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Well,again 3 points in the bag and goal difference enhanced  

C'mon guys one more goal b4 the whistle

dayokanu:
Clueless Dipo2much

na_so:
^^^^^^^^^^^
wrong Cameroun went into the last match with -1 hence after losing 3-0 they
have -4 now. USA on the other hand went into the last game with neutral so after losing 3-0 too they have -3
hence even 1-0 against Tahiti would have seen us through

Very true son

ngozi.u:
I5 september here!

Hi Ngozi,you're very much welcome to this our wonderful thread for the most special people on earth;September babies.Hope you had a wonderful birthday celebration,your September 15 birth mates on this thread are;Creamychic,Senator JD,Manickal,Mykali,Gabe logan,Atiba wealth,Touchmeder,Adeyeencah,elchux,Tiptess,temmytanny,Lanreni and Ben20001

ehie007:
why is FA's issue such a hot topic

Because the guy could very easily have been unaffected by the CBN hammer but for some erratic decisions he took in the past fifteen months or so.He was actually doing OK prior to that time

You see atimes,one should not be overly ambitious,that's why CEOs like your boss;Reginald are doing well today

I'm sure Mary Bassey and her husband,Alli Baba will now be laughing at FA
Well,e dey be like that at times,his obssesion with spring bank finally did him in

mbulela:
Nigerians do not resign.

Jim had actually flirted with the idea of resigning some months ago,even before Sanusi became CBN gov,but feelers from his inner caucus have revealed that he has rescinded that decision for now as people are bound to interprete any such move as CBN-induced ala Francis Atuche

In any case,there's rot in ALL nigerian banks,but sanusi and his gang seem to have some form of tolerance gauge with which they determine which bank CEO deserves to be booted out and which ones require mere reprimands,believe me Jim Ovia and Tony Elumelu have been given reprimands both in private and officially,THEY WON'T BE ASKED TO RESIGN

How the cookie crumbles,Francis Atuche finally bites the dust
FA would not have been in this situation if not for his obssesive desire to acquire spring bank at all cost.I have not been able to fathom the reason for the aggressive take-over of spring bank,come on,a bank that had been trading at N1.00 per share for nearly two years,Atuche,in his infinite wisdom,released funds to selected stockbroking firms to hijack spring bank from its owners at all cost,they had to even pay between N7.00 and N8.50 per share for the shares of spring bank.

That set the shareholders funds in PHB back by N63billion,all these happened with the tacit connivance of the then CBN governor and Anambra guber hopeful,charles Soludo,who seconded Ndanusa to the "new board" of spring bank and the Ndanusa jamboree was to cost PHB a further N23 billion.

To me,this is just the REWARD for greed as FA would only have got a reprimand if the only worms found in his PHB can were the N7 billion fraud saga that made him kick out Mary B and others

Congratulations Nigeria
We may have "wobbled and fumbled" our way to the last 16,but in the last 16,we surely are,so massive congratulations to Siasia and his assistant,I believe they,with their boys now have been given a second chance to redeem their names and make us proud

There's a lifting up Nigeria,GO SIASIA

After all said and done,it'd be 3 points in the bag for The Arsenal

How can you have best among two people
It's "who's better"

slimshay:
Debosky, wtf, Arsene wenger benchesd Arshavin for personal pride?  when did you start working for goal.com, on the contrary what he said was he wanted the BOYS to know they could win without him. It was for the PLAYERS development not personal pride. It wasnt about what any media hack will say.

I'd say he benched him to drive home a point 

By the way,has Almunia's chest infection not gone away 

Le Prof,I hail

Ateke Tom Surrenders,Flies In Presidential Jet

The Federal Government’s amnesty programme for militants in the Niger Delta has got a big catch: Ateke Tom, the leader of the Niger Delta Vigilante Movement (NDVM).
Ateke, who had earlier called for the withdrawal of the Joint Task Force (JTF) from the restive region as a condition for surrendering his weapons, last night dropped the term and embraced the deal.
That leaves Government Ekpemukpolo, aka Tompolo, as the only major militant leader yet to accept the government’s olive branch.
Tompolo had asked for an extension of the deadline by three months.
THISDAY learnt last night in Abuja that pressure now mounts on Tompolo to accept the amnesty offer.
“Key officials in the Federal Government’s amnesty programme like Defence Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Committee, Major-General Godwin Abbey (rtd), and Honourary Adviser to President Umaru Musa Ya’Adua on the Niger Delta, Mr. Timi Alaibe, have stepped up efforts to prevail on Tompolo to embrace the offer,” a source said.
It was learnt that Tompolo may eventually embrace the peace deal before the end of the amnesty period.
The Federal Government had three days ago read the riot act to unrepentant militants, saying it would deal ruthlessly with those who fail to take advantage of the amnesty offer at the end of the deadline.
Government again ruled out the possibility of extending the 60-day amnesty period, which ends on October 4, 2009.
Yesterday, President Yar’Adua received Ateke at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, describing the militant leader’s embrace of the amnesty offer as his 49th independence anniversary gift.
Ateke was earlier flown to Abuja in a Presidential jet to meet the President.
THISDAY learnt that Ateke, who was being cultivated by Alaibe, was airlifted with a helicopter from a place between Camps four and five run by him in Rivers State.
He was flown to Owerri Airport where a waiting Presidential jet took him to Abuja Airport from where the entourage went to Nicon Hilton Hotel, Abuja, to have lunch before proceeding to the Presidential Villa to have audience with the President.
“Today, Chief Tom Ateke you have given me my 49th independence anniversary gift and I cherish it so much,” the President said while receiving Ateke and six of his field commanders at the First Lady’s Conference Room, Aso Villa.
Yar’Adua urged the remaining militants who have not embraced the offer to take advantage of the remaining two days to toe the path of Ateke, reiterating that after October 4, he would sit together with the ex-militants and jointly fashion out rehabilitation and reintegration programmes that would be beneficial to all the people.
Present at the occasion were Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan, Abbe, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Yayale Ahmed, Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Paul Dike and the National Security Adviser, Sarki Mukta.
Others were Alaibe, Director-General, National Orientation Agency, Idi Faruk, National Coordinator of NAPEP, Magnus Kpakor, and Ateke’s Lawyer, Uche Onyeaguocha.
Ateke’s field commanders who accompanied him to the villa were Friday Idaiko, Oppiah Ojey, Felix Wida, Rowland Okubor, Amos Gilbert and Richard Akinike.
The President, who proceeded to his Katsina home state immediately after the event, acceded to Ateke’s request to meet with him privately on his arrival to Abuja next week.
In a short remark at the occasion, President Yar’Adua said: “First, I would like to praise and thank God Almighty for this afternoon visit. Today, Chief Tom Ateke has just given me my 49th independence anniversary gift. This independence anniversary gift you have given me I cherish very much because of all those things I cherish one of them is peace and security in the Niger Delta.
“It has always pained me to see our brothers and sisters in Nigeria taking up arms against fellow Nigerians and ready to live in the creeks under very difficult situations and conditions because of such issues that agitated their mind. But by the grace of God and the kind heart and goodwill you have brought to this amnesty programme, this is coming to an end.
“I want to commend you and members of your delegation and to thank you very much. You may not know what you are doing for your people and the nation now, it will become evident in the future.
“Continue with the peace and security in the Niger Delta region. In a few years, five year or so, you will see the kind of development that will take place, then you will thank God that you decided to take advantage of this amnesty so that together we will join hands to work diligently for the welfare and wellbeing of our people.
“This administration understands the challenges of the Niger Delta region and the challenges people are facing and that is why from the beginning I made Niger Delta a top priority in our seven-point agenda. I want to say that the amnesty is not an end in itself but a means to an end. It is a means to peacefully and lovingly with brotherly understanding bring to an end all insurrection and misunderstanding between brothers. It is a means to bringing stable peace and security to the Niger Delta region. It is a means of making the two of us work together to ensure that our youths do not take up arms again.
“We will work together to ensure that youths in the Niger Delta have a meaningful life through the kind of programmes we will evolve, train them and help them to establish businesses. Those who want to further their education to whatever level to help them to do that to ensure that each and everyone of them has a career and a life to be proud of and that he would stand to be proud of himself, his family and his country and he would be proud that he is a Nigerian.
“The other thing is to look at the problems that caused the agitations in the Niger Delta in the first place. These are problems that are well known for a very long time. We will not just say you drop your arms and go.
“We will sit down with you and know what are the problems that have made you to take arms against your state; then you will say these are the problems. We will work out the solution together with you and go ahead to implement then, you also participate in implementing the solutions to these problems. That is the essence of this amnesty.”
Ateke, who spoke in Pidgin English had earlier thanked the President for the amnesty offer and the decision to meet with him at the State House.
He recalled that he was the first person to accept the amnesty offer and assured President Yar’Adua that after yesterday’s event, he would proceed to his Camp 4 to surrender all his arms in fulfillment of his acceptance of the offer.
He said: “I meet with Defence minister them come our camp, ask us say wetin be our problem, we tell them our problems. The problems this Niger Delta get no be new story, na story wey the whole world know.
“Your amnesty, immediately you announce the amnesty, I be the first person way embrace the amnesty because I like the amnesty. But things wey we talk we dey worry us make una try do am for us because we dey suffer for Niger Delta and we believe you. Me particularly I believe you well well. I know say the things dem wey you promise you go fit do am for us but the people wey no fit endure am na him no fit endure am.
“So I thank you very well for this amnesty. Make you try help us we the Ijaw people, try commot us from this problem wey we dey get. Our arms we go drop am. Like me, I don promise I go drop my arms. Na im make I say make I try come see you take all our problems dem try solve am for us, that is why I dey here today.”
Ateke had waited till the last minute to embrace the amnesty, having pressed for the withdrawal of JTF from the creeks and payment for his arms by the government, which had insisted that since the amnesty was unconditional, acceptance by militants should also be unconditional.
Ateke’s lawyer said that it was likely a calendar of submission of his arms would be announced by Ateke at the conclusion of the parley.
Meanwhile, the division within the ranks of militants in the Niger Delta widened a little more yesterday when the apex decision-making body, the “Joint Revolutionary Council” (JRC) distanced itself from the team selected by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to negotiate between it and the Federal Government.
MEND had named Vice-Admiral Mike Okhai Akhigbe (rtd) and Prof. Wole Soyinka as members of the team.
According to a statement by spokesperson of the council, Cynthia Whyte, the amnesty by the government has been ongoing in all parts of the Niger Delta and there is no need for the nomination of anybody as negotiator or observer.
Whyte alleged that those posing as having a hang on the peace in the Niger Delta were only seeking to have a few medals to their resume.
He vowed that they shall be brought to book.
Whyte said:“On behalf of the Joint Revolutionary Council comprising alliance units of the Movement for the Emancipation of the People of the Niger Delta, The Reformed Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force and The Martyrs Brigade, I hereby declare a complete dissociation of the JRC from the claims by an email address that a group of persons have been shortlisted to oversee or observe the disarmament and amnesty process currently ongoing across the length and breadth of the Niger Delta.
“We reiterate that we have no business with this group and declare that all those who seek to trade the efforts of our heroic combatants in the creeks for a few more medals to their resumes and curriculum vitas shall be called to judgment.
“For a few years now, the just struggle for the liberation and emancipation of the people of the Niger Delta has been converted to an avenue for a hungry and relevance seeking band to create quick employment and absurd leverage for themselves. From filthy and corrupt politicians to phony NGOs and self-centered individuals.
“Hiding under the cover of very dubious groups with strange nomenclatures, these people throng the corridors of powers seeking favors and undue privilege while hiding under the cloak of negotiating for the oppressed people of the Niger Delta and our heroic combatants in the creeks, exploiting without pity or remorse, the ignorance and lack of knowledge of many of those who remain hidden in the deep and uncomfortable creeks. We shall put them to shame.”


http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=155985

dayokanu:
Grassputin must be on some hard weed. or who else saw Bayern Munich play at Old Trafford yesterday?
I bet you also saw Osama Bin Laden in White house.

Ohh shut up,we all saw your boys attempt to play negative footie at OT,Wolfsburg was lucky to have scored from an offside position ,but that didn't stop them from being raped

Thank goodness the scummies did a very good job of violating your warriors without condom as I'm sure you had anxiously hoped ur volkswagen united would beat manure so you'd let loose a staccato of useless diatribes about how the defending champions of ur bundesSHYTZga beat the defending champions of the EPL

Sorry,but no cigar

How the cookie crumbles
FA would not have been in this situation if not for his obssesive desire to acquire spring bank at all cost.I have not been able to fathom the reason for the aggressive take-over of spring bank,come on,a bank that had been trading at N1.00 per share for nearly two years,Atuche,in his infinite wisdom,released funds to selected stockbroking firms to hijack spring bank from its owners at all cost,they had to even pay between N7.00 and N8.50 per share for the shares of spring bank.

That set the shareholders funds in PHB back by N63billion,all these happened with the tacit connivance of the then CBN governor and Anambra guber hopeful,charles Soludo,who seconded Ndanusa to the "new board" of spring bank and the Ndanusa jamboree was to cost PHB a further N23 billion.

To me,this is just the REWARD for greed as FA would only have got a reprimand if the only worms found in his PHB can were the N7 billion fraud saga that mede him kick out Mary B and others

[size=14pt]Exposed - Ibori's Role In Abacha's Deadly Strike Force[/size]

New US District Court Documents Detail James Ibori’s Criminal Ties to the Abacha Regime
Monday, 29 June 2009 23:58 Sahara Reporters, New York

Saharareporters has obtained new US court documents that provide fresh clues into the criminal past of former Governor James Onafefe Ibori of Delta State. Saharareporters was first to unearth details of Ibori’s conviction in England on shoplifting and larceny charges. His wife, Theresa Nakanda Ibori, was also convicted along with him in England.

The latest court documents -UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: v.$1,09,000.40 in U.S.CURRENCY -from the US establish that Ibori was engaged in serious criminal activities in the days of General Sani Abacha, the late dictator who unleashed a reign of terror and mindless looting in Nigeria.

The recently obtained documents pertain to an asset forfeiture settlement between Ibori and the United States Secret Service in the US District Court in Maryland. The case stemmed from numerous wire transfers of substantial sums of cash into Ibori’s accounts with Citibank. The funds were wired from accounts in Switzerland.

A US justice department source who recently became familiar with the case told Saharareporters that the documents unraveled a pattern of money laundering and patronage that Ibori enjoyed during the Abacha regime. However, at the time of forfeiture of the assets, the US authorities thought the monies were proceeds from 419 activities, instead of pay-offs for Ibori’s dastardly work for the Abacha regime.

A retired colonel told our correspondent that Ibori “provided a wide variety of services to the Abacha regime. The services included espionage on pro-democracy activists and the murder of the regime’s real or perceived enemies.” The source said that the assassination of Mr. Alfred Rewane, a financier and backer of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), was “Ibori’s most notable hit.” Mr. Rewane was killed in 1995 at his home in GRA Ikeja, a suburb of Lagos. The source also stated that Ibori participated in the killing of General Shehu Musa Yar’adua (rtd). The late Yar’adua was reportedly injected with the blood of a member of Abacha’s dreaded Strike Force/BG member who died of AIDS shortly after returning from training in Libya and Ibori sacrificed his newspaper editor, Niran Malaolu to one of Ababcha's phantom coup trials that earned him life imprisonment until Abacha died.

The US district court documents suggest that Ibori was reaping the reward of his membership of Abacha’s killer squad after he met Hamza Al Mustapha, Abacha’s Chief Security Officer.

In an “affidavit in support of arrest in rem” sworn to by USSS agent, Eddie L. Coulter, it was revealed that Ibori began receiving huge sums of money into a Citibank account he opened in the last quarter of 1994, when Abacha began recruiting civilian assassins to serve his regime. The affidavit discloses that the big sum that triggered the forfeiture proceedings took place in 1996 when the sum of $1.5 million was wired to Ibori’s Citibank account. In court papers obtained by Saharareporters, US investigators laid out a case that Ibori’s stunning deposits were the proceeds of some 419 activities. They revealed that, prior to making the amazing transfers, Ibori and his wife, Theresa Nakanda, lived in England in assisted public housing. Both Ibori and his wife were receiving public assistance at the time that the inexplicable money transfers started flowing into his CitiBank accounts.

Caught in the crosshairs of American law enforcement, Ibori wangled documents with the help of the Abacha regime claiming that the monies came from legitimate sources. In court documents, he claimed part of the deposits came from payments from a debt collection he undertook for a company that was owed huge sums of money by the ministry of petroleum resources as well as Nigeria's minsitry of finance.

Our investigation showed that the Abacha regime went out of its way to assist Ibori in building a deceptive case that the astonishing deposits came from legitimate business dealings. Despite those false declarations, US court documents show that American investigators forced Ibori to forfeit part of the deposits as a penalty.

Ibori’s suspicious use of different dates to obtain driver’s licenses in Maryland and later Virginia drew the attention of the US secret service. 

When shown the asset forfeiture papers, two Nigerian security sources, including a member of the Special Investigation Panel (SIP) that once interrogated Ibori over mysterious Abacha-era assassinations, told Saharareporters that the court documents were the missing link in their inquiry, which eventually nabbed Al Mustapha, Ibori’s close business associate during the Abacha years.

Nigerian security agents, serving and retired, who spoke to us indicated that the security agencies were well aware of Ibori’s extensive participation in the tight-knit network of the Abacha regime’s hideous security apparatus that was responsible for a series of assassinations, disappearances and the frame-up of notable pro-democracy activists in Nigeria between 1993 and 1998. Abacha was working to transmute from a dictator to an “elected” president when he died suddenly in 1998 in mysterious circumstances.

Col. Ibrahim Yakassai, a military doctor who helped inject Shehu Musa Yar’adua (the elder brother of current Nigeria ruler, Umaru Yar’adua) with the AIDS-contaminated blood of a dead BG member, told the Special Investigation Panel (SIP) that investigated Abacha-era killings and corruption that a good deal of monies stolen in the name of “security votes” went to Ibori who maintained strong business dealings with Al Mustapha. Col. (Dr.) Yakassai was the head of the murderous special force known as the “BG”.

In the words of one of our highly knowledgeable security sources, “Colonel Yakassai did confess to the SIP that some of the money the General Abdulsalami Abubakar regime accused him of embezzling was given to Ibori to finance The Diet newspaper which was co-owned by Ibori and Major Hamza Mustapha.”

Saharareporters checks shows that Diet newspaper was registered on October 10 1996 as “Diet Communications Limited”. Ibori and Hadi Hamza, a brother of Al Mustapha’s, were listed as the major shareholders in the company whose registration number with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) was 301608. Hadi Hamza represented the interests of Abacha’s chief security aide.
A member of the SIP gave Saharareporters a chilling account of the way Abacha’s team of assassins “exterminated General Yar’adua.” According to him, “Major Hamza Al Mustapha, James Ibori and Ibrahim Yakassai met in Abuja on the orders of General Abacha to find a final solution to Shehu Yar’adua’s intransigence. After the team met, they opted to send a special operations team to Port Harcourt. The team was led by Hamza Mustapha. General Shehu Yar’adua was then transported from his Enugu prison to a guesthouse in Port Harcourt where he was injected with a concoction.”

The source said the fluid contained the contaminated blood of a Strike Force BG trainee who fell ill in Libya and was rushed home to the State House Clinic in Abuja where he died of AIDS. The dead operative’s blood was drawn and flown on a presidential jet to Port Harcourt with the team that went to kill Yar’adua. The elder Yar’adua died a few weeks later.

Several security sources told Saharareporters that the Yar’adua family was responsible for blocking public disclosure of the way the general was finished off. “Because of the AIDS angle to (the general’s) death, his family, including President Yar’adua, stopped further prosecution of the case,” said one source. “They considered the cause of his death too embarrassing to be revealed to the public. Another source told Saharareporters that “President” Yar’adua was working quietly to, “very shortly,” arrange the release of Hamza Mustapha. Al Mustapha has been standing trial in Lagos for his role in the attempted assassination of Mr. Alex Ibru, publisher of the Guardian stable of newspapers. The court handling the former CSO’s case is being pressured to quietly use a technicality to set Abacha’s hit man free.

A top politician familiar with the internal intrigues within the Yar’adua family told Saharareporters that Ibori’s closeness to Umaru Yar’adua indicated “the often hidden depths of Umaru’s hatred for his elder brother.” The source said Yar’adua was clearly aware of Ibori’s role in the team that ended his brother’s life.

In another interesting twist, Yar’adua’s wife, Turai, is “an extremely close friend of Miriam Abacha,” the late dictator’s widow. Miriam Abacha was conspicuously present at the wedding of “President” Yar’adua’s daughter to Governor Isah Yuguda of Bauchi. By contrast, Binta Yar’adua, wife of the late general, was not seen at the wedding. Our source said that Shehu Yar’adua’s family has limited access to his younger brother’s regime and family.

One of Ibori’s longstanding friends told Saharareporters that the former Delta governor “is a survivalist who knows how to cozy up to family members of those he helped to deal with.” As earlier reported by Saharareporters, Ibori established a curious friendship with Ebisan Rewane, the son of Pa Rewane. He lavishly enriched the younger Rewane, nominating him as a member of some of his shadow companies.

Sources within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told Saharareporters that Ibori invested close to N16 billion in Umaru Yar’adua’s presidential campaigns in 2006/2007.

Ibori, whose official birth date is 1958, claimed that he was born on two different dates in 1962, according to an affidavit by the special US agent who investigated his cash deposits. The affidavit is reproduced below:


AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF ARREST IN REM


1.    I am a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service and have been so employed since 1993. I am currently assigned to the Secret Service Washington metro Alien Fraud Task Force (MAFTF), a multi-agency fraud task force investigating organized alien fraud groups.

As a member of this task force, I regularly investigate financial schemes perpetrated by alien groups against victims located in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area and throughout the world. I have worked numerous large scale fraud cases involving organized Nigerian groups.


2.    Because of the numerous cases worked against Nigerian groups, I know that in one particular scheme, individuals from the Republic of Nigeria attempt to steal money from individuals and corporations, using an “Advance Fee” fraud scheme. The host promises payment in the form of wire transfers of large amounts of money, e.g. $60,000,000 identified as “over-invoiced” contract money which, rather than returning it to the Nigerian Government, the host desires to transfer the money to a foreign account to be shared by all parties. The “investors” typically receive a fax outlining the “surplus funds,” and may even be told that the plan is specifically designed to keep the money out of the hands of the Nigerian Government. 


3.    In the beginning, the host requires no money up front. Gradually, the host will request that certain “fees” be paid in order to facilitate the transfer of the money, which the host will usually increase, justifying the additional fees as part of the “investment.”


4.    The common theme in all of the schemes is the promise of millions of dollars in return for a “minor” investment, which is usually increased over time depending on the victim’s ability to pay. These fees are usually explained as taxes, telecommunication fees and expenses incurred by the host, which must be paid in “advance” in relationship to the entire transaction. The transaction, of course, never takes place.


5.    Generally, the investor makes an initial payment and the host continues to obtain additional “advance fees,” explaining away additional fees until the investor begins to question the legitimacy of the deal. The host then discontinues any further contact and the investor loses whatever money he has paid

.
6.    During 1995, the United States Secret Service received approximately 3,250 different letters from businesses throughout the United States regarding letters using the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as a “front.” This scheme entices the business to assist Nigerians in the transfer of excessive contract funds to offshore accounts. This fraud scheme uses bogus, counterfeit and false, faxed documents displaying the Central Bank of Nigeria letterhead and stamp. In every case the investor wires money to bank accounts to “facilitate” the transfer of these funds, and the money is never seen again.


7.    This fraud has been classified by the Secret Service as “4-1-9” fraud. The “4-1-9” is derived from the provision of the Nigerian Criminal Code, which prohibits any scheme designed to defraud the Nigerian government and denies certain government sanctions, including restitution, to any individual who participates in the fraud, including “investors” who invest in such schemes.


8.    When contacted by the United States Secret Service, the NNPC confirmed that it is a legitimate corporation and NNPC does not deal with clients in the manner outlined in the scheme. NNPC representatives stated that there are organized criminal elements who represent themselves as members of NNPC in an attempt to execute fraud schemes. NNPC stated that there are no special rates, registration or licensing fees associated with their business transactions, and all of their transactions are conducted through the Crude Oil Marketing Division and not the Central Bank of Nigeria, where numerous fraudulent initiation letters originate.


9.    In summing up the “Advance Fee, 4-1-9” fraud scheme, it can be described as a very large-scale international “film flam” operation, involving numerous banking institutions. The scheme involves numerous wire transfers of large amounts of money through various national and international financial institutions. This scheme almost always utilizes faxed counterfeit and/or false documents, etc., which ultimately results in the theft of money from the corporation or individual investor.


10.    In all cases, the “investor” is aware that he is engaging in a questionable investment at best. These investors are located throughout the world, including the United States. The 4-1-9 conspirators also maintain residences throughout the world. They also maintain bank accounts in numerous financial institutions, including the State of Maryland and Prince Georgia’s County, Maryland, which is the subject of the Affidavit.


11.    On or about October 20, 1994, James O. Ibori opened a CitiBank/CitiGold account (#52001013) at Branch number 734, 822 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. At the time Ibori opened the account, he claimed he was self employed as an “International Policy Analyst/Consultant.” The information provided to CitiBank/CitiGold was a London address – 3 Athelsto N.E., Harrow, Wealdstone, Great Britain HA3SV; Date of Birth – 06/08/62; Social Security Number 703-960-0835. Since the opening of this account, Ibori’s average balance ranged from approximately $1,000.00 to as much as $15,000.00.


12.    On or about November 29, 1996, according to CitiBank Investigators, Ibori received an incoming wire transfer of approximately $1,500,000.00 into his CitiBank account (#52001013) from an undisclosed customer at RAHN & BODMER Bank located in Zurich, Switzerland. Around that same time, Ibori also received an incoming wire transfer of approximately $250,000.00 into the same account. Both incoming transfers named James Ibori as the beneficiary. 


13.    On or about December 3, 1996, Ibori contacted CitiBank/CitiGold and provided instructions to disburse $500,000.00 to BARCLAYS BANK INTERNATIONAL SERVICES (London), account # 88309199. The beneficiary of that account was James Ibori.


14.    That same day, Ibori also provided instructions to CitiBank/CitiGold to disburse an additional $5,000.00 to BARCLAYS BANK (HARBOR BAY BRANCH-Nassau, Bahamas), account #1128186. The beneficiary of that account was James Ibori.


15.    On December 4, 1996, Ibori instructed CitiBank/CitiGold to disburse $50,000.00 to CITIZENS INTERNATIONAL BANK LTD (London), account number 439203947. The beneficiary of that account was James Ibori.


16.    On or about that same day, CitiBank/CitiGold files a Suspicious Activity Report regarding the incoming $1.5 million, and outgoing $500,000.00, $50,000.00 and $5,000.00 wire transfers from Ibori’s account (#52001013). The report was subsequently forwarded to the MATF, U.S. Secret Service, Washington, D.C.


17.    On December 6, 1996, I received the Suspicious Activity Report that was filed by CitiBank/CitiGold. I also was informed by CitiBank/CitiGold that, earlier that day, Ibori had attempted to disburse additional funds via wire. Ibori told the CitiBank/CitiGold representative that he was calling from Hyatt Hotel in London and provided three telephone numbers where he could be reached: 01123412610578, 01123495231811 (room 1076), and 01123490400911 (cell phone).

When representatives of Citibank/CitiGold called the telephone number for the “hotel” in London, an individual answered and claimed that Ibori had checked out earlier that day. Investigation revealed that the telephone numbers were, in fact, telephone numbers located within the country of Lagos, Nigeria and not London, England. 
18.    That same day, CitiBank/CitiGold representative questioned Ibori about the $1,500,000.00 incoming wire transfer. Ibori said that the money was for unspecified work that he had been doing for the past nine months.
19.   

Later on December 6, 1996, Special Agent (SA) Hupp, MAFTF, called the Virginia telephone number (703-960-0835). An answering machine responded with a voice that identified itself as James Ibori. The telephone number was unlisted.


20.    On December 9, 1996, I called RAHN and BODMER Bank and spoke with Christian Rahn, Partner and Legal Representative. I informed him of the Suspicious Activity Report that was filed by CitiBank/CitiGold. I requested that he contact the customer that wired the $1,500,000.00 to Ibori’s CitiBank/CitiGold account (#52001013). I also requested that he (Rahn) inquire of the customer the circumstance under which the money was wired to Ibori. Rahn agreed that he would do so.


21.    That same day, I contacted SA James Gallagher, U.S. Secret Service, London Resident Office. I provided SA Gallagher the London address of Ibori, 3 Athlesto N.E., Harrow, Wealdstone, Great Britain HA3SV, and Date of Birth, 06/08/62, to verify the information that Ibori provided to CitiBank/CitiGold.


22.    A query of the Department of Motor Vehicle records, within Washington, D.C.-Metropolitan area revealed that Ibori, in order to obtain states’ of Virginia and Maryland Driver’s Licenses, used a different date of birth, 08/04/62, from what was provided to CitiBank/CitiGold when his account was opened. Sometime in April 1996, Ibori obtained a state of Virginia’s Driver’s license, address 6040 Richmond Highway, Apt. #607, Alexandria, VA 22303. Ibori, in February 1993, also obtained a state of Maryland Driver’s License, address 12630 Viers Mill Rd., Apt. 1503, Rockville, Maryland 20853.


23.    On December 10, 1996, I received a call from SA Gallagher. SA Gallagher informed me that Ibori did, in fact, reside at 3 Athelso N.E., Harrow, Wealdstone, great Britain HA3SV with a wife or girlfriend, Theresa Nakanda, and a two year old child. SA Gallagher also informed me that criminal history check in London revealed that Nakanda had been arrested for theft in 1992. At the time of her arrest, she was accompanied by an individual who identified himself as “James Obori.” SA Gallagher also informed me that the location where Ibori resided was a Public Housing Community, In addition, SA Gallagher stated that Ibori, according to the British public housing authorities, had been unemployed and receiving public assistance/unemployment benefits.


24.    Later that day, Ibori contacted CitiBank/CitiGold and provided instructions for several outgoing wire transactions to be sent from his CitiBank/CitiGold account (#52001013):
1.    $100,000 to CITIZENS INTERNATIONAL LTD (London), account 439203947. The beneficiary of that account was James Ibori. 
2.    $500,000 to Meryll lynch (NY), I.D. #141760/Subaccount # 116-11037. The beneficiary of that account was James Ibori.
3.    $300,000 and $200,000, on separate occasions, to CitiBank/CitiGold Mutual Fund Investment account #52001013. The beneficiary of that account was James Ibori,
4.    $50,000 to GUARANTY TRUST BANK, account # 664276. The beneficiary of that account was Lateef Belo-Osagie.


25.    On December 11, 1996, I spoke with Christian Rahn, Partner and Legal Representative of Rahn and Bodmer Bank in Zurich, Switzerland. Rahn stated that he had been in contact with the customer’s representative. Rahn stated that the customer had entered into a “contractual agreement” with Ibori regarding a debt collection on an oil contract. Rahn also stated that the customer was under the impression that the monies, wired to Ibori, were “fees” or payment for the “services” rendered by Ibori.


26.    As a result of this investigation, I have discovered many of the elements that are indicative of the “Advance Fee” fraud scheme. Ibori, a non-citizen (Nigerian), in 1994, opened an account (#52001013) CitiBank, Rockville, Maryland using a London address, and Virginia’s driver’s license. At the time Ibori opened his account, he claimed he was an “International Policy Analyst” when, in fact, he appears to have been unemployed and was receiving unemployment benefits in London. In addition, since the opening of Ibori’s account, his average balance, through November 1996, has been approximately $10,000.00. Since the approximate dates of 11/29/96 through 12/10/96, Ibori has received and disbursed approximately $1,750,000.00 into other foreign and domestic accounts whereby Ibori has been the beneficiary.


27.    On December 13, 1997, I obtained seizure warrants from a U.S. Magistrate Judge for three bank accounts whereby James Ibori was the beneficiary:
1.    $500,000.00, Meryll Lynch (NY), I.D. #141760/ Subaccount # 116-11037.
2.    $300,000.00 and $200,000.00, CitiBanl/CitiGold Mutual Fund Investment, account #52001013.
3.    $500,000.00, BARCLAYS BANK INTERNATIONAL SERVICES (London), account # 88309199.


28.    Between the dates of December 13-20, 1997, I retrieved the total sum of $1,019,000.40 from the above-mentioned accounts (#’s 1. & 2.)


29.    To the present, your affiant has been unsuccessful in obtaining the necessary supporting documents (i.e. contractual agreement and etc.) from Ibori or the unidentified disburser of the funds seized.


30.    Based on my training, knowledge, and experience, this type of wire transfer activity is indicative of the advance fee fraud scheme. The scheme resulted in part in the wire transfer of $1,500,000.00 into the CitiBank/CitiGold Account #52001013 listed in the name of James O. Ibori. I believe that Ibori, through many counts of misrepresentation, has, under false pretenses, obtained monies and used domestic foreign financial institutions to facilitate this “Advance Fee” fraud scheme. 


31.    By reason of the foregoing, I believe the defendant monies were involved in transactions in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956 and/or 1957 or are traceable to monies involved in such transactions, and are therefore forfeitable to the United States of America pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 981.






___________________________


Eddie L. Colter, Jr.,
United States Secret Service

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[size=14pt]London Money Laundering Trial: Crown Court judge insists that Nigerians can attend trial; denies request to appeal ruling on arrest warrant for Udo! [/size]

Deep desperation is beginning to set in for the James Ibori defence team at London's Southwark Crown Court. For the umpteenth time the lawyers representing associates of the beleaguered corrupt former governor at their money-laundering trial failed to sway Judge Christopher Hardy in their request to bar members of the public--particularly Nigerians in London--from attending the trial.

But as they pleaded, more Nigerians arrived to observe the trial. There were so many of them that the gallery overflowed. Many Nigerians were standing not only in the courtroom, but in the corridors.

One of those in attendance today was Ayo Obe, the former president of Nigeria's Civil Liberties Organization. She is visiting London to attend a conference and dropped by at the Wednesday proceedings in her private capacity. A Nigerian who recognized her offered his seat to her.

Ibori's desperate galaxy of lawyers deployed an arsenal of entreaties and innuendoes to try to get the Nigerian audience kicked out. One such underhanded approach was an argument that the the crowds in court may steal their defence documents. But instead of acceding to the bizarre plea, the judge, insisting that the case is of public interest, promised to consider a motion brought by a member of the public to expand the public gallery instead.

Nigerians in London, under the auspices of Respect Nigerians Coalition (RNC) and Nigeria Liberty Forum (NLF) have mobilized to attend the trials daily as a way of sending a strong signal to Abuja that the protection granted Ibori would no longer be tolerated.

In today’s ruling, Judge Hardy again rejected a defence counsel position that the Internet was being used to "harass and victimize" the accused persons. He reiterated that he could not control Internet publication of the proceedings.

Another development of interest today was the decision by the judge to return the accused persons to the dock to make room for the public. The accused persons--Ibori' sister, his secretary, and his mistress--have so far enjoyed the freedom to seat freely in the courtroom in the section reserved for the jury. Judge Hardy signalled today that that would change; the accused persons would seat in the dock with the freedom to move around, and with the door of the dock open.

Meanwhile, efforts by counsel to Ibori mistress Udoamaka Okoronkwo (Onuigbo) to present documents from the judge handling Ibori’s case in Asaba to convince the court that the sham trial in Asaba would be just and fair and that there was no need to try her in two jurisdictions concurrently for the same crime.

It is believed that Nigeria’s Attorney General, Michael Aondoakaa, has obtained fraudulent documents from the judge in Asaba and may have sent them to Ibori’s lawyers. The same judge in the Federal High court in Asaba, who was hand-picked by defendant Ibori, had earlier rejected a request by the London court to provide a guarantee that Onuigbo would be produced to face trial in London after the Asaba case would have wound up.

But the defence has an uphill task producing real case progress in Asaba as there is none. In his latest rant in the media, Ibori stopped short of announcing the judge's verdict by declaring that the evidence against him in court would not stand.
His lawyers have already applied for the case to be thrown out because according to them, the EFCC did not file witnesses in the proceedings. It would be recalled that when Ibori’s trial was going on in Kaduna, he mobilized and deployed militants to Kaduna in buses provided by the Delta State State government. The hired hands destroyed the fencing of the Federal High court there.

Those who attended the court hearing in London today noted that mistress Udoamaka's attitude had softened. Contrary to her arrogant, photo-posing performance in previous appearances, she appeared subdued today, as if someone has warned her that such behavior could hurt her case.


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They're birds of a feather

liar

Mike Adenuga beware,cos this Sanusi guy appears to be high on some stuff

naijaking1:
Has Sanusi, the Islamist scholar said excatly what is wrong with having a one-man bank?
We have one-man banks, one-man airlines, one-man industries, and even one-man universities all over the World, so what's the matter with a one-man bank in Nigeria?

My thoughts exactly,jeeeeeeeeeeeeez
Where's this man taking the banking industry to? I suspect the next move he'll make will be that banks should not lend money out an an interest

I saw Yara dull on one of the local channels,reading some form of address,the way  the ex covict,mr ibori went about his media campaign of calumny against the person Ribadu I thought that he too would address the gullible set of Nigerians too today,well I maintain that woe betide you mr james onanefe ibori and your co-looters for raping the treasury of Delta state of funds in excess of 400 billion naira,you will surely burn in HELL

dayokanu:
GAYYner people how market??

You should answer the question,seeing how you were weeping,whining and gnashing your teeth about Sharon's boys raped you at OT lastnight,so how ya nyash

Abeg try press am hot water

"Also Mr. Clark asked the former governor to justify some of his acts of abuse of office like the “signing of a supplementary budget of N120 billion into law on the 14th of June 2004, and that from 2001 to 2004 all the supplementary budgets didn’t go to the House of Assembly but he signed them into law”. He also called on Mr. Ibori to account for state’s fund to the tune of 37 million dollars and the state’s shares in Oceanic Bank, which he claimed has dropped in value from N30 to N3, thereby amounting to a loss of about $15 billion. He also alleged that Ibori tried to acquire Wilbros with the state’s shares as collateral, and that he bought NAFCON with money from the state’s coffers. Mr. Clark added that Mr. Ibori bought a custom-made aeroplane in Canada also with money gotten from the state’s treasury"

Can you beat that.Ibori stole 400 billion naira from Delta state coffers and went about buying up oil companies,properties,shares,private jets and NAFCON which he re-named Notore and he has the effrontery to appear on radio and TV to talk bullshi.t,he should take all the thrash he's saying and shove them up his ass,his and his wives'
Bloody double ex convict

"[color=Black]Mr. Ibori lied when he said he was the one who championed the move for 13 per cent derivation, according to Mr. Clark, who explained that the demand for a 13 per cent derivation was a collective effort by the elders and all the state governors at the time. He said rather than being at the forefront for resource control, Mr. Ibori “merely stole the money to enrich himself”.

Mr. Clark insisted that the former governor was only cooking up excuses; and wondered how Mr. Ibori could possibly blame others for the problems he brought upon himself. “All the houses he bought in London, was it Obasanjo who told him to buy the Total oil company in Benin; and the purchase of five million Naira worth of diesel every month from Total which came to about 300 million naira; and the shares he bought from Afribank, the five billion naira spent in Afribank, was it Obasanjo who was responsible for that?” he asked rhetorically[/color]."

Q.E.D

[size=14pt]This incidence has the signature of Wale Babalakin of Bi Courtney written all over it,at least the honorary adviser to Yara dull,who has been winning ridiculous concessions from Yara weak's government is just trying to keep Arik busy running up and down so they'll be distracted from their quarrel and objection to the FGs concessioning of the general aviation terminal (GAT) to bicourtney

From the benefit of hindsight,I dare say,the matta just dey start,more pebbles are sure to be thrown in Ariks way till they back off Wale's back[/size]