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to davidylan and earthmama:

The north will continue with their ways as long as the south remains disunited. I have said this many times; we people from southern
Nigeria are not united and the north is exploiting this big time.

Why not post this in the politics section of the forum ?

I am speechless

superboi:
from my good knowledge of nigeria aviation what is happening at virgin nigeria basically boils down to poor business planning by the people that started the carrier, the lack of will of the investors(both local and international) to commit much funds and the fact they hope too much on government advantage. you can't blame obasanjo instead praise him for the reforms in the aviation sector because after virgin came in more people were willing to invest much more in the sector, like arik and the heavy reinvestment by aero, but ironocally that is what hurt virgin. virgin be wan make I'm papa fight I'm mate for am, they no serious

Excellent analysis superboi. You are right on the mark.

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It's hard to believe that Obj would father a guy looking like that. I guess na d mama factor

Muza:
i would believe that he used her much more than a conduit,remember Mojisola.

haha you are not serious

OBJ na woman wrapper I swear

Well, people have always said Atiku is not a thief and that OBJ/Ribadu were just witch hunting him due to third term. I wonder what they have to say now.

@GettysBurg,

I agree with you. I don't think OBJ would use Atiku's wife as a conduit to receive a bribe from anyone. I just don't buy it at all

Correspondence from El-Rufai's lawyer published in the newspapers:


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Nice pictures of abuja

Is Yar'adua willing to forge ahead with policies that will benefit the country as a whole and not just Northern Nigeria ?

Like the bank consolidation that has enabled our banks to finance projects like Tinapa and MMA2 airport ?

To me, this is the real question here.

I am speechless

@OP

I think you are absolutely right

texazzpete:
One more thing

Ribadu announced to the world in the national newspapers of Nigeria that he had been an assassination target.
Yet not one of you loyalists found it strange that the man did not make a report to the police on the matter. In fact, the first the police heard about it was in the Nigerian dailies.

How can he report it to the police when they are the same ones persecuting him  

Did the police keep Bola Ige (attorney general at the time) and Funsho Williams from being assassinated ?

Your question is nothing short of redundant

texazzpete:
This has degenerated into a farce

Here's a question i want everyone to answer

If a Genie appears here and asks you if you can bet your life that Ribadu is innocent of all the charges of corruption brought against him, what would you answer?

What charges of corruption have been brought against Ribadu ? What are you talking about 


[quote author=B.O.S.S. link=topic=210942.msg3262840#msg3262840 date=1230065560]"PAPABOMBOY"

I love that ur name, lol, sorry people for the digression.[/quote]Yes, I like the name too 

Shame on Yar'adua for appointing someone like Dora Akunyili as Information minister. If he had no use for her as
a minister, why not just let her continue with her work at Nafdac ?

Another thing that puzzled me was the appointment of Rilwan Lukeman as the new oil minister.

Yar'adua is not ready to move the country forward

changed to firefox, but firefox eats up my memory like crazy

[size=13pt]  EFCC Investigates FIRS Boss Over Chevron Tax Evasion   [/size]
     
By Chesa Chesa, State House, Abuja

http://www.independentngonline.com/news/head/article01

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun investigations into allegations of looting and diversion of $360m (N42.3b) levelled against the Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru, and three other officials of the Service.

Also being investigated are M.A Dike, E.A Sulu and some unnamed officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) who were listed as accomplices in a petition filed at the EFCC by Francis Mgboh, counsel to ABZ Integrated Limited.

ABZ is a firm that served as consultant to EFCC to investigate alleged tax evasion by Chevron Group of Companies.

The firm stated that from its findings, which it carried out during the tenure of Nuhu Ribadu as EFCC Chairman, the said N42.3 billion was part of the recovery made from Chevron, but unaccounted for by FIRS.

EFCC's spokesman, Femi Babafemi, confirmed at the weekend that the commission was investigating the FIRS on account of the petition.

He said the EFCC had received the petition and has already swung into action, promising to give more details later.

The money alleged to have been diverted, was part of the $491.5m said to have been re covered from Chevron after the company was indicted for tax evasion between 2001 and 2003.

The petition said the money was eventually remitted to the Federal Government through the FIRS by Chevron in several installments but claimed that "the actual amount remitted by Omoigui-Okauru was $131m to secret accounts".

The petition further alleged that the proceeds of the diversion were expended in the purchase of choice houses and exotic cars.

The petitioners told the EFCC that the diversion was in collaboration with some officials of the CBN, and that FIRS officials suppressed all CBN advices on payment from December 29, 2005 to January 16, 2007, in order to conceal the diversion of monies recovered from Chevron.

ABZ Limited also alleged in the petition that the FIRS forged CBN Advice 013675 of September 15, 2004 with a view to diverting the first installment of the recovered tax evaded by Chevron.

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Supreme Court upholds Yar'adua's election as President[/size]


Nigeria court upholds presidential election
Fri 12 Dec 2008, 8:57 GMT
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's Supreme Court upheld the election of President Umaru Yar'Adua on Friday, rejecting challenges from his two closest rivals who alleged widespread vote-rigging.

The judgement ends nearly two years of legal wrangling, which has prevented Yar'Adua from exercising his full authority and unnerved foreign investors in Africa's most populous country.

http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnJOE4BB00Q.html

biggy00000:
am aSTUDENT at Run.bt the funny tin is that one dnt to know about their numerous rules before admission
in Run 4 instance,d latest is you appear on dynamix magazine and you are GONEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Na waa for these private universities and theirs rules. So what happens to all the money spent on tuition ?
Gone just like that

ow11:
Why am I not surprised? Only Yoruba and Hausa Lives are worth something in the sham called Nigeria

As if yorubas are not also victims of the religious massacres meted out on Southerners by the hausas.

It is very unfortunate for people to condemn this man without knowing much about his situation. Please don't judge
him solely based on what you have seen in that video.

It is not everyone that is well off or has a family/loved ones that can support them.

I pray that God will intervene in the gentleman's situation.

[quote author=Nigeria1// link=topic=201643.msg3157415#msg3157415 date=1227963905]
President yar adua is trying to force his ethnics group on others, by trying to force the falsified census figures on nigerian.

if you remember the nigeria civil war , biafra, this same mistake president yar adua is doing , was also the same mistake balewa did. balewa conduct a census and falsified the census figure , and one story lead to another, and we had a civil war,

i can see President yar adua doing the same, he as taken the first major step to push nigeria into a civil war,

With President yar adua making the same mistake like balewa of trying to force a falsified census figure on nigeia. from this point. i[/quote]Nigeria1, bear in mind that the 2006 census by Makama took place under Obasanjo's watch and OBJ did not
dispute the census figures despite the fact that it claimed Kano was more populated than Lagos, which we all know
is not true.

Why are you blaming Yar'adua for the census and not Obasanjo

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http://www.nationalmirroronline.com/cove/article02

Serious allegation of looting and criminal diversion of $360 million (over N36 billion) has been brought before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) aginst the chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), Mrs Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru.


She, alongside officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria are being accused of defrauding the federal government through improper remitance of revenue from Chevron Group of Companies into the nation's coffers.


In a petition sent to the chairman of the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, by Francis Mgboh and Co Fountain Advocate, Mrs Ifueko was said to have remitted the sum of $131 million out of the sum of $491, 509,203 being amount of tax revenue collected from Chevron Group.


The petition, which was dated November 17, 2008, was received by EFCC on November 20, 2008.
Others accused with Ifueko are Dike M.A., E. A Sulu and H.A. Ilo.

The petition states as follows:
Looting and Criminal Diversion of Govt Revenue to the tune of over 360 US million (N36 billion ) by Mrs Ifueko Omoigui Okauru, Dike M.A, E.A. Sulu, H.A. Ilo alongside officials of CBN.


The above subject matter refers. We are solicitor to ABZ Integrated Limited of Suite C1, Bensima House, Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja and on whose behalf with instructions from the managing director, Fidelis Uzowanne, to forward this petition.

[size=13pt]Policeman killed in vote protest in Nigerian town[/size] (Jos)

From Reuters

JOS, Nigeria, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Youths with machetes hacked to death a policeman and burned tyres in the central Nigerian town of Jos on Friday in protest over the outcome of a local government election, witnesses said.

Demonstrators from the Hausa ethnic group began protesting overnight after a rumour spread that their ANPP party candidate had lost the local government chairmanship race to the ruling PDP party.

"Very early this morning a group of protesters at that junction macheted to death a policeman," one witness in the Enugu Road area of Jos said, asking not to be named.

"The group said they were not fighting people but fighting government because of their action," the witness said.

A Reuters witness said he could see three plumes of thick black smoke rising up over the Akpata neighbourhood across town. Some residents said several homes had been set ablaze.

Police officials were not immediately available to comment.

Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation of 140 million people, is roughly equally divided between Muslims and Christians, who generally live peacefully side by side.

But hostility has simmered in the past in Plateau state.

Hundreds were killed in ethnic-religious street fighting in Jos in 2001. Three years later, hundreds more died in clashes in the town of Yelwa, leading former President Olusegun Obasanjo to declare a state of emergency and impose a curfew.

The tensions in Plateau state have their roots in decades of resentment by indigenous minority groups, who are mostly Christian or animist, towards migrants and settlers from Nigeria's Hausa-speaking Muslim north.

Jos North is the commercial centre of Plateau state, making the local government chairman a powerful political force.

The official results of Thursday's vote have not yet been announced but ANPP observers at polling stations had forecast a clear win for their candidate

Fix the power problem and it will have a multiplier effect on the rest of the economy in terms of jobs and productivity (gdp).

Spend some of this 60 billion dollar reserve to generate at least 15,000 MW of electricity, then privatize the power sector.

[quote author=*osisi link=topic=200002.msg3142132#msg3142132 date=1227719486]The romance in our marriage disappeared for the length of time we stayed there since I wasn't ready to turn to stockfish all in the name of cuddling.[/quote]That was really funny I've heard lots of these 'tories from england