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Tinubu's day will come

jared007:
The problem PPAngel is that most Nigerians don't take international politics seriously. I ve always felt Tinubu might be a CIA contact/agent based on his drug trafficking records and yet the Americans don't seem to go after him.

BigBabyJesus:
Information regarding PRODIGY's(CIA designated Code Name) initial affiliation and links to the CIA began in the early 80's when he was approached by a Nigerian CIA agent recruiter in the guise as a major Heroine supplier in the Chicago area. PRODIGY was initially supplied about 15 kilos and $25,000 and was given the role of recruiting drug mules in Nigeria who will smuggle the drugs into the United States. The operation went smoothly initially with CIA operatives ensuring that the drug mules and PRODIGY were not intercepted at the departure and destination airports and by local law enforcers during the drop stages.

What PRODIGY did not know then was that the main drug baron, his associates and purported buyers were all part of an intricate plot to snare him into a trap. There exists severally sealed dossiers containing pictures, video and voice recordings documenting every drop, sale and money exchange.

This went on till the mid 90's.

Then Abacha took over and the Americans were not happy since their main asset in Africa, MKO Abiola had been deposed by Abacha who was not ready to step down and to make matter's worse, the New leader of Africa's largest economy and 6th largest supplier of crude began to align himself with "rogue" Nations such as North Korea and Iran.

The stage was then set.

PRODIGY in one of his random "business visits" was rounded up by the local police and a search of his apartment revealed over 2 kilos of pure "terror d0pe" heroin. An obvious plant.
Things began to move swiftly. The Feds took over and let PRODIGY know that they had a tip of his drug dealings for over a year and have documented evidence and witnesses willing to testify in court against him. According to the Feds PRODIGY, apart from facing lengthy prison sentence for the huge quantities of drugs smuggled and sold for the period he was under surveillance also faces the possibility of life without parole for an additional RICO charge.
The FEDS where not interested in making any deals as they assumed that PRODIGY was the head of the whole operation which earned an estimated 6 million U.S. dollars during a 3 month period alone.

BUMP ! IF YOU WANT MORE....

PassingShot:
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Think before you write and read what you have written and make sure it makes sense before posting same.

It's only an advice.

I see that your Almajiri economics modelled from the lazy Saudi model as advocated by that illiterate cow herder demands ND oil.

We in ND are not the NE which is economically irrelevant like your Osun.

Let's see how longer your throats can grow without our oil

Parasite

Start planting now!

rEmi tinubu pant sniffer, I like how you children of the waste like downplaying oyel revenue but put all una longer throats and plans on it

aresa:
Why do you think they need oil money to build anything? Private investment and loans mean anything to you unintelligent TaNoids?


Besides, all your oil money is recurrent expenditure with nothing left to spend on capital projects.. Your silly Jona borrow borrow from China everyday for a reason.

Thieves are known to squabblewhen it is time to share their loot

garrix8:
PPDemon

Keep lamenting. I hope you don't commit suicide too soon.

See this regurgitating hebivore

Go find your fulani herdsman

Ralphlauren:
Thank you!

Leave us to 'suffer" or did we complain to you?

Face your own problems and leave us with our Tinubu. Okay?

That's why we want out of your useless one nigeria

Senator Vitter's letter to John Kerry on Hilary Clinton's links and shady dealings with Chagoury


March 17, 2015
The Honorable John Kerry
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Secretary Kerry:
Like many Americans, I am incredibly concerned about the recent revelations that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has kept official federal records hidden from the public, both through an external email domain and in deciding to delete thousands of these records. While the State Department is in the process of reviewing the documents Secretary Clinton has provided, I am requesting that the Department provide all additional files specifically relating to the designation of Boko Haram as a terrorist organization during former Secretary Clinton’s term and seek out any related files which may not have already been turned over by Secretary Clinton.
As I have in the past, I commend your November 2013 decision to designate Boko Haram as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. However, given the drastic foothold Boko Haram was allowed to gain prior to being designated an FTO, the nexus between the Department’s decision against designating Boko Haram as an FTO and connections to outside groups should be brought forward. Associated records should have been preserved as evidence of the agency’s activities, decisions and procedures. These should be presented to the relevant committees and to the American public to be evaluated for corresponding misconduct.
Last year, I presented the Department with evidence that multiple State Department Country Reports on Terrorism, presented to Congress under Secretary Clinton’s direction, failed to include valuable information related to Boko Haram. Inaccuracies within official documents make it clear that the State Department misled Congress and the American people. Additional evidence demonstrates that multiple Department employees who were directly involved in the decision against designating Boko Haram as an FTO, including the Office Coordinator for Counterterrorism, have been Clinton Foundation employees. Disturbingly, while the Department was refusing to make the FTO designation, former President Bill Clinton, also the head of the Clinton Foundation and account owner of the Clinton email domain, participated in events with a long-time donor and major Nigerian land developer, Gilbert Chagoury, who previously agreed to a $66 million plea deal during international investigation into corruption charges against him. We need to know if Mr. Chagoury had any influence in the decision not to designate Boko Haram an FTO, or had any other influence with Sec. Clinton’s foreign policy decisions.
Between this history of involvement and the recent revelations regarding Secretary Clinton’s record keeping, I strongly believe it is essential to re-establish trust in the Department to provide the related materials to the public. If funds from the Clinton Foundation were used to pay for the email server, it would constitute a financial benefit from the Clinton Foundation and donations from foreign businessmen who directly stood to gain from Clinton’s decision, which is questionable at best.
I have long opposed the foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation as a conflict of interest for Secretary Clinton due to the nature of the job. Moreover, as you are aware, the Code of Federal Regulations requires federal agencies to make and preserve records that duly document agency activity. Former Secretary Clinton’s actions in conjunction to information I have previously presented to the Department where she circumvented and misled Congress should be closely examined.
The purpose of the law is to ensure that agency activities are available to be reviewed when needed -- such as for FOIA requests or congressional inquiries. Each federal agency is responsible for maintaining its records in accordance with regulations. Due to the highly unusual nature of the current circumstance, I am asking you to demonstrate the Department’s commitment to transparency and to provide all files related to their decision not to designate Boko Haram an FTO, and all communication with Mr. Chagoury or his affiliated businesses.
These actions, if true, run contrary to the trust placed in the Department, as a representative of the United States and constitutional government. It is imperative to fully disclose relevant information to the American public.
Sincerely,
David Vitter
United States Senate

StOla:
A tablet of valium works like magic. The sleep that eludes you will come in no time.

I recomend half a tablet of cyanide to you

I guarranttee you won't wake up ever!

StOla:
Only one person has been lamenting so far.

I hope you find happiness someday, even if in a dream.

Goodnight!

Look at this confirmed magga

I mention you?

Go and contiue your sleeping life

Dunce like you thougth it was all about chanting change and sai buhari

Mumus

https://thecitizenng.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Jonathan-Clinton-Upbeat.jpg

The only reason Clinton is smiling is because he has Chagoury's cheque in his pocket

https://pointblanknews.com/pbn/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/tinubu4.jpg

Chagoury made this possible for Tinubu

Chagoury is Lebanese by the way.

Una see how them dey sell una by the day


Change my foot!

Sen. David Vitter (R., La.) wants to know whether Hillary Clinton concealed communications with a Nigerian donor to the Clinton Foundation during an internal State Department debate over designating Boko Haram a terrorist group.

Vitter sent a letter last week to Secretary of State John Kerry requesting all of Clinton’s records relating to Boko Haram and her reluctance to label it as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).

The senator also asked for all of Secretary Clinton’s communications with Gilbert Chagoury, a Nigerian construction magnate who has donated millions to the Clinton Foundation in addition to contributing thousands to an outside group that helped re-elect President Bill Clinton in 1996.

Vitter said in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon that he wants to uncover whether Chagoury’s relationship with the former secretary of state influenced her policy toward Nigeria and its radical Islamic insurgency.

As founder of the Chagoury Group, one of Nigeria’s largest construction conglomerates, Chagoury would have a financial interest in the impact on Nigeria that would have followed a FTO designation for Boko Haram, Vitter said.

“He’s not Boko Haram, but he has a clear interest in terms of his commercial developments of not getting this designation, which would put the brakes on a lot of possible development that he wants in Nigeria,” he told the Free Beacon.

“The question I’ve raised is: Is there a similar conflict of interest there? And did that sort of issue have anything to do with Hillary Clinton’s State Department dragging its feet?”

Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Chagoury and Republican consultant who formerly worked at the Justice Department and on Capitol Hill, said in an email statement that accusations of an improper relationship between Chagoury and Clinton are “ludicrous and laughable.”

“Chagoury has had no contact with Hillary Clinton for years—predating her time as a U.S. senator,” he said. “So even if Senator Vitter somehow retrieves Hillary’s emails (and I hope he does), he’ll find no emails or correspondence of any kind from Ambassador Chagoury with Secretary Clinton or the Department of State.”

“Furthermore, while he has had a well-publicized friendship with former President Clinton and has donated to the Clinton Foundation, I would point out that he has also donated to the George W. Bush presidential library. Why? Because both President Bush and President Clinton showed a real interest in Africa and Ambassador Chagoury truly appreciated both men and their efforts.”

A spokesman for Clinton did not respond to a request for comment. A spokeswoman for the State Department also did not respond to a query about whether Kerry had received Vitter’s letter, and how long it would take to provide the communications he requested.

Both Nigerian officials and outside observers who were opposed to the FTO designation for Boko Haram argued that such a move would have a negative economic impact on the country. Chagoury employs tens of thousands of workers in West Africa and has spearheaded some of Nigeria’s most ambitious development projects.

A group of more than 20 academics wrote Clinton a letter in 2012 urging her against the FTO designation, citing its effects on humanitarian and economic aid.

“If economic development is to play a role in alleviating tensions in northern Nigeria, we should not hamper access by USAID or private NGOs in providing aid and assistance in the region,” they wrote.

The criticism of the FTO designation came as Johnnie Carson, former assistant secretary of state for African affairs under Clinton and an opponent of the measure, stressed the importance of private investment in Nigeria. The country is the second-largest destination in Africa for U.S. private investment.

The militant group was eventually declared as a FTO in November 2013 after Kerry became secretary of state.

Chagoury donated between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 to the Clinton Foundation and pledged $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative in 2009 through the Chagoury Group. His relationship with the Clintons stretches back to the 1990s, when he contributed nearly half a million dollars to a voter registration group that helped re-elect President Bill Clinton in 1996.

At the time, human rights activists pressured Clinton to sanction Nigeria’s Sani Abacha regime for detaining and executing political dissidents. Chagoury, an Abacha associate, was reportedly invited to a White House dinner for Democratic supporters in 1997 and spoke with Clinton administration officials during that period about U.S. policy toward Nigeria. Clinton opted against sanctioning Nigeria’s profitable oil industry, instead pursuing “constructive dialogue” with the Abacha regime. Abacha died in 1998.

Several members of Chagoury’s family also donated thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential bid in 2008, according to the Wall Street Journal.

According to a 2010 investigation by PBS Frontline, Chagoury was one of the associates of Abacha’s who received government payments in overseas bank accounts.

He was convicted in 2000 in Switzerland for laundering money from Nigeria, but agreed to a plea deal and repaid $66 million to the Nigerian government. The conviction was later dropped. He also returned money in Swiss bank accounts to Nigeria in 1999 to receive immunity from prosecution in a looted assets case.

Corallo said the charges against Chagoury “were vacated and expunged from the record.”

Chagoury was also linked to a scheme in which Kellogg, Brown, and Root (KBR), then a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation, paid $180 million in bribes to the Abacha regime for business contracts in the 1990s. KBR eventually agreed to pay $579 million in fines in 2009, the largest ever payment for a company accused of bribing foreign officials. 

Chagoury was not charged with any wrongdoing during a Justice Department investigation of the exchange.

“You are never going to stop corruption,” Chagoury told PBS.

Chagoury helped plan lucrative speeches for Bill Clinton and attended the former president’s 60th birthday party in 2006 in New York, as well as the wedding celebration in France of top Clinton aide Douglas Band, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Chagoury’s latest project, a land reclamation effort known as Eko Atlantic that will provide residences and amenities to 250,000 wealthy Nigerians outside of Lagos, has been criticized by some for not aiding Africa’s poor. Bill Clinton attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the project in February 2013.

Sen. Vitter has long suggested that State Department officials are downplaying the threat posed by Boko Haram.

He wrote a letter to Kerry last year about apparent discrepancies between statistics provided to the State Department and the actual language included in the department’s annual reports on global terrorism.

For example, the National Counterterrorism Center’s (NCTC) statistical annex for the 2011 State Department report said that a double-digit percentage increase in attacks in Africa was “attributable in large part to the more aggressive attack tempo of the Nigeria-based terrorist group Boko Haram, which conducted 136 attacks in 2011­—up from 31 in 2010.”

However, the actual Country Reports on Terrorism for 2011 only called Boko Haram a “Nigerian extremist group” that “claimed responsibility for some of these attacks.”

Omenka here is another thread that requires your urgent lamentations

Everyday the truth keeps coming out!

Hilary Clinton's refusal to designate Boko Haram as a Terrorist organization has been revealed through her e mail correspondence and suspicious donations to the Bill Clinto foundation by none other than Mr Chagoury.

Chagoury seems to be the go between Tinubu and Hilary Clinton and eventually Obama.

Chagoury as you all know is a close business affiliate to Tinubu and the Lagos state government since 1999.

Ironically, the same Chagoury was able to immense himself with the Abacha regime. The same Abacha regime that the likes of Tinubu and Soyinka under NADECO claimed to be in opposition to.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

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jaysniggs:
Sorry to break this to you,
The oil proceeds with do a lot in this project.

Not any more. We've resolved to stop funding your one Nigeria.

Start planting opium and coca plants if you must

The APC will remove subsidy. They are already blaming jonathan.

In one year Nigerians go know say dem don enter one chance.

APC is Muslim Brotherhood

Buhari is Morsi in the making!

ki02020:
To cut the story short the main source of income of the then best region(the western region)of nigeria was agriculture not crude oil abi thanks for the info

No.

The income and economy of western Nigeria was based on an expliotative plantation model that bought cocoa produce at a ridiculously low price to resell at a much higher price in the int'l market.

Omenka your lamentations are needed here

It is no secret that Obama backed and ensured a Buhari win to the point of lending the APC his personal election campaign manager that got him elected into the white house with the same "change" mantra but what most of you may be saliently unaware of is how bad Obama's choices for democratic rule in other countries are.

Obama backed the Muslim Brotherhood and now desposed and jailed Morsi in Egypt.
That administration has been tagged the worst govt in Egypt.

I foresee in the nearest and immediate future, the same scenario that befell the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi replaying itself with the APC and Buhari.

kastonkastrol:
hey whats your beef with obama you inconsequential rat? The richest man in your village will even be happy to clean obama's _shithole and here you are disturbing nairaland community with your obamaphobia/buhariphobia.. nonsense

Muslim filth

Ango Abdullahi makes the list?

Thid incoming Govt is confirmed Boko

This should be Obama

richidinho:
If only we can get 5 of that

Nigeria I respect thee

Can you afford the fare?

Almajiri Economics

Baba one chance

Obama's puppet govt made possible by almajiri urchins and children of perdition

No worry

We will have a swell time seeing the real clueless one make an utter complete fool of himself and his plebian zombie fanatics

You won't be talking about bullet trains if GEJ hadn't revatalized and expanded the rail network.

You will need all the cocoa and groundnuts you can scratch from the ground to achieve this because no way is ND oil funding this.

Oya omenka come and lament

Iwant2know:
Thunder fire ur 10th generation. Mad Dog.

See you are no different

Practise what you preach

Hypocrite

Iwant2know:
Why are u fun of insulting people ? Can't u jst mke a reasonable comment for once.

Thunder fire you

You no see wetin that your kudirat dey write

motherlode:
. * yawns *.

You need gbegiri

They are already feeling the heat.

Can't wait till may 29

All we need is to give Buhari a mic and that time the APC plebs will know say nah Baba one chance motor dem enter

motherlode:
. Lock up you haven't had your bath that will do

Yorabanese telling me I need a bath?