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9. CCT Chairman Alleged Looting
Another shocking corrupt allegation in 2015 was that of Code of Conduct Tribunal Chairman, Justice Danladi Umar who was accused of spending N15.2million CCT’s money to purchase a Toyota Prado Jeep “without following due process”, among other allegations in a petition received by the Senate
The petition came at a time when Umar was presiding over the trial of the Senate President Bukola Saraki for alleged false asset declaration.
However, since the beginning of hearing by the Senate House committee, the petitioners have failed to appear before the sitting.

8. Saraki’s False Asset Declaration Scam
Just after emerging as the Senate President against the wish of his party, Bukola Saraki was arraigned by the Code of Conduct Bureau for alleged anticipatory declaring of assets owned while he was Governor of Kwara state in 2003.
Saraki was also accused of operating a foreign bank account while he was Governor, a punishable offence under the code of conduct act for public office holders.
After an Abuja High Court and Court of Appeal dismissed Saraki’s appeal to halt his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, The senate President finally get an injunction from the Supreme Court ordering the CCT to stay proceedings on Saraki’s trial.
The Supreme Court adjourned hearing till February 5.

7. Fashola’s N78Million Website Scam
How can a website cost N78Million Naira? Why is www.fashola.com being paid for by the Lagos state government? These were the questions on the lips of concerned Nigerians during the heat of Former Governor of Lagos Babatunde Fashola (SAN) controversial website upgrade.
The contractor, Info Access Plus, denied receiving N78 million for the website upgrade but said though it quoted N12.5 million for the upgrade of the website, www.fashola.com, it only received N10 million from the state government.
The former governor, Fashola later said in a statement that only N12 million was actually awarded for the upgrade of the site while other services such as the handover countdown clock, mobile apps for Google, for iOS ipad, for Microsoft, and Blackberry and the annual maintenance cost for managing the site make up the total of N78 million.
Mr. Fashola is now a Minister of the federal republic and the rest is history for now.

6. Illegal Diversion of $322million (N83.72 Billion) Abacha’s loot By Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
Digging deep into the source of funding for the Dasukigate since the National Assembly never appropriated as much as $2.1Biliion for defence budget, it was discovered that Former Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala approved the diversion of $322 million Abacha’s loot to former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki to fund the purchase of arms to fight Boko Haram terror.
Okonjo-Iweala admitted transferring the money to Dasuki on approval of President Goodluck Jonathan but maintained that the money was to be treated as a loan.

5. N6 Billion Bribe To Christian Leaders
On the 4th of February 2015, The then Director-General, Buhari Presidential Campaign organisation, Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, accused some church leaders of taking N6 billion bribe from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to campaign against the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).
Meanwhile, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the PDP denied the allegation but in a twist, a Borno-based Pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa, on February 19, said that the money that was given to Pastors by the [former] president was actually N7bn and not N6bn as alleged by Amaechi.

4. $1 billion missing monthly – Sanusi
Nigerians could not but screamed when former Central Bank Governor and Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, revealed that about $1bn (N260bn) went missing every month under former President Goodluck Jonathan.
The former central bank governor, said this during a programme entitled ‘How a cancer of corruption steals Nigerian oil, weapons and lives’, which aired on The PBS NewsHour, an American daily evening television show.
The monarch said many dirty and shocking deals took place under the immediate past Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who is currently being investigated in the United Kingdom.
“In Nigeria, there is no accountability at all and that is why I think Nigeria’s corruption is worse than corruption in most parts of the world. It is the worst type of corruption; It’s stealing”
“Frankly, I think a billion dollars under Jonathan a month was about what we were losing.” Sanusi said.
The allegation has not been investigated by Nigerian Government or Anti-graft agencies

3 NIMASA N2.6Billion Scam
Former Director-General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Ziadeke Akpobolokemi and five others staff of the agency are currently standing trial on a 22-count charge for allegedly stealing the sum of N2.6 billion belonging to NIMASA.
Embarrassingly, Akpobolokemi on December 14 resisted re-arrest by the EFCC within court premises after he was granted bail by the court. The drama which was caught on tap went viral on social media as EFCC operatives forcefully dragged Akpobolokemi into a waiting van.
Akpobolokemi is in EFCC custody and his awaiting trial.

2. Diversion of One Trillion by Former EFCC Boss, Ibrahim Lamorde
The stain of corruption did not spare anti-graft agencies as former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, was accused of fraudulently diverting over N1tn proceeds from corruption recovered by the agency.
A petition by George Uboh alleged that part of the diverted fund included the loot recovered from a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha; and ex-Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun.
Lamorde, who is yet to clear his name in the scandal, was later sacked as EFCC chairman on the 9th November 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Corruption has been described as Nigeria’s major problem, hindering development, creating a wide gap between the rich and the poor. While the majority wallowed in poverty, few in government pocketed our commonwealth.
Here are some of the biggest corruption cases and allegations that shook Nigerians in 2015 as compiled by Greeennews.ng .
1. Dasukigate
Perhaps one of the biggest scams in the history of Nigeria as the APC –led federal government opened a can of worms when it decided to probe the spending of arms fund under the immediate past administration of the PDP.
Sambo Dasuki and four others are standing trial for allegedly laundering and diverting $2.1 billion (N546 billion) arms fund. This is enough to fund the 2016 proposed budgets of Ebonyi, Kebbi, Sokoto, Edo, Yobe and Ekiti states altogether.
The arms scandal became even more worrisome as media organisations were also caught in the scam. Although, the media organisations, mostly newspaper publishers, claimed the money was meant for compensation for the damages the Military cost them in 2014. Some of the media organisations are now returning N9million each to the Office of the National Security Adviser though NPAN.

FreeGlobe:
APC is even more dead in Imo currently than Anambra. Atleast Anambra people still like Ngige unlike Imo were nothing apc is liked

all am saying is that una anambra ppl de too tribalistic and would always want to lord it over others...una go deceive una ppl, call APC muslim party come later de patronise them....its quite shameful....una ppl suppose try stop this quest for money at all cost

hardywaltz:
Peter Obi the father of tribalism in Anambra State

exactly....the same man that played politics with deportation of Anambrarians back to Onitsha from Lagos and labeled APC a muslim party and campaigned for Jonathan wants to join APC....wonders they say shall never end...kudos to IMO people who dont buy cheaply Anambrarians tribalistic tendencies...other SE states are set to join in rebellion against tribalism

Seventeen:
lol.. My bros na wa oo.. If na catholic church he left for another church now, he for say 'Jim has seen the light'... Lol

babe your head de dear.....u understand how dem dey take reason

Elchappo:
Why won't the Catholic Church accept such End Time man that would also be a torn if not that they look forward for another church building...

but he was an anglican na.....so de catholic church shouldnt receive new converts again? una de too de bias

TonyeBarcanista:
Shattaaaaap! Ignoramus. There is nothing like Edo Kingdom, there is only Benin Kingdom. We have treaties that the British signed with our ancestors as far back as 1889 and even 1901. The Ijaws informed the British in the 40s that we want to be autonomous but the fools(British) refused and lumped us with other nationalities in Eastern region. It was never so before. The so called Midwest was created in 1963 after the Western region allowed referendum but the Igbos refused us referendum to suppress us. Thanks to Awo and Gowon! We made agitation for Oil Rivers state(Ijaws in Rivers and Akwa Ibom), Toru Ibe state(for Ijaws in Delta, Edo and Ondo) and Bayelsa state but were only given Bayelsa. If we had got those states, it will mean that Ijaw has 3 exclusive states of their own and project our identity. I don't blame your kind, I blame the foolish British and the Nigerian structure.




Beside: There is nothing like "Core Deltan", you are an Igboman.

stop deceiving ursef dude.....any person who is against ur opinion is labelled igbo and u want to to believe u that u have brain?

advocates:
Igbo Eze north. Though, it's a mixture of both Igbo and idoma language. While some claim Igbo, others like me rooted for idoma.

lolz.....bro thats Enugu-ezike if am too sure.....fact is that there is a tight boundary and almost a mixture with benue esp idoma part but all we do know is that they're all igbo and u as an individual cant choose were u want to align...u gerrit?
am not from Enugu though but i had my university education there and i know the state too well like my state
so forget that thing

advocates:
I am Idoma from Enugu state. I neither consider myself a northerner or from the middle belt. Nigeria is all on my mind and nothing more.

We should never give in to the antics of this Igbo sadist who will invade every thread on regional basis to cast aspersion between brothers.
I live in the north, and I so much love northerners ( Hausa and Fulanis alike), good people to live with. Take religion rascality away from the Hausa man, and you have simple, down to earth people. Little wonder why Igbos, despite the undefined hatred for the north, can't find a place as harmonious and business friendly as the north.

How could you hate a people so much, yet you have almost 1/3 of easterners scavenging there for their daily livelihood? Nobody sent you to pick arms against a sovereign state, better still an intolerant Nigerian military. The consequences are always unimaginable.

I understand that the Fulani's carnage in the middle belt is a cause for concern and maybe reason why the Middle belt frontiers are making this frantic statement, but we shouldn't give occasion for Igbo haters to make ridicule of this noble call, since they have proved over the years, their desperation to tear the very fabric bonding this nation.

If for anything, I considered myself a northerner.

you are just an imposter.....and u are never any idoma from Enugu state...oya which LGA be dat

NakedEve:
In the Middle belt cities because of high economic turn over and development by Nidigbo, the aborigines of those cities love Nidigbo.
We see a clear difference between them and backward Hausa. You can't even compare.
They sell heavy goods but Hausa sells in kiosks.
They build wonderful structures but Hausa's will prefer to live in dirty settlements.

But alas our villages r still pro Hausa but things r changing because of this Fulani incursion into our homeland.
Many of our village Youths have begun to see them for who they r and r having pro-igbo tendencies.

THANK U FOR REVELING THE TRUTH....THE CHILDREN OF HATE WONT LIKE THIS BC ALL THEY ALWAYS WANT IS TO SEE IGBO BEEN HATED BY OTHER TRIBES...GOD GO SEE UNA THROUGH MIDDLE BELTANS

omenka:
Abi oo. Exactly how I feel as well.

u be abo.ki guy....ab.oki na aboki even him deny am or wear suite

Kenkesh:
THE AGONY OF UNEMPLOYED MEDICAL GRADUATES IN NIGERIA©

It is no longer news to the world and especially to Nigerians, the rate and vigour with which corruption in its different forms has invaded every facet of Nigeria's institutions. It seems to have become part of the genetic composition of most Nigerians if not all.

An aspect that inevitably affect youth develepmont and empowerment is worth discussing taking the medical sector which plays a critical role in nation building and economic development:

1) Collection of mandatory levy from applicants --- this usually happens before the submission of applications for job interview, jobs that the applicant is not sure he/she will get.

While the present government is planning to alleviate poverty by paying the unemployed youth some token for their upkeep, these employers - so called government workers and heads of institutions - set up their own wicked strategies to impoverish these unemployed teeming number of medical and health graduates by collecting huge sums from them before allowing them to sit for job interviews.This is so common most especially among the teaching hospitals in the western and south-eastern part of the country.

Just last year(2015), UCTH and UPTH collected N5000 from newly graduated doctors for their interview. The same year UNILORIN Teaching Hospital collected the same amount for the same reason of job interview, LASUTH charged the same amount. Many other hospitals did the same. Currently, Ekiti State Teaching Hospital is collecting N5000 (being the price of the application form) from these newly graduated medical doctors. Bear in mind that these fresh doctors have to do their one year mandatory internship programme. They have temporary licences and must do this within a limited time. They are entirely on their own and must compete with one another and with doctors trained abroad for the few placements available in the qualified hospitals.

These graduates will not only pay the mandatory fee, but will also risk their lives transporting themselves to the various venues of these interviews, lodge in hotels and cater for themselves etc. Where will they get funds and supports from knowing fully well that they are yet to start work, implying that the burden stil falls back to their parents and guardians who must have spent enormously in seeing them through medical school. Why do these MDs and CMDs, want to further impoverish the already poor young graduates before giving them their rightful placements? Is it what the Federal Government asked them to do? These question demand urgent answers!

2) The epidemic of I.M (ima mmadu OR to know somebody) in Nigerian employment system:

Merit is no longer recognised in the Nigerian employment system. After paying a heavy application fee, working hard to pass an the interview, you still are not sure of getting the job unless you know somebody or somebody who know somebody within the institution who can secure the job for you. For example, how can the best graduating students of reputable colleges of medicine go for interview at institutions different from their alma mater & not even one of the best ten graduating students get placements. You have to know some body before you can get a job. Those that don't know any body are automatically hopeless.

How can you explain the fact that someone re-sitting his final exams (ie he has not yet graduated, has no license and can not apply for internship) nevertheless participates in the job interview organized by his alma mater and gets a placement ahead of those that have graduated.

The situation is really discouraging hard work among youths, since hard work is no longer recognised. NAUTH has been delaying the list of succesful candidates, presumably because of the same reasons.

3) Buying of placements:
Here, the employer will collect application fees, conduct interviews, cast all the result of the interview into the waste paper basket and then commence the phase of auctioning the placements. Huge sums are unofficially/covertly collected from the employees before employing them. In UNTH and ESUTH, many have had to pay at least N150,000 and above before they could get housemanship . Is this part of the Youth Empowerment Programme?

4) Ghost workers in Nigerian employment system:

This particularly refers to a situation where an institution accredited and financially equipped to employ for instance 200 workers, decides to employ about 150. It then takes appropriate measures to secure the salary of the other 50 for the boss' pocket.

Ghost workers exist almost everywhere in Nigerian institutions. Take the case of UNTH that is budgeted to employ/train 180 house officers, but only employs about 120-125, with about less than half of them being their own graduants while the rest are abroad-trained doctors who heavily lobbied themselves into the system.
This creates artificial scarcity of jobs, making it difficult and impossible for all the graduates to promptly do their mandatory one year internships. Just as happens during artificial fuel scarcity, these wicked MDs and CMDs enrich themselves grossly from these situations.

Another phenomenon probably unique to medical internships is the possibility of doing the internship more than once. The salary is attractive and there is lack of nationally centralized control over the internship programme. With the appropriate corrupt means at the individual's disposal, he/she can get a fresh placement in a different hospital and can do multiple internships. This obviously denies fresh graduates their rightful placements.

It is clear that our senior colleagues, our leaders, our fathers and our elders in privileged positions are the very ones frustrating the youths of this country.

What is happening in the medical sector is pitiable! The role of our CMDs is scandalous! The practice of young interns who block their unemployed colleagues from getting slots by doing internship over and over again to make more money is totally wicked and punishable by Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria(MDCN). The silence of MDCN on the ongoing mess is the height of negligence of duty to protect the profession from ridicule! Finally, the inability of young medical graduates to articulate their experiences and speak out to the authorities is an act of timidity. Evil thrives when good men fail to speak up! I just weep for our corrupt generation.

Let this serve as a clarion call to all individuals and agencies capable and responsible for looking into matters such as these to come to our rescue.

Thanks. God bless Nigeria

DR KESH...THANKS A LOT FOR THIS THREAD.
FIRST I MUST THANK U SO MUCH FOR UR MEDICINE OSPE WHICH U PREPARED WHICH MADE THE 015 CLASS OF MEDICINE (UNN) PASS THEIR MEDICINE EXAMS LIKE WATER.

homesteady:
She doesn't need much introduction!

This time around, Olamide is at the receiving end of her venomous tweets after his headies beef with Don Jazzy.

https://mobile.twitter.com/HNNAfrica/status/683294184502067201?p=v

DID I JUST HEAR YORUBA ILLITERATES? NOW IS COMING FROM THE SAME YORUBA WOMAN AND IS 100% CORRECT .
NO WONDER MOST YORUBAS ACT STUPID AND ALWAYS SHOUTING SAI BABA LIKE SLAVES AND ILLITERATES...
THANKS FOR THE REVELATION

Ginaz:
I use God beg u o, dis one na new year abeg no provoke me. I only stated my opinion, if it doesn't go well with you can't you just comment something No let me slap sense 4 ur brain o, see as u dey behave like don jazzy. Big for nothing with no sense !

same tribalism u accused other ppl of.....hypocrite like u

abduljabbar4:
Leave me alone joor. Go and fvck ur wife

lolz...u're not a northerner...am almost sure of this...i have a lot of northern friends and they rarely reason like this...u cud be yoruba

abduljabbar4:
And the prisons will keep getting filled by the iboes. By your post, you mean boko haram suppliers should not be arrested because they are not the terrorists. I pity una

u dont even know what u're arguing about....the topic is about kano youths abusing drugs and u are here spewing trash..
the drug been talked about is not only limited to cocaine but things like metamphetamine, tramadol, etc and some go to the extent of inhaling petrol, soak-away pits..
reason like someone who is educated

Jaydee009:
Abduljabbar4... I pity the likes of you because you are part of the problem in Nigeria.

We are discussing a societal ill that affects the youth of the nation, instead of condemning it, your bigoted tribalism infested mind won't allow you see beyond your nose.

You even had the effrontery to make a case for them and subtly place the blame for their anti-social behaviour on another tribe that were not even mentioned in such ills.

What is the difference between you and Gov Shettima of Borno who said "Boko Haram arose because of the 13% oil revenue derivation being paid to oil-producing states" and another drunken senator who said "all Northern states are oil-producing because oil pipelines pass through them and therefore they also deserve the same 13%"

You are just like Buhari and his APC worshippers/mastur.bators whose only preoccupation is blaming GEJ for all their incompetence instead of giving Nigerians good governance.

Keep passing the buck and don't make anything meaningful out of your life you hear?

as in ee...that guy abdulijabbar4 fall hand well well
but i wont blame him much but rather he could be having some sort of inferiority complex thinking his self esteem lies on what his tribesmen do...to me is a Nigerian issue and not a tribal thing.....but some ppl still keep playing the ethnic card worse than what the devil can even do

lalasticlala mynd44 obinoscopy front page oooo....we need to stop drug addiction and misuse, is making our youths useless oo

henryanna36:
Anambra state has embarked in the production and processing of rice. Anambra state under the leadership of Gov. Willie Obiano seems to be master of all.Some of the rice produced were shared to civil servants by Gov. Willie Obiano.Kudos to him

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/01/photos-anambra-is-producing-and.html?m=1

EBONYI REMAINS CHAIRMAN HERE AND HAD ALREADY STARTED IT SINCE ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED...NICE ANAMBRA IS IMITATING AT LEAST SOUTH EAST WILL FEED THE WHOLE COUNTRY AND EVEN EXPORT...

Monalisa185:
*clears throat*

a wonderful morning romancelanders/nairalanders....it's a brand new year, and guess what?? It's the year [b]2016....the very year we've all been waiting for...haha...let's get down to business... I would like to use this platform to send a new year shout out to a few friends...both those I have had the opportunity of knowing and those I have not .(yeah, I know you understand)

well, there's a little clue (stop rolling those eyes, it's simple).....I would be using a harshtag (#HNY), That simply means "HAPPY NEW YEAR"... so don't get confused when you see it.... #leggo

[b]pinceprinz :for being a trouble maker , This is a new year o, change #HNY

faith551 :hehehe, for always looking for your trouble, tho I go still find more #HNY

martyns303 :for being so trusting, tho I'm still waiting for dah feedback #HNY

flokii :You! you can shaaa look for trouble, try change this year ooo.. #HNY

stfuareyouGod :you still owe me my smoothie oo,& don't forget dah party we burning down soon #HNY

primeministerr :my pm! I never see the horse and donkey wey you promise o..change! #HNY

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Queennikky :Hey hun! #HNY

sameer1212 :use that your baby picture do new year for me na #HNY

chandli :man utd hater..hope you enjoying yourself now that we've lost a couple of times? #HNY

naijaboiy :This stingy boy, I'm yet to get my tfare o, na new year be this o, better change #HNY

julianne10 :hey dearie #HNY

Lalasticlala :Lala when person go see your cute face na? #HNY

tosyne2much :hehehehe.. boss...you owe me something oo #HNY

vizkiz :Mr. 50 years ago...lol #HNY

cutehector :your rat poison is still intact oo, I never forget #HNY

roctation :For that immediate response months back..Thank you; D..#HNY

ugliest : this your monicker sf...lol #HNY

farano :Halo farara #HNY

Alienstar :sweety, I've not seen that Rihana you did, would love to tho #HNY

jolllyjoy :Babe, where your break light na? Abi na you be dolllyjoy? #HNY

Decker :The intelligent and ever controversial one :HNY

fajani :Dude, hope you are still a born again? #HNY

pretydiva :Hey, remember our last fight? na play ooo #HNY

moezzy :My 500yards husband material #HNY

donTbone :dude, hope you still preparing for dah get together tho? #HNY

obiorathesubtle : Baddest niqqa on NL.. #HNY

osedvgirl :Babe, where have you been..hope sey dem never kidnap you oo? #HNY

tunchi101 :Buddy, hope you now know your way round NL? #HNY

potestdeus :For always making mockery of my club whenever the going gets though, I see you #HNY

fistking01 :Hope you are happy now? you guys are topping the league now, enjoy #HNY

MrsPhyno :That dude (phyno) doesn't know what he's missing, hope he realizes before it becomes too late, lol #HNY

IamLegend1 : dude, gimme link na, where you dey get those funny pics? #HNY
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haaaaaaa...the list is really a long one...I could go on and on, buh mehnnn, this thing ain't easy one bit..

I wish you all the very best the year brings..this year smells good tho..hmmmm...enjoy the rest of the year....
HAPPY NEW YEAR[/b]

Monalisa185 i so much appreciate....hny to you too and pray a bigger u
have fun