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needeeg:
In its bid to ensure that a credible person takes over the affairs of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), following the recommendation that Mallam Nuhu Ribadu proceeds on a course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), the Presidency has tipped former Kaduna State military governor, Col Abubakar Umar (retd) to take over the anti-graft agency. However, the police hierarchy had recommended Police Commissioner Olayinka Balogun of Special Fraud Unit, in Lagos for the job.

Daily Sun gathered that the Presidency had approached Col Umar to take over the EFCC in order to deflate the criticism and allay the fear that the anti-corruption war would be watered down after the exit of Ribadu.
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2007/dec/31/national-31-12-2007-001.htm

Since when has the SUN been a source of reputable news? Are we forgetting here that their proprietor Dr. Oji Uzor Kalu was once a guest of the EFCC? This is just media propaganda at best, a smokescreen to disguise the true nature of Yar' A Dull's intentions. We may be disenfranchised but we're not stupid, let them tell us something we don't know.

This is a clear-cut case of " the Devil you know is better than the Angel you don't know" , we have now seen Yar'Adua's sleight of hand and suddenly we are aware that what we thought we saw about him was all a case of film-tricks and media razzmatazz. We have bitten the apple now and our eyes have been opened

Their alleged grouse with all this, is that he didn't open the coffers of tha nation for everybody to loot as they wished. Thief na thief but some better pass other people, no Nation is a Utopia but at least the point is that Nuhu Ribadu made it a matter of focus to catch some of these corrupt politicians, 10 of them in jail is and 2 corrupt left alone is better than leaving 12 corrupt people running amok and looting the country for themselves. In the past criminals like Ibori and Igbinedion were seen as untouchables, now they are looking for ways to return the money they stole.

And BigB should take note that Ribadu didn't make the situation of Nigeria's reputation worse by carrying his anti-corrpution crusade abroad, he made our reputation better by convincing the world that we were doing something about the whole issue of corruption and not just sitting back and paing lip-service to the whole situation. Look at our corrpution ratings by Transperency before Ribadu and during his tenure,

Rawlings in Ghana had his weak points and he did enrich himself to some degree, however he routed out the most corrupt of Ghanian politicians in his day and nowthe country is better for it. Same thing in Singapore and other countries of the world.

Nigerians too love life to turn 'suicide bomber' and we too like cowardice to hold snipers rifle, the military is the last resort in case any democracy crumbles, let us do something before chaos ensues and these military boys come in.

These military boys go just dey somewhere dey laugh dey talk say: " these civilians are not serious" . If Yar'Adua dosn't clear his head by next week, we may be faced with a terrible year ahead. Either of corrupt elements and single voices getting their way or the courts decide to cancel Yar'Adua's election and we are faced with Atiku the looter as President, Jacques Chirac was right: "Democracy is a luxury Africans cannot afford". The last eight years were just a disguised dictatorship under seemingly "democratic illusions" of a ex-General who ruled us military style,

Why won't they shield them, abi you don forget say ex-governors dey give "roger" abi "PR" to press men, Now I understand why some people start terrorist groups, soon the military boys will take over again.

Other countries in the world have a corruption problem, agreed, but at least they either keep the money in their countries and use it to develop their countries instead. These fools here still the money and go to England to buy Palaces instead of working on their villages first. Imagine every leader of this country leaving the country for medical checkups when they get a stomach ache, so even the hospitals in Abuja the so-called wonder city aren't good enough?

Unfortunately some Nigerians in the name of false patriotism are here boasting of a " great country" when in this day and age we have no other excuse to fail, with over $280 billion dollars collected in oil revenue and nothing to show for it, I'd say we're worse off than other corrupt countries in the world, even the so called top 10./,

Lol BigB1, don't make threats you can't keep, makes you look more like a teenager acting out his Mafia fantasies. BTW I don't work, some of us have finished making our money and  are content to tour these boards listening to the voices of people like you. Go to asmallworld.net and learn the art of decorum and etiquette first,

Ajegunle, makes more sense to me now, that abysmal cesspool of crime, no wonder you're in such high spirits over the Ribadu issue.

Both of you (Ono in the N'Djamena desert and BigB1 in the Cameroon Highlands) seem to be lost somewhere in a wildnerness and I believe the weather there is starting to affect you. It seems you tie so much importance to your presence on Nairaland and tallying up your collective posts in rabble-rousing activity and thoughtless commentary,

Rules are no concern of mine, especially when wild hacks like you are allowed to run amok in a forum for public reasoning, it's people like you who give this country a bad name and people like Oprah the nerve to call us criminals,

This Ono guy, you're either a blind bat or the heat from the desert sun must be affecting you orbetter still you may have been bitten by a rabid dog, because the nonsense you're spouting and quoting belies reason.

<b>Rule of law and decorum ke? </b> Where was rule of law and decorum when these bastards were looting their states blind, who were they before they became governors, Ibori was one broke zinc-stealing contractor cum apprentice hired assassin before he used his Abacha connections to get himself into government. One man had the guts to go after these sons of cockroaches and you sit down in your lost corner of the earth talking of rule of law and decorum, Can you parley with Armed Robbers? Can you hold a rational discussion with a mad man? Can you catch fish simply by talking politely to them?

Wise up and get yourself to a Doctor before your condition gets serious,

Will the criminals Veto him, when the bulk of them are PDP members, na wa o, someone once told me black people were cursed, I must admit, I'm starting to believe him, wasn't in Jacques Chirac who said " Democracy is a luxury Africans cannot afford" ?

If I was Ribadu, I would hand in my polic resignation and then proceed with the EFCC work, the President should then openly come out and fire me from EFCC, since dem talk say Police and EFCC no get connection.

Men, na wa for this country o, are we moving forward or moving backwards, where one idiot with an amount of stolen loot can sway the dictates of a sitting President and the security apparatus in the country? Haba Nigeria, I think we  have to start an armed resistance or better still employ the services of some mercenaries and revolutionary fighters and send these bastards to hell where they belong,

You need to get yourself to a library man and get some facts on these ideas of yours,

@naija king

Sometimes all it takes is one man to make a difference, and today one suicide bomber may have changed history, for good or for bad is a matter of opinion, the same logic applies to Ribadu's leadership of the EFCC

People like BigB are the reason why this country has problems with making progress, You speak of due process and running the EFCC like a personal; business, Did Ibori and his cohorts follow due process when they were stealing the money? Did he consult you or the citizenry of the state before taking money out of state coffers?,

Sagay can make statements for all I care, the Prof. appelation does not necessarily connote inherent wisdom in all things earthly including the fight on corruption, this was the same Sagay who made some very wrong historical points about the Warri issue, lets talks issues here. The fact was Nuhu Ribadu started something, let him finish what he started before we start talking of successors, or setting a model in place. His whole tenure was basically geared around building a thick case file to nab these crooks when they got out of office, when he gets them in prison you start talking of succesors and the future.

Besides any EFCC chairman is an appointee of the President and wouldn't necessarily be a recommednation from the Chairman so there would have been no assurances of continiuty or a replacement who pursued the same agenda which Ribadu did,

Me I no just know which one be some people own?  Big B which one you dey?, If you have 100 thieves and the EFCC manages to catch at least 10 big ones,  won't it stop other people from trying to steal?

Fine, lets say Ribadu wasn't exactly fair to all and pursued some more vigorously than others (every dog has a master), the point is at least he caught some and kept the new politicians that just came in on their toes. The fight for corruption starts somewhere and I see nabbing that theiving son of a bastard Ibori as one hell of a start.

This Yar'Adua script never fooled me for one moment, people kept saying the guy is good, the guy is good. I said, let us wait and see. This is a guy who said he had 150 million when he entered office only to declare 900 million plus 8 years later, which bank did he invest his money in to get such outstanding returns?

There is corruption everywhere even in the United States and the United Kingdom, but there are certain things you don't get away with just like that. Even the most rugged criminals in America and the United States go to painstaking efforts to disguise their source of wealth. In Nigeria however, the reverse is the case, people who don't even have an IQ loot with reckless abandon and we glorify them on the pages of newspapers and come to forums like Nairaland to whine and complain.

If they even had the sense to invest the money properly in industries and businesses that would do well on the global stage and for Nigerians, that would be something. Rather, these sons of cockroaches with no pedigree delude themselves by creating illusions of grandeur and styling themselves "Sheiks". They forget that even royalty and thieves abroad invest in solid businesses  and structures in their countries first, go and ask the rich Jews who built Israel, the Arabs that create palaces from sand and the Swiss who have developed their country simply by investing other people's money. Didn't Malaysia turn into a global giant because the got palm oil seedlings from us?


The most annoying complaints I hear are from those resident abroad who keep crying for something to happen without doing anything about it, yo think all this noisemaking will change anything?, una too talk abeg. Yes Nuhu Ribadu wasn't perfect, but what the hell are you all doing about the whole corruption thing other than to complain? It annoys me that some Nigerian will sit somewhere in London or Madrid in the comfort of their homes and start complaining about problems they are not ready to help solve simply because Internet access comes cheap,

Instead of financing an armed resistance, buying sniper rifles or finding the guts to blow these theiving bastards straight to hell were they belong, una dey dey make noise, if we're not ready to put up, lets shut up.

It's a Starcomms DNS problem, use an anonymizer or better still resolve the IP addresses of your intended destination and access it,

Make una see me see trouble o!

These broads make it look as if everything under the earth is the fault of a man. How else do you want a guy to treat you when you act like a money-grabbing w@$re? When your pockets are lean these broads don't know how to help bring a brother up, when your pockets are fat its another thing entirely, they're after you like ants on sugar. The broad is lamenting because he's communicating with his ex and screwing up: Dump or Divorce him, You don't need the grief, life is too short!!! I bet if this fellow was broke she'd be gone in a moment.

I spent 2 years of my life taking care of some dumb broad, paying bills and trying to be there when I could, yet this "big eye" girl; kept looking at other guys because she was looking for ready made material with a house on the hills and all round first class tickets to paradise ( I was spending close to 30-40k a month on this dumb broad and we were still in university o!). Even here friends were like relax, this guy is trying, he's spending and trying to be there for you, calls you up regularly to find out how you're doing, what more do you want? Imagine a friend of hers coming up to me to tell me she didn't still belive chaps like me still exist. Yet, did this girl see reason- No the grass was always greener elsewhere: gimme,gimme, gimme. Come to think of it I can't remeber getting 5 things out the relationship - It was all debit and no credit.

In the end I thought and asked myself :" No be you put yourself for condition". I walked away from the relationship and found my way, now I treat them all as they come, becuase after all its all about the money. Nigerian women are too damn materialistic and they want a guy to do every bloody thing in a relationship as soon as they give a guy sex, its as if they have given hime the whole world and thus he must comply with theire very demand. If you want love show some self-restraint and respect, look for the man and not his pockets, you are the ones who turn men into the monsters you now call them.

Abeg leave the hypocrite o jare, as if his on hands are clean, the next thing you know they'll tell you they're spending N1.5 Billion on eradication of prostitution as if the prostitutes and criminals they have as politicans aren't enough. Meanwhile I'm focusing on reading what the next generation nigeria has to offer by reading articles such as these:

http://www.dipotepede.com/2007/07/22/the-difficulty-in-being-me/

Regardless of Bible or Qu'ran , down with all these "New Age" Nigerian women and their female lib philosophies, before "Whitey" came here to loot and plunder, a man's role in the home and as the head of that home was a clear issue. Nowadays some Nigerian women feel since they earn a larger paycheck or because they've spent their lives in the "developed" world they can do as they like.

It's this whole gender equality crap that has people divorcing each other and ruining the sacred marital institution because women have refused to take their rightful places and support the role of their husband in the household. Rather they go about bickering about "female equality"

Funny enough Nigerian women only know the man is the man in charge when it comes to "money for that platinum necklace" or "money for Salavatore Ferragamo" shoes, as soon as you tell them to do something they don't like they'll tell you "gender equality" and start arguing. At least white chicks go all the way with their "female equality" thing, they don't do it just to suit their selfish interests,

My opinion is that Nigerian women should cut this "civilized" crap and act the way Nigerian women are supposed to, I blame the men for insulting our fathers and taking this nonsense from some women. I thank the heavens for some of our well trained sisters who know the proper way to treat a man and help a family, Understanding that a man is the head of a family is neither slavery or any form sub-servience , it's an understanding of the natural way of things,

U have a point the computer has ALREADY been invented. Have you ever heard of the saying "don't bother re-inventing the wheel". If something already works, why try re-inventing it, besides it was just a harmless joke

This is how poor and stingy people kill themselves, instead of simply saving enough money to buy yourself a standard air conditoner , they want to pinch money and enjoy the comforts of life. When something bad happens and someone gets electrocuted by this medieval contraption they'll start blaming the devil as usual,

You know I actually clicked on this thread hoping to be impressed and to see that my compatriots are doing what they ought to be doing. But it seems I have to agree with abby----Nigerian Web Designers ARE Amateurs--- if not all then at least 98%.

These folks seem to think its about how much Java code they use or how many dancing animations they have on their websites. I've clicked on every single link proferred and all I see is work that is at best as good as a high school students efforts.

People just keep putting up sites here to tell us :" Kai, I'm a BAAAAD guy" because they successfully implemented three lines of someone elses code or loaded a site with so much flash that it blinds the rest of us.

Even the so called oyibo sites who use flash in their websites use in sparingly because it's hard to SEO flash sites for search engines like Google. We really need to get rid of this culture of celebrating mediocrity and realize "when we no just dey try". Someone was listing examples of corporate websites and was shouting "Glo" and " MTN". When you think of the level these corporate entities represent and you look at their counterparts elsewhere you'll find those sites are just average.Compare the MTN South Africa website and the MTN Nigeria one and you'll see the difference in layout, readability and content. The next thing you know some idiots come out and give people "Best Websites In Nigeria". Nigerians don't focus on content just overkill, the designers are not interested in user input or accessibility.

I wonder why Nigerians persist in designing heavy flash sites for fellow Nigerians when they know broadband density is low in the country Even oyibo wey get "click and go" Internet connection no dey overdo flash sites like we dey do.

Hello Guys,

I just need to know how long it takes to transfer my CSCS account from one brokerage house to another. I want to switch stockbrokers, I've been asking my brokers to trade my First Bank shares for two months now and they're giving me this technical suspension story as if people don't trade shares during suspensions.