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I want to say I command the man if this story is in deed true. There is no way in hell you can fit $700.000 US Dollars in one pocket of a suit or what ever, to carry that amount of money you need a brief case, so even if the denomination is in $100. This man is brave for returning the money, as I can attest to the statement, there are still good Nigerians out there. I left a very expensive digital camera at a barber saloon, and went back the next day and it was handed over to me in tact in Abuja, so I'm proud to say we still have good Nigerians among us. and for the people that are calling this man a fool, are this the same people that are saying the government is corrupt?

Dauda there is no ghetto fabulous white people ther are called REDNECKS

My goodness, Nigerians are doomed for ever, if indeed 24 out of 36 governors are corrupt? how many ministers are in the same boat? we need to pray for a Saviour

Missworld How old are you, and how many head of states or generals so called have we had right after IBB, can you imagine how much this guys defraud the country with their nefarious activities. you can distroy a house in one day but you can't build a house in one day. as far as I am concern, OBJ might not be the perfect man for the country, but that man did more for Nigeria than any other presidents or generals we've ever had. The only reason all this so called Northerners are pushing for IBB to come back to power is because IBB is known for his eat and let eat policy, corruption and embezzlement was the slogan of IBB regime.

I wonder where all this people seeking IBB re election where in the 90's.  The reason Nigerian have no jobs and there is prevailing poverty in Nigeria today was Ibb, please you boys are making me seek just coming up with the idea of Ibb,

NOPE there is election next year, and all will be reelected i think

I'm Not from Anambra and I don't know the full details to this story, but the questing I kept asking is why did it take so long to impeached this Ngigi boy?  and if he had any pride why did he aassumethe post if iindeedhe knew he never won the election.  so all this boys have skeleton in their cupboard regardless if he did a good job or not, he is and was still shshady

so I see we all black people can relate to one thing.

Inheritance


When Dan found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly
father died, he decided he needed a woman to enjoy it with. So one
evening he went to a singles bar where he spotted the most beautiful
woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away.

"I may look like just an ordinary man," he said as he walked up to her,
"but in just a week or two, my father will die, and I'll inherit 20 million dollars."

Impressed, the woman went home with him that evening and, three days
later, she became his stepmother.

Women are so much smarter than men. When will they ever learn

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU'RE AT BLACK KIDS BIRTHDAY PARTY


1. Some of the guest didn't bring a gift, but brought extra uninvited kids.

2. The cake says "Happy Birthday Pookie" instead of the child's name.

3. The party is at Chuck E. Cheese, but they brought their own food, cake, etc.

4. It's a child's party but there are more grown-ups than children.

5. It's De'Vonte's 1st Birthday and the party food is BBQ and Daiquiris. – BRANDY THIS IS YOU,

6. Instead of playing pin the tail on the donkey, they have a "Back That Thing Up" contest.

7. They don't sing Happy Birt hday ins tead everyone is chanting "Go Man Man It's Your Birthday".

8. There are twenty kids at the party but no parents (They got dropped off). !

9. The party was over at 5:00, it's 8:00 and somebody's kid is still there.

10. Instead of Loot bags, the party favors are in Zip-Lock baggies.

11. The birthday cake is Red Velvet.

12. The invitations said Pizza Party, you get there and frozen Tony's Pizza is being served.

13. The host calls someone who's on their way and tells them to stop and get some ice.

14. The guest start arriving and the host disappears to get ready.

15. You buy some food stamps from your cousin to buy the party food.

16. You hear someone tell the birthday child " I am going to get you something next week when I get paid".

17. The party wasn't planned, the birthday child just went outside and said "Mama said I'm getting ready to have a Birthday Party, Come on".

18. The party is Saturday, you got a call on Friday ni! ght saying "I am giving Ke-Shawn a birthday party tomorrow at 3:00".

19. All the kids at the party have on new clothes that they got just for the party.

20. None of the gifts are wrapped, because the guest stopped by the store on the way to the party.

21. The gift is still in the store bag.

22. They don't serve punch, you get Kool-Aid and those store brand cheese puffs.

23. The Baby daddy, the mama's boyfriend, and the mama's ex-boyfriend (the one the kid likes so much) are all there, and the child is calling them all DADDY.

24. There's more family than friends at the party.

25. The birthday child is late to his/her own party, because last night they s pent the night over with their cousin 'nem.

26. You have the party over your sister's because she just bought a new house.

27. The cake didn't come from the store, it came from the Lady who makes good cakes.

28. You have to hold on to the plate that yo! u ate your food on to eat your cake.

29. Someone calls and says "save me some cake."

30. Guest are wrapping up cake to take to mama 'nem.

31. It's a child's party but there's a Domino game in progress.

32. The baby daddy shows up with all his Boyz and you start to fear that there will be a Drive-By.

33. The party music is coming from the trunk of someone's car.

34. The Soul Train Line and Electric Slide get started.

Bonus One:

35. You and your baby daddy get into an argument because he was supposed to chip in for the party but did not cuz he said "You get child support don't you!!!" !

A mess!!!!

Well we elect this people and we all know what they are capable of doing, and I guess we paying the price for not doing our home work before we elect them, every thing that looks good is not always good.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in his prison cell Saturday, abruptly ending his four-year U.N. war crimes trial for orchestrating a decade of conflict that killed 250,000 people and tore the Yugoslav federation asunder. He was 64.

A leader of beguiling charm and cunning ruthlessness, the man reviled by the United States as "the butcher of the Balkans" was a hero to many Serbs despite losing four wars and impoverishing his people in the 1990s while trying to create a "Greater Serbia" linking Serbia with Serb-dominated areas of Croatia and Bosnia.

Milosevic apparently died of natural causes, according to the U.N. tribunal that was trying him on 66 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. His chronic heart ailments and high blood pressure had caused numerous long recesses.

His death came nearly five years after he was arrested by Serb authorities and extradited to The Hague as the first sitting head of state ever to be indicted for war crimes.

It meant there would be no judicial verdict for the leader accused of ethnic massacres and other atrocities in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo and was sure to increase criticism of the tribunal for what has been a long, expensive and ultimately wasted proceeding.

The trial, which began in February 2002, will be terminated, tribunal spokeswoman Alexandra Milenov said.

The chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, expressed regret, saying she believed she would have won a conviction.

"I also regret it for the victims, the thousands of victims, who have been waiting for justice," Del Ponte told Swiss Television DRS while visiting her native Switzerland.

Former President Clinton, whose administration confronted Milosevic's regime, also lamented that no verdict would be reached.

"I am sorry that his trial will not be completed, and that he did not acknowledge and apologize for his crimes before his death. Nevertheless, his capture and trial will serve as a reminder that egregious crimes against humanity will not be tolerated," Clinton said in a statement released by his office in New York.

Milosevic was accused of being behind a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing against non-Serbs during the wars that erupted as the Yugoslav federation began breaking apart in 1991, and his death was cheered by many in the Balkans.

"Finally, we have some reason to smile. God is fair," said Hajra Catic, who heads an association of women who lost loved ones when ethnic Serb troops slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the eastern enclave of Srebrenica in 1995.

In Serbia, where many people praised Milosevic for trying to preserve Serb dominance, supporters declared his death a "huge loss."

The tribunal said a guard at the U.N. jail in suburban Scheveningen found Milosevic's body between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Saturday. The timing of his death was not released. An autopsy will be conducted Sunday by Dutch officials — with a pathologist from Serbia-Montenegro in attendance.

Milosevic's older brother, Borislav, said the family did not trust the tribunal to carry out an impartial autopsy.

He also blamed the tribunal for his brother's death because it rejected his request to get medical treatment in Russia, which offered assurances that Milosevic would be returned to finish his trial.

"All responsibility for this lies on the shoulders of the international tribunal. He asked for treatment several months ago, they knew this," Borislav Milosevic told The Associated Press in Moscow, where he lives. "They drove him to this as they didn't want to let him out alive."

Zdenko Tomanovic, the defendant's legal adviser, told Serbia's independent B-92 radio from The Hague that Slobodan Milosevic had complained that "someone wants to poison" him. Tomanovic later told state Serbian TV that Russian experts would be permitted to attend Sunday's autopsy.

The White House said it was waiting for more information.

"We have seen the news that Slobodan Milosevic has died in his prison in The Hague," spokesman Blair Jones said. "We do not have all the details yet."

There was no comment from Milosevic's wife, Mirjana, who often was characterized as a power behind the scenes during her husband's autocratic rule and has been in self-imposed exile in Russia since 2003. Their son, Marko, also lives in Russia, and their daughter, Marija, lives in Montenegro.

Milosevic's trial and Saddam Hussein's war crimes proceeding in Iraq were widely seen as together constituting the most important legal test for the international community since German and Japanese leaders were tried after World War II.

Both trials drew stiff criticism over frequent interruptions and the ability of the defendants to use the courtroom as a stage to launch vitriolic anti-Western diatribes. Reveling in the spotlight, Milosevic insisted on being his own defense lawyer.

He was able to stay as the Serbs' leader for 13 years despite a crumbling economy and increasing international isolation. He once described himself as the "Ayatollah Khomeini of Serbia," assuring his prime minister, Milan Panic, that "the Serbs will follow me no matter what."

Ivica Dacic, a ranking Socialist Party official, said in Belgrade that Milosevic's death was a "great loss for Serbia, for the entire Serb nation and for the Socialist party."

"Milosevic was carrying out not only his own defense but also the defense of Serb honor," Dacic said. "The entire country must thank him for this."

But in the end, his people abandoned him: first in October 2000, when he was unable to convince most Yugoslavs that he had staved off electoral defeat by Vojislav Kostunica, and again on April 1, 2001, when he surrendered after a 26-hour standoff to face criminal charges.

"It is a pity he didn't live to the end of the trial to get the sentence he deserved," Croatian President Stipe Mesic said.

Milosevic was born in Pozarevac, a factory town in central Serbia best known as the home of one of the country's most notorious prisons.

His father was a defrocked Orthodox priest and sometime teacher of Russian. His mother also was a teacher. Both committed suicide.

In high school, he met his future wife, the daughter of a wartime communist partisan hero. She also was the niece of Davorjanka Paunovic, private secretary and mistress of Josip Broz Tito, the communist guerrilla leader who seized power in Yugoslavia at the end of World War II.

Milosevic graduated from law school in 1964 and joined the Communist Party. The party put him in various business positions, and in 1983 he was appointed director of a major state-run bank. He became friends with several Western figures, including former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and banker David Rockefeller.

He also befriended Ivan Stambolic, who became leader of the Communist Party in Serbia in 1984. Stambolic picked Milosevic for the powerful post of party leader in the capital, Belgrade.

When Stambolic was elevated to Serbia's presidency in 1986, Milosevic succeeded him as Serbian communist boss.

A year later, Stambolic sent Milosevic to Kosovo, where ethnic Serbs were demanding protection from the province's ethnic Albanian majority. During a meeting of local Serb leaders, hundreds of angry Serbs gathered outside and demanded the leadership hear their grievances.

Milosevic faced the crowd and delivered a fiery speech, telling them: "Nobody has the right to beat you."

Those words shattered the myth of ethnic "brotherhood and unity" that had been the slogan of Tito's communist regime — and transformed Milosevic into a Serb hero.

Months later, in September 1987, he publicly accused his old friend Stambolic and others of anti-communist and anti-Serbian policies during a party meeting televised nationally. All were forced to resign in a de facto coup.

In 1989, Milosevic became president of Serbia in an election widely considered rigged. His rise alarmed the other peoples of the Yugoslav federation — Slovenes, Croats, Macedonians, Albanians and others.

In 1991, Croatia and Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia. Milosevic sent tanks to Slovenian borders, triggering a brief war that ended in Slovenia's secession.

But ethnic Serbs in Croatia, encouraged by Milosevic, took up arms. Milosevic responded by sending the Serb-led Yugoslav army to intervene, triggering a conflict that killed at least 10,000 people.

Three months later, Bosnia-Herzegovina declared its independence. Milosevic bankrolled a Bosnian Serb rebellion, triggering a war that killed an estimated 200,000 people before a U.S.-brokered peace agreement was reached at Dayton, Ohio, in 1995.

Milosevic's term as Serbian president ended in 1997 and the constitution prevented him from running again. However, he exploited legal loopholes to have parliament name him president of Yugoslavia, which then included only the republics of Serbia and Montenegro.

But it was Kosovo, his springboard to power, that finally set the stage for his downfall.

In February 1998, Milosevic sent troops to crush an ethnic Albanian uprising there, drawing sanctions from the United States and its allies. In 1999, after Milosevic refused to sign a Western-dictated peace accord, NATO conducted 78 days of airstrikes on Yugoslavia.

Before Milosevic gave in and handed over the province's administration to the United Nations in June 1999, the U.N. tribunal charged him and four top aides with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Kosovo. It later broadened the charges to include genocide.

Milosevic sought to hold on to power by pushing through a constitutional change in July 2000 to permit the election of president by popular vote rather than parliament. But he misjudged his popularity, and Yugoslavs exhausted by years of war and upheaval backed Kostunica in the election.

The Milosevic-controlled election commission tried to force a runoff, but hundreds of thousands of people converged on Belgrade, setting off a daylong riot on Oct. 5, 2000. The police and army refused to intervene, and Milosevic conceded defeat the following day.

He remained sequestered in an opulent villa in Belgrade until his arrest in April 2001. He was extradited to The Hague that June.

Proceedings are continuing against 72 war crimes suspects. Tribunal figures show 47 of them are at the detention unit where Milosevic died, and the rest have been freed until their trial begins.

The most prominent suspects — former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his top military officer, Ratko Mladic — remain at large.

___

Associated Press reporter Dusan Stojanovic contributed to this report from Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro.










http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060311/ap_on_re_eu/milosevic

A stranger-than-fiction report has linked an ex-minister with the storage of a huge sum of money in overhead water tanks in his country home. An unconfirmed report revealed that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigators stumbled on the alleged “hidden treasure”, when a surprise visit was paid to the ex-minister’s country home while he was abroad.


When the Commission was contacted by Sunday Tribune on the alleged discovery, its spokesperson, Osita Nwajah, neither confirmed nor denied the alleged visit and the discovery, saying that he would rather not talk about the matter. The part of the story that got Nwajah talking was the allegation that EFCC investigators tampered with their discovery. His anger was unmistakable in a 4-page text message response sent to the Sunday Tribune.


Quoting his response; Nwajah wrote; “I’m not sure even you want to give EFCC deserved credit for being a disciplined, committed, professional and focused law enforcement agency. “Otherwise you would have thrown that malicious tale, designed like many others, to bring down EFCC by targeting officials integrity, into the waste bin where it belongs.


“What are they going to tell you next? That when once our men were chasing 419ers, they chanced on the fraudsters pot of soup and decided to help themselves”. A request, to confirm whether there was a visit or not, after the text message was received, was rebuffed by the commission’s image-maker, who curtly replied, “please, I don’t want to say anything about it.”


Sunday Tribune source, who spoke on the alleged visit and the discovery, was not sure of how much was found kept in the hoisted water tanks, as well as how much was allegedly tampered with by the visitors. The source, however, described the sum as “huge”. The last time such discovery story was made public in government circles was during the regime of late General Sani Abacha.


A military administrator in one of the North-Central zone states had died in a plane-crash and his father, reportedly, informed Abacha, while the latter was on a condolence visit, that the deceased had told him that he was keeping some money for the late head of state. The bereaved father reportedly told Abacha that the money, which was said to be in hard currencies, was being kept in overhead water tanks in the late Colonel’s private residence.


The military officers that reportedly brought the tanks down to relocate the “hidden treasure”, were said to have looted it, with some of them reportedly sanctioned. The ex-minister dramatically fell out with President Olusegun Obasanjo, despite the public impression that the top politician was a member of the President’s think-tank. Immediately he was relieved of his job, he joined forces with the opposition to discredit the Obasanjo administration


http://www.tribune.com.ng/120306/news01.htm

I think this girl is pretty and humble, i am proud of her and hope she wins it all

MR ONO I am not sure what to say to you, but you are letting your vision cloud your judgment, How can you accused OBJ son for stealing and no one can provide concrete evidence to support this accusation, and you saying Alam took from is land is preposterous. So you will rather one man steal from the country while other are living in poverty? How ignorant . I am happy to see you speak like this, cause I will make sure if you ever get into politics, we not gonna vote for you, cause we see how you think.

This is amazing people are so quick to judge the Nigeria police as corrupt and indiscipline, and yet they scare and don't want this people to go on strike. well My stand is if you want effective police provide ammunition, housing and better allowance and see how they act.

ONO before you accused someone of buying $50 million house in the state, please provide evidence to support your accusation, and for your info, we have something called good credit in America, which means you can buy anything you want in good faith and promise to pay your notes. Even if this guy bought a $50 million house, which is not true, did he pay cash for the property, or is he paying mortgage? Even NBA stat Micheal Jordan's house is not $50 Million. lier lier pants on fire.

Im sure her papa gave her the money before hell broke loose, and as young as she is, she had no idea how to hide the money

I don't support killing innocent people, but you can only push people to the wall before they retaliate, this extremist Muslim in the north have been getting away with this kind of action for decades, and I am glad the Christians are finally standing up to them. this to me will send a clear message to them from this point on forward.

Thank God we have Obansojo and the EFCC



THE former Bayelsa Governor, Chief Diepreye Alamieye-seigha, may have more reasons to worry in detention as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives have allegedly traced over N62 million into the bank account of one of his children.

The money was reportedly found in the account of his 18-year old daughter at a Yenagoa branch of one of the fastest-growing new generation banks in the country.

Alamieyeseigha is currently standing trial before a Federal High Court in Lagos for money laundering offences.

His trial has in the last couple of weeks suffered some set back because of complications arising from the tummy tuck operation he had in Germany last year.

Sunday Punch had exclusively reported that the embattled former governor had admitted operating a financial Trust Account in a London bank in a confessional statement he made to the EFCC.

Part of the statement had read, “I do not operate personal account in UBS London, but a trust account in the name of Falcon Flight Inc. The beneficiaries are my children. The principal purpose of the trust is educational /health.

“They (his children) can only benefit from it when they are above 25 years. My children are not aware of the facility. Falcon Flight and SALO TRUST are one and the same. Nasim Ahmed should explain. Nasim is Executive Director of UBS (London).”

But on-going investigation into Alamieyeseigha’s financial dealings by operatives attached to the EFCC late January allegedly traced N62 million to the current account of his daughter, said to be a student.

It was learnt that the operatives were shocked when they stumbled on the account while investigating other members of his family, including his wife over allegations of corruption.

Sources stated that she could not explain the source of the money during interrogation by security agents.

“His daughter and wife are being investigated for corruptly enriching themselves with money belonging to the Bayelsa State Government.”

“The sum of N62 million has been traced to a current account she operates at the Yenagoa branch of a new generation bank.

“She has been questioned to tell the commission how she was able to acquire N62 million at 18 years. She is a student; she could not convince us how she made all that money.”

When contacted, the EFCC spokesman, Mr. Osita Nwajah, said that he was not at liberty to speak on the discovery of the N62 million allegedly traced to the account of the daughter of the former Bayelsa governor.

Probed further on the matter, Nwajah said that “I have no briefing on that matter for now. Therefore, I cannot comment on it.”

http://www.punchng.com/main/article02

well to me this is self defense, offense is the best defense, attack them and they will think before they come after Christians in future.

This is a wake up call to all Muslim Violent Muslim in Nigeria, we are tired of this violence and this is payback time.

Bingo metridim word up, they need to be educated before they are recruited to the police. and maybe they will have some moral, the day will come when we will trust Nigeria police, but there are so many bad eggs among them now and not until they are fired retired the problem will persist and the government can certainly help by paying this guys decent salary as well

I am happy I am a Christian cause My God do preach non violence religion, and again, how will all the Hausa's feel if we start chasing them out of Ibadan, Lagos or Enugu? This is one of the reasoned why I think the next president should come from the south or west. Hausa man will just turn the other cheek

Well people lets classify the people that engage in this nefarious barbaric act as animals, I have lots of non violent Muslim friends, and they will never fight never the less kill an innocent soul. All the people fighting and killing are just trying to find a reason to associate with the Muslim world

Drered can't even spell Obasanjo to comment on his achievements, I can tell you haven't been to Nigeria in a while.  so leave baba Iyabo alone please

Hell no we don't need US intervention in Nigeria, are u guys nuts, look at what happen in Iraq and Afghanistan, No way Jose, I still have friends and family in Nigeria and I don't want no one dropping bomb on them.

to me they are not animals but their actions is barbaric, and thuggery once again, this is not the place to fight for someone. I am not in support of fighting but there has to be a better resolution to this crisis. and the question I keep asking is Islam a religion that promote peace and non violent action?

I don't believe in violence but i believe in standing up for yourself and defending and protecting your family. if this thugs want to come fight the Christians should come out blazing too, God only help those people who help themselfs. this guys are burning churches in Nigeria and the cartoon wasn't even release in Nigeria

to me they are not animals but their actions is barbaric, and thuggery,  what happen to freedom of speech and expression, gosh this people self need a life if they are fighting and killing over cartoon, one can only wonder what will happen if they find out their prophet wasn't really the right God, and this is just my opinion.