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nkemoma:
They are still AgbadoUrchins and Yekini is still a brown teeth drug baron from Irajibijiiji

Nigeria’s Next Leader’s Ties to a Heroin Ring

General Muhammed Buhari’s political partner is a former bagman for two heroin traffickers. But that’s just business as usual in Nigeria.

Nigeria’s election last month was celebrated as an unlikely victory for democracy in an African country with a tenuous record of free and fair representation. But the man most responsible for midwifing General Muhammed Buhari’s ballot triumph over current President Goodluck Jonathan has a spotty CV. Former Lagos provincial governor Bola Tinubu, affectionately nicknamed the Jagaban, is today seen as a shrewd if not “deeply Machiavellian” Svengali in Nigeria’s politics as well as the architect of a hugely successful anti-corruption platform. But 20 years ago he had to forfeit nearly half a million dollars to the U.S. Treasury Department after being named as an accomplice in a white heroin-trafficking and money-laundering ring that stretched from West Africa to the U.S. Midwest.

Although his case has been bandied about the Nigerian press for years, Tinubu’s involvement in a federal drug and racketeering investigation waged jointly by the DEA, FBI, and IRS has gone unreported elsewhere, even after his ascendance to Karl Rove-like status last month. A recent gauzy Financial Times profile of him, for instance, neglected to mention that two decades ago Tinubu was identified as a bagman for two Nigerian heroin movers who operated out of Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. They were Adegboyega Mueez Akande and Abiodun Agbele, Akande’s nephew, who was exposed to law enforcement after selling white heroin first to Lee Andrew Edwards, another dealer later jailed for trying to murder a federal agent, and then to an undercover cop.

In a 1993 court docket from the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, which The Daily Beast obtained from Sahara Reporters, a Nigeria-focused news outlet, IRS Special Agent Kevin Moss said that Akande had run the white heroin ring in the late 1980s until 1990, when he handed off the U.S arm of the business to his nephew, who had arrived in 1988. Akande then returned to Nigeria but continued to oversee the operation from abroad with the help of others at home and in the United States, including his relatives. One of the individuals identified in his cartel by Moss was Tinubu, then a Chicago State University-educated accountant working as a treasurer for Mobil Oil Nigeria Ltd, a subsidiary of energy giant Mobil Oil, which was still a few years shy of its famous merger with Exxon in 1999.

In the biography section of his official website, Tinubu is described as having emigrated to the United States in 1975 “in search of the proverbial Golden Fleece with a heart brimming with unrelenting determination to achieve his visions.” This is certainly one way to describe his tenure stateside.

In 1989, Moss said in an affidavit, Tinubu established an individual money market account, into which he deposited $1,000 in traveler’s checks, and a negotiable order of withdrawal account (NOW) at First Heritage Bank in Country Club Hills, Illinois. The address Tinubu gave the bank was the same as the listed headquarters of Globe-Link International, the front company owned by Akande and his relatives.

“There’s a trend of various Nigerian politicians at the highest levels involved in dodgy business deals around the world, in property and cash.”

Bank employees told Moss that Akande had personally introduced them to Tinubu in December 1989 when who also opened a joint checking account with his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, who already kept a joint account with Akande’s wife at First Heritage. Five days after the NOW account was opened, $80,000 was wired into it from a bank in Houston maintained by one of Akande’s relatives. Tinubu would later use the NOW account to buy a $10,000 Certificate of Deposit for an $8,000 car loan, listing Akande as his cousin on the application.

At the time, Tinubu’s take home as a Mobil Oil Nigeria executive was a mere $2,400 a month and he claimed not to have any other revenue streams. Yet he still managed to deposit $661,000 into his individual money market account in 1990 and then another $1,216,500 a year later. He also opened more accounts with Citibank in its worldwide personal banking unit, transferring over half a million dollars from his First Heritage money market account into one of them in early 1991.

Mobil Oil Nigeria told Moss that Tinubu’s role at the company never involved transferring large sums of money between banks and that it didn’t keep deposits in any institutions in the south suburbs of Chicago, where First Heritage was based. Moreover, although Tinubu moved back to Nigeria in 1983, he neglected to file U.S. income tax returns after 1984 despite having sizable, interest-generating deposits in American banks. All of this was enough to persuade a magistrate judge of the Northern District to issue seizure warrants for Tinubu’s First Heritage and Citibank accounts. Collectively, more than $1.4 million belonging to the Nigerian was confiscated.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/27/nigeria-s-next-leader-s-ties-to-a-heroin-ring.html

nkemoma:
They are still AgbadoUrchins and Yekini is still a brown teeth drug baron from Irajibijiiji

Igboslayer:
Ọmọ àlè, olórí pẹlẹbẹ.

Hatred, anger, resentment is the poison you drink and expect someone else to die... Its your poison, you die instead. Its a fair life. Hate people enjoying their life and die your die

There is substantial evidence right now to show that if you take a blood test after 5mins of anger you will get chemical poison in your blood stream. Anger and hatred as shown by Igbos against Tinubu will lead to blood poison.


I will prescribe your drug...Mpuru mmiri for you... if you don’t have enough money for your drugs…eat Amala,ewedu,gbegiri and hot soup filled with ogunfe.

FaceTanke:
I think I like this Pastor

PROPHETmichael:
A true Zionite can never bow to a Babylonian; it's always the other way round.

anonimi:
Will you please keep kwayet

Igboslayer:
You go soon die of hatred.

Igboslayer:
Ọmọ àlè, olórí pẹlẹbẹ.

Hatred, anger, resentment is the poison you drink and expect someone else to die... Its your poison, you die instead. Its a fair life. Hate people enjoying their life and die your die

There is substantial evidence right now to show that if you take a blood test after 5mins of anger you will get chemical poison in your blood stream. Anger and hatred as shown by Igbos against Tinubu will lead to blood poison.


I will prescribe your drug...Mpuru mmiri for you... if you don’t have enough money for your drugs…eat Amala,ewedu,gbegiri and hot soup filled with ogunfe.

beylinko02:
Nice one. Hope he used that opportunity to minister Christ to them

beylinko02:
Nice one. Hope he used that opportunity to minister Christ to them

TrillKennyEmek:
Money good.

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OyeofIkoTuN:
damn..

Christian pastor bowing to a Muslim worldly slave..

How can one value Christianity that has no boundaries,no rules,no fear of God,no doctrine..nothing nothing

themes009:
Poor man mentality!

nkemoma:
And you go die this night out of excess love for the brown teeth thief

Nawttiboi007:
Men of the underworld... if u know u know

Holluwhakemmy:
Worldly pastor

beylinko02:
Nice one. Hope he used that opportunity to minister Christ to them

Igboslayer:
You are damaged beyond repair with hatred. Na die you dey so... Ọmọ ale

AncientGuy:
someone called them what they truly are "men of the underworld"

that pastor does not belong to jesus christ.

nkemoma:
Didirin... You must look and sound stupid whenever you defend a dying man to dictate for the future of you kids.

AncientGuy:
someone called them what they truly are "men of the underworld"

that pastor does not belong to jesus christ.

StagethemTVee:
Pastor Tobi Adegboyega recently played host to KWAM1 and his family at his home in London. The controversial pastor who is the founder of SpacNation in London threw the doors of his home open to welcome the Mayegun of Yorubaland, his wife, Emmanuella Marshal and children.
Pastor Tobi respectfully bowed to welcome the Fuji legend coupled with a handshake after which they were treated to a Kings meal.

Kwam1 after encounter wrote:

no be the same Pastor wey say his choir ministration is boring to him be this? now i know where that is coming rom. Prolly he was expecting some KWAM1 vibes from the church choir


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IBu6-UlBwg

Igboslayer:
Werey, you put your whole life on the performance of a government, lazy idiot that wants government to prosper him. Alapa má sì ṣe ọmọ àlè. You better go and work and don't expect manna from government...lazy idiot.

nkemoma:
You should know that easterners no need aid from your government... Na lazy idiots like you and your kindred in the South West that depend on thieves like Yekini to survive..

If youve not known that, I wonder if you really know who your dad is!