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Posted By: Emeka (Moscow) Posted On: Jul 16, 2007 Views: 622	Re: OMO ; Two Emekas This person with the strange name OMO is no doubt the chief mischief maker of this forum, he takes to himself the duty of unguarded moderator, looking for someone to reply him thereby making him feel import. Am sure he was hell disappointed when he touted that I should not have written about the Bulgarian, and I refused him the honour of a content driven reply. Omo I think you have a problem that deserves attention from some particular specialists .. you know what am talking about. You ll see more than 1million Emekas in Nig, it’s a real name, what about OMO????
Posted By: Emeka Ike Posted On: Jul 16, 2007 Views: 613	Orji Kalu All you the 419 in this fourm will be arrested with your mentors and the Sun newspaper who is covring you by the EFCC very soon. Ewu- 419 Kaluism!
Posted By: Re: OMO ; Two Emekas Posted On: Jul 16, 2007 Views: 602	Emeka(Moscow) This person with the strange name OMO is no doubt the chief mischief maker of this forum, he takes to himself the duty of unguarded moderator, looking for someone to reply him thereby making him feel import. Am sure he was hell disappointed when he touted that I should not have written about the Bulgarian, and I refused him the honour of a content driven reply. Omo I think you have a problem that deserves attention from some particular specialists .. you know what am talking about. You ll see more than 1million Emekas in Nig, it’s a real name, what about OMO????
Posted By: iyke Posted On: Jul 16, 2007 Views: 601	free kalu ,arrest obasanjo I wonder why Efcc,should arrest inocent one like chife orji Uzor kalu,are they blind,where is obasanjo,the 3rd therm beast, this efcc boys are they slave to obasanjo,chineke mere anyi ebere ooo
Posted By: Emeka Posted On: Jul 16, 2007 Views: 606	re:OMO:Two Emekas The fact that no tangible comments are associated with an OMO on this forum betrays the fact that you are a masquerade. Now, tell us who you really are, and then, perhaps, you may merit an educative response. In the interim, I will advise you to go and subscribe to a horror literature (which do not go for free) if you are that starved of grim stories. You cannot fairly expect more than the free newspaper that The Sun is offering you here.
Posted By: CHUKWU IKE Posted On: Jul 16, 2007 Views: 610	igbos don't get it! It seems the our people has not yet get it! We will always scream foul if we will not try to wash our dirty linnen in public. We are the only people complaining about everything and the only people petitioning ourselves and supporting only one of us who everyone knows are not qualify to be supported. We play our game moving backward instead of forward. With this king of dance, we will always be second lass Nigerian. Even with Baifra we might end up like Somalia. Yes, we do not get!
Posted By: OMO Posted On: Jul 16, 2007 Views: 602	Two Emekas It seems that these two Emekas, probably it the same person, is/ are making caricature of issues in this forum. The rate at which they invade this forum with unwanted issues and sometimes make the forum a play ground is perturbing . Probably the Emekas are here to diffuse our focus, Forumites please take note.
Posted By: Emeka(Moscow) Posted On: Jul 16, 2007 Views: 646	Ojukwu collapses Dear Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu!!!!! Ikemba Nnewi!!!! Eze Igbo Gburugburu!!!! May you live as long as you wish and may you continue to wish as long as you live! Ndigbo Loves and hail you!!!!!
Posted By: Emeka Posted On: Jul 16, 2007 Views: 632	Na wao Nna men, I don't envy Kalu's room mate(s) in that EFCC jail o. With the size of that nose, the guy go just commandeer all the oxygen in the cell.
Posted By: RG Posted On: Jul 16, 2007 Views: 649	EFCC! Don't forget ODILI and co!
Posted By: Anonymous Posted On: Jul 16, 2007 Views: 654	Please send OBJ back to jail Embattled Turaki Fingers Obasanjo In Corruption Saminu Turaki has told anti-crime agents that there was a deal between him and Obasanjo. The former governor of Jigawa State, currently in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has threatened to bring down former President Obasanjo with him if the EFCC doesn't let him off the hook over corruption charges filed against him at the Federal High Court Abuja last week. Turaki is charged with stealing N36 billion from the coffers of Jigawa State as well as diverting state funds through several front companies run by his associates and his blood brother, Bashir Turaki. The alleged associates as well as Bashir Turaki are currently on the run. Turaki is accused of using four companies, among them INC Natural Resources Ltd., Arkel Construction Ltd., and World Cat Construction Limited, to siphon state funds. One Ahmed Mohammed, still at large, was also charged with Turaki as co-accused. As governor of Jigawa State, Turaki took overdraft loans from Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) in the sums of N1.3 billion, N1.2 billion and N400 million respectively. These overdrafts were part of Turaki’s scheme to empty the state treasury. The Turaki administration appointed Guaranty Trust Bank as its official bank. Investigators allege that the bank issued loans to the tune of N1.6 billion to INC Natural Resources Ltd, N3.9 billion to Arkel Construction Company, and N3.9 billion to Wild Cat Construction Company. Turaki is believed to own all three companies. The ex-governor issued Irrevocable Standing Payment Order (ISPO) to Equatorial Trust Bank for N200 million, UBA for N150 million and First Inland Bank for N22 million against statutory revenue allocations accruing to Jigawa State allocations for monies borrowed for his private businesses. Despite Saminu Turaki's open robbery of his state resources, former President Obasanjo granted his company, INC Natural Resources, three oil blocks in 2006. INC was to pay $105 million for blocks 252 and 292, but paid only a $20 million deposit under a special arrangement with the government. This was less than the 25% mandatory deposit required by law. The Department of Petroleum Resources claimed that the $20 million was to be used to fund an ethanol project. Obasanjo's cozy relationship with Saminu Turaki has had a curious history. It began when the ex-governor was found with large sums of money laundered on behalf of the late Nigerian dictator, General Sani Abacha. Turaki has told investigators that he cooperated with Obasanjo by arranging to transfer $22 million into a special account owned by the ex-president. The sum was routed through Andy Uba, Obasanjo's senior special assistant on domestic issues. In return for forfeiting part of the Abacha loot, Saminu Turaki was never prosecuted nor mentioned as an accomplice in the Abacha regime's money laundering schemes. Instead, Obasanjo developed a warm relationship with Turaki, ignoring several petitions that detailed the ex-governor’s corrupt practices. The unseemly partnership came in handy during Obasanjo’s ill-advised gamble to amend the constitution in order to go for a third term in office. Saminu Turaki provided N2 billion through Andy Uba to fund the third term campaign. Each senator who supported the campaign was given N50 million by Obasanjo through Emmanuel Andy Uba who coordinated the bribing of lawmakers. With his trial about to resume in court, Saminu Turaki has threatened to spill it all in court. Two sources have told Saharareporters that negotiations are going on behind the scenes between the embattled former governors, Obasanjo and Umar Yar’Adua. Our sources revealed that Obasanjo is already jittery over the prospect. Late Saturday night soon after he returned from a trip to Tanzania he placed a call to Nuhu Ribadu pleading that he softpedal on Turaki’s prosecution. According to one source, Yar’Adua is inclined to allow the EFCC to move against three former South-South governors, namely Lucky Igbinedion, James Ibori and Peter Odili, described by an EFCC official as the “axis of corruption” in the last dispensation. One stumbling block, according to our sources, is that the three former governors—especially Ibori—donated heavily to the Yar’Adua presidential campaigns. A faction within Yar’Adua’s inner circle is said to have told him to discountenance the blackmail value of such donations, insisting that Obasanjo, not Yar’Adua, had arranged for them. But another faction is arguing that Yar’Adua stands to suffer political damage if the three South-South ex-governors reveal that they were pressed to dip hands into state coffers to fund the Yar’Adua campaign. Andy Uba and James Ibori were seen last week Wednesday at the Aso Rock Villa in furtherance of the series of the meetings aimed at putting out the fire on the ex-governors. Vice President Goodluck Jonathan stands to be negatively affected if the EFCC proceeds with a total clampdown on corrupt ex-governors. As soon as he was selected as Yar’Adua’s running mate, Jonathan reportedly looted N4 billion from the coffers of Bayelsa State to fund the last presidential election. His wife, Patricia, was also being investigated by the EFCC for laundering $1.5 million.
Posted By: Bay Posted On: Jul 15, 2007 Views: 686	Nemesis Ex-gov Turaki’s N30b used to finance third term project - Daily Sun Former Adamawa State governor, Mr. Boni Haruna, has blamed his ordeal in the hands of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on political persecution by the forces behind his “instigated impeachment” and the botched third term project against which he was a leading opposition figure. ­- Daily Sun Everyone is blaming their ordeal on third term even though we know they actually stole some even if not all the money. How can a government divert public funds to the tune of N30b to support an evil project.Does he feel that those people who died because they could not get access to health services or those who died by accident because our roads are terrible will leave them alone? Their hands are stained with blood, human blood for that matter. This is just the beginning of their nemesis. Ex governors and others, Since Baba has decided to throw the first stone, do not go down alone. Please take him down with you. This is our equivalent of Rawlings. All of you will perish in hell where you belong.
Posted By: Emeka Posted On: Jul 15, 2007 Views: 672	Chile 4 : Nigeria 0 Siasia, Emeka Ezeugo, etc were right about the quality of the Nigerian Bench! The scoreline and the highlight of the match (that i saw) portrays a naive bench. Kudos to the boys, though, they have fought a gallant battle. Time to integrate them with the Super Eagles. Time also for NFA to realize that experience counts, and that Sampson Siasia ought to have handled the boys, giving his experience, and his performance record in similar tournaments; both as a player and as a coach.
Posted By: Dr. Mike Chidubem Posted On: Jul 15, 2007 Views: 695	Finally, I've forgiven Obi Nwakanma of 'The Orbit "An outsider's guide to Igbo psychology" I'm once again writing about a columnist in the person of Obi Nwakanma and even though Vanguard does not run a forum such as this, I've always air my views here, simple because, I belong here. This forum to me is like a family. That I chose to step aside for a while to allow my younger and much energetic brothers to exhibit there venom on a pattern I found difficult to apprehend maybe due to tenets and what I portrayed as inaxiomatic in the apex school of thought. Also, in Igboland, it's normal in the midst of every great family to have some radicals around. What I did justified how we handle such issues so as to allow the end to justify the means like what Nwakanma has ended-up doing. Meanwhile, Obi Nwakanma has made my day. I read his article with delightful and decorous heart for his articulated defence of Ndi Igbo. It was while I was glancing through articles in search of my Sunday Sunday medicine (Dele Sobowale) that Nwakanma's fastidious-like article caught my eyes which as I opted came back after going through my boss's writeup. To my greatest surprise, Obi Nwakanma has finally came back to his senses. He's talking like a normal Igboman feed with his mother's milk, unlike those others with cow's milk. I so much enjoyed the piece such that I'll be looking forward to such as today's in the future since my mentor's age can no longer favour him any longer. For his articles nowadays does not speak good of him like the third term era. However, Ndi Igbo should desist from those acts that castigate us. We must never be a party to such emissary. We must defend ourselves and our dreams come what may. But, while we do that, we should not forget about decency and normal etiquette and protocol that's meant for civility. We should not forget that others are watching us in our republican approach to life so as to use our shortcomings against us like professor Akin Oyebode and so many others made Nigerians think. Nigeria is burning. The cause is not far fetched: mismanagement, tribalism, corruption, bribery, and capital flight. Idi Igbo have not participated in the apex leadership of the country for 42 years and the current leadership power mongers cannot show anything for their acclaimed intelligence and cleverness. Rather, what we ended up producing is hunger, illiteracy, poverty and underdevelopment. Still, they want us to believe that they're better-of because they conspire to paint white black, then come back to say that it was created taht way. Conspire to agree on issues they know originally was lie in the name of political strategy. Idi Igbo cannot be a party to such evil, yet we're portrayed as political amateurs for not having the will to destroy Nigeria which they had sworn to protect and defend her unity - only for them to end-up destroying Nigeria with their undemocratic and tribalistic way of politics.
Posted By: EJIOFOR ALISIGWE Posted On: Jul 15, 2007 Views: 670	THE DEVILS ADVOCATE KWENU! Our culture, our future In Nigeria, Yar’Adua reigns, Obasanjo rules Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye / Kwenu.com At various formal and informal discussion points across the country, and on listserv and discussion boards on the cyberspace, Nigerians are not hiding their deep pain and frustration that the obnoxious Third Term Project which they unanimously and disdainfully rejected not too long ago has been so smoothly and successfully imposed on them with such brazenness and flourish that seem to dare anyone who is not comfortable with the set-up to find himself the shortest route to hell. The demoralising situation as we have it today is simple: Umaru Musa Yar’Adua reigns in Aso Rock; Olusegun Obasanjo rules Nigeria from Ota. It is a classic case of post-colonial Indirect Rule. The "Emperor and Conqueror of Modern Nigeria" is still perfectly in-charge and has no intention of leaving any one in doubt about that. He has merely delegated Umoru, one of his very loyal "boys" to stand in for him at Abuja to implement his orders with maximum accuracy. So, while this "accredited Servant-leader" treads softly within the hallowed ambience of Aso Rock Villa with the title of "President" timidly attached to his flowing agbada, full Presidential powers reside at some cozy corner of a multibillion naira farm in Ota, Ogun State . What makes the matter even more revolting is what clearly looks like the utter helplessness of President Yar’Adua, a 56-year-old former academic and two-term governor, with enormous powers of State at his disposal, before such a repugnant affront from someone who now sees himself as some kind of "Senior President", as somebody pointed out last Friday. This is very sad. Now, even though Yar’Adua became president through what has been widely described as the worst election in human history, the only hint of consolation in that horrible, broad-day electoral robbery was the hope that by May 29, 2007, Nigerians would be rid of the flamboyant incompetence, and pugnacious person of Aremu Obasanjo, the man whose entire energy in the past eight years appeared to have been solely channelled into the accumulation of so much unearned resources to build himself the wealthiest dynasty this side of the sea, while the country he was supposed to be ruling decayed beyond what anyone would have imagined was possible. Nigerians just wanted a breath of fresh air, an entirely new face, but unfortunately, they have been short-changed once again. The man they had become sick and tired of, and thought had gone for good, is still very much around. It is not only Yar’Adua that appears so helpless. For the past one week, I have read several columns on this matter, and all I have seen are passionate appeals to former President Obasanjo to, please, leave Yar’Adua alone to rule Nigeria the way he deems fit. Now, this makes no sense at all. Should we be begging an ex-president, obsessed with a grand illusion of boundless powers he no longer possesses, to leave the man with the real, statutory authority and powers alone to function? No, wait a minute! This would have been most laughable if it was not such a serious and pathetic matter, with far-reaching consequences to the survival of our nation. As the nation’s opinion moulders weep and beg Obasanjo to, please, take his retirement in good faith and quickly dump himself in the unedifying company of failed leaders where he ought to feel very comfortable, and allow Yar’Adua free hand to conduct the affairs of the nation, what none of them appears to be asking is whether Yar’Adua himself is even desirous and eager to be rid of the overbearing influence of Obasanjo? Is he really ready to take charge? Are we sure that the "Servant-leader" is not even too grateful that Obasanjo’s meddlesome and looming shadow are providing perfect alibi for what is gradually appearing as his stark visionlessness? I would certainly want to know those great ideas of Yar’Adua’s which Obasanjo’s meddlesomeness is preventing him from unfolding! The truth, as we know it, is that Yar’Adua never wanted to be president, and so, he never sat down to draw up anything that vaguely looks like a blueprint for the country’s redemption. When he was conscripted by Obasanjo and imposed on both the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Nigerians at a time elections were merely a couple of weeks away, he was too preoccupied with the thought of winning elections to have any time to concentrate and think about how he would rule Nigeria. And so when he eventually became President through the "Iwu-ruwuru" elections that took place last April, one of the first statements he made was that he had no plans of becoming a "Jack-of-all-trade" President. A nice statement though, except that it left a bold hint that the man who uttered it was already feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of Nigeria ’s problems. Quite early, Yar’Adua began to make a singsong of the "Energy Challenge", how he was going to confront it headlong, overcome it, and give Nigerians an uninterrupted power supply. This, if you would remember, formed the high point of virtually all his usually terse, uninspiring campaign speeches. It is more than forty days now since he became President, and the impression of him out there is that of a pitiably confused leader groping his way through an impenetrably dark alleyway. I am yet to encounter anyone with the slightest hint of how he plans to confront the ever-worsening "Energy Challenge." All he did the other day, to the consternation of many Nigerians, was to summon the same gaggle of failed "experts" in the Ministry of Power, the same people that ensured that Nigeria remained submerged in pitch darkness throughout the eight dark years of Olusegun Obasanjo’s regime, and ordered them to either come up with a blueprint on how to solve the nation’s energy crises immediately, or he would declare a State of Emergency in the power sector? So, with all the talk about tackling the "energy challenge" headlong, the Servant-leader had no clear idea what to do? So, all these while, his hope had been on the same dead woods that could not achieve anything for a whole eight years? What a shame! I am sure, that it is equally becoming clearer to him that the Niger Delta problem which he promised to solve in a couple of months is much more complex than he had imagined. No doubt, Obasanjo is clearly enjoying the show, filling a gaping power vacuum that clearly exists. When he said that the reason for his "reforms" in the "PiiiiDiiiiPiiii" was to change it from a Movement to a Party, where discipline would reign, so that his successor would not encounter the massive indiscipline he suffered, it was clear he was merely erecting an out-of-office power base for himself. He handpicked his comrade-in-arms and loyalist, Brigadier-General David Mark, and made him Senate President and installed a certain Patricia Etteh as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Next, he shoved aside Tony Anenih and installed himself as the PDP Board of Trustees (BOT) Chairman, and equally formed and became Chairman of what he calls PDP Legislative Agenda Committee whose business, we’re told, would be to vet the bills to be presented by PDP Senators and House Members. Already he is the “Life Leader” of the PDP. In the light of the amended PDP constitution, the Party (read Obasanjo) is supreme, and even higher than both the president and the governors, and can dictate to them. And to underline this fact, Obasanjo recently summoned a meeting of the governors in Ota. That those wishing to be ministers had to lobby at Ota instead of Abuja is no more a secret; ditto for the fact that the list of the ministerial nominees were delayed until it was approved by Ota. So, it is true that Obasanjo still rules Nigeria , but he is doing so, because Yar’Adua thinks he should. Or put another way, it suits Yar’Adua to still have Obasanjo in charge, while he enjoys the perks of office without the responsibilities that go with them. And at the end of the day, when another four years of devastating failure must have been successfully enacted, Yar’Adua can conveniently come up with the theory that he was not allowed to implement his ‘superior ideas’. So, please, no one should insult our intelligence any more with the old wives tales about how helpless he is before an overbearing ex-president! Because he knows full well that if he truly wants to halt the entire charade, he can. Even this morning! What, for instance, stops Yar’Adua from threatening to resign and giving as reason his unwillingness to have history credit him with the disastrous outcome of another man’s decisions? It would be interesting to see how Obasanjo would respond to this challenge. Either way, both Obasanjo and the PDP are losers. At least, Yar’Adua would be able to redeem his name if he is forced to make good his threat. After all, he never wanted to be president. Again, he could dust up the PTDF file and set up an Independent Commission of Enquiry to look into its management and, in fact, the whole Oil Ministry since 1999, and follow it up with a pledge that anybody implicated, "no matter how highly placed" would face the full weight of the law! The heavens would not fall. Nor should he fear impeachment by the Obasanjo foot soldiers in the National Assembly, because the mere thought of its implication to the contentious issue of power shift would effectively kill the thought in the legislatures. Even if they now impeach him and his deputy, both Obasanjo and the PDP are still at loss. So, that option would remain unattractive to them. So, please, spare me all these tales about Obasanjo’s overbearing influence on Yar’Adua, as if both the Inspector General of Police or Chief of Army Staff reside and take orders from Ota. Truth is: Yar’Adua is not yet ready to take over power. He should be sincere enough to tell himself that. When he is ready, we will know. He is still content with merely reigning in Aso Rock, while ‘Senior President’ Obasanjo rules Nigeria from Ota. That’s probably what he wanted from the beginning. What a sad situation". www.kwenu.com: Simply surprise yourself yonder!

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