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CrimeRe: Man Who Duped A Woman Of N1.3M In Delta Caught & Beaten (Photos) by kennycalls(m): 6:42pm On Sep 25, 2016
Mama Piss deserves this kind of beating
PoliticsRe: EFCC Links Patience Jonathan With 9 Houses, 2 Hotels, One Plaza by kennycalls(m): 1:46pm On Sep 25, 2016
some Fools will come here and start crying witch hunt after embezzling their future
CelebritiesRe: Jecinta Okonkwo Releases Official Pictures by kennycalls(m): 11:08pm On Sep 24, 2016
Dino melaye eye don dey enter am
CrimeRe: PHOTOS: Father Rapes Daughter In Lagos by kennycalls(m): 4:44pm On Sep 24, 2016
Fiwasayo:
He may not be her biological father,what type of evil is this sad
really bad evil... BTW can't but notice your hotness
PoliticsRe: Governors Lavish Billions Of Naira On Bulletproof Cars For Selves by kennycalls(m): 12:34pm On Sep 24, 2016
still boils down to institutional decay.. this should be checked asap.. if we can get the institution right.. we can get everything right
PoliticsRe: Photos From Gumsu Sani Abacha's Birthday Bash by kennycalls(m): 12:29pm On Sep 24, 2016
Gumsu.. what type of bleeped up name is that
PoliticsRe: Buhari: Looters Recruited Niger-Delta Militants Against Us by kennycalls(m): 8:07pm On Sep 23, 2016
nothing can be farther from the truth but the same ppl he's fighting for are the same ones talking rubbish on here.. unfortunately some and perhaps all of the ppl talking nonsense here might not get to the Canaan land that 9ja is heading. Quote me on it.. Nigerian will be great God bless pmb
PoliticsRe: FG Blackmailing Jonathan To Dent His Rising International Profile - Group by kennycalls(m): 12:08pm On Sep 23, 2016
stfu! 5tupid group!
PoliticsRe: National Assets: Political Class Only "Sell And Spend"- Ezekwesili by kennycalls(m): 8:31am On Sep 22, 2016
oh why do I think ekweremadu made more sense than saraki
PoliticsRe: EFCC Threatens To Jail Patience Jonathan by kennycalls(m): 8:26am On Sep 22, 2016
you're going to jail...
RomanceRe: Instagram Lady With Massive Curves And Hips Causes Commotion Online (Photos) by kennycalls(m): 1:06pm On Sep 20, 2016
1000 ways to die
PoliticsRe: Sani Abacha's 73rd Posthumous Birthday Is Today by kennycalls(m): 10:22am On Sep 20, 2016
Unrest in hell #bitch
CrimeRe: Elderly Man Molesting A Girl In A Bush Caught - Photos by kennycalls(m): 11:51pm On Sep 19, 2016
he should spend the rest of his misérable lire in jail
PhonesRe: Chinese Man Buys Eight Iphone 7s For His Dog (Photos) by kennycalls(m): 10:14pm On Sep 19, 2016
wey some 9ja babes dey use puna acquire
PoliticsThé Riches Of Mama Peace by kennycalls(op): 9:41am On Sep 19, 2016
The riches of ‘Mama Peace’

September 19, 2016

    


How much is Patience Jonathan worth?

You can keep your guess.  Here is mine: Goodluck Jonathan does not know.  Some people say,he dares not ask, but that is just hearsay.

What is important is: Patience has a general, and better idea.  General because it is one thing to invite a bank to your presence and open several accounts, it is another to be able to swear as to how much is actually in which account.

According to emerging accounts, pardon the pun, on March 22, 2010, Mrs. Jonathan opened four accounts at Skye Bank.  Actually, the bank, shepherded by one of her husband’s all-purpose “special advisers”, appeared in her presence to open the accounts.

His name: Waripamo Dudafa.  At the time, he carried the powerful label of “Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs” to Mr. Jonathan.  He it was who led to Mrs. Jonathan at home, two senior officers of Skye Bank: Demola Bolodeoku and Dipo Oshodi.  Her husband was Nigeria’s Acting President; in 43 days he would become President.

When you are as powerful as Mrs. Jonathan was, you do not go to the bank.  And so the bank came to Mrs. Jonathan.  Mission: to open five accounts for the First Lady.

People worldwide have been asking one question since this story broke: What kind of person opens five accounts in one bank in one day?

It is probably a silly question, but I will provide the answer: it is the kind of person who has, or is expecting more money than will fit into one account!

Anyhow, these are the facts we know.  It however seems that Mrs. Jonathan, who had the accounts opened in her presence, perhaps as she got her pedicure done or gave commands on the phone, somehow “discovered” that “Derring-Do” Dudafa had opened only one of the accounts in the name of the most powerful woman who ever ate eba with her right hand.

Yes: despite Mrs. Jonathan personally, and with that same right hand and an expensive pen signing the five accounts that night as Dr. Dame Chief (Mrs). Patience Fakabelema Jonathan, Mr. Derring-Do—in the equivalent of signing your own death warrant—allegedly opened not one, not two, not three but four, in the names of his own companies.

In other words, we have to suppose that all of the funds that Mrs. Jonathan laboured so hard for before and during her First Ladyship, went to Mr. Dudafa four-fifths of the time.

It is unclear exactly when Dudafa performed on Mrs. Jonathan the dastardly bait and switch the “umblerah” party had perfected.  It is even less clear exactly when Mrs. Jonathan found out.

She may blame her husband.  Mr. Jonathan it was who early in 2014 appointed into the governorship of the Central Bank of Nigeria, one Godwin Emefiele.  But even though Patience had once declared as “brain-dead” Muhammadu Buhari, the man who would succeed her husband in office, Buhari somehow contrived to keep in office the said governor.

And Emefiele it was who superintended the Bank Verification Number (BVN) exercise in 2014, which is how the EFCC entered the story, leading to some account freezes.

And that, we assume, is how the news came to Mrs. Jonathan one day in that month: her high-value medical accounts of about $15 million (US) had been frozen.  By the EFCC.

That is news bad enough to make anyone wet their bed.  Not Mama Peace.  Instituting a legal challenge, she affirmed that each and every dollar in the accounts in question was hers.  $15m in “medical” money.

I have always said that the BVN exercise was fraudulent.  Were it honest, the government would have since the first few months of 2014 trapped so many wealthy Nigerians in their own vomit this country would have changed, no pun intended.

Okay, I know her husband insisted that stealing was no corruption, but think about it: Mrs. Jonathan is the first Politically Exposed Person to be openly—but only accidentally—linked with one of those huge chunks of funny money.

Last Thursday, the case became even more fascinating, as the four companies involved pleaded guilty to money-laundering.

Some housekeeping: For those who are neither old nor literate enough, Mrs. Jonathan and I are old acquaintances in this column.  It is nearly 10 years and 10 days since the EFCC seized from her the astounding sum of $13.5 million dollars, and accused her of money-laundering, the second such charge within one month.  Earlier, brandishing a court order, the agency had frozen N104 million she allegedly tried to launder.

At the time, Mr. Jonathan was the governor of Bayelsa State.  Nonetheless, as the EFCC bustled off to the Federal High Court in Abuja, I fully expected Mrs. Jonathan to end up in jail.

But despite all of the grandstanding, Mrs. Jonathan was not prosecuted.  As a matter of fact, it would appear that the EFCC quietly withdrew the cases and returned the confiscated funds to her, perhaps with a written apology.  The agency never offered an official report or explanation.

Back in the news 10 years later, Mrs. Jonathan, conveniently out of the country at the moment, wants back $15m she refers to as her medical money.  The authorities also found $5m in another account in her name after the first story broke.  She responded with a N200m “fundamental rights enforcement” action against Skye Bank Plc for giving to the EFCC information that was then “used to inconvenience and embarrass” her.

I believe Mrs. Jonathan has done Nigeria a big favour by claiming that the funds belong to her.  She should therefore be given the money, all of it.

First, however, she must establish how she earned it.   Let us remember: she does have a track record, including those 2006 EFCC seizures.  It is also on record that in its report on the 2007 election, the American Council on Foreign Relations described Mrs. Jonathan as the “greediest person in Bayelsa State.”

Greed: If she opened five accounts in one night while her husband was Acting President, how many did she have when she was establishing that reputation as Bayelsa’s worst, and how many when he became President?

Mrs. Jonathan is said to own Yenagoa’s Arisdorf N10billion Resort Wellness and Spa.  She has also been linked with a string of other properties, especially in Abuja, including the sprawling high-end but currently abandoned estate in Kado-Kuchi.  This is an opportunity not only for her to recover her so-called medical allowance, but her soiled reputation.

I am reminded of her thanksgiving service in Aso Rock in February 2013 when she confessed she had nearly died in hospital in Germany.  She said she suffered through eight or nine surgeries in one month, and had spent seven days in some sort of coma.

She then pledged to embark on “things that will touch the lives of the less privileged…[as God] gave me a second chance because I [died]…”

In my comment,  I challenged Mrs. Jonathan to show proof of her pledge.  Three years later, we have only evidence of astounding wealth she suggests she is entitled to, in the midst of extreme poverty.

The question is: who is going to ensure justice, not rhetoric?


culled from punchng
PoliticsRe: Martha Udom Emmanuel Gives A Widower Furnished 2-bedroom Bungalow. Pics by kennycalls(m): 6:47pm On Sep 18, 2016
wtf its their responsibility not a big deal
PoliticsRe: Patience Jonathan Faces Fresh Probe Over N5b Abuja Hotel by kennycalls(m): 6:25pm On Sep 18, 2016
cant believe SKYE bank still has these amount of dollars and still struggling..

pej is a bad excuse of life
PhonesRe: Nigerian Man Buying Iphone7 In Malaysia Videos Himself (Video) by kennycalls(m): 11:28am On Sep 18, 2016
na Yahoo boy
PoliticsRe: Ekiti APC Claims Credit For State’s Improved Neco performance by kennycalls(m): 5:52pm On Sep 17, 2016
both apc and pdp are confused
EducationRe: Ekiti Leads In 2016 NECO Results by kennycalls(m): 3:21pm On Sep 17, 2016
Ekiti where There are numerous spécial centres
BusinessRe: Dangote To FG: Sell NLNG, Beef Up Reserves, And Recession Will Go By December.. by kennycalls(m): 3:19pm On Sep 17, 2016
seriously if anyone would concur to this buhari wont
CareerRe: Retrenchment: FG Commences Negotiations With Financial Unions by kennycalls(m): 3:07pm On Sep 17, 2016
charity begins at home... let thé federal government take Care of its own workforce Then u Intervene in ôthers
PoliticsRe: EFCC Wants To Take My Hard-Earned Money – Patience Jonathan by kennycalls(m): 10:10am On Sep 17, 2016
imagine this domestic appendage is Richer than Obama
CelebritiesRe: Reekado Banks, Your Song Is A Wack - Twitter Follower by kennycalls(m): 4:03pm On Sep 07, 2016
so many sack boys around
CelebritiesRe: Freeze Reacts To The Lady Bounced At Immigration Office Over Her Dressing (Pics) by kennycalls(m): 12:37pm On Sep 04, 2016
hypocrites...these are the immigration officers who visits the oloshos in mini skirts at night
PoliticsRe: Kenyans Are Far Behind Nigerians In Every Aspect – Fani-Kayode by kennycalls(m): 12:12pm On Sep 04, 2016
irrelevance sucks haha
EducationRe: 10 Ways To Become A Scholarship Winner. by kennycalls(m): 11:26am On Sep 04, 2016
Microflux:
There are many scholarships available, and most of them does not require you to prove you’re the most academically gifted person on earth or a genius. But they are incredibly competitive. So how do you make sure you get the scholarship or bursary you deserve or wish for?
Sometimes you have everything you think you needed to win a scholarship but it doesn’t just come your way.
Winning a scholarship not just only depend on your academic vibrancy. Scholarship programs organizers do not test brilliancy but intelligence, they believe anybody can be brilliant but anyone that is intelligent must be brilliant.
So you just find out that after your sleepless nights on a scholarship exam you do not make the prize mark. Disgusting?
Sometimes ago, in an MTN foundation scholarship, two weeks after receiving the entry of students, they sent a mail to the entrants, to write an essay on how Technology can help the Nation’s situation.
Many brilliant student couldn’t make the mark because that intelligence – which I can call the outright application of brillancy.
So I will highlight some you need to do, to increase the chance of winning your next scholarship.
1. Get the basic Requirement
What do I mean by this? For you to have a chance of applying for any scholarship, there are some basic requirement that must be fulfilled. Like “you must be an undergraduate, you must have a CGPA of 3.0” and the likes, also age bracket.
When all this are obeyed, then you are a step into winning that scholarship.
2. Be Ready
Luck, they say is when preparation meets with opportunity. The first thing must do is to prepare for opportunities you hope for. You first start searching for opportunity but when you’re prepared, opportunity will locate you. Search for scholarship related materials online, past questions and the likes, exploit them.
3. Be Passionate
Passion is the soul of all business. Do just do or apply for scholarship exams because you need the Money, but do it because you need to. Know that you are in for it, be ready for the task, stress, night reading. Burn the candle and feed your passion.
4. Position yourself for Opportunities
Being positioned means bean at a place where opportunity can locate you. Mingle with friends with like dreams, consult people whom have threaded the same part. Get needed knowledge for every scholarship. Subscribe for update on scholarships on several related websites and platforms.
5. Apply for as many as you can
You know, it takes time. But “it’s free money!” Check all the scholarships you are eligible for. Double-check you have all the right documents to prove your case, and get someone read over your supporting essay or letter. It’s always good to get another point of view. Don’t depend only on youself, no matter how brilliant you’re.
6. Be confident
If the application requires a letter or essay explaining why you deserve the scholarship, don’t be shy. List all your relevant achievements – not just academic results but also community. Believe you can win it, don’t doubt sin​
ce loosing will not affect you in any way.
7. Engage yourself in Riddles solving
As I said earlier, what scholarship organizers wants to test is your intelligence not your idea of physics or government. So any riddle question you can lay your hand on, do well to solve them. I was once to attend a scholarship exam, on my way, I bought a magazine, Imin which I saw a riddle at the back page but u shunned it. It was pathetic when I got to the exam hall, that was the only question in the exam paper. I failed!!!
8. Check information on Scholarships periodically
Visit websites which specializes in scholarship often, to know if there is any available scholarship and for updates on scholarship you applied for, or intend to apply for.
9. Believe in yourself
My last scholarship I won-even if it’s a token was done by someone who believes in me. I only got to know few hours before the interview. I did not panic, but believed I have nothing to loose. I did the interview and won. But at the end if the interview the interviewer told me “Your Confidence win it for you”
10. Believe in the Supreme Being[GOD]

You understand better.


If you can do all this, nothing will be able to stop you in your march to scholarship glory.


https://scholarzine./2016/09/03/173/
beautiful piece.. thank you.
PoliticsRe: Bigger War Than Boko Haram Looms, Says Ndume by kennycalls(m): 8:07am On Sep 04, 2016
even a fool knows Ali ndume is part of the so called book haram and the looming shit he's preaching..he'll be the one to get bleeped up by it.
RomanceRe: Leaked Conversation Between A Prostitute And A Client Will Leave You Speechless by kennycalls(m): 3:02pm On Aug 31, 2016
Fabulocity:
I mean there are high class prostitutes that charge hundreds of thousands for their services.
like Linda?
WebmastersRe: Zuckerberg's Visit: Nigerians Blast CNN For Not Adding 'Nigeria' In Its Report by kennycalls(m): 2:08pm On Aug 31, 2016
I was actually watching CNN making this report this morning and was angry isha sesay didn't give video confirmations but mentioned Nigeria.
SportsRe: Katsuya Takasu Angry With Nigerian Officials Over His Donation To Olympic Team by kennycalls(m): 11:45am On Aug 28, 2016
seriously dalung is dumb
RomanceRe: For guys: Have you ever shed tears over a heart break? by kennycalls(m): 10:43pm On Aug 21, 2016
try sleeping with a broken heart

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