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As long as that will bring peace to the Plateau its okay. Part of the Fulani's grouse with the Government is non inclusiveness in governance. Hope this gesture will soothe their fears

[quote author=Mr. Globe]but I thought you said you are 'dipolitical'? why are you then taking this matter personal? Excuse me clown
and tell me the many reputable mediums in the UK that should break the news. dont tell me bbc.
meanwhile back to the topic.

ACN OYO GOVERNORS WIFE NABBED WITH N500 MILLION IN THE UK.

discuss that. let the messenger be.[/quote]I said I was "apolitical", seem that word sounds strange to you!

No one is trying to dignify any corrupt politician and it won't be strange to me when one is "truly" accused of money laundering. What I kick against is base less accusations without substantive evidence to back it up.
What rubbished this thread was the alleged arrest of Fayemi which is a bloody lie.
Foolishness kills so beware of it!

[quote author=Mr. Globe]Something is happening in the UK and was first picked up by a UK based site, what is your problem with that? I dont know why people always want to drag us into their ignorance. smh[/quote]keep on exploring your ignorance by posting disinformation. There are many reputable medium in the UK that would have disseminated this news if it was credible. Since you are accustomed to beer parlour gist and Abe-Igi rumours I will leave you to wallow in your ignorance

dammytosh: http://247ureports.com/ajimobis-wife-in-london-police-net-for-laundering-n500m-oyo-gov-stands-surety-for-wife/

So blogs like Linda Ikeji, Ladun Liadi and this posted one are now credible and reliable news outlet? Blogs in Nigeria are often used to scandalise and blackmail people that is why most names behind these blogs are anonymous

[quote author=Mr. Globe]This story jas now been confirmed my mainstream news source, can ACN apologist go kill themselves already?[/quote]Guy you are already killing yourself with so much bitterness and hatred if you must know. Which of the mainstream news source confirmed it? Where is your link to confirm the news? Some of us are apolitical and do not rely on crumbs from politicians neither are we enmeshed in tribal jingoism but you are a compulsive liar who would go to any length in disparaging your perceived enemy by fabricating fictitious stories without any credible means of confirming the authenticity of such news

Its disheartening when the President has to approve of a commission or panel of inquiry reports indicting public officials or corrupt citizens before the ICPC, EFCC, Attorney General and the Police acts. Empowered agencies charged with the responsibility of investigating and prosecuting accused persons ought to have autonomy over such matters without the President's consent. The otherwise is always the case in Nigeria where selective judgement and preferential treatment are applied because of some certain vested interests thereby leading to political interference

Kx: The source of Abd's wealth with which he bid and bought one of the discos may be questionable in view of the fact that he was a political office holder no doubt; but investing the money in Nigeria is far better using same to invest in a foreign land.
Until the dawn of justice and accountability in Nigeria, I think ex-office holders should be encouraged to deploy their "loot" in the service of the fatherland through direct local investment(DLI) instead of perpetually waiting for the direct foreign investments (DFI) that Boko Haram and general insecurity of life and property would not allow to materialize.

And when will Nigeria ever experience the dawn of justice and accountability if we give political office holders the appeal to loot as long as the loot is reinvested in Nigeria?

NERC gave a directive that pre paid meters should be given to customers for free but has no means to ascertain if the directive is being adhered to. The billing system introduced by NERC has a lot of flaws irrespective of pre paid or post paid. NERC should take the blame for this since they are the regulatory agency in charge of Power.

[quote author=Mr. Globe]Its clear some people have been enslavened by ACN because of tribal politics. SMFH. may God have mercy on this nation. This story is true, the only thing that is not true is your brain, if you are raising flimsy excuses to it.[/quote]What has tribal politics got to do with discerning if a story is true or not? You are a bloody bigoted slowpoke

onatisi: i am not discussing fayemis case ,i am talking about ajimobis wife ,we have heard so many stories of govs been caught at the airport in uk with huge amounts of cash and nothing happens after all the noise. and pls when responding to post always try to do it in a constructive nd less confrontational manner .thanks

Well pardon me if my last post was confrontational. Most people who flawed the Op did so because of the Fayemi's alleged arrest. Its quite obvious that the intent of the Op was an attempt to smear some people or party. I do not intend to exonerate political office holders but when we make allegations of graft against them, it should be factual and not an attempt to slander them.

onatisi: my guy pls that isnt a valid excuse ,so until bbc tells u something u wont believe it is true.there are so many things that happen at the airport in uk concerning nigerian politicians that bbc wont even bother to report .it is good for uk as long as ajimobi agrees to forfeit the money.matter die

And you believe its true because a soft sell magazine or an unknown blog says so? Do you mean something of this magnitude will happen in UK and Nigerian Government won't be in the know of it? And that no reliable news outlet in Nigeria is aware of it? And that a state governor(Fayemi) would be held in the UK for 26 days without no one knowing? And that if it was true, Oyo state PDP wouldn't have raised alarm all this while? Guy, you need to get your thinking cap on. Even if you have your personal dislike for ACN, you shouldn't stoop so low into swallowing any crap hook line and sinker

As much as I'll want to remain optimistic about this privatisation exercise, I believe that the bidding process wasn't transparent enough. We ought to know how much was PHCN's yearly revenue? how much did the Government expend on building most of these power generation stations being privatised?
A lot of areas in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria did electrify their communities by purchasing transformers, electric poles etc which PHCN ought to have supplied for free. Now that PHCN's distribution wing has been privatised, most of these community development efforts becomes that of the privately owned distribution companies.

Junk journalism

naijaking1: Mr. Corruption, I hope you enjoy the pictures above.
I don't think the innocent children are not Igbos, but Nigerians who have fallen victim to Gowon's unintended action of tolerating genocide of a particular tribe or religion.

Evil begets evil. This is true no matter what language you speak.

Quit venting at the un appropriate quarters. Gowon has challenged you guys, yet all you do is post some sick pictures. Does the happenings in Jos bring back the millions of Ibos who lost their lives in the civil war?
It is acts of stupidity like this that makes them hack down Ibo's . Collective Children of confusion.

SOH KAH TOA: The minister denied buying crudel at a reduced price and she further stated that it is only the president that has the powers for such, meaning if she did at all it might have been done through a presidential directive( though she wasn't specific if they did ). For the licenses she's has the powers and right to do so. The report only made reference to it as a piece of information, it doesn't indict her in anyway.she awarded 3 licenses between 2010 to 2012 why the erstwhile minister of petroleum awarded 4 licenses btw 2008-2010 but people are not calling for the former's head.. Let's stop the politics and save the soul of our dear nation.

No one is trying to exonerate her predecessors. Since she gave licenses for three oil blocs, where is the signature bonus them? According to Ribadu's report, the three licenses she gave out and the other four by either Lukman Or Ajumogobia makes up the missing $183million signature
bonus. The trio of Diezani, Luqman and Ajumogobia should be held responsible for the missing money.

Reminds one of a certain Adedibu in Oyo and a Chris Ubah in Anambra. Both PDP and their infamous role in sacking elected political office holders.

Even in Police Station, bail is FREE!
This is Nigeria and nothing is Free. The blame should be on the regulatory body who gave a directive without having a process of monitoring its compliance.
Nigeria is a rogue country, many areas such as mine purchased our transformer, electric poles etc with our money which was supposed to be provided free by PHCN, now that Government has decided to privatise PHCN, those things automatically becomes that of the new owners. Isn't that a rip off itself?

@bilms, just tell us which side you belong to. Your obsessiveness with anything ACN is appalling. If you wanna make genuine criticism let us know and if you are doing this to score cheap political point for another party, so we should know.

Guess it was Dame's recommendation. Stupid Olosious fellas.

Gbawe: Seriously? Do you understand that the Presidency and all levels of his team control the nation? How can it be tenable to proffer that an aide of GEJ has been 'misled' by a news agency ,regarding information dissemination, when said aide is a media advisor to the President?

Is Omokri paid to laze around and embarrass the president by speaking based on the 'second hand' submission of others or is he is supposed to be part of the effort to ensure the Presidency controls the flow of factual, truthful and accurate information the public can trust?

I wonder why GEJ has chosen to surround himself with mediocres. The same Reno Omokri was part of those who misled GEJ during his Independence day speech that Transparency International rated Nigeria highly in the fight against corruption, only for the bubble to burst on their lies before they claimed it was gotten from Business Day.
If truly Reno got this information from SR site, then Reno is a fool. He and the other useless media team of GEJ are very quick to tell Nigerians that SR is a fabricator of Lies only for them to always rely on SR.
For Sahara Reporters to even had an inkling of what transpired in Yola all the way from New York without the presidency knowing speaks volume.

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taharqa: Oh yeah, is that right?...but then here is d questn again: cud you point out where exactly in d Reuters report there was PROVE dat dis govt was fradulent? I mean you must hv seen d Reuters article, just point the areas out

"I have not given any discretionary
awards during this administration,"
Alison-Madueke told Reuters, although
she added that the president had the
right to do so instead of using bids if he
saw fit. "That is entirely up to him," she
said.
Source http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKBRE89N0VV20121024?irpc=932

taharqa: Oh yeah, is that right?...but then here is d questn again: cud you point out where exactly in d Reuters report there was PROVE dat dis govt was fradulent? I mean you must hv seen d Reuters article, just point the areas out

Nigerian oil ministers between
2008-2011 handed out seven
discretionary licenses but there is $183
million in signature bonuses missing
from the deals, the report said. Three of
these oil licenses were awarded since
Alison-Madueke took up her position in
2010, according to the report.
"I have not given any discretionary
awards during this administration,"
Alison-Madueke told Reuters, although
she added that the president had the
right to do so instead of using bids if he
saw fit. "That is entirely up to him," she
said.
Source http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKBRE89N0VV20121024?irpc=932

taharqa: Oh yeah, is that right?...but then here is d questn again: cud you point out where exactly in d Reuters report there was PROVE dat dis govt was fradulent? I mean you must hv seen d Reuters article, just point the areas out

There is no way you can exonerate
this Government from this scandal. Though previous Governments were also involved. From the leaked report on Reuters it claimed "Nigerian oil ministers between
2008-2011 handed out seven
discretionary licenses but there is $183
million in signature bonuses missing
from the deals, the report said. Three of
these oil licenses were awarded since
Alison-Madueke took up her position in
2010, according to the report".
"I have not given any discretionary
awards during this administration,"
Alison-Madueke told Reuters, although
she added that the president had the
right to do so instead of using bids if he
saw fit".

Where Is the signature bonuses from the three allocations that GEJ's Government awarded? Missing, according to the report.

The report also touched on the illegal award of oil blocs though discretionary but shady. An example is the secret allocations of oil blocs which are
against international best practices.

"Daily Trust learnt that the secret
allocations were done over the past one
year, even though government had said
the process of awarding oil licences
were to be executed publicly through
competitive bidding.
A newspaper report recently said All
Grace Energy is among companies that
benefitted from the deals. Records
made available to Daily Trust by the
Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC)
revealed that Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello is
the major shareholder of All Grace
Energy, which was registered on July
12, 2006 with N30 million share capital.
Mrs Obasanjo-Bello has six million
shares, followed by other directors/
shareholders: Abe Magnus Ngei (2
million), Mrs Abiri Dorcas (3 million), Dr.
Adenikinju Adeola (3 million), Ugbeya
Donatus (1 million), Alabi Yekini (1
million) and Alhaji Abubakar Abdullahi
(1 million). The company was registered
“to operate marginal fields for the
purpose of producing petroleum,
natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas
etc,” and has filed annual returns only
up to 2007, according to CAC records.
Apparently reacting to the recent report
that oil blocks were awarded illegally,
Director of the Department of
Petroleum Resources, Mr. Osten
Olorunsola, said at a conference in
Houston, United States, that the
president is empowered by law to make
such allocations.
This development flies in the face of the
Federal Government’s consistent
pledges to conduct fresh oil bid round.
The last public oil bid was conducted
during President Olusegun Obasanjo’s
regime. In 2010, for instance, Petroleum
Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke said
government was trying to “sort out
some issues” surrounding the previous
bid rounds before it starts fresh ones.
Instead, the government apparently
resorted to secret allocation of choice oil
blocks to companies belonging to
cronies, family members and
associates, industry analysts say. A
player in the oil industry, who craved
for anonymity, told Daily Trust the
government’s action would discourage
competition among indigenous oil
operators and also send wrong signals
to international investors.
A source at DPR said that the process of
awarding the oil blocks to Iyabo actually
started during Obasanjo’s
administration but “a disagreement
between Shell and DPR over the area to
farm-out couldn’t be reached until
recently when the Malabu oil block deal
was sealed between the Federal
Government and the multinationals.”
Oil block deal conditions not met
When our reporter contacted the
spokesperson for the DPR, Mrs Belema
Osibodu, she did not confirm or deny
that Iyabo’s company was given the oil
block but said the marginal fields were
awarded based on some conditions. She
said the conditions included the
development/execution of a public
private partnership (PPP) model for
three pilot projects under the small
scale gas utilisation scheme.
But when a Daily Trust reporter visited
Ubima community in Ikwerre local
government area, there was no
indication that such project was being
executed. The community happens to
be the country home of Governor Rotimi
Amaechi.
The chairman of Ubima community,
Elder Daniel Anwuzurike, told Daily
Trust that the community has been
living without electricity supply for the
past three months.Anwuzurike said he
was not aware of any power project
going on in the Ubima community.
‘Secret oil block deals going on for long’
The controversial oil field is considered
under “marginal oil fields” which the
Petroleum Act (Amended) 1996 defines
as “such field as the President may,
from time to time, identify as a
marginal field.” The law provides that
the holder of an OML can farm out
(lease out) any marginal field which lies
within the Oil Mining Lease (OML).
Reverend David Ugolor, Executive
Director, African Network for
Environment and Economic Justice
(ANEEJ), said this was not the first time
such secret allocation of oil blocks was
done by a president.
“In any case, the development
contravenes global best practice of
open competitive bidding and as such
should be discouraged,” Ugolor said.
“Nigerians are also kept in the dark as
to how much accrued to the country
from the exercise. The unresolved
regulatory issues has not allowed
potential investors, both local and
international, to make huge financial
commitment in the sector. Nigeria is
losing huge resources from the
dwindling investment in the sector and
there is also loss of potential revenue
from royalties,”

taharqa: @take dat, u linkd me to an article written by an anonymous writer in a Ghanaian blog during d height of d campaign by various groups/interests against her reappointment as Pet Min.. Come on!

Does it matter where the writer comes from? The bone of contention is where those allegations true or not? Why not try to counter those allegations if you really believe in the sincerity of Diezani.

Her racket with PPPRA officials was an open secret prior to the Jan fuel subsidy protest. Till date how many of PPPRA officials who gave licenses to import fuel without verifying the claims have been prosecuted? Who is shielding them if not Diezani.
who allocated the oil blocs to brief case companies? Wasn't it Diezani. Why are the proceeds from it missing?
This report by Ribadu and her attempt to muddle up the report by constituting another committee to synchronise the effort of an eminent committee shows that she is trying to cover up something.

taharqa: hahaha...i know dese oil people are very 'capable' of tins, but wud u mind sharing d source plz? Or was dis meant to show us dat u are a capable storyteller, perhaps?

" One of her major lowlights is the 10%
racket she instituted at the Petroleum
Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency
(PPPRA), where authorization to import
gasoline and other petroleum products
were conditional on the importer paying
$8 per metric ton allocated. An importer
allocated 10,000 metric tons, for
example would be required to cough
out a bribe upfront of $80,000 in cash.
No checks are accepted, so there would
be no paper trail. The PPPRA and NNPC
officials who operated the racketeering
scam shared their booty with Allison-
Madueke, who received 50%, while the
others shared the remaining 50%
amongst them".

" The almighty Petroleum Minister,
Diezani Allison-Madueke, said to be the
most powerful minister in the expired
cabinet of President Goodluck Jonathan,
has been the subject of a probe by the
outgone Senate Committee on
Petroleum resources on allegations of
corruption, fraud, cronyism and abuse
of office".

The investigation which is expected to
be taken over by the 2011 Class of
Senators concern allegations that in
September 2010, Allison-Madueke
illegally assigned prospecting rights on
three oil blocs; OML4, OML38, and
OML41 to an international oil and gas
company, Seven Energy International
Ltd, through its Nigerian subsidiary
Septa Energy Nigeria Ltd.
The contentious oil blocs located in
Amukpe, Oben and Sapele, in the Niger
Delta boasts of extensive oil and gas
reserves with a gross production
capability of 30,000 bpd. Nigeria owned
55% stake in the three OMLs held by
the NPDC; a subsidiary of the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
The remaining 45% stake was held by a
consortium comprising Shell, Total and
Agip.

The Senate launched an investigation
after it received oral and written
complaints against the deal, valued at
billions of Naira, from some aggrieved
stakeholders in the industry, who
accused Allison-Madueke of discretional
allocation of the oil blocs against
industry guidelines that such
allocations be based on an open
competitive bidding process. The
lawmakers wanted to ascertain that the
divestments followed due diligence and
was transparent in accordance with
industry best practices, taking into
cognizance, the overall national
interest.

Source www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvnews/53230/1/allison-madueke-scandal-ridden-oil-minister-under-.html

Gbawe: Indeed. With the fuel subsidy scam, for example, it was revealed that many without the capacity, history or expertise to operate in the fuel importation sector gained marketers licence. We then need to find out those who are responsible for screening interested Companies and handing out licence to those who meet what should be very stringent conditions. Well, only the FG and NNPC can issue Marketers licence.

Those not into self-deception can put two and two together to know the subsidy scam would not have grown to its proportional highest under GEJ without the complicity of the NNPC and the FG even as Allison-Madueke and the FG are trying to distract Nigerians by making them focus on marketers alone. Smart folks know better than to fall for that rudimentary ruse. Allison-Madueke and GEJ can feign shock as much as they want but sensible folks who can inspect facts dispassionately will know they are part of everything that went on because ignorance is not a tenable excuse at all.

.Diezani is a thief and all are atrocities wouldn't have been perfected without her boss having an inkling of it. One of her major lowlights is the 10%
racket she instituted at the Petroleum
Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency
(PPPRA), where authorization to import
gasoline and other petroleum products
were conditional on the importer paying
$8 per metric ton allocated. An importer
allocated 10,000 metric tons, for
example would be required to cough
out a bribe upfront of $80,000 in cash.
No checks are accepted, so there would
be no paper trail. The PPPRA and NNPC
officials who operated the racketeering
scam shared their booty with Allison-
Madueke, who received 50%, while the
others shared the remaining 50%
amongst them.

For the past 13 years, the PDP Government have not been able to construct a bridge the stretch of Third mainland. To carry out repairs for a designated period becomes a problem that they had to postpone again

GEJ and his cohorts are skilled in the art of playing victim and creating imaginary enemies. If the government is not complacent why should it be bothered that a leaked report is aimed at embarrassing it?
This Government is close to a military dictatorship because they believe any dissenting voice is either a political adversary or an enemy of the state.

Billyonaire: I am disappointed in Nihi Ribadu. The FGN set up a committee and appointed him to head it,I am shocked that he has not even submitted the report to the FGN before sending to the press. If he has concluded the findings, the sane thing to do is tender the resolution to the FGN and NOT to the press before the Presidency. It is the job of the Government to release information to the press and not the responsibility of Ribadu, this is criminal espionage, and abuse of state resources with wanton recklessness. I am disappointed beyond words, Ribadu needs to tell us which report is flying around, if its the real deal, then there is punishment for leak of state information without necessary going through the FOI acts after due submission and scrutiny of the government, he must be made to face repercussions. Government knew something was wrong before the community was set up, and Government trusted an opposition political contender and on his credentials to be without bias with the results. Can he do that in China or USA ?

How are you so sure it was Ribadu that leaked the report? If truly Ribadu leaked it, it only goes to show that He(Ribadu) feels that all the talk about government trying to make the petroleum industry transparent is all lip service and that the government lacks enough political will to confront the ills in the industry or that a lot of Government officials are involved in these scams who would want to cover it up.

Since there are all ethnic nationalities in Lagos, shouldn't the FG increase Lagos state allocation? the other 35 state governors whose subjects had migrated to Lagos in the hope of escaping abject poverty in their states of origin should contribute to the coffers of Lagos state so that Fashola can provide alternatives for their people riding Okada.

Diezani in a sane country ought to be in jail by now, but not in the case with Nigeria. There have been numerous allegation against her, either by indiscretionary allocation of oil wells to her husband's company(Excel Exploration), to her cronies(Seven Energy), The Chris Aire crude oil lifting scam etc. Most of those brief case companies that made away with fuel subsidy monies had ties to her.
Its either the rumours that she is romantically linked to GEJ is true or close to the truth.
Recently GEJ himself gave out oil bloc to All Grace Energy belonging to Iyabo Obasanjo that was shrouded in secrecy.
That is not to exonerate past and present NNPC top officers and former heads of state who have also benefited from these frauds.

Without being pessimistic, this is more likely an effort in futility. NNPC has always been fraught in corrupt practises but no head of state has done the needed by overhauling it and unbundling it so as to make it competitive. Top government officials are always involved in these deals and they always get away with it. How many NNPC staff has been brought to book for their involvement in the fuel subsidy scam? None. Its still business as usual.

PointB: 500 hectares of land from Ogun State to Lagos State. Hope this is not another 'Bakassi' in the making.

I don't understand why people raise some sort of ridiculous pessimism over a good move. What is 500 hectares which has remained fallow in the land mass of Ogun state?
By allocating the land to Lagos does not mean the land ceases to be Ogun. A perfect example is the deal between Sao Tome and Principe and Nigeria. Nigeria which has a more robust oil industry is allowed to run the oil wells in a joint partnership agreement with the host country. Such is the case with Ogun and Lagos, the allocated land remains Ogun while "agos makes use of it and remit tax to Ogun. It is equally beneficial to Ogun as well in terms of food supply.