In the Grandiose Parlor…

President Goodluck Jonathan had a “chequered past as a corrupt and ineffective state governor”, according to a secret United States diplomatic cable leaked by whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. Full text on AllAfrica.com

James Ibori

I got a jolt reading this piece on Vanguard. There were rumors, now it is indeed true that former Nigerian Attorney General Michael Aondoakaa told the UK to drop its case against former Delta State Governor James Ibori and his associates.

The London Telegraph reported yesterday how the Yar’Adua administration opted out of a prisoner transfer agreement with Britain unless the Crown Prosecution Service dropped charges against ex-Governor James Ibori of Delta State. Chief Ibori is accused of laundering more than 196 million Pounds public funds in Britain.

Can any good come out from the information contained in the United States secret cables on Nigeria released and published by Wikileaks? Beyond ‘filling-in-the-gaps’ on some topical issues and confirming what many have suspected all along, does the Wikileaks revelation offer any thing more than the fact that Nigeria is hopelessly trapped in the quagmire of corruption? Continue reading…

Cecilia Ibru’s story does not add up; there’s more to it than greed, I’m convinced. There‘s a pathological underpinning to her story? As the only female top bank executive in her time, Cecilia was an epitome of success, power and pride to all. In 2009, under her leadership, Oceanic Bank won the 2007 Nigerian Bank of the Year Award. You just don’t flush that down the toilet. But that is what Cecilia did. Continue reading…

We are back on the road to a national ID card project, once again. Back in 2003, former president Obasanjo, whose administration initiated the idea, said “the scheme [ID card project] will help government planning and to fight fraud and corruption”. The statement couldn’t have had more ironic implications…the project has proved to be nothing but a cesspool of scam, scandal and sleaze! Continue reading…

Some 26billon Naira has been stolen from Ondo State account at Intercontinental bank according to reports from at least two media outlets, SharpedgedNews.com and Huhuonline.com. [Update, 7/25: here are screen shots of the articles on Huhuonline and SharpEdgeNews, click to view.]

What do I care?

I do care as a indigene of the state. I care because this is a serious allegation that needs to be proved convincingly by the instigators. However, there are no indications that the report is accurate. Continue reading…

Governor Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State

This is comes to about N70million per ambulance (about $480,000 USD). This is an outrageously inflated price! Continue reading…