SOURCE:THE NEWS
James Ibori, the former governor of Delta State accused of a series of financial crimes at home and abroad, is President Umaru Yar’Adua’s most visible friend, a situation which has insulated him from the government’s zero-tolerance for corruption
He is Nigeria’s most powerful politician–apart from the President. Or its most corrupt, who should be made [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 28, 2009
JAMES IBORI AS YAR’ADUA’S GOD FATHER
October 27, 2009
THE EXPOSED LEGS OF MERCY JOHNSON
Mercy Johnson is a Nigerian Nollywood star whose name is now controversy. We hear say she gather plenty bad habits ooo, bed-hopping, abortion, stealing, lies and others. But this Mercy fine for face no be small.
It was recently rumoured that Mercy aborted a three months old pregnancy for a certain Omole-Estate Lagos based lover called [...]
October 25, 2009
QUESTIONS THE NIGERIAN POLICE SHOULD ANSWER
Nigerians still want to know who killed Dele Giwa.Dele Giwa was killed in Lagos on October 19 ,1986 via parcel bomb.Who killed Babatunde Elegbede on May 5, 1994 in Lagos?Who killed Lekan Owolabi on March 1995 in Lagos? Police must tell us Who killed Captain Tunde Ashafa on June 11, 1995 in Lagos..Who killed Mr. [...]
October 25, 2009
Men listed by EFCC to have looted so much money in Nigeria still celebrated as leaders
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) released the names of 56 Nigerians it alleged collectively removed over N243 billion from the nation’s treasury.
The names, some of which the EFCC lame dock Chairman, Mrs. Farida Waziri, referred to as politically revered people in the international community, were contained in a list handed over to the leadership [...]
October 25, 2009
Dimeji Bankole Buys Aso Villa Plot for N345m
By Tony Icheku – TN
Question: Why would a ‘New Generation Politician’ wink at monumental fraud, corruption and abuse of office under his watch? Answer: He wants to join the big league looters of office.
Yes, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nigeria’s own golden boy, Hon Oladimeji Bankole has succumbed to the lures of filthy lucre and joined the official looters [...]
October 25, 2009
Naomi Campbell who always throws a fit and abuse people and get away with it
Do you remember sometime in yr 2008 when super model Naomi Campbell spat at an officer in a fit of anger! Nothing like a hot celebrity throwing temper tantrums to catch everyone’s attention huh? So anyway, this is how the story goes. This hot celebrity was separated from her baggage and lost her cool with [...]
October 25, 2009
Judgment Day For Bode George
By Henry Ojelu – PM NEWS
Justice Olubunmi Oyewole of the Ikeja High Court has fixed Monday for judgment in the case of alleged N85 billion contract fraud at the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) between 2001 and 2003, brought against embattled Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) chieftain, mR Olabode George and five other persons by the Economic [...]
October 25, 2009
Yar’Adua will send Obansanjo to prison – El Rufai
By Ibrahim Chonoko
Mallam Nasir el-Rufai the former FCT Minister, has alleged that President Umaru Yar’Adua is desperately looking for reasons to send former president Olusegun Obansanjo to prison. Chatting with newsmen at the Nigeria High Commission in London on Tuesday, shortly before submitting his application for the renewal of
his passport, el-Rufai claimed that Yar’Adua has been [...]
October 21, 2009
WHY IS JAMES IBORI STILL WALKING THE STREET OF NIGERIA AS FREE MAN?
Any system that subverts justice is far from democracy and mind you, subversion of justice breeds civil disobedience, the offspring of which we are quick to termed militancy in Niger-Delta region of Nigeria.
The measure of how Nigeria has feared in the past 10 year under our so called 10 years of Democracy can be deduced [...]
October 17, 2009
Atiku to settle N111m debt
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, whose name appeared on the new list of debtors with nonperforming loans to stressed banks, has expressed his readiness to settle the N111m debt he owed the Spring Bank.
Speaking through a statement issued by his media office in Abuja yesterday, Atiku said the loan collected about 10 years ago was [...]
October 17, 2009
Bank Crisis; EFCC Detains Atuche, Ololo
In continuation of investigations into five banks taken over by the Central Bank of Nigeria on Octobers 2, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission yesterday invited and detained the sacked former managing director of Bank PHB Plc, Francis Atuche and the managing director of Falcon Securities, serial debtor Peter Ololo.
The apex bank drew the curtain [...]
October 17, 2009
Olu Ayeni; the story of a successful fraudster
BY OLATUNJI OLOLADE-The Nation
‘You call it fraud, we call it hustle’ – On July 2, 1996, officers of the Federal Investigative and Intelligence Bureau (FIIB), Nigeria, accompanied by U.S. Secret Service agents and the Regional Security Officer in observer roles executed search warrants on an operational base for advance fee scam
…16 locations in Lagos, resulting [...]
October 13, 2009
FG admits to illegal diversion of N4trn federation account fund
The Federal Government yesterday admitted before the Supreme Court that its operation of the Federation Account between 2004 and 2007 was largely illegal, being not in conformity with the provisions of the 1999 constitution. The Federal Government, had, for instance, diverted certain revenues, in excess of N4 trillion, which ought to accrue to the Federation Account [...]
October 13, 2009
Bank crisis: FG pumps $2bn into economy
BY TRIBUNE
THE National Economic Council (NEC), on Tuesday, approved that $2 billion, about (N300 billion), be released from the excess crude money into the economy to tackle liquidity crisis, which arose from the inability of the commercial banks to lend enough money since the banking reform began.
The excess crude money belongs to the three tiers [...]
October 13, 2009
North moves to take control of banks
Source: The Nation
The North has launched fresh moves to seize the current fallout of the reforms in the banking sector to significantly increase its shareholding in the sector. The move by the North was part of the resolution at its recent meeting held in Kaduna which communiqué was not released to the public.
However reliable sources [...]
October 13, 2009
Banks have contributed to corruption in the ports
Source: Vanguard
Nigeria banks defraud government of several millions of naira by holding back revenue which is supposed to be paid to government. Shittu, who is also the Chairman, Committee on Public Relations of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding of Nigeria, CRFFN, expressed worry that despite the abuses of the [...]
October 7, 2009
Mary-Louise Parker nipples exposed in Weeds scene
Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress. Some of her roles include Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, Proof, The West Wing, Angels in America, and her current lead role on Showtime’s television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin. For the past nine years she has contributed columns to the men’s magazine [...]
October 7, 2009
Mariacarla Boscono in nakedness
Mariacarla Boscono (born September 20, 1980) is an Italian model
Boscono was born in Rome, Italy. She spent most of her early life travelling because of her father’s work. Her parents lived in Thailand before she was born, but after her mother became pregnant they moved to Rome. She spent a couple of years in Rome [...]
October 7, 2009
The Kanye west yabis of Taylor Swift
Guys don’t ever compare yourself to a comedy actor when apologizing, it looks sooo lame.
Kanye West goes on sending apology messages to Taylor Swift after his 2009 MTV Video Music Awards rant when he jumped on the stage while Taylor was saying her acceptance speech after receiving Best Female Video for ‘You Belong With Me’ [...]
October 7, 2009
NAKED FAMOUS ASHLEY GREEN
Ashley Michele Greene (born February 21, 1987) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Alice Cullen in the 2008 film Twilight, and will be reprising the role in its upcoming sequels
Greene was born in Jacksonville, Florida, the daughter of Michele, who works in insurance, and Joe Greene, a U.S. Marine who [...]
October 7, 2009
celebrities scandals of 2009
Source:MSNBC
Rest in peace? Not so easy
Michael Jackson’s siblings and children are pictured at the singer’s memorial service on July 7, 2009.
While the singer’s death on June 25 at age 50 was shocking and unexpected, there were dozens of angles that the tabloids seized on afterwards. From Jackson’s reported money woes to the custody and parentage [...]
October 7, 2009
Celebrities who should zip their lips
By Tony Sclafani
Megan Fox
Back in the old days, movie studios worried their stars would say something idiotic so they had them zip it and trotted out publicists to do the talking. Megan Fox is the kind of star that makes you realize
why that idea once existed. Fox has made so many witless statements that Co-Ed [...]
October 7, 2009
Is Justin Timberlake dating Rihanna?
Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel and Rihanna have been at the center of a tabloid triangle for a week, with reports of a split, photographs of JTand Biel still together, and no confirmation from their reps either way
But sources tell FOX411 that the nearly three-year relationship between Timberlake and Biel is kaput. The couple has indeed parted ways, and Justin [...]
October 5, 2009
Tompolo Beats Amnesty Deadline, meets Yar’adua
By -ThisDay
Abuja: Chief Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo) last night became the last of the key militants in the Niger Delta to lay down his arms and embrace the amnesty offer of the Federal government. During a ceremony at the First Lady’s Conference Hall, Presidential villa, Abuja, to mark the peace deal.
Tompolo said, “I and my [...]
October 5, 2009
Prof Soludo implicated in the Securency bribery scandal
-By Elombah.com
These are not happy times for the former Governor of the Nigerian apex bank, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo. As his gubernatorial ambitions falters amidst the high-wire intrigues of Anambra politics, the former CBN Governor has every reason to be a worried man. A knowledgeable source has revealed to Elombah.com that the former CBN governor [...]
October 5, 2009
Nigerian Officials Bribed for new Bank Notes
234NEXT has come up with the Nigerian angle to a bribery scandal rocking a Reserve Bank of Australia Company under federal police investigation for allegedly bribing Nigerian officials to win a banknote deal first
The probe centres on a series of multimillion-dollar payments by the RBA firm Securency to offshore accounts of two British-based businessmen, Benoy Berry and Mike Harding, [...]
October 5, 2009
How Chris Uba Conned Prof Soludo
By Daniel Elombah
If it amazes you, that Chris Uba, a near-illiterate political crook, has been able to build a political machine in Anambra State that can outsmart any and everybody in the state, you will be utterly flabbergasted as to how he could con one of the best brains in the country; Professor Charles Chukwuma [...]