₦airaland Forum

Burob:
U mean Esnbrutality? he has probably gone to his neighbors house to beg for Christmas rice & fowl to chop, bet my last Naira, he will be back shortly.

jaxxy:
Peter Obi got most of his votes from the south. He is king of the south.

The tipex scammer is the North begger.

malali:
The prosecuting government lawyers have access to a lot of evidence and records.
Prosecuting them shouldn't take a lifetime.
You gave somebody 100 million and all evidence and receipt shows he only spent 20 million for the state.
He cant account for the looted 80 million
You dont need OJ Simpson lawyer to prove guilt.

Burob:
Yes, let that Esn servant foot soldier come & defend yes daddy.

jaxxy:
we know who is begging the North for votes.

malali:
It doesnt take 10years to try people.Allowing them enough time to enjoy the loot, sends a wrong message.

Wickedtruths:
The way this one is gnashing his scattered teeth, one would think Malami gave him part of the money.

jaxxy:
This is going to backfire.

malali:
I agree Malami should be dragged to court.

But what happened to Yahya Bello
What happened to Emefiele

Why is EFCC only prosecuting on partisan basis ?
Are you telling us there is no APC corrupt politician ?

Is Tinubu administration using EFCC,ICPC to haunt and destroy opposition and those who stand in their way ?

kettykin:
I am not a fan of VAT ,GDP and IGR buy I must say the New generation of Governors in the East are just super trying their best. This is a trillion times better than what was obtainable in the past . Otti gas already turned Aba from an abandoned city to the fastest-growing city in West Africa, Imo state is about becoming the gas hub of Africa, Soludo is doubling efforts at modernization of Nnewi, Awka and Onitsha.

dominique:
Criminals like him know how to stash loots away in untraceable accounts and wallets. The funds that he forfeited are nothing but a fraction of all he stole. Even the authorities know this

dominique:
https://www.nairaland.com/5383964/fbi-arrested-invictus-obi-airport
5 years don waka true true. Now he can go and enjoy the loot he stashed away without disturbance. Sometimes crime does pay

seunmsg:
I really pity Taiwo Oyedele. Dude left KPMG where he was worshiped like a god globally to take up the tax reform job thinking it’s going to be a piece of cake like he made his job at KPMG looked like.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Amah Abraham, says the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has not yet recognized the party’s national convention that took place in Ibadan, Oyo State last November.

Abraham made this disclosure on Tuesday during an interview on Arise Television monitored by DAILY POST.

According to him, what INEC did was to issue caution to the political parties.

“As I said earlier, with what happened at that meeting, it is very clear that everything that happened at Ibadan has not been recognized by INEC.

INEC as a body saddled with the responsibility of managing the affairs of political parties in Nigeria have made it very that for now it is the courts that will determine the way forward.

“What INEC did on that day was an issuance of a vote of caution to the warring faction. It was not a meeting to endorse it was a meeting to tell them that inasmuch as there is a Supreme Court ruling that political party business is an internal affairs of that political party.

“That being an internal affairs does not necessarily mean that they must act in abeyance, they must act arbitrarily, they must act against the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, they must act against the electoral law.

“At some point in that meeting, I remember Turaki, the acclaim winner of the convention, presented himself as somebody who was validly elected by the by the convention. The chairman himself made it very clear to him that that convention went ahead against the judgment of two Federal High Courts,” he said.

In August, Washington sanctioned French judge Nicolas Yann Guillou, who sits on the International Criminal Court, for the tribunal's targeting of Israeli leaders and a past decision to investigate U.S. officials.

The European Union, France and Germany condemned U.S. visa bans on European citizens combating online hate and disinformation, with Brussels saying on Wednesday it could "respond swiftly and decisively" against the "unjustified measures".

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration imposed visa bans on Tuesday on five European citizens, including French former EU commissioner Thierry Breton, who it accuses of working to censor freedom of speech or unfairly target U.S. tech giants with overly burdensome regulation.

A European Commission spokesperson said it "strongly condemns the U.S. decision", adding: "Freedom of expression is a fundamental right in Europe and a shared core value with the United States across the democratic world."

EU FINED ELON MUSK'S X THIS MONTH

The visa bans are likely to exacerbate growing divergences between Washington and some European capitals over issues including free speech, defence, immigration, far-right politics, trade and the Russia-Ukraine war.

They come just weeks after a U.S. National Security Strategy document warned Europe faced "civilizational erasure" and must change course if it is to remain a reliable U.S. ally.

Breton was one of the architects of the EU's Digital Services Act, a landmark piece of legislation aimed at making the internet safer that has irritated U.S. officials.

They were particularly riled by Brussels' sanction earlier this month against Elon Musk's X platform, which was fined 120 million euros for breaching online content rules.

Musk and Breton have often sparred online over EU tech regulation, with Musk referring to him as the "tyrant of Europe".

The bans also targeted Imran Ahmed, the British CEO of the U.S.-based Center for Countering Digital Hate; Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon of the German non-profit HateAid; and Clare Melford, co-founder of the Global Disinformation Index, according to U.S. Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers.

EU LAW AIMS TO MAKE ONLINE WORLD SAFER

The EU's DSA is meant to make the online environment safer, in part by compelling tech giants to do more to tackle illegal content, including hate speech and child sexual abuse material.

Washington has said the EU was pursuing "undue" restrictions on freedom of expression in its efforts to combat hateful speech, misinformation and disinformation, and that the DSA unfairly targets U.S. tech giants and U.S. citizens.

The European Commission spokesperson said the EU had the right to regulate economic activity, and had requested more information from Washington about the measures.

"If needed, we will respond swiftly and decisively to defend our regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures," they said.

French President Emmanuel Macron said: "These measures amount to intimidation and coercion aimed at undermining European digital sovereignty."

On X, he said the DSA was approved in a democratic process, and existed "to ensure fair competition among platforms, without targeting any third country, and to ensure that what is illegal offline is also illegal online."

Breton, a former French finance minister and the European commissioner for the internal market from 2019 to 2024, was the most high-profile individual targeted.

"Is McCarthy's witch hunt back?" he wrote on X.
"As a reminder: 90% of the European Parliament - our democratically elected body - and all 27 Member States unanimously voted the DSA. To our American friends: Censorship isn't where you think it is."

GERMANY SAYS BANS ON ACTIVISTS 'UNACCEPTABLE

Germany's justice ministry said the two German activists had the government's "support and solidarity" and the visa bans on them were unacceptable, adding that HateAid supported people affected by unlawful digital hate speech.

"Anyone who describes this as censorship is misrepresenting our constitutional system," it said in a statement. "The rules by which we want to live in the digital space in Germany and in Europe are not decided in Washington."

A Global Disinformation Index spokesperson called the visa bans "an authoritarian attack on free speech and an egregious act of government censorship."

"The Trump Administration is, once again, using the full weight of the federal government to intimidate, censor, and silence voices they disagree with," they said. "Their actions today are immoral, unlawful, and un-American."

Breton is not the first French person to be sanctioned by the Trump administration.

In August, Washington sanctioned French judge Nicolas Yann Guillou, who sits on the International Criminal Court, for the tribunal's targeting of Israeli leaders and a past decision to investigate U.S. officials.

fuckingAyaya:
why would a company own by an individual be collecting revenue from a state, why? They are introducing same template in the whole federation using France as proxy. How much does he want to stash before departing this world ?

fuckingAyaya:
you must be a joke then . If only the SP. tender his own u must cry blood, 750billi state treasury was looted dried NDDC 500billi was looted dried now he's the Sp. Budget paddy running into billis na water then if Bulaba now tenders his own u fit convulse. Col. In the military dey lap 7billi for Aza you are talking about greed

fuckingAyaya:
THE WHOLE OF LAGOS. After the ex military dictator " MARADONA" na him follow when it comes to notorious looting without mercy. All of them are thieves. No country can survive the level of corruption this country has faced without collapsing.

yarimo:
No wonder makinde was busy lamenting earlier, after disobeying two court orders. The unfortunate part of it is, the illegal chairman is a SAN someone who knows the law allowed himself to be fooled by i pass my neighbor generator engineer ? Makinde succeeded in burying PDP completely

Queseda:
Obidient, you don’t hate corruption again? Or you only hate corruption when it’s not your favourite politician engaging in it?

gare:
Reno is one person I’ve come to see as completely disconnected from his heritage. As an Urhobo man, I have never once seen him proudly represent Urhobo culture or attire. Instead, he consistently adopts styles identified with other cultures, particularly Yoruba agbada no offense to the Yoruba people.

Cultural pride is not selective. When someone repeatedly distances himself from his roots, it raises serious questions about identity and authenticity. For an Urhobo man, this silence and absence are disappointing.

Greenback:
You are just doing only one thing on this your own thread: making empty noise!!!

Complete garbage.
What's your thread all about? Is it about sharing formula or about Okigbo?


Shagari is a northerner and former head of state but you are trying to heap only God knows what to Okigbo!
You people did same thing to the Emefiele and left Buhari out just as you did to shagari!

But when it came to then CBN gov,sanusi,you left him out and attacked Jonathan...you don't even know the composition of ironsi's govt but blame him already!


Nigerian!