The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, has petitioned the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, accusing some members of the lower chamber of improper conduct, attempted rape and soliciting for prostitutes while on official trip to the U.S.

The Ambassador, in a letter dated June 9, 2016 specifically accused Hon. Mohammed Garba Gololo (APC, Bauchi), Hon. Samuel Ikon (PDP, Akwa Ibom) and Mark Gbillah (APC, Benue) of attempting to rape an Hotel housekeeper at the International Visitor Leadership Programme.

Entwistle’s petition reads: “It is with regret that I must bring to your attention the following situation. Ten members of the Nigerian National Assembly recently travelled to Cleveland, Ohio as participants in the International Visitor Leadership Programme on good governance.

“We received troubling allegations regarding the behaviour of three members of the delegation to the U.S. Government’s flagship professional exchange programme.

“The U.S Department of State and the Cleveland Council on World Affairs received reports from employees of the Cleveland hotel where the representatives stayed, alleging the representatives engaged in the following behaviour:

“Mohammed Garba Gololo allegedly grabbed a housekeeper in his hotel room and solicited her for sex. While the housekeeper reported this to her management, this incident could have involved local law enforcement and resulted in legal consequences for Representative Gololo.

“Mark Terseer Gbillah and Samuel Ikon allegedly requested hotel parking attendants assist them to solicit prostitutes.

The U.S. Mission took pains to confirm these allegations and the identities of the individuals with the employees of the hotel in Cleveland, Entwistle said.

“The conduct described above left a very negative impression of Nigeria, casting a shadow on Nigeria’s National Assembly, the International Visitor Leadership Program, and to the American hosts’ impression of Nigeria as a whole. Such conduct could affect some participants’ ability to travel to the United States in the future.

“While the majority of Nigerian visitors to the United States do behave appropriately, even a few Nigerians demonstrating poor judgement leads to a poor impression of the Nigerian people generally, though it is far from accurate.

“Such incidents jeopardise the ability of future programming and make host institutions and organisations less likely to welcome similar visits in the future.

“In addition, most of the members of this group reacted very negatively to my deputy when she brought this matter to their attention, further calling into question their judgement and commitment to the goals of the International Visitor Leadership Programme. This leads us to question whether to include National Assembly members for other similar programmes in the future.

“I request, in the strongest possible terms, you share this message with members of the National Assembly so they understand the seriousness of these issues, and the potential consequences of their actions, not only for themselves as individuals, but also for the future of such programmes designed to benefit Nigeria”.


http://greennews.ng/unbelievable-us-accuses-3-nigerian-lawmakers-of-soliciting-s-ex-from-prostitutes/ Read here

Bad news for Nigeria as the US News. Best Countries Ranking marks Nigeria as the most corrupt country for 2016.

“The 2016 Best Countries report and rankings are based on how global perceptions define countries in terms of a number of qualitative characteristics, impressions that have the potential to drive trade, travel and investment and directly affect national economies,” the US News website reveals.

Sixty countries were measured in the inaugural report and and Nigeria was number 1 in the corruption ranking index. The West African country, widely regarded as the ‘Giant of Africa’, scored a perfect 10 in corruption. Nigeria’s overall rank was 47 on the index.

The U.S. News Best Countries Ranking which measures global performance on a variety of metrics is conducted in partnership with partnership with BAV, a global consulting firm and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom topped the overall list of best countries in the world, in that order. The United States and Sweden were ranked 4th and 5th in the respected global index.

http://www.thetrentonline.com/nigeria-ranked-1-corrupt-country-buhari-best-ranking-index/

ideylaff:


Yes he really is a BIG liar, he was saying another story last week

We will expose the allocation he's been giving a particular Northern 6 letter state governor and his corner deals if he keeps bragging and saying rubbish like I am not a magician.

That's the height of telling us to do what we want while they keep smiling in their air conditioned offices and fky 1st class to Opec Meetings that make no sence to us.

Is it not a shame Nigeria the only oil producing country with queues at filing stations


Shameless Leaders

Kaduna

A general caught by the millennium bug becomes Nigeria's president. We never jam ™

We don dey seem like say we too happy so the government start making plans for a national disaster will an ill-equiped federal and state emergency agencies.

12 years from now Logo will be a no life zone.

Kolade354:
Id1ot,Lagos is the no 1 city in africa.....No 1

Olodo, have you travelled out of lagos before ? Osofia in Brazil.

Zimbabwe go soon invite you for state visit so you cant settle to work cos you'll be stepping out in a private state funded jet you never had an opportunity to own. Enjoy !!

Omo carry your cross o ! Na Calabar-Lebanese fit make you feel say we dey follow carry your cross cos I don't cheat.

Everybody in this government seems to be in a hurry to step into Mama Peace's shoe. The fact that there's comic relief is fun.

Akpabio is buying off the jet at a give away after using it at the state's expense for over 3 years. Please spare us and sell it as scrap like you guys always do.

Udom Set To Sell Akwa Ibom Private Jet to Akpabio. Job men !!!

States can't even pay salaries and we are talking of giving the unemployed monthly stipends.

The should come out with a more tactical approach abi them wan pay the about-to-be unemployed civil servant 5k after the expected downsizing of both state and federal civil service.

I think the should concentrate more on a proper national ID and social security plan