ANSMEDIA: PDP Vice presidential candidate, His Excellency Mr Peter Obi with his lovely Wife, Her Excellency Mrs Margaret Peter-Obi @ the 60th ANNIVERSARY of Priestly Ordination His Eminence Francis Cardinal Arinze @ Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity, Onitsha.
Lalasticlala
Cardinal Arinze should get Mbaka posted to the Vatican.
Chairman of the economic and financial crimes commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has revealed why the agency has failed to arrest former minister of Petroleum resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke.
PoliticsNGR learned that Magu, during a media chat on Wednesday in Abuja, disclosed that Foreign law enforcement agencies were protecting Madueke.
He said; “I need less than 72 hours to produce Diezani but how can I get her ? She is being protected by other law enforcement agencies outside this country . This is our predicament . If she were here , I would have arrested her .”
The barrier is that other law enforcement agencies are involved in the matter. You know she is in the UK and we are making preparations to get her . We have already gone to court and this was part of the process of extradition ; that is the court should declare that a warrant of arrest be issued against her and that we produce her within 72 hours.”
He added that if Diezani had been in Nigeria, he would have arrested the former oil minister in less than an hour .
He further disclosed that major law enforcement agencies all around the world have been alerted and iformed that Diezani was a person of interest.
However, Magu pointed out that more than 80 percent of looted funds were hanging outside the country. In his words;
“More than 80 per cent of the loot outside the country is still hanging. Ask them why it is so difficult to repatriate these funds when it has been established that this money came from Nigeria and you know that this person does not own this money .
There is no justification . It is not a small amount of money . We have over $300 m hanging in the Jersey Island, a UK foreign territory.”
After Father Mbaka's outburst with Peter Obi last week,people were expecting that he will be scared.However,Father Mbaka seems undisturbed.While speaking today at Wednesday's 'E No Dey Programme',he said he is scripturally right and not cowed.According to him,Sunday's programme was a bazaar programme where people are invited to support church project(done once a year).He said there is nothing to hide.He gave instances with biblical verses to back up his claim.He recalled how Ananias and his wife died in the bible while trying to be tricky with Peter after selling their land.He said Peter Obi is his son and he has every right to tell him if he is stingy or not.According to him,what he asked for in a bazaar was to support God's project not Mbaka's project.He said no project there belongs to him but Catholic church.Speaking further,he said when you are anointed, you can talk to both the poor/politicians without fear.He made it clear that anybody who is fighting him is fighting God.
Watch the video on the link above(he talked about the outburst from 59thminute or so of the video).I will share the 2nd part of the video tomorrow.
globemoney: I have many options bro. I will either vote for a worthy Anambra son and presidential candidate Kingsley Moughalu, Gen Gbor of APGA or I will obey Nnamdi Kanu and declare the election day as ofe nsala day
All three options are one and the same. How is Obiano battling with the impeachment axe hanging over his head?
NonsoWow: When you see post emanating from frustration, you know easily. Peter Obi should continue sponsoring junk articles against Obiano but Obiano will still disgrace him in the election as he did before. Valentine Obienyem who is Peter Obi's media aide cordinating the smear campaign should not assume that because he got his job due to his sexual/occultic relationship with Peter Obi, other people are as morally empty as he and his boss are.
You should worry more about the impeachment axe hanging over Obiano than any smear campaign.
kentreal: Those at the meeting included National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi and members of the Police Service Commission (PSC). https://planetnewsng.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=6886&action=edit
The meeting must have been held in Hausa language.
Derriere: For many of us,life abroad is fantastic but could be downright boring and lonely most of the time. I am am a 26year old profession and I am looking to make friends in the UK. I have an amazing job where I kind of bury myself all week,I sometimes take up weekend work even when tired so as to avoid loneliness.I used to be cool with it until recently.Turning 26 has made realise I have missed on a fair bit of life. I would like to meet people and forge friendships.,Age,ethnicity,race etc is irrelevant.Matured minds only please. Thank you
You may want to check out Nigerian churches. However, I'm here in London and won't mind friendship.
scholes0: Contrary to your write up and qhat I just quoted you on, the old CIA figures are actually based on the result of an Old Nigerian census that included ethnic and religious data. They probably just did their own little tweaking to it and published it as research. EVeryone knows these western agencies know jackshit about Africa or Nigeria ...
This was where the old figures came from. It was the result of Nigeria's 1963 census, that was done before the civil war.
See, Before G.E.J came to power Ijaws have always been at 2% on that C.I.A and other sources Website. It was when the Niger Delta Militant crisis and Jonathan's ascension occured than They suddenly shot up to 10%.
As you can see, the old figures roughly corresponds to the new one, which was what they had up before like some sort of Ingenious research. Fulani plus Hausa, roughly 29%, Yoruba about 21%, Kanuris about 4%, Ibibis 3.5% yada yada..... They probably tweaked the figures and bumed Igbos up to 18 .... and so forth.....
You cleverly included Kwara and Kogi for Yoruba while leaving out Delta and Rivers for Igbos? Smh
No way in Hell Yorubas are 13 point something Percent of Nigeria. Are you shittting me? Funny. Infact any figure below 20% if unacceptable for the Yorubas.
Yorubas must be Superhumans to influence Nigerian and Nigerians as much as they do with just 13.9%
Where are they influencing? This is the effect of not travelling outside one's zone.
RockHard: The only thing we have that is closest to an informed estimate of population spread are the telecoms data (attached below) because it is unbiased in any form, and it clearly shows the SE as the least populated while the SW is the single largest/most populated. Oyo and Ogun population alone are more than those of the SE combined (without including Lagos or Ekiti, Ondo, Osun or Kwara and Yoruba-speaking Kogi).
The data is not based on regional population but ethnic origin and every sane Nigerian knows the number of Igbos living outside the South East is far more than the number living in the South East. For example, Ndigbo are said to make up 45% of Lagos population and own 75% of landed properties in Abuja.
PFRB: IF YOU WANT IGBO PEOPLE TROUBLE GO AGAINST PETER OBI. Today in Igbo land Peter Obi is like chief Sam Mbakwe . That is for those who have been governors. If any body goes against him such a person will incur the anger of Igbos. Try and see.
Obiano and his hirelings are on this table you are shaking.
hisexcellency34: He is the elder brother to the late Maryam Babangida, former First Lady and wife of Military President, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB)
But you can go to Peckham or Brixton, ask the Asian guys selling top up along Rye Lane in Peckham or Brixton market for a Nigeria bundle SIM. They code it fir you @ £12 - £15 for 250 minutes.
* Economic outlook dwarfed by 2019 election fears (Adds details of banks’ liquidity tests)
By Chijioke Ohuocha
LAGOS, Nov 2 (Reuters) - HSBC and UBS have closed their offices in Nigeria, the country’s central bank said in a report on Friday as it revealed foreign investment had fallen sharply from a year ago.
The bank said foreign direct investment in Nigeria fell to 379.84 billion naira ($1.2 billion) in the first half of the year from 532.63 billion naira ($1.7 billion) a year earlier.
It did not given reasons for the bank closures.
HSBC was not available to comment and UBS declined to comment.
The central bank said the outlook for the Nigerian economy in the second half was “optimistic” given higher oil prices and production but rising foreign debt and uncertainty surrounding the 2019 presidential election was a drawback.
Investor confidence in the West African country has been shaken since the central bank in August ordered MTN to bring back $8.1 billion to the country, part of profits which the South African telecoms firm sent abroad.
An HSBC research note dated July 18 said a second Buhari term “raises the risk of limited economic progress and further fiscal deterioration, prolonging the stagnation of his first term, particularly if there is no move towards completing reform of the exchange rate system or fiscal adjustments that diversify government revenues away from oil.”
LOAN LOSSES
The central bank also said three lenders failed to meet its minimum liquidity ratio of 30 percent, without naming them.
It added that non-performing loans (NPLs) have dropped to 12.4 percent as at June 2018 from 15 percent a year ago, still a long way above its 5 percent threshold.
“To further consolidate on the improvement, the Central Bank of Nigeria directed banks to intensify efforts at debt recovery, realisation of collateral for lost facilities and strengthening their risk management processes,” it said in the report.
In September, the regulator withdrew the license of Skye Bank for failing to recapitalise. It then transferred Skye’s assets to a “bridge bank” Polaris wholly-owned by the state-backed asset management company AMCON.
Nigerian banks have been trying to raise fresh capital after huge loan losses worsened by an economy that has just emerged from a recession.
Diamond Bank last week denied it was in talks with investors to raise cash but said it was managing its capital, which borders on the regulatory minimum, to grow.
Another lender Unity Bank has been seeking to raise fresh funds to recapitalise. ($1 = 305.5500 naira) (Reporting by Chijioke Ohuocha Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky and Elaine Hardcastle)