₦airaland Forum

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unclejb2:
it's Igbo.

Na Europeans call am Ibo.

Chinua Achebe called it Ibo in "things fall apart" novel.

Bragalane:
You should be looking for the Jewish word as igbos are not English but Jews

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Everyone is just fighting for their own selfish interest.

Sirtee19:
Even FG workers are not spared. Up till now, their December salary is yet to be paid.

December?

I thought Obidients were all millionaires and agbados were poor people.

Emefiele asked who appointed him in 2014 and reappointed him in 2019. They are GEJ and Buhari respectively.

This is not the first time his hand would be caught in a cookie jar. He was caught sometime in 2017 as well.

"In November 2017, it emerged that suspended Governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, had significant interests in an off-shore company registered in Bermuda, which held an account with UBS in London. UBS is a multinational investment bank and financial services company with its headquarters in Basel and Zurich in Switzerland.

Disclosures released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in the Paradise Papersrevealed that Mr. Emefiele owned 49% of Oviation Asset Management since 2009 and was a director in the company from January 2013.

According to The Guardian newspaper in London, “Oviation was part of a structure that imported two jets via the Isle of Man. The latest purchase, a $50m Gulfstream G550, arrived in November 2015. It replaced a $33m Gulfstream G450, imported in 2013.”

15 months before the import of the second Gulfstream, in June 2014, Mr. Emefiele became the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). In this capacity, he also chaired the board of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting PLC, which is responsible for printing Nigeria’s currency.

Section 9 of the CBN Act of 2007 requires of both the Governor of the Central Bank and his deputies that they “shall devote the whole of their time to the service of the Bank and, while holding office, shall not engage in any full or part-time employment or vocation, whether remunerated or not, except such charitable causes as may be determined by the Board and which do not conflict with or conflict with their full-time duties.”

This prohibition places three constraints on the CBN Governor: one substantive, another procedural, and a third ethical. Substantively, it bars him from moonlighting in any other job or vocation, whether or not remunerated. Procedurally, he needs the approval of the Board of the CBN before taking on any role outside the bank. Implied in this is an obligation of full and honest disclosure on the part of the CBN Governor. As an (additional) ethical standard, the Act precludes the CBN Governor from putting himself in a position that conflicts with his full-time duties.

As the head of a “public corporation” (which the CBN is), Mr Emefiele, as CBN governor, is also subject to the Code of Conduct for senior public officers contained in the 5th Schedule to the Nigerian constitution, which imposes on him standards of conduct with reference to asset disclosure, acceptance of gifts and donations, and holding of overseas interests.

For Mr Emefiele, these standards were ornaments of convenience. Three years into his office as the CBN Governor, his interests in Oviation were still intact. Contacted by The Guardian for an explanation in November 2017, Mr Emefiele claimed that he “gave instructions for his shares to be handed back” to his former employers, a Nigerian bank, in 2014. For a central banker, this claim showed either a tendency for the cavalier or habit of casuistry.

On or about 4 May, 2022, Mr Emefiele was a guest of President Muhammadu Buhari in the presidency. The following day, some characters claiming to be armed Niger Delta militants endorsed Mr Emefiele for the presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), promising to lay down their arms if the party were to hand the ticket to him.

Two days later, on 6 May 2022, it emerged that one Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) and two other shadowy organisations had purchased for Mr. Emefiele forms to run for the presidency on the ticket of the APC. On the same day, Reuters reported that “news of Emefiele’s presidential bid sent the Naira close to a record low”.

In a country where consequences follow malfeasance, Mr. Emefiele should have been unemployed and in prison. In Nigeria, he longed for the presidency.

" - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, a lawyer, teaches at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy can be reached at chidi.odinkalu@tufts.edu.

gistray:
Outside Nigeria.

Before they say Igbo they Say Nigeria.

The way they treat Igbos is the way they'll treat any Nigerian

The south Africans are specifically calling them flat head Nigerians and are even using the word Igbo. The Thai police man said Igbo. You can only hide under the Nigerian tag for so long.

BloomingDale:
Na wa o. I no understand this kind boasting. I no go lie.

Typical iboman boasting. Every Nairalanders and twitterian should be used to it by now.

vanbonattel:
I am happy your starting to come your senses. That when a fulani is involved, nobody will probe him. Matawalle nko?

GOVERNOR ABBA MUSA RIMI, a Fulani man from Katsina, was jailed in 1985 by Buhari as well. You are just wired to believe everyone is after the Ibo due to victim mentality.

Another Fulani man that was jailed by Buhari in the 1980s was GOVERNOR AWAAL MUHAMMED IBRAHIM.

vanbonattel:
Stop dodging my question, when Ekwueme was jailed for 300 years, how many years was his boss Shagari jailed for? House arrest.

Be ashamed of your double standards for once.

He bundled umaru dikko, did unary dukko arrive Nigeria in the bundle. Your head was used for propaganda news not mine.

You see tribalism everywhere because you are likely one.

Governor Abba Musa Rimi, his fellow Fulani from Katsina, was jailed as well.

You keep bringing up Ekwueme as if he was the only one jailed by Buhari in the 1980s. Several SS and SW politicians were jailed during his anti corruption crusade too. If you think a Nigerian president either GEJ or Shagari would be jailed, them you are living in lala land.

vanbonattel:
Shagari and Ekwueme?

President vs Vice president. Same Buhari bundled Umaru Dikko in a diplomatic bag like a common criminal.

vanbonattel:
Dasuki locked buharri and caused him to have a loss. That was pure old Payback.

How about ekwueme and Shagari?

Explain.

Dasuki locked Buhari right? Now do the same for Abdulrasheed Maina

vanbonattel:
The man was arrested because he is an Igbo man

Always acting like a Victim. Sambo Dasuki was dragged under Fulani, no one said it's because he was fulani.

Abagworo:
Every claims against Emefiele are 100% false. They started with him being the Chief sponsor of IPOB and have been manufacturing fake allegations against him ever since then . His only offence is being Igbo.

Why acting the victim. When Dasuki was being dragged under GEJ, no one said it's because he was fulani.

Okay.

I am shocked by the recent demolition of several houses in Enugu State. I am again pained that we are embarking on such an inconsiderate project at this critical time when the country is going through untold hardship. I would like to reiterate that at this time, our preoccupation should not be sending hundreds of people into homelessness. We need to focus instead on how to lessen the pain and suffering of poor people.

And this is just one of many.

The other day, a BATist bought medicine for an Obidient. The Obidient guy came to give thanks on twitter. The news did not trend. Let's imagine if it was the other way around

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