Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency's office of inspector general, and the plan had been to jointly announce the action Tuesday, people familiar with the group said.

The task-force is drawing up plans to use Monday's lawsuit as a blueprint to bring other cases on a firm-wide basis, potentially targeting damages totaling tens of billions of dollars, according to one person briefed on the matter.

"We intend to follow up with similar actions against other sponsors and underwriters of" residential mortgage-backed securities, said an official in the attorney general's office.

The suit alleges that losses on residential-mortgage securities issued by Bear Stearns in 2006 and 2007 alone were "astounding," totaling more than a quarter of the original principal balance. The action asks that the company be made to pay an undisclosed amount of damages "caused, directly or indirectly, by the fraudulent and deceptive acts."


New York's attorney general filed a civil complaint against J.P. Morgan Chase alleging widespread fraud in the sale of mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the financial crisis. WSJ's Francesco Guerrera has the details.

The lawsuit quotes from emails and messages purportedly sent within Bear Stearns that it says showed the bank was aware it was selling poor quality investments. In one, a Bear Stearns employee described one securitization in an internal email as a "sack of s***," according to the lawsuit.

The Campaign for a Fair Settlement called the suit "an encouraging first step to holding Wall Street banks accountable for [their] reckless and deceitful practices."

Many big banks still face a litany of legal challenges stemming from the mortgage meltdown. The top federal housing regulator filed lawsuits in September 2011 against 17 of the world's biggest financial institutions, saying they sold $196 billion of risky home loans over four years to Fannie Mae FNMA -0.72% and Freddie Mac FMCC 0.00% without adequately disclosing the risks. The Federal Housing Finance Agency suits included $33 billion in bond deals involving J.P. Morgan.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in August sued 11 major banks including J.P. Morgan, alleging they misled failed Colonial Bank when they sold the Alabama mortgage lender $388 million in mortgage-backed securities. Colonial, a Montgomery, Ala., unit of Colonial BancGroup Inc., failed on Aug. 14, 2009, in the biggest U.S. bank failure since the 2008 collapse of Washington Mutual Inc. WMIH -1.96%

J.P. Morgan hasn't previously commented on the FHFA or FDIC actions.

Prosecutors and regulators are battling against time in their renewed drive to bring financial crisis cases, as more potential lawsuits risk running afoul of statutes of limitations in federal and state laws. Firms can seek to have cases thrown out if the allegations relate to conduct before these cutoff points, typically five years for most federal laws.

J.P. Morgan is one of three banks that earlier this year disclosed the SEC had warned them it intended to file civil fraud charges related to these investments. One of those banks, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said in August the SEC had decided to drop its probe against the firm without filing charges.

J.P. Morgan shares dropped 37 cents, or 0.9%, in after-hours trading Monday to $40.60, after rising 1.2% in regular trading. The shares have traded above $40 in recent weeks for the first time since the company disclosed in May that it faced billions of dollars in losses on a trade placed by London-based employees of its cash-managing Chief Investment Office, including one known as the London whale for his outsize trading positions.

Write to Jean Eaglesham at jean.eaglesham@wsj.com and Dan Fitzpatrick at dan.fitzpatrick@wsj.com

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A version of this article appeared October 2, 2012, on page A1 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: J.P. Morgan Sued on Mortgage Bonds.

Re: Dangote Flour Sells 63% Stake To South African Firm by b

How many Tiger product we go get for naija? We get Tiger Battery,Tiger Generator and Tiger Torch.now na Tiger Flour! Na Tiger be the only animal wey God create? Tiger ko! Antelope ni!

Very funny indeed!

No way! How will I know what's brewing on Nairaland & twitter? I don't follow the news these days anymore. The news follows me on my phone. That way, I never miss out on nothing!

Valdes is such a stupid goal keeper! I think they should start searching for his replacement!

This guy wants to kill his father! Why is he trying to say? why only now that the man has retired? Better allow him rest and enjoy his retirement rather than introducing him to this gangster lifestyle at such old age!

so sad! Particularly liked his in-depth analysis of the crisis in the middle east. . .what a disaster. I hope he learns from it and moves on with his life. More importantly, i hope others are learning. I don't believe there's a conspiracy to set him up.

gone through all these posts and the only thing I can say is that my Blackberry Bold II has a battery life of at least 48 hours even with heavy traffic.it could be more with less traffic. I'm loving it and right now won't swap it for any other phone in the world. I've heard so many people complain about the battery life of the blackberry and how it freezes from time to time. I don't have any of such problems.