₦airaland Forum

thinkdip:
Honestly, have you ever checked which party or personality premium times write against? just like Sahara reporters, you might be shocked the news is just one of the daily write up to make sure GEJ doesn't have a good name. because with the look of things people are loving GEJ against APC wish,so they are really working hard to paint him black.

well, if you say so. Buh am sure he ld soon be taken to court and it won't be long when the courts will decide...and I hope when the courts decide, people won't say Buhari or some big-wigs in APC influenced the judgement.

thinkdip:
alleged sir, its not a certain accusation

Sure, we have heard more than a million "alleged". That's the most used word in Nigeria these days. A man was caught about a month or two ago with fresh human head, and the news still read Ritualist "Allegedly" killed ....

omenka:
I dey corner too dey laff brothely. . Those PDP supporters dey learn work.

15 mentions and counting.

lol..following as well. Bn reading very funny comments

omenka:
Another APC propaganda!!

Buhari should leave Alison et al alone and concentrate on fishing out those preparing to bomb Abuja airport!!

Buhari has failed completely!

joseph1832:
Bros sometimes I just can't help but shiver when I hear the amount this our leaders steal.

And it even beats my imagination that Nigeria is not bankrupt.

I dey tell you, bro..

Federal government investigators and security agencies say this is just one of the tons of allegedly corrupt practices frequently engaged and condoned under the presidency of the immediate past president

Thank God Goodluck Ebele Jonathan didn't win for a 2nd term. If he had won, by now Nigeria ld be running to countries like Sudan for financial assistance.

Between himself, his Chief Security Officer and the former Petroluem Minister, former President Goodluck Jonathan spent, in just one deal, a princely $6.9 million dollars to buy three 40-feet mobile stages for use during mass public speaking events, investigations have now revealed.

Federal government investigators and security agencies say this is just one of the tons of allegedly corrupt practices frequently engaged and condoned under the presidency of the immediate past president.

Besides the fact that the sum for the stages have been incredibly inflated according to mobile stages industry experts, government investigators say there is no evidence as yet that any stage was purchased at all.

While the cost of mobile stages range in size and designs, only outlandish rock star musicians in Europe and the U.S. spend hundreds of thousands on their huge stages way bigger than the 40-feet stages. Even then, those musicians and super stars would not pay over $2m per stage, according to industry sources.

The process of procurement of the three mobile stages was neither known to extant Nigerian laws and due process regulations, nor were the offices of the Auditor-General and the Accountant-General in the know, according to investigators.
“There are no records of this purchase which was carried out in late 2011,” says an authoritative source.

This purchase was carried out only few months after Mr. Jonathan won a general election for a full term after having completed the term of late President Umaru Yar’adua.

A competent source said that at the centre of the fraudulent financial ring was the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to President Jonathan, Gordon Obuah, who initiated a memo to the former president on October 17, 2011 asking for the purchase of three mobile stages.

He said in that memo to the former president that this is regarding “my earlier discussion with Your Excellency on the security implication of your public appearances and your subsequent directive on the need to procure a secured presidential platform”.
And on the same day, without any financial advise or purchase order reviews, the former president minuted an approval of the request to buy the three stages to the then Minister for Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
In his minute, the president said “we have discussed this, please deal.”

Right after that okay from the president, on the same October 17, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Administrative Matters, Matt Aikhionbere did another letter on the strength of the president’s approval requesting the Petroluem Minister to take action on the request to purchase the stages for $6.9m.

By the next month, an NNPC payment voucher number 3840336 was already in place revealing that the money was released.

The NNPC directed that the money be taken from one of its accounts in New York CITIBANK with sort code CITIUS 33, and Routing number 021000089.
It was first routed from the US bank to an NNPC account in Zenith Bank account number 5000026593, Maitama branch in Abuja, from where the money was sent to a private account.
The sum of $6.9m was then credited to a Sterling Bank account of one J. Marine Logistics Limited, Abuja, a company investigators say was registered by Obuah.

The CSO himself according to investigators have not been able to show proof of the purchase and his memo irked his bosses at the SSS that he took the initiative to write requesting for the stages, an action officials say was way above his pay grade.
Said an official of one of the security agencies conducting the investigation, “it is not the duty or responsibility of the CSO to make the determination on that purchase. He was meant to have informed the service, which will then review the situation and act accordingly.”

The source continued: “What has happened here is that the former president and the former minister with the collusion of the CSO decided to dip their hands into the public till and steal public funds for other purposes since no one has found the stages as we speak.”

The source said specifically that the $6.9miilion in question was promptly paid on November 29, 2011 into a private account belonging to the former CSO.

“The former president approved the procurement of the mobile platforms without due process, bypassing the Procurement Act.

“There was also no appropriation in the 2011 budget for such facility,” investigators said.
The source added that neither the minister of Finance nor the Director-General of the Budget Office was aware of the deal.

Investigators say this is just one of the several instances where the Jonathan administration used secret NNPC accounts to fund many questionable projects and for alleged personal financial aggrandizement.

Already the CSO has been questioned over his role and activities in the Jonathan presidency. It would be recalled that he was arrested, detained, questioned and later released.

Former President Jonathan and Mrs. Alison-Madueke could not be reached for comments.
But when contacted by PREMIUM TIMES, Mr. Obuah denied initiating or engaging in any such transaction.
“The allegation is totally false and baseless,” the former CSO said through his lawyer, Andrew Itsekiri.

“There was nothing like that. No such memo was initiated and no such money was released to him. They are just levying allegations they cannot substantiate against him.

“It is one of the allegations he was confronted with by the SSS, and it was found that they were pack of lies. Let NNPC come out with the records that any such funds were released to him.”

There has been considerable pressure mounted on the Buhari administration regarding its determination to probe allegations of corruption in the past, including from the National Peace Committee headed by the former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar.

A member of that committee, Bishop Mathew Kukah, is also known alongside Mr. Abubakar and others in the Committee to have been involved in attempts to mellow-out the resolve of President Buhari in his determination to probe and deal decisively with tremendous corrupt practices especially during the last six to eight years.
Reecall that at the June 29 meeting of the National Economic Council at the state House, the council raised questions over the non- remittance of the finances generated by the NNPC into the federation account.

NEC found that whereas the NNPC claimed to have earned about N8.1trillion in the last two years, what NNPC paid into the Federation Account during the same period was about N4.3 trillion, keeping the balance in its several secret accounts, allowing the former president and his cronies access to such unknown accounts to do as they please.
Consequently, NEC set up a four-man committee to investigate the missing money.

The committee, made up of Governors of Edo, Kaduna, Akwa Ibom and Gombe, submitted an interim report to NEC but in addition appointed financial experts to conduct forensic audit of the accruals into the federation account and the withdrawals from the excess crude account.

Also President Buhari, in an attempt to plug some of the procedural loopholes that facilitate and encourage corruption, directed that all revenue-generating agencies of goverment, including NNPC should now pay all revenues to a Treasury Single Account, TSA.

TSA makes it rather difficult to hide government revenues from any agency, and procedurally discourages a situation where the president can be accessing a secret slush account without the knowledge of the entire public finance process as was the case in this bogus $6.9m purchase of mobile stages.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/189221-jonathan-alison-madueke-cso-obuah-in-trouble-over-6-9million-mobile-stage-scandal.html

Lalasticlala

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According to a shocking report on Daily Trust, the ISIS leader, Ahmed Al-Assir, who was arrested in Lebanon on his way to Nigeria lately, was reportedly coming on the invitation of a foreign company operating in the country.

Sources in Nigeria’s security circles, who spoke to Daily Trust, said the visa was issued by a Foreign Service official in Beirut based on that invitation. Sources said without a letter of invitation, the ISIS leader’s visa application would not have been approved.

Discussions within the security circles in Nigeria centred on a popular middle-eastern company operating in Nigeria as the originator of the invitation letter for the issuance of the visa. A source said allegations that a bribe of about $8,000 was paid by Al-Assir to obtain the visa has not been confirmed.

Sources said even if a bribe that big was offered it was highly unlikely that the official who issued the visa received such money alone. It was hinted that the intelligence report of the plans of Al-Assir to visit Nigeria was given to the Lebanese authorities by Hezbollah.

He pointed out that the lack of an active Foreign Service liaison with security and intelligence organization at the Nigeria embassy in Beirut made it difficult to share such intelligence operations with Nigeria directly.

The Presidency who felt embarrassed and scandalized that a man on the international terror list had obtained a Nigerian visa and was on his way to the country, has ordered an investigation into how the ISIS leader secured a valid Nigerian visa in Lebanon.

The federal government had therefore directed the three agencies involved – the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the Nigerian Immigration Service to immediately investigate the matter and report back soonest.

http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/headline/429302-revealed-isis-most-wanted-ahmed-al-assir-was-coming-on-a-special-invitation-to-nigeria.html

Taylor86:
born and destined to rub

u think the magic of OBJ and Nelson Mandela will work for u

kontinuo

rub ke? What are u rubbing?

Realist2:
because you're from the north, Fayose is like a torn in you people's flesh.

she isn't from the north

Berrymoss:
if most of u believe that ur ilitrate president can perform then what stops this one from?

sharaap! Is ya father more literate than Buhari? If yes, where the hell is he?

Rilwayne001:
Finally, Fayose rewarded TEMITEMI'S grand dad. @Temitemi, I felicitate with you. Thank God your Fayose my role model was not in vain.

Cc: temitemi1, your role model is beginning to keep to his wordz. He is truly a man of the people(grassroot)

I hope the illiterate performs well.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State Friday appointed a 72-year old Carpenter and illiterate, Mr Olatunde Afolayan as the caretaker chairman of Moba Local Government.

Fayose, also sworn in members of the State Independent Electoral Commission, headed by a retired Chief Judge of the State, Justice Kayode Bamisile , to be able to conduct local government elections before the end of the year.

After administering the oaths on the appointees, Fayose told President Muhammadu Buhari to remove Mrs Amina Zakari as the Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, while also urging him to be  equitable  in appointing the National Electoral Commissioners.

Afolayan, who was sworn-in as caretaker chairman of Moba local Government , was inaugurated alongside Mrs Omolara Bayode Ayeni and Mr Owolabi Ajewole, who were to superintend over Ikole and Ijero Councils respectively, following resignation of those that had earlier appointed by the governor.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fayose-appoints-72-yr-old-carpenter-as-council-boss/218733/

Lalasticlala

This picture don tey na. Ever touching though

Happy Birthday!

Looks like PS2 graphics to me

Happiness87:
is their mission not complete by now, election were concluded 90days ago, am I right

you may be... I guess they are still gonna enjoy some privileges for the role they played in the elections.

Happiness87:
you should be asking yourself why buhari is giving him audience, silly you

the answer is simple! because he is a part of the p*ss committee and nothing more. Or do you think he deserves baba's attention if not for that sole reason?

dayo23:
Kukah again?

I swear the man no dey tire. Only God knows what he met with Buhari for

NgeneUkwenu:
The Corrupt and Discredited Reverend apparently came to apologize for his open association with an equally corrupt and tribal ex president!

Ndi Ara!

the nightmare of Bishop kukah

Cc: Ngeneukwenu, kukah is at it again o! ..I don't know why this man jst won't leave Buhari alone.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met briefly with the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Mathew Kukah at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Details of the brief meeting were unknown at the time of filing this report.

But Kukah, who was part of the National Peace Committee delegation that visited the President earlier this month, is believed to be against the government’s move to probe corrupt ex-public officials.

He resisted attempts by State House correspondents to question him on mission to the seat of power.

Kukah, who was almost running from the President’s office to the Council Chamber area at 11:37am simply told journalists: “I have a plane to catch by 12:30pm.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/buhari-kukah-meet-at-aso-rock/

Na wa o!

Op, what is 18+ about these yams?

Eh! Oboi, see yam sef dey get prick o! ..shey no be photoshop be ds one so?

omenka:
I don't know about the monies he stole, but that about him selling off one of the Diepreye's confiscated properties to his younger brother is just the height of it.

Let the axe come down if it will. Baba has my support any day, any time. I'm sick and tired of all these goats that can't just keep to eating grasses but want to have the yams as well.

hahahhahaha

joseph1832:
Oh boy if he's doing it just for fun without getting paid I can't help me think that he is truly jobless. How can I put so much effort in a thing without getting paid? Getting attention and banging chicks won't add money to my pocket will it? Instead it takes away money.

I just refuse to believe the guy isn't getting paid, the mount of effort and attention he put into his threads is just for immense for him not be to rewarded for all his efforts.

on point!

EDO! When will this thing stop? Selfish and wicked pipu everywhere. This is the same problem Aisha Buhari promised to address during campaign but was later made to regret talking about it.

Well, all these our girls sef, dem eyes too dey chuk for anything obodo oyinbo..and that's why they easily fall prey.

He should even be replaced with a trust-worthy person sef. All these noise about lamorde don dey too much.

I hope this "Insider" isn't one of Saraki's boys

joseph1832:
Well even me too like woman. but I really believe he is getting paid, I believe the PDP made him a good offer that's why he left APC.

Imagine if he was still prostituting for the APC, the PDPians here will have no body to rally around. Since he's been gone you notice many of them have so far been quite.

The way u like women dey different from chief wailer own o! ...The guy fit kill hinself just to get attention from babes.

Well its possible he is getting paid for it buh I seriously doubt..that guy's ways are unbelievable. He might be doing it for just attention and the fun of it sef

divAnnie:
We've seen the 5500 main balance. You try

thank you for the observation. Some pipu like to show off ehn!

joseph1832:
O ga oh!. But why would he go through all this trouble if he isn't getting paid like he's so denied many times?

this is what I think..its either he is getting paid OR he is trying hard to be noticed so that pple his write-ups favour will look for him and begin to pay for his works OR he is doing it for the babes.(You know he luvs women a whole lot)

joseph1832:
They will still hide their head in shame. Funny how the chief wailer have been missing in action for sometime now. Even his dawgs have also been on the low key. I believe without him, they can't function.

Yeye people.

Yeye pipu indeed. You need to see how they were jubilating over what Falana said(that which they twisted for some cheap points).

The chief wailer, I am sure is somewhere concocting some sour epistles on Buhari's 100days in office. Some of these pple you call his dawgs are the chief wailer himself. I am sure you won't believe this, but the guy has more accounts than any1 else on this forum.