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lucabrasi:
saw the man tb joshua on tv today and he sponsored a guy's masters postgraduate programme to the university of leeds and paid almost 20,000 pounds for tution,accomodation excluding feeding ticket e.t.c in addittion to the usual he gives out to under grads in nigerian universities,the disabled e.t.c
@poster
ill advice you and your supporters to be very careful in your criticisms so that you will not feel the wrath of GOD,if the man is a secret agent of the devil with all he has done and is doing then I'm guessing what nigeria needs is more agents of the devil , what has obasanjo the self styled born again president done

that is what surprise me about naija christianity. it was a very nice place with little morality before these my pastor and church is better than yours people came on the scene.

we used to sing only Jesus can save halleluyah now it is only my pastor and church can save.
i cant believe the vernom some people have against their brethren. if these alleged evil men do visible good and the holy men dont have anything to show for their holiness, you wonder if evil has become the new light in naija.

christianity is suposed to change a bad prson and not make them worse like it is doing to many naija people. as my sister say naija caught the wrong christianity

*Morenike:
^{Ask A-40, he'll tell you how I cater to him.}

I hope you're not expecting to to reveal my secret or to claim to know how our women care for their man. Each individual to his/her thang.

wonderful. see how one of your sisters care for hers here https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=190674.msg3027743#msg3027743 sadly this is typical naija babe of today.

*Morenike:
That is so wrong. Unless you meant the men

The best way to keep a man is to cater to his needs

educate me. tell me how our women love and care pls. how do you cater for a man's needs my dear sister

Nimshi:
A sad, mad, maddening, crazy crime.

The murder of an already abused child.

Animals, these people.

Nothing more to write; beyond words; beyond outrage.
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dont insult inteligent animals plss

*Morenike:
So how about the men on NL putting up "I want a God-fearing Naija wife" thread?

it is easier to get God using naija person than God fearing.  you have better chance of marrying oyinbo in naija than meeting God fearing one.  you stand a better chance if you say i want one that goes to mosque every friday, church every sunday and baba ifa every tuesdays

A-40:
Truth is it is not about the genitals sef there are some little girls in women's bodies

you cannot give what you dont have or know nothing about. i think the concept of love and caring is alien to most of our people.  for the girls having a pair of child bearing ribs is all they show for being a woman. i will not go into the boys today because like many are saying here taking her out - bla bla is is equals caring.  
God help us with boys like these however i think many naija girls deserve some of these boys because they dont have anything to show for being a lady too.

Nigeria anti-graft drive threatened –Financial Times of London
By Our corresponmdent
Published: Sunday, 2 Nov 2008

Fresh facts threatening the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s drive to contain the incidence of fraud in the country have started to emerge, the Financial Times of London, has alleged.

The FT in its October 31 edition said the redeployment of the commission’s former Chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, as well as his key lieutenants a year ago was part of the grand design to render the agency impotent.

Similarly, it alleged that the nation’s courts were being used to stifle the progress of the anti-graft agency.

Part of the report reads:

“Emmanuel Nwude, a prominent businessman convicted of masterminding the fraud in 2005, has so far reclaimed $52m of assets taken from him after his conviction. At the same time, a prominent lawyer in the international team that made the seizures has been hounded by the authorities over false suspicions of corruption, according to court papers.

“The Lagos High Court issued an emergency injunction last week preventing the commission from ”harassing” Babajide Ogundipe, a lawyer who worked with counterparts from the UK, the US and Switzerland to recover $140m for Banco Noroeste investors.

“Keith Oliver, a London-based lawyer and fellow member of the international asset-recovery team, condemned the commission‘s ”ill-judged and disgraceful attack” on Mr Ogundipe. ”It does nothing to enhance the standing of the commission in Nigeria‘s fight against corruption,” he said.

“The Noroeste case was an eye-catchingly large variation on the classic fraud - named 419 after the relevant section of the Nigerian criminal code - in which fraudsters ask targets for money in advance of a promised big pay-out later.

“Enticed by the prospect of $39m of kickbacks on a project to build a new airport in Abuja, Nigeria‘s capital, Nelson Sakaguchi, a former Noroeste official, transferred huge sums of his employer‘s money into offshore accounts linked to a group of tricksters, including Mr Nwude.

“Mr. Nwude, who was released from prison in 2006, has launched a lawsuit to overturn a $110m forfeiture order made against his 14 properties in England and Nigeria, six cars and other assets, including numerous corporate shareholdings.

“Farida Waziri, the new head of the commission, confirmed that she was aware of Mr Nwude‘s claims and was keeping an eye on them. But Ms Waziri insisted that she had not ordered her agents to question either Mr Ogundipe or former commission officials linked to the asset seizures.

“In last week‘s proceedings, Mr Ogundipe told the court he had been summoned repeatedly by the commission for interrogation about suspected wrongdoing in his disposal of proceeds of the asset sale, even though he said this had been done properly. Mr Ogundipe‘s case will go to a full hearing next month.

“The Noroeste financial recovery and the successful prosecution of Mr Nwude and Amaka Anajemba, an accomplice, led to the case being promoted as the prime example of Nigeria‘s determination to emerge from decades of rampant corruption.

“International goodwill and money poured towards the commission, which said last month that it had a portfolio of about $40m in grants and credits from aid donors.

“However, the atmosphere has soured after the contentious ousting a year ago of Nuhu Ribadu as the head of the agency and his key lieutenants, amid multiple investigations into suspected corruption involving influential politicians linked to the government of President Umaru Yar’Adua,” the report said.

# The Yar`adua administration is one big confusion.like they attempted to frustrate our youth in the inglorious decision not to host the u- 17 FIFA championship, so it is with the issue of curruption. Not knowing exactly what to do. As long as "the chief raw officer" Aondoakaa remains the MOJ EFCC will remain a bounch of confusion. That man started the "front and back movement of this administration" when he wanted the EFCC to come under his control. He remains the blackeye of this administration.

Posted by: Mr Timothy Udoh , on Sunday, November 02, 2008

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# We must learn how to respect one another as Nigerians. One reason corruption is raging in Nigeria is our inability to come together to foster a change. We encourage you to use your commentaries and opinions more constructively. Let's put them together under one voice. Join us at: WWW.NEWNIGERIANALLIANCE.COM

Posted by: WIND OF CHANGE , on Sunday, November 02, 2008

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# i was expecting this from Chike a Frustrated night browser this is the beauty of freedom of speech. we are talking about Monumental frauds that has cut the life expectancy of the Average Nigerian short with bad roads food crisis and continuous dependence on imported essential and absolutely non essential products if a Nigerian Private company does half the business Shell and BAE are into we could reduce unemployment this are not good pointers we indeed have taken some years backward

Posted by: i see you , on Sunday, November 02, 2008

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# Nigerians should get prepared for a human Armageddon.A national bloodbath.

Posted by: Beatrice Kaddy , on Sunday, November 02, 2008

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# Nonsense, tell Financial Times to concentrate on the corruption scandals of Shell, BAE Systems etc. The UK Serious Fraud Office has failed to investigate any these corrupt British firm becuase the British Prime Minister stopped the investigation citing national security as the reason for stopping the investigations. Do as I say, don't do as I do - hypocrites. Punch shine ya eyes!

Posted by: chike , on Sunday, November 02, 2008

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# Gani, I understand your frustration with Nigeria but we don't have to profess more doom for the country. Whilst complaining about the present situation we would do well to also pray for God's intervention to rid the country of bad leaders. Just my 2cents abi na kobo .

Posted by: Janet , on Sunday, November 02, 2008

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# Guys, go and watch one of 'Yardull', sorry Yarcriminal, addreses to the nation in the earlier months of his assumption of office, cant remember if its his 1st 100 days or independent day address, you should see the insincerity in his eyes when he mentioned the issues of corruption. I never trusted him from day one! we are back to criminal and corrupt years oligarchic rule where there is no difference between public and personal purse - Nigeria wealth is now Yardull's personal wealth!

Posted by: concerned 9ja , on Sunday, November 02, 2008

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# TRULY , NIGERIA IS A GOD FORSAKEN COUNTRY, ONE STEP FORWARD TWENTY STEPS BACKWARDS,,,,JUST BIG SHAME, SAD PART IS, ALL THESE ANIMAL LEADERS , AS SOON AS SOME AILMAENTS STRIKE , THEY RUN TO LONDON, WHAT A CURSED COUNTRY

Posted by: GANI , on Sunday, November 02, 2008

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# By 2011, EFCC would have completely be a toothless bulldog. The Yaradua Administration is not really serious in prosecuting criminals because almost all of the criminals are friends and part of his government. I pity this country because we just took 20 years backward having this administration and it will definitely hult Nigerians now and years to come. Please always have Nigeria in Prayers for God to help us.

Posted by: Franco , on Sunday, November 02, 2008

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# Yaradua and his EFCC are only interested in minor internet scammers trying to eke out a living and make sense of their lives battered by the looting of Yaradua´s political and business cohorts. They harass and arrest petty criminals and online writers as if those are the 8th agenda of Yaradua – while at the same time, saving big-time crooks from harm´s way via Nigeria´s Statecraft. Shame on Yaradua and all he stands for, if there´re any at all.

Posted by: S. Njokede , on Sunday, November 02, 2008

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# Only God can help the nation as the current wave of disturbing circumstances grips and shakes the national integrity of the poor nation Nigeria.When we criticise the govt,people called us names, now this is what you all wanted for the nation and you are now getting the results. You talk of Nwadike, what of Ibori and others that are back from detention and seeing parading the corridor of power in several guises.The international world are now critical of the on-going political dispensation.

Posted by: abimbola kumapayi , on Sunday, November 02, 2008

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How the rich bury their dead
By SAM AWOYINFA
Published: Sunday, 2 Nov 2008

IT is said that necessity is the mother of invention. It is equally true that if you can identify a particular need in the society, and you can develop a product or service to satisfy this need, you might be on your way to making a fortune.
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As public cemeteries across the country have become a haven for ritualists and other diabolical characters, who would not allow the dead to rest in peace, a number of private cemeteries are springing up. And the business seems to be thriving, since the public cemeteries are not well maintained, due to official red tape associated with running of government institutions and parastatals.

Not too long ago, the Lagos State Police Command paraded a middle-aged man with seven human skulls, hidden in a sack. During interogation, he told the police that he got those skulls from the Atan cemetery in Yaba. He explained further that he normally scaled the fence of the cemetary in the dead of the night, to exhume corpses and thereafter sever their heads from the trunks.

Also, sometime last year, in Ibadan, a member of a vigilance group was equally caught with some human skulls. Almost on a regular basis, you get to read in the newspapers, people being caught with human skulls or fresh human heads.

However, an emerging trend where those who could afford to bury their departed aged parents or loved ones in a private cemetery, is fast catching on. Some Nigerians these days spend fortunes to ensure they give their departed ones a ‘befitting‘ burial. They hold nothing back in getting those departed ones to sleep in peace.

One of those privately owned cemeteries is the Victoria Court Cemetery, located on Lekki-Epe Expressway. The private cemetery established in 1997, is owned and operated by an Isreali construction company, HFP Engineering.

Sunday Punch investigations revealed that a vault there goes for as much as N400,000 and the money is paid before arrangements are made to recieve the corpse for burial. Our correspondent who visited the cemetery last Tuesday equally discovered that there are some vaults which are available for sale.

Again, if the family of the deceased go through an undertaker to buy the vault, this price may no longer be feasible. This is because the undertaker might be the one to provide the casket, and other auxiliary services like providing the pall bearers and the band boys. If the undertaker is contacted to do all these, Sunday Punch gathered, the total charge could go as high as between N1.5million and N2million, or even more.

”If a client comes to us directly, we charge only N400,000 for a single vault. It is when people go through an undertaker, probably to handle the total package of getting the vault, the coffin and providing the hearse and the pall bearers, among others that the money could move to say N1.5 or N2 million or even more,” Mr Audu, the supervisor of the cemetery stressed.

The Victoria Court Cemetery also has an in-house chapel where funeral services could be held, if the family of the deceased so desires. The hall which could sit 140 guests, is for free, as far as you have paid for the vault. The only snag is that the chapel does not have a resident chaplain or pastor. So, whoever wants to have a funeral service there must provide an officiating minister.

Another private cemetery in Lagos is the Vaults and Gardens, Ikoyi. The exclusive cemetery situated beside the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, is owned by Olakleen Group. Some of the tombs have finishing works done with marble, red brick, tiles and granite.

It also boasts of various classes of vaults, ranging from single, double and triple vaults. As the names suggest, the single takes only a corpse, double takes two, while the triple takes three. The double and triple vaults are mostly bought by people who have chosen to be buried in the same tomb with their spouses when they die.

The prices are as varied as the vaults. For the single vault, the price range is between N367,500 and N700,000. This differentiation is determined by the level of the density of the area you are paying for. They have New High Density vault, Single High Density vault and Single Medium Density vault. While the double and triple vaults are sold for N1 million and N1.5 million respectively.

For other auxiliary services carried out on the tombs after the burial, there are charges attached. In the new price list obtained by our correspondent, granite finishing attracts at least N350,000, marble – N300,000 and above, red brick – N250,000 or more while tiling – N60,000 and painting is N10,000.

Vaults and Gardens also has a mausoleum section, which is only made available on application. The price, Sunday Punch checks revealed, could be as high as N10 million. And it has a hall for funeral services, which attracts N100,000 fee for two hours duration.

Another startling discovery during our investigations is that some people do buy and keep tombs for their aged parent(s) or for themselves. Sunday Punch also has it on good authority that Certificate of Occupancy is normally issued on each of the vaults, and handed over to the family of the deceased.

”This C of O could be for 25 years or more, after which the family of the deceased will have to renew such,” a source who does not want his name in print said.

Relations of some of the deceased still pay occasional visits to their tombs, as some fresh wreaths were seen on some of the tombs, while some other wreaths were already weather beaten.

When Sunday Punch visited the corporate office of HFP Engineering at Victoria Garden City (VGC) on Thursday, October 30, for official comment on the Victoria Court Cemetery, General Manager, Legal and Administration, Mr. K.O. Omojola, said they do not entertain press interviews. Later, he recanted.

”If you want any official comment from us, you will write us a formal letter, addressed to the General Manager, Victoria Court Limited (Managers of Victoria Court Private Cemetery), and bring it to me. Then, I will facilitate the press interview with Group Managing Director,” he says.

Whether we like it or not, the private cemeteries are here to stay, and they are making good money too, because people who use their services, must bury their dead. http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200811022551953

[b][b]Somali rape victim, 13, stoned to death[/b][/b]
By Agency Reporter
Published: Sunday, 2 Nov 2008

A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said.

Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct. 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses. The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo had accused her of adultery after she reported that three men had raped her, the rights group said.

Initial local media reports said Duhulow was 23, but her father told Amnesty International she was 13. Some of the Somali journalists who first reported the killing later told Amnesty International that they had reported she was 23 based upon her physical appearance.

”This child suffered a horrendous death at the behest of the armed opposition groups who currently control Kismayo,” David Copeman, Amnesty International‘s Somalia campaigner, said in a statement Friday.

Somalia is among the world‘s most violent and impoverished countries. The nation of some 8 million people has not had a functioning government since warlords overthrew a dictator in 1991 then turned on each other.

A quarter of Somali children die before age 5; nearly every public institution has collapsed. Fighting is a daily occurrence, with violent deaths reported nearly every day.

Islamic militants with ties to al-Qaida have been battling the government and its Ethiopian allies since their combined forces pushed the Islamists from the capital in December 2006. Within weeks of being driven out, the Islamists launched an insurgency that has killed thousands of civilians.

In recent months, the militants appear to be gaining strength. The group has taken over the port of Kismayo, Somalia‘s third-largest city, and dismantled pro-government roadblocks. They also effectively closed the Mogadishu airport by threatening to attack any plane using it.


another madness in mole house

milknhoney:
LMAO!!! Now this is what I call the "Nigerian of Today".
Also. . . . . you claim that Nigerian child raised in Nigeria are far better off than those raised abroad right?? So tell me why is it that these children grow up to become 419'ers, area kids, and all around criminals?? And those you say in the US who are "oversexed idiots" grow up to be respectable citizens??

madam, why you dey ask my people difficult questions? dont you know oyinbo collonized us and we are only 48yrs as some would have you believe. dont you know you are only allowed to make money in the west and not raise your own kids? i dont like difficult questions like these. the govt. will help them bring up their kids. up up nigerians

churchianity101 naijastyle

lepashandi:
Now, I can see that you have not grown out of your buffon and boffun state - we are talking about kids and children, you come dey ask about adults, you are buffon raised to power 5.

he is talking about adults because most of the fools creating your "bufoons" were brought up in your lovely morally bankrupt nigeria.

EXPENSIVE LOVE: Expatriate loses N5.5m to lover
By Ezedike Joshua, Port Harcourt
Sunday, November 2, 2008

•Okiro, Police IG
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A middle-aged Chinese expatriate, Mr. Cai Jichum, has lost a whopping N5.5million to his girlfriend in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Mr. Jichum was reportedly in love with the lady in question, Fumilayo Paticence Dadymus, an employee of his company.
Robbed blind, and now in a financial ruin, the lover boy painfully dragged his heartthrob to the police.

According to the four-count charge, the 26-year-old accused conspired with other persons now at large to steal N3.1million in Nigerian currency and 20,000 US Dollars, an equivalent of N2.4million.

The offences were allegedly committed at Rumuibekwe New Layout in Port Harcourt on July 18, this year.
She pleaded not guilty to the charges.The charges read in part:
That you Funilayo Patience Dadymus, on the same date and place in the aforesaid magisterial district did steal the sum of Three Million One Hundred Thousand Naira (N3.100.000.00) all in one thousand naira denomination, property of Cai Jichum, and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 390 (9) of the criminal code, cap 37,vol. 11, Laws of Rivers State 1999.

That you Fumilayo Patience Dadymus, on the same date and place in the aforesaid magisterial district did steal the sum of twenty thousand America Dollars ($20.000.00) valued two million four hundred thousand naira (N2.400.000.00) in Nigeria currency and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 390 (9) of the criminal code, cap 37, vol. 11, laws of Rivers state 1999.
The accused was granted bail by Chief Magistrate E.C. Woke who also adjourned the case to November 27.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2008/nov/02/national-02-11-2008-002.htm

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[b][b]Fresh storm gathers for Bankole[/b][/b]
• Over N.4bn bullet-proof cars; TV sets, PCs
• It’s not true - Speaker
By JAMES OJO, Abuja
Sunday, November 2, 2008

•Dimeji Bankole
Photo: Sun News Publishing

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The storm is certainly gathering for Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and his fellow federal lawmakers in leadership positions.

Even as the controversy generated by the purchase of 380 Peugeot 407 cars allegedly at prohibitive cost is yet to abate, another scandal of larger proportions is brewing. Again, the bulk of the problem might stem from what seems an obsession for state-of-the-art automobiles.

Classified documents available to Sunday Sun suggest that the Speaker authorized the expenditure of a whopping N333.5million on bullet-proof vehicles for himself, his deputy and the House leader.

Specifically, at the meeting of the Body of Principal Officers of the House held on May 28, approval was reportedly conveyed for the purchase of three Mercedes Benz (Treated) S-600 cars for N158.4million for the Speaker and his deputy. Each of the bullet-proof cars costs N52.8million.

Other purchases reportedly approved included two Range Rover (Treated) SUVs at N57.2million each - totaling N114.4million - for the Speaker and his deputy; one Range Rover (Special) at the cost of N30million for the Speaker, as well as one Range Rover V8 for the House Leader purchased at the cost of N27million.

Although the contract was reportedly awarded through the National Assembly Management on June 30, sources said at the weekend that it was doubtful if the winner - M/S Wadatau Global Co of Kano – got it through competitive bidding.

Yet, N83.875million part-payment representing 25 per cent of the contract sum was allegedly paid with Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) cheques 00001922, 00001923 and 00001924 of September 12, 2008.
At the same meeting of the House Principal Officers, the lawmakers reportedly approved the purchase of one Toyota Lexus GX for the Chief Whip at the cost of N13.75million.

At the weekend, it could not be established if the contract beneficiary - M/S Kymco Motor Nigeria Limited – was properly listed in the records of the Corporate Affairs Commission. Yet it got paid N13.75million through CBN Cheque number 00001925 (including 5% Tax & 5% VAT).
"Needless to say," our source insisted, "that there was no competitive bidding process."

Besides luxury cars, the legislators, also at the meeting of May 28, reportedly approved the purchase of 400 units of Samsung LNS341 LCD television sets at N525,000 each regardless that the actual unit price, according to our source, is about N200,000. They also voted funds for 800 units of HP Compaq 5700 Desktop Computers with HP 2015 Laser Jet Printer and UPS at N330,000 per set. The average market price, it was also learnt, is N180,000 per set.

Another scandalous purchase that the lawmakers reportedly approved were 400 units of Sharp 5316 Digital Copiers at N270,000 each whereas the average market price is said to be N130,000 each.
The Special Adviser to the Speaker, Kayode Akinmade, however, told Sunday Sun that the fresh allegation was baseless and the handiwork of some lawmakers who are not happy with the achievements recorded by Bankole in one year.

Akinmade added that it was another grand design to tarnish the image of the Speaker by aggrieved members over the composition of committees.
"November 1 (yesterday) will be the exact one year that he took over as the Speaker of the House. As you know, he has not done anything outside due process. But you will also agree with me that some people are not happy that under him, corruption had been exposed through the various investigations carried out by the House. So you can understand that some people are not happy with the campaign against corruption and they would go to any length to smear his name," he said.
Akinmade also insisted that since he came into office, Bankole has not done anything wrong as being alleged.

He said that the process for the purchase of cars for principal officers had been on before Bankole assumed office, adding that if it was true, due process would have been followed.
The spokesman explained that any car bought for the use of the Speaker belong to the House and not a personal property of the person occupying the seat, noting that that was why the fleet of cars used by Mrs Etteh was still the one been used by Bankole.

"If any car is bought for the use of the Speaker, they are not the personal property of Bankole. They belong to the House. This is the practice, and in any case, it was not true that customized Jeeps were bought by the Speaker," he said. http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2008/nov/02/national-02-11-2008-001.htm

Maryam Babangida to OBJ, Ribadu: No condition is permanent
By ONUOHA UKEH
Sunday, November 2, 2008

•Maryam Babangida
Photo by: Sun News Publishing

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Out of office, but certainly not out of public view. That, in a nutshell, is the story of Maryam, the elegant wife of former military president, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.
Believe it or not, the ebony beauty is already 59 years and married for 39.
Seemingly loved and admired by all, the Asaba, Delta State indigene did not find life easy during the regime of Olusegun Obasanjo, regardless that her husband helped him to Aso Rock after a stint in jail.
When agents of Obasanjo’s government were not after her pet project – Better Life for Women – it was her bakery business, in what she described as petty jealousy. Then the anti-corruption czar, EFCC, went for her son Mohammed.
That action, Maryam recalls in this exclusive interview, was a nightmare for the family. In reaction, the former first lady put everything in God’s hand.
And today, all she has to tell Obasanjo and Nuhu Ribadu, the guy who once called the shots at EFCC, is: No condition is permanent.


Let’s look at the June 12 issue. It was another crisis altogether during your time.
June 12 shouldn’t have happened.
So what went wrong?
We were in the Villa and weren’t on the field to see what happened. Those on the field messed up.
But the buck stopped at your husband’s table.
If you are the boss, you take responsibility, good or bad. That’s what my husband did.
Were you really interested in leaving office at that period because some accounts have it that you were urging your husband to stay on?
That was the last thing I would ever do. If there was anybody that was telling him let’s go, I think I was the one. There was no need to stay on. Political manipulations, manoeuvers and all those things were not worth it. We were messed up, so what are we doing with them?
Who are the “them” that messed him up? The military or politicians?
They are there! They are there! You know the military never operated alone. It was a combination of the military and civilians.
The Abiola family is very close to the Babangida family,
They understood everything at the end of the day; they understood everybody’s role.
Do you relate very well now?
Yeah! We do. No bad feelings. They got to understand the truth. They know the truth.
At one time, it was rumoured that because of the strained relationship between the two families, Aisha, your daughter, was prevented from marrying Kola Abiola?
That’s not true. Don’t even bring it in.
But it was a strong rumour then.
I am telling you it wasn’t true. It’s just that people have basket mouth. They talk too much. Cha-cha, cha-cha without even understanding what they are talking about. Do you know there was a time that Wahala man took us to court?
Who?
This Wahala man, Gani. Haba! Haba! (Kunya).
He was trying to make a point on the Dele Giwa issue.
No, it wasn’t that. There was something that happened and he took Better Life to court. We won the case. All the women lawyers came around and said this was their case. We got to court and trounced him. Honestly, the Dele Giwa case, it’s only God’s time to reveal what happened. My husband was never part of it. We were not part of it.
It’s still an unresolved issue.
It’s the Police that should have been able to get the person or people who killed him. We were having our breakfast when the news got to us.
Will it be right to say that the Better Life Programme suffered some setbacks during Chief Obasanjo’s eight years regime?
They were jealous of Better Life. They did not want to be part of it or work with us. There was a time we translated the MDGs into Hausa, Swahili and three other languages. We invited all the agencies that have something to do with MDGs to the office. We implored them to get copies of those books and help propagate the ideas. Nigeria belongs to all of us; why are you afraid of something that is good? Why won’t you be part of something that will add value to the development of the country? Whether the idea is yours or not, provided it is good for the country, you have to support it and use the idea to move the country forward. We went round to distribute the copies of the MDGs booklets. We personally went round, sent others by post and couriers, and you can’t believe it; the response we got was marvelous. But because it was from Mrs. Babangida, everybody would say, don’t do anything with Babangida.
Why is it so?
Unnecessary envy, you know. I am suffering what they said my husband did.
What did he do?
I don’t know for them. They are just scared of Babangida (prolonged laughter).
When your Better Life account was frozen, did you make personal entreaties to the then President Olusegun Obasanjo?
Hmm, Chief Obasanjo is still alive. I think I did. That was the end.
He was not willing to do anything?
No!
What about his wife, the late Stella Obasanjo; She was still alive then?
I didn’t talk to her about it because I didn’t want to generate crisis in their family. You know they are two of a kind.
What did Chief Obasanjo tell you when you complained about your account being frozen?
He simply said, ‘Maryam, is that not public money?’ I said no, no, it is people’s money, which they donated to the Better Life (Programme).
And that was the end? Nothing beyond that?
Yeah, nothing.
What about the arrest of your son Mohammed at that time?
I have said it repeatedly that everybody will answer for his deeds. I told Chief Obasanjo that ‘your son is with Ribadu, so he’s your son, you do anything you feel like with him.’
And what was his reaction?
He said, ‘ah Maryam, I am going to ensure your son must come out. Walahi tahlai I didn’t know.’ I said well, he’s there and feel free to do whatever you like with him.
Did you also speak to other people?
Hmm, I can’t really remember now.
So, Chief Obasanjo eventually got him released?
I don’t know for him.
You don’t seem to like Chief Obasanjo all of a sudden, because your husband and Obasanjo enjoy the best of relationship. In fact, it was a known fact that your husband brought Obasanjo in 1999.
Well, what they did to my son was very unfair, very untrue. And I leave Ribadu. Ribadu will face God on this matter. And he will answer for his mischief. I am not quarreling with anybody. I never spoke to Ribadu on the matter. Even thereafter, my son saw him in the plane, and they greeted; saw him at the Hajj, they greeted. So, we are not mean people. Just leave everything to God. You think you are in a position, you think you can do and undo. When you come out, you will face your creator someday.
What is the relationship now between your family and Obasanjo’s?
Few days ago, he called. It was my line. I answered and we joked.
What did you talk about?
What are you doing with Ibrahim? Where are you? Such talks. He spoke to me and my husband.
Since he left power, your family has not paid him any visit at Ota. Could it be because of the strained relationship?
Have I been to Ota before? Have I been to Ota?
But your husband too has not?
That is a man’s world. It is their Wahala. I have never been to Ota, even when we were in Lagos, so close to Ota. I have never been there, let alone now. What’s my own?
The two families are good friends, aren’t they?
When he invites me to Ota, let us see whether I will go or not.
Now we have another President, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua, who is also close to your family. How would you assess his performance so far?
Me ke? eh eh! What I see in governance is that every leader will try his best for the good of the country. That’s what I feel and, according to the situation they find themselves, they will perform, based on circumstances. That’s how I feel. I am not judging anybody. They have just started. Democracy is a learning process. Of course, it will take a long time. Otherwise, I will appeal to Nigerians to be more honest and serious.
What do you think the women can do to get themselves more actively involved in politics?
Women are trying. The amount of money involved in politics is too much for women to bear. What do you want women to do?
Perhaps adopt the Beijing affirmative action.
Agreed! The women are working; they are getting there. It is a gradual process. They are doing well. All they need is for them to be recognized. We have female senators, honourable members, female ministers; they are coming up.
We had a female Speaker who was later consumed by allegations of corruption against her. And you never came out in her defense?
I never did.
Why?
Because I didn’t get the full story. I don’t speak on issues I do not have enough information. She didn’t reach out to me either. Don’t forget that I am a grand mother now. They should come reaching out to me. What am I asking for?
But you have special passion for the women?
At least, she should have reached out to me. I have my style of operation.
And what’s your style
I don’t like interfering unnecessarily. If you bring your case, we see how we can handle it, that’s it. I don’t want to be seen as if I am going to be asking for a favour.
Here is Dr (Mrs.) Maryam Babangida occupying the famed 50-bedroom apartment. Tell Nigerians, how the home looks like?
Hmm! That is an extreme extravagance, and extreme lies. What is one doing with a 50-bedroom apartment, when I have just four children and three grandchildren? Maybe more will come. So what is the 50-bedroom for? Won’t people be realistic and at least be God-fearing, for God’s sake? Haba! They want me to invite them and be opening the rooms? I will not, if that is what they want.
So how many bedrooms?
I have reasonable number of bedrooms for every member of the family. We have up to six. We have stores, my swimming pool; we have kitchen, kitchen store, laundry, etc.
Is that all?
Of course, the living rooms, that’s all!
Not up to 50 rooms?
Sebi you have entered this house. Enter and count. People are just ignorant. And ignorance is a disease. They are suffering that disease. As they get to find out the truth, they will be relieved of that disease.
What is the secret behind your compact family structure? Could it be a function of your husband’s one-man, one-wife and four-child policy of the 1990s?
We were already living together, had our family, before he talked about that. He didn’t say one wife, he said four children.
Of course, one wouldn’t expect more than one wife to give birth to just four children?
No! You can have other wives and still have four children. It was just a health programme and family planning, perhaps, to check population explosion. When he came up with that, I challenged them; why did you people say so? You people are putting me in trouble because the women were complaining.
Was that why you stopped giving birth?
Emi ke? That has nothing to do with my having children.
Was it then a matter of choice?
Maybe that is what God has destined. I should have had more. Thank God I have four. I thank God.
When you got married, your husband said as young couples, you people enjoyed your prime, going to parties and discos. How was the experience?
Yes, it was good; going out, meeting people, dinners etc.
We understand the La Kabana Club in Kaduna was a special attraction. Were you both clubbing so that you could monitor him; so that he doesn’t look the other way?
(Laughter). What’s my own? He was the one taking me. I was not taking myself.
You were a young couple then, right?
Yes, that’s how it should be. Go out together, yes. It was good. It was right. You can’t marry and bother your wife. You go places, you do things. It was good. Now we don’t have time for that; except we attend dinners.
You enjoyed your prime, didn’t you?
Why not? We did!
You are kind of shut-in now. You don’t seem to be an outgoing person any more. What could be responsible for this?
Where do you go to here? Which Nite club again? They will say I saw her here, saw her there; we have passed that age. Except if one travels abroad, we go to dinners to have some taste elsewhere.
Thank God you are 59. At times when we read stories about your health status, it bothers your admirers.
That is the story that they feed on. Who are the people fielding the stories and where are they?
Only recently, one of the soft sell magazines talked about your supposed breast cancer.
Me, breast cancer? God forbid! Sebi you are here talking to me. I don’t have their time.
Where is this story coming from?
Ask the person that wrote it to come and verify. I don’t know where they are carrying the story from. I really don’t know.
It was reported that you traveled overseas as a result of the worsening situation?
If somebody goes to oversea, does that mean it is for check-up or cancer? Is it only Maryam Babangida who travels? Is it only me that falls sick? What is their interest? Who are the people writing? Where did they get their story or information? Ask them, have they been to this house? Let them come, let’s run round my track with them together and see who is stronger.
That’s a big challenge? How do you take such false stories against your family?
I know earlier on that some people must have been paid to say such things about me. Those that are wishing somebody dead or bad, let them know that such bad wishes will return to them. They will be the ones to die now. I know death is for everybody, but they have started fading away one by one.
Do you know them?
Let them continue to carry false stories, it will return to their heads.
Why do you think anyone will wish you dead?
Do I know for them? I don’t know what I have done to them. They think I am too much (Laughter).
In terms of beauty and wealth?
All! They think I am too much for them. Haba! They see me, they say haaa, this woman, you no dey old? Listen, somebody sees you and say haba, haaaa this woman, you no dey old? What do you mean? So, they want to see me looking wretched? What is in your mind? And I keep on asking what the problem is? Why? Why?
How was your upbringing like in the good old days?
Hmm, it was good.
Did you live with your parents?
Yeah, of course.
Perhaps, your marriage was what took you away from them or you earlier stayed with your uncles?
I stayed with my aunty for just two years before she got married. Most of the time, I was with my parents.
How about your childhood friends, are they still very much around?
Yeah, but some of them are dead. They are all scattered, actually. I didn’t keep in touch as such with so many of them, because I mind my business. They are all over the place; but we have lost close contact. We were never in one place; you know the military and the transfer across the country. You hardly can settle in one place. That also affected reaching out to my childhood friends.
Do you still link up with your other family members back home in Delta?
Of course, yes. Why not?
How often?
Not often. We talk on telephone.
Thank God for GSM
Even before that, there were means of communication. They also come around. I am not too familiar with the area now.
You were once accused by some Deltans of influencing the creation of Delta State with the capital in your home town, Asaba.
Good! What is the problem? If I did, that was great.
So you actually did?
Yes, I did, Good! Good!
Was it deliberate?
Na you sabi. Se they said I did, I did. I did. Chikena!
How did you feel when your bakery was closed down by NAFDAC sometime in 2006?
It was very unfair action. It was very awful. There was nothing near the truth on what they accused us of. I never heard of anything like bread enhancer, which they said we were using. I never knew of that. And they just came and banned us. That is one of those things they tried to use against us. I told the late Stella Obasanjo, and she said “what?” And she said no, no. I said well, that’s the situation. We got all kinds of information and accusation.
So why would they close down your bakery?
Because they simply wanted to intimidate us. It was all politics.
But that was an employer of labour?
Eventually, they re-opened it.
Were there formal complaints or were you formally communicated?
No! I got my lawyer and told him, go after them. He went and met Dora Akunyili and Dora thought he was a cheap Northern lawyer. When the man started to speak on the issue, she said waoh! They later sorted the issue out; I did not personally speak to Dora Akunyili. I think I have met Dora once at Caritas University in Enugu.
And the issue didn’t come up?
We didn’t have time to talk. If she had talked, I wouldn’t have, if it was the issue. Few occasions thereafter, she was visiting Minna and they invited me for whatever she was doing.
They invited you?
Thereafter they started inviting me for their programmes.
But you should naturally participate since it was not a personal thing.
If they know that, they should give respect. If there was anything they thought was the problem, they could have discussed that with me. And let me correct it. Your approach to issues matters a lot.
Did they apologize to you later?
The lawyer, according to him, I wasn’t there really when they spoke on few occasions. They realized their mistake.
Was there any formal or verbal apology?
It will be a shame on them to do this kind of public apology; you know. The same thing they did to Mohammed (her son). It was wrong. It wasn’t good. They couldn’t come out to apologize, but they started sending messages.
You were said to have gone through all kinds of intimidation during Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s regime. Is this true?
During Chief Obasanjo’s regime, yes, a lot.
Was it because of your husband’s presidential aspiration?
Yes, that was it.
Some Nigerians were saying your husband did not want to come back, that you were the one pushing him. How true?
Good God! What am I pushing him for?
They said you wanted to re-enact your first ladyship, the glamour and all that.
And so I should remain there forever because I am God?
But really, are you not interested in coming back?
I am not interested in coming back. For what? Instead, some other people were pushing him. When the people were asking him to contest, you just have to please the people. But I told him I am not cut out for this kind of attitude, because it is democracy, I see some crazy things, it was kind of kara wen chi. You know what that means?
No!
No discipline! Harlotism! No standard! I am not cut out for that kind of stuff.
But that’s not enough reason for you to stay out of politics. Perhaps, your participation could introduce some finesse?
Hmm, No! No!
Why? Or did you think it was not right for him to return to Aso Rock?
(Cuts in). It is not that it was not right. If God has destined he will be, he will go there. I am not one to make him. God makes, not man.
Since out of office, you have retired to Minna. What’s up?
What can I do? This is my husband’s place. And I have to make do with this place because of him.
What kind of business are you engaged in?
School, I run my school
As a teacher or administrator?
I can also claim to be a Professor or teacher there because I am always there. Because you are dealing with human beings, my attention is always there. I am always there.
What about the Girls Science School?
That’s just in my name. I am not the owner. It’s owned by government.
Is your involvement just that of charity?
Yes, some kind of intervention. I do my religious activities, helping out.
We hear you run an Islamic Foundation; is that true?
Yes, I use that for the propagation of Islam
What’s the organization like?
We preach Islam in the villages. When you go there, you will find that some of them do not have religion; they practice the traditional region. We have to preach and bring them to God. Some Christians are there; some Muslims are there too. We have to preach; we don’t force people. We try to explain religion to them and on their own accord, they can embrace it.

Have you now become an evangelist?
Well, thank God. Give them what you can, then employ a teacher to be teaching them, about the religion. Later, we move to the next village.
How do you get feedback?
I go there. We have a group. In the group, we have the Mallams, teachers, they monitor those people. They go round and we keep on expanding.
What time do you have to do all this?
I do that mostly on weekends. I go in the morning and do not get back until late in the evenings. Nigeria is big.
What is the coverage like?
It is here, in Niger State. You can’t take too much. You place emphasis on a particular area and do what you can to help them.
You have been married to your husband for 39 years. Now that you are 59, down memory lane, what do you have to say?
IBB is a strong man, and he is gentle, kind, and very accommodating. We’ve been able to understand each other. We tend to agree and disagree on issues. There are styles of operation. What is important is respect for each other.
Do you engage in shouting matches?
No, no, no. We don’t misbehave. We don’t do that, kai. It’s not in our system. We are two gentle people.
One must be hot, the other hotter; isn’t it?
Nobody is hotter. He’s strong in his own way, and I am strong in my own way. We respect each other’s feelings.
How do you take all the criticisms against your family?
Sometimes I will just run to go and show him, ‘see what they are writing. I don’t like this oh!’ He will just say, ‘no, don’t mind them, they will be tired of writing.’ And I will say, ‘this is what you keep on saying. You have to do something about this.’ He will just laugh it over.
Does it mean you get worried more than him?
You know, we women express our feelings faster than men. The man can be feeling bad, and he will not show it. In most cases, over time, I ignore all those criticisms.
How does it feel being a grandmother?
Great! Great!! Great!!! It’s one of the things one should be grateful to God, for keeping one alive to see your own grand children. It’s wonderful.
And you don’t look like a granny? What’s the secret?
Good heart. Good mind. Good goals. Be good.
What is your typical day like?
Full of activities, religious obligations, public works, household work, attending to visitors, attending to calls, attending to requests and demands, going to school, primary, secondary; traveling.
When do you wake up everyday?
Do I even sleep at night, as such? I can wake up anytime to say my prayers.
What next?
After prayers, because I am awake, I can go back to sleep for one hour.
Do you use the gym?
Occasionally, in the evening; not in the morning.
Do you do physical exercises alone or with your husband?
Well, our timings are not regular.
Is that deliberate?
No! Because I have much to do than him order than to sit down and attend to people, addressing their problems, here and there.
So you stay awake up till 12 mid-night or 1am?
It depends on what I have done during the day. It depends on my mood. My sleeping pattern is not for public consumption.
Is it true that you surf the Internet as a hobby?
Not a hobby. Go in and get what you want, and then get out. I have too much work to do.
Do you read Nigerian newspapers?
Yes, of course. I have even read before coming down (for the interview).
How do you sustain your fashion? Do you have special designers that you patronize or what?
This thing you people are talking about is gift. You either have it or you don’t. Let them leave me alone.
Do you patronize local fabrics and tailors?
I do, a lot.
What kind of designs do you go for?
I insist on making out what I want to wear.
What about perfumes?
Not particularly sticking to one.
Why?
Just like that; because I don’t want anybody to know the particular perfumes I am wearing. I go for soft, sweet perfumes. I have various types. I just go for any of them at any point in time. It’s a free world. Choose what you like.
Congratulations on your 59th birthday. It’s been a pleasure having this chat with you.
You are welcome! You have really taken my time. I have so much to do. Thank you!

if it was nigerian you wonder what they would have found

Baby Jinx:
https://gi73.photobucket.com/groups/i204/99JUAMR284/shy-1.gif Thank you!


Hey me too I don't know what's wrong with me lately! I'm becoming a maverick. . . a rogue housewife. Why, just the other day, I told my husband "In a sec" when he asked me to come rub his feet.

You know what's funny, the parents will say its because of the kids they are woking 120 hrs a week. Give me a break! Your child needs your love and support, needs to know you are THERE for him not Game Boy and Adidas. I know a woman who quit her job at a bank to work as a teacher in a her son's daycare. Less money. . . no doubt about that but evey day, after work she puts her son in the car and they drive home, very happy. To be honest, initially, I thought she had lost her mind, I swear I was convinced something happened at the bank. . . she was fired, she stole money and ran away. . . something to explain what I thought was an irrational act but they are both happy. I'm not saying parents should quit their jobs and start working at their children's schools, I'm saying stop using the excuse of "I am doing it for them" because it doesn't hold water. 

you are a GEM. i have always enjoyed reading you today i become a fan. people like you give me hope there will be a generation after us that will speak life and sensible living into nigerian's money at all cost mentality and culture

ow11:
If the kids in Nigeria are respectful like most people say, what about the cult boys that reign terror on University campuses? where they raised abroad?

The hoardes of exam cheats that have enriched WAEC's pockets were raised abroad abi?

Saying kids raised in Nigeria are better than Nigerian kids raised abroad is a loose term that has no basis. Are well brought up kids not supposed to make decent adults? so is Nigeria filled with decent adults?

My point is being a good parent has no bearing on which country you live in. Many Americans are decent today and were not radomly flogged and insulted as children like what goes on in many Nigerian homes and schools.

excellent. say no more. the nigerian youths are too over exposed to evil and immoral living by extended family. from the little auntie susan requiring them to tell lies to felix the boyfriend to sister iyabo running 3 men it is all in thier face

Barack Obama: This Isn't the Illegal Alien Auntie I Thought I Knew

Obama's dear Auntie Onyango is an illegal alien.
And, once again, Barack Obama was shocked to hear the news.

Zeituni Onyango lives in a disabled-access flat in a South Boston slum. She has lived in public housing for 5 years. (Times Online)

Obama just responded to the news that his Dear Auntie Onyango is an illegal alien.
The AP reported:


Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday he didn't know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed.

The Associated Press found that Obama's aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya. The woman, Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUHN on-YANG-oh), is living in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama's late father.

A statement given to the AP by Obama's campaign said, "Senator Obama has no knowledge of her status but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws be followed."
UPDATE: Auntie Onyango was silenced by the Obama Campaign until after the election.
This is what Auntie Onyango told the Times Online who broke the story that she was living in a Boston slum:


She declined to answer most other questions about her relationship with the presidential contender until after the November 4 election. “I can’t talk about it, I just pray for him, that’s all,” she said, adding: “After the 4th, I can talk to anyone.”
That's interesting.
Auntie Onyango was told not to speak until after the election.
Who might have told her that?

The Obama campaign declined to comment or acknowledge Obama and Onyango's relationship two days ago.
No wonder.

Ace of Spades Blog concludes: "Sort of sums up his entire candidacy, doesn't it?"

Previously On Obama's Family:
Obama's Militant Muslim Brother Abongo Is Luo Activist
Media Interviews Obama's Younger Muslim Brother in England
Surprise!,  Obama Breaks Promise to Poor Kenyan Family Members
Anti-Trade Obama Has Brother Running Illegal Firm In China
Obama's Long Lost Brother Lives In Kenyan Slum Hut
Catching Up With Barack's Little Brother George In His Filthy Slum Hut
Foreign Media Finds Obama's Aunt,  In a Boston Slum
Figures. Obama's Dear Auntie Onyango Is an Illegal Alien

posted by Gateway Pundit at 11/01/2008 09:55:00 AM Trackback

7 Comments:
David said, 
Hey another for the bus I see.

10:06 AM   
Joanne said, 
An illegal alien, eh. I wonder if she is registered to vote?

10:31 AM   
Nyctalus Lasiopterus said, 
An illegal alien, eh. I wonder if she is registered to vote?


At least twice, I'm sure.

10:46 AM   
Hermit said, 
I can't believe it,  it's just too much.
http://obamabegone/2008/11/dear-auntie-goes-under-bus.html

10:51 AM   
LonewackoDotCom said, 
If people handle this the wrong way, it will really help BHO. However, if people handle it the right way, it could really hurt his chances. For the second, go to a BHO appearance and try to ask him some questions. Then, upload his response to Youtube.

11:12 AM   
Mainstreet said, 
She's not the Aunt he thought he knew.

11:24 AM   
Carlos Echevarria said, 
For a guy wanting to spread the wealth around, that is to say ours, he is pretty cheap when it comes to his family in Boston or even in Kenya.

Remember Dr. Corsi gets kicked out of Kenya because he was going to give a 1,000 check to his shack living brother!!!

http://gatewaypundit..com/2008/11/barack-obama-this-isnt-illegal-alien.html

saw this coming - http://gatewaypundit..com/2008/11/figures-obamas-dear-auntie-onyango-is.html

Figures. Obama's Dear Auntie Onyango Is an Illegal Alien[b][/b][color=#990000][/color] , Update: Obama Camp Silenced Auntie Onyango(?)

This explains why she was not used as a prop on the campaign trail.
It also explains why she refused to talk to reporters until after November 4th.

Obama's dear Auntie Onyango is an illegal alien.

Zeituni Onyango lives in a disabled-access flat in a South Boston slum. She has lived in public housing for 5 years. (Times Online)

The AP did not mention anything about the legal status of long lost Uncle Omar who was evicted from his Boston home in 2000 for not paying rent.
Where can you find a good Ohio investigator when you need one?

Aunt Zeituni is now also living in Boston, and recently made a $260 campaign contribution to her nephew's presidential bid.
Breitbart reported:


Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.

Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango's case,

The AP could not reach Onyango immediately for comment. No one answered the telephone number listed in her name late Friday. It was unclear why her request for asylum was rejected in 2004.
Michelle Malkin has more on Obama's illegal family member fiasco.

No Quarters asks these important questions:


** How did she contribute a total of $260 to her nephew’s campaign in a series of small donations from her South Boston address if she is not a United States citizen?
** Are many illegal immigrants and foreigners submitting small donations to the Obama campaign in order to avoid scrutiny by the FEC?
** How does she qualify for public housing if she is not a United States citizen?
** How is Obama to be trusted to reform the immigration system if his relatives are breaking immigration laws and living illegally in this country?
** And why did the Senator not file a form I-130, a Petition for Alien Relative, on behalf of his aunt after her request for political asylum was rejected? As a United States Senator, he certainly could expedite the adjudication of such a petition.
Not only did Obama leave his Dear Auntie in squalor; he allowed her to stay in the country he desires to represent as President illegally.

Power Line has more on this latest Obama controversy.

UPDATE: Auntie Onyango was silenced by the Obama Campaign until after the election.
This is what Auntie Onyango told the Times Online who broke the story that she was living in a Boston slum:


She declined to answer most other questions about her relationship with the presidential contender until after the November 4 election. “I can’t talk about it, I just pray for him, that’s all,” she said, adding: “After the 4th, I can talk to anyone.”
That's interesting.
Auntie Onyango was told not to speak until after the election.
Who might have told her that?

Previously On Obama's Family:
Obama's Militant Muslim Brother Abongo Is Luo Activist
Media Interviews Obama's Younger Muslim Brother in England
Surprise!, Obama Breaks Promise to Poor Kenyan Family Members
Anti-Trade Obama Has Brother Running Illegal Firm In China
Obama's Long Lost Brother Lives In Kenyan Slum Hut
Catching Up With Barack's Little Brother George In His Filthy Slum Hut
Foreign Media Finds Obama's Aunt, In a Boston Slum
Labels: Campaign08


posted by Gateway Pundit at 11/01/2008 07:26:00 AM Trackback

13 Comments:
Bob McCarty Writes said,
Gateway Pundit -- I pointed out in a post this morning that this news raises several questions, including:

* Will “Aunt Zeituni” be deported immediately?

* Will she be or jailed for a time until she can be deported?

* Will she receive aide from her nephew, the Democratic Party presidential nominee — perhaps in the form of a legal storm that attempts to delay her deportation until after inauguration day when, he hopes, he’ll be able to grant her asylum request?

* Will she reveal information about the birth of her nephew in Kenya in exchange for a reversal of the ruling that denied her asylum request?

Though it's a day late to qualify as an October Surprise, I hope John McCain can make "hay" out of it -- and soon!

7:46 AM
Atomic Pete said,
His Aunt is a perfect example of his policy. He would like everyone else to pay for her(public housing) while he doesn't have to spend a dollar supporting his own relatives,

8:41 AM
Takekaze said,
It's not even the illegal alien issue that bugs me.

There's Obama, with plenty of money, who's telling us that good people help their family.

And then there's his aunt, who's living off welfare.

Okay, So much for taking care of your own family, eh Barry Boy?

Barrack Obama, you're really just a fucking hot air balloon. Get lost. Scram. Go back to Chicago or, even better, move to the UK and become King Barrack the First of Eurabia. Your lies and hollow phrases are just ridiculous.

BTW, I'm not expecting her to be deported or anything. The only ones really enforcing immigration laws are the Asian industrialized countries.

8:41 AM
El Rider said,
My first thought was, what kind of man leaves an aunt he once wrote adoringly of live like that without helping her? Further what kind of woman is Michelle? They both graduated from Harvard Law, this is a rather simple legal issue that other families would hire an attorney to deal with, the Obama's have two in-house attorneys yet they couldn't be bothered. What kind of people are the Obamas?

9:03 AM
rider said,
Thank God we have Gov. Palin as McCain's running mate--
She is for closing the borders,
and AFA I can see, against amnesty (shamnesty) ,

Isn't it interesting that the elites with power use our $$$ but are not willing to use their own to "help" the poor.

9:22 AM
chris said,
Combine this with his half brother in kenya living in a hut on a dollar a month, I think the lady thinking shes going to have her mortgage and gas taken care of should see how Barako takes care of family.

Does anyone know if the MSM is even touching this story? I don''t have the time or stomach to watch the MSM anymore but curious to see if they have touched on any of these revelations the last few days.

Chris

9:29 AM
Kim said,
Senator Government is unable to assist his aunt financially or legally nor his half brother in Kenya, but he is able to find $20,000 between the couch cushions to donate to Rev Wright - who just moved into his new $10m digs. Walk me through this altruistic notion of socialism again, I'm not sure I'm tracking.

9:47 AM
Ailanthus Altissima said,
OMG It's Bob McCarty Types! And he's picking on a old woman. Figures.

Yes, will the Bush administration either deport or jail Aunt Zeituni to help out John the McCarthy?

Will she finally review the wingnuttsia's greatest fantasy, that Barack Obama was born in Kenya? (By the way, Types, only one candidate was born outside the US, and that is, tada, John Sidney McCain, born in Panama).

Stay tuned kids! The Republicans fiddle as America burns.

Anyway. So if family is fair game down in the conservative sewer, does that mean we can talk about Cindy McCain?

Cindy Hensley started an extramarital affair with the very married John McCain. John was 42, Cindy was 25. If a man's wife can't trust him, how can the nation?

John abandoned his disabled wife, Carole, and married the much younger and beautiful beer heiress, Cindy Hensley, although she was well-advised by her father's lawyers to insist on a prenuptial agreement. This protected her in case John the Inveterate Womanizer started looking around again.

After a few years of marriage to the absent and abusive McCain she found solace in drug addiction (like Rush Limbaugh) to illegal narcotics. To feed her addiction she stole drugs from a medical foundation she ran. Senator McCain was able to suppress the investigation and smear the whistleblower in the process. Is this the kind of character we want for President?

Cindy also partnered with the convict Charles Keating in "business deals" and used to fly on his private jet and "vacation" with him in the Caribbean. This relationship was part and parcel to Senator McCain's subsequent role in the Keating Five scandal.

OMG yes. Our fervent hope here at AA Writes is that John the McCarthy, Cindy the Concubine, Sarah the Socialist and Joe the Plumber do smear Senator Obama by attacking his defenseless Aunt.

Picture this: John the McCarthy or one of his minions attack the Aunt. Senator Obama, outraged that the Republicans would stoop to this level, attacking a defenseless old lady to win an election, stands in front of her challenging anyone to lay a hand on her. Personally challenging John the McCarthy to step up and be a real man.

Great political theater that would expose the Republicans for the craven hacks they've become.

We fervently pray (although as an agnostic I admit that God is unlikely), that John, Cindy, Sarah or any Republican official mentions this. This would be a November surprise of historic proportions, but not as you think.

Republicans, the ball is in your court!

9:53 AM
Joshua said,
This is so sad. There is no doubt why she wants to be in America.

Who wouldn't want to escape Obama and her other cousin, Marxist, Socialist trained Odinga? Who stood by while others were butchered in riots on the streets of Kenya?

Obama's family ties are "coming home to roost" all over the place.

A violent cousin Obama campaigned for Odinga in Kenya:
Obama - Odinga - Why?

A longer version of more information on Obama's support of Radical Socialist Odinga, his cousin in Kenya:
You're bright, you are not dumb. So if someone is lying to you, you know they're lying to you

"Spread the wealth" of information around about Obama to friends and family. Tell the truth and let the light shine in.

Ethnic warfare, Campaigns for a radical Socialist, Why? Why Obama?

Once a stable country, but Obama supports a man that starts riots, churches burned down, people dead, no chance to live.

Yet where is the Media? IS Breitbart.tv goiong to show these?

10:12 AM
Joshua said,
takekaze,

exactly, the multi-millionaire sucks off Tony Rezko's wife for his home, then does not share his "own wealth" with his poor Aunt.

All he did was user her for sentimental stories in his book that made him a millionaire.

Thats the real Obama. He expects everyone else to do what he says, not what he acually does. What he actually does is leave his family stranded with no where to go.

I can understand why she left Kenya. Odinga is another radical Socialist, Marxist, his father a Communist relic of the Cold War.

Go figure, Marxist surround Obama.

All in the family when it is convenient for Obama. When it is not, they get tossed to the side.

Like his Aunt.

We have a huge problem with illegals that must be dealt with in a long term vision.

But today, Obama is exposed yet again for empty words and no actions. He leaves his aunt to rot while he campaigns and calls everyone else "selfish."

No, no, no Obama, you are selfish.

10:19 AM
Joanne said,
Socialism is never for those in power - let's not be ridiculous - it is for all the peons, everyone else.

10:38 AM
Ailanthus Altissima said,
johnson,

The Obamedia is all over the Aunt Zeituni story. Wouldn't we expect to suppress this to help Obama?

10:50 AM
Solaratov said,
holy tree - You're losing it. You're starting to ramble and spew the garbage that's already been discussed, cussed and dismissed.
Get a grip, lil' feller. Making $100/hour as a typist, you should be able to afford some sort of tranquilizer. Take some and calm down. (your munificent employer - from whom you shamelessly steal time and money) does offer health insurance as part of your executive compensation package, doesn't he?)
Your gibberish is starting to just get old and tiresome. And your obamassiah is going down!! You know it. You see it happening. And yet, your tormented little obot soul (such as it is) just won't let you give up on the hatred.
How's it feel to be losing to a bunch of people for whom you feel such hatred and contempt? Really frosts yer buns, don't it!!
Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12:03 PM

Willyesq:
when you consider all the troubles associated in the union of the opposite sexes, you will begin to wonder if this could not have been avoided if at creation both sexes had all the sexual organs individually. This even distribution of "nature's wealth" would have reduced the stress in sexual advances as all parties would have readily complied to each other's request and it would have been "do me i do you, "

life is not about sex. you didn't think of the small matter of loneliness and fellowship. there are many people enjoying healthy relationships with the opposite sex.

Equity7:
I also mentioned i my write-up that the second wardrobe contains ridiculously tight jeans and revealing tops that I had to ask her not to come to my house in those dresess again.
My mind is made up now and I wont even try any lady from any church NEVER again,

it was obvious you were not talking about jeans. yimmi is in a dangerous grace zone of everything allowed. she has moved from one end of the spectrum to the other. i don't know why the devils kids keep parading the church. it is like some people have work mask, home mask and church mask. they must be confused and waring within themselves.

I wont even try any lady from any church NEVER again

don't let it come to this. there are still some God fearing people. problem is some of you guys go to these churches where you know people are too much in the flesh and not submitted to doing god's will and you expect them to be holy Mary when they come into relationship with you.

a scorpion will always be a scorpion ( full of poison and always sting people) you guys have some religious scorpions and snake in that naija. talking the talk never walking the Christian walk

webman:
l don't  think she  can get  good men on online,except  through  the power of  the creator. Nice men are still around  and  the right one will take care  of  her so  much.However, l got a bad experience sometimes ago, during a phone-in program on Radio Continental called LINKUP. Actually, this  lady  in question gave  her cell # and  eventually l called  her.After two days, we  got talking face to face. l discovered that she wasn't a working class as claimed when giving her data on the radio program, and she was very  fat and purely a chronic student of LASU too. After two weeks of knowing each  other, she was telling  me that she  needed money for  her school fees  and  other  stuffs.l just cut her off from  my LOVE-SYSTEM. Out rightly, she needed  men to pay  her  school fees then ,later she will dump  one for another.Basically, there is  no sincerity in  her and a loving-relationship do not work like that. Best Lucks

did she think you wont work that out or what?

PepERSprAY:
naaa, his chances will be higher if his dad was Uneme as against hausa .

funmi, you sure know how to brew trouble and are definately falling in love with gamine

what is wrong in having the 4 as wives? they all serve their purpose. bro go ahead  na u dey reign abi na your thing long pass.  awuf running 4 ladies at once. see how u dey confused

plappville:
My eldest brother who is jobless keeps disturbing me to send him money monthly, i can't continue like this am already taking responbibility of mum and two younger once in whom are in higher institutions.

This old man wont just let me be, he keep sending me (sms) (txt) flash without control and call hubby when he is at work times without number ((( he will say tell ur OYIBO husband to send me money)))

He has a kid and can't even take care of his kid and wife, he is still living with mum, doesn't spend money on anything as mum does the shopping at home.

Does any of u have this kind of brother he even senior 5 persons befor me.

I am tired of him seeing me as his source of living, he plays pool with any money sent to him after he will ask for more by force.

Plz help ooooooo i am runing out of patient, this can't countinue.

i wont say what i think of this man here. you have others ahead of you. you are a young girl with responsibility. he should take money from your other sister that is the unnamed business. you know what they are like. he thinks you make money like the other lady.

as others have said just take off your sim card and get a new one. you dont owe him. let him continue with his pools. as for him calling your hubby, get your mum to make him stop that. that is out of order. he should be ashamed of himself. this is abuse of priviledge. dont bother talking to him so he doesn't mis-quote you

tkb417:
Yimi
take her with her flaws? Aristoism isnt a flaw, its a taboo
ill run from such gurls

i like her easy believism if you know what i mean. i cant believe the tolerance treashold i see these days. if you wont judge them the world will and it is always sad to see so called believers behave like they dont have responsibility towards others.

i beg wetin be this  aristoism?

yimiton:
@ debosky,
@JJYOU,
I also don't think some cloths are ungodly, but some churches simply don't accept some cloths in the church.

b help me out here because i dont want to misunderstand you.  you are a pastor or some kind of evangelist. am i right  pls?

how can you say you dont believe some clothes are ungodly? it is not about churches accepting it is just pure decency.  there are things a unbelievers can wear and thata believers must find unacceptable. that should be common sence.  all things are not lawfull to us.

i was recently looking at a naija church wedding album on facebook with people  brought up in LA . a church wedding it was supposed to be. more than half of the women there had sleeveless clothes showing their  boobs including women who have reasons to hide their bodies for wear and tear. we were quit shocked to know that christians were that relaxed about these things in nigeria.  

there is decency and moderation.  i dont like judging people but telling truth and having sound mind is part of our responsibility to the body of Christ.

Baby Jinx:
I guess it's different in the UK because in the US, by 18 most kids are out of their parents homes and on their own two feet. This the norm that if a 22 years old is still at home, people look at him as a slacker. . . "who still in his parents basement Ewww!" ^{(Insert Valley girll accent)}

Most Nigerian parents here have begun to adopt that mentality also, that by 16 they make sure their kids have started working. I know a guy who went university out of his own pocket. . . and his parents are both here and they had the money, so it's not about having no choice. His parents instilled something in him and it took, which was why on his graduation day, his dad proudly handed him a portion of the school fees and told him to invest it.

So you see, it's about the PARENTS, not which city, which house, which room a child is raised. Parents really need to stop using "We are in Abroad" as an excuse to be lax in their duties.

haba are you not suppose to be washing plates now? how did you get permision to write that lot? you are so right.

it is always parental failure in my book. i dont know what it is like now. yrs ago i lived in east london i saw more black kids out there than oyinbo kids. their parents were out there looking for money. like i said somewhere here  some of these kids sad to say should never have been born because their parents know they wont have time for them but council flats have to be applied for as you know. it is a shame.

unless God intervenes some of these lovely made in europe kids already have records with the law that  would affect their tomorrow

yimiton:
I think the poster moved too fast before he got to know the girl. Guys should learn to be friends first before talking about marriage and other such stuffs. But come to think of it, maybe this girl has double wardrobe simply because such cloths are not allowed in the church and not because she's trying to deceive other people. Again, receiving other people's calls: remember she had friends before you met her, so, it's possible she's just keeping in touch.
As for the test you gave her which she failed terribly, maybe she stopped trusting you because you always want to break up when ever you have issues and she's decided that a back up suitor will not be a bad idea.

Solution:
If u still want this relationship (if you love her like you said), call her, discuss what you feel, how hurt you feel and both of you should have a heart to heart talk. Ask her why she's behaving the way she is and ask her what her genuine intentions are with you. Furthermore, assure her you're for real and won't dump her whenever you have issues with her.
When she becomes confident of your love and commitment, she'll become more secure and stop trying to have a back up plan. If she doesn't stop, you might have to really break up; do not threaten her, just call her and tell her that for such and such reasons, you don't think both of you should go ahead with this relationship.

i tot u were some pastor or something like that? how does a christian have Godly and ungodly clothes? this girl has ugly rumour smelling all over her. if this boy was your son will this be your counsell or you just saying it because a sister has to play games? she is a disgrace. we are called to depart from iniquities if we name Christ name. you know the shame i feel when i hear how church in lagos is the best place to pick up women to hotels? solution indeed. one even had the audacity to tell a guy her god doesnt mind so long as she pays tithe. madness. her god must be very ungry. christian sister wonderful youth corper indeed. l

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Oh she used to stand and clap her hands and sing Amazing Grace
While the tears of childhood innocence were streaming down her face
Mama prayed at night and raised her right and thought she knew her way
But it's a long long way from Sunday School to where she's at today

It's a long long way from Sunday School to Broadway
She's a long way from the girl she used to be
When you sing the city songs it's hard to find your way back home
And it's a long long way from Sunday School to Broa-oa-oadway

Sunday evenings spent in the gospel tent down on her bended knee
Where she gave her soul to Jesus and he set her spirit free
But her body longed for city life and she couldn't stay at home
And it's a long long way from Sunday School to New York nights alone

It's a long long way from Sunday School to Broadway
She's a long way from the girl she used to be
When you sing the city songs it's hard to find your way back home
And it's a long long way from Sunday School to Broa-oa-oadway

Then her eyes grew bright in the cool dark night and a halo framed her face
And a passer-by swore he heard her cry, can you hear Amazing Gra-ace
Did you see the man who took her life as she walked the New York streets
And it's a long long way from Broadway till the place at the Master's feet

It's a long long way from Sunday School to Broadway
She's a long way from the girl she used to be
When you sing the city songs it's hard to find your way back home
And it's a long long way from Sunday School to Broa-oa-oadway

It's a long long way from Sunday School to Broadway
She's a long way from the girl she used to be
When you sing the city songs it's hard to find you

debosky:
@ yimington

your points are not valid in my view

If someone wanted to have a 'back up' would it be someone who called you out of the blue?? The girl had already given the man contact info to come meet her in Anambra, not even waiting to see if it was a trustworthy person or not! Such a woman is not faithful - either it's because she needs money or just that she can't be on her own for just a while.

This same woman was caught with 'Aristo', was that also back up?

She may be well behaved, but she has a very serious character flaw - she keeps going for these strange relationships at the drop of a hat. Meaning that she is likely sleeping around as well. She's not ready to get married with such attitudes, let her clean up her act for the next guy that comes along.

you tell me. what is aristo by the way?

PepERSprAY:
To err is human. Bankole is still perfect for the job.

funmi, i guess you wont use that word if he was one of your lazy people that dont believe in hard  work or mr okoro from umuahia?

Nautillus:
hmmmmmm . . . .all these . ."seekin the face of the Lord" people sef

you like the devils ugly face better abi?

it is good to seek Gods face. what i don't agree with is using it as most manipulative people do. if you really seek His face about an issue, He should tell you some things about it that will bless you.  i don't like darkness. i wonder why the sought face couldn't speak that sister teresa or whatever she is called is also a serial cheat.

thank God for my granny and mum. i will always run through things like that past them. if they can't catch her out, heaven will.  i still don't  know how some guys make major decisions like this without seeking counsel.  play play small boy want to marry miss available. nawao

HR.hotness:
I don't knw why would u think u knw me?


truth is there is so much decadence in the society that it pretty hard to shield ur child frm all that. . . parents in nigeria pursure money too nah. . . my mum used to wrokd 8 - 12 hr days and we were left to our own devices some of d time, but we never even thot of attempting any of the things d kids here get up to

my aunt has a 12 yr old son and its driving her crazy the things he might be getting up to. . . she is constantly chasing after him tryin to figure out what he gets up to and even with all that he still manages to get into trouble now and again. . . truth is the society here is in filth and d filth is slowly seeping into the homes. its easier for a child to go astray here as everyone tends to mind their business. . . i hav been told off by women i didnt even knw for wearing a dress that was too short, a mother in d nigerin asociety would stop to scold a young boy of 13 with cigarettes in his hand. . . it might be a little intrusivbe but it serves its purpose, for a child to go astray in d nigerian society, he needs to work extra hard

I understand your point but i disagree with this

for a child to go astray in d nigerian society, he needs to work extra hard

you may not have been to nigeria recently. i had same opinion because i dont go out until i voiced it and someone took me out into town. you will be shocked to see what kids do back there now. have you not noticed kids brought from nigeria to this place are worse in behaviour.

ngr is gradually going what a shame. see what punch today wrote about abuja houses

Civil servants own most houses in Abuja — Rep
By Sunday Aborisade, Ibadan
Published: Friday, 31 Oct 2008

A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Gbenga Onigbogi, on Thursday said that most of the houses built and bought in the Federal Capital Territory were owned by civil servants.

Onigbogi made the allegation while delivering a speech at an interactive session organised by the League of Veteran Journalists in Oyo State at the NUJ Press Centre, Iyaganku, Ibadan.

The lawmaker, who is also the Vice-Chairman, House Committee on Ministry of Niger Delta, attributed the development to alleged sharp practices being perpetrated by top civil servants.

He said the trend would continue for many years unless the anti-graft agencies beamed their searchlight on the activities of the workers, especially on the award of contracts and the sale of government properties.

Onigbogi said, “It is unfortunate that 90 per cent of the houses in Abuja today, whether built or sold by government, were owned by civil servants. The situation is so terrible.

“Government should start making some people as scapegoats and other civil servants with integrity should endeavour to report this unfortunate situation to the anti-graft agencies.

“The civil servants have in their drawers, copies of various letterhead papers which belonged to their numerous companies. When their ministries want to award a contract, they just use any of their companies to execute it.”

Onigbogi also called on journalists to educate Nigerians on the significance of the Freedom of Information Bill because its passage would expose various shady deals in the civil service.

He commended the roles being played by one of his colleagues, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, but lamented that she was not carrying along the various interest groups and unions in the media in the struggle.

He said, “Members of the House of Representatives will reject the FOI Bill if re-presented five times because many of our members do not even know what the bill is all about. Dabiri should use more of lobbying by involving his media friends to educate us.

“We need to adopt a special strategy to ensure easy passage of the FOI Bill. If we then re-present it, our people will understand it and pass it.”

The Chairman of the League of Veteran Journalists in the state, Mr. Tunde Akingbade, said members of the group, despite being retired reporters, would continue to hold regular forum to contribute positively towards the development of the country.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20081031127432