"....Therefore, the editors stated that they found it curious that it was the APC Presidential Campaign Council that would issue a statement that the person that died was Kolapo, not Mueez...."

Many people missed the koko

Sai Asiwaju

It's obvious apc is a looser, they have nothing to offer Nigeria..that's why they will rather attack media and other candidates than presenting their sick and incoherent candidate to attend open interviews and debates

If Nigerians make the mistake of voting Tinubu, everybody, including the press go hear wieeeeeeen. I just dey pity all those urchins supporting the drug baron.

rickyrex:
Then never eveb see election result, them don dey silent media. Breeze go soon blow una yash open. Fail party and their drug baron candidate

The drug baron won’t be in charge of our country, InshaAllah.
God forbid BaThing.

Francis5:
Nigeria’s Next Leader’s Ties to a Heroin Ring

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

Tinubu had better come to polling units with bag of money. My vote is N5m else it goes to Peter Obi.

I can not sell my right to good governance for peanuts, even the N5m is heavily discounted.

Tinubu invested so much in the media to control the narrative but it's not working now that he needs it most.

Free Press should do free journalism and not favoritism ... Balance your journalism.
We have glorify social media journalism and Bloggers in Nigeria...

fergie001:



SOURCE

when you tarnish other people's image with lies you call it free press but when they retaliate wotowoto, you call it bullying of free press. Rubbish

Sindicate:
The urchin below, Osigwe Omo-ikiroda is typing....

Lol

fergie001:



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Na wetin Tinubu go do, because de man no sabi, na dis lawless journalists who dey appear Holy go de dictate.

Omodua:
Lol

Tinubu will become president just like Awolowo and Abiola became president.
These yaro banza under age on NL who think it's by sentiments will learn. Apart from Bornu (Shettima Boko Haram) nothing much for these charlatans, Northern Muslims will mostly vote Atiku while Northern Christians will vote for Peter Obi.
We still don't know if a BAT is a BIRD or a MOUSE, today he sits during doa tomorrow he is dancing in London, today the wife is a redeemed Pastor tomorrow she is all Islamia.
Deliver us from this evil Ya'Allah.

Asgard73:
Still wondering between Tinubu and Obi who will be more of a brutal dictator.

Apc is evil
OBi na scam..

Wahala..

Even when the topic is explicitly on tinubu matter,you still had to insert Obi in your conversation and yet you say Obi is the least of your worries?

Its too early in the morning to start wailing!

AIT do pass this one that time.....the future is pregnant and no one knows what it will deliver.

fergie001:



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Both Bayo Onanuga and Dele Alake are failed Journalists. They are Butter and Bread Journalists with no independent opinion of their own.

Both men should be ashamed of themselves.

Shaka Momodu and Rufai Oseni remains one of the Best journalists in the land. They represent the conscience of the nation.

To hell with APC spokesmen!

Misterone:
when you tarnish other people's image with lies you call it free press but when they retaliate wotowoto, you call it bullying of free press. Rubbish

U steal and they post it that you are a theif, is that one tarnishing of ur image too?

Asgard73:
Still wondering between Tinubu and Obi who will be more of a brutal dictator.

Apc is evil
OBi na scam..

Wahala..

How is peter obi exactly a scam..?

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SocialJustice:
Tinubu had better come to polling units with bag of money. My vote is N5m else it goes to Peter Obi.

I can not sell my right to good governance for peanuts, even the N5m is heavily discounted.

Peter Obi had better come to polling units with bag of money. My vote is N10m else it goes to Bola Tinubu.

I can not sell my right to verified good governance for peanuts of lies and fake stas. Even the N10m I don't think they can afford it because Doyin Okupe has used a part of it to buy two Range Rover cars.

Arise and ThisDay are mediocre outfits. They pick their news from social media. What a disgrace of a media outfit. Imagine a TV station giving airtime to a person like Mahdi Shehu. The future of Arise TV will be worse than that of AIT.

This is a very partisan and condemnable press statement. AriseTv and Thisday have finally come out clearly to declare war on Bola Tinubu. This is not what free press is all about.

Anyway, let them continue with the fake news and senseless attacks, it’s just for a while. AIT once toed this ignoble path for PDP and they are as good as dead today. We shall all be here to see how it ends.

i see Abati hand in this letter, serious frustration.

Una grammar too much abeg

Fiscus105:



U steal and they post it that you are a theif, is that one tarnishing of ur image?

when free press is one sided, then it is no longer free press but a mouth piece for the highest bidder.

You see that Tinubu,Whatever shit they said he did,He did it.You can take that to the bank.

Anything tinubu and his APC urchins accuses anyone of doing is exactly what they do.

Tinubu and his men are corrupt and bullies.they try to bully obi supporter but met their match,now they try intimidating pressmen they can't buy.

The fact is that mistakes in reporting the death of someone who may not have died is not unusual in the media.
Then you apologize.


AIT did the same in 2015 against Tinubu and Buhari, still they couldn't stop APC from Victory.

Arise/Thisday will still fail.

This is super story

Nigerians the signs are everywhere, do not turn a blame eyes because he is from your tribe or religion remember what goes around comes around. A presidential candidate told his supporters that if people demand for a change of government they should tell them shut up, the same candidate told his team to grab power at all cost. He also said he will fight dirty to become president. His surrogate said his opponents will be punished if they win. Do you think Tinubu will be accountable to Nigerians if he wins. Vote your conscience posterity will judge all of us.