₦airaland Forum

Eziachi:
What Nigerians especially their political class has failed to realised by now is that Sahara Reporter are young and vibrant bunch of good modern folk that enjoys the art of investigative journalism more than anything.
They are well funded, well connected and practice their trade in the world headquarters of information- New York. Politicians in the Western world had since realized that going toe to toe with the likes of SR is a suicide attempt on your career. They have the upper hand, they can get the most secret information and most classified if they want to.
The likes of Dino Malaye should know this and never go into a fight you have little chance winning, unless you got no other options.
SR are not Vanguard, Tribune or NTA.

Spot on. The truth is that Sahara Reporters are the best investigative journalist in Nigeria and those guys are fearless so Dino Melaye is a little fry to them. The load of information SR has in their file can nail him and his political career.

Fact is, every politician in Nigeria is hell scared at the mention of SR and they'd do all they can to muzzle them. Every successive governments made attempt to silence them from operation but none could. All they do is to threaten them of law suits which they never were bold enough to litigate.

One lawyer Egwuonwu or there about was the first to sue SR in the US for defamation, the evidence they provided in the court was shellacking and landed him in the gulag.

Where's Obanikoro, Tinubu, OBJ, GEJ, Saraki threat of law suits till date? Nada. They knew the alleged defamation stories were authentic hence never initiated a case. Even Abacha tried to silence Sowore when he was a student activist in Unilag but couldn't. SR is here to stay as they are the voice of the impoverished masses.

anonimi:
Is that the age of your father or that of your mother, small boy?
You better get a better way of earning your way in life instead of this internet warrior job to CONFUSE your fellow citizens at the expense of your jagbajantis employers whose boots you lick profusely.
Really sorry for you, walahi.

Anonimi Agbaya ni e sir

Are those your pics they showed in one thread a few days ago on Yoruba commonwealth?

You are too old for this baba

TrappKING:
I'm sorry, is the news being reported in America? Or did I miss road

And d last time I checked! SR is not in Abakaliki or Ilorin? So writing check as cheque shouldn't be a nightmare or surprise to you. Just like flavor(American) and flavour(British)

Xapio:
Where is the evidence that it was used recently? ....

They provided proof that it was used near September 2015.

No be New thing na..person wey don dey politics snc..what do Nigerians expect..

Xapio:
Thank you my brother. Sentiment is killing Nigeria more than corruption. The only thing I see in those documents is account statement in 2010. Nothing proves it was used recently...

Oga can u check again and see Sept. 1,2015 and stop quoting nonsense

Misternas89:
And d last time I checked! SR is not in Abakaliki or Ilorin? So writing check as cheque shouldn't be a nightmare or surprise to you. Just like flavor(American) and flavour(British)

At the risk of desperately trying to appear smart, you're starting to appear kyna vague




Are u reading this news on saharareporters.com ??

Bigprozzie:
Anonimi Agbaya ni e sir

Are those your pics they showed in one thread a few days ago on Yoruba commonwealth?

You are too old for this baba

They must be the pictures of your father or that of the omo ale jatijati bastard who posted them in the first instance.
A bastard just like the JagbaJantis who is paying you for your propaganda internet warrior job.

Babasessy:
Awo Family Without An Awo By Sam Omatseye (The Offensive Article)



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The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.

The only person that made a real try was Awolowo-Dosunmu in the early 1990s and she lost roundly. She was accused of trying to ride her father’s coattail. Political families are good for democracies. They can exemplify the high ideals of diligence, dignity, ideas, character. We have seen these in such families as the Kennedys, the Adamses, the Roosevelts, the Ghandis. They just don’t claim family. They appeal to the high ideals that endeared the families to their societies.

It’s also an irony that these families are falling into twilight. Some of them have vanished. Enoch Powell, a British MP, once gave us the famous line: “All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure because that is the nature of politics and human affairs.”

Columnist Ambassador Dapo Fafowora adverted to this idea in a recent outing, and I debated it with him afterwards. I don’t believe that a political life should be judged by how it ends but what it means. The quote is often missed by many who mistake “careers” for “lives.” A political life should be judged by its legacies. If we judged Awo by how he ended, we would look at him only as the loser to Shagari. That is why I see an intrinsic mischief in Enoch’s quote. But I would agree that political families end also in failure if you judge how they peter out and not the legacy.

Awo’s legacy is alive and well. Members of other families in flesh and blood can carry on. Immediate families tend to suffer from what an author, Noemie Emery, describes as dynastic curse. The children tend to be intimidated by the standards set by the fathers. So they just don’t want to try. They feel they cannot match them or come even close.  The problem probably comes from the fathers themselves. The Adams, who produced important presidents, later gave birth to moral vagrants and drunks. The Bush daughters showed themselves as party girls when their father was contesting the political battle of his life.

But Joe Kennedy groomed his sons assiduously, and they excelled in politics. They also had a fair share of tragedies. Ted Kennedy regained his sobriety and voice in America after a season of debauchery. In Nigeria, we are seeing the Sarakis fade. A Saraki – Bukola - is wiping out the Sarakis from politics. It is a classic case of oedipal tragedy, something I predicted earlier this year on this page.

It is not late though for the flesh-and-blood Awolowos to join their father’s fold. But they must be genuine. Awo was the most important Yoruba personage in history after Oduduwa. They had stellar men like Oranmiyan, Balogun Latosa, Lisabi, Sodeke, et al. None of them had the unifying vision and organisational acumen that Awolowo gave the race. The wife, children and grandchildren should not watch others glow in his jewel without them.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

freakcin:
Excuse my ignorance chaps, but is there any law in our constitution that barrs public office holders from operating foreign accounts.

Also, is this legal? Publishing legal banking details of an individual online for the world to see.

A scene in the film, Gladiators comes to mind ' Rome Nigeria is like the mob, conjure magic for them and all else is forgotten' at this crucial point in time when we are facing all sort of crisis as a nation, Dino Melaye's bank balance should be the least of our worries.

Public office holders are not allowed to open foreign accounts, if they had it before, then it shouldn't be operated while in office.

Im of the opinion that little drops of water make a mighty ocean. Little but critical issue like operating a foreign account as a senator as against a well stated law should not be swept under the carpet. Its punishable by removal from office, thats how serious it is.

But if we as a nation and as a people take seemingly but critical issues like this with levity, how then can we tackle bigger issues?

A yoruba adage says you start eating your moi moi from the side.

peteruapata:
Oga can u check again and see Sept. 1,2015 and stop quoting nonsense

Where did you see a bank statement of Sept. 2015.
Abi you dey confuse tweeter of saharareporters with Dino's bank statement ni?
I hope not oh, otherwise you will be more stupid than one can imagine in this day & age.

Grundig:
Exactly the point I tried to make above.

Check the text message. It's September 1st 2015.

anonimi:
Commend their effort at DECEPTION or what have they done exactly that should be commended
Did Omoyele Sowore not report that Dino was still using the account to buy things NOW?
We should not encourage LIES even when it favours our expectation because the same saharareporters may use LIES against us later.



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I will remind you of this post when SR finally release everything.

Xapio:
Shut the fvck up. It is you that is saying it was used recently that will produce evidence to back-up your claim..

Seems you are suffering from selective blindness, can't you see the sms alert that follows? Biko what is the date on it?

TrappKING:
Lalasticlala its "cheque" not "check"

Americans call it "check"

Eziachi:
What Nigerians especially their political class has failed to realised by now is that Sahara Reporter are young and vibrant bunch of good modern folk that enjoys the art of investigative journalism more than anything.
They are well funded, well connected and practice their trade in the world headquarters of information- New York. Politicians in the Western world had since realized that going toe to toe with the likes of SR is a suicide attempt on your career. They have the upper hand, they can get the most secret information and most classified if they want to.
The likes of Dino Malaye should know this and never go into a fight you have little chance winning, unless you got no other options.
SR are not Vanguard, Tribune or NTA.

My oga. Good to see you around these parts.

I would assume the recent IPOB movement has energised you?

arsetalks:
I will remind you of this post when SR finally release everything.

Your choice. Your time.
I made my comment based on information made available by saharareprortes till date.
Understood?
Clear

anonimi:
Commend their effort at DECEPTION or what have they done exactly that should be commended
Did Omoyele Sowore not report that Dino was still using the account to buy things NOW?
We should not encourage LIES even when it favours our expectation because the same saharareporters may use LIES against us later.



www.nairaland.com/attachments/2860929_image_jpeg9f360c5ab7736510df54c882e9dbf188

Last transaction was in September or thereabouts. Very recent enough. I see no lies. All i hear is whistle

APC and it agent of propaganda have made Nigerians so gullible from the child in the womb to the elderly men and women and even a dead and decompose corps to take every news thrown at them. Nigerians youth and social media users have lost their ability to think and reason rationally.

airmark:
Below are some graphics released by sahara reporters to support the allegation of Kogi west senator, Dino melaye of having a foreign account with Bank of America, USA. It reveals the SMS notification, account numbers, check book and statement allegedly owned by the said senator on sahara reporters' official tweeter page.



https://twitter.com/SaharaReporters



www.nairaland.com/attachments/3159013_dino1_jpege81530ac7ce87ddee9658ce2b6f15436

SR, did you just stumbled into this information? why are you blowing the trumpet now? Is it because the going is no longer smooth as a result of media censorship bill? Not even your brown envelope media campaign can stop it. It must go on.

Guys, that text message is incolclusive. Unless sahara reporters have dino's phone or one of dino's registered numbers is with SR.

acevic:
Last transaction was in September or thereabouts. Very recent enough. I see no lies. All i hear is whistle

Can you provide link to the bank statement of the Sept. 2015 transaction?
We are not talking about a tweeter written and composed by Saharareporters oh.
Thanks.

delors:
His comment is cynical, to mean 'student acct indeed'. Lol

It's like saying the account one openned as a youth corps member becomes dormant when one's service year comes to an end.

Arogunmasa:
Americans call it "check"

Is the news being reported on dollarland.com

When the wind of shame is about to blow our anus open like that of a chicken, may Sahara Reporters never be present to witness our secret. Olusegun .A. Obasanjo 2015

When the wind of shame is about to blow our anus open like that of a chicken, may Sahara Reporters never be present to witness our secret. Olusegun .A. Obasanjo Dec. 2015

Xapio:
Shut the fvck up. It is you that is saying it was used recently that will produce evidence to back-up your claim..

Hmmmmmmm

Nigerians. We need to think objectively with all possibilities considered. SR made an allegation with controversial evidence, no response from Dino till this moment. SR has gone quiet suddenly.
It is not in Dino's character to be this silent. He must surely be in a quandary as to what step to take. Any wrong move may attract a killer punch from SR by way of publishing recent transactions with the account.

TrappKING:
At the risk of desperately trying to appear smart, you're starting to appear kyna vague




Are u reading this news on saharareporters.com ??

Ok bro...safe.... Check is correct bro and that's neva an insult 4 crying out loud. I deal with all those things daily bro...I cn see all u r expecting is wat u r used to lol. "Cheque" and lastly it should be cheque im sorry

arsenal33:
All these because he supports the clampdown on social media reporting

So una plan na to blame him for the social media Bill

Grundig:
This shows absolutely nothing.
It doesn't say if any transaction was carried out.

One of the accounts ioperated while In theuk as a student is now dormant but I still get regular bank statements and correspondence from the bank.

When will our Nigerian youths have sense?

Can you not see a transaction on the 1st of September?!! And the law says you are not meant to have any foreign accounts, period!

Grundig:
This shows absolutely nothing.
It doesn't say if any transaction was carried out.

One of the accounts ioperated while In theuk as a student is now dormant but I still get regular bank statements and correspondence from the bank.

From Saharareporters document posted online the last transaction is dated 01 sept 2015, and its assumed senator dino is still operating that account. From my 1kobo understanding of the laws of the FRN senator dino ought not to have or operate a foreign account. I beg I no be lawyer.

The Code of Conduct Bureau must commence proceedings against this man. This will be a walk-over for them. Dino will lose his seat and go to jail if found guilty. Let's see what CCB will do now.