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A US firm has filed a $57 million lawsuit against Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian government, former aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode, and DCI Group, a US public affairs and lobbying firm. The case was filed in a federal court in Washington, DC. The plaintiff, Karl Von Batten, alleges defamation and a conspiracy to kidnap and physically harm him. Court records show the court has issued summonses to the defendants. The $57 million claim includes $36 million sought from Tinubu and the Nigerian government, $3 million from Fani-Kayode and $18 million from DCI Group. Fani-Kayode has rejected the allegations. Von Batten heads a US lobbying firm that has worked for former Nigerian vice-president Atiku Abubakar, Tinubu's political rival. His firm has been pushing in the US for the release of FBI and DEA records concerning past allegations involving Tinubu. The claims have not been proven in court. #DWAfrica

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Ikemefuna Okeke again 😂🤣😂🤣

Dude is the biggest political hustler!

I hope he has refunded Atiku!

HacheNoire:
Ikemefuna Okeke again 😂🤣😂🤣

Dude is the biggest political hustler!

I hope he has refunded Atiku!

Stop panicking..Your Oga dey embarrass you guys everyday

shuttox:
Stop panicking..Your Oga dey embarrass you guys everyday

Lol....and what is the shameless fraudster Ikemefuna doing other than.embarassing himself and additionally, Nigeria daily?

The firm should Petition FIFA and W.H.O for quick intervention as they are the one in charge of cases like this

Next time, a dru9 man will never be a president of this great country again.

Can you imagine the international embarrassment?

HacheNoire:
Ikemefuna Okeke again 😂🤣😂🤣

Dude is the biggest political hustler!

I hope he has refunded Atiku!

Despite all the braggadacio you displayed which we all know is a form of coping, Ikemefuna still prevented Tinubu from attending UNGA after Jimoh Ibrahim swore he would. Bayo Onanuga and the other presidential spokespersons including FFK who is now getting sued have had nothing to focus on aside Ikemefuna for months. Let's not pretend he is not a pain in the rectum for you lots.

So we have moved on swiftly from 399 pages and the Judge reviewing FBI files?

Swept under the carpet and we are now being regaled with a lawsuit about kidnapping. "They" apparently offered Ikemefuna 3millla in dollars not long ago.

All the information we get from Facebook pages and twitter handles. Nothing from company websites or from news websites in the US or established ones here.

Ottersberger, here we go again.

AMINDA:
Despite all the braggadacio you displayed which we all know is a form of coping, Ikemefuna still prevented Tinubu from attending UNGA after Jimoh Ibrahim swore he would. Bayo Onanuga and the other presidential spokespersons including FFK who is now getting sued have had nothing to focus on aside Ikemefuna for months. Let's not pretend he is not a pain in the rectum for you lots.

Did Ikemefuna also prevented Putin, Xi, Ramaphosa and El-Sisi from attending UNGA? Where is the FBI documents he promised to release to the public on August 21? Today is October 7 and all we have is a frivolous suit that goes nowhere.

seunmsg:
Did Ikemefuna also prevented Putin, Xi, Ramaphosa and El-Sisi from attending UNGA? Where is the FBI documents he promised to release to the public on August 21? Today is October 7 and all we have is a frivolous suit that goes nowhere.

Tinubu is in court begging for the documents to not be released. How can you be litigating against the release of a document and then turn around to gleefully ask for the whereabouts of the same document? Tinubu has not attended UNGA for three consecutive years. Ramaphosa publicly declared that he was ill and despite Russia and China currently being direct rivals to the US and tacitly at war, Xi was in the US a few weeks ago on the invitation of Trump. None of them have controversies surrounding their entry into the US. Tinubu does. Tinubu has diplomatic immunity and will likely not be arrested. Why is he still afraid?

aswani:
So we have moved on swiftly from 399 pages and the Judge reviewing FBI files?

Swept under the carpet and we are now being regaled with a lawsuit about kidnapping. "They" apparently offered Ikemefuna 3millla in dollars not long ago.

All the information we get from Facebook pages and twitter handles. Nothing from company websites or from news websites in the US or established ones here.

Ottersberger, here we go again.

Lol. Ikemefuna gotta earn his pay. He won't get paid sitting around not dishing out contrived dirt and mischief, against others, on behalf of one Paymaster or the other. Dude is an absolute sleazeball. Even his face reveals such.

You were here shouting that TINUBU will and must attend the UNGA in New York.

That guy @kalashnikov49

Called you out after ..so what is happening?

TopBanter:
Lol. Ikemefuna gotta earn his pay. He won't get paid sitting around not dishing out contrived dirt and mischief, against others, on behalf of one Paymaster or the other. Dude is an absolute sleazeball. Even his face reveals such.

AMINDA:
Tinubu is in court begging for the documents to not be released. How can you be litigating against the release of a document and then turn around to gleefully ask for the whereabouts of the same document? Tinubu has not attended UNGA for three consecutive years. Ramaphosa publicly declared that he was ill and despite Russia and China currently being dieect rivals to the US and tacitly at war, Xi was in the US a few weeks ago on the invitation of Trump. None of them have controversies surrounding their entry into the US. Tinubu does. Tinubu has diplomatic immunity and will likely not be arrested. Why is he still afraid?

He was in the US last year. He attended UNGA in 2023. He has better things to do in solving Nigeria's many problems as at the time than attending a talk show that the Vice President can handle.

Tinubu gave the same response to the CSU suit by same Greenspan and the court still ruled that the CSU records should be release. The records were released and absolutely nothing came out of it. So, stop trying to blame Ikemefuna's incompetency on Tinubu's sensible position.

FBI and DEA have also asked the court to dismiss Greenspan's suit, same position with Tinubu. So, how is Tinubu the one blocking your golden records? Why are you not accusing FBI and DEA of blocking the records when it is obvious the court will listen more to their argument than that of Tinubu?

seunmsg:
He was in the US last year. He attended UNGA in 2023. He has better things to do in solving Nigeria's many problems as at the time than attending a talk show that the Vice President can handle.

Tinubu gave the same response to the CSU suit by same Greenspan and the court still ruled that the CSU records should be release. The records were released and absolutely nothing came out of it. So, stop trying to blame Ikemefuna's incompetency on Tinubu's sensible position.

FBI and DEA have also asked the court to dismiss Greenspan's suit, same position with Tinubu. So, how is Tinubu the one blocking your golden records? Why are you not accusing FBI and DEA of blocking the records when it is obvious the court will listen more to their argument than that of Tinubu?

No, he wasn't. A planted story of a "brief stopover in Los Angeles Airport" on his way to Brazil is not tantamount to visiting the US. He never left the airplane. Tinubu has not stepped foot in the US since Trump and we can hazard a guess why. All his friends whom he made the plea bargain deal with are in the Democratic party.

He attended a dinner by Macron and publicised it with so much pump and pageantry but UNGA is where he draws the line. Even though the same Macron left him behind in France to physically attend the "Talk Show."

How did we find ourselves in a situation where the president of our country is joining the FBI and DEA in asking the courts not to release documents about his sordid past? Weren't you the one who told us that it was his uncle, Akande, that was the leader of the narcotics ring and not Tinubu? You said he only helped his uncle to launder and invest the funds.

seunmsg:
He was in the US last year. He attended UNGA in 2023. He has better things to do in solving Nigeria's many problems as at the time than attending a talk show that the Vice President can handle.

Tinubu gave the same response to the CSU suit by same Greenspan and the court still ruled that the CSU records should be release. The records were released and absolutely nothing came out of it. So, stop trying to blame Ikemefuna's incompetency on Tinubu's sensible position.

FBI and DEA have also asked the court to dismiss Greenspan's suit, same position with Tinubu. So, how is Tinubu the one blocking your golden records? Why are you not accusing FBI and DEA of blocking the records when it is obvious the court will listen more to their argument than that of Tinubu?

warning!!!!
don't argue with idiots!!!!

seunmsg:
He was in the US last year. He attended UNGA in 2023. He has better things to do in solving Nigeria's many problems as at the time than attending a talk show that the Vice President can handle.

Tinubu gave the same response to the CSU suit by same Greenspan and the court still ruled that the CSU records should be release. The records were released and absolutely nothing came out of it. So, stop trying to blame Ikemefuna's incompetency on Tinubu's sensible position.

FBI and DEA have also asked the court to dismiss Greenspan's suit, same position with Tinubu. So, how is Tinubu the one blocking your golden records? Why are you not accusing FBI and DEA of blocking the records when it is obvious the court will listen more to their argument than that of Tinubu?

This shalaye explanation funny gan o.

Was he solving Nigeria's problem in France when Macron left him there to attend your talk show?

What is Greenspan, FBI and DEA compared with the testimony of Tinubu's never-happening ambassador nominee to Mexico



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DLrnL6rQ6M?si=uMMUVFfetODTr4Fw

TopBanter:
Lol....and what is the shameless fraudster Ikemefuna doing other than.embarassing himself and additionally, Nigeria daily?

How can anyone embarass our country more than the worst rogue whose Aso Rock lease agreement expires next year?
The clueless balablu bulaba town hall clown who has destroyed Nigeria to the point where his 2011 expired Buhari now seems like a brilliant chap.

anonimi:
Nigeria remains fourth largest economy in Africa despite rebasing

July 21, 2025

Nigeria has retained its status as the fourth largest economy in Africa despite a rebasing exercise that expanded the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that the economy expanded to N372.8 trillion ($243 billion) in 2024, down from N314.02 trillion in the prior year as more sectors in the informal economy were considered in its calculations.

The statistics bureau adopted 2019 as its base year away from 2010 that’s previously reported.

The rebasing exercise covers the period from 2019 to 2023 and reflects changes in the economy’s structure, sectoral contributions, and data sources.

Despite the overhaul, Nigeria fails to reclaim its erstwhile status as the largest economy in Africa.

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), South Africa remains the continent’s biggest economy with a GDP of $410.34 billion for a country with little over a quarter of Nigeria’s population.

Following the Southern African nation is Egypt with a GDP of $347 billion while Algeria maintains its third position having $268.9 billion as the size of its economy.

Although Nigeria’s economy grew 30 percent above the projected $188 billion estimate by the IMF this year, the rebasing was poised to place the economy as the biggest in Africa.

https://businessday.ng/news/article/nigeria-remains-fourth-largest-economy-in-africa-despite-rebasing/?amp

AMINDA:
Tinubu is in court begging for the documents to not be released. How can you be litigating against the release of a document and then turn around to gleefully ask for the whereabouts of the same document? Tinubu has not attended UNGA for three consecutive years. Ramaphosa publicly declared that he was ill and despite Russia and China currently being direct rivals to the US and tacitly at war, Xi was in the US a few weeks ago on the invitation of Trump. None of them have controversies surrounding their entry into the US. Tinubu does. Tinubu has diplomatic immunity and will likely not be arrested. Why is he still afraid?

Na why you dey set trap for Bola laik dis?

Shebi Maduro had diplomatic immunity when Trump picked him up from his bedroom with the wife?




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhDAqz5D988

HacheNoire:
Ikemefuna Okeke again 😂🤣😂🤣

Dude is the biggest political hustler!

I hope he has refunded Atiku!

Okeke von Batten has finished spending the $1.2 million he collected from Atiku and now wants to collect from Tinubu.

Both Atiku and Tinubu are not Igbo and in fact considered the enemies of Ndigbo due to the civil war brouhaha, so Okeke has no problem playing both parties against each other as long as it serves his people’s divide and rule strategy.

But the problem is, Atiku may be d@ft & vacuous but Tinubu is wise and intelligent, and therefore Okeke’s pipe dream is nothing other than a futile task.

seunmsg:
He was in the US last year. He attended UNGA in 2023. He has better things to do in solving Nigeria's many problems as at the time than attending a talk show that the Vice President can handle.

Tinubu gave the same response to the CSU suit by same Greenspan and the court still ruled that the CSU records should be release. The records were released and absolutely nothing came out of it. So, stop trying to blame Ikemefuna's incompetency on Tinubu's sensible position.

FBI and DEA have also asked the court to dismiss Greenspan's suit, same position with Tinubu. So, how is Tinubu the one blocking your golden records? Why are you not accusing FBI and DEA of blocking the records when it is obvious the court will listen more to their argument than that of Tinubu?

Bro, per the UNGA thing, don't bother defending President Tinubu. Me I just tell Obidients, he didnt want to go and didn't so they can feel free to do their worst and get High BP in the process.

Even if he doesn't go to US till he dies, and so what. It's his choice.

Per the phantom court case, that ended with a glomar response a few years ago. President Tinubu didn't bat an eyelid about it or spend a penny on it. Greenspan moved on,eventually Hundeyin moved on and it appears Ikemefuna is flogging the dying embers.

I must commend the author for addressing this matter with such clear reasoning and objectivity, demonstrating that calm, constructive dialogue will always yield better insights than quick reactions. Curious to hear what others who have experienced this firsthand have to say about it.

AMINDA:
Despite all the braggadacio you displayed which we all know is a form of coping, Ikemefuna still prevented Tinubu from attending UNGA after Jimoh Ibrahim swore he would. Bayo Onanuga and the other presidential spokespersons including FFK who is now getting sued have had nothing to focus on aside Ikemefuna for months. Let's not pretend he is not a pain in the rectum for you lots.

Hahaha only the prevention and yet you are not shameless with such amount of million of dollars that your Kojoli Atiku paid Ikemefuna. If that is what Atiku paid for, then you guys must be the mumu of the universe

HacheNoire:
Ikemefuna Okeke again 😂🤣😂🤣

Dude is the biggest political hustler!

I hope he has refunded Atiku!

Na the stubborn bone wey gum una APC throat be that, make una enjoy.

Na die wuna dey..