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Since nothing concerns you, just shut the bleep up and realize that it's not your time that's getting wasted. Plus be on notice that ALL options are getting explored in.order to get what they want. So, just keep your unsolicited wisdom and knowledge to yourself or use it to get what you and your family want instead of wasting them on issues that do not concern you and on which your advice or input is neither needed nor solicited.

laudate:
Wetin concern me? Was I the one that filed the suit? Or am I the one trying to trap Buratai? Advise your people not to waste their time, and explore other options of getting what they want.

Go to US and strike away the suit if you're angry.

laudate:
Amnesty International is NOT a court that has jurisdiction over civil or criminal matters. Neither can it pass sentences on crimes or detain offenders.

You did NOT answer my question, neither did you provide any relevant info. The question still remains: Have those who filed a case against Buratai in the US under this Act tried to get relief in the local Nigerian courts? Have they proved beyond reasonable doubt that they have exhausted local remedies in the location of the crime, to the extent that such remedies are "adequate and available?" Simple question.

Guess you were not in Nigeria when AI released its report?

Guess you were in the moon when the army decided to play the ostrich in denial?

Guess you are not in Nogeria to know that up till now no single soldier has been sanctioned for the crimes against humanity that was committed against IPOB despite the darnming evidences?

Guess you were in slumber when rogues were paid to protest and deman for the expulsion of AI?

laudate:
Have those who filed a case against Buratai in the US under this Act tried to get relief in the local Nigerian courts? Have they proved beyond reasonable doubt that they have exhausted local remedies in the location of the crime, to the extent that such remedies are "adequate and available?"



Exactly!! May God continue to increase the wisdom He has placed in your life.

Unfortunately the next ten genrations of folks from your region will see their free and progressive contemporaries from Biafra, and spitefully spit on the graves of folks from your present genration for being too selfish, irresponsible and short sighted to set the future generations free from the same national burden that placed limitation on the progress of your fathers.

maclatunji:
Wetin concern agbero with overload?

Rwandans have turned their story around in one generation, my friends from the Southeast are still whining after 2 generations. Biko, wisen-up.

Of course you are lost at the counter. It's obvious. You are just out to troll the igbos. That's your calling. Unfortunately you guys won't let others to post a comment on the islamic section unless he affirms islam. But here you are insultung a whole ethnic group and dishing out crapy opinions on a region you know nothing about let alone having visited.

maclatunji:
See this guy, trying to use strawman tactics. You must be a learner.

Let's just cut through to the chase

maclatunji:
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Have they looked at the resources that accrue to them from the federation account and their internally generated revenue (IGR) from their states and found a way to use it to invest in their people and region wisely?

Have the north done this? Why is the North East not getting rebuilt with their IGR? Why did the fedral government invest and still invest in secondary education in the North. Where is the nothern IGR? Or is it only the SE that should depend on IGR while the rest feed fat on the fedral handouts?

Have they used cultural and commercial ties to build bridges with other tribes in Nigeria to attempt to creation of a synergy that protects their interests?

How many cultural and commercial ties have the north built with other regions? What about the south west? How many notherners and south westerners have commercial and cultural interests in other regions? Did their lack of affinity and open disdain of ther regions stop them from usurping power and benefiting unfairly from the federal structure? Which other ethnic group has more commercial and cultural ties across the board than the igbos?

Have they made a strategic investment in their human capital and developed leadership potential of their people such that the rest of Nigeria would have no choice than to defer to what would then be their obvious acumen and capacity to lead the entire country to great things?

Does the north match the south east in any type of human development indices? Has the north's backwardness in education ever hindered their access to power and privilege in the Nigeria project? What is the leadership development track record of the current northern leader of the union? Do the north have more professors and doctors than the south east? Why then is it that the north has provided many substantial heads of state since 1970, yet the more educated south easteners are yet to provide one?

Have they shown enough love within their ranks to develop a united front that amplifies their voice within Nigeria?

How united is the north? Does boko haram operate elsewhere? How about southern kaduna? How about the middle belt? When will the voice of the notherners start getting ignored by the Yorubas due to the much more ethnic and religious divisions and strife in the north? Or is it only in the south east that olatunji waits to be apeased with phantom unity which he does not even have in his zone? Does obasanjo agree with tinibu? Does tinibu agree with afenifere? Why is olatunji not focusing on that or writing legnthy epistles to demand for the supression of the yoruba voice due to their disunity?

The rest is mumbojumbo...

Nigeria is not Rwanda, and the South East is not Tutsi.

By the way, it's still too early to hype the post-genocidal-Rwanda as a political success story as opposed to Nigeria. Wait till 50 years.

Gosh! And I actually thought you were a doctor?.

Guess I now know why you could be creating threads in the meatup zone.

Please, can you tell me how and when your God created Nigeria, and what your ancestors were before your God decided to make them Nigerians?

doctimonyeka:
I'm Igbo but this Nnamdi Kanu of a man is a scam...
God created Nigeria, not biafra.. And Nigeria it must remain... This country shouldn't be held to ransom by a nobody who acclaims to be the messiah.. . What rubbish...




God bless Nigeria..

Sorry for your kids.
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maureensylvia:
u just proved u have a useless generation.

oti oooo

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So are you saying that all other tribes in Nigeria are "economic illiterates" for not investing much outside their various regions the way igbos generally do?

And again:

- How do igbos' investments in other regions help the IGR and GDP of Igboland?
- How does investing outside igboland increase employment rate in igboland?
- how do the fancy country homes in igboland stimulate year-round economic activities in the region?

I need your prompt answers Mr. Economic Professor.

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Rossikki:
One has been reading of late, comments made by some prominent Igbos to the effect that Igbos should ''return home'', following the recent declaration by Arewa youths or whomever.

Such calls have been made, predictably, by those Igbos who do not earn their living in the north etc. Actors like Bob-Manuel Udokwu. Pampered people who can barely relate to the circumstances of the average Igbo trader working in Kano.

See, that guy is in Kano for a reason. There is an Igbo saying, that a toad does not run around in the daytime for nothing. Something must be after its life.

That guy would much prefer to live and work in his eastern homeland. The reason he doesn't is because it is UNECONOMICAL to do so, in comparison to other parts of the country.

The truth is that the south-east has market saturation. The average Igbo trader will need to work 5 times harder in his homeland to earn what he earns in Kano.

Or Sokoto.

Or Ibadan.

Or Bauchi.

Or Ilorin.

Or Lagos.

Those areas are like living goldmines for Igbo entrepreneurs.

The villages and cities of Igboland are bulging with the mansions and edifices derived from working in those places.

Thus, asking Igbos to ''return home'', is like asking them to commit suicide. It is just as silly as the 'Biafra' movement itself.

Both uneconomical, both lacking in vision or analysis, and both utterly contemptuous of the overriding effects of their ethnic fanaticism on the economic well-being of their 'beloved' people.

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You just proved your idiocy.

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maureensylvia:
God punish u, I didn't want to reply any insult but u prompted me to do so, I don't know u and u don't know me why are u going into my marital affair.

I curse d day u were born for talking about my marital life. u are so dumb that u couldn't understand what I said.

fool if u quote me again then I will know ur generation is useless

ur left ball

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Are you sick or something?

Or is it that you have converted to islam?

Hate biafra all you want, love one Nigeria to the moon, but there is no justifiable reason for making mockery of the igbos if truly you are one.

I seriously do not know what you think you have as an investment in the so called north. But be aware that you can lose it all in one day, and nothing will happen. And at that point of your loss, Karma may not allow you to access solidarity from the igbos whom you've spent the prime of your youth mocking.

If you thimk this is absurd, go an consult with the Imolite pastor whose wife was beheaded in Kano last year. Find out how many years they have spent there prior to the loss of everything - including his dear wife of decades. What happened to the murderes? NOTHING!

I saw where you told a known anti-igbo bigot that he deserves a carton of cold beer for insulting igbos. And you even wished he was close to you.

You even prefered nationalizing in the north than ever having to return to your ancestoral home if it ever turns to be Biafra.

Seriously, your husband should send you parking immediately, else you will ruin his destiny and that of his children the way you're going.

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maureensylvia:
cry me river!!!

funny enough most Igbo's prefer to die in North than to die in east.

what have u in store for us when we come back

leave us here, we are used to it

go tell those that are not doing anything in north to come back not d ones that have strong business over Dia

Igbo's can never b united

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It's better to accept the news as true and be proven wrong at the end than to reject it as false and be proven right at the end.

Accepting it as true does not stop the existing struggle. But it silences a few of their folks.

On the other hand, rejecting the news as false does not improve the existing struggle, instead it frustrates some of their folks and makes them more sceptical of what your goal truly is.

If the mission is referendum, then you should be happy about this news, regardless if it's true or false.

EzeUche:
They are not even united. Look at how their people bash Biafra on Nairaland every chance they get.

Believe this at your peril.

Focus on the mission. Whatever aids the desired outcome - which is a binding referendum - is a welcome development. Late participation from other camps is better than zero participation.

EzeUche:
Jokers

Igbos are leading the struggle and these unknown groups want to grab our coattails

Igbos are facing all kinds of threats to our livelihood and have lost youth during our peaceful protests and now these phantom groups want to come out from hiding.

It takes a grey old ediot to assume that a 50-year old movement - that included a 3-year long all out war - with a global affiliation is a tool designed to distract an unpopular 2-year old government. You should be in the hospital.

princdebola201:
mention one thing that is not true in my post

It would have been better to explain how old you are. But I feel you are overreacting.

I think your dad is truley overbearing kind of, but you probably need to talk this over with your mum, politely, or perhaps create some space for yourself - like going into the room when you feel you cannnot bear the talks anymore.

In any case, work hard on your mind to not habor disdain for your dad. Thisis 'cause I'm afraid it seems that's already happening.

DY20:
Hi Nairalanders!

"My dad talks too much" and by saying too much I did not mean he's crazy or something, I mean he talks sensible thing for an absurd long period of time.

Let me use 5 out of million of scenario to define my case.

1. Anytime the family is complete inside the house, and everyone is quiet; busy with something, I browsing on my phone, my little brother playing video game, my sister using beads, mum watching TV and my dad? Talking. When it is very obvious that no one cares to listen, he continue talking.

2. If any of my friends came to visit me, they will become my dad's guest. From the very first moment they say "Good morning" to him, he started talking, asking them questions, essp about their work, school, and talking about his own life too. Like what is happening now, I can see awkward smile on their face as they listen but just don't want to walk away leaving him embarrassed.

3. One day, I was chatting with girlfriend till late in the night, he woke up and say a light in the male children's room, he came in and started accusing me of internet fraud. We talked and talked till we settle it at dawn. From 2 to 4.30. In the morning, my dad started the topic with my mum again.

4. He talks every seconds when he is in the house or when anyone is with him.

5. He make anyone he saw with me (or any of my siblings) to introduce themselves. Indoor or outdoor.

I don't usually talk about my family affair with people but nobody knows me here or my dad.

I just want to know how to handle situation like this because I've started thinking of leaving the house. Maybe I'll learn to accept him when I don't see him everyday.

See? He is starting already... continues to talk when I'm not even looking at him.

I don't think they are dumb enough to oust the VP militarially. That would be their worst political blunder in history, of which I can assure you that the union will not survive.

bros1234:
Bro, it's not as easy as you make it sound. I want "One Nigeria" shattered tomorrow morning. But from the present political arrangement, until the north welcomes that direction, we're stuck with it. They'll play any political card they want at us, provided we keep fighting ourselves down here, they'll always get away with it.

This is one hell of a political move. It's big. But they don't care.

When people make generalizations like Aribisala just did, I begin to wonder who they think they are, God?

Well, Mr. Aribisala, the idea that none of the ethnic groups in Nigeria can succeed in isolation is the more reason why their union will NEVER be a success.

No union can succeed inter-dependently when each of its constiuent parts has no capacity to succeed independently.

The essence of union is synergy, not life support.

The most stupid, self-defeating, Nigeria-shatering move the north can make now is to oust the VP. If they ever get drunk enough to do that, then it's over for One Nigeria.

The fact that you believe in the indivisibility of this entity does not make it the best choice for everyone

I like your intention but your action or writeup will not change anything.

You cannot have peace without justice and fairness.

You have been here since 2008, and you seem to have a background in mathmatics, thus the least you could do was to study the e-war, analyze and call out its root causes and then profer a meanignful and practical solution..

Again, the e-war did not start today, and it's a mere symptom -not the substance - of a much more fundamental issue with your beloved entity which you do not want to see divided. This is regardless of the countless lives it has taken - and still threatens to take - just to remain a single entity.

When even a deity becomes this blood thirsty in igbo tradition, the collective usually unite to unanymously evict the deity from their community. And I'm sure that this entity is not a deity.

But as per the e-war, I too want to see it stop. But you won't keep quiet when malicious people peddle lies and hatred just to assasinate your character and damage the reputation of everything you represent and hold dear.

BENARI:
To be honest I don't know why when and how this Igbo Yoruba online war started here on Nairaland, but as an Igbo man born and raised in the North, I must say am hugely ashamed and disappointed in both tribe's forum members here particularly with my Igbo brothers.

One thing is certain, every tribe has got it's peculiarities, positive and negative alike, but the fact remains that Nairaland does not truly reflect the relationship that exist among Igbos and Yorubas. You guys are wrong.

There is no doubting the fact that both tribes hold one thing or the other against the other, same way some Igbo states hold something against other Igbo states and likewise with the Yorubas too amongst themselves, but they're not serious enough to cause the kind of rivalry and hate that is presented here.

I've lost count of intermarriages between both tribes I've been part of. I can't count the number of business and other partnerships that has been built between this two tribes.

Believe it or Not, Igbos and Yorubas have a common enemy in Nigeria. I say this from a position of knowledge as someone who was raised in the North. The Hausa man has absolutely no love lust for neither tribes. Rather depending on which of them favour there selfish agenda at any given time, the other becomes the enemy.
When it was time to rubbish MKO, the Igbos were the darlings, and when it was time to rubbish Jonathan, the Yorubas were the choicest of tribe.
It's all a gimmick. The war of words between Igbos and Yorubas only favors non other than the Hausa fulani.

I personally do not support a break up of Nigeria but I support a movement that would ensure equality and respect for all without one tribe feeling its the sacred cow. It is my hope that the Biafran agitation will make our Hausa Brothers rethink there ownership mentality of Nigeria and realise that we are all equal stakeholders in the project called Nigeria.

By the way, I must state neither the Yorubas nor the Igbos can make any meaningful progress in achieving anything in Nigeria without the strong support of the other. The South must cooperate fully in other to get anything out of the core North. Even the middle belt are counting on an eventual southern cooperation someday.

I have nothing against the Hausa fulani personally, but I think they've been too selfish and Strong handed as far the Nigerian project is concerned to very annoying degree.
On an individual level, they are unrivalled in many other good qualities in human relationships except Off Course for there penchant for violence against persons of other religion and tribe.

Enough is enough of the Igbo Yoruba online war.
We must learn to express our opinions without resorting to insults and hate speeches. I think very low of individuals who engage in such.

For those who fail to heed my advice, you can be sure the moderators of this forum are working on something that might make it impossible for you to do anything meaningful with this forum soon. Worst still, this forum might just attract the wrath of the government someday; that would be really bad for us all and the owners of this forum.

Be nice!!!!!!!

Stop that your arrogant noise.

The OP asked a simple, specific and clear question. Answer it in his context or keep quiet.

By the way, there is nothing like "igboid" in Igbo and English languages neither is it recognized in Nigeria's political sphere . So keep that your crap to yourself.

Ekinematics:
It's obvious your understanding is shallow.

Go on with your delusion. I'm sure you won't turn from your slumber until 2018.

happney65:
So Bush and Trump are more popular than Obama?I wont blame you,you live in the world of alternative reality..

Far more popular?

You actually have no idea what is happening around you.

happney65:
How did Obama mess up the chance..How?A Guy that left the Presidency with very high approval ratings not like ur yeye Republican Bush..A guy that is still far more popular than ur current yeye president....

Some People will sha be saying very very wrong.and stupid things sha

Habaaaa

I'm sure God will teach you a lesson one of these days.

bantudra:
the northerners never gave a shiiit about the delta.....deltans sold oil rights to some northerners....soooo what....

not only northerners own oil wells in the delta...other tribes too....

the northerners are starting to hear the stvpid noise of ipob.....

is it the fault of all northerners that some northerners own oil wells in the delta...

which stvpid deltans sold it to them to start with??....

we deltans should be careful when confronting all northerners.....

I'm sure my drift has penetrated your thick skull.

Have a nice day.

blackberlin:
Which forum, what are their activities, what's their relevance? Abeg, you dont have a point.

Do you live in Abia? No

Did the Yoruba Forum in Abia appoint a Monarch? Yes

Then you are stupidity personified for talking the gebrish about Afenifere, as if you agree with the political conviction of the average Afenifere loyalist.

As I said earlier on:

1....

2. At no time, in the history of this country, has the Igbo masses threatened or expelled non-igbo Nigerians from the South East.

Both the Youruba and Housa have done both to igbos REPEATEDLY.

3. If you don't desist from your anti-igbo madness - like creating this type of insane threads on Nairalandand or elsewhere - you will have to deal with a billion more kanus, only that they will be angrier and rougher.

4. The era of taking your collective idiosyncracies silently is long gone. This time, one show of hate wilk return to you a thousand fold darker hate than you showed.

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blackberlin:
Stop exhibiting stupidity man.
Anyone can come up with a concept, but tell me, where in the article does it show they're truly affiliated with an Umbrella body like Afenifere?

1. That's a huge scam cos the Yorubas don't recognize them. Your own Eze Ndigbo is under the umbrella body of Ohanaze Ndigbo and there are Ezes everywhere, I mean everywhere! Not this one that you went to search the internet for a sham supporting article.


2. You Igbos are anti-yourselves just like I highlighted before. Charity begins at home. If your people start any civil unrest in the country and end up getting treated like Boko Haram, don't come here to complain.

Ideals are peaceful, history is violent.

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I actually restrained myself from telling you that you're an ediot.

But the truth is that you are grossly ignorant and mischevous, thus you did not know the following:

1. Alhaji Adebayo Azeez, is Oba of Yorubas in Abia since 2010
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/05/yoruba-in-abia-appoint-monarch/

2. At no time, in the history of this country, has the Igbo masses threatened or expelled non-igbo Nigerians from the South East.

Both the Youruba and Housa have done both to igbos REPEATEDLY.

3. If you don't desist from your anti-igbo madness - like creating this type of insane threads on Nairalandand or elsewhere - you will have to deal with a billion more kanus, only that they will be angrier and rougher.

4. The era of taking your collective idiosyncracies silently is long gone. This time, one show of hate will return to you a thousand fold darker hate than you showed.

blackberlin:
You see? Another one of the bad eggs amongst the Igbo tribe. The truth is always an acid to the skin of war mongers. I wonder if someone like you can ever make it in life. That's how some of you will insult a Yoruba or Hausa man who God has destined to help you. . .

Another pile of media porn.

Go ahead llibtards. Masturbate all you want.

But make no mistakes: TRUMP is your POTUS till 2024. And after that, you'd have to deal with PENCE for another 8 years. And Pray that Don Jr.would not become the VP to PENCE. .


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Mindfulness:
He has got serial issues. He suffers from a severe inferiority complex. He was parading on family section trying hard to prove his manliness but his own dumbness led to his downfall.

Have you seen it, yet?

How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business

LIKE AUTUMN LEAVES, sponsored Cadillacs, Ferraris and Maseratis descend on the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, in September for the Eric Trump Foundation golf invitational. Year after year, the formula is consistent: 18 holes of perfectly trimmed fairways with a dose of Trumpian tackiness, including Hooters waitresses and cigar spreads, followed by a clubhouse dinner, dates encouraged. The crowd leans toward real estate insiders, family friends and C-list celebrities, such as former baseball slugger Darryl Strawberry and reality housewife (and bankruptcy-fraud felon) Teresa Giudice.

The real star of the day is Eric Trump, the president's second son and now the co-head of the Trump Organization, who has hosted this event for ten years on behalf of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. He's done a ton of good: To date, he's directed more than $11 million there, the vast majority of it via this annual golf event. He has also helped raise another $5 million through events with other organizations.

The best part about all this, according to Eric Trump, is the charity's efficiency: Because he can get his family's golf course for free and have most of the other costs donated, virtually all the money contributed will go toward helping kids with cancer. "We get to use our assets 100% free of charge," Trump tells Forbes.

That's not the case. In reviewing filings from the Eric Trump Foundation and other charities, it's clear that the course wasn't free--that the Trump Organization received payments for its use, part of more than $1.2 million that has no documented recipients past the Trump Organization. Golf charity experts say the listed expenses defy any reasonable cost justification for a one-day golf tournament.

Additionally, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which has come under previous scrutiny for self-dealing and advancing the interests of its namesake rather than those of charity, apparently used the Eric Trump Foundation to funnel $100,000 in donations into revenue for the Trump Organization.

And while donors to the Eric Trump Foundation were told their money was going to help sick kids, more than $500,000 was re-donated to other charities, many of which were connected to Trump family members or interests, including at least four groups that subsequently paid to hold golf tournaments at Trump courses.

All of this seems to defy federal tax rules and state laws that ban self-dealing and misleading donors. It also raises larger questions about the Trump family dynamics and whether Eric and his brother, Don Jr., can be truly independent of their father.

Especially since the person who specifically commanded that the for-profit Trump Organization start billing hundreds of thousands of dollars to the nonprofit Eric Trump Foundation, according to two people directly involved, was none other than the current president of the United States, Donald Trump.

IN ORDER TO understand the Eric Trump Foundation, you need to understand the Donald J. Trump Foundation. The president was never known for giving his foundation much money, and from 2009 to 2014, he didn't give it anything at all. Outsiders still donated, though, allowing Trump to dole out their money to a smattering of more than 200 charities as if it were his own, with many of the donations helping his business interests.

Eric Trump set out to do things differently. Coming out of Georgetown, he decided he would try to translate the good fortune he had inherited into support for children's cancer research. Why this cause, especially for a guy who still doesn't have kids? "It's a great question--it's one that I've been asked before--and I'm not really sure," he says. "I think there is something about that innocence that has always affected me." After visiting various hospitals, he chose to give to strength, St. Jude, the world's best-known pediatric cancer center.

Eric Trump set up his foundation as a public charity, a classification that allows it to raise most of its money from outside donors. In 2007, when he was 23, the first Eric Trump golf tournament took place, raising $220,000. A compelling sales pitch evolved--the free golf course and the donated goods and services assured donors that every penny possible went to charity. The Eric Trump Foundation employed no staff until 2015, and its annual expense ratio averaged 13%, about half of what most charities pay in overhead. His original seven-person board was made up of personal friends, an innocuous lot who helped sell tournament tickets, which last year ranged from $3,000 for a single all-day ticket to $100,000 for a pair of VIP foursomes.

For the first four years of the golf tournament, from 2007 to 2010, the total expenses averaged about $50,000, according to the tax filings. Not quite the zero-cost advantage that a donor might expect given who owned the club but at least in line with what other charities pay to host outings at Trump courses, according to a review of ten tax filings for other charitable organizations.

But in 2011, things took a turn. Costs for Eric Trump's tournament jumped from $46,000 to $142,000, according to the foundation's IRS filings. Why would the price of the tournament suddenly triple in one year? "In the early years, they weren't being billed [for the club]--the bills would just disappear," says Ian Gillule, who served as membership and marketing director at Trump National Westchester during two stints from 2006 to 2015 and witnessed how Donald Trump reacted to the tournament's economics. "Mr. Trump had a cow. He flipped. He was like, 'We're donating all of this stuff, and there's no paper trail? No credit?' And he went nuts. He said, 'I don't care if it's my son or not--everybody gets billed.' "

Katrina Kaupp, who served on the board of directors at the Eric Trump Foundation in 2010 and 2011, also remembers Donald Trump insisting the charity start paying its own way, despite Eric's public claims to the contrary. "We did have to cover the expenses," she says. "The charity had grown so much that the Trump Organization couldn't absorb all of those costs anymore." The Trump Organization declined to answer detailed questions about the payments. But it seems that for the future president, who Forbes estimates is worth $3.5 billion, a freebie to help his son directly fight kids' cancer took a backseat to revenue.

"I saw that Eric was getting billed," Gillule adds. "I would always say, 'I can't believe that his dad is billing him for a charitable outing.' But that's what they wanted."

It's also very consistent. The Donald J. Trump Foundation famously acted like an arm of the overall business, using the charity's money to settle a Trump business lawsuit, make a political donation and even purchase expensive portraits of its namesake. Meanwhile, Trump businesses billed the Trump campaign, fueled by small outside donors, more than $11 million to use his properties, chefs and private aircraft.

At first the extra bills did not cost the Eric Trump Foundation anything. Shortly before the spike in costs, the Donald J. Trump Foundation donated $100,000 to the Eric Trump Foundation--a gift explicitly made, according to Gillule, to offset the increased budget. Thus, the Eric Trump donors were still seeing their money go to work for kids along the same lines as previous years.

The Eric Trump Foundation declined to comment on that donation. In effect, though, this maneuver would appear to have more in common with a drug cartel's money-laundering operation than a charity's best-practices textbook. That $100,000 in outside donations to the Donald J. Trump Foundation (remember: Trump himself didn't give to his own foundation at this time) passed through the Eric Trump Foundation--and wound up in the coffers of Donald Trump's private businesses.

"His father, Mr. Trump, always, until the presidency, had a very, very tight rein on what was going on," says Gillule, referring to the company's golf courses. "The buck always stopped with him."

THE COSTS FOR ERIC'S golf tournament quickly escalated. After returning, in 2012, to a more modest $59,000--while the event brought in a record $2 million--the listed costs exploded to $230,000 in 2013, $242,000 in 2014 and finally $322,000 in 2015 (the most recent on record, held just as Trump was ratcheting up his presidential campaign), according to IRS filings. This even though the amount raised at these events, in fact, never reached that 2012 high.

It's hard to find an explanation for this cost spike. Remember, all those base costs were supposedly free, according to Eric Trump. The golf course? "Always comped," he says. The merchandise for golfers: "The vast majority of it we got comped." Drinks: "Things like wine we were normally able to get donated." And the evening performances from musicians like Dee Snider of Twisted Sister and comedians like Gilbert Gottfried: "They did it for free." So many sponsors donated, in fact, that the event invitation has carried enough logos to make a Nascar team proud.

Eric Trump, in speaking with Forbes, maintains that "our expenses on a tournament that made us somewhere in the $2 million range every year was somewhere around 100 grand," even though his foundation's tax records show costs soaring to $322,000. When asked for an itemized list of expenses, the Eric Trump Foundation declined to respond.

Thus it's hard to figure out what happened to the money. All the listed costs are direct expenses: Items like overhead and salaries appear elsewhere in its IRS filings. Even if the Eric Trump Foundation had to pay the full rate for literally everything, Forbes couldn't come up with a plausible path to $322,000 given the parameters of the annual event (a golf outing for about 200 and dinner for perhaps 400 more). Neither could golf tournament experts or the former head golf professional at Trump National Westchester. "If you gave me that much money to run a tournament, I couldn't imagine what we could do," says Patrick Langan, who worked at the club from 2006 to 2015. "It certainly wasn't done that way."

Opaque accounting doesn't help, as the Eric Trump Foundation began hosting a few other golf events and fundraisers; former board member Kaupp says some were lumped into the cost figures of the Westchester event on the IRS filings. Hundreds of thousands of dollars over this time went directly to the Trump Organization, including one payment of $87,000 to Trump's golf course in Washington, D.C., which hosted a separate event for St. Jude.

For his part, Eric Trump offers no indication that the charity is paying for much beyond the day in Westchester. "I'm sure if I hunted, I could find examples of expenses associated with the charity that aren't due to day-of activities," he says. "But I would probably have to think pretty long and hard about that."

IT DOESN'T SEEM A COINCIDENCE that at the same time the Eric Trump Foundation went from what appeared to be a clean, efficient operation to a seemingly Byzantine one that suddenly found itself saddled with costs, there was a clear shift of control.

In 2010, the year the economics of the tournament suddenly pivoted, four of the seven original board members, who were personal friends of Eric, left. Those 4 were eventually replaced by 14 new board members, the majority of whom owed all or much of their livelihoods to the Trump Organization. Six of them were effectively full-time employees, including Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and executive vice president Dan Scavino Jr., who both serve in political roles for President Trump. Another owns a company that billed the Trump campaign $16 million. Add in Eric himself, as well as his wife, Lara, and 9 of the 17 Eric Trump Foundation board members had a vested interest in the moneymaking side of the Trump empire. The foundation had become a de facto subsidiary of the Trump Organization.

"They were wearing two hats," says Langan, the former director of golf, who says he sat in on meetings where he couldn't tell where the business ended and the charity began. "You're dealing with people talking about the event and the charity who also at the same time are thinking about it as a corporation and as a business. It's a for-profit club. You know, they're trying to make money."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/#537fa1e26b4a


What were Trump's crowds chanting again? Lock her up?
I hope they hold their candidate to the same standards now.

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I think you guys should stop talking about this restructuting of a crap. Seems you guys have no clue how unjust this country has been.

Fremancipation:
The biggest defeat Nigeria government can give to IPOB is to fundamentally restructure the country with respect to true/ fiscal federalism, regional autonomy and resource control.

If they do this, IPOB organization will lose members rapidly and cease to exist within a year.

Any proof for this?

If none, then just shut up.

Guestlander:
Nnamdi Kanu was until recently an advocate for a peaceful and united Nigeria.
His grouse with Nigeria is not unconnected with Jonathan's loss at the polls. Why was he especially bitter against Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani and not the Nigerian state.

Aptly said.

Social affinity is not the same as political unity.

Nigeria has never been TRULY united politically, be it in the media, outside the media or elsewhere. And I'm talking about political ideologies - not election.

Again, media is real life.

Kyase:
yes sir, the fact is that Nigeria is united in real life but divide on media

Cool.

Kyase:
she knows, infact we do joke about in our different views.