This is a 2013 news. What purpose does this serve ?

Isn't it better than trying to sell at N87, but not being available leading to people sleeping over at the fuel stations and then some even buying it at a ridiculous price of N250 per liter?
I think it is.

Mrpoker:
Dear Daura President, David Cameron is not col. Dasuki; don't use kid glove on him else this might be the beginning of the end of Nigeria.

It seems you don't know what you want to write, sir. You said we should not use kid gloves on him and you're saying it might be the end of Nigeria.

Why are you ridiculing your country? Who gave Cameron the right to spew that trash on a friendly nation?

Instead of these people to be seriously on alert, they might go to sleep and thereafter start shouting 'Buhari'. What an absurdity. The last time it happened, the commissioner of police, Emmanuel Ojukwu, was he also a Fulani man? I pray nothing ill happen this time around.

A retired detective with the Metropolitan Police in London, Mr. Peter Clerk, on Monday, narrated to a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Gudu, Abuja, the operations that led to the arrest of a former Governor of Plateau State, Mr. Joshua Dariye, in September 2004.

Clerk was testifying before Justice Adebukola Banjoko as the ninth prosecution witness in the trial of the former governor on charges of alleged diversion of about N1.162bn Ecological Fund meant for Plateau State in 2004.

He gave details of Dariye’s alleged extravagant spending, including the purchase of a pen for £7,000 in London, before the former governor was arrested.
He said, “From the examination of Mr. Dariye’s account, he travelled all over the world. From his passport, we saw stamps of several countries.
“We found seven pairs of shoes which cost £700 per pair. He paid £7,000 for a pen. He purchased a lot of things in high luxurious stores.”
Dariye was Governor of Plateau State between 1999 and 2007, though his tenure was interrupted by an impeachment in November, 2006, which lasted for months until he was reinstated by the Supreme Court in April, 2007.
The former governor, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, is now the Senator representing Plateau Central in the National Assembly.
Led in evidence by the lead prosecution counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), Clerk said he was also involved in the investigation of the former Governor of Bayelsa State, the late Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, for money laundering in London before he (Alamieyeseigha) jumped bail.
The witness, who indicated that he started investigating Dariye in January 2004, said the former governor Plateau State was arrested in his hotel room on September 28, 2004, while on a visit to London.
He said, “On September 28, 2004, we were informed that Joshua Dariye was in London in a hotel. I went there with two other officers who also identified themselves as police officers.
“I informed him (Dariye) that we were investigating his accounts and we arrested and informed him under caution that we believed that the money was stolen and proceeds of money laundering. He said nothing.”
He stated that on September 28, 2004, when Dariye was arrested, £43,000 was found in the former governor’s hotel room.
He said on the same day, £50,000, out of which £40,000 belonged to Dariye, was found with a lady, Christabel Bentu, who was said to have claimed to be a Personal Assistant to the former governor, in another room in the same hotel.

Clerk added, “In September 2004, £43,000 in cash was found in Dariye’s room when it was searched. There were various denominations and currencies including Scottish notes, dollars, euros.
“The cash seized was packed into a container, for which he signed. It was photographed. I have copies of the photograph. Dariye and Christopher Bentu were taken to the police.”
He said his colleague searched a property belonging to Dariye and found £11,995.
Clerk stated that Dariye was later released on bail and was expected to return to London in December 2004, but never did.
The witness said a valid arrest warrant was, till date, still pending against the former governor after jumping bail to Nigeria.
Clerk added, “Dariye was informed that if he attempted to move any money, he would be charged for further money laundering.
“In September 2004, I looked at Joshua Dariye in the eyes and said to him, ‘I know you are a religious man’, I asked him if he would come back on December 14, 2004. He said ‘yes’, he would, but he failed to show up. Bentu also failed to show up.
“My colleague searched his property and found £11,995 on the premises and some flyers. They also found three Barclays cheques. They were all seized immediately we made an application for his arrest in London. The arrest warrant is still valid till today. It was circulated in all computers that Dariye was wanted.”

He said the Metropolitan Police deliberately did not ask for Dariye’s extradition to London because he was under immunity as a serving governor, but that soon after he completed his tenure in 2007, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission filed charges against him.
He said, “He (Dariye) failed to return for his bail. I immediately applied for a warrant of arrest, which was granted by a Magistrate in London. That is still valid. He is wanted in London as of today.”
Clerk confirmed that the evidence he gave before an impeachment panel led to Dariye’s removal from office as governor in November 2006, though he was later reinstated by the Supreme Court.

He, however, said he didn’t complete his evidence before the investigating panel in Jos “because the defence was playing games” and he was already scheduled to fly back to London.
He said Dariye operated nine accounts with Barclays Bank.
Under cross-examination by the defence counsel, Mr. Garba Pwul (SAN), Clerk said the former governor opened the accounts in 1995 but were not active until 1999.

“From 1995, when the accounts were opened in Barclays Bank, there were very little activities on the account until May 1999 when he became the governor of Plateau State. I have six boxes of materials on this case,” the witness said.
The witness said that a lot of huge cash funds found in Dariye’s home in London, in his accounts in Barclays Bank of London and some with his cronies were seized and repatriated to Nigeria.

The witness, who was of the Proceeds of Corruption Unit of the London Metropolitan Police, said £11,500, kept in a brief case, was seized from one Christopher Mcquiney, who said the money belonged to Dariye in January 2004.
He stated that there was one Joyce Oyebanjo, who was helping Dariye to pay utility bills in London and routinely receiving funds from Dariye for the maintenance of the former governor’s three children and his property.
Clerk said the woman was later arrested, prosecuted and sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment for money laundering.
He explained that a property in London worth £395,000 was seized from Dariye by the UK government and the proceeds repatriated to Nigeria.

According to him, the purchase of the property was funded by one Lucky Omohuwa of Pinnacle Communication.
He added, “When I suspected that the money came from Nigeria. I met the Nigerian ambassador and informed him of the proceedings and that if he was interested, he might join the proceedings. He did and wrote that the money be forfeited to the Attorney General.
“The properties that were frozen were then ordered to be sold and the money or proceeds be sent back to Nigeria.”
Some Barclays Bank account statements and cheques were tendered and admitted as exhibits on Monday.
Justice Banjoko adjourned trial till June 6.

This people want to take us backwards, but they won't succeed. They prefer the recent sorry norm of using criminal dribbling to delay case for 8 years onward without progress. That ACJA is the only befitting legacy of the 7th NASS. It's too late.

The American Dream Limo is owned by car collector and designer Jay Ohrberg of Burbank,California,USA. It is considered as the world longest car.
Jay Ohrberg designed his monster limo himself and now hires it out through his hire car company.This incredible limo is currently in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest car in the world.
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FFK's hypocrisy is so annoying .
So an invite from EFCC is now a battle with the Lord? Even when PDP was in power, the same EFCC dragged you to court of which you narrowly escaped with help from your former classmate judge who ruled on the case.

Day in, day out, these people don't want to leave Nigeria alone. None of your epistles and tirades can make us devalue. How does our devaluing help your own situation over there? They're IMF agents.

Happiness87:

don't say what you don't know, have you met the man before.

he started his business from scratch, he was asked to join illuminati, which he refused, they set him up, withdrew his license, promoted a similar firm owned by illuminati members, now they want to ruin him.

you are here spewing thrash, as if you even know his name

Madam, you don't need to insult someone in order to make your point. He only commented with the immediate info provided. What's bad if you had gently lectured him?

How does MTN business being hurt because of a downturn in the economy make Nigeria a "border line failed state"? So much hypocrisy for him. So because he successfully predicted the fall of Enron Corp he's become a demigod in other people's affairs?

MTN broke Nigeria's law and they're paying for it - no soft landing for them this time around.

QED.

Very unfortunate. Life is so fragile but some people think money is all there's. Was money able to save him? No! The likes of Saraki, Tinubu, etc, should learn from this.

Their commander-in-general, I mean, Tompolo, needs to be arrested. Why is he faking hiding and the same time wreaking havoc on our pipelines? His Sun Tzu wisdom will not work!

1. Nigeria is home to seven percent (7%) of the total languages spoken on earth. Taraba state alone has more languages than 30 African countries. The importance of this fact is appreciated when one understands that language is the “soul of culture” (as Ngugi wa Thiongo famously said).

2. The Yoruba tribe has the highest rate of twin births in the world. Igbo-Ora, a little town in Oyo state, has been nicknamed Twin capital of the World because of its unusually high rate of twins that is put as high as 158 twins per 1000 births.

3. The Walls of Benin (800-1400AD), in present day Edo State, are the longest ancient earthworks in the world, and probably the largest man-made structure on earth. They enclose 6500 square kilometers of community lands that connected about 500 communities. At over 16,000km long, it was thought to be twice the length of the Great Wall of China, until it was announced in 2012 that the Great Wall is about 21,000km long.

4. The Niger Delta (which is the second largest delta on the planet), has the highest concentration of monotypic fish families in the world, and is also home to sixty percent of Nigeria’s mangrove forests. You should know too that Nigeria’s mangrove forests are the largest in Africa and third largest on earth.

5. Ile-Ife, in present day Osun State, was paved as early as 1000AD, with decorations that originated from Ancient America suggesting there might have been contact between the Yorubas and the Ancient Americans half a millenium before Columbus ‘discovered’ America.

6. A brand new car sold for N2000 in 1975. A ticket to London was less than N100 in 1975.

7. In 1976, 75 kobo exchanged for one British Pound and 60 kobo for one US dollar.

8. A dollar was 90 kobo at the beginning of Babangida’s term in 1985.

9. Africa’s oldest known boat is The Dufuna canoe which was discovered in Dufuna village, Yobe state, by a Fulani Herdsman in May 1987, while he dug a well. Various radio-carbon tests conducted in laboratories of reputable universities in Europe and America indicate that the canoe is over 8,000 years old, thus making it the oldest in Africa and 3rd oldest in the world. The discovery of the canoe has completely changed accepted theories of the history and sophistication of marine technology in Africa.

10. Sungbo’s Eredo, a 160 km rampart equipped with guard houses and moats, is reputed to be the largest single pre-colonial monument (or ancient fortification if you like) in Africa. It is located in present-day Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State and when it was built a millennium ago, it required more earth to be moved during construction than that used for building the Great Pyramid of Giza (one of the Seven Wonders of The Ancient World). The most astonishing thing is that Sungbo’s Eredo was the biggest city in the world (bigger than Rome and Cairo) during the Middle Ages when it was built!

Very unfortunate. All I see is the hand of Tompolo, but the govt should send out an olive branch. We already have too much battles we're facing.

I think these militants are trying to play a fast one on Buhari. After saying that he was praying and fasting to God for deliverance, Tompolo has come out with another devious plan. I sense he's the one both writing to Buhari and threatening himself at the same time. Fingers crossed.

There's no way Tinubu's name can escape being there. No, no, no! Unless he's cut a deal with them.

The European Union (EU), has urged Nigeria Government to increase export of agricultural produces like rubber, cocoa and palm oil to the EU countries.
The Head of EU Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Mr Michel Arrion, stated this at a press conference on commemorate the 40 years of EU-Nigeria partnership on Wednesday, in Abuja. Arrion said there were potential exports, which Nigeria could develop in commercial quantities for export, lamenting that such exports to the EU were currently in low quantities.
“There are potential exports like rubber for instance for tiles that you could certainly develop. We will be delighted to import and to buy more rubber from Nigeria; the problem is that the production is very small. We will be delighted to buy more cocoa from Nigeria. We are buying most of our cocoa from Ivory Coast and Ghana, while not from Nigeria?” he said.

He challenged Nigeria to think of what it could produce in addition to its own consumption adding, Nigeria must meet its local demands before exporting.
He explained that Nigeria has a lot of possibilities in agricultural products but that it would take several years to really have an export-oriented commercial farming policy.
He also said that there was the need for the price of Nigerian products to be competitive.

“You (Nigeria) have to be competitive, I mentioned palm oil; I see a potential market for palm oil exportation from Nigeria to EU if the prices are competitive.
“Today, they are not. Malaysia for instance, offers more competitive price, so Nigeria has also to work on the competitiveness of the country’s products. He said there were several factors that contributed to competitiveness which included the costs of production, labour, land and energy, among others.

Such an eye-opener. The culture of budget padding, so wasn't even new? What a degenerated set of looters we've as lawmakers.

But time is not on our side, let Buhari be fast even whilst insisting that the right thing be done.

What are you even saying sef? How can a Zabib convert to a Muslim? Aren't you already one

1. Bolivia holds the highest turnover of governments. Since their independence from Spain in 1825, Bolivia has had almost 200 governments. Since 1945, Italy saw more than 50 governments and more than 20 Prime Ministers.

2. India is the world’s largest democracy with more than 700 million registered voters.

3. The candidate who ran the most times for office of the President of the United States was Norman Thomas. He ran six times from 1928 and didn’t win any. Thomas ran for presidency in 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944 and 1948.

4. Great Britain was the first county to issue
postage stamps , on 1 May 1840. Hence, UK stamps are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.

5. An ostrich can run up to 43mph (70 km/h).
6. An annoyed camel will spit at a person.
7. The world’s smallest dog is the Chihuahua, which means “tiny dog in the sky.”
8. 75% of wild birds die before they are 6 months old.
9. The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible.
10. Pork is the world’s most widely-eaten meat.
11. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
12. The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
13. A blue whale weighs as much as 40 rhinos.
14. Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 21 million people.
15. One million Earths could fit inside the Sun.
16. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with another simultaneously.
17. In the 1960s, the CIA tried to spy on the Kremlin (the official name for the office of the Russian President) by turning cats into listening devices. It involved surgically implanting batteries, microphones and antennae into cats.
18. Arabic numerals (the ones used in English) were not invented by the Arabs at all – they were actually invented by Indian mathematicians.
19. At the start of World War I, the US Airforce (then a component of the US army) had only 18 pilots and 5 – 12 airplanes.
20. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

iamexcelblog:
To begin with, I am not a religious person and I don't believe in God, gods, dreams or dreams. Thats why am not opening this thread in the relgion section because I know that most of them will give me myopic and one sided ideas and views.

Bros, your excuse for choosing not to believe in God is faulty. The hypocrisy of a few Christians you've come across is not enough reason to throw your faith to the bin. Whether you like or believe it or not, one day you'll stand before God and truly know that He exists, but by then it'll be too late to correct your folly.

Your made-up self-righteousness cannot stand before God. I believe that God is first and foremost using this dream to again draw your attentions to your need to retrace your steps back to Him.

Getting this right will make every other gray area about the dream - clear.

Hello Nairalanders, permit me to throw a light discuss on the recent escalation of killings by the Fulani herdsmen. But before that, I would like to take you down a very recent memory lane.

About 2 months ago, there was a violent fracas at Mile 12 in Lagos between the Hausa community and their hosts. Unfortunately, at least one or two persons lost their lives, aside destruction of property.

I recall that my Igbo brothers and sisters came online taunting Yoruba for "being too a fool in their own land" in that it was reported that the visitors attacked first... The Igbos ranted on how that can never be tried in their own land.

Fast forward February to April, just a few days ago, the Fulani herdsmen ravaged a part of Enugu leaving sorrows and tears in their path. What surprised most me was that instead of the Igbos to blame the local Igbo policemen for not being alert enough to have warded off that attack and probably arrest all the attacks, they chose to direct their anger at Buhari. Was/Is Buhari the commissioner of police there? Probably 99% of policemen in Enugu are Igbo. Are we then saying they are conspiring with the Fulani militia?

Continuing to blame the President for the misdeeds of these bloodthirsty men will never solve the problem because this problem didn't begin when Buhari (a Fulani man) became president. The bulk of the blame should be on our local police officers at the grassroots whom I think are not doing enough to return fire for fire against this murderous group. This is because if they're really doing their job, they would have embarked on a mass search for those killers immediately after the dust settled and smoked them from their hiding places.

Let us not attempt to run away from the main matter and start holding on to straws of ethnic and religious divides. God bless Nigeria.


NB: I'm neither Yoruba nor Igbo.

This man is always bringing Jesus Christ into his writeups to deceive people. Smh.

If you're truly a true Christian as you're claiming, you'll not be insulting the President and raining curses on people like you've been doing, not to talk about your rumored being a hard drug user... and immoral acts. Who're you deceiving ?

That "growing threat" is a figment of their own imagination. This people, it seems, don't know the difference between present and past tense. It is just like saying the Tamil Tigers are still a threat to Sri Lanka... . They should carry their bad luck back.

EverestdeBliu:
If GEJ was clueless,then what would you call this high degree of negligence been exhibited by Buhari?
This man does no Fuc.k!ng care about our plight. Damn!

Bros, take it easy. Did you hear that he has gone there for a holiday? No! But for what? Work ing visit. It's part of the solution.

The result of a technical and brutal victory over the enemy of peace, the Boko Haramites. Thank You God. I pray for a replication of this victory in every aspect of Nigeria's being.

If...

If after nearly 8 months this trial is yet to properly commence, then it's right to assume that to an extent Saraki has been wining. Very appealing, really? After the Supreme Court has given a final go-ahead, why should Danladi even listen to Saraki again for any injunctions whatsoever? Today is a make or mar day for Buhari’s so much vaunted antigraft war.

It's better than PDP's way of "It's a family affair, we'll settle it", and in the process, sweeping many evil under the carpet. Disciplining erring members is not a crime, it helps to set things in order.

It surprises me that people can become so inhuman taking pictures of ghastly or fatal accidents they happen to come across. And thumbs down as well to the mods that move these evil things to the front page.
It's evil. What's the goodnews in feeding people's eyes with such bloody pics.

NB: I don't even open accident threads, but just needed to pass this message across today.

Happy Good Friday people.