Nigerian Times

"Democracy can neither be attained nor sustained in a state of political illegitimacy." ~ Orikinla Osinachi Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been removed to scuttle the investigation of former president Olusegun Obasanjo's daughter, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, over the alleged N3.5 billion contract scam involving an Austrian firm, M. Schneider GMBH, and the ongoing prosecution of other criminal suspects who were sponsors of the presidential campaign of Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua and were also the employers of the political thugs and other criminals who rigged the last April polls in Nigeria. The cookie is crumbling. Prof. Wole Soyinka's commentary on the sudden removal of Nuhu Ribadu is a must read.

Nigeria: Siemens - My Hands Are Clean - Adebayo Leadership (Abuja) 20 November 2007 Posted to the web 20 November 2007 By Golu Timothy Former Minister of Communications, Chief Cornelius Adebayo has denied any involvement in the alleged bribe scandal involving a German telecom giant, SIEMENS, saying those who seek to draw him into the controversy are not fair to him. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP last night and personally signed by the former minister, he said, he never at any point in time entangled himself throughout his four decades in public service, and therefore, it should not be at this age and time, that he will mess up his hard earned integrity. "My attention has been drawn to media reports as it affects Siemens in Nigeria, wherein my name has been mentioned with the allegation of collecting bribe at some 'unknown time after 2002'. While the fact remains that I was minister of Communications between July 2003 and August 2006, I wish to state very clea...

Nigeria: Siemens - My Hands Are Clean - Adebayo Leadership (Abuja) 20 November 2007 Posted to the web 20 November 2007 By Golu Timothy Former Minister of Communications, Chief Cornelius Adebayo has denied any involvement in the alleged bribe scandal involving a German telecom giant, SIEMENS, saying those who seek to draw him into the controversy are not fair to him. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP last night and personally signed by the former minister, he said, he never at any point in time entangled himself throughout his four decades in public service, and therefore, it should not be at this age and time, that he will mess up his hard earned integrity. "My attention has been drawn to media reports as it affects Siemens in Nigeria, wherein my name has been mentioned with the allegation of collecting bribe at some 'unknown time after 2002'. While the fact remains that I was minister of Communications between July 2003 and August 2006, I wish to state very clea...

Promoting Internet Fraud through Music! By Bayo Olupohunda I write to express my dismay at the growing damage some Nigerian music, their promoters and recording labels are doing to the current fight against corrupt tendencies and internet scam among the youths in our country. The lyrics and message of most of the songs that are aired on our radio and television stations across Nigeria will further worsen the current campaign against internet scam by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other anti-corruption agencies. This is even more hurting taking into consideration that internet scam and their perpetrators known as Yahoo boys are mostly youths. Pop culture has become a fad among youths so it is expected that the message churned out in the lyrics of hip hop songs will affect their behaviour and belief system either negatively or positively. I have listened with concern the lyrics of a certain hip hop song currently enjoying massive air play on our radio stations. ...

Ribadu Again! By Ngozi Saromi, culled from This Day Newspaper of October 08, 2007. Tuesday, 09 October 2007 Dele Momodu, publisher of the Ovation magazine and most lately a columnist of THISDAY newspaper, attempts, through his piece of last Saturday [Anti-Corruption War as a Cliché], to heighten the frantic, well-organised and ongoing smear tactics against the EFCC and the person of its Chief Executive, Nuhu Ribadu. Incontrovertibly, Momodu's opening claim, unsupported by any shred of argument or justification, that "the anti-corruption war has come to a dead-end" is at best a wish rather than a fact that serves the delusion of bringing cold comfort to the dirtiest section of the Nigerian thieving class whose image this article ultimately hopes to burnish. As a word of caution however, the beneficiaries of this image management enterprise will be well served to stick to reality and continue their desperate shopping run for a better apologist because this is indeed a poor...

Chief James Ibori thinking of how to escape from the Metropolitan Police and the EFCC. Court Restrains EFCC From Arresting Ibori Vanguard (Lagos) NEWS 11 October 2007 Posted to the web 11 October 2007 By Emma Amaize Warri A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Benin has granted an injunction, restraining the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Executive Chairman of the Commission, Attorney-General of the Federation and their agents from arresting or detaining the immediate past governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori; his deputy, Chief Benjamin Elue; and other former and current political office holders in the state in respect of the EFFC's current investigations into the financial transactions and contracts in the state between 1999 and May 2007. The order is to subsist until the determination of the motion on notice brought against them before the court. The Delta State Government had approached the court following receipt of a letter from the EFCC requesting it to turn ...

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Oreilly, Chairman/CEO of the Chevron Corporation CHEVRON NIGERIA LTD has been indicted in an $10.8 billion tax fraud in Nigeria and the scandal is threatening to rock the boat of the whole multinational oil and gas companies in Nigeria. The letter published below was sent to NIGERIAN TIMES by the consultants investigating Chevron Nigeria Ltd. 9th July, 2005 The Executive Chairman Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abuja. Dear Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, RE: $10.8 BILLION TAX EVASION, FRAUD AND CORRUPTION IN THE CHEVRON NIG LTD AND ITS ASSOCIATED COMPANIES. Please refer to your orchestrated appearance and representation on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) programme ‘POINT BLANK’ as relayed on Thursday 28th July and Friday 29th July 2005. We honestly sympathize with you for the messy and disappointing situation you may have found yourself. “To be fore warned is to be for armed”, is a common saying, but only the smart makes good use of it. If you had taken seriously our letter o...