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Splashme:
Who in the USA?

I know your type na. Go back nd read what brought back Dieziani's saga into limelight. Keep defending corruption,..At the end of the day, u will still end up in the minority.. Don't let ipobs likes fool you.

ZombiePUNISHER:
only fools and zombies buys APC media hogwash and propaganda... I know their antics.. APC was made to deceive and destroy... Doubt me go to market and price foodstuffs.. They will tell their minions... It was 16 years of PDP bad rule while we never had it this bad... Never had things this bad..

Lol.. It was never possible to had it worse because the price of oil was increasing.. Nigeria is not the only one in this condition, most oil producing nations are also in. But u know the difference, they all have a bountiful reserve, but your lord and savior milked ours dry during his four year sojourn, alongside his sugar concubines. You don't heap, immediately you sow.. You might also choose to be blind to that truth.

Splashme:
Foolish APC people

Because of their woeful performance so far and the PDP's victory at the Supreme Court, they are jittery and now hyping 'corruption allegations'

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They didn't bring up any case. USA started the prosecution this week, so what the Bleep are you saying? Truth still remains that Pdp destroyed Nigeria, and will never get back into power. In fact, actualizing Biafra is surer than Pdp coming back to power.

Last week, news of a US Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit roped Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria’s former oil minister, in yet another international corruption scandal.

The lawsuit alleges that two Nigerian businessmen, Kola Aluko and Jide Omokore, illegally obtained lucrative oil contracts in Nigeria by repeatedly bribing Alison-Madueke. The men then laundered the proceeds of those contracts through the US by purchasing assets worth $144 million. Going through the court file, the case is fascinating in both the scale of the corruption the minutiae of the deal making and insight into how the monies were spent.

With the US seeking the forfeiture of the assets, court documents for the civil lawsuit filed by the US DOJ’s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative reveals the extent of the conspiracy, showing a litany of million-dollar kickbacks and a flawed contract bidding process.
Scratch my back…

With Alison-Madueke leveraging her influence as Nigeria’s petroleum minister, she ensured that companies owned by Aluko and Omokore were awarded multiple oil contracts by a subsidiary of Nigeria’s state oil company. The shell companies were registered in the British Virgin Islands, Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, and in the United Kingdom.


The documents allege that companies owned by the businesmen were awarded these lucrative contracts despite being “unqualified” to execute them. Indeed, the companies received the contracts despite either “improperly” performing their obligations or not doing so at all. In a statement, DOJ claims that the companies failed to make a $120 million entry fee payment, an obligation for one of the contracts.

The shady deals began in April 2011 when a company owned by the businessmen was awarded four oil mining leases allegedly thanks to Alison-Madueke’s influence. Despite not meeting the contractual obligations, the company was allowed to sell crude oil worth up to $677 million, the documents allege. Later, in December 2012, the businessmen were awarded contracts for four more oil mining leases. Again, despite failing “entirely” to meet their obligations, the company was allocated millions of barrels of oil which it sold for over $800 million. In total, the businessmen sold around $1.5 billion worth of crude oil.

Landlady

In exchange for the dubious contracts, Alison-Madueke’s kickback of choice were luxury homes across the United Kingdom. Starting from January 2011, three months before the first contract was awarded, Aluko and Omokore began to purchase property for the ex-oil minister. Court documents list four homes in the United Kingdom worth £11.5 million bought by companies owned by the businessmen for Alison-Madueke. In one instance, a £3.75 million London home was purchased for Alison-Madueke only a day after Aluko met with Nigerian officials to discuss the first oil contract.

In addition, court documents show that the businessmen also purchased furniture items from upscale Houston stores on Alison-Madueke’s behalf. The items had been personally selected by Alison-Madueke during earlier visits which lasted for several hours over the course of “two or three days.”
The spoils, and ironies, of corruption

Aluko’s lavish spending in particular was particularly ostentatious and conspicuous as, according to the court documents, in the period during which the dubious contracts were awarded, his purchases were believed to “grossly outstrip his known net worth and legitimate income.” As an employee of an oil firm, Aluko’s annual salary between 2007 and 2011 was estimated to be $500,000, inclusive of bonuses.

Yet, Aluko, who once dated supermodel Naomi Campbell, purchased property across California and New York worth around $87 million and a luxury yacht. He is also believed to own private jets, more than 50 cars and is also a ‘super car’ aficionado. In December 2012, he raced a Ferrari 458 GT2 at Rome’s Vallelunga circuit and finished in third place.

But despite his vast ill-gotten wealth, Aluko is set to lose one of his most prominent property purchases to creditors as his $50 million condo in One57, one of the most expensive apartment towers in midtown Manhattan. His particular condo, the eighth most expensive in New York, has become subject of an auction by his Luxembourg mortgage lenders after he defaulted on a loan. Initially planned for today (July 19), the auction has been stopped as Aluko, who acquired most of his wealth via oil dealings, is said to also owe $83 million to an Ivorian jet fuel supplier.
No honor among thieves?

Despite clearly being co-conspirators, recorded conversations suggest hints of a fractured relationship between Alison-Madueke and her co-conspirators. In one such conversation, Alison-Madueke pushed back against a possible blackmail plot by threatening to “bring everything out” and ensuring everyone in the plot goes to jail. The ex-oil minister recorded their deal-making conversations herself and the US authorities shared transcripts in their suit.

“Jay Z and Beyonce wuz here.” Aluko’s $80 million yacht. (Screenshot from HeesenYachts.com)
Based on a transcript of the recordings, Alison-Madueke appeared to be wary of Aluko and Omokore’s lavish spending. She asked them “to be a bit more careful” to avoid scrutiny. In reference to Galactica Star, Aluko’s $82 million 65-meter yacht which hosted Beyonce’s 32nd birthday party in 2013, Alison-Madueke said:
“If you want to hire a yacht, you lease it for two weeks or whatever. You don’t go and sink funds into it at this time when Nigerian oil and gas sector is under all kinds of watch.”

But some of the conversations show the former oil minister was just as willing to enjoy the finer things as her co-conspirators. In one instance, Alison-Madueke admits to the the furniture purchases made on her behalf but saying that the value “didn’t come to more than $4 million.”
https://qz.com/1032997/nigeria-oil-corruption-diezani-alison-madueke-and-kola-alukos-one57-manhattan-condo-luxury-yachts-and-ferrari-racing/

IllegalMoney:



Bad news for APC everyday

The gods are angry with APC

But if the judgment went the other way round, it would have been APC and ojoro abi?

JasonScolari:
It has been victory for the PDP this month and that's how it's going to be come 2019.......




God bless the PDP..........




God bless Chief James Onanefe Ibori.



God bless Nyesom Wike.



God bless the Niger Delta Republic.

I don't get.. Which of the iboris? The same one that was imprisoned for stealing una commonwealth? Chaii, Nigerians get issh.. Serious one at that!

erosimo:
The last time checked, the woman is not enjoying any immunity for trial neither aluko, pls arrest them and charge them to court... stop this noise.

Oga, what are you trying to insinuate? That these thieves deserve silent prosecution?. How can few individuals steal so much money within 5 years? Mind you, they are already in court in the US. So, there is no noise whatsoever.

Esseite:
Can someone put up picture of known ty danjumas highrise in the heart of V.i?

Can someone put up pictures of known atiku's highrise in the heart of V.i?

We fail to pursue people without and iota of career/business profile to check their massive wealth amassment but we dilly dally on that which have a track record of.. charge her to court and convict her period.

The moment Pdp's struggle comes to an end........ dieziani comes up all over the media..

Previous opec president
Prebious Minister - mines and steel
Previous minister - transportation
Previous Minister - Petroleum
High ranking - oil and gas coys board member international and local asides other sectors coys and member of their boards...
International accolades etc...

If kachikwu earned over $1m in mobil oil as Vp/mth, asides gifts and cashbacks, entitlements and PR. We are now talking about a woman who held positions miles ahead of that..

FAMFA oil and gas is the richest woman i guess, how did she amass her wealth, this is a woman who joined the oil and gas industry when dieziani was an ED with shell ?

We have not even asked questions about one time governors that turned multi billionaires and trillionaires or senators or old military men etc..

She might be guilty of crimes, charge her to court and win the case.. not all this propaganda here and there..

But she is being prosecuted by the US now. So where is the propaganda?

milantustorin:
Don't you know that no election in the whole SE is an attack against Obiano and all other SE governor than d FG.. But ur kind still don't want us to attack our governors because of ur selfish reasons.....

I am not Biafran.. I am proudly Yoruba, but i really wish you guys can achieve Biafra, so the hate being propagated around by you guys of late can go to rest once and for all.

BiafraBushBoy:
Who is the FG?

You mean the bed ridden old Fulani cow at London??

When will you guys start tackling your leaders? I mean igbo leaders. Don't you think it is time for that? They are closer to you than Bubu. Seize their offices and tell them you want Biafra.. Hating on Afonja or Hausa-Fulani won't give you Biafra. Attack Ekweremandu, Okorocha, Obiano, Chime, Umahi and Ikpeazu, and watch Biafra come through in few months.. Hold them responsible, stop blaming other tribes for the crimes your leaders are also guilty of. Charity, like they say, begins at home.

https://www.thecable.ng/dieziani-got-11-45m-pdp-received-n800m-aluko-omokore-squandered-funds-shady-contracts

Court documents have revealed more details of how Jide Omokore and Kola Aluko, business associates of Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former minister of petroleum resources, “squandered funds from shady” oil contracts.

The documents, obtained by Sahara Reporters, are linked to the civil forfeiture notice filed by the US department of justice (DOJ) to recover funds and property from the contract.

The notice, which was filed on Friday last week, had earlier revealed how Alison-Madueke had, between 2011 and 2014, received £537,000 in rent as well as £393,000 in chauffeur services from Aluko.

Further details from the notice, filed against the trio of Alison-Madueke, Aluko, Omokore alongside two undisclosed conspirators of the department, detailed how Aluko and Omokore gave out huge amounts of money, mostly in foreign currencies, to their cronies.

Prosecutors said the duo had bought four residential property abroad to the tune of £11.45 million for Dieziani and her relatives, including a property known as ‘The Falls’, bought at £3.25 million and said to be located at 96 Camp Road, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire SL9 7PB.

While some of the numerous property bought with dividends from the contract – and “lavishly” renovated – are located in Nigeria, most of them are bought in various countries abroad especially in the US and London.

Sahara Reporters quoted prosecutors in the case as saying a mobile telephone recovered at the known residence of Alison-Madueke and her mother contained digital photographs of Alison-Madueke present inside The Falls.

Prosecutors were also said to have discovered that Aluko, on October 8, used his American express card to purchase two identical exercise machines at Harrods in London at the cost of £10,926 each, with one of the machines delivered to the known London address of the Dieziani while the other was to be delivered to The Falls.

The court papers also cited an occasion in September 2010 when the former minister had traveled to Houston in the US to deliver a keynote address at Rice University.

While in the US, Alison-Madueke’s cronies allegedly wired a total of $197,600 to Houston Furniture Store in two separate transactions on or about September 30, 2010, and October 1, 2010. The payments were said to be in settlement of approximately $200,000 worth of purchases signed for by Omokore,” the court papers showed, the papers indicated.

“The payments were said to be in settlement of approximately $200,000 worth of purchases signed for by Omokore,” according to the court papers.

“Also on October 7, 2010, Houston Furniture Store drew up two additional sales invoices in Omokore’s name amounting to $23,703.50. The following day, he emailed photographs of the items listed on these additional sales invoices directly to the former petroleum minister. On October 9, 2010, Alison-Madueke responded by email to him: ‘Thx. (Thanks) cabinet is the correct one.”

The documents revealed that Aluko and Omokore had also donated cars worth N800 million to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), then the ruling party.

“They equally bought cars valued at over N130 million for Mrs. Alison-Madueke and top shots of NPDC. For himself, Mr. Aluko paid $18,548,619.99 and N1,070,000,000 to FBN Mortgages Limited as part-payment for 26 flats at 46 Gerrard Road Ikoyi Lagos,” the documents showed.

“The total cost of the flats was N5,210,520,315. He also paid $25,839,606.77 and N95,000,000 to Real Bank to part-finance the acquisition and renovation of properties by the Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited (AEDC) and Atlantic Energy Brass Development limited (AEBD).

“These included Mason apartments at 6 Gerrard Road Ikoyi Lagos, comprising 60 units of three-bedroom apartment valued at $78,000,000; Marion Apartments Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, consisting of 43 units at the cost of $76,160,000, 33A Cooper Road Ikoyi, which was renovated at a of $4,937,750 and Admiralty Towers at 8 Gerrard Road Ikoyi, Lagos.

“The two businessmen transferred $69,912,981.15 to Mia Hotels Limited, First Motors Limited, V.I. Petrochemicals, Evergreen Reality & Management, WIz Trade Limited, DE First Union Integrated Services and Amity Plus limited.

“Mr. Aluko equally bought homes or apartments at 1049 Fifth Avenue, New York, 1948&1952 Tolls Avenue, Santa Barbara, 157 West 57th St, New York , 4100 Let Revenge, Dubai. In Nigeria, he bought Avenue Towers in Lagos; bought a piece of land in Mont Tremblat, Canada and a property at Colina D’oro Montagnola, Switzerland.

“He acquired the luxury yacht, Galactica Star, at the cost of $80 million. He bought 58 exotic cars, expensive watches, private jets, Global Express S5-GMG and a Bombardier Global 6000 9H-OPE.”

The court papers noted that Aluko still had a bank balance of “$25 million in LDT Switzerland, $1million at Corner Bank, Lugano, Switzerland; $40million at Deutsche Bank, Geneva; and $175,000 at HSBC, London.”

Meanwhile, the US government had earlier filed a suit to recover the sum of $144 million in assets said to be proceeds from the shady contracts.

This is even as a federal high court in Lagos had directed 19 banks to seize assets belonging to Omokore and Aluko pending its decision on the fate of a suit seeking the recovery of the $1.7 billion owed to the federal government.

Benita27:
Check his worth in assets. I'm not his fan but I know he should be one.

He isn't a billionaire (dollar-wise). His net worth is around $400 million.

While i was beginning to take this man serious, he came up with another blockbuster. Dem offer you 5 states for prison? U mean FFK and Fayose?

Luvdk:
When we finally leave that zoo of a country
The world will notice the tribe that made that zoo so popular

All hail the gr8 Biafrans

Serious warning to the Kenyan ladies, leave my brothers alone

She also fail to say how beautiful Biafran men..

See as u ugly en

CROWNWEALTH019:
And half dead buhari does have value abi?

He doesn't, but he will still win against a dead or alive Ojukwu

hammerF:
I have made several reasonable post without mentioning the word Biafra once and I am a Biafran.

All ur post is Biafra, Biafra, Biafra. Let Biafra kill u and ur entire lineage.

Hahha.. Go through my posts on this forum. I argue constructively. I don't hate Biafra, but i hate the fact that you people aren't taking a definite stance and your double standards. You hate the zoo, but love Pdp and anything anti-Buhari. Isn't that madness? 2015 election has passed for God's sake now..

I wish your entire Family the same bro.

hammerF:
Let Biafra kill u. That is wat it the struggle is about, ur funeral.

And that of your whole family bro.

hammerF:
Fayosi will make a great President.

He has the whole of Igbo land in his pcket.

Unlike u other tribes power crazy, Igbo are not and will support any good candidate.

Buhari we viewed as a piece of shit and in power confirmed to us that he truily is a piece of shit.

Hahhaa.. But by 2019, you guys would have gotten your Biafra naw.. So why bother about who becomes what in the Zoo. And the last time i checked, GEJ had the whole igboland in his pocket in 2015, but still lost to Buhari..

You guys still don't know what you really want.

hammerF:
Well wat can i say, the man did everything right.

Y we no go support am?

People think we hate other tribes but they are wrong, we have a heart of gold but hate heartlessness.

His tribes men though tend to be heartless and our fight is with that.

You can love him, yeah. But the man is gunning for presidency in the Zoo.. Isn't that against the whole Biafra nonsense?

But i thought Ipob said there will never be an election in their region.. Why support Fayose naw? The bitter truth still remains that IPOB nd Nnamdi Kanu are Pdp agents. How come kanu has never attacked any Pdp leader since the agitation started or are they not part of the corrupt and disorganized establishment

Warship:
Fulani people plan to islamize Nigeria through Sharia law and Grazing Reserve has failed.


Igbos will forever be a stumbling block to their conquest of the South

Be wise for once naw. You guys claim Nigeria is a zoo, so why are you bothered about what happens and what is likely to happen in the zoo.. Leaving the zoo and actualizing your Eldorado Biafra Republic should be major concern, not fighting or stopping Islamization in the zoo.

And for your information, most Fulanis aren't Muslims. They are simply nomads.

chiagozien:
then they have to respect there host and not destroying their farm,raping them and even killing them,you talk about igbos doing business in other peoples land,then i have this question for you.how many times igbo kill their host,the land they are doing business did they buy it or rent it or government give them the land freely.

Oga Fulanis aren't necessarily Muslims. Most of them don't practice any religion. They are simply nomads.

chiagozien:
when your islamic terrorist request for grazing land in all part of the country,what was there intentions.

When Christian Igbos go to other parts of the country to conquer the place, what is their intention?

IllegalMoney:


APC is getting more scared of PDP since Supreme Court sacked their mole Ali Modu Sheriff

I thought APC said PDP is dead
I can vividly remember APC promised Nigerians restructuring during 2015 campaign and restructuring was also expressly stated in APC manifesto
APC is the worst ruling party ever in the history of Nigeria in less than 3 years, the party was formed based on lies, deceit,propaganda,fake promises, unrealistic promises, hatred,vendetta and blame game.
APC has already lost 2019 election, no matter of line or propaganda can save them

And Pdp will come back abi? Na only u nd ur household go vote na

PeaceGord:
Jona is a good man.

Yes, but he looted the country dry.

Sir FFK, what happens to your cry for restructuring and referendum? Because the last time i checked, you can't be a major member of a top political party in Nigeria and still be fighting Nigeria.

princetom1:
Abeg, list the names if the ones u have used or post their links.

The ones i can remember are Ofia and Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Headphone. The link to the latter is no longer available.

Abeg who can recommend a quality and durable earpiece to buy? All the ones i bought over the last two months get spoilt within a week or two of purchasing them.

Shiitposter:
400??

Your second Screenshot reads 2013 bro..Update that too.

Amberon11:
Pls say what you know. Muslims all over the world hate Jews with or without the israeli- Palestine war. Almost every Jew is rich and they are always among the richest people in every country they find themselves in. Arabs are mostly poor people, only the corrupt princes are rich.

There's a verse in the Quran or ahadith which says judgment day will not come unless Muslims kill all the Jews. Watch Arabic channels and educate yourself. Stop jumping into issue you know nothing about.

Mumu..The same Jews Prophet Mohammed dined and sat with during his lifetime abi? You are a Christian, not a jew.. Stop claiming what you have zero knowledge about. Keep spreading falsehood sogbo

Shiitposter:
400??

What about this?

Amberon11:
No wonder muslims hate them , hahaha.

Muslims don't hate them. Stop spweing trash. The only hatred stems from the Israel-Palestine war. And if you think Jews are so rich, go nd read about Arab Princes.