Igbo (Yoruba word for forest) agala (or what remains of it): the only ''oasis'' in the endless dusty desert that is Ibadan.

Can you beat those shofisticated b-roofs?

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Ibadan in its rusty glory - photos

OAUTemitayo:
OP Thunder fire you.
Why must you make it look like it's only in Ogun state crime exists?
M0dafuckerrr

Thunder don fire you already tele tele! BTW, Ogun state is the highest milker of Nigeria, both illegally (crime) and otherwise.

. Police recover guns in CSO’s office By Evelyn Usman Three suspected pipeline vandals arrested in Ilashe area of Ogun state last month by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Anti-Pipeline Vandalism Unit have confessed that they were hired by a Chief Security Officer at a depot in Mosimi area of Ogun state. The suspects ; Balogun Taiwo(37), Lukemon Adedigba (45) and Dayo Olanipekun (40) were alleged to have been returning from the creeks through Ilashe link , in two vehicles loaded with siphoned petroleum products belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation pipelines. Suspected vandals However, on sighting the operatives, said to have acted on tip off, the vandals scampered in different directions, abandoning the vehicles and containers loaded with petroleum product. It was gathered that while the operatives were towing the vehicles to their base , they were attacked by some armed vandals who opened fire . A reinforcement from the Special Anti Robbery Sqaud, SARS Ogijo, reportedly saved the situation from resulting into the apparent kidnap or killing of some of the policemen. At the end of the shoot -out , three suspects were arrested, with a double barrel riffle while the rest escaped. . During interrogation, the suspects reportedly confessed that they were allegedly hired by a CSO at the Mosimi depot (names withheld) . Police sources hinted that in order to ascertain their claim, a letter was written to the NNPC to release the said CSO for interrogation . Thereafter , a warrant of arrest was reportedly obtained from the court to effect the arrest of the CSO. Mild drama However, a mild drama unfolded when the operatives arrived MOSIMI depot to effect the arrest of the CSO, following alleged stiff resistance by some staff. Sources at the IGP Anti-Pipeline Vandalism Unit hinted that “ We went with the warrant of arrest and a search warrant to Mosimi depot. When a search was conducted at the CSO’s office, three locally made guns were recovered. When we tried to arrest him, one of the staff raised a fire alarm and all the workers assembled and barricaded all the roads, insisting that we would not take him away. One of the officers who tried to make the exit with the three recovered riffles was held hostage and dispossessed of the guns. The workers threatened to shut the station if he was taken away. To douse the situation, we allowed him to go. Till this moment, the Corporation is yet to release the CSO for investigation”. CSO’s appeal text to Police While the wait for the CSO lasted, he was said to have sent an appeal text message to one of the operatives of the Unit. Part of the text read “ Please, I beg you in the name of God ,to kindly tamper justice with mercy. I made a mistake . That will never happen again. Kindly help to bail me out of this. I am very sorry. God will grant you favour in all your endeavours…”. We were hired by CSO However during an interview with Crime Guard the suspects denied indulging in pipeline vandalisation. Rather , they claimed to have been hired by the CSO to carry out surveillance of the area which is used as an exit route through Arepo creeks by vandals. One of them, Balogun Taiwo , who hails from Sango Otta, Ogun State told Crime Guard that “ On November 22, 2015, I was sleeping in my apartment in Shagamu, when my phone rang. The caller was a friend named Semiu. He informed that the CSO Mosimi said we ( Lukemon, Dayo and I )should come over, that vandals were operating around the area. He said he needed us to arrest them . I woke up immediately and mounted my motorbike. I rode to a place where Dayo and Lukemon were waiting. We met Semiu at the entrance of the NNPC gate . The guards at the gate demanded to know what we were doing at that odd hour (1. 40am ) . As we were about to explain to them that the CSO sent for us, he (CSO) appeared and directed them to give Semiu keys to their patrol vehicle. We entered the vehicle and zoomed off , leaving my motorbike in the premises. On reaching Ilara road, we saw two vehicles and two okadas (motorcycles ) approaching from the opposite direction . Suspecting they were vandals, Semiu intercepted the vehicles, shooting sporadically. This made the occupants to flee, abandoning the vehicles. We took the vehicles and okada. Semiu then called the CSO on the phone to inform him of the development. He asked us to remain there till dawn. While we were there , we saw another vehicle moving out of the bush . We gave them a hot pursuit which caused its occupants to flee. We discovered they had loaded their abandoned vehicles with jerricans filled with petroleum products. Altercation At about 4am, we saw another vanagon bus leaving the bush , we chased it and the occupants fled as well. As we were about calling the CSO, Anti pipeline policemen arrived the scene. They identified us as those who opened fire on them earlier. They followed us with the recovered vehicles and exhibits to the depot. When the CSO came to meet us at the gate, he directed that the recovered vehicles and petroleum products be kept in the premises. But the Police said it should be taken to the station . This led to an altercation , in the process of which the police towed two of the vehicles away and arrested us. “We are not vandals. I have never been to the creeks before. This is the second time I am joining them for such surveillance. It was Semiu that invited me the first time. Semiu works for the CSO. He only contracted us to work for him . He has not even paid us . It was only Semiu that was armed. The rest of us were just with torch-lights”. Lukemon and Dayo corroborated Taiwo’s claim, adding however that they were only given N1000 each before they embarked on the ill fated trip. Effort to reach Head, Public Affairs, Petroleum Product Marketing Company, PPMC Nasir Imodagbe , on the alleged indictment of the CSO failed as he requested this reporter to send him a text. But he never replied the text as at time of writing this report . Meanwhile, when contacted, the head, IGP Anti -Pipeline Vandalism Unit, Mr Valentine Olumese, a Chief Superintendent of Police , told Vanguard that the CSO was still being expected to clear himself of the allegation.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/nnpc-depot-cso-hired-us-to-vandalise-pipelines-suspects/

Wow! This is clear evidence of the serious lack of maintenance culture that is the bane of Nigeria.

Defi front page material

ramdris:
Pls oga try and quote that section of our constitution before i can take u up on the matter..

Section 419 of 1980 as amended in 2016
See also the case of Fatai Olagunju v FGN

Tongue in check, runs outta own thread

Shebi all the chief justices who interpret the law are mallams from Boko land? You see how they think?

ki02020:



I disagree bro anybody from any tribe will gladly prostrates for such gesture...probably there was no space in his front

But there is a lot of space just behind him, as the pic shows

antispexish:


if you had said that in front of those prisoners, you would have received correct prison slaps from the prisoners.

Quite possible. Naija is a country of mad people, so I wont be surprised if that would happen.

Adekorya:
Standing trial for 15years?

Meaning they were in prison for 15years without any conviction. The rule of law of this country is only on paper.

Upon that they were still forced to dobale in public, some against their will

juniorportland:
some of them Go still do Wetin go carry them go back

Regardless. As many times as they do the crime they should be jailed. But is genuflecting to the judge part of the deal?

ki02020:




Calm down na...don't jump into conclusion

Ah! Bros, an average Yoruba is so full of ''gratitude'' that they must dobale (genuflect) upon smaller gestures, let alone big gestures such as premature release from prison. That man standing who is not swayed by what his fellow inmates did MUST not be Yoruba. He must be from the ''land of the flaties''

These prisoners she is playing god over are already weak and almost non-existent. Why further debase them?

Is she an empress or something?

Could somebody jolt her to the fact that this is the 21st century? That she only did her job and that she should not create a press conference after conducting the duties for which she is paid, to allow the opportunity for gratitudinal genuflection?

But is this civilization or backwardness?

I am guessing the one(s) standing up are not Yoruba. No culturally induced genuflection even upon release from prison

Photo caption:

Some freed inmates from the Kirikiri prison, Lagos, expressing gratitude to the Lagos State Chief Judge, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade ...on Wednesday. Photo: Lagos Judiciary

Benikuuse:
Corruption is everywhere my brother, but corruption is starts from the political class down to civil
service

Not exactly true. All politicians were something before they became politicians. They were either civil servants or private workers. In life you must count one before two. Personally, I believe many ordinary Nigerians are corrupt and take that nature to the highest height when the opportunity arises, such as becoming a politician with an office.

Epilogue:

In Nigeria, both the politician and the civil servant are equally corrupt. For each, it is a matter of when the opportunity arises.

Sunday, April 17, 2016

How junior civil servants fleece Nigeria of millions - ICPC


The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has revealed how junior public servants rake in millions of naira illegally.

The Chairman of the ICPC, Mr. Ekpo Nta, said this while addressing participants of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies at the Abuja headquarters of the agency on Friday.

Speaking on the theme, 'The role of the ICPC in the war against corruption: Mandate, strategies and challenges,' the ICPC boss said there was a tendency for investigators to always go after finance directors whenever there was a probe.

He, however, said investigations had shown that junior civil servants, who go to work looking haggard, sometimes made more money than their bosses.

Nta said, "If you are probing an agency, the first person you will ordinarily want to look at is the director of finance. But investigations we have done here sometimes show otherwise. How does a protocol officer make money? Is it a high level position? No.

"But if, for instance, an organisation is sending five officers abroad for training and the chief executive signs a letter containing the names of five officers and the letter is taken to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a note verbal, the person who is taking the list from the chief executive to the ministry (protocol officer) adds 10 more names.

"The ministry will issue a verbal note covering 15 names and sent to the embassy involved and visas will be issued to the 15 persons without an interview. For each of the 10 extra people, the protocol officer collects N1.5m. That brings the amount to N15m.

"And this is an agency that constantly sends people abroad. Do you know how much that protocol officer is taking away? This is a protocol officer who comes to the office in slippers and a bad car, but is secretly building an estate. These are true-life stories based on our investigations."

Nta also revealed how civil servants were collecting multiple salaries but noted that 'ghost workers' could no longer exploit the system due to the Bank Verification Number.

He added, "Some people have refused to come and collect their salaries. So, some of our agencies are inviting them. They did not expect that the BVN would be there. In the past, they were collecting salaries from different agencies because they had been transferred from one agency or ministry to the other but were still collecting salaries from their previous positions."

The ICPC boss also bemoaned that many wealthy Nigerians were not paying their taxes. He said the anti-graft agency had, therefore, made it a duty to always ask for tax evidence whenever anyone was under probe.

He said, "We have, in the course of investigations, seen some very smart people who you get a petition against. On the surface, you have found nothing on him but you have found N1bn in his account and he has shown you that he has not committed any offence.

"And so, we went a step further and checked whether he has been paying his taxes. By the time we finished with investigations, that gentleman paid taxes amounting to N77m. So, it became a standard that whenever we are investigating a matter, we look at tax matter.

http://odili.net/news/source/2016/apr/17/853.html

Prologue:

I know a junior (level 8 - so ''junior'' is relatively speaking, of course) civil servant in Nigeria who comes here to America every once a year. You can now guess how he makes the money to visit America that frequently (for a person being paid less than 200K Naira per annum).

Beeman1:
Good.

God bless my northern army brothers who are sanitising south East.

Any tout who no wan abide by nigeria law and constitution,una know what to do sha.

God bless T.Y buratai

God bless PMB/PYO

God bless Nigeria.

You have not sanitized your land of boko haram and dirty fulani killers you wan "sanitize" south east. Who is this fooooool?

Howard County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 census, the population was 287,085.[1] Its county seat is Ellicott City.[2]

Howard County is included in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area. However, recent development in the south of the county has led to some realignment towards the Washington, D.C. media and employment markets. The county is home to Columbia, a major planned community of approximately 100,000 founded by developer James Rouse in 1967.

Howard County is frequently cited for its affluence, quality of life, and excellent schools. With an estimated median household income of $108,844 in 2012, Howard County had the third-highest median household income of any U.S. county in 2013.[3] Many of the most affluent communities in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area, such as Clarksville, Dayton, Glenelg, Glenwood, and West Friendship, are located along the Route 32 corridor in Howard County. The main population center of Columbia/Ellicott City was named second among Money magazine's 2010 survey of "America's Best Places to Live."[4] Howard County's schools frequently rank first in Maryland as measured by standardized test scores and graduation rates

So Howard County, Maryland is the second richest county in the United States
Its capital is Ellicot City and its largest city is Columbia
Next to Columbia is a small town called West Friendship where only 3.5 % of the population is black
Of this 3.5 %, 23 % have Nigerian origin.

Given the high cost of living in Howard County, this makes its cities and towns such as West Friendship among the US communities with the highest concentration (per percentage of the population) of rich Nigerians.

To own a good house in Columbia and surrounding towns such as West Friendship. you would be coughing out nearly a million USD.

So is Howard County where Nigerian polithiecians go to buy houses in America using their American based relatives and proxies?

In 2009, the estimated population of West Friendship (zip code 21794) was 2,777 persons with 1,763 households. The median age is 36.5 years. The racial make-up of West Friendship was 87.1% White, 3.5% African American, 9.1% Asian, and 0.3% Hispanic. 90.6% of the population speak English at home. Foreign-born residents compose of 7.9% of the community. The most common countries of origin were Nigeria (23%), United Kingdom (22%), Taiwan (14%) and Canada (10%).[7]

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the median family income was $178,977 in 2013, one of the highest in Maryland. More than 40% of families earned more than $200,000 per year.[8] The average family net worth in 2013 was $1.81 million.[9] An estimated 0.9% of families have an income below the poverty level.[8]

Most West Friendship residents commute to work in the Baltimore-Washington corridor. More than half (54%) of families have 3 or more cars.[8] The mean commute is 30–34 minutes. 88% of residents drive a car to work, and 34.7% of residents work within Howard County, Maryland.

Will get the latest communication between my friend and him and post here later

Dude gave his name to my friend as Frangy Goimbert and the number  (424) 265-0876. Such a name with a Naija accent?

Chukky86:
That Guy is not an America. It a nigeria scammer. Once did that. It called apartment scam. The rent fee is going too good to be true. He's gonna tell you that He will send you the key.

Turns out you were right, 100%. My friend called him with the number he gave in my presence, with the phone on speaker. Dude who responded and claimed ownership of the house has thick Nigerian accent. Lol

Interestingly, the smaller the states are in area, the bigger the quality of the human resources.

Empty desert land versus full human brain. Which would you take?

DonDraper:
    

1. When I saw the State in my call up letter my heart literally melted courtesy of previous stories.

2. Few months I fell in love with the students in the school even with no reason especially with their poor academic performance.).

Good one.

But curious. Can you expand more on the highlighted portion? Thanks!!!