Dariye is no Obj man
Ladoja is no Obj man

That list is authentic and reflects the nature of corruption in Nigeria

Seven Yoruba, seven hausa, three ibo, four south south. But one Yoruba alone gulped 100 b. Na wah for that tribe

Abia the worst state? Are you dreaming? What yardsticks are you looking at?

blacksta:

@poster

a si wi n eda

Back to sender, warts and all.

muhsin:

Your tribal sentiment, dude, is sickening. Why this title? Did the newspaper say anything of that sort?

What is tribalism here and when has truth-telling become tribalistic? It is obvious that the highest looter on the list is Bode George, a Yoruba high chief.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/10072009/news/news1.html

NAMES ON THE EFCC LIST

1. Bode George N100 billion
2. Saminu Turaki N36 billion
3. Patrick Fernandez N32 billion
4. Tom Isegholi, Mohammed Buba
and Mike Okoli (for The Transcorp Plc) N15 billion
5. Kenny Martins N7.7 billion
6. Rasheed Ladoja N6 billion
7. Roland Iyayi N5.6 billion
8. Babalola Borishade N5.6 billion
9. Eider George N5.6 billion
10. Chimaroke Nnamani N5.3 billion
11. Senator Nicholas Ugbane and nine other members of the House
of Representatives N5.2 billion
12. Orji Uzor Kalu N5 billion
13. Nyeson Wike N4.7 billion
14. 4 senior Zenith Bank Managers N3.6 billion
15. Michael Botmang N1.5 billion
16. Ransome Owan and 6 others N1.5 billion
17. Molkat Mutfwang and 3 others N636 million
18. Femi-Fani-Kayode N250 million
19. Jolly Nyame N180 million
20. Boni Haruna N93 million
21. Dr. Albert Ikomi N43 million
22. Dr. Yuguda Manu N17.5 million
23. Iyabo Obasanjo N10 million
24. Joshua Dariye (amount not stated)

Thousands of Fulani nomads arrive Adamawa 
Written by Ibrahim Muhammad,Yola     
Amid deadly clashes with farmers and expulsion orders by some state authorities, thousands of nomadic fulani who do not know where to turn to have continued to storm Adamawa state in search of grazing land.
Already no fewer than ten thousands Fulani nomads comprising of Sullubawa from Kano, Zaria, Katsina, Zamfara and Sokoto as well as Danboa in Borno state have settled down at Dantasa village with their animals.

This was discovered by journalists covering government house Yola while on assessment tour to assess projects being executed by the state and its 21 local government councils.

When the present administration in Adamawa came on board in 2007, Governor Murtala Nyako conceived the idea of constructing earth dams across the state for hydro electricity and irrigation purposes.

To this end, six dams were earmarked for construction among which are the two dams located at Dantasa village in Guyaku district of Gombi local government area.

One of their leaders, Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar first revealed their ordeals in some parts of the country.

“We settled in Damboa in Borno State like many other Fulani nomads, running away from desertification and drought in the far North where we had little food for our herds, but unfortunately we were expelled by local authorities. And if every community we moved to treated us like this, I don’t know where we will turn to. Our herds, which is our source of existence, will be ruined and we will in turn be ruined,” he said.

Another nomad, Bello Jabbe told the visiting journalists that Nomads expelled from Borno State had travelled 1,000km eastwards from Zamfara State in search of grazing land.

While promising to abide by the laws of the land as well as maintain a peaceful atmosphere the ‘’settlers’’ pleaded with the Adamawa State government to establish a  diary factory for processing of the milk extracted from their animals and also to establish schools for their children for nomadic education.

“We need government assistance to compliment our efforts in nation building, though Adamawa State government has been helping us, we don’t have problems with our host communities and we assured you that the tempo will be sustained,” he said.

The nomads similarly called on other state governors in the country to emulate leadership qualities of Governor Murtala Nyako by establishing nomadic settlement programmes.

Their wives and children could be seen  busy pounding grains in the mortar to prepare the lunch they would have while their  husbands were out with the animals for grazing.

When contacted, the chairman of Gombi local government council Alhaji Rufa’i Umar confirmed that the people of the area are living in a peaceful atmosphere with their host communities.

He said, “They are more than 10,000 households and since their arrival we didn’t encounter any problem with these people and government is likely to improve their living standard  as long as they will abide by laws of the land’’.

Tension linked to pastoralist-farmer disputes have been mounting in recent months in several states across the country and this led local authorities to expel 700 pastoralists from Borno state in May 2009 and 2,000 from Plateau in April.

An expert says effects of climate change are partly to blame for the disputes. Northern nomadic communities are increasingly moving southwards as climate change turns their grazing land into desert.

Kabiru Yammama, environmental consultant with a Nigerian NGO, Green Shield of Nations, told newsmen that, “’About 35 percent of land that was cultivable 50 years ago is now desert in 11 of Nigeria’s northernmost states; namely, Borno, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Yobe, Zamfara, Sokoto and Kebbi.

According to Yammama, the livelihood of some 15 million pastoralists in northern Nigeria is threatened by decreasing access to water and pasture shortages linked to climate change.

Similarly, according to a 2008 National Meteorological Agency study, the rainy season in northern Nigeria has dropped to an average of 120 days down from 150 days 30 years ago, cutting crop yields by 20 percent.

In a related development, inhabitants of Gombi local government area are now living in fear of uncertainty as a result of devastation caused by gully erosion. Already residential areas have been pulled down by the effect of the erosion thereby forcing many home owners to evacuate their families and belongings to safe areas.

Chairman of the council Rufa’i Umar who raised the alarm while conducting journalists round the affected areas attributed the level of devastation to heavy down pour being experienced in the area. He explained that the local government headquarters appear to be worst affected as a result of the effect of water falling from the hill tops whenever it rains.

Bilymuse,

Even people of south south are more (and better) educated than Yoruba, not to talk of Ibo. Don't you read the JAMB website? Yoruba people have always sacrificed education for taxi driving, bukateria (iya olonje), gbomogbomo and fake pastoring. Some of those who venture into education do so just to get paper. They can't speak simple good english (just like you). That is why you have so many forged degree holders in that clime.

Which hospital is to be upgraded in the south south? Or are we shortchanged yet again?

FG moves to end overseas medical treatment
By Steve Dada, 07.08.2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Minister of Health, Professor Babatunde Osotimehin,  yesterday said anybody who decides to travel abroad for medical treatment come year 2010 would be doing so as status symbol and not because such treatment sought after overseas is not obtainable in Nigeria.
The minister who disclosed this at a conference organised by Society for Quality Healthcare in Nigeria (SGHN), a non-governmental organization (NGO),  noted that the government was not comfortable with the decision of some people going abroad for medical treatment, a situation which,  he noted , is affecting the foreign exchange of the country.

To achieve this , Osotimehin said the Federal Government had concluded arrangements to convert four tertiary health institutions in the country by up-grading them to five-star hospitals that would possess facilities obtainable in such overseas countries.

The minister who was represented by the Medical Director of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Professor Akin Osibogun , named the hospital involved as University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital,  Zaria and National Hospital, Abuja.

The minister said the up-grading of the four tertiary hospitals will take off with the passage of 2010 national budget, disclosing that the arrangement had been made such that the hospitals had been distributed in four zones of the country,  representing South-West, South-East, Far North and North-Central, to make the hospitals within the reach of anybody seeking treatment in the country.

In the recent times there had been lots of outcry over the decision of the top bras in the federal civil service taking off for overseas medical treatment for minor illnesses, but the minister said, the government will ensure that overseas treatment is halted except for other reasons by those who may wish to do so from 2010.

The minister assured that the hospitals are going to be equipped with the state-of-the-art medical equipment that can compare favorably with those obtainable in the industrialised  countries.

When can we organize ourselves like this, where tribalism and nepostism will not prevent us from asking our leader to do the right things?









On Sunday tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Niger's capital, Niamey, to protest against the president's attempt to have a referendum on allowing him to stay in power for a third term. (Image: AFP/Getty/Hama Boureima)

$$osisi:


ROFL
There's nothing I won't hear
Please tell us, is the average Yoruba man better than the average Igbo man in any way shape or form?



OBJ was prez for 8 years,is Yoruba land a haven by any stretch?

Materially speaking is there more poverty in Igboland compared to Yoruba land?
are you smarter
are you better educated
what exactly do Yorubas do better than Igbos
and what is the ill in Igboland that doesn't exist in Yorubaland?
Carry your ugly face and get out of here
lazy baboon!

These never do wells just come on the internet and talk rubbish thinking that they are making sense
Igbos like money and yorubas like what?
amala?

Gbegiri and Efo riro:lol: I thought Bode George, Fani Kayode, Madam Etteh, Obj (father son and daughter), Kenny Martins, the current speaker, Tafa Balogun, Ehindero, Madam Grange and tons of others too numerous to mention are all non-Yoruba people?

Ex-govs plot to kill VP -Ijaw group alleges -Calls for Iwu’s arrest
Donald Ojogo, South-South Bureau Chief- 07.07.2009

AS the nation keeps guessing whether or not President Umaru Yar’Adua would seek re-election alongside his deputy, Goodluck Jonathan in 2011, Niger Delta advocacy organisation, the Ijaw Monitoring Group, (IMG) has raised the alarm over the safety of the nation’s number two man ahead of the polls.


IMG is alleging that some former governors from the region are after the life of the nation’s vice-president.


President Yar’Adua has kept the nation in suspense on the 2011 presidential election amidst unconfirmed reports that some political hawks within the PDP from the South-South geopolitical zone are working to ensure that Jonathan is dropped as the party’s vice-presidential candidate.


But IMG’s coordinator, Joseph Evah, who spoke with the Nigerian Tribune in a telephone interview, apart from raising the alarm, chided the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu, for allegedly being economical with the truth concerning the 2007 bombing of the vice-president’s residence in Otuoke, Bayelsa State, on the eve of the elections. According to him, there was more to the bombing than the INEC boss was letting out, thereby urging the police and the State Security Service (SSS) to arrest Iwu.


Iwu had, according to a newspaper report last Friday, recalled that Jonathan would have been killed by the political class before the 2007 elections in order to scuttle the electoral process and destabilise the nation. He spoke in Enugu while delivering a lecture at the ninth quadrennial national delegate conference of the National Civil Service Union (NSCU).


But Evah not only took a swipe at the INEC chairman, he also challenged him to make public the names of those in the political class he knew as the masterminds of the bombing of the vice-president’s private residence. He alleged that from what Iwu said, it was evident that the life of the vice-president was still not safe, as the nation approached another round of elections in 2011.


“What Iwu said on Friday is a vindication of my earlier fears in 2007, that the nature of the security provided for the then governor of Bayelsa State, as the Yar’Adua’s running mate was laughable compared to others, who were just governorship candidates in some state. He had a very porous security, which was not up to half of what was provided for the likes of Andy Uba and Musiliu Obanikoro in Anambra and Lagos states. A few days later, the man’s private residence was bombed.


“I strongly believe that the INEC chairman is only being economical with the truth by saying that, that bombing was to scuttle democracy and this and that; let him come out to mention those people in the political class who wanted Jonathan dead, or is this another Tompolo list?


“Let the police and the SSS arrest Iwu, so that they can reopen the reason for bombing and he will tell them the persons he is referring to in the political class. If it is not done that way, it means that the life of the vice-president is still in danger because those former governors, who felt aggrieved that Yar’Adua did not accept them as his running mate, nominated by Obasanjo, are yet to forgive the vice-president for taking place. At least, el- Rufai said it last week that he was among those who influenced the rejection of some serving governors (then), who wanted to be Yar’Adua’s deputy after they had wasted their states’ money on a fruitless presidential journey,” Evah said.

If indeed the company is owned by Ibori, would it not be perfectly OK to see Gowon also as a thief? Did he ask Ibori where he got the money from?

Interesting! What is the link between Notore Chemical (formerly NAFCON) and Ibori?
http://www.notore.com/board.html

Notore Chairman and Board of Directors


 
   
General Dr. Yakubu Gowon GCFR
Chairman

   




Mr. Onajite Paul Okoloko/Mr. Henry Imasekha Mr. Michael Osime
Managing Director(CEO)/Director/Director




 




Mr. Richard Herb Engr. Michael Orugbo JP/  Chief Odoliyi Lolomari
Director/Director
   



Mr. Ikeme Osakwe /Mr. Navaid Burney/ Mr. Michael Jansa
Director /Director/ Director
   




Mr. Hassan Badrawi /Mr. Hussein Amin Marei /Engr. Hoda Nazir
Director/ Director/Director

Child snatching for rituals on the rise in Kano
Child snatching for rituals on the rise in Kano
By AMINU ABUBAKARPublished TodayNewsRating: Unrated
Kidnapping-for-rituals is on the rise in Kano State. In the last three months, no fewer than 50 of such incidents have been reported. Agence France Presse’s (AFP’s) AMINU ABUBAKAR reports.

Child abduction for ritual killings is on the rise in the Nigerian city of Kano, say officials and advocacy groups who blame the trend on greed for political power and quick wealth in this northern commercial centre.

Body parts from toddlers and pre-schoolers are prized ingredients for lucky charms thought to make people rich or rise up on the political ladder.

In the last few months, kidnapping of young children has increased in Kano - the second largest city after the capital Lagos and long the economic heart of the north - raising concern among parents and officials.

"Ritual killers are now on the prowl in the city on an increasing scale, abducting children for rituals for wealth and positions," said Ibrahim Abullahi, spokesman for the state government’s Societal Re-orientation Directorate. The agency is charged with improving public morals in this predominately Muslim city.

"This trend has been on the rise in the last three months as the number of complaints we receive from parents about their missing children has more than doubled," Abdullahi told AFP.

"The abducted children are usually between two and five years old," he said.

Radio transmissions are replete with announcements about missing children, say radio staffers.

"An average 50 parents placed announcements with us on their missing children every week in the last three months, compared to 20 such complaints before," Aisha Kabir of Freedom Radio told AFP.

Kabir is in charge of receiving announcements on "lost and found" items and missing people, on the popular privately-owned station in Kano.

Aliyu Mashi of a Kano-based child welfare advocacy group called the General Improvement of Persons Initiative (GIOPINI) blamed the alleged upsurge in the rituals on greed, in a city that revolves around commerce in a country notorious for corruption.

"We are always bombarded with reports of child abductions, which have become a daily occurrence in Kano, and such children are invariably used for human rituals to make money," Mashi said.

"People are desperate for wealth and power, and , they feel they have no other choice but killing children for black magic to achieve their aim," Mashi said.

Sadiq Isah Radda, a sociologist at Bayero University in Kano, said fetish priests here are known to favour children’s body parts for get-rich-quick potions.

"Although human sacrifice has been part of the tradition of many African societies," said Radda, "in the case of this society, children are what the priests prescribe, "

In some African societies, albinos are targeted.

Mashi said children are easy prey in Kano as parents burdened by poverty and illiteracy are not always attentive to their brood and let them roam. The child captors then lure unattended youngsters using candies, biscuits and in some cases magic.

In March, 16-year-old banana hawker Awwalu Baffa confessed to a Kano court of working for ritualists to abduct children for ritual murders.

Baffa, now in a juvenile rehabilitation centre in Kaduna city, 200 kilometres (124 miles) away, said he used a motorcycle helmet to bewitch his victims.

"When I placed the helmet on a child’s head, he would disappear and I would use the motorcycle my employer gave me to convey the victim to a house where he would be killed for rituals," Baffa had told a court hearing attended by an AFP reporter on March 23.

"In my presence, my employer, Hassan and his three associates, slaughtered a five-year-old boy I supplied them for rituals," he said.

Although the police agree there has been an increase in the number of missing children, they insist not all of them are abducted.

"We do receive reports of children missing but in some cases the children are not abducted but they just miss their way home," Kano police spokesman Baba Mohammed told AFP.

"And when such children are found, parents don’t care to inform us that they have found their children and so it becomes difficult for us to know how many of the missing children are actually stolen," Mohammed said.

Kabir of Freedom Radio, however, said about half of the parents return two months later saying they still have no trace of their children.

The morality agency, meanwhile, has stepped up radio campaigns urging parents to keep a close eye on little children. But Mashi says this is not enough.

"Residents in every community have to work together in monitoring strange faces that show up in their neighbourhood," he said.

biina:

It seems Bialegend feels they are going to eat their cake and have it.
If Biafra secedes from Nigeria, they would no longer have any interests or influence in Nigeria, and will be treated like any other African country (if not worse).
Your ability to maintain businesses in Nigeria would be at the discretion of the Nigerian government, and, if all the allegations are true, I doubt they would be accommodating,
The influence of the developed countries comes from colonization and the differences in the level of development. That would not apply in the case of Biafra.
Every country reserves the sovereign right to kick out any foreigners from it shores and even allowing you to have an embassy.
The most you can do is to in turn ban Nigerians from Biafra, any thing else is simply an implicit declaration of war.

Thank you for spelling it out for him. That guy is a born idiot with little brain. He is obviously brainwashed.

You are a bigger fool if you think Biafra can influence anything on Nigeria where they are not citizens. I used the Ghana example to show what will face Biafrans in Nigeria. Igbos have been marginalized and slaughtered in their own country by northerners and Igbos have really done nothing about that. I wonder what they will do when they are slaughtered by northerners in another country (Nigeria). You fail to appreciate my advise and instead take to insults. I wish you luck.

They will give them heavy taxes, close their businesses on flimsy excuses and confiscate their property. Much as I want Nigeria to separate, people should think and plan well before taking the plunge

Nigerians Lament Closure Of Their Businesses In Ghana
Written by Jacob
Sunday, 05 July 2009 02:20
Suicides Recorded || Hundreds of Nigerian businessmen in Ghana are lamenting the closure of their businesses in the past 20 months due to their inability to pay the 300,000 dollars demanded by the country's government.

On November 28, 2007, the Ghana Investment Promotion Council (GIPC) ordered the closure of the businesses of Nigerians who were unable to meet the demand.

The News Agency of Nigeria learnt that the traders could not meet the demand, resulting in the sealing up of their shops.

A NAN correspondent in Accra reports that many of the shops, including electronics marts, have remained closed and efforts made by the traders to persuade the Ghanaian government to re-open them have proved abortive.

Mr Jasper Emenike, the secretary-general of the Nigerian Union of Traders Association (NUTAG), told NAN that some members of the association had committed suicide due to their inability to feed their families.

``We have recorded some suicide cases and attempted suicide by scores of Nigerian in Ghana because of their inability to feed their families and meet other obligations due to the sealing up of their shops by the Ghanaian government.

"We are appealing to the Nigerian government to give this matter the urgency it deserves because Nigerians are passing through severe difficulties in trying to make a living in Ghana.

"We are at a loss why it is only businesses owned by Nigerians that should be closed down in a country where millions of businessmen from other countries, including ECOWAS member countries, are daily flocking to do business,'' Emenike said.

He said that although the association had taken its case to the ECOWAS Parliament, which condemned the closure of their shops, nothing had come out of the effort.

"We have also taken the matter to the courts in Ghana but the case was struck out with the advice that we should try to get the matter resolved through diplomatic means, rather than through litigation.

"It may interest you to know that no Nigerian trader has taken the law into his hands in spite of the obvious provocation by their Ghanaian brothers,'' he said, and appealed to the Federal Government to show more commitment to resolving the matter to save the traders from starvation.

Emenike argued that the closure of the shops was contrary to the ECOWAS Protocol, which allowed free movement of goods and people within the sub-region.

Commenting on the closure of the shops, the Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Musiliu Obanikoro, said the Commission was handling the matter and that ``it will eventually be sorted out''.

He said the traders were coming together as entities to raise funds to meet the conditions imposed by the Ghanaian Government for them to continue to do businesses.

Millions of people, especially Nigerians have been flocking to Ghana in recent years to invest because of the stable infrastructure and emerging business opportunities in the country of 22 million people.

Tpiah

The best book on the list (number 1) was written in 1869. You may want to check the list out. So TFA written in 1960 and ranking 14 is no big deal

Bialegend. You are a fool. All those Nigerians who own houses abroad are either citizens or perm residents, or their family members are, who helped to secure the property in proxy. People like Atiku, Orji Kalu and others who own houses in the US are perm residents. Moreover many countries, for e.g., US support dual nationality so you can buy your house in Florida while you live in Nigeria. I put it to you that the rump of Nigeria (when Biafra  is gone) will frustrate the Biafrans remaining in Nigeria so much that they will run away and leave the property. You  may not be given visas that will permit you to return to claim properties. Moreover the Nigerian govt can claim they need the land (and they will target only Igbo-owned land) for development. Are you, a Biafran going to dictate to Nigeria what to do with their land? You keep talking of US and UK as if Nigeria is any of those. I sympathise with Biafra and that is why I raise this topic. You guys should think it through before taking this all important leap. Are those Igbo who own the properties in question willing to go along with Uwazuruike and the MASSOB guys? THINK! THINK! THINK!

Many Nigerians who were deported by their former host countries (US, UK, Germany etc) came back with nothing, inspite of all they had. Nigeria (especially the wicked hausas) will definitely take such opportunity on the Igbos in a place like Abuja. It is their land and they can interprete their laws as they like. No world court can do anything about that.

Bialegend where do you live? I live in the US and I have lived in Europe for several years. I know that you cannot own a property unless you are a permanent residence (or citizen) of many countries. May be its different in in Nigeria but when Fasola brings in his buldozer to remove all properties as he deem fit, you will have to sue him at the world court. Abi? You guys better take time to think through bfore rushing into this again. I am for liberation of oppressed peoples but you have to sit and ponder over stuff.

Kobojunkie:

lol
@Poster, those are good questions to ask but I think majority of the ibos who subscribe to the Biafran dream are less willing to consider the consequences of their getting a biafra at this point, as they are seem more focused on the getting itself.
Definitely, they stand to loose a lot if they do not think these things through.

Thank you my bro. Here am I trying to help them minimize their loss (anticipated) by giving them an opportunity to think through the matter, and someone by the name Bialegend is proving to be an unrepentant ignoramus.

Do you think northerners will grant you the necessary permit that will enable you live legally in their country with a view to continue owning your properties?

You cannot own a property in a land you are not a legal resident (by which I mean a citizen or permanent residence). Take that to the bank; it is a blank cheque. You are an ignoramus and if people like you are the ones championing Biafra, then I pity the course. Igbos will lose big time.