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Is it not this same Anenih who is know as a master rigger.

Facts:

1: Anenih and his ilk don't read Nairaland, and thus don't give a damn
2: Anenih and his band of robbers, know Nigerians. they know that we are good at ranting till we are blue in the face, then do nothing
3: Anenih knows the Nigerian Animal, took weak to do anything

@Gbawe,

My brother, I done tire to try educate our people. Let them continue in the cesspit they find themselves, with Chief slave driver Anenih whipping and thrashing them, yet they say nothing in return and continue to serve him

Fantastic!!!, this is what Nigerians deserve. After all the people are only as good as their leaders.

Chief (Thief) Anenih, carry go, nothing do you. The country is phucking ripe for the plunder, take her, and have no mercy

babyosisi: [size=18pt]If the Queen of Asaba got out with 10 million Naira
Nkeiru Sylvanus ought to be released with a carton of la casera[/size]

Please get your facts right, the Queen of Asaba was never kidnapped

It is the same Ogusbaba that is The governors Boyfriend

@ogusbaba1, you fall your oga hand for here. you have really done him a de-service by starting this useless, pointless thread. The man is bloody thief, just look at how he looks like motor park tout in that ugly dirty brown suit

even with all the suffering and failed government in the state , people are still prepared to lick this modaphuckers nyash. Chai, what a country

@Ugusbaba1, well done, continue with the awful job you are doing, but come with all the money your Oga done thief, see how he still looks like Tipper driver. Is there nothing you people can do to dress him better

Well, I am glad others are beginning to See Ogusbaba, the Nyash licker for what he is. Of what benefit if the rubbish you have posted. I guess for a monumental failure like your Oga, you guys are scrounging around like Vultures for any piece of news that would add some shine to his already very dirty reputation

zayhal: It's really disgusting to think about a married woman sleeping with other men. And people are ready to find excuses for them: they're not happy, husband isn't satisfying them etc. All these are just silly excuses. A woman who has problems with her marriage should quit the marriage before she starts any rubbish. Interestingly, the first place I witnessed such really was on NYSC camp ground. Though I ran away from camp myself, the few days I spent there, it was an entirely new world to me.

Yes, married women (though if you see them, you'd hardly call them married) were taking off their wedding bands in order to catch up on the fun. It was as if they've been caged and were suddenly let loose. I was marveled.

But I think it's less prevalent in the society outside. Or perhaps, they're more discreet than the men because of the dictates of the African society.

Go to some universities and see what obtains, it is just as bad

I served in Lagos in the 90's and it was not this rampant, though we did hear isolated cases. Not wanting to compare the decades but there has been a noticeable drop in standard of behaviour. For instance in my uni days, is was practically unheard of that people paid or slept with lecturers for grades, now it is the system in place. If you don't sort you don't pass

There is a bigger issue to this. starting with the state of the country. The state of the country is a reflection of the lives we live as Nigerians.

Was having a chat to a Post Grad friend of mine in one of the universities in Nigeria. she was explaining to me how the system works now, were grades were achieved based on how much you paid or who you slept with. somehow they were all meant to fall into line and get with the programme. Now are these not the same men and women that ate going to graduate from school and we expect them to have morals? Same people we expect to behave themselves when they get married or go to NYSC camp? same people we expect to behave themselves when in public office and faced with financial responsibilities? Why do we kid ourselves? a mango never falls far from the tree.

We have major problems in Nigeria and the sooner we accept it the sooner we can start doing something about it

Slavery na bad thing, especially when the slave has been set free and still doesn't know it. It is even worse when the slave is a stack illiterate. The most disregarded animals are those that sit at the bottom of the sea. They tend to feed of scraps and shiet from higher placed animals in the food cycle. Always grateful for the leftovers from their master, never questioning what lies at the top. Perpetual slaves.

Dogbeji2: Uduaghan cares for his people. Delta is working again

ogusbaba1: Yea

Self delusion na sign of mental problem. Na only una 2 believe say Uduaghan dey work, even Uduaghan himself knows he has failed. So stop making laughing stocks of yourselves, go find other issues to discuss

don't you get tired of washing your masters filthy dirty laundry. surely you are the only one who does not see him as a failure. Even Uduaghan admits that he is absolutely useless, with no plan, vision or capacity to deliver any good for the state. He should hurry up and get out of that office.

Distorted View, typical of how we see the country in General

Look at them? washed-up cocks. Uduaghan is try everything to launder his filthy image including hiring this Town Crier (Ogusbaba. Tell me how is this news?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20486998
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Serious considerations must be given to dividing this country. That is the only way peace will reign and this senseless violence would stop

Truly we are a sick nation. If only people can put aside petty differences and understand that we all have a common problem, then maybe we have a chance of healing her

In London in 1984, a team of Nigerians and Israelis attempted to kidnap and repatriate the exiled former Nigerian minister Umaru Dikko. Mr Dikko, who had fled Nigeria after a military coup, was accused of stealing $1bn (£625m) of government money.

The plot was foiled by a young British customs officer, Charles David Morrow, who has now told the BBC World Service Witness programme what happened.

On a summer's day, Mr Dikko walked out of his front door in an upmarket neighbourhood of Bayswater in London. Within seconds he had been grabbed by two men and bundled into the back of a transit van.

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"I remember the very violent way in which I was grabbed and hurled into a van, with a huge fellow sitting on my head - and the way in which they immediately put on me handcuffs and chains on my legs," he told the BBC a year later.

Mr Dikko had been minister for transport in the government of Shehu Shagari until it was overthrown by the military at the end of 1983. He fled to London accused by Nigeria's new rulers of embezzlement - a charge he has always denied.

Labelled "Nigeria's most wanted man" a plot was hatched to get both him and the money back.

The extraordinary plan was to kidnap Mr Dikko, drug him, stick him into a specially made crate and put him on a plane back to Nigeria - alive.

Israeli anaesthetist

An Israeli alleged former Mossad agent, Alexander Barak, was recruited to lead the kidnap team. It included a Nigerian intelligence officer, Maj Mohammed Yusufu, and Israeli nationals Felix Abitbol and Dr Lev-Arie Shapiro, who was to inject Mr Dikko with an anaesthetic.

Umaru Dikko Umaru Dikko always denied embezzling $1bn
The kidnappers switched vehicles in a car park by London Zoo and headed towards Stansted airport where a Nigerian Airways plane was waiting. They injected Mr Dikko and laid him, unconscious, in a crate.

The Israeli anaesthetist climbed into the crate as well, carrying medical equipment to make sure Mr Dikko didn't die en route. Barak and Abitbol got into a second crate. Both boxes were then sealed.

At the cargo terminal of Stansted Airport, 40 miles (64km) north of London, a Nigerian diplomat was anxiously waiting for the crates to arrive. Also on duty that day was a young customs officer, Charles David Morrow.

Diplomatic bag

"The day had gone fairly normally until about 3pm. Then we had the handling agents come through and say that there was a cargo due to go on a Nigerian Airways 707, but the people delivering it didn't want it manifested," Mr Morrow said.

"I went downstairs to see who they were and what was happening. I met a guy who turned out to be a Nigerian diplomat called Mr Edet. He showed me his passport and he said it was diplomatic cargo. Being ignorant of such matters, I asked him what it was, and he told me it was just documents and things."

APB A missing persons bulletin alerted customs officials to the kidnapping
No-one on duty at Stansted had dealt with a diplomatic bag before and Mr Morrow went to check the procedure.

Just then a colleague returned from the passenger terminal with some startling news. There was an All Ports Bulletin from Scotland Yard saying that a Nigerian had been kidnapped and it was suspected he would be smuggled out of the country.

The police had been alerted by Mr Dikko's secretary who had witnessed his abduction from a window in the house.

Hearing the news, Mr Morrow realised he had a problem on his hands.

"I just put two and two together. The classic customs approach is not to look for the goods, you look for the space," he said.

"So I am looking out of the window and I can see the space which is these two crates, clearly big enough to get a man inside. We've got a Nigerian Airways 707, which we don't normally see. They don't want the crates manifested, so there would be no record of them having gone through. And there was very little other cargo going on board the aircraft.

"If you want to hide a tree, you hide it in the forest. You don't stick it out in the middle of Essex."

By the book

But any cargo designated as a diplomatic bag is protected by the Vienna Convention from being opened by customs officers. So Mr Morrow got on the phone to the British Foreign Office.

Charles Morrow Charles Morrow was commended for his actions
"To qualify as a 'diplomatic bag' they clearly had to be marked with the words 'Diplomatic Bag' and they had to be accompanied by an accredited courier with the appropriate documentation. It was fair to say they had a Nigerian diplomat - I'd seen his passport - but they didn't have the right paperwork and they weren't marked 'Diplomatic Bag'," he said.

The decision was taken that the crates could be opened - but it would be done by the book. That required the presence of a Nigerian diplomat, but as Mr Morrow pointed out, one was already on hand. By now, the crates were up on special trolleys ready to be loaded on to the plane.

"Peter, the cargo manager, hit the lid on the bottom and lifted it. And as he lifted it, the Nigerian diplomat, who was standing next to me, took off like a startled rabbit across the tarmac," Mr Morrow said.

"You have to remember we are on an airfield which is square miles of nothing. He ran about five yards (4.5m), realised no-one was chasing him and then stopped.

"Peter looked into the crate and said: 'There's bodies inside!'

He parked a forklift truck so its tines lay across the top of the crate so it couldn't be opened. Mr Morrow dialled the emergency number 999.

"My name's Morrow, from Customs at Stansted. We've got some bodies in a crate. Do you think you can send someone over," he recalls saying.

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"They said: 'Alive or Dead?'

"I said: 'That's a very good point. I don't know.'

"They said: 'We'll send an ambulance as well.'"

After half an hour, police started to arrive, and they opened the second crate. Inside they found an unconscious Mr Dikko, and a very much awake Israeli anaesthetist. Mr Dikko was lying on his back in the corner of the crate.

"He had no shirt on, he had a heart monitor on him, and he had a tube in his throat to keep his airway open. No shoes and socks and handcuffs around his ankles. The Israeli anaesthetist was in there, clearly to keep him alive," recalls Mr Morrow.

The kidnappers in the other crate were unrepentant. They said Mr Dikko was the biggest crook in the world.

The Nigerian intelligence officer and the three Israelis all received prison sentences in the UK.

Diplomatic relations between the UK and Nigeria broke down and were only fully restored two years later. The Nigerian and Israeli governments have always denied involvement in the kidnapping.

Mr Dikko returned to Nigeria the following decade and still lives there.

Mr Morrow was commended for actions that day by the head of UK Customs, who described the incident as a "very tricky situation".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20211380

@debrief08,

That's right, we are in the age of social media, and that is why folk must be very careful what they engage in.

The depth of filth people will sink to. How does this become news? Uduaghan and his congo choppers are getting very desperate

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Hmmm

The Depth of stupidity in that government knows no bounds. How do this rubbish become necessary? Is this the most pressing issue in the state? can they confirm that there is credible evidence to suggest that and expansion is necessary? have we taken the government to task on the figures if any exist? is this not the same town that is fast becoming a ghost town with commence fast departing from the area? where is the economic growths that suggest this is a priority? too many questions but no answers. Conclusion, and another Chop-chop project

Human rights, political freedom, transparency and accountability have deteriorated in four African "powerhouses" over the past six years, according to the 2012 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, published on Monday.


Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Egypt dropped in the rankings in two of the four categories used in the index to assess good governance across the continent – safety and rule of law, and participation and human rights. The other two categories are sustainable economic opportunity and human development.


Nigeria was singled out as the worst performer of the four, dropping into the bottom 10 countries in the overall rankings for the first time. The country was ranked 14th out of the 16 countries in west Africa and 43rd out of the 52 countries listed overall. Nigeria was 41st last year and 37th in 2006.


Although South Africa, Egypt and Kenya are ranked fifth, 14th and 25th respectively, people's freedom to participate in political processes has declined in each country. Kenya and South Africa have also registered a decline in economic opportunities, while Egypt has shown a significant improvement in this area.


"Given the vast natural and human resources of these four regional powers, these governance results are a concern," said Abdoulie Janneh, a board member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which has published the index since 2007. "Each of these countries plays a key role in the economic and political landscape of the continent. To continue to optimally play this role requires a sustained commitment to balanced and equitable governance."


This year's index examines data from each of the four categories, which are broken down into 14 sub-categories, for each country between 2000 and 2011. It uses 88 indicators drawn from 23 independent data providers from Africa and internationally.


Mauritius came top in the overall index, followed by Cape Verde, Botswana and the Seychelles, continuing the same pattern as last year. Somalia was last, a position it has occupied since the index was first published. The country came last in each of the four category rankings. Somalia's overall score has declined since 2006. Tanzania moved into the top 10 for the first time this year, while Liberia, Sierra Leone and Angola registered significant improvements. Sudan and South Sudan were not included this year.


Speaking ahead of the index launch, the Sudanese-born philanthropist Mo Ibrahim told the Guardian that economic success cannot be allowed to overshadow human rights and democratic processes in Africa (video), a continent that has seen steady economic growth over the past 10 years, even during the "dark days of the financial crisis". "What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation, or democracy … it doesn't work," he said. "It worries us a lot when we don't see the trickle-through factor, when gain goes to the top 1% or 2%, leaving the rest behind."


North Africa is an obvious example of the consequences of ignoring people's needs and rights, he added. "Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing – no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education. So we have wonderful human development achievement in education and health, etc. But hundreds of thousands of men and women who graduated from college cannot find work, and not only that but [they] look around and they see an oppressive, corrupt regime. Then you have a volatile mix."


Rwanda, which has risen two places in the overall ranking, to 23rd this year, is also an example of unbalanced development. Although the country ranks 16th and 11th for human development and sustainable economic opportunities respectively, up from 13th and 17th in 2011, it is 31st for safety and rule of law, down one place from last year and continuing a downward trend since 2006, and 29th for human rights and participation, although this is a rise of one place since last year. Last month, the EU partially froze aid to Rwanda over its alleged support of M23 rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following the US, Germany and the Netherlands. The UK had earlier suspended budget support over concerns about the country's human rights record. Britain has since unblocked a portion of this money.


Ibrahim said the governments in Kigali and Kinshasa need to be encouraged by their donors and "friends" to sit down and talk to solve the crisis. "I really think Rwanda is not just part of the problem but part of the solution, and what we hope is for the different parties to sit together … and have constructive discussions," he said.


Overall, since 2000, governance in Africa has improved. Particular progress has been made in women's rights, said Ibrahim, although he acknowledged there was still a long way to go before gender equality is achieved. "We're very pleased. This is an area [in which] we're moving forward, but we're coming from a very low base," he said. It's easy to introduce new legislation against domestic violence or give women rights over land and in divorce cases, but it's much more difficult to change attitudes and the culture of "male supremacy", he said. "Education helps and the spread of information helps, and courageous, unflinching, uncompromising … political leadership is also required."


For the third time, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation decided not to award any one the prize for African leadership this year, as no one matched the judges' criteria.


The prize recognises and celebrates excellence in African leadership, and provides winners with the opportunity to pursue their commitment to Africa once they have stepped down from office. It is awarded to a democratically elected former African head of state or government.


The prize committee said: "[We] reviewed a number of eligible candidates but none met the criteria needed to win this award. The award is about excellence in leadership. In the first six years the prize committee has selected three very worthy laureates who continue to be an inspiration and whose examples, we hope, will be emulated."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/oct/15/nigeria-worst-ibrahim-african-governance

otokx: Who is James Holmes? You would have said Saddam Hussein, still repeat that some of you here are definitely not in Nigeria and have lost touch with the reality on ground by your many months of absence.

What is the reality on the Ground? That this is the right way to treat fellow human beings we accuse of crime?

Thank God there is enough Photographic and Video evidence to prosecute. I pray the Governor sees this is a Just end. The only way to describe this is Cold Blooded Murder

I pray Governor Ameachi follows this case to a Just end.

I pray for Justice sake that this issue is not allowed to fade away. This could have been anyone, I am yet to see compelling evidence to support the Brutal and wicked killing of these boys. I hope the Governor follows this issue to logical fair and Just end.

Nigeria, truly a confused nation