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My parents were civil servants so due to frequent transfers was oppurtuned to have lived and schooled in almost all the major geopolitical zones in Nigeria. I totally agree with the poster on this issue, it is so unfortunate that the very small percentage of religious extremists in north is giving the whole region a bad name. I have seen many families in the north that allow their children to practice whatever religion they want, I have seen many muslim men with christian wives (A perfect example was my professor in the university, a core muslim and hausa and his wife, a very strong christian and igbo. They have been married for 35years plus but still love each other like teenagers), there are so many other examples I can give to let people who care to be educated understand that the numbers of nice and open minded people in the is morethan 100 times the numbers of 'killers'. Educationaly, the northerners have lagged behind no doubt just as how Ebonyi state and some parts of the east have to, but I can say the number of educated northerners are very high to. Why it seems as if majority of them are uneducated is because it is the illiterate ones that marry many women and produce uncountable numbers of children, thereby increasing the population of the region's illiterates, also the rif-rafs that that go about killing people in the north during cises are similar to the area boys in Lagos bustops or Onitsha markets, the only difference is that they have been made vulnerable to extremists who pose as religious teachers. Having said all these, I think the problem with many Nigerians is exactly what miss. Chimamanda Adiche talked about on one of the TED talks series 'the single story' syndrome. We sit in the comfort of our zones and read or listen to only the negative reports from other zones. A trully educated man is one who questions everything with an understanding that their is a two face to every issue.

:oThis man is older than my grandfather The same set of people that preached the gospel of "The future belongs to your generation" to my father's generation are still running the show till today. Naija sef!

Musiwa at his best I totally agree with you. Ngozi saw the satellite picture an was confused

Most of them can hardly make a correct sentence in English language that's why.

Its quite natural for you to want to "do everything" at this age. You still got some years ahead of you to narrow down you options, so as the years go by, make sure you try as much as possible to trim down your list. Good luck.

coogar: any nigerian citizen can contest for any political office in nigeria.
what is your point?

Any Nigerian 'citizen' not any Nigerian 'criminal'.. Ibori is a common theif and in a sane society he shouldn't have been able to contest even a local councilorship election.

Na for poor yahoo yahoo boys head dia power end. Yeye agency..

May thesame fate befall all Nigerian politicians. Amen!

You guys must be joking! only 13 years?! haba! Thats unfair jare.. He should be getting 20 or more

Ibori will need a capable man to take care of his daughters in his absence o.. I offer my services free of charge

This reminds me of Nigeria Vs Brazil Atlanta olympics semi-finals. lol

Ibori hosted the 2010 world cup in south africa and was about hostin the olympics in london before he was arrested. I think John Fasheun forgot to mention that. Ode!

Ibori also nominated Ngozi for world bank president ma.. eeddiots! They should sentence this shameless criminal already jare!

Na by force to talk? They need to be conducting a test of sanity for all government officials, honestly.

What does this one know But wait a minute! How many foreign affairs minister does Nigeria have?

Ibori, a common thief – UK prosecutor

APRIL 17, 2012 BY KUNLE FALAYI WITH AGENCY REPORT 64 COMMENTS

As the sentencing of former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, commenced on Monday at the Southwark Crown Court 9, London, the prosecutor, Sasha Weils, told the court in her closing argument that Ibori was “a common thief.”

Weils told the court of how Ibori “systematically and deliberately defrauded his people during his tenure as governor of the oil-rich Delta State.”

“The amount James Ibori stole is unquantified. He is a common thief,” the prosecutor said.

After going through a reading of all the crimes Ibori committed since 1991, both in Nigeria and in the UK, Weils concluded that the magnitude of fraud perpetrated by Ibori would never be known.

The Prosecutor listed Ibori’s bank accounts as “6 in Barclay’s, 2 in Citi Bank and several in the Channel Islands”.

She added that “Ibori had made his four-month old son a director in one of his companies, a company used as a conduit to launder stolen money.”

The prosecution, also said he violated Section 182 and Section 181 (1) of the Nigerian constitution when he contested the governorship election less than 10years after he was jailed in the United Kingdom. Ibori was jailed in 1991 and 1992 in London.

Judge Anthony Pitts described Ibori’s several frauds as “sensational” and called for a recess soon after.

“It says on the details it’s ‘simply sensational.’ I’m inclined to agree with them,” he said.

When the court reconvened by 2pm, his defence counsel, Nicholas Pernell, prayed for a lenient sentence, blaming the Nigerian military for creating the conditions that lured Ibori into corruption.

In an attempt to secure a lenient sentencing for Ibori, his has lawyer just told the Crown Court that he was instrumental in securing the release of hostages in the Niger-Delta.

Judge Pitts, however, told Ibori’s counsel that he has not been called upon to make a judgment of Ibori’s achievements as governor as argued by his counsel but to make a judgment on the charges of corruption against him.

Supporters reportedly hired and transported by the Delta State Government reportedly caused disturbance at the sentencing, which necessitated the London Metropolitan policemen removing them from the court.

The court had invited uniformed policemen to sort out Ibori’s supporters , which led to the rowdy standoff, Saharareporters reports.

The policemen and court officials attempted to control the crowd of Ibori’s supporters and journalists who wanted to gain access into the court.

All visitors were reportedly asked to to form a queue and write their names. But it led to more confusion as people struggled to get their names on a list.

The embattled former governor’s supporters were said to have insisted on gaining access to the courtroom, which could sit only a few people.

In the course of attempting to force their way into the courtroom, a staff of the court was said to have been pushed to the ground.

The police were said to have later allowed only 16 members of Ibori’s family and journalists to enter the court.

The hearing began at about 11.19am after James Ibori was brought in and the Judge came in to the court.

Ibori was brought into court at 11.15am wearing a grey suit, black tie and vest and was docked in a glass-covered cubicle.

He was said to be beaming with confidence.

Ibor’s sentencing has been shifted till Tuesday, April 17.

Now we go hear word abi? But to be frank,I can't believe that some Nigerians actually thought NOI could win that election. Hahahahahahah. The US comits billions of her tax payers money to funding the world bank every year and some people think they should just allow an outsider to come and run the show for them. What kind of monkey dey work, baboon dey chop way of reasoning is that? Lets face the fact here, mr. Kim was a better candidate than our Ngozi. A man who have gone round the poorest countries of the world fighting poverty and deseases which is one of the primary aim of the world bank and a woman have only sat in the office doing paper works without knowing what is really hapening in the field cannot be in thesame category.The world bank has well defined structures and quality profesionals as members of its workforce already so you do not need an economist to run the the place. The perfect person for the job is someone who have witnessed first hand what the problems facing the underdeveloped are and how the world bank can assist in reducing such problems, not somebody that will come and be reading plenty economic jagons on tv. Having said that I salute and respect the courage of our madam NOI.

afam4eva: Finally, Kim Kardasian takes it. I hope they're happy with their US world bank. I think developing countries should withdraw from this scam called "world" bank and create a new bank for developing countries. African countries should also look towards the African development bank.

haahhhhhahhaha. Developing countries should withdraw from world bank because NOI lost? You make me laugh.. Who needs the world bank more?

The should lock up the dude and throw away the key jare.

dubem3: Maybe the election should just be between selected
citizens of the US instead of bringing people together
just to make fun of them. Anybody that qualifies to
contest has a right to win. kaji?

the US did not invite anybody to contest the seat with them. It was the emergin economies of the world that wanted the status quo to change and the US gladly accepted so why are Nigerians complaining now? It is an election not an appointment so the person with the highest support will win. Nobody gives a danm about credentials in an election. Even GEJ knows that when he said he knows he wasn't the best candidate for the job in the last election but 'God' made him win.

Who gives a rat asz about world bank presidency? The united state contributes the largest share to world bank's funding, how much does Naija contribute that we want to run the danm organization? Lets be factual and address issues objectively.

What has this got to do with us? ok Happy 'sinking' day!

GEJ and all these northern leaders are bunch of jobless jokers.. Imagine, we just started 2012 and the only thing in the mind of these pdp people is 2015 election. Little wonder, they can't concentrate on making life easy for the people of Nigeria.







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The great General! I personaly believe in you and everything you stand for. If you decide to contest in 2k15, I will vote for you again. If you choose not to, I will gladly give my vote to whoever you endorse. Enough of all these politics of ethnicism and religiousity..

Who givs a rat @s.s who GEJ hands over to? We just want somebody who gat more balls and brains than GEJ in 2k15.. All these shameless old men who ran down this country can not detect for us.. People like this should be thinking of positive ways to invest their loots to make up for innocent people who have died as a result of their greed, better still he should look for a way to make things right with his God because its obvious he is in the last lap of life not trying to be politically relevant at old age.

Cry my beloved Benue.. PDP have turn my beloved state into a blood bank. Smh!

They seat there eating one billion naira food a year while deliberatin on how to further inflict poverty on the poor masses at thesame time calling God's name abi.. Bunch of killers!