The Soper Cop's explanation is an insult to our intelligence and is revealing of what he regards as "law enforcement".
He is hiding behind "2 decades of service" against the entire reputation of an overseas agency with a reputation for thoroughness in investigative matters he has never come across in his "2 decades of service".
The FBI indictment is lengthy and pretty specific ; it lists his association with Abbas frm Dubai, including what courtesies in kind Abbas provided the dodgy officer, to fairly self-incriminating WhatsApp communications that she'd further light indicating a relationship that was clearly based on a quid pro quo.
His reputation is not bigger than the force he represents nor the nation's honour, nor even his self-vaunted "2 decades of service".
He has not a shred of honour, service or dignity by putting out this "explanation". Instead of showing some humility to complain of some error and vowing to clear his name, he's doubling down.
His media whoring and self publicity never sat well with me. Like PENCOM boss, Maina.
His associations betray his lack of judgement.
And it's now clear, his "service" is tainted beyond redemption.
Someone above said US falsely accused Saddam Hussein.
Don't confuse geopolitics with law enforcement ; how does the gravity of launching a war on another country compare to indicting a corrupt cop in a developing country ? The FBI have nothing to gain by false accusations of someone, who in the grand scheme of things, is a nobody.

mechanics:
It's well, the Wadume that escaped when he was caught by his team in Taraba state abi?

Yep him. One kidnapping gang against another.

mechanics:
hahahaha, how do you know that?

I was told by a kinsman who works at FHQ.
His method is to co-opt criminals into his CIs as an operational pretext. Join us or die. Your choice. No wonder Wadume thought he was being kidnapped himself and activated his army co-conspirators.
His IRT has long been known to answer only to the IGP's office outside normal bounds of command and control.
And look at his media jamborees and his love of the spotlight. He reminds me of that Mbu of GEJ's time ; and also the haughty arrogance of Maina in his pomp.
Evans alleged that millions in foreign currency was looted frm his safe by the IRT. With what has come to light, who do you believe now ?
The IRT has also been fingered as being the cause of the recent spike in school kidnappings in Kd. I will leave the reason to your imagination.
And anyone who thinks WhatsApp end to end encryption means you can transact business, however shady, onthat platform, ask NSO. They'll learn you

More than 3/4 of Abba Kyari's team are not police personnel.
If you know, you know.

Secondus' capacity to motivate the rank and file is precisely zero. Even his name invites ridicule.
He has overstayed his usefulness and has chaired the party through it's most electorally unsuccessful period in its history.
When the country is crying out for a vigorous opposition, he's busy straining every sinew to cling onto power.
It's preposterous that Saraki is heading a "reconciliation" committee when it was gis treachery that was the first clang in the cacophony to remove GEJ in 2014.

Like Jonah Jang in Plateau. Failure writ large.
The comedic angle to all this is that Secondus is harder to lever out of the chairmanship than Modu Sherriff was. And Wike must take full responsibility for his imposition.
Perhaps PDP can recruit Yahaya Bello. At least he's a new face, with equally nothing to offer.

To be clear, she is talented, works hard, but has an embarrassingly high regard of her own importance and an enormous ego that seems to have swelled with age.
This, coupled with relentless self promotion and a constant cheerleading from a captive Western media, makes me suspicious of whom are pushing her onto us Nigerians.
I've heard a foreign ambassador question why ppl like her cannot be President. My answer was to ask them which polling unit outside of her state could she win ? I heard nothing but crickets....

NOI still polishing her "struggle" Oscar statue i see.
she is still pushing this false narrative that her mum was kidnapped bc of her policies, something that the kidnappers themselves have admitted was an opportunistic "business" kidnapping. the fact is kidnapping became a viable business in the SE during her tenure as the unconstitutional "co-ordinating Minister of the economy" bc of her economic policies. she sprung subsidy removal on GEJ over the Xmas period and was reprimanded and the policy reversed. she wanted to be paid in $ but was politely reminded that there was a subsisting law preventing public officers being paid in foreign currency. she then started campaigning for the WB job within months of being appointed as "co-ordinating" minister, only for Obama to throw their weight behind Kim.
the joan of arc of sacrifice and heartache.
in her universe, no human has sacrificed and endured more than her. head tying ankara dishevelledly reinforces this image of meritocratic struggle against nefarious powers.
she was furious that her WEF in Abuja was knocked of the news agenda by the Chibok Job. not outraged that girls were kidnapped, but that attention was diverted from the WEF she organised (a great achievement for GEJ's admin that had little international credibility to be fair). i personally know of a western journalist she tried to have redeployed from Nigeria bc she considered his questioning of her economic policies "hostile". the chap has an MPhil from Oxford in PPE by way of credentials.
ordinarily, i have little regard for OBJ, but he has a sensitive ego if he feels he is being upstaged. OBJ pushed her out when she started aggregating all credit to herself.
now at WTO, the world will hear endless tales of what insurmountable struggles she, as a woman, has faced in her life.
and before ppl start hissing at me, i met her first in 91/92 and then again in 2013/2014; she was far more self-effacing in the ninties. laughably, she told me fibs in 2013/2014 that were demonstrably false.
but you know, the great powers are pushing women as being future African leaders (cf Sirleaf-Johnson in Liberia ; ex WB etc) as some type of solution to the leadership crises we continually have. they should ask Bangladeshis about women leaders if that's the case.
apart from that, lovely woman though and i wish her the best in her new post. no hiding behind any excuses there.

Russian Aerospace Forces Bear, Blackjack and Backfire aircraft (Nato designations) are regularly intercepted over the North Sea, Norway and Alaska.
Tit for tat, nothing to see here.
In fact, I believe that the Black Sea incursions, both naval and aerial are new provocations by the West bc they have largely refrained from encroaching in that location before.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56577865

In 2014, Saraki was an APC chieftain campaigning for Buhari.
Remember that.

But Mallam is busy arresting and suing (or disappearing) journalists, lawyers, trade unionists or sacking civil servants who criticise his governance with a kind of vigour he never shows when pogroms/mass killings occur in Southern Kaduna. What does his gobshite son have to say about this bloodletting ?
His media minions were busy when he was roundly rejected as a key note speaker at the NBA conference. I wonder what happened to the Jigawa and other breakaway NBA chapters?
I can bet that once he leaves government House, he dare not set foot in Kaduna again.
And he wonders why ppl consider him a religious bigot.
His presidential ambition died on the hills of southern Kaduna.

Ethnic cleansing. Nothing more, nothing less.
But the vile Mallam will say its a business, like kidnapping.

Black lives don't matter.
And kids see that nonsense over there and want to replicate it over here, bc of some ingrained inferiority complex that says, if its OK there, it must be "sophisticated"/advanced/cool etc
Forget police brutality, crime in the black communities is out of control.
I hate to point to a cultural reason behind it, but this glorification of the "ratchet" lifestyle doesn't help. Twerking, flashing jewellery, street brawling, glorifying criminal misdemeanours, showing off in nightclubs etc.
Where are the community leaders ? Who takes responsibility ? Why are ppl not questioning how young men are irresponsibily having kids upandown without raising their children.
Everything is for the 'gram or clout or meaningless attention/infamy.
There are clear indicators that children from recent immigrant families from Africa are more successful than "indigenous" African Americans children.
You make your own conclusions.

DOA
Three serial betrayers of the party as their candidates for the highest office the party contests for ?
What message does that send to the party rank n file ? You can swap party at a whim, have your ambition stunted and then return, no questions asked ? In the midst of such comings and goings, how do you hope to enforce party discipline ?
As far as I can see, only one of these candidates has a track record worth noting ; Saraki taught Jacob Zuma what "state capture" was in Kwara
Tambuwal is a political gadfly and a band-wagoneer. What has he done of note in Sokoto ? In fact what achievements has he done in Sokoto that would translate to Nigeria at large ?
Atiku we know, both in notoriety and infamy.
At this moment, PDP, going with triumvirate, does not look like a government in waiting.

They said last week it would be 3 days of disruption to the water supply.
It's now 1 week and no end in sight.
During a pandemic in which regular hand washing is encouraged to limit the spread of the virus.
And the same authorities will be bringing environmental board bill, tenement rates, and other sundries.
It's beyond useless ; it's shambolic.

Ortom is lying.
he was never attacked by "herdsmen".
he has been busy expropriating land for his post gubernatorial career as a "farmer".
huge tracts of land he has cornered.
he signed an mou with a dutch agro-industrial firm ages ago. appropriated "ruga" like amounts of land for his personal project in the guise of it being a state project. Not a single head of corn has been produced.
Believe this dissembler at your peril.

It's great to see McLaren investing in Ugo. Same thing they did with LH44 in the 1990s. That UU and LH44 are half-castes should give you a good indication of what marketing ploy McLaren have in mind in the future; pls their car is getting better and Ugo may end up joining Lando Norris in the F1 team.
I'm not convinced Ugo is as good as LH44 was at the same age but he's good enough to win titles. I believe LH44 was a global world champion at the same age but could be wrong.
The Ferrari Young drivers program is over-subscribed and to get into the RedBull young drivers program, you need big backers. Dan Ticktum, despite his speed was kicked out for being forthright in his views.
I hope McLaren allow him to be himself without the PR corporate personality that the RedBull drivers are forced to adopt.
Good luck Ugo ! We're rooting for you !

Like Trump University, Trump Steaks, his attempt to build a rival to the NFL, Trump Air etc. Successful enterprises.
Perhaps you'll be able to buy Ivanka's made in China trinkets on his platform ?
The Trump cult shows that at least 50% of the population want to be told what to do. It's the same mentality that got Buhari elected on the basis of his reputation as being "incorruptible". Even to the extent of shining lights or drinking bleach to cure lung diseases being proffered as reasonable scientific courses of investigation.
Perhaps he can offer Greenlanders his "billions" to start his own country, TrumpLand. Only whites who fetishize on their daughters need apply.

I've said it before and i'll say it again ; nobody with any sense should be celebrating Dangote refinery unless you have shares in his businesses (Which the political elite do).
He is bad for business (monopolistic) and like all oligarchs, if unrestrained, suffocates competition, making it bad for consumers and government alike.
There were ppl wow-ing and coo-ing about his refinery being a game-changer; for him and his sponsors and cronies, yes. For Nigerians, no.
He is even attempting "State Capture" a la The Gupta's in South Africa.
The govt has deliberately ceded the refinery environment to him and the Bua Group. I wonder why ?
This is just the beginning of his manipulations.
Someone above wrote of what Putin did to Russia's quarrelsome oligarchs. There's a video of him threatening them with jail or exile if they don't pay taxes and obey the law.
Well, Putin was/is secret services so knows their files. Here, Malami was create an absurdity in law to allow Dangote continue to enjoy monopoly.

Making America Great Again
Even a faux democracy like Putin's circus can now lob bombs at US democracy under this administration.
How the mighty have fallen......
Imo, the best thing Trump can do is pardon Assange, Manning and Snowden to restore his tattered reputation as a "patriot" as opposed to a divider-in-chief. The same people the right excoriated as "traitors" for years

She has Yvonne's look (not the actress)
If you know you know.

ElijahIme1992:
looooooool u mean dat socialist dat was d first person to drop out of d primaries?.... Den u don't knw American politics... Let me tell u, a socialist can't bcom d President of America.... Dats why Bernie Sanders lost, Kamala Harris lost and Elizabeth Warren lost....d democrats had to drag Biden in connivance wit d main stream media into d race to stand a chance of winning d American heartland and d South.....Mehn hu are dis political novice coming to debate with me, el magnificò

Francois Hollande, Jeremy Corbyn and Podemos are "socialist". Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders et al are NOT socialists

Anyway, whatever crumb of comfort in these dark days would do I suppose. I felt the same way in Jan 2017

Sagay is admitting Buhari has failed. Danjuma prescribed same prior and was pilloried.
Buhari has Failed on the single most emotive issue he campaigned against Jonathan with; Security.
A General has failed in his core speciality.
What other failures are there that have been concealed from us, the general public ? We know he has failed on the economy. That is glaring and tangible.
Sagay has played the part of confusionist in this admin well, particularly wrt to legal issues, doing legal gymnastics to disguise distortions of precedent by Malami.
But, he's still there, collecting Lucre and now making pronouncements for the sake of "prosperity".

Ovo200:
Trump is the best thing that has happened to the United States in recent history.
He brought more peace to the middle East.
Trump was ousted from white house because he does not belong to the deep state, he did not make any war in the middle East ( War is big business).
Did you know Trump was nominated for Nobel prize twice?

Biden has dementia that man can't even remember his own name, hw is he going to govern United States well( he going to be controlled by the deep state).
Do you know biden son (Hunter biden is currently under probe for corrupt practices)

This makes sense only if you believe a country of 6 million should dictate the foreign policy choices of a nation of 340 million when dealing with a region of the world to which 2 billion people subscribe to the religion.
Israel IS THE DEEPEST state you can belong to. Also, what to make of Trump's own boast that his administration has ordered $2 trillion of new military equipment and weapons systems ? This is at odds with your attempt to characterise him as some "peacemaker". The ME peace you give him credit for is predicated on containing Iran, a foreign policy objective of the GCC nations led by the autocratic Saudi Arabia. If there is one thing you should know about Iran is their resilience since 1979.
And what was his tantrum towards NATO really about ? Weapons purchases and Germany's decision to seek energy supplies from Russia.
He didn't start any wars but accelerated the nuclear programs of North Korea AND Iran, thereby limiting US strategic options. His belligerence against both nations have flopped.
Corporate Tax breaks and historic Wall Street highs benefit who if not the 1% ?
You've just come on here and regurgitated FauxNews points that even they have abandoned. Jimmy Carter didn't start any wars either and yet is widely derided by conservatives as a weakling. Now, not starting wars is seen as some badge of honour by the same critics of Carter.
The greatest gift Trump gave to the world was exposing American coercion across a broad range of policies and making the rest of the world understand that whether Malawi or Norway, your interests must always come first.

Are civil defence personnel allowed beards ? Or has his beard grown that quickly after a few days in captivity ?

The General prostituted the credibility of his uniform for a few kobo.
Yahaya Bello has zero credibility on any matter with Nigerians. His principal achievements are his infamy in governance, election thuggery the likes of which Kogites have never seen and the celebration of building his personal homes in Abuja. Whatever tables exist for statistics at the state level, Kogi regularly occupies the bottom third during his tenure.
The man is a pimple on the consciousness of Nigerians.

Some ppl were #occupyNass and #bbog -ing to foist this buffoon and his cronyism on the nation.
All this hue and cry about insecurity has achieved exactly nothing.
Service chiefs are still there; rural North is bandit country; BH alive, experienced, splintered; army demoralised and poorly led; govt is more invested in propaganda than fact etc
Oby told you the reason Buhari can never appear; He has dementia. He cannot participate in a Q n A session bc he can't remember what you asked 5 mins prior nor how he answered 5 mins later. We are in a marionette presidency. Lawan and Femi occupy lofty offices but are political lightweights whom serve their benefactors.
So nothing will change.

Can this guy retire ? To whom will he entrust Russia's future ?
The Tsar, Lenin, Stalin, Krushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev- all leaders with succession problems. Only Yeltsin has managed it with success.
Putin will face a similar challenge. As someone once wrote, "he (Putin) has constructed a bomb only he knows how to defuse".......
His personal wealth rivals the gulf potentates combined. MBS is a small boy compared.

Someone above wrote about battle for "soul of the world".

Ask Roy M Cohn. He knew a sulphurous soul when he saw one.

He was Don Jnr's biggest hype man in the 1980s. Even got Jnr's sister appointed a federal prosecutor with Reagan. Tried to hype him to negotiate disarmament with the Gorbachev regime during that time too. And got laughed out the office by real conservatives like Reagan.
Btw, Cohn was a screaming gay and a coke fiend who died of AIDS.

Act ?
Like the past IGP acted when asked to deploy to Makurdi in the height of the Fulani herdsmen invasion of Benue ?
Or act like how Burutai acted after Chad humiliated Nigeria by liquidating BH frm Chadian territory ?
Prof. Zulum recently said Buhari was an improvement frm past times on security issues. Either the prof was lying or was intoxicated when he uttered such arrant nonsense.

Fancy Bear or Anonymous or some St. Petersburg troll farm network will "publish an exclusive" of the stolen cache showing that one of the side effects is that the vaccine causes you to become a paedophile, especially seeing as Clinton, Bush and Obama have vowed to take the vaccine on tv
Chinese steal data for commercial gain ; Russia hacks data to undermine western institutions and society. And we now know there are enough gullible ppl out there that mutter about "deep state" and vast conspiracies to believe every Kremlin claim.

Juventus will not win the CL.
Did CR7 tweet when Barca trashed them when he was at Real ?
Local champion.

mt77:
Hatred everywhere. Has she cared to find out her original ancestry? Or she is just "African American"

If you go to moorinformation and see the comments frm AAs on how newly "immigrant" Africans allegedly look down on them (AAs) and the general agreement that Africa is a s######e undeserving of their recognition in their struggle and that pan-africanism is a myth, you'd be shocked.

This is all trending frm the FBA (foundational black american) designation started by Tariqlite to distinguish frm African-American bc of the superior attitude taken by immigrants towards their kin folk.

It's a sad reflection as much on AA society in the US that these kinds of attacks on Africa are occurring as much as black Africa has failed.
Angela Nwandu publishes about celebrity beef. She was born and bred in LA. The entire youth culture (her target audience) revolves around frivolities abt who is dating who and materialism. Her writing about Nigeria will not sell. Ms. Banks has an axe to grind. And that grind chimes with increasing numbers of AA ppls experiences with newly immigrant african peoples. The disillusionment is two way.