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o boy mongolia make they no mud u for there o. even togo better pass that place.

from a reliable source PDP is leading the polls, counting continues

A leading eye surgoen was cooned out of £350,000 in an internet scam. Nigerian fraudstar chineye mokelu sent out a spam email asking uk ban holders to help him transfer his $300million fortune to britain.
Consultant fawria ashkanni replied and was duped into transferring £350,000 into mokelu bank accounts in return fro a slic of the his wealth.
she even travelled from her home in scotland to meet mokelu in london where he showed her a suitcase full of fake cash.
mokelu 44, of essex admitted conspiracy to defraud. he was remanded in costody for sentencing in june. cops traced 30,000 of the 350,000. other conspirators are still at large.

source.sun uk

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dickson etuhu

long time how r u guys good to see old names still around

the fact is yaradua cant sack iwu he doesn't ve the power to sack him according to the contitution. it's the senate that has that power.

mimiko is a volient thug. i hope he doesn't win. PDP POWER TO THE PEOPLE

the girl no fine but i fit marry am o . at least i go see govt. contract.

IHAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR ALONG he was was using his eight years in power to have running battles with obj while the state was suffering . Orji kalu was one the of the worst governors . In his eights year in power he can't even boast of one single project. his people were supporting him because he stood up to obj. while other states were progressing.

chief arthur nzeribe

@aysometin

i thought a waiver to the u.s.was 90 days. wen was it made 6 months

@Dallaws

your britsh passport enables you travell to a certain no. of copuntries outside the eu without a visa. They give u a waiver which allows you a certain no.of days u r allowed to stay in the country. some of those countries are .u.s, southafrica, u.a.e , singapore and a few others.

"Britain to return £40m stolen funds to Nigeria."

That was the screaming headline on the pages of several Nigerian newspapers recently.

While it may be a lot of money, it is a far cry from the actual amount public officials are known to have stolen from Nigeria and hidden in bank accounts in the UK and elsewhere.

One former state governor alone is facing charges of looting more than a $100m (£50m) while he held office from 1997 to 2007. His official earnings were only $80,000 a year.

Nigerians have become all too familiar with reports of huge sums of stolen public funds being recovered abroad. Most often the culprits are serving, or former, public officers and their cronies.

Nigeria is Africa's largest oil exporter and earns billions of dollars annually from oil sales.

But with many key public posts held by greedy officials with itchy fingers, and little accountability in place, it is not surprising that a lot of public funds end up in private bank accounts in Europe.

Banks in Switzerland are particularly well-known hiding places.

$400bn theft

Nigerians are generally a pretty tolerant bunch. When hunger pushes people to steal, Nigerians show a sense of understanding.

But what they cannot understand is why public officers have to steal far more than what they, and even unborn generations, can spend in a lifetime.

An official of the Swiss embassy in Nigeria recently said a total of $500m had been recovered from the Swiss bank accounts of former Nigerian military ruler, the late General Sani Abacha.

The recovered money - popularly tagged "the Abacha loot" - has already been returned to Nigeria.

But Nigeria is not an isolated case.

Dr Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations office on drugs and crime, says $400bn was stolen from Nigeria and kept in foreign banks before the country returned to democratic rule in 1999.

The World Bank says individual African countries lose about 25% of their economic output to corruption annually. If true, that is close to $500bn.

This may be a tip of the iceberg. As one anti-corruption official puts it - if you put the stolen money in a row it will form a path to the moon and back.

Concrete steps

The immediate fall-out of this corruption is the hunger, disease, poverty and the lack of adequate basic infrastructure which hold back the continent.

Many Africans believe Europe has a hand in Africa's plight for allowing the free flow of stolen funds into its banks.

The fact that money is coming back suggests progress is being made.

But one Nigerian analyst - Tony Iyare - recently asked a pertinent question.

Rather than sending all manner of aid to Africa in the name of solving the continent's problems, would it not be better if Europe took concrete steps to ensure its banks are less of a safe haven for looted African funds?

culled from BBC WEBSITE

MARCH 14TH IN DA HOUSE

now the war has started

do u live in owerri if u do u would know wot am talking about.

hey people just back to p/h .

@snarima

i still hold ur birthday present O!

Traveling is part of my job. Since 2006, I have done, on the average, about 200,000 miles a year. It appears to me that I do more air travel than road. No gainsaying that I enjoy international air travel.
Some airports impact on me more than others, leaving lasting impressions. It has dawned on me that, like human beings, airports have their unique characters. Just like the vibrations between one person and the other may clash leading to disharmony, I find that the same is true of airports and individuals.

I love Schipol Airport, although I start sneezing any time I arrive at the airport. Sometimes the security agents at the airport ask questions that test your patience, especially if you are boarding a flight to the United States. Charles De Gaulle Airport turned me off the first day I set foot on it on a rainy morning sometime in 1997. The impression of smelly toilets has stayed with me since then. I love to hang out at Heathrow Airport but don’t really care for Gatwick. Many other airports around the world don’t really stand out for me.

Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMA), Lagos is a beehive of activities. I have friends who would rather die than travel through MMA. They describe it as an embodiment of the madness of Lagos streets.

I enjoy traveling out of MMA but I do not like to come back through it. Yes, there are always long queues and the departure hall is usually packed with people. Yet, I enjoy traveling through MMA. Ironically, since 1993 when I relocated from Lagos, I rarely venture into the streets of Lagos.

The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja is nothing close to MMA in terms of chaos, especially, during departure. The place is quiet, almost serene; passengers and airline officials conduct themselves in very respectful fashion.

Traveling into Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport is a totally different ball game. The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport stands out as the only airport I know where the nationals spend more time to get into the country than foreigners. It is also the only airport I know which has separate lines for diplomats and international conference attendees. I took time to check at the airports in Amsterdam and Detroit a few days ago.

In many ways, the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport is a true reflection of the Abuja society: superficial and out of tune with the rest of Nigeria. People throw their weight around and Nigerian government officials flout with impunity the same laws they are sworn to protect. This syndrome can be described as the audacity of uniform.

On June 10, I flew into the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport from London. As we waited in line to go through Immigration and Security checks, I saw some policemen, customs officers and even Nigerian immigration personnel take passengers and walk them through the entire procedure in a matter of seconds. A police inspector walked up to a woman a few feet behind me. He prostrated, saluted and invited the woman to follow him. The woman and another teenager followed the Inspector and they strolled through our borders.

On the diplomats’ line, people were passing through as Nigerian officials smiled and saluted. I thought I was the only one who was concerned about this until other passengers started shouting and raining abuses on the Nigerian government officials at the airport. When it was my turn to present my passport I told the immigration officer that I was disappointed with their shameful behaviour. “Oga, it is not our fault. It is you big men that cause the problem. Did you see me on that queue? It is you guys that arrange with your friends to come and pick you from the line and the foreigners know it’s the Nigerian system and they have joined too,” he responded.

I cannot recall seeing any governor, deputy governor, senator, minister or member of the House of Representatives waiting in line to present their documents to Nigerian officials. Instead, they are whisked away as soon as they set foot on Nigerian soil by overzealous aides. If they are too good to stand in line with us ordinary people is it any wonder that they have no idea what the desires and aspirations of the common man is?

The decay of the Nigerian state and the stench in our system is immediately obvious to a first time visitor crossing our borders. Nigerian officials and their collaborators will march on the heads of their fellow citizens just to help a foreigner break our laws for a few dollars or whatever currency the foreigner may be carrying.

This worship of ‘tin gods’ have reached such ridiculous levels that gun wielding security men follow their bosses into restaurants. I have seen the Deputy Governor of Imo State flanked on both sides by security agents as she checked out food on the buffet tables at the Bukka, Transcorp Hilton, Abuja.

Captains of industry are not left out of this march of the absurd. CBN governor drives in a long convoy. Same for chief executives of some government agencies. Cecilia Ibru of Oceanic Bank is said to move about in long convoys. I hear Tony Elumelu of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) has his own convoy too. This is not only ludicrous, it is against the law. But who cares, Nigerian laws are not made for these folks, it is only for the common folks.

It is ironic that Nigerian government officials and their corporate counterparts connive with foreigners to perpetrate crimes against their own people, disrespect and humiliate the common man and yet expect to be respected by the people. This is one of the few places in the world where the rich and powerful expect respect because of their wardrobe and the plaque on their doors. The other place I know where that happens is Columbia. Go figure!

Stand to be corrected he has not won the appeal case. The case is still on going and shall resume on the 2nd of july .
all this clean and green thing is all bullshit it is there to convience people who cannot see through it that he is actual working .

The new face of imo. my arse. the masses our suffering from the restriction of okada from majors roads with no alternative. high insecurity in the state.

i recently tried to apply for one and was told u can't hold a roa and uk P at the same time that the law had changed.

i hear say after two rounds during round three na wen the guy mud.

@mc good

so where do you suggest? i thnk onizzy idea of next friday would give people enough time to see the post and drop their numbers. it seems our honorable speaker sanrima is busy to head the commitee on entertainment so i would suggest we move the mantle to onizzy. do you second the motion?

My friend go to rumuola from 7.pm you go see enough bend down select

Pensioner Jiri Pasovsky will spend eight years in prison for the February 2003 shooting of the consul of the Nigerian embassy and his secretary, judge Miroslava Strakova ruled yesterday. Pasovsky committed murder and attempted murder, she said. His defence counsels immediately appealed.
Pasovsky shot and killed the Nigerian consul and wounded a secretary in the Nigerian embassy in Prague. He broke down after the crime, which he allegedly committed because of being defrauded by the so-called Nigerian letters scam.

At first he was prosecuted in custody, but experts later found him to be insane and the state attorney had him placed in a psychiatric care facility. She halted prosecution and recommended that Pasovsky be placed in permanent care, a recommendation which experts rejected.

Eight years ago, alleged representatives of Nigerian firms offered Pasovsky investment opportunities. He lost a great deal of money in the transactions, including money he had borrowed, and his family was threatened.

Pasovsky regularly came to the Nigerian embassy to try and get the money back. On the day of the murder, the consul allegedly offered to help Pasovsky if he would receive half the money in question. This angered Pasovsky. He testified that the consul jumped on him and started to strangle him, which is the last thing he remembers.

@onizzy

AM GAME

@ ALL

WHO IS DOWN?

@kumura

where u dey since now. na wa o

i have had dual citizenship from birth (uk/nigeria) i hold the two passports . this is how i travel wen i'm leaving lagos i show them my nigeria passport and flash my uk . cos the nigerian doesn't ve a visa. the nigerian passport gets stamped . wen i get to the u.k. i only show my uk which they never stamp. in dat way it is only your nigerian passport that gets stamped all the time.

@mc good
the babe say her network is jampacked. so na error in connection. try another network

@onizzy
u never answered my question "where in g.r.a is it?"

@snarima (OUR HONORABLE SPEAKER OF THE FORUM)

longest time how ve u bin?

@baba_ Dibia

your brother na VO or your aunty na the ambassdor . if you want to help him post it on this forum .

@efosela

I hope one day you get deported and see wot it feels like. you comments are like some thnking out of their arse

ALOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE SHORT CUTS IN OBTAINING VISAS . THE TRUTH IS THERE NO SHORT CUTS TO OBTAINING ONE.
I MET A LADY ONCE WHO TOLD ME SHE HAD SPENT OVER 1 MILLION NAIRA AND STILL NO VISA. I TOLD HER IF YOU GONE THRU THE PROPER CHANNELS SHE WOULD HAVE PROBABLY GOTTEN THE VISA IS WANTED.

THE OTHER DAY I ESCORTED A FRIEND TO ELEKE CRESCENT LAGOS AS YOU WALKING DOWN YOU HEAR ALL SORTS OF OFFERS FOR VISAS FOR DIFFERENT COUNTRIES THAT THEY VE CONTACTS INSIDE THE EMBASSY.OUT OF CURIOUSITY I ASKED FOR THE PRICES THIS IS WHAT THEY TOLD ME:

U.S. 700,000 WITH INTERVIEW 900,000 WITHOUT INTERVIEW
U.K. 500,000 WITHOUT INTERVIEW
SCH 350,000

I ASKED THEM HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE THEY SAID MAXIMUM 1 MONTH.

AMAZING !