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immhotep:
APCriminals will say that Obasanjo is now a Biafran IPOB member

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Freddyjimoh:
A sporting family siphoned off cash from their own charity set up to help African children, it can be reported.

Ex-footballers Efe Sodje, 46, and Stephen Sodje, 43, and ex-rugby player Bright Sodje, 52, were found guilty and jailed for the fraud in 2017.

The case can only be reported now following the conclusion of a separate trial involving former Reading and Nigeria footballer Sam Sodje, 39.

Earlier on Monday, he was cleared at the Old Bailey of money laundering.

The fraud trial in 2017 had heard how the family set up the Sodje Sports Foundation (SSF) in 2009, ostensibly to help provide facilities in Nigeria.

However, cash raised at black-tie dinners, auctions, charity football matches and a clay pigeon shoot went into Sodje bank accounts, prosecutor Julian Christopher QC said.

In once instance, in 2011, there was a gala dinner at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester for the SSF and the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.

The £150-a-head black-tie event raised almost £11,500, but Mr Christopher said "not a penny" went to the hospital.

Judge Michael Topolski QC told the defendants: "You have brought shame upon yourselves and your family."

He said "at least £63,000 can been shown to have been received by the fund", and added that this did not include cash donations.

The defendants "went out of their way" to ensure that proper records were not kept, he said.

Any good works done in the past would be "forever tainted by their dishonest and disreputable conduct", he added.

Stephen Sodje, of Bexley, was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for receiving £30,000 in charity funds.

Efe Sodje, of Cheadle in Greater Manchester, who was "the face" of the charity, was given 18 months in jail for receiving £7,500 from the SSF and an unknown amount from a clay pigeon shooting event.

Bright Sodje, of Sale in Greater Manchester, was jailed for 21 months for receiving £3,000 from the charity and signing cheques to other family members totalling £18,000.

Reporting restrictions meant the brothers' convictions could only be reported following the conclusion of the separate money-laundering case.

Efe Sodje was cleared of money laundering at the Old Bailey in January 2018 but Emmanuel Ehikhamen, 53, of south-east London, and Andrew Oruma, 50, of Bexley, south London, were convicted.

The case against Sam Sodje collapsed and his retrial began on 7 January 2019.

Mr Sodje, who also played for Charlton Athletic, Brentford and Leeds United during his career, was charged with four counts of taking part in a fraud in which bank accounts were used to channel money from companies around the world.

He was found not guilty of two of the charges on 14 January and cleared of the remaining two counts earlier on Monday.

Another of the brothers, Akpo Sodje, 37, was implicated but moved to Dubai and refused to return to Britain for questioning.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-46946503

martineverest:
this is what Nigerians don't know.there are many west african traditional musicians that are popular in western Europe and they usually organise huge concerts in Europe with huge crowd of white people..some of them are Baba maal,yossou ndour, salif kaita,kidjo,Femi kuti,oumar sagbare, sona jobarteh etc..their music are usually appreciated because bid their uniqueness and high level of creativity.

ironically,most Europeans don't even know about Davido and WizKid,except africans living in Europe

HisSexcellency:
The rate at which southeast posts take dey sell for Nairaland these days ehh
The DG mentioned 5 states as possible flash points, yet enugu was singled out as title to drive traffic to this thread

HisMajesty1:
His songs are still not popular, take Angelina Kidjo for example, her songs were popular in Nigeria all the way from her country. How many Benin republic nationales listen to Seun Kuti or even other African countries for that matter. Still wouldn't take away the fact that he probably might be a good musician.

immhotep:
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immhotep:
Lzaa come and see another one that has been eyeing Igbo women

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PythonAmaka:
I know it's a big blow on your flatskull
Six yorubas have won the Grammy, the recent was in 2017 by Kelvin Olusola.
Yeeboos can have the Grammy in blood money, prostitution, illegal drugs and liver harvesting
Yoruba no be una mate.






python amaka

immhotep:
APC

PythonAmaka:
Yoruba has a winning gene. They are used to winning the Grammy--- fact





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NwanyiAwkaetiti:
6 figures could be 100,000 naira... Abi no be six figures be that?

NwanyiAwkaetiti:
I've got a 6 figure saving and I'm not 30 yet. Investing in mini importation to make ends meet.


Financial independence is Bae

Immaculatesnow:
what is pretty here all I see are future touts and a farm tool as his unloyal wife fake family

Verified Google ads for sale

Shegzy8:
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Shegzy8:
Not me

Shegzy8:
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immhotep:
It is hard for APC to unsee what they have seen

busomma:
May I remind u that United States government has been shut down for almost 30 days now & Atiku utilized the opportunity to visit knowing that immigration officials were scanty at best or none at all. Let him repeat the trip when the government reopens. He fooled majority of Nigerians who hv no single idea what's happening here in America.

Giftedhand92:
The Northwest Zonal office of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the recent visit of Atiku Abubakar to the US as an exercise in futility.


Alhaji Abdulmanaf Mohammed-Daura, the Zonal Organising Secretary of the ruling party made this known in an interview with newsmen in Daura on Sunday.

He said the visit would not add any political value to the PDP presidential candidate or stop President Muhammadu Buhari from winning the presidential election with wide margin.

According to him, about 85 per cent of the electorates are solidly in support of the re-election Buhari because of his administration’s considerable gains in critical sectors of the national economy.



Mohammed-Daura further expressed optimism that the APC record overwhelming victory across the 36 States in Nigeria, because “our party has impacted positively nationwide.”

See more:
https://zenithnaija.com/apc-atikus-visit-to-us-an-exercise-in-futility/

nanauju:
Wait o, this full blown bearded man just an adult??
When she says 'adult', does she mean he's now old enough to get off her roof? Or he just clocked 18 or 21 which one?? Cuz I'm confused

damola1:
8ers gonna 8.


Dey can’t play footie.

Dey can’t prove you are 1 day older..

Dey all be like he is older

Fcukin wailers

WTF... #nayourage

CilicMarin:
Only Ipob fools take Obasanjo seriously....By 1 Pm on the 16th February....when Buhari would be coasting to a landslide, the pigs would have deserted the internet..

There won't be Likes and Shares for idiotic post praising Atiku..

There won't be comments on any thread involving Atiku...

There would deafening silence in Biafra...

While the West, South South, And the entire North would be jubiliating...

They would again remember Nnamdi Hunchback Kanu..

immhotep:
The Asiwaju of APC is now Atikulating

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awelekiti:
I hope so. That I'm not his fan doesn't mean I shouldn't be worried about his whereabouts. He'still one of us.