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InvestorTeeMan:Thanks dude. |
Onedayoneday:You are such a compelling writer. You wrote in a way that I was literarily watching the event like a movie. You will thrive so well being a writer. Have you ever given it a thought? You could even write for Nollywood. You actually have the potential to be a good writer in you. Work on it! |
ITKovasabiMod:The spy balloon has a payload of the size of 3 buses, if they down it in the city, some people would die on the ground. Reason they waited for it to float over the ocean. This new object is very small and its payload has no risk to anyone on the ground since it is very small, hence the reason they downed it over the frozen water |
US has not attributed the flying object to any country and the object has no surveillance camera, unlike the Chinese ballon |
InvestorTeeMan:Thanks a lot. Does it mean if that letter is not received by the petitioner, it has no consequence. The petitioner clicks on the e-request and it seems payment will be made to ask them to resend the approval notice. If that approval notice is not relevant, is it necessary to pay them for them to resend. Petitioner address has not changed. |
Hello folks. Case approved on Dec 5, 2022 but petitioner has not received Notice of approval. Please I have the following questions: 1.Is it normal for it to take this long? 2. What will you suggest should be done at this stage, 3, Is this approval notice coming as an email or physical package. 4. Will this approval notice be sent to Nigeria as part of the document to be taken to the embassy? 5.Besides, if the beneficiary has child(ren), will he go to the interview with the children to be interviewed as well. Your input will be well appreciated |
advanceDNA:The healthcare which use to be their pride is in total chaos. The waiting list now is horrendous. They dont even have enough staff and the staff there are not well remunerated, hence the reason for the strike. The funding for education has been drastically cut. Things have totally changed in the UK. Brexit has finished them. |
advanceDNA:They are currently not okay. The economy is in total shambles at the moment |
They will be using the pronoun "they" for God. |
illuminutty:If you spray Nigeria money, it is illegal. This is party money, not produced by the CBN. It is not illegal. This party currency is finer than Nigeria currency sha |
asanausana91:I am against spraying of money too but looking at it from the other side, it is part of our culture. Nigerians love show off, and if they have not sprayed, they have not enjoyed the party. This concept is not illegal as well because they just created a paper note as party money. They never counterfeited the Federal Repulic of Nigeria currency. In a way, the event planner has become the Central Bank Governor of Party. My people no go kill me. ![]() |
As dumb as it seems, I was compelled to applaud the creativity of this idea. |
[url][/url][url][/url] franchasng:You are simply impossible. You are changing the narratives again. You couldn't defend the allegations raised by the BBC, rather you chose to go another direction. Hey Kid, I won't respond to you again. You are simply unreasonable. |
franchasng:Like I earlier wrote, people like you will cry blood after the election. You saw "Pandora" in the article and you jumped into conclusion. It was BBC that wrote and published the article on each of the contestant, you would have done well to go and burn BBC office in London. I will sumnarise the BBC article on Obi for you since you claimed it was only one allegation that he was accused of. Your candidate : 1. Set up a company in Virgin Island in the name of her daughter to avoid tax and to launder money. 2. Invested Anambra money in fidelity bank where he was once a chairman 3. Held a director position in NEXT international, 16 months down the line as a Governor, which was against the law. He was running private company for 16 months as a sitting governor in Anambra. 4. Invested Anambra money in Next international. 5. Invested Anambra money in a brewery where his family had shares. So, you can go and kill yourself over Obi. As loud and insulting as you are, you only have a vote and my vote has rendered your own vote useless. This is a democracy and not dictatorship, stop attacking people when they say they are not voting Obi. Respect their view and move on. I repeat, Obi is as dirty as the other two leading contestants. You can go and die for all you care. |
franchasng:In your warped mind, you get sense. By always insulting people who do not want to vote obi., Instead of you to build bridges with them, you keep insulting as if over 200 million nigerians must vote your Obi. This is the major reason obi will lose the election. Politics is a game of number, you will soon realise. You claim to be educated, but you don't know that "conflict of interest" and "tax avoidance" are criminal offences. In other clime, he will be tried in court and jailed. All of the 3 leading candidates are very corrupt , no matter how you intend to make Obi looks clean, he is still as dirty as the other two |
franchasng:You will do well to read BBC profile review of Peter Obi. What do you have to say: Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64223454 Peter Obi and the Pandora Papers Peter Obi, who has also served two terms as governor - in his case in the eastern Anambra state, does not hide his immense wealth, which he says has been made through banking and importing various goods into Nigeria. Dubbed "Mr Clean" by his supporters for being a rare Nigerian politician without accusations of embezzling public funds, it came as a surprise to many when his name came up in 2021 in the Pandora Papers. This was a leak of almost 12 million documents that revealed the hidden wealth, tax avoidance and, in some cases, allegations of money laundering by some of the world's rich and powerful .. Nigeria's Premium Times, one of the newspapers that worked on the Pandora Papers investigation, alleged the documents showed that in 2010, when Mr Obi was Anambra governor, he set up a company, named after his daughter, in the British Virgin Islands to help him avoid tax. Making use of a tax haven is not illegal, though setting up foreign bank accounts when serving as a public officer is not allowed. The Premium Times said this showed Mr Obi had failed to declare his assets, and it also alleged that he had failed to resign from the UK-registered company Next International, of which he was director when he became governor - engaging in private business, which is not allowed for public officers. His resignation was registered 14 months into his term. The 61-year-old has never been charged over any of the revelations. Mr Obi told the BBC an impeachment trial had investigated the allegations surrounding his business affairs in 2006 and found he had acted within the law. He added that he had established a blind trust to oversee his business arrangements, including the family's offshore holdings. "A blind trust is allowed within the law," he said. Mr Obi has also been accused of a conflict of interest after investing $20m of state funds while governor in a brewery, in which his family hold shares through Next. He denies the allegations, saying the investment greatly benefited Anambra over the years. There has also been criticism that Anambra invested in Fidelity Bank, where he was once chairman. "Anambra state invested in Fidelity Bank, where I have interests, because it is a public quoted company," he told the BBC, dismissing any suggestion that any of the revelations about his finances cast doubt about his fitness for office. |
I think they always say it's God that demands for it. If true, why did the prophet out of his own volition determine for God? A good gesture though. |
socialmediaman:Hope you are aware that all the leading candidates are corrupt, stained and damaged. They all have their respective scandals. Nigerians are just left with no choice than to pick the lesser evil out of all of them. Shame! |
Dreal1247:All of them are stained and damaged. Are these lots the best we could vote for in a country of over 200 million people? I cant see anyone among them who will lead Nigeria out of this mess. |
Peter Obi and the Pandora Papers Peter Obi, who has also served two terms as governor - in his case in the eastern Anambra state, does not hide his immense wealth, which he says has been made through banking and importing various goods into Nigeria. Dubbed "Mr Clean" by his supporters for being a rare Nigerian politician without accusations of embezzling public funds, it came as a surprise to many when his name came up in 2021 in the Pandora Papers. This was a leak of almost 12 million documents that revealed the hidden wealth, tax avoidance and, in some cases, allegations of money laundering by some of the world's rich and powerful. Nigeria's Premium Times, one of the newspapers that worked on the Pandora Papers investigation, alleged the documents showed that in 2010, when Mr Obi was Anambra governor, he set up a company, named after his daughter, in the British Virgin Islands to help him avoid tax. Making use of a tax haven is not illegal, though setting up foreign bank accounts when serving as a public officer is not allowed. The Premium Times said this showed Mr Obi had failed to declare his assets, and it also alleged that he had failed to resign from the UK-registered company Next International, of which he was director when he became governor - engaging in private business, which is not allowed for public officers. His resignation was registered 14 months into his term. The 61-year-old has never been charged over any of the revelations. Mr Obi told the BBC an impeachment trial had investigated the allegations surrounding his business affairs in 2006 and found he had acted within the law. He added that he had established a blind trust to oversee his business arrangements, including the family's offshore holdings. "A blind trust is allowed within the law," he said. Mr Obi has also been accused of a conflict of interest after investing $20m of state funds while governor in a brewery, in which his family hold shares through Next. He denies the allegations, saying the investment greatly benefited Anambra over the years. There has also been criticism that Anambra invested in Fidelity Bank, where he was once chairman. "Anambra state invested in Fidelity Bank, where I have interests, because it is a public quoted company," he told the BBC, dismissing any suggestion that any of the revelations about his finances cast doubt about his fitness for office. |
Atiku Abubakar and the US Senate Mr Abubakar touts himself as the most experienced candidate on the ballot, having served as vice-president between 1999 and 2007 - and it is this period around which there is some controversy. His former boss, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, accused him of embezzling $145m from the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) in 2003. Mr Obasanjo, who does not shy away from publicly sharing his opinions about other politicians, dedicated a chapter in his book My Watch, published in 2014, to the alleged transgressions of his former deputy. Mr Abubakar denied the accusations, saying $145m was placed in commercial banks to accrue interest so it could be ploughed back into PTDF projects. The 76-year-old said he first made money from farming and owning houses in his home state of Adamawa. A former customs officer, he said that he recognised early in life that he had "a good nose for money". It was in the 1980s that he established an oil-servicing firm that catapulted him into the world of the wealthy. Opponents have accused him of flouting a law that prohibits civil servants from engaging in private business other than farming. Mr Abubakar's spokesperson described his venture as a small business that many public servants engage in, such as using their car as a taxi or setting up a shop in front of their house to support their families. "He only invested his income to earn interest. He was not doing any other work in form of private work like you are inferring," Paul Ibe told the BBC. In 2010, a US Senate committee report alleged that between 2000 and 2008, Mr Abubakar, through one of his four wives, transferred more than $40m in "suspect funds" into the US from offshore shell companies. The report claimed that at least $1.7m of this came from bribes paid by German technology company Siemens, which pleaded guilty to bribery charges in 2008 and agreed to pay a $1.6bn fine. He was also a major figure in the corruption trial of former US Congressman William Jefferson, who in the Senate report described Mr Abubakar as "really corrupt" and said he needed money to bribe him to approve a US company's business deals in Nigeria. Mr Jefferson was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to 13 years in prison, which was subsequently reduced. Mr Abubakar has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and neither he nor his now-divorced wife face criminal charges in the US. "Atiku Abubakar is not on trial for corruption or any other misconduct either in Nigeria or any foreign land," Mr Ibe said. "He can only be unfit for public office when he is indicted by a court of law. That is not the situation." |
The Bola Tinubu files Mr Tinubu, who served two terms as governor of Nigeria's richest state Lagos, is probably the most talked-about candidate on the ballot. There are endless debates about his age, name, health status, work profile and the authenticity of his university certificate, but it is for the source of his wealth over which he has faced the most scrutiny. Many believe that Mr Tinubu, 70, is one of Nigeria's wealthiest politicians, though there are no official records. The most visible extent of his wealth is a mansion that sits in a sprawling compound in the Ikoyi area of Lagos - an upmarket part of Nigeria's commercial hub. It was here on election day in 2019 that onlookers witnessed the rare sight of two armoured vehicles, similar to bullion vans used by banks to transport cash, driving through his gates. His aides denied the subsequent accusations that he was involved in vote-buying. But questions about his wealth have been raised. In December, he told the BBC that he inherited some real estate which he then invested, but in the past he also said he became an "instant millionaire" while working as an auditor at Deloitte and Touche. He said he had saved $1.8m (£1.5m) from his wages and other allowances, nearly the same amount found in accounts linked to him in a 1993 dispute with the US authorities. In documents that are publicly available, the US Department of Justice alleged that from early 1988, accounts opened in the name of Bola Tinubu held the proceeds of sales of white heroin, a banned substance. Kevin Moss, the special agent that investigated the operation, alleged that Mr Tinubu worked for their prime suspect Adegoboyega Akande. The agent said Mr Tinubu initially admitted to him on the phone that he knew Mr Akande, but later recanted and said he had had no financial transactions with him. While the court confirmed it had cause to believe the money in the bank accounts were the proceeds of drug trafficking, Mr Tinubu and the others denied the allegations, and the court never made a final order about the money's origins. Instead, Mr Tinubu, who was not personally charged over the money, reached a compromise settlement with the authorities and forfeited $460,000. Mr Tinubu has always denied any links to the drugs trade and his spokesman, Festus Keyamo, said the forfeited funds were part of a civil forfeiture and not a criminal one. Last year, he also reached an out-of-court settlement with accountant Oladapo Apara, who had fallen out with Mr Tinubu. Mr Apara was a founder of Alpha Beta Consulting, established when Mr Tinubu was governor and given the lucrative contract to track taxes in Lagos state, which it still holds. The accountant alleged Mr Tinubu had a 70% controlling interest in the company through proxies - and the firm received about a 10% commission on revenues collected, which he estimated to be $3.48bn between 2002 and 2018. Mr Tinubu denies this, saying he does not receive commissions on taxes received by the Lagos State government. Mr Apara said he was kicked out of the firm in 2010 after he alleged that some funds had been misappropriated - and began a long legal battle to seek redress. He argued he could not be sacked as a founder of the firm and demanded compensation from Mr Tinubu, which resulted in a court case in 2021. In September 2018, he also tweeted that he had written to Nigeria's financial-crimes regulator, accusing Alpha Beta of tax evasion - the actual letter that accompanied the tweet, which detailed the allegations, has since been deleted from his account. Alpha Beta denied the allegations and said Mr Apara had been sacked for fraud, which he denied. Mr Tinubu has consistently denied links to the firm, but was a party to an undisclosed settlement between Alpha-Beta and Mr Apara last June, leading to the termination of the parties' claims against each other. The BBC asked Mr Tinubu about the settlement, the US allegations and the questions over his wealth but he did not reply to a request for comment. |
Nigerians voting for a new president next month will have 18 contenders to choose from but the three men seen as the leading candidates have been separately accused of trading in narcotics, money laundering and global tax avoidance. None of them has ever been convicted, which would rule them out from running for office, but the high-profile allegations have raised questions over their candidacy. "It is choosing between bad candidates," said Auwal Rafsanjani, head of the Nigerian branch of anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International, pointing out how widespread corruption has caused devastating levels of underdevelopment and poverty in the oil-rich nation. The three top contenders are Bola Tinubu from the governing All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar from the People's Democratic Party and Peter Obi from the Labour Party. All three say they made their fortunes legitimately and deny any wrongdoing. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64223454?fbclid=IwAR2jniXEyVt2GXGWEpseAhVlXzBWFRjGkX_cdu8RbBuHttbjMqjALkWglSg |
Urbanchampion:They lack the constitutional authority to do that. Even the president lacks the authority to sack him |
SmartPolician:I'm not saying your candidate will not will but when last has poll been effective in Nigeria. The real voters are in the villages, not all these educated armchair analyst. Polls work in western countries and not in Nigeria. |
useni1:Sometimes I am forced to question you guys reasoning. If China holds the same view as the one you touted, they would have attacked Taiwan. US says if China attacks Taiwan, they will have them to deal with, and the chinese chicken out. You dont tell the US what to do. Remember when China says Pelosi should not come to Taiwan, thats when she visited. Remember when Russia says provision of longer range weapon will be an escalation, that was when the US provided HIMARS. If table turns and China tells the US not to attack Taiwan, that is when the US will call their bluff and attack it./ |
FarahAideed:Be reasonable and stop blaming Buhari for everything. I have witnessed a case where a major independent marketer - Mobil filing station @ Samonda in Ibadan would get a fuel at NNPC. Instead of them to discharge it at their station , they will go and sell it to all these mushrooms filling stations at higher price. And those in turn will sell at 300 plus. Do you blame Buhari for that or the greediness of the citizens? |
leisuretym:You sit down in your home and claiming someone got robbed in the court. If you are privy to any evidence that will help Adeleke, this is the time to reach out to him, than making spurious allegations from the corner of your room. |
ZKOSOSO:which one is las las. Unless he comes up with a superior argument backed up with evidence. You think na drama dem dey do inside court. |
And this is suppose to be an achievement? Having access to your own fund is now being celebrated. Nigeria is failing. |
Reinaldo:The three of them are all damaged and corrupt entities. Stop projecting obi as if he is the saint. We know Nigerians are about to choose the best among the worst. |
gaby:Even in the US, the chinese steal loads of trade secrets. Their mentality is different from ours that want to do care jobs 24/7 |
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