Former Lagos provincial governor Bola Tinubu, affectionately nicknamed the Jagaban, is today seen as a shrewd if not “deeply Machiavellian” Svengali in Nigeria’s politics as well as the architect of a hugely successful anti-corruption platform. But 20 years ago he had to forfeit nearly half a million dollars to the U.S. Treasury Department after being named as an accomplice in a white heroin-trafficking and money-laundering ring that stretched from West Africa to the U.S. Midwest.
Although his case has been bandied about the Nigerian press for years, Tinubu’s involvement in a federal drug and racketeering investigation waged jointly by the DEA, FBI, and IRS has gone unreported elsewhere, even after his ascendance to Karl Rove-like status last month. A recent gauzy Financial Times profile of him, for instance, neglected to mention that two decades ago Tinubu was identified as a bagman for two Nigerian heroin movers who operated out of Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. They were Adegboyega Mueez Akande and Abiodun Agbele, Akande’s nephew, who was exposed to law enforcement after selling white heroin first to Lee Andrew Edwards, another dealer later jailed for trying to murder a federal agent, and then to an undercover cop.
Happy Reading Brother
Still can't find where the US accused him of smuggling drugs in the above
BeeBeeOoh: successful politicians nor! Successful drug lords ni. Please can you tell us about one who no longer visits US because of drug related case & another one who is doing everything under his power, physically & other wise not to be extradited back to US??
So because they are not interested in travelling to the US, that means they are absconding from drug related case? Kindly show us how and where the US accused Tinubu of smuggling drugs to the US.
Tolerance is the beginning of love. When you tolerate others, it may even serve as an encouragement for them to accept your beliefs. But when you hate them; call them all sort of names and so on, they see you as evil. And are you truly not evil? Only evil people hates other fellow human. LOVE SUPERCEDES EVERYTHING.
Pay attention to 2:20–2:40 minutes section of the video, you will notice a young man drop a black polyethylene bag in front of the sick man from where two dead lizards popped out from. I saw what happened and I didn’t want to embarrass them so I had to quietly follow the boy who dropped the lizard to question him in private and collected his number. I made him my friend and over a period of 2 weeks, I bought his trust and he confessed to me that the priest pay up to 15k per deal and that they were about 7 working for him. He confessed of sneaking into peoples compound at night to bury charms which the same Man of god who sent them will unearth the next day or whenever they come for covenant breaking.
knowledgeable: FFK has a sound mind, .....most of you do NOT.
Of course a mad man will see his fellow mad man as normal and sane. You claimed to be knowledgeable, but it's apparent you meant the opposite of the moniker you adopted for yourself. Seeing FFK as a sane person despite his bigotry and tribalism makes you more the same thing that he is.
Nigeria is decaying because of "this kind of present Nigeria" most of you with unsound mind are fighting to sustain. Do you know that every problem of this "present Nigeria" is structural and foundational.
Before making stupid claims, you have to provide substantial proof to back it up. What's is your proof that what we are going through is structural and foundational?
[s] Even corruption of "this kind of present Nigeria" is structural and foundational. Do you think the government of "this kind of country" you have would undertake a scientific research on just the nature of nigerian corruption in order to solve that scientifically?. The answer is capital no......because they will find that some corruptions are driving primaryly by greed while some are actually economic warfare against the infidels.Everything about the country is dysfunctional and foundational and only folks with sound mind like FFK can even begin to apply critical reasoning in trying to understand it, while most of you with little mind.....not knowing that you are in real hell, will continue to insult his personality. [/s]
Tell this crap to the stupid people who wish bad for this country. Stupid people who wish for a division by all means.
Come to think of it, this bastard FFK was nowhere to be found when NDA were bombing our pipelines here and there, but the bastard is always here to criticize and attach his stupid conspiracy theory to every development this administration makes.
I'm certain you and your mad mentor only hope for bad news, so that you can use them to substantiate your conspiracy, May God put you all bastard to shame. May bad thing continue to happen to those wishing this country bad. AMEN
It is either FFK or his late father was a bastard of the Yoruba race, because it's not in our blood to think like IPOD touts. i believe this deadbrain FFK is related to IPOD touts.
darkmarky: haba see English!!! it's "where did this happened"
Haba see English!! It should have been "where did this happen? "
Moral of the lesson: No one's above mistake.
@OP the fact that she was able to climb down on her own rules out the possibility of asking about how she got up there. Apparently she climbed up as well.
But i thought hell rufai paid them off the other day, why are they still killing people? Or could it be that he'll rufai gave them money to buy more ammunitions? It appears the latter presupposition is right.
This seun sef. Mark Zuckerberg refusing to join your delusion of atheism is really paining your ass, because i see no reason trying to rationalize is response to mean that he is not really a theist.