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Efforts by the federal government to extradite political office holders who have fled the country to come back to answer for their crimes will soon earn results.


 
The diplomatic process that will ensure the extradition of suspected looters who have fled the country will dominate President Muhammadu Buhari’s discussions with his counterparts when 60 world leaders meet in the United Kingdom next month, Punch reports.
 
It was learnt on Friday that the President would at the summit explore ways of bringing to the country politicians who were being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
 
It was gathered that the outcome of the summit would speed up the extradition of individuals, including a former Minister of State for Defence, Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro;  a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu; and a former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Force, Abdulrasheed Maina.

Others are the ex-Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke; her son, Ugonna; and a former Comptroller-General of Customs, Abdullahi Dikko, whose house was raided in Abuja in January by the EFCC.

Also included are a former Senior Political Adviser to ex-President and Coordinator of Goodluck Support Group, Prof.  Rufai Alkali, who coordinated the disbursement of N320m allegedly collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria during the 2015 elections and the immediate past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, who is being allegedly investigated over $1.1bn Malabu Oil deal.

While Obanikoro, who is believed to be in the United States, is wanted in connection with the alleged payment of N1.45bn to his companies, Muazu is reportedly wanted over disbursement of funds to PDP zonal chairmen. He was reported to be in Singapore.

Alison-Madueke and her son are being investigated for N2.3bn disbursed to some staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission through Fidelity Bank before the 2015 general elections.

While the former minister is in the UK, the whereabouts of her son is unknown.

Findings revealed that some of the pacts that would be signed by the world leaders at the summit would pave the way for the extradition of those who were being investigated.
 
The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami had, in an interview on Friday last week, said that the Federal Government and 59 other countries would sign agreement on the sanctions to be imposed on corrupt political and public office holders.

According to him, the sanctions will include travel restriction or denial of entry visa into the 60 countries; rejection of requests for political asylum by corrupt political and public office holders; likely loss of citizenship; non-approval of naturalisation for any corrupt person; stoppage of establishment of shell companies abroad; and banning operation of foreign accounts in any of the 60 nations.

One of Africa's most decorated player and legend has indicated interest to run for the president of Liberia the second time as he feels he has all it takes to lead his people.


Football legend, George Weah
 
The former international footballer George Weah will run for president of Liberia for a second time.
He said he had the "vision" to transform the country.
 
Mr Weah, who played for teams including Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan and Chelsea, was the highest-ranking African footballer in Fifa's list of greatest players of the 20th century.
 
His previous presidential bid, in 2005, was defeated by current president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
 
Her second term in office will end in 2017 and under the country's constitution she cannot run again.
During his football career, Mr Weah became a UN goodwill ambassador.
 
Later he turned to politics. He is currently a senator for the western province of Montserrado, which includes the capital Monrovia.
In 2011 he ran for vice-president under Winston Tubman but did not win.
 
Mr Weah belongs to the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) party.
 
Announcing his presidential bid in Monrovia, he said he had been a "victim of poverty" like many of his supporters, and said he would boost vocational education.
 
Liberia's national anthem was played before Mr Weah took to the stage.
 
First, he held a moment of silence in memory of the thousands of people who died of Ebola.
 
He told his crowd of supporters: "Our gathering here today is about the future of our country and our people.
"In the last ten years our people have continued to live in abject poverty, education a mess, health delivery system a disaster, electricity and pipe-borne water elusive."
"Like many of you, I have been a victim of poverty," he said. "There were times I didn't have school fees."
A leading research organization has recently rated Mr Weah's performance in the Senate as low.
 
Party members from across Liberia presented a petition asking him to run, saying they believed he was the man "to solve Liberia's numerous problems".
Some party members paraded up and down the sandy party headquarters, beneath giant portraits of Mr Weah.
 
They sang: "George Weah is the man we want, George Weah is the man we want."
Mr Weah pledged to increase the national budget, work towards religious harmony, and support vocational education.
To wild applause, he said: "God is with us, and hope is alive."
 
BBC

No doubt PMB love simplicity and principle.
Wailer what are you waiting for?
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Dear VO,
Please quickly on this one. I will like to ask when the VO said your circumstance has not changed, what really do they mean,because we applied twice and they said we need to wait till our cirmcustance change. Please kindly advice so that others can benefit as well. No doubt you are the only VO from any countries given out procudure in securing traveling visa, more grease to your elbow.keep doing the good job. #TeamThinkForMe

Faith in christ is the hope of the world.
God is faithful
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Some people get wahala sha, wetin concern me with her smile now na me be ooni of ife ni, abeg make una leave her alone joor.
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I bet you Saraki might win CCT with this Ogbonge SAN in town.
Who laugh last?
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No doubt we now have a president who from onset know the right thing and really want to do the right thing for the betterment of this Nation. Like I often say, NASS is our major problem in this nation. The executive said they will be able to finanace the lagos-calabar railway project but you guys are making it difficult as if is your money. No more padding, let build a nation we can trust. Nigeria must survive.
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No doubt Gov Adms Oshiomole has really changed the face of politics and good governance in Edo state. He makes Benin city and define city in Nigeria. Both Etsako,Esan,Owan and Benin really felt his impact as a governor. He has really raise a landmark and standard for future governor, Edo people will not accept anything less than osho baba. #TeamThinkForMe

No doubt nigeria now has a good leader, taking brief everytime and moving slow and steady. Please let those figure translate to people needs! Can't wait for the change we voted for.
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If this money ever recover from this looter, then PMB has done something for this nation. Imagine this magnitude of fund exume from the bedrock of our economy, thank God we have a good leader that really want to reposition this nation for goodwill. #TeamThinkForMe

Technically, I see.
Who is now our senate president.

And some state couldn't afford to pay salary and someone has the whole state 8yrs budget in his account. Naija which way to go!
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9k per month is way too high.

Good project, after roofing its adviceable to start M and E. That is the electrical work,plumbing,doing all the fitting before plastering.
The Engineer will guide you.
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Let linda ikeji reply before I comment on this one.
Thanks

Welcome back my amiable president, first thing first, try to attend to our budget, let the NASS forward the details to you for youe accents, also its high time we need to get back to work.
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I hope this Ekiti man no see this information on security and comment on PMB achievement,no doubt the present government has really done well in the area of security of this nation. God bless Nigeria
God bless President Buhari.
God bless me.
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I supported Mr President on this one, its high time our local industries pick up and fill in the gap. Devalution is not the best thing this time around, we need local content and strategic thinking to come out of this holocoust. Naija go better.
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This is not cheap at all though
Can u give us 2naira per minute.
Afterall change is on the way!
Welcome to Ntel make calls @1naira per minute.
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Even Ghana sef they hot now, lazy girl can't you emulate our olajumoke. Get something doing, success don't come cheap. #TeamThinkForMe

Which stattion, I think we need to name them,pls kindly give details here.

This aint to good.
While bad people kep spoiling good people sef, she need to jail pearl make her returned the stolen fund and pay thru her noise. Devlish pinkin.
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PMB can you verify this boy SR
Cos adonbilivit

Please i will like the good people of Nairalander to help me caution this scammer who send a message to me
through this number 08024280098
that i need to call this number 07030244590 to redeem my price.
i think is high time we need to begin to exposed this ungodly act within our society.
pls MTN and Airtel i will appreciate if you can help in identify this fraudster.
Cheers

cc. seun, lalastica

These people don start again, they want to confuse Nigerians again, I no trust them,even PMB still no settle down and change our nigeria, na mega party..hmmm I smell Lassa Rat here.

Fayose my role model,
PMB my mentor

Obasanjo is the best so far, he discover yar Adua, but death cut him off,...most of this template we are using now as a nation,he created most of them all, but Baba like money die....#JustSaying #TeamThinkForMe

PDP killed this country period!