DerideGull: @OP

Most Nigerians, including OP and author of the article, are bloody fools who dwell on innuendos and rumors. If moronic dingbats such as you could navigate to this forum to wallow on ignorance, you could as well go to the particular ministries and institutions and seek for facts instead of feeling depressed by undue pressure of tribal bias, jealousy and rumor.

A June 2008 Senate probe revealed that she paida severely questionable N30.9 billion to contractors within 5 days in 2007, and a 2009 recommendation by theSenate was for her to be prosecuted for the transfer of N1.2 billion into private accounts. These might yet be unproven in a court of law, but there is clearly something about Alison-Madueke that attracts questionsof corruption.
There are accusations of certificate fraud from Howard University, fraudulent assignment of prospective rights in lucrative oil blocs, extortion from marketers, fraudulent dealings with jewelers as minister of mines and steel development,fraudulent dealings in the oil sector that was unveiled by a 2010 KPMG report she refused to co-operate with,the fraud surrounding the handling of N155 billionaround Malabu Oil, andthe unsurprising revelations ofdisgusting corruptionunderher watch by Nuhu Ribadu’s Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force.[/quote]where u nt in Nigeria when all this happened,i guess u r one of thus bloody foo!s that keeps encouraging this corrupt government.
I guess Nigerians are the cause of their problems,seeing a corrupt gov.and still encourage it shows that the required revolution that we are expecting in this country can never happen.
It is such a pity!

olaric: Every one has a date with destiny, and pride as the Bible says "goes before destruction."

hmm,yeah,pride goes b4 destruction,just to painful people up there embezzling money and noting done against it but if it were to be a civil servant,they will nearly send his generation into extinction;such is life

musiwa25:

it is that jonathan's part that made me laugh

psucc: I don't blame the whites. Afterall, we swallow everything hook, line and sinker from them. This is why whoever wants to create awareness about himself must first comment on Africa. Why must our educational curriculla be developed based on topics in their own lands. This is why we are unable to solve our own problems because of the peculiarity of our issues. How many of our foreign trained engrs came home to build just a single machine. Do we ask why we must be importing ev'thing? Until we chart a course with a view to being on own, we may not be free. Nobody can fix nigeria in day, WE SHOULD NOT HEAP SO MUCH ON JONATHAN.

common cut that off,we all no dat nobody can fix Nigeria in one day,but let him start building this country,and when the next person gets there,he would continue in the path of building this country,but the way it is;it is either Jonathan is c!ueless or under pressure and if he is under too much pressure,he knws the nxt steps;he knws what he should do.

musiwa25: You can compare ACN , PDP crowd , If I A. Musiwa is running for president in lagos.. This is the crowd that will show up. it is call the Grace of God..


So take my word for it.. true federalism is not the only solution to Nigeria problem. Out right break up of the country is the solution. if not millions will die.

Musiwa crowd for president











count how many people in this ACN convention. it is not up to 1000.. that shows you fashola and tinubu can not pull a crowd in a city of 20,000,000

So you can see the odd favour me to be president and not fashola. if fashola runs he will loss, but if I run, I will win. Goodluck can not beat me. It will cause a revolution.







See Goodluck Jonathan Crowd, empty seat

lol

Nosa-Henry:
Why don't you look for a better lie to talk. How can a man have intimate with a bird, not even a goat or sheep. You guys should stop posting unbelievable stories without sources

abi oh,smh

I can't help it,i can't stop crying for NIGERIA

Rubbish,I refuse to comment on this topic

Sincere 9gerian:
Stop being silly. When Fashola arrested a senior military officer that broke traffic law, he didn't take the military officer to GEJ. When your master Fashola collects monthly federal allocation, does he hand it over to GEJ? If Fashola is sensible enough to arrest traffic offenders and spend billions every month without help from GEJ, why would he hand over corrupt Lagos officials to GEJ? Are you suggesting that Fashola is so incompetent that he doesn't know what to do? If that's the case, I can give him some lesson for a fee.

Anyway, I know you'r here to derail this thread as usual. It wont work this time. If you'r so empty that you have NOTHING meaningful to contribute to the TOPIC, you can disappear

Another PDP member,if Nigerians can't decide on what to do then the battle is lost,now look at this one siding a corrupt leader,it is so painful that nigerians are the cause of their problems,it is so glaring that once the head is corrupt then the members will follow suit,if the head picks out the corrupt members in his executive board,then it will be much more easier for the governors,for example look at what muritala did when he was the president,he dismissed more than 1000 political and civil servants who were found guilty of embezzlement becoming the first president to ever take such a good step.
But with this clueless and corrupt leader called Jonathan,we are going nowhere,imagine him saying he knws those corrupt members in the oil sector and yet he sat down and did nothing about it.
What a government.

This Gowon is a foo| at almost 80,talking about money,people already knws dat he hates achebe for his publication of the civil war against his government,I don't know why he refuses to grow up with maturity. *smh*
I'm so sorry for his miserable life.

Ricky_Ross: TRASH. I hate our greedy African politicians the same way I hate these bloody white supremacists. This goat is foaming as if he cares, as if he loves the black man. What did Britain do for Nigeria and any African country? These donkeys are part of our problem, THEY TAUGHT OUR LEADERS HOW TO BE BRUTALLY CORRUPT, nonsense...

Yes,they taught our leaders how to be brutally corrupt,bt it is a matter of choice,our government should be blamed for corruption,if the british tells us to do something,we have the right to refuse it,but our greedy and corrupt government who only cares about themselves and their families and not remembering the pains of the masses will always accept stup!d policies

Majority of Nigerians are now very certainthat Goodluck Jonathan is clueless about what it takes to run a nation, sustain it, uplift it and develop it; he does not know what to do deal to with major and minor issues, and he is clearly bereft of ideas and has failed woefully. The nation has to move forward. Going forward and getting it right has to be done without Jonathan; the memory of the bad luck, ineptitude, indecision, poor decision, self-oriented/self-benefitting decision, blatant abuse of office, endless inaction, faltered and failed steps, lovey-dovey romance with corruption and looting, weakness and failure to deal with insecurity and the Boko Haram scourge, the albatross of Goodluck Jonathan, must bequickly forgotten. Collective action and concerted efforts must now be taken to deliver the Nigerian people from any further pains and hardship. We must move forward as a people with zeal and determination to help our people find pragmatic solutions to the myriads of problems facing the nation and its people. The direction Nigeria has to go must be in the opposite direction of where Jonathan has taken us.The top issue is corruption and how to deal with it. Corruption accounts for the disappearance and looting of over fifty percent (some haveput the figure at nearly eightypercent!) of the nation's funds. There are too many corruption scandals to fill a register and billions of dollarsdisappearing and walking away from national and state coffers. Major national establishments are so rotten and heavily looted that Jonathan and his errand hands refer to what is taking place as transformation! Can we call what is going on at theNigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) transformation?
If we agree that corruption has now reached an alarming proportion and it is being done with impunity and chest-beating recklessness, then we know the time has come to find a leader who hates corruption, someone who cannot stand it and who is seething and boiling at what isgoing on and taking place in Nigeria today. Nigeria needs an anti-corruption leader whois ready to fight corruption, expose and prosecute corrupt office holders and who is also prepared to be transparent. Transparency is key to making changes in the way the nation is governed, and this is a time that we crave a leader who will be open and transparent to lead the nation on the path to openness, hard work and progress. We need a leader who will ensure that the nation's income from crude oil and gas are reported weekly and on the websites of NNPC, the NLNG and other oil and gas corporations owned by government.
Income from oil and gas account for more than 70% of the nation's annual budget and it is very important to have a comprehensive recordof income from this major source. The nation is at a crossroad and this is one major chance to instill sanity and decorum into the way we do things as a nation and as a people. It is crucial at this stage to begin to develop a new national culture of hard work, value-added, work-reward combo, direct contribution and input, value-for-money mindset, effort-based orientation to work andlife, fair work for fair pay, diligence of work and productivity, and result-oriented attitude. We have been on a downward slope and rapidly descending since 1985 when Ibrahim Babangida imposed himself as an unelected president. Babangida's net worth is today put at $12 billion.
His co-traveler and conspirator, Sani Abacha's networth is put at $4 billion. We all know for a fact that IbrahimBabangida and Sani Abacha never earned $1 million each throughout their military careers in the Nigeria Army. We also know that nearly all the senior civil servants (directors and permanent secretaries in particular) in the federal and state governments, who own several houses/properties/businesses around Nigeria and overseas and fat bank accounts here and there, are stealing or have stolen from government. We know we have a problem that must be confronted now.
Nigeria is a rich nation and can be even richer and very self-sustaining but for corruption. 2015 presidential election should be a search for that credible and worthy leader who has all it takes to confront corruption and the corrupt elements among us, who are less than 1% of the population yet responsible forthe theft of more than 50% of the nation's funds! The leaderwe are searching for must be bold and prepared to put in place the machinery necessary to recover stolen wealth and loot, put on trial and jail all suspects, their fronts and sidekicks, and collaborate with the Western nations to recover stolen wealth from Switzerland, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Bahrain, United Kingdom, Bahamas, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and several others. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has become the new sanctuary for many Nigerian looters; some who used to wire their stolen funds to the United States have now relocated their activities to the UAE.
CORRUPTION HAS TO STOP IN NIGERIA.

He’s unarguably Public Enemy No.1 in Nigeria as of today. Barely less than 4 years ago, Nigeria elected a ‘fresh breath of air’ intoits political arena and for the first time, a man who had no shoes. For the sake of readers not getting carried away by the minor aspect of the debate on who they should have voted for in the 2011 Presidential Polls, this is NOT a blame game on who Nigerians should have voted for or not but when we go out to vote based on cheap superstitious beliefs surrounding a man’s nameand theatrical continuous ascent to power rather than genuine instincts andcommonsensical opinions on who to vote for; the result is what we have today.
Nigeria has had dictators and authoritarian leaders but I stand my ground to say never has the country has a clueless leader as that of President Goodluck Jonathan. From worsening financial crisis to dwindlingjob rates, the much alarming rate of insecurityin the country, high rates in kidnapping, insecurity, and unending sight of corruption all coupled with him taking highly unpopular actions tantamount to causing uproars among his citizenry. No apology reserved and none owed but we’ve got a clueless leader as Commander-in-Chief who even with although rare laudable steps and actions, have ways of ill-timing or wrapping it up with negative effects attached;the Fuel Subsidy Removal,the UNILAG Renaming and the Al-Majiri school creations are such examples.
Typically, he is not an overrated person as of today he is downrightly detested by all n sundry. But the fact that PresidentJonathan is a product of an overrated & highly misinformed electoral campaign process and tactics, aided by celebrities, business moguls, eminent personalities, overwhelming misinformed youths and an amazing 78% of the voters elected him despite presenting no articulate and clear-cut manifesto as to how he aimed to carry out Presidential tasks; he makes the list as my Number 1 most overrated person in Nigeria.

A question ought to be asked, and it is one that urgently needs answering – what is it that Diezani Alison-Madueke says or does that makes the government of Goodluck Jonathan unable to call her to order?
( Read Star Wars in Aso Rock: Alison-Madueke meets Jonathan over Okonjo-Iweala HERE )
Since her unfortunate entrance into public office, corruption, of various hues, has trailed her. A June 2008 Senate probe revealed that she paid a severely questionable N30.9 billion to contractors within 5 days in 2007, and a 2009 recommendation by the Senate was for her to be prosecuted for the transfer of N1.2 billion into private accounts. These might yet be unproven in a court of law, but there is clearly something about Alison-Madueke that attracts questions of corruption.
There are accusations of certificate fraud from Howard University, fraudulent assignment of prospective rights in lucrative oil blocs, extortion from marketers, fraudulent dealings with jewelers as minister of mines and steel development, fraudulent dealings in the oil sector that was unveiled by a 2010 KPMG report she refused to co-operate with,the fraud surrounding the handling of N155 billion around Malabu Oil, and the unsurprising revelations ofdisgusting corruption underher watch by Nuhu Ribadu’s Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force.
Indeed, she might be an attractive woman with not alittle poise, but the Christian Bible speaks of whitened sepulchers.
The odium that she attractson a sustained basis has reached fever pitch this year. But if she is even a little bit moved by just how much soil lies atop her name, or even that her name is of any importance to her as she oversees Nigeria’s oil wealth, there is no indication.
Last week, the media reported her Nigerian Economic Summit imperially awarding herself a pass mark for doing “a fairly equitable job” and arrogantly declining to answer tough questions from oil industry stakeholders.The lethal mixof questionable character and spectacular tone-deadness was on shocking display on Wednesday – and, frankly,this board is yet to recover from it.
The nation’s minister of petroleum resources, by way of explaining the hardship of fuel scarcity that has bedeviled Nigerians over at least twomonths now (and, which, of itself speaks of unacceptable incompetence), said to Nigerians , “We cannot eat our cakes and have it” andthen declared “We cannot keep pointing to corruption,if we are not prepared to bear some of the hardship.”
Like we said, we are beyond shocked. As someone who stepped into government from CorporateNigeria, Alison-Madueke is aware that executives should take responsibility for corruption under their watch. This woman has not been seen to take public responsibility for anything.
( Read ‘Report: 5 trillion naira story on President Goodluck Jonathan’s watch’ HERE )
So, we ask again: what is itthat she says or does that makes the government of Goodluck Jonathan unable to get rid of her, or call herto order?
In more self-respecting societies, she would at the very least be the recipient of overwhelming institutional odium.
The general public would treat her like a plague, elite members of society protective of their names would politely decline her invitations, no awards worth its salt would even mention her name (she has appropriately been named by the National Honours Committee as a CON), and most certainly, no government desirous of credibility would have absolutely anything to do with her.
Unfortunately, this is Nigeria. So, without fear of repercussion, she not only pursues policy that is clearly destructive, she has now proceeded to make a tradition of ill-advised statements and now points a bejeweled finger at the expense, as itwere, of the population sheoppresses.
Because we are yet lost forwords, we shall only say this: Her continued presence in this administration is a collective injury on our psyche.
Read more here:
http://www.ynaija.com/ynaija-editorial-the-disturbing-arrogance-of-diezani-alison-madueke/

SaharaReporters has obtaineddetailed draft charges that never made it to the courts regarding the brazen looting of Rivers State treasury by the state’s former governor, Peter Odili. The documents show how Mr. Odili used a combination of government officials and personal companies disguised as frontsto fleece Rivers State to the tune of N100 billion between 2004 and 2007.
Saharareporters’ analysis ofthe draft charges, which were prepared by well-known Nigerian lawyer Festus Keyamo on behalf of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) under the chairmanship of Mrs. Farida Waziri, reveal that, between December 2004 and September2006, Emmanuel Nkatah, a personal staff of the governor operating at the Rivers State liaison office in Abuja, alone withdrew over N4 billion naira from Zenith Bank account No. 6010916567 which belonged to Rivers State Government House.
The 220-count draft indictment targeted Mr. Odili and 24 others regarding allegations of theft, conspiracy to commit theft, money laundering and fraud.
The draft charges listed otheraccused persons and beneficiaries of Mr. Odili’s extensive looting. The list includes founder of Arik Airline, Johnson Arumemi-Ikhide, former Minister of Aviation, Babalola Borisade, two former People's Democratic Party chairmen, Ahmadu Alli and Barnabas Gemade. Also listed as co-accused are Pauline K. Tallen, Mrs. Olufemi Agagu, IkeNwachukwu, a retired general,and Ukandi Damanchi, a professor.
The businesses named in the charge sheet include Courage Communications Ltd,Attn Ltd, Ragolis Water Ltd, M/S Wetland Health ServicesLtd, Transky Ltd, Foby Eng. Ltd, First Medical/Sterile Company Ltd, Habila Resources Ltd, Rockson Engineering Co. Ltd, Ojemai Farms Ltd, Ojemai Investments Ltd, and GodsonicOil Company Ltd, an oil company owned by Peter Odili which also has businessinterests in the Nigeria/Sao Tome Joint Development Zone (JDZ) Block 4.
The documents reveal, for instance, that between January 2004 and December 2006, Mr. Johnson Arumemi-Ikhide, the alter ego of Rockson Eng. Ltd, received over N60 billion from the accounts of the Rivers State government. Also between September 2005 and the year 2006, Mr. Borishade was the beneficiary of an illegal diversion of over N4 billion in the guise that it would be used to rehabilitatePort Harcourt International Airport. On March 3rd and March 10th 2006, then Governor Odili withdrew the sum of $2 million U.S. dollars for personal use but in the guise that the money would be used to sponsor senior government officials on a trip abroad. As his tenure asgovernor drew to a close, Mr. Odili intensified the questionable withdrawals. OnMarch 16, 2007, he withdrewanother $2 million for the same purpose of sponsoringsenior government officials on a foreign trip. On April 20th 2007, he withdrew another $2million for the same purpose. On May 23, 2007, days beforehe left office, he withdrew another$1 million.
Of particular interest in the indictments is Mr. Odili’s corrupt entanglement with several major media organs.The charge sheet listed some media companies that receivedhuge sums of moneyfrom Mr. Odili’s loot. SaharaReporters learnt that the dole-outs to the media were designed to buy their silence.
Read more here:
http://naijarum.forumotion.com/t35-draft-criminal-charges-detail-how-gov-peter-odili-plundered-rivers-state-s-500million-to-set-up-arik-air-and-buy-up-media-at-ait-thisday-newswatch-and-channelstv

Just outside President Goodluck Jonathan's office sat 17 ambulances, just in case he or one of his aides fell ill. They were seldom if ever used.
No actual health-care facilitynationwide had as many, andin fact a few still have none at all. But as soon as a Nigerian newspaper took a photo of the ambulances andpublished a story about them, they suddenly disappeared -- probably to an underground garage.
Jonathan is president of Nigeria, which should be among the world's most prosperous nations. After all, it produces an estimated 2.4 million barrels of oil each and every day. With oil now selling at $93.61 a barrel, that's $224 million in income daily. And yet many hospitalscan't afford to buy an ambulance. The reason, in my view: Nigeria is the most corrupt nation on earth.
Sure, Transparency International lists almost three dozen states as more corrupt -- Chad, Haiti, Laos, Yemen, Cambodia and the like. But are any of those nations as wealthy as Nigeria -- taking in $81 billion
annually, just from the sale of oil? No, not even one of them. So Nigeria steals and squanders more money than any other nation, making it the world's most corrupt, by that measure.
Nigerian journalist Musikilu Mojeed finds all this so discouraging.
"With its geopolitical power, economic resources and middle class," he laments,"no country (with the possible exception of Saudi Arabia and Egypt) has the power to change the course of black/African civilization like Nigeria." After all, Nigeria is Africa's most populous state -- and large,twice the size of California.
So Nigerians are living an opportunity squandered -- particularly now. Egypt is in turmoil. In just the last few days, in fact, many Egyptians have been calling for a military coup -- anything to rid the state of its widely despised Muslim Brotherhood government. And a new report by the World Economic Forum ranked Egypt the least safe and secure tourist destination among 140 tourist nations evaluated.
Egypt has lost its place as the Arab/African worlds' leader, and Saudi Arabia never had it. So for Nigeria, the time is ripe. But its leaders seem interested onlyin stealing the state's moneyto make themselves rich beyond imaging. Think about it: $81 billion a year just from the oil, while most every local government official still tells his people the nation just doesn't have enough money to fix the roads, schools or hospitals. (Roads are in such terrible shape that government officials generally travel anydistance by helicopter.)
And Nigeria's people -- well,they are as mistreated as any on earth. In only nine nations -- among them Liberia, Sierra Leone and Somalia -- do more mothers die during childbirth. And in only 10 states, including Chad, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe, is the average life expectancy lower. Right now the average Nigerian's average life span ends at 52. That may be why the median age of Nigerians is just 18.
A few months ago, the Economist Intelligence Unit published an evaluation of the best places for babies toborn in 2013, given their probable welfare as children and the chance for a safe, comfortable, prosperous life.Switzerland, Australia and Norway were the top three. The United States came in at 16th, largely because"babies will inherit the large debts of the boomer generation."
Dead last: Nigeria. "It is the worst place for a baby to enter the world in 2013," thereport said.
Even with all that wealth, only just over half the population has access to clean drinking water, and one-third to a toilet, UNICEF says. Two-thirds live below the poverty line. Only one child in four who contracts pneumonia is given antibiotics, and only about half the population is literate.
The CIA also cites endemic"soil degradation; rapid deforestation; urban air and water pollution."
Read more here:
http://kevindjakpor..com/2013/03/president-goodluck-jonathan-should-be.html