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http://punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20110127740215

Ten Nigerians have been arrested by the United Kingdom Border Agency for alleged involvement in sham marriages and immigration fraud in the past few months, according to a statement by the British High commission, Abuja.

The statement said special operations by the UKBA had led to the arrest of over 200 foreign nationals, noting that those found guilty would be jailed and deported.

The statement said British courts had handed out jail sentences totalling over 12 years to Nigerians arrested in these operations.

The high commission said, “On December 6, Tunde Ayammiyi, 50, and Bukola Arinkanmile, 28, were sentenced to 20 months and three years respectively for conspiring to break immigration laws. Victoria Adesola, 34, was jailed for two years for her involvement in sham marriage.

“Two fake grooms, Olarotimi Ojugbele, 41, and Idowu Komolafe, 34, were also jailed for 21 months each for their roles in sham marriages. In Belfast, Patrick Ozegebe, 34, was jailed for six months for trying to open a bank account with a false Nigerian passport.

ifyalways:
I can't help but laugh oooo 
Minister for Diasporas lolzzzz

LOL. You shuld laugh at yourself instead.

Its not Minister - its a special adviser.

LOL.

foreigners come here to shout as usual.

One week extension - wont he pay for the ad hoc staff and other logistics?

Why must you all always assume that every public figure is out there trying to loot money meant for one thing or the other?

How many of you here has gone to register? How many of you here will shout foul during the elections when people begin to shout that they couldnt register?

Look what this fellow said! LOL

Hoodrat:
I'm fed up of all the billi and trili I hear in the news always. WTF went wrong all in the name of election? Can't they forget about election and give nigerian citizen 1milli each to at least see what will become of nigeria in the next 3years? Nigerians need money not the yeye election which will never count no matter how hard they prevent the magogo ways. Stop the strong english all in the name of loothing FUND and concentrate on your fellow brothers happiness they don't need much the simplest thing is what they long for.

Did that jump out of the mouth or what is actually said? LOL.

call 0802 563 3698

thumbs up for GEJ.

There is something worrisome about the ministry of health. Remember the minister for health under OBJ was also made to resign for graft charges?

Whatever your name is in the developed world, if you dont pay your tax up to a dime correct, your butt ends up in jail. To prevent that, you employ accountants, lawyers etc.

so, if your uncle runs a business, does he employ accountants? Does he have proof that he and his son hasnt had any salary since 2004? What have they been feeding on? Is the company not making profit? If they make profit- dont they have yearly account statements of income and profit?

Things should be done right, bro.

Na Fashola dey chop the tax money?

LOL.

Look at people who ordinarily want to think they know d best. Cant even come up with ideas for business in America. LOL.

I wonder.

shows that people are not up to date.

They released a single late last year. They are working on their next album.

http://www.styl-plus.com/index.html

Tint your window without a police permit? Do you have a permit to drive a tinted car window?

how some people like to impose their thoughts and opinions on others

how peole find it hard to beleive or see the point that everyne can not share the same opinion with them

how people find it hard to beleive that they are not better than others.

so, how is this our concern?

whats the problem with this man?

Author:
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies

January 21, 2011
Huffington Post

Bribery and intimidation likely helped Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan achieve his overwhelming defeat of former vice president Atiku Abubakar for the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) presidential nomination. As a sitting president, Jonathan had access to unlimited amounts of money for bribes as well as control of the security services. With the PDP delegates assembled in one place--Eagle Square in central Abuja--his operatives mixed carrots, such as promises of immunity from prosecution, with sticks, including the threat of prosecution to those who remained recalcitrant or who reneged after accepting a bribe.

As the Giant of Africa now turns its attention to country-wide presidential elections, the contest is shaping up to be dangerous and destabilizing, pitting a Christian candidate against a Muslim candidate -- a competition Nigerians have always tried to avoid. Perhaps for the first time, Nigerian presidential elections will matter because the leading candidates are identified with rival regions and religions, identities more important to Nigerians than their national one. If the elections are not credible, there is likely to be much greater popular protest than there has been in the past. Disgruntled elites are already mobilizing popular anger around religious, regional and ethnic identities as they battle to keep control of the state and its oil wealth. Escalating violence in the Middle Belt--the central part of Nigeria where religious, ethnic and economic boundaries coincide--and the North, as well as bombings in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, only hint at what is to come.

Since 1999, the PDP presidential nomination has been tantamount to winning the presidency. Nigerian powerbrokers from all parts of the country remained sufficiently united to ensure that a PDP consensus candidate could be rigged into office, particularly because of an informal arrangement among Nigeria's elite, 'zoning,' that provided for the presidency to alternate between the predominately Christian South and the predominately Muslim North. But Jonathan's candidacy has splintered that unity. Originally a Southern Christian vice president, he became an "accidental" president when President Yar'Adua, a Muslim from the North, died. Under zoning, it is still the North's turn and many Northern powerbrokers anticipated that Jonathan would finish out Yar'Adua's term and then step aside, waiting to run on his own until 2015 when it is again the South's turn. Jonathan's decision to run violated this assumption.

Now that Jonathan has the PDP nomination, it remains to be seen how the Northern powerbrokers who have not been co-opted will organize themselves. Already some northerners have been withdrawing from the PDP, and in light of the primary outcome that number will certainly grow. Former military chief of state Muhammadu Buhari has already announced his presidential candidacy from the platform of a small party associated with reform. Never a member of the PDP, he is an austere personality known for his hostility to corruption, and is therefore hostile to conventional powerbroker interests. But he is perhaps the most popular political figure on the street. Atiku Abubakar may run as the presidential candidate of a different party, and former military chief of state Ibrahim Babangida may try to revive his candidacy also using as his platform one of the minor parties.

Nevertheless, the PDP candidate since 1999 has always been rigged into the presidency. In the aftermath of Jonathan's PDP victory, the parts of the now splintered political elite may be willing to do almost anything to prevent his presidential victory in the April 2011 elections. Popular resentment will be strong, particularly if the April 2011 elections are not credible because of the appeal to ethnic and religious identities. The danger is popular protest and violence can easily spiral out of control. Under these circumstances, there is now an even stronger premium on the credibility of the April 2011 elections.

John Campbell is the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and most recently author of "Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink." He blogs at "Africa in Transition." Want to learn more about Nigeria? Watch these short background videos.

This article appears in full on CFR.org by permission of its original publisher. It was originally available here.

http://www.cfr.org/publication/23862/nigerias_goodluck_jonathan_gets_the_pdp_nomination.html

all of the above.

i liked this woman when i heard her speak at the convention, but now- crying foul for no main reason, i think i am begining to think otherwise.

Why did she go to Jonathan to congratulate him after the votings were concluded and results announced? Is this an after thought?

i agree wholeheartedly with you.

ENZO SCIFO:
You need to show some dignity and honour by just admitting you are empty (or atleast keep quiet) not continue to throw aimless punches and sound even more silly!

really? why not shut up then?

ENZO SCIFO:
Are u doing this on purpose to get on neves or u are trully really ignorant. All that has been discussed here so far does not make sense to you? In the finance and investment world Fixed Income success is usually determined by the rates attached it meaning irrespective of how poor or rich the country may be the likelyhood of a soverign bond being fully subscribed is high povided the right yield is attached to fully compensate for the risk .

If I were you I would simply just keep quiet and read to understand this field or go to a thread that u can relate with
cos its obvious this one is beyond you

Another animal spews rubbish.

and as usual - the topic derails from its original intent to something else.

The topic is - Investors "shun" Nigeria's $500 million Eurobond.

The question remains-

How can something that is over subscribed be said to have been shunned? Shunned means noone wants to come near it talkless of subscribing to it- but now it is over subscribed. Cant we read english anymore or we need lessons from the so called "gurus" before we understand and grasp simple english?

For all those who spew rubbish against me- it just shows the kind of animal in you. How can you abuse and curse someone who hasnt talked to you and you think you are not going mad already?

Ibime:
@ Ibedun/Mary J,

Nor blame me. Someone with pre-basic foundation in economics boasted that Nigerian yield is higher than Ghanas. . . exposing her lilliputian knowledge of basic finance. After our resident guru 4Play gave her a basic 101, instead of humbling herself to receive the lesson, she started dishing advice to 4Play to stop speaking grammar and that most Nigerians abroad see nothing good in Nigeria reh reh reh.

It is this kind of high faluting pride based on ignorance that needs to be checked before we can ensure proper communication. . . as some of you have called for. Mary J Blige arguing economics with 4Play in blind defence of her PDP Godfathers is akin to a primary school student arguing with Ben Bernanke. . .so next time I would call for sciolistic elements to humble themselves in the face of vastly superior intellect as the ability to type on Nairaland does not guarantee one the standing to hold discourse with everyone on every subject.

I pity you if this is what you have turned this into.

Look, life is not as difficult as you are making it to be- for one, I wasn't referring or arguing or even commenting to you or on your inputs, whether right or wrong.

Look- take life easy. Today you are alive, arguing, cursing and abusing who hasn't done anything wrong to you rather than having a different opinion to what you hold, tomorrow you are no more, dead, gone, spat at and buried forever- then, those who u have belittled and spat at, cursed and abused will still be the one reading about your obituary and asking God to keep your soul at peace. How can the soul be at peace who has refused to be at peace with all men?

I sincerely pity you.

philip0906:
atleast type something meaningful 4 once in ya life. . .it will do u a whole lotta good

another NL animal. LOL who is saying unmeaningful things? whet is the meaning of this "ya" statement? LOL

Ibime:
^^Will you shut up woman! It gets annoying when bovine brained people start to lecture those with knowledge. Instead of taking the lesson 4Play has taught you, you are here telling us that some diasporans reh reh reh. Coming from someone who thought that having a higher yield than Ghana indicates that our bond outperformed Ghana, why should we take advice from a sciolistic charlatan like yourself with hay for brains?

In finality, yes Government bonds are generally oversubscribed, however, some Investors have shunned the bond issue, pulling up the reckless drawdown of the ECA as a cause for concern. These are foreigners, not Nigerians. So when we say that the current Govt is reckless in spending, no be only we wey see am, oyigbo sef talk am.

LOL - is that all you can say? You must be a primary school school boy.

So, your 4 play or whatever is better than every other person who thinks different from what you think? Which lecture has he given?

These shows the kind of person you are, resulting to curses and abuses just because you want to make a point and just because someone is in dis agreement or shares a different opinion from that which you hold?

Simply shows you are not worth having a discussion with. I simply laughed at you and your shallow mindedness.

I am not in your league and will not result to your deranged method of cursing and abusing when there are absolutely better human methods of passing forth your message rather than the animalistic tendencies which you have just exposed. LOL.

Nothing done in Nigeria by Nigerians is seen to be good by Nigerians, especially the ones who can die for their adopted foreign country.

rubbish.

This is not political participation - voting is a civic right in a democracy. If you dont participate, you have no right to shout or even murmur about bad governance.

Stop confusing people - poster.

Mr. 4

Some people just speak English as if that is all that matters. You can speak all the English in this world and yet make no sense. That is exactly what is happening here.

Who is talking of the percentage or whether it is better than Ghana or not. The topic of the propaganda was that investors shunned the bond, and the simple question, devoid of all the abracadabra english and foul economic terminologies is this, how can the Eurobond said to have been shunned come out at the end of the day to be over subscribed?

Save all your English for another day - Mr man and stick to the issue at hand.

4 Play:
I don't know the details about this offering but an oversubscribed bond offering does not necessarily mean it was a success. You have to look at the yield, that's what matters. The yield is the interest rate Nigeria has to pay to the investors. The lesser the yield, the more successful the offering.

Investors with huge risk appetite always lap up bonds with high yield. Pretty much every Greek and Irish bond issue was oversubscribed. Here is an excerpt from an article about Greek bond issues weeks before they required a bailout:

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/business/greek-bond-auction-oversubscribed/369236

As you can see, over-subscription is not necessarily a mark of a successful bond issue in a world awash with liquidity. It is merely a sign of investors chasing risk. Nigeria paying higher interest rates than Ghana for bonds of the same duration is not something to pat ourselves on the back for.

You dont know the details, yet you speak on it.

Wether over subscription is a mark of success or not, that is not the issue, but t is surely not a sign that investors shun the bond. That is the point.

doja:
I hope and pray that we do not end up with this clueless government in April.

What in all honesty is the meaning of this statement?