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delta?, edo?,kwara,etc all wana join benin



what from that 419 church in canada

hmm

hmmmm for me biafara is dead

but i think what suprises me here is just the origin of the poster here

u never see them whenever becomegbatti surfaces

these people never ceases to raise eye brownse

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World Bank Distances itself from list of Nigerian Looters

http://www.africananews.com/cover/200511/world_bank_distances_itself_from.htm

LAOLU AKANDE NEW YORK

A list containing the names of 21 former Nigerian officials and military officers with alleged sums of looted money in foreign banks have been disowned by officials of the World Bank in Washington D.C.

For about a month now the list which mentions varying amounts of money the Nigerians have stashed away in several currencies including US dollars, British pounds, German Marks and Swiss Franc have circulated in diplomatic circles, among international financial operatives and several email lists on the internet.

According to the list, World Bank is listed as the source with a reference mentioned in Financial Times of London June 24, 1999. On the list, it was noted that the World Bank passed on this list to President Obasanjo.

Earlier this year, Obasanjo was reported, (at the time Nigeria was inching close to a deal with its creditors on the debt relief deal) as saying he had been asked about Nigerian funds stashed abroad by former officials and also given such a list and there was no official denial of this from the Nigerian government.

According to a popular international website on debt issues, Odious Debts Online, as reported on July 27, 2005, "in exchange for partial debt relief, the Paris Club of creditor nations have handed Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo a list of well-placed Nigerians to go after and prosecute for allegedly stealing and stashing public funds in overseas bank accounts."

The website, well read in western capitals said "according to various reports, President Obasanjo confirmed the list publicly after he was pressured by a delegation from the state of Kwara to reveal the conditions of the Paris Club debt relief deal."

Similarly, usually reliable sources said the World Bank had first passed such a list to Obasanjo several years back, and went ahead to leak it to the Financial Times when the Nigerian president refused to take any action on the list except regarding the Late General Sani Abacha. In the case of Abacha, President Obasanjo took steps to pursue the information made available to the Nigerian government. But in the case of others especially General Ibrahim Babangida, Obasanjo simply ignored the information.

A UN funds recovery expert Jack Blum based in Washington DC had disclosed to this reporter in the past that he met with Obasanjo on the recovery of the funds in the earlier days of the administration, but Obasanjo showed interest only in pursuing the Abacha loot and showed no interest in the alleged IBB loot which was more than Abacha's, according to Blum and the list now widely in circulation.

On the list Abacha was listed as stashing abroad 9.1 billion British pounds, 4.09 billion Swiss Francs, $200m US dollars and 500 million German Marks. The list puts Babangida's loot at 6.2 billion pounds, 7.41 billion Swiss Franc, 2 billion US dollars and 9 billion DeutscheMarks.

Indeed recently, the World Bank entered into an agreement with the Swiss government to ensure a sum of $290 million recovered from the Abacha loot is spent by Nigeria on poverty reduction programme.

This reporter spoke with several World Bank and International Finance Corporation, IFC, officials in the last few weeks, and the official line remains a straight denial of the list.

John Donaldson, a senior communication officer at the World bank said the World Bank is not a policing institution and if it has any information it would pass it to the appropriate authorities. His colleague Herbert Boh, a communication officer at the World Bank, point blank disassociated the World Bank from such a list. Said he :"The World Bank is not in possession of any such list and did not send any such list out to President Obasanjo or to any media outlet."

Asked whether the World Bank can retain or have access to such information, Boh said the "World Bank does not have such information."

But he conceded that the World bank has received "numerous other requests on this list, " but categorically denied that such a list is from the World Bank and "is NOT connected to the World Bank." (emphasis his) Speaking with the International Finance Corporation, the World bank agency that deals with the private sector, Corrie Shanahan, IFC's spokesperson also stated that the the IFC does not maintain such a list.

But Shanahan however added that "as part of our due diligence with regard to anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML-CFT), we subscribe to a number of commercial list services," suggestting that the IFC may indeed have access to such information as contained in the list.

Shanahan also noted that basically such information contained in the list were bank secrets. Observers say that may explain why the World bank and its agency are trying hard to distance themselves from the list.

This reporter also conducted a web search on the archives of the Financial Times, since the list mentioned a reference to that paper's edition of June 24, 1999. But a preliminary search did not turn up any useful information although a search of the actual print edition was not immediately possible.

Other Nigerian former officials whose names featured on the list are Generals Ibrahim Babangida, whose name was listed first, Abdusalami Abubakar, Mike Akhigbe, Jerry Useni, Alhaji Ismaila Gwarzo, Umaru Dikko, Paul Ogwuma, Mohammed Abacha, Abdulkadir Abacha, Wada Nas, Tom Ikimi, Dan Etete, Don Etiebet, Major Al Mustapha, Anthony Ani, Bashir Dalhatu, General Wushishi, Hassan Adamu, T.Y. Danjuma and General Ishaya Bamaiyi in that order.

LOOTED MONEY DISCOVERED IN FOREIGN BANKS NAMES OF DEPOSITORS

LOOTED MONEY DISCOVERED IN FOREIGN BANKS
NAMES OF DEPOSITORS LONDON SWISS($) USA ($) GERMANY (D)
GEN IBRAHIM BABANGIDA 6.25bn 7.41bn 2.00bn 9.00bn
GEN ABUBAKAR 1.31bn 2.33bn 800M
REAR ADMIRAL MIKE AKHIGBE 1.24bn 2.42bn 671M 1bn
GEN JERRY USENI 3.04bn 2.01bn 1.01bn 900M
ALH ISMAILA GWARZO 1.03bn 2.00bn 1.3bn 700M
ALH UMARU DIKKO 4.5bn 1.4bn 700M 345M
PAUL OGWUMA 300M 1.42bn 200M 500M
GEN SANI ABACHA 9.01bn 4.09bn 800M 3.01M
MOHAMMED ABACHA 300M 1.2bn 150M 535M
ABDULKADIR ABACHA 700M 1.21bn 900M 471M
ALHAJI WADA NAS 600M 1.32bn 300M
TOM IKIMI 400M 1.39bn 152M 371M
DAN ETETE 1.12bn 1.03bn 400M 1.72bn
DON ETIBET 2.5bn 1.06bn 700M 361M
MAJ AL MUSTAPHA 600M 1.001bn 210M
ANTHONY ANI 2.9bn 1.09bn 360M 1.66bn
BASHIR DALHATU 2.3bn 1.001bn 161M 1.43bn
GEN WUSHISHI 700M 1.301bn
ALH HASSAN ADAMU 300M 200M 700M
T Y DANJUMA 300M 200M 700M
GEN ISHAYA BAMAYI 120M 800M

SOURCE: WORLD BANK TO THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA


SOURCE: WORLD BANK TO THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?action=post;topic=279550.0;num_replies=11
 

f  uuck world bank, they better give us more name

i guess it going against their interest!!

Kenyan Slum-dwellers Priced into Hunger bbc
Posted on 28 May 2009. Filed under: Food Security, Poverty |

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Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN 
Women selling fish in a Nairobi market (file photo): Slum-dwellers have been hard hit by the food price crisis
NAIROBI, 27 May 2009 (IRIN) – Millions of people who live in Kenya’s sprawling slums are among those worst hit by the food price crisis, yet they receive far less humanitarian attention than other demographic groups, according to officials, who pointed in particular to the plight of malnourished children in such settlements.

“While there are also very serious food crises elsewhere in Kenya – for example, in the north – they at least get some attention from governments and donors, whereas the crisis in the cities is often completely forgotten or ignored,” Alun McDonald, the regional media and communications officer of Oxfam GB, told IRIN.

“In Kibera [Nairobi's largest slum] alone, there are over 5,000 children under five years old who are suffering from malnutrition – more than 1,000 of them suffering from severe cases,” McDonald said. “Severe child malnutrition should not be happening in a modern capital city.”

Food insecurity has been exacerbated by drought, rising food and non-food prices and poor harvests. “In the past 12 months… essential foods such as maize more than doubled in price… Oils and vegetables are also much more expensive now than they were a year ago,” he said.

The price of maize has risen by up to 130 percent in Nairobi and 85 percent in Mombasa over the past year. Cooking fuel prices have risen by 30-50 percent and the cost of water by 90-155 percent, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

“It’s not just food that is more expensive – people cannot afford as much water now, which means children use dirty water and get sick more easily… It is getting much more expensive just to survive,” he said.

School feeding

According to Gabrielle Menezes, WFP information officer, high food prices have affected the urban population considerably, “as these are people who depend on markets to buy food, and do not really grow their own”.

WFP is feeding 145,500 urban children under the School Feeding Programme, which covers 195 schools in the Nairobi slums and the coastal town of Mombasa. “In response to high food prices, WFP began feeding in the Mombasa slums at the beginning of this year,” Menezes said.

“School feeding becomes even more important at times of crisis, as people resort to drastic coping measures, pulling children out of school to beg or work,” she said.

She noted that subsistence farmers in the southeastern and coastal areas were also hard hit by the failure of the October-December 2008 short rains.

having hundreds of thousands of increasingly poor and hungry families could well lead to further instability on the streets of Nairobi -and potentially other cities
“They experienced almost total crop loss, and many families will need food assistance,” she said, adding that WFP was providing general food distributions to 2.5 million people in the country.

According to Sylvia Khamati, acting head of the health department at the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), the need for proper nutrition in Kenya is huge. “Generally, most children are malnourished, it does not matter in what setting they are,” she said.

In March, the Kenya Food Security Steering Group called for food price controls, provision of food aid and the creation of employment opportunities to stop more Kenyans going hungry.

Khamati said attention should be paid to special needs groups such as children younger than five and pregnant women. “When there is a food crisis there is more focus on supplementary and therapeutic feeding as the goal is to save life. But this is expensive compared with providing nutrition education on integration of readily available local foods for a healthy diet,” she said.

According to Oxfam’s McDonald, hundreds of thousands of people in Nairobi already live in serious poverty and are just surviving. “They simply can’t afford to pay any more for food,” he said.

“But the urban crisis is not just about poverty – it is also about governance,” he said. “Citizens need to have affordable access to basic services such as water and healthcare.

“Given the political tensions in Kenya at the moment, having hundreds of thousands of increasingly poor and hungry families could well lead to further instability on the streets of Nairobi – and potentially other cities

ziddy

Punkman cant even spell 'Siena'. Now I understand.

olushi wetin naw

hmmm siena; there u go again

seina

still hanging for ur call

waitin

can someone explain those^^^^

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i have seriously begining to question the balance of ur mentality becomerich

1st, u said u cant post ur pic, cuz fbi might snatch u

2nd, u said u are a born again

3rd, in fews months gone, u will be preaching in the stadium in lagos

4th, in ur church everytime u preach to ur congregation, u get beaten up why is that so hmm

5th now that emm aloy is ibime is seun who owns nl

6th seun aint the real owner of nl

7th seun took bribe from the northerners

hmmm wonder where all this is headin, niether way we are watchin, cuz u could be mentally disturbed, sure there are many living with that condition in oversea

However, what the nigerians back home dnt know is, not everybody that left MM-airport ikeja will come back mentally fit!!! i think we are begining to see that, oh no he has a meeting to attend!! really? [/size]

interesting!!

becomerich

u are such a tribalsit slowpoke!! u cant hide it me afraid. in much there are igbos here and there, u failed to know there are patches of yoruba communities in the east as well

igbo should be grateful of making a living and contributing in building lagos, the former capital of nigeria which was funded by oil money? buhaaaaaaaaaaa, make no mistake u cant underestimate the igbo spirit, u tribalist claimed ilron graduate

u are joke

i also beleive the yorubas in canada should be grateful of what the canadian have done for them, their children that ran away from contonu


the yorubas should also be grateful of what abuja has done for them, they have their massive share in looting!! verey very grateful


i just cant stop laughing at yall

too early

u soon know when they died speak out

hahaha ^^

india more isalmic

u must be from outside world

india wey hindus de run

my freind i think u mean pakistan

well the news is still comin in this eveing, apparently the search is going on no

how i wonder all those wey de thief our money past and present all gone in that plane

it feared lightening might have struck that plane, as there was no mayday, nothing of such

i sense ur guess is good as mine; massaive death for air france

the best the controller got is a signal meassage reporting electrical failure

know all

Yoruba Kings where proper kings that had power to raise funds and feed themselves. It is this artificial creation called Nigeria that is stopping City states like the Ibadans, Egbas , Ijebus from raising their own revenues. This sole called federal and state goverment after hijacking this city state's revenue they should at least have the decency at least to provide the monarh's of such city states a befitting palace as the case maybe

oh realy naija dey stop them from rasing money !!! hahhahah

and what have they done for yoruba people

even common musicain fit raise money through him cds in alaba market

nigeria still raise 419 money for obama

abeg de talk sense here

The problem with us in Nigeria is we are use to seeing our kings live in sub standard buildings, in the olden days a tax would have been levied on the citzenry of the town to raise the money, market would pay the kings levy b4  they can trade. All those revenue has been taking away from the King and giving to the State and the LG

know all

what a hell u talkin about, 4 billion for what? my god, what is wrong with some black man, a coucil in uk wouldnt even consider that

what is wrong with some black man head

have they got fossil's brain eh

nawoo

even sadam would do that

[size=20pt]i have seriously begining to question the balance of ur mentality becomerich

1st, u said u cant post ur pic, cuz fbi might snatch u

2nd, u said u are a born again

3rd, in fews months gone, u will be preaching in the stadium in lagos

4th, in ur church everytime u preach to ur congregation, u get beaten up why is that so  hmm

5th now that emm aloy is ibime is seun who owns nl

6th seun aint the real owner of nl

hmmm wonder where all this is headin, niether way we are watchin, cuz u could be mentally disturbed, sure there are many living with that condition in oversea

However, what the nigerians back home dnt know is, not everybody that left MM-airport ikeja will come back mentally fit!!! i think we are begining to see that, oh no he has a meeting to attend!! really?[/size]

right becomerich!!

breaking or not, but what u failed to anticipate that the yorubas might end up into 100 countries

haha the even want ibadan state

Ibadan needs N4b for new palace, state, says monarch
From Iyabo Lawal, Ibadan guardian 1 jun 09

THE Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Samuel Odulana and members of his council are currently shopping for N4 billion to build an ultra-modern palace and also achieve the creation of Ibadan State

Oba Odulana disclosed this while receiving the Chief Executive Officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr. Erastus Akingbola, at his Monatan home at the weekend.

The monarch described the inability of Ibadan to have a befitting palace almost 150 years ago as pathetic, saying the building of a befitting edifice to house Ibadan monarch is top on his agenda.

Oba Odulana recalled that other old capitals of the then northern and eastern regions were now autonomous, leaving Ibadan the only city that has suffered neglect under previous administrations in the area of states creation.

Appealing to Akingbola to support the two projects, Oba Odulana said: "Ibadan has no palace since 150 years ago. The town remains the same since the colonial days through the Western Region era. I am appealing to people like you in the private sector to come and support us on these projects. We need N4 billion to achieve both".

Earlier, Akingbola lauded the monarch for the peace the city has been witnessing during his tenure, stressing that the bank planned to build more branches in Ibadan because the current branches are making profits in the city.

He said: "We came to thank you particularly because your tenure has witnessed peace which makes Ibadan a conducive environment for business. Ibadan is peaceful and we run a profitable business here. This city can support 50 branches and we are going to open more branches here by God's grace."

The bank boss disclosed that his bank contributes to the local economy by employing local staff rather than bringing staff outside the cities where it operates. By opening more branches, he acknowledged that more local residents will be employed by the bank.

yes u are right^^^^^ but did u see them go on

burning churches

killing their brothers

no clubs around

refuses F1 race

rejected miss world etc etc

and these are the origin of who the hausa love to look up to

hahha something is certainly not right somewhere

doctors or niaja certificate

well i know some one that graduated in naija that works in ireland as a doctor now

so can someone elighten me on that

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for the first time i agree with becomeyeye joke oooo

i think he is the only one making sense here

other are chattin shit!! sorri to say oo

but as for delta,bayelsea thing never!!!!

listen man

i honestly think u should take ur shit to asshole rock

u just keep making the same post all the time in the pretence like its a new idea

nigeria will stay and watch u die!

now bury that!

the north or no north, with their backwardness in the increase trend, they will surely let lose the grip

wetin come happen to some human brain these days

in fact got out of the way

becomerich!! u ve been exposed!